Astros Lose to Yankees, Framber Crosses Up Salazar, Texans Announce Captains

Astros Lose to Yankees, Framber Crosses Up Salazar, Texans Announce Captains

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
I didn't think I was gonna go to a Joe
Jackson song in the early eighties. But it is what
it is is Michael Jackson's dad. No, oh, this is
a jam. This is eighty six Thomas.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Okay, turn it up.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
It's fine.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Somebody so stepped out.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
He stepped out of the box once they thought they
were gonna butt. No, I'm talking about step off the mound.
Stepped off the mound. That didn't happen. That didn't happen either.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
By the way, Frankie our producer crushing the isn't o'clock open? Yeah, Yeah,
he's got a nice quarter hipunk. Yeah in September. I
mean it's cold in there. Oh, he's getting some action tonight.
I don't know where he's going, but he's going to
get some loving. It looks like he I mean maybe
if he's going to a lodge and aspen. Oh no,
there's no question. He should have a turnal neck sweater
on his neck. Look good. He's gonna have a hot

(01:02):
is Frank Cash. I'm Frank MS west Moreland. I'm sorry,
we're not supposed to give his last name out. Yeah,
we can say wait, wait, wait, I will get spools talk.
He sounds very stately. Hi, are you a Francis or
a Franklin? Frank just Frank. Your first certificates is frank.
That's right, that's very uninventive. But anyways, my first hotel

(01:23):
road trip of the year going to Birmingham. Guess when
music is an alias? Frank Frankie bigmolland wes More. Oh,
I'm Franklin west Moreland.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Hi.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
So I've had I've had them Westmorelands. I've had the
MLB Network on for one minute. And by the way, Lauren,
you're looking so.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Good, so good.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Oh yeah, I's got the pony going and they've only
played the frober valas are.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Five times.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
This is big time national news, like every everybody everywhere,
Yeah except KWI.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Leander's like, can you can.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
We play more of that? Get that too?

Speaker 4 (02:00):
To that?

Speaker 1 (02:00):
That is true? What a show we got for you today?
Steve Bomber went full sec Yes he did. He's like,
I got your nil right here. That's a different issue,
all right, that's ross. I'm Matt Frankie Westmoreland, Frank west
wes mooreins.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Executive producer radio show.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Today We're going to talk about an Astros ass kicking
by the New York Yankees. Yeah, okay, let's start with
the good news, Matt, what is it? Oh, oh, I got
the great news. Let's go raise, Let's go race, let's come,
let's go raise. You are twenty two and twenty eight
in your last fifty.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Games, twenty two twenty eight. Yeah, and here's still three
games up in first.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
You've only lost four games off your season high seven
game lead.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
That's the good news.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, it's a great it's not good news, it's fantastic news.
But then there's some not so great news. Oh well,
first of all, twenty two and twenty eight, it's not great.
Twenty two and twenty eight isn't great. You have one
for seven with runners in the scoring position. The risk
woes came back. You only scored one run.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
It appears that farmer Valdez perhaps briefly lost his mind
in the game, and everybody got.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
The bunting bug. That's all the bad news.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
So I hate to give credit to a caller like
Aggie Doug, but I listened to him on the Seawan
Salisbury show calling me in this morning. He actually didn't
have a terrible analogy and It's something I should have
thought of. Okay, he says. The Astros have ten miles
up to go on the trip. On their trip, it's
only three miles left in the gas tank. And you
are turning off your air conditioning. You roll in the
windows down, you are you are fraying at that meter?

(03:38):
Is not right when it says three miles left in
tench Oh, I like that they got the parachute out.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Wait, it's that bad. No, you don't want the parachute.
Why do you want to pairs shoot a car?

Speaker 5 (03:46):
No?

Speaker 2 (03:46):
You want to push? There you go. Yeah, when's the
last time he pushed a car?

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Gotta be high school?

Speaker 6 (03:53):
Maybe?

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Okay, I want to say, in my life and I've
been driving, Fort's say, I'm fifty three, sixteen thirty seven years.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
I think I've run out of gas twice.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Maybe, Well, the last time I ran out of guess
was on the way to Big City wings Kingwood. One
time it was broadcasting and you were waiting for me,
and you were not happy with me. Oh no, but
but I'm happy general with you in general. One time
Cameron was in Cotton, my oldest was in college. We
were headed to Lubbock and we were driving there and
we were down about five miles and we're out in
West Texas. I think we're between Abilene and Lubbock, and

(04:23):
we were yelling at each other and like you it
was it was It was not father son conversation. It
was f you, f you back, and I was like, son,
it was just the heat of the moment. It was
ninety five degrees, it's August. We're trying to move you
back to Lubbock. And we got there, thankfully, But that
was that was pretty scary. Okay, Well, is the Astros

(04:45):
Are they gonna make it like Matt Thomas and his
son We made it? Looks like we you know we did.
Looks like you made it. Oh we're playing Barry Manilow
in the Astros Division.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Oh yeah, looks like we made it.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
You have to keep American League West cham. We knew
they would always be there, not because they're playing so good,
because the Mariners.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Shah yeah, man, okay, so we're supposed to keep listening.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
I'm sorry, that was my totally good God, shut my
home ball mass up on here his microphone off, Let's
break down the Astros. So Fromberg gave up a two
run home run in the second inning.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yes, and he was cranky.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Then yeah, he gave up a chop double negative twenty
eight degrees. I don't know if I've ever seen it.
You tweeted that I'm like a shop double. I don't
even know what that means, but it means must be
something bad. Yeah, it was a chopper double.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
I'm hearing. No, it's fine.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
I'm good. Are you hearing anything? O?

Speaker 7 (05:38):
Good?

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, here, it's fine. I hear a little hiss, but
that's it, okay, Or I'm having a stroke. Something's in
my ears. It sounds like a ringing in my ears.
That's not good. Okay, Well that's where can get the
medically cool one.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
All right, all right?

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Anyways, Uh so he gives up the chop double and
then honestly, I'm sure there's some people like, oh, he's
about to melt down. Then he strikes out the next
two guys.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
He's good.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
Then he gets the bases loaded. There's two mound visits.
He strikes out gian Carlos Stanton left. He's coming up.
I'm like, oh, baby, now I get you gave up
one home run to a lefty early did, but it
was only two all year, So like it ain't gonna
happen again. He's getting out of this. I literally was
like typing a tweet like good jobs, Probert getting out
and then this is our Salazar is like, hey, step

(06:21):
off the mound. I step off the mount. Pronounced step
off the mount. It wasn't like a subtle what is
he saying to me? He's like, no, get off the mound.
And then he throws a sinker. Unfortunately it goes middle middle.
I'm sure that's not what he was looking to do.
And Trent Grisham, I hit a ball that was out
in five parks.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
One of them was minute made.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
I'm sorry I had done that has a while Dyke
in one of them was dykin. By the way, I
don't think we, as a city that has a very
cheapy ballpark, should be talking about those things anymore. We
should just not even bring it up, all right. I mean, man,
you know what I do like actually, but I just
it's just every single one of the home runs just
never helped.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
It just makes you feel bad. Yeah, it does.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
It's like if you were anywhere else now, honestly, if
it was at Yankee Stadium, it Yeah, leftfield's a little
more of a poke than right for Rightfield's a joke.
It was absolutely a little league. Yeah, but it doesn't matter.
It went out and it's just and then that's where.
Then two pitches later, two pitches later, from Er Valdez

(07:24):
hits says oar Salas are in the gut. It looked
like a cross up. But also when you look at
the you look at the video, it doesn't look like
Fromer was very remorseful. He turned around. It doesn't look
like he has some big accident on his part and
says our salves Art did.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Not look happy.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
Now.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
I did read Channel Rome's article this morning, okay, and
it gave a little context to it. Apparently Fromber has
been told through his sports psychologist that when the blank
hits the fan, step off the mound, walk back, turn around,
gain your composure off the rubber. Yeah, and that's what
I think now. Whether he was looking to get his

(08:02):
composure or whether he was just pissed off, whatever the
case may be, he did what exactly what the sports
psychologist would tell him to do, is step off the mound,
turn around, walk backwards right after the pitch, right after
you hit your catcher in the stomach. Well, here's the question.
Here's the question. Eleven minutes past ten o'clock. Now, the
astros Joe spotted didn't meet with the two gentlemen. The

(08:23):
contents of the context of that conversation is between them,
and I'm okay with that.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
It is what it is.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
I mean, sometimes you have internal issues in your office
and you know what the whole world to know, and
I get that. But we are a sports radio show.
We are a team that has a vested interest in
that team. We talk more astros than anybody else, We
have more astro fans than anybody else in the marketplace.
We're very happy for that. Do you believe what Salazar said?

(08:49):
Do you believe what Fromber said through the interpreter?

Speaker 2 (08:53):
I mean?

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Or was this a ten minutes after the game what
they call it cooling off period? They all got to
each other and said, hey, you guys may hate each other,
we know what y'all did. We're gonna give you a
nice storyline and you're gonna follow it to a t.
Just so there isn't any more of a kerfuffle than
there was obviously during the game yesterday.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Well, they didn't get their story straight.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Explain Fromber says, I threw the wrong pitch, says ourselves
are says I called the wrong pitch, so which it
can't be both. No, So the reality is this, they're
very well could have been miscommunication on two different levels. Okay,

(09:37):
that's good, and miscommunication happens. But the guy, if that's
Hunter Brown, if that's Luis Garcia, hell if that's even
Lance mccullors junior. Huh, we're buying that completely correct. Yes,
you don't have the same You don't give the same
grace to somebody who you've seen a track or The
reality is, no one's giving the benefit of the doubt

(09:59):
to find at this and so if it indeed is
the accurate situation, everybody from Salazar to fromber to Joe
today who is just on with Sean, we're gonna play
some of that once it gets cut up. I don't
think we're here to cut it up, but we'll we'll
obviously try so our efforts, Uh what good? Uh Farmer

(10:22):
doesn't benefit of the doubt. I would say the general
public doesn't believe a worded. I don't think, frankly anybody
in America believes him. I don't even want to put
a poll up. I mean I thought about it, and
I'm like, I don't need that. Hey, I don't need
a running tab of Come on now, now, you as
a radio show listener and a caller to the show,
you're welcome to, welcome to. We can have an official
poll with our listening audience. That way at the seven

(10:45):
one three two one two five seven Aunty the sportsman
in me, which is very like, I'm one percent sportsman, right,
but the sporting guy me says, competitive game, high charged
the Yankees. You're trying to gain a game on the Mariners.
You're trying the intensity the moment says, all right, things

(11:07):
can get mixed up. It's not flustered flustered. He gets flustered.
He gets flustered. Yeah, he's he's just not somebody that
you know. He's uh, the eggs cracked rather easily.

Speaker 7 (11:22):
M hm.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
That's just what he's gotten better at it.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
But the last couple of times, i mean, the Detroit
outing first inning was a complete blow up. And then
this was.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Here's the reality you who who?

Speaker 1 (11:37):
And what's the fable that we don't give the benefit
of the doubt to the boy who cried wolf? We don't,
we don't, we don't give the credit to that. We
don't give the benefit of out of the boy.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
M hmm.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
What about Gold going to the locks and she's chilling, Okay,
she going to locks is okay. She might have got
mauled at the end of the that's true, was just right.
Who else we don't get the benefit to in life?
I feel like there's another one besides are you saying
you're a doubting Thomas. I'm Matt Thomas. I've been an

(12:08):
astro fans. It's nineteen hundred and seventy nine, Like I'm
saying nineteen hundred and seven. It makes you know the
kids say that very Oh you were born in the
nineteen hundreds. Okay, I've been a fan since nineteen hundred
and seventy nine. I am a doubting Thomas. Hi, Matt, Hi,
I'm a doubting Ross Hi Ross. But we mount well, well,

(12:34):
we'll discuss well, and you know what, there are there
are two people in this world that know the truth
that is correct, and you and I are not.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Well, maybe a third who asked in that mating.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
But even yeah, that's true, that's true. Uh, And maybe
the guy's on in the maybe Carlos Kranos. I mean
because Carloso is up on that bump all the time,
talking to those pictures all the time. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety ten, sixteen it is Matt
Thomas show Ross It's a Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Ten, twenty one Sports Talk seven ninty.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Look, this is difficult because when Frober is excellent, he
first of all, I don't know why this is. And
maybe I'm just I got a screw loose.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
I maybe.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
People grew up when I was watching baseball, I love
everybody loves a ninety nine mini hour fastball, right, It's
it's sexy, it's it's man. That guy's got a powerful arm.
And I always appreciate no one for that, but for me,
when I was growing up watching my favorite all time pitcher,
Nolan Ryan, his twelve to six curveball was as filthy
as a guy. I loved knuckleball pitcher. I love with

(13:40):
the Negroes pitched. I loved when Tim Wakefield pitched. I
loved when Steve sparks. I mean, I just I was
just a big Those are my favorite pitches. Watching frommer
with that curveball when guys are diving for it and
barely making soft contact and inducing all the ground balls.
It's like he's he's he's like a surgeon cutting up
a team doesn't.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Have that brute.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
I'm going to just throw as fast as I can
to get you out, like for instance, clothes just have
to have that.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Josh Hater has that.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
There have been who ares who other guys that are
just Billy Wagen was a guy like that, for sure.
Mario Rivera wasn't. That's why he was so good because
he used his his uh earlier in his career though
he was touching, but he was for most of his career.
Was three miles and of course, don't forget a hundred
miles Jiles man, oh, I can forget about that. So

(14:31):
I do take pleasure in watching from her when he
carves lineups up. But when he loses his mind, whether
it's the facial expressions or the performance it, it legitimately
pisses me off. That's okay, but I don't. I don't
get that way when a certain other, like when Lance struggles,

(14:52):
I'm indifferent to it.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Largely.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
I mean, I want to be successful, but I don't.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Like like oh god, Lance.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
When you know, if if Hunter gets rocked the case,
which it happens everybody, I don't get that way. If
a save is blown like Brian or bray blew to
save the other day, or lost the game when he
a lot of those hits. I mean, I was like,
I was upset, but I wasn't like. I was like, oh,
I can't sleep. Frobert makes me mad, and I don't
know that's something that you can get to with your therapist.

(15:18):
But I'm not going to my therapist. Matt, what's troubling
you today? You know Frobert was terrible. She's like, get
out of my office. He couldn't get hit, he couldn't
get hits. Yeah, yeah, I mean after that strike, which
by the way, was pipe down the middle and Folpy
just looked at he got the ground out and got
out of the inning. So it I do think I

(15:40):
have defended fromber to where as you said, there are guys.
If you put fromer Valdez's head on Lance mccullor's junior's body,
everybody'd be like, oh my god, is the Huges blow up?
He's lost his mind. It's like, well, pitching is hard
and sometimes guys give up runs, so and it kind
of doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Making the distinction, but is he blowing up or is
it given?

Speaker 1 (16:00):
But it doesn't matter. They all count on the scoreboard,
the Saint correct. So it's just kind of like us
discussing about the pitcher and you know, whether or not
to sign him long term, which their astros aren't gonna
do anyway, so it kind of doesn't matter. But yeah,
how much of that was a blow up and how
much of it was that was dude got a hold
in one middle middle and poked it into left field,
I don't know. And it's it doesn't matter. They won

(16:23):
the game seven to one. But when you cross up
a pitcher and when a guy is waving you off,
and when to me, when he's blowing up, is he
he's yanking pitches in the dirt and he just kind
of looks lost out there, and and it just feels
like something's bubbling, that something's bad's gonna happen. And it
hadn't been happening that often the last couple of years,

(16:46):
really since last year against the Angels when he gave
up those three home runs in one inning, Like that
was a blow up and then the rest of the
year he was nails for the most he I mean,
he has had stretches twice in his career, and it's
crib six years basically, right, He's been good for six years.
He's been good for six years. There have been two
different stretches where he's given you double digit quality starts consecutively.

(17:10):
That is so hard for a starting pitcher. So hard.
And that's the thing too, is I try to when
people call him, oh, he's mentally weak out there. If
you are going to eighteen quality starts this year, you
gotta have some mental fortitude, you got to. It's hard
hard to be a good starting pitcher for that many innings,
that many consecutive times out. Yeah, so yes, he can

(17:30):
be more prone to others and meltdown. But again, like
he'd been really good at it. But two of the
last three times he went out, in my eyes, he
melted down, and and it just makes you wonder going forward,
how will he be able to settle in now. The
last time he melted down was against Detroit, and then
the next time he went out he threw seven shutout
against the Rockies. He looked like razors sharp from Ravaldez

(17:51):
so he can bounce back.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yes, he has done.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
It, but it's the the implosions, if maybe that's too
strong of a term, but the he lapses that he
has on the mound, whether it's pitch selection, whether it's
his defense, whether it's criticizing an outfielder, whether it is
just having a bad day, they just seem to just
sting a little bit more than a particular pitcher just

(18:14):
having an off night. Because that's gonna happen too. Yeah,
I get it if you go late yesterday. Yesterday he
walked Paul gold Schmidt, which I mean happens. It was
on six pitches and the last pitch that he got
it was it should have been a strike. He walked
him on a strike. Then Bellinger hits a sixty mile
an hour single. I mean, he just lost a single.

(18:34):
That happens. Judge lace is one and that's what Aaron
Judge can do. Then you're like, oh, what's gonna happen.
They do a Mountain visit, he strikes out John Carlos Stanton.
He looks like he's settling in and then the reality
is this, he does have a grand slam. The grandiose
picture is he's not a number two guy. Number two
guys don't have these unsettling type moments. Yeah, but I

(18:57):
mean when you add it all up, well, right now,
his eras three forty. But that's the worst it's been
in a couple of years. But he's still been a
good plus pitcher for six years. Oh no, the positives
are significantly outweighing the negatives. Just the negatives. Just yeah, again,
they hit you harder. And you know what some people

(19:17):
are talking about. And it's a valid question. And we'll
see because it's only September right now. Did he cost
himself some money last night? Well, here's here's a really
if so, how much? Here's a really dumb hot take.
You're ready for this one.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
You know, when you're a free agent, the team has
a chance to offer what they call a qualifying offer.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
It's a one year deal for a certain amount of money.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
Usually around twenty million ish the years, it depends, It
depends on who, the position and whatnot. If you offer
somebody a qualifying offer and they rejected to go play
somewhere else, you do get a compensatory draft pick out it.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
If you don't offer it and the guy goes somewhere,
you get nothing. If the Astros offer a offer him,
a qualifying offer and he acception it, does that mean
that he doesn't think that the market's good for him,
that he would come back and pitch AGAs no way,
there's no way. I'm just throwing that. I would be shocked.
And honestly, if he accepted a qualifying offer, that's good.

(20:12):
I would take one year of frommer for twenty million
or whatever it's going to be. But maybe the organization
doesn't want to. Maybe the organization they'll do it. I mean,
I'm ninety nine point nine percent sure they would. I mean,
it's been very rare that a picture of his elite
status has not been offered a qualifying offer, even if
things have gone a little south. Good thing we didn't
put anything on our farmer. Bet it was a gentleman's

(20:32):
bed because we did five years. I think after last night,
I'm feeling like you're you're you're like a minus two fifty.
All right, Rod in Baytown's been holding on. We'll get
to you if you want to follow abroad. It's seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven Ninti, Brian bogus Sevic
joins us in one half hour here on Sports Talk
seven ninety. All right, we're setting up a pretty busy

(20:55):
show for you today because there's just a lot of
things going on, and we will obviously get more into
the football side of things tomorrow. Texans are on the
practice field today for the first time, getting ready for
Sunday's game with the Rams. But look the local Nines
just it's carrying the headline. I mean again, go put
on Sports Center, go to go to your social media.

(21:15):
Everybody in their mother is showing the videos at the
cross up. I've seen it on Instagram, Twitter, MLB on
Fox was putting it up. I mean everybody, even Lauren
Shot talking about Yeah, you know, John Boy would be
then Yankee related, he'd be a part of it. And
Astros it's it's a negative to the Astros and Yankee related.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah, he's all over it.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
And by the way, a proud partner Major League Baseball
Jumbo made me throw up.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Don't say that. I had to say it. It's just
the truth.

Speaker 7 (21:40):
All right.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
We got Rod here has been very patiently waiting. At
ten thirty six on seven eighty. Rod Good morning to you.

Speaker 7 (21:47):
Good morning, Thank you, enjoying the show.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (21:52):
I have four questions.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Wow that this is a real quick, real quick questions
that I want to stop and listen to what your
answers are. First of all, why are we resting Alvarez
with twenty five games left and he's only played like
ten games? Why are we resting him?

Speaker 8 (22:16):
The other question is.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Why are we the best hitter on the team bunting
with two runners on base? Thirdly, if I'm memory serves
me right, does Frommer and Brown not have a decision

(22:41):
since the All Star break?

Speaker 7 (22:44):
And the fourth question is what's up with Correa taking
so many pitches?

Speaker 4 (22:51):
I hope I didn't confete.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
No, no, no, we know. Okay, So let me start with one.
You're on Alvarezy resting. Dan Brown said this earlier this morning.
We're gonna play the Dana Brown conversation eleven twenty at
least a good chunk of it, because it's better to
hear from him than us. They're on a schedule with him. Yes,
he played planned. Yeah, this was planned. There is not

(23:14):
a plan for him to take any more days off
the rest of the season. But again, plans can change
because of how particular player is and they said, look,
I know it's going to anger some people, but the
plan is in place to keep him healthy and available
to play all the rest of this regular season and
hopefully a long playoff run. And the decision was made
yesterday he was taking the day off. He would have

(23:36):
been available to pinch it if the situation arose it
obviously did not need to because of the game. But
being out of hand that he's missed a hundred games,
this is not a guy that has has you know
has He's got a very delicate situation where the hands
could couldn't flare up. He just this is this is

(23:56):
a decision made by the organization and if you don't
like it, I'm but the plan is for him not
to miss any more games.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
But today was yesterday.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
It was a game that they decided, Hey, because of
the previous workload he had, it was a proper day
for him to take the day off. Yes, and we
have to I mean, let's just ask yourself that question, say,
why is yord On out?

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Do the Astros want to win?

Speaker 4 (24:16):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Are they trying to hurt themselves?

Speaker 1 (24:19):
No, clearly, jord On, they have a plan and they
want to rest him, as Matt and It said, and
then Dana Brown said, and it's it just keeps coming up,
and people are like, they don't want to win, why
are they why are they hitting?

Speaker 3 (24:32):
Well?

Speaker 1 (24:32):
If he played yesterday and he reinjured his hand, then
what would you say? All they rushed him back. They're
pushing him too hard. Fire the training staff. He's had
multiple setbacks, so they have a plan in place. They're
trying to avoid another setback, and they're resting him. Remember
this is a stretch of thirteen consecutive games for the Astros. Yes,
So to everybody who's gonna get a day, A'll Tube

(24:53):
is gonna get a day, I guess is Carlos Kray
is gonna get a day. You're gonna see Christian Walkergan.
I mean, they're I know that you want them to
treat them like robots, but they're not. And so we
don't through this every year, but it is what it
is because everybody wants cal Ripkin and cal Ripken ain't
playing anymore.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Cal Ripkin is not walking through that door.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yeah, you just ain't now And now do I say this,
I will to maybe those that don't want to hear
what we're saying, is that could you have given Yord
on Monday off and had him ready for all three
games of the Yankee series? Of course, but again these
are timed things. By no, I would do it the
other way. I would rather have him against the Angels.
Yankees is a fifty to fifty shot. You give yourself

(25:37):
more of a chance. But but you could even say
I want my number one lineup out against the team
that's the harder team to beat.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
I could I could see either way.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
You could see.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
Yeah, you could do it either way.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
But I mean that was like the old Popovich thing,
is like he would rest everybody against the hard teams
because it's a coin flip anyways, and then you might
as well give yourself the better, better chance against bad
teams for a win.

Speaker 8 (25:59):
See.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
Yeah, so you can see, I get, I get either way.
Tomato to potato. Yeah, it's again. Even you can lose
the Rockies one night and beat the best team the
next day. Baseball doesn't make sense. It's it's it's the
marathon part of it all. Okay, So that's number two.
The bunting is atrocious. Ninety five percent of the time

(26:20):
that Major League Baseball players are bunning.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
It makes me mad.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
There's a five percent that makes sense extra inning games
when you're the when you're the visiting team or your
home team trying to get the run to win the game.
If you've got a guy struggling at the player against
particular player, that's one thing. Jeremy Hayney shouldn't be bunning
in the situation he was in last night. There's just
no there is nothing that makes any sense to that whatsoever.
He is your best hitter by average and ops and
WRC plus and basically a statue thing you want to

(26:46):
look at. He's been your best hitter. Two guys got
on base. One of them was your ninth place hitter
who is not a major leaguer, who was hit in
the back because Max Freed had been yanking pitches. So
you you just can't do that in that situation. And
Jeremy Pania, in my opinion, did this on his own.
Joe Spot addressed it after the game. Of course he

(27:08):
kind of covered up. He's like, oh, I didn't think
it was a bad idea. Yeah, it was fine, but
you can kind of tell the way Joe Spot answered it,
and we could play winking half the time.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
You knew it was not a good answer.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
You're like kinda worked out, but the third basement was
backed up. He was oer for eight against Freed, and
so he he tried to provide a spark and it
tried to get cute.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
It didn't work at all. It was a bad idea.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Karan does look at quite a few strike threes. That's
always been his mantrain.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
I think he's aware of.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
I think he's kind of being the one that take
it on the chin of looking at a lot of it,
and a lot of them have been on the edge, honestly.
I mean he and the umpire last night was atrocious.
I mean again, well we could say that most nights.
You know what, Ross, there's something ten years ago, I
was like, let's go the challenge system. How about we
just I'm so disgusted by And I'm not saying this
because the Astros lost. I'm saying I said this every day.

(27:59):
I'm disgusted by pitch which umpires behind the plate. They
just can't see it. They're making making mistakes. We're having
injections at an all time high level because the damn box.
The box don't lie. Ross, And when you and when
you are addicted to that box. You stay with it
all the time. We didn't have box like that thirty

(28:19):
years ago.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Forty two. Please write this down.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Oh my god, if we didn't have a box like that,
one to get down for Jonathan to clip ten forty two.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, look, Correa has it. I think he's the one
kind of taking it. He knows that the collective approach
is a lot of aggressive hitters and the pitch counts
aren't being racked up. I think he's trying to slow that.
And also I will say, like I've been watching, I'm like,
oh my god, he's just getting pitched on the edges.
This is another thing, guys. The other pictures are pretty good.

(28:51):
Max Free is pretty good now. They also haven't been
not scoring against some bad pictures. Max Free is elite,
I mean is elite. And Fromer was supposed to be
a lead and he didn't match him. Yeah, there was
a fourth thing you brought up, Uh have Brown and
Frommer had a decision since the All Star breaking Oh

(29:12):
I don't we hear it? Yeah, you can go Google
that we're not your Google source. I mean we can
do an empty Google segment that wouldn't be get dope.
All right, let me set the rest of the show
up for you. Eleven o'clock. Brian Bogus Epic's gonna join
us great eleven twenty. We're gonna play a good sized
clip of the Dana Brown conversation took place this morning
at nine thirty, and we're working on that right now.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
That's at eleven twenty the.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
News at noon at one thirty. Willie Fritz will be
with us on the show today. What Cougar the Willie
Willie Fritz brought to you by our friends the Joint Chiropractic,
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on Saturday against the Rice House. What's the lineup?

Speaker 2 (29:48):
Oh Rice? Okay, that's right.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
And believe all things about the jazz, all that jazz chishm. No,
I don't want to honor jazz chishm rating two home
runs all right?

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Whatever?

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. If
you want to chime in seven one three two one
two five seven ninety. It is the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross and this is Sports Talk. Seven ten fifty
on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Here on Sports
Talk seven ninety. We got Brian Bogo seven coming up
in a few minutes. Also have some Dana Brown conversation

(30:20):
coming your way. Will leave Fritz. We've been talking a
lot about the ash Shros. It's a jam packed show
on a Wednesday here on a shut Jo bums. Yeah,
I forgot about that shut Jo bumb ass up. I
believe we have, Saysar salas Are. Line too, Saysar, you
want to tell me to shut the bumb mass up? Yeah,
there certain leftander I will mention his name. No, it's
the pitch com mat the pitch com he's saying, pitch

(30:42):
com shut your bomb ass up. Believe him or not.
People aren't buying it. They're just not.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
I don't know how you could just from just from
looking at And this is all I had to go
on when the when the post game started, you just
look at it, like Saysar salas Are gives him the
death there Fromber gives like the bleep you turnaround. It
just doesn't look good.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
It just doesn't. And again, if it's Hunter, yeah okay,
if it's Araghetty, excuse me, it's Araghedy. If it's anybody
on the Astroisk pitching staff not named Robert Valdez, you're
giving the benefit of app You don't get it. Yeah,
because cross ups have happened with PitchCom I mean we've
seen it's rare, but it's not unheard of. Yeah, let's uh,

(31:26):
by the way real quick before the phones. Uh, I'm
going tonight. You went last night? What was the Yankee
infiltration inside Banking Park? Well, maybe last night wasn't a
good example because especially after that Grand Slam, that place
is clearing out, so they they Yankee fans. There was
big when the when the bases got loaded, there was
a big let's go Yankees chant, especially on the visitors side,

(31:49):
but basically throughout. And then they tried to drown it
out with booze, which the crowd did because you know,
they had bigger numbers, but there was a lot of
Yankees fans.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yeah, don't worry.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Uh, seven one, three, two, two five. I have seven
ninety Rogers with us on the Matt Thomas Show. At Ross. Hello,
Roger Ross, Roger, Roger Roger, your phone sucks. I mean
you called different lines and it never works.

Speaker 9 (32:15):
You man, I'm not my fault anyway. So I've got
a couple of things. The farmber issue obviously got it.
Got a question for you, Ross, what if, well, what
if you're the manager playoffs in it today and you
have to have three guys to go? Would from will
be in that rotation? I know he probably couldn't have

(32:36):
an emotion for one, but if he would, would he be?
Would you make that location right now? Would you make
that gamble?

Speaker 2 (32:44):
I know would I would still put him out? Yes,
But you don't have it.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
I mean, look, it's got a It's like one of
those high ceiling, high floor propositions.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
And you got it. You go, You have no choice.

Speaker 8 (32:56):
You have to go to the.

Speaker 6 (32:59):
Multiple times two or three?

Speaker 8 (33:00):
Would he did one? Two?

Speaker 1 (33:01):
Probably probably still two at this point. Now we got
a couple of weeks. If Christian Javier now he didn't
give a hit the last time he went out there,
if those guys can continue to round in a form,
we can have more of a discussion. But as of
right now, I two starts ago he threw seven innings
a shutout. Two innings ago, I mean two outings ago,
he threw seven innings a shutout ball and that was

(33:22):
against the Rockies. But still, I mean, he has that
capability and he's been he has been up and down
in the playoffs throughout his career. He was horrible in
the playoffs I think in what like twenty one, except
for that eight inning, one run ball game against the
Red Sox. I think he was pretty good in twenty two,
and in twenty three he wasn't good.

Speaker 8 (33:43):
That that's cool understood.

Speaker 9 (33:45):
Second second, uh, second phrase of my question. Hi, the
hitting philosophy, it's changed a little bit. I know has
been there a while, but I remember the leaves to
protect more, especially with old two counts or three two casts,
especially with two outs and runner of the scoring position,
and that kind of that philosophy has not been emphasized

(34:08):
or felt the wayside somewhat, especially with our power hits.
Uh So Christian Walker, I've seen him so many times.
Uh It's like he starts the bat with O two,
you know, and and then he'll even he'll go up
to a picture to a hitter scoff and go through too.
But I just built have any confidence because I know
that a lot of Foster thirty is Oh's gonna come.

(34:28):
So with that in mind, you think you guys lost
that that strategy of a fighting to a pitch and
taking picture to the parades. Man, Oh my god, we
missed that guy.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Okay, but that's but that's one guy. I mean, if
you take a look at the last ten years of
the Astros Roger, which I'm sure you have, this has
been an uber aggressive team. I mean, led by jose
L tub who was the most aggressive first pitch swinger
in the business. And uh, you know, I would never
characterize the Astros as a whole as.

Speaker 2 (34:55):
A team that was overly selective.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
I would say maybe like five years when you had
the Brandley Bregman, and I mean, Jordan's a pretty good
judge of the strike zone, but those are I mean,
those are just kind of hitting styles and estoc Paratus
has a more more patient approach than, like you said,
jose al Tuvey does. And they talked to Ran and
Drew Walks. Jordan can draw walks for a guy that's
a big man. Al Tuoba has gotten better over the years,

(35:19):
but by no means whatever be a leader and walks drawn.
Brantley was the quote unquote befriend. Michael was the professional hitter.
But those guys are long gone. This exactly. The guys
that are on this roster are are are doing what
their resume says, and that's uber aggressive and frankly, as
you brought up before, maybe Carl's taking too many pitches
because he's sitting there looking going, my god, our opposing

(35:40):
pictures got six six pitches thrown an inning, and I
don't need to bring the defense back out there, and
I get my pictures. Some rest the ideas swings away,
Mauricio Dubond swings away, Josel Tuove swings away. I mean
Christian Walker swings through things. Unfortunately, it makes contact. It's fun.
So and and there was an article again from Chandler Rome.

(36:01):
He sounds like that guy does a good job covering
the team talking about a Korea talking about that where
they want guys to to, you know, be more selective,
but you also want guys to be themselves. You have
to be if you're that aggressive hitter who's looking to attack,
and then you if you're like, I don't know, all
let's say a boxing style. If you have an aggressive
guy who's supposed to be on the attack and you're

(36:22):
telling them to be a counterpuncher, then he's out of
his comfort zone. And by the way, on Sunday, you know,
the very first person that said, we don't need to
change who we are because that's who we are. It
is Carlos Korea. Carlos is not asking for he says,
because if you start being something that you're not, you
can't you can't get your own head. Yeah, you're gonna
get in your own head and you're gonna confuse yourself
and you're gonna cause more problems if you're If you've

(36:44):
been an aggressive hitter since the day you've been a
major leaguer, you keep it that way. Brian bogasvic Joints
is we'll talk about that about pitch, how that goes
with the approach with him, among other things, with Bogie
next here on seven Euty, our buddy Brian Bowe is
with us, and he's with us every Wednesday here the
Matt Thomas Show, we'll spend ten twenty minutes with him.

(37:05):
If you missed the conversation with Dana Brown earlier today
at nine thirty, we're gonna play a decent chuck of
that coming up at eleven twenty. Shut your bum mess
up at twelve thirty, The News at noon and Willi
Fritz today all between now and two o'clocks with a
busy show for you today. Plus we got to get
into the story about what is happening in Los Angeles
with Steve Balmer and the Clippers and Kawhi Leonard Uber

(37:26):
Uber Juicy Stuff Buggie's with us here on the show Wednesday.
What an odd evening on many accounts, Bogie, as you
saw things cross up, a not stepping off. The offense
was not really around much. The two home runs made
a huge difference in the contest bunting issues. It was

(37:49):
not a game that you're gonna want to go watch
on the Best of Spacity home network.

Speaker 7 (37:53):
Correct, Yeah, that's not going to be on the highlight reel,
you know. There. There are often times you can lose
the game and walk away saying, you know, had one
or two things gone our way, we'd have been there,
or you know, this didn't go right for us, But
we did a couple of things good over here. That
was one where it was just like, you can't take

(38:15):
anything from that. That was a pretty thorough beating by
the Yankees. The Yankees played the exact style of game
that they wanted to play. It didn't seem like there
were there were any answers. And I mean it was
a six run game. For most of the game, it
felt like sixteen runs.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Okay, Look, the people that will really know what happened
is the picture, the catcher, maybe the manager after the conversation,
but just a baseball fan, cross ups happened all the time.
The problem is, Bogie. If it was any other picture,
we would chalk it up to cross ups happen, And
it can happen with with with your elite pictures as well,

(38:55):
just like we have a fromber. But the body language,
the prior issues of maybe issues on the field about
how defensive replacements. We don't need to go in a
nauseam on that. I'm gonna ask you whether or not
you believe him or not. But the look was just
so bad that everybody from Sports Center to Major League
Baseball Network to this radio show other shows are saying,

(39:17):
what's going on with this guy who's supposed to be
playing for a new contract, is supposed to be either
a one or a one A on this starting pitching rotation.

Speaker 7 (39:26):
Yeah, I mean, the optics of it were about as
bad as can be. And if it were a cross
up or whatever. It's a hell of a coincidence and
when it happened. But you know, whatever happened between Fromber
and Tesso salas Are, they can work that out. I've
seen worse things happen in clubhouses that guys work through

(39:46):
and get over, and you know, we can get through
stuff like that. I think the bigger issue for the team,
the bigger issues for Fromber, you know, this year and
moving forward and other teams looking at it is once
again for for you know how many times here in
the last six eight weeks, You've got a guy in
the mound who is good enough to be a cy

(40:07):
young candidate, a guy who is good enough to carry
a team to the playoffs and carry them deep into
the playoffs. Standing out of the mound in a huge
game and he's fighting multiple battles. I mean, it's hard
enough to go out there and you're facing the Yankees,
it's the hottest team in baseball, and you're frustrated by
the rapport with the catcher. And we've seen him be
frustrated with defensive alignments, and we've seen him be frustrated
with plays being not made behind him. And you know,

(40:31):
your focus has to be one hundred percent on. I
need to get the guy out who's standing in the
batter's box. And when you're swimming in your head and
there's all kinds of other things going on, it's distracting
and you're not going to get your best performance. And
it's a team that needs Fromber's best performance to get
them to the playoffs and to you know, have any
shot of going anywhere in the playoffs, and they've consistently

(40:54):
not gotten it, not because he's not capable of it,
but because, I mean it seems distracted.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Does that move its way through the diamond, the guys
in the lineup, the clubhouse, or could there be a
certain aspect of man we love Fromber. He's our teammate,
he's our bro. When he's on, he's giving a six
innings seven innings of two hit ball. But sometimes that
just comes with the package and that they can shake
it off. Or does sometimes that become a detriment when

(41:23):
you have a guy that you know is as good
as he is, had these kind of and meltdown maybe
too strong of a term, but uneasiness on the mound
when you are sitting here trying to hold on for
dear life to win this division.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
It's both.

Speaker 7 (41:37):
I mean, you know how much time guys spend around
each other during the course of the season, how well
they get to know each other. It becomes like a
sibling relationship. And you know, everybody knows that they're siblings.
You love them for the good and for the bad.
But they're also the people that can frustrate you the most,
that you can fight with the most. And you know,
guys understand each other, They understand how each other, how

(41:58):
everybody ticks, and you know, you know what their good
days are like and what their bad days are like,
and you learn how to work through them together. But
this time of the year when everybody's supposed to be,
you know, forgetting all of your personal stuff and moving
in the right in the same direction, and it's you know,
twenty six guys in the clubhouse and the only thing
that matters right now is winning games. To have somebody

(42:20):
who's so vital to that seem like there's more going
on than just that. That is about as frustrating the
thing as there can be in a clubhouse.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
Brian Bogosivic was us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
Let's go to the bats. We know they've had some
issues with runners in scoring position, and we've talked all
season long about approach and changing your approach, but staying
within yourself. What do you think is just happening as
far as as a collective, because everybody seems to be struggling,
especially with the runners in scoring position situations. As far

(42:49):
as meetings and talking with coaches and each other, What
do you think is happening behind the scenes right now
with the Astros and this funk they've been been in.

Speaker 7 (42:58):
Well, I think I think in the clubhouse, the thing
that you're most trying to express and the thing that
you're most trying to spread throughout, you know, all of
the hitters and the meetings and everything is relax. The
last thing you want to do is be going up
there tight trying to do more pressing. And you don't
want to turn a second and third one out situation

(43:19):
into a pressure situation for you, Right that's a pressure
situation for the picture. You're not supposed to be seeling like, oh,
here we go again. I hope I'm not the guy
that gets out that's taking a positive and turning it
into a negative. So you're trying to kind of smooth
everything over and just tell everybody to relax. You know,
they're getting hits, not necessarily yesterday a lot of hits,
but in general, there's runners on base, there's stuff going on.

(43:41):
That's why they're getting those scoring opportunities. So if you
just continue to push forward, you know, law of average
says you should start to get those hits with runners
in scoring position, but and at bat with the runner
and scoring position is not the same. Pictures are going
to be more careful, they're going to go to their
best stuff. They're going to try to prey on your weaknesses.
Seen a lot of times where a very aggressive team

(44:03):
gets into that runners in scoring position situation and turns
it up a notch and gets even more aggressive, and
pitchers are able to pray on that. There's been a
lot of that bats in those situations that have ended
early on not the best pitches to hit well.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
One of those situations was Jeremy Pania with runners on
first and second. What did you make of the bun
attempt there?

Speaker 7 (44:23):
Well, you know, first and foremost, I hope everybody understands
it wasn't a sacrifice bunt, right, He's bunting to get
on base. He's trying to sneak attack the third baseman
who's sitting back on his heels deep in the hole.
That's you know, he's trying to move the line along.
You know, if it works out and you're sitting there
bases loaded for jord on it, it's a smart play.
I just think where his stature is. I guess you

(44:45):
could call it in this lineup. You know how good
he's been this year, you kind of want him to
be above just trying to sneak a hit. Hey, go
be a run producer. I know you're hitting lead off,
but when you get these opportunities, we need that. I
will say this just in in general, in a situation
where a pitcher is struggling to throw strikes where there's
not a lot of balls being put in play walk

(45:07):
by pitch, that's usually a good time to try to
sneak a bunt down and fields kind of on their
heels a little bit pictures maybe trying to lay one
in there. So the rationale behind doing it isn't terrible,
but the fact that you know, make the argument that
he's the best hitter on the team throughout the course
of the season. You need that guy to go get
the big hit, not just.

Speaker 4 (45:27):
Move it along.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
What about the fact that Carlos Korea has kind of
added that responsibility of taking perhaps more pitches than he
wants to because of the fact there have been so
many innings It feels like in the last two weeks
where he has seen the guys in front of him
take just a couple of handful of pitches and all
of a sudden, that picture across from him is in
a low pitch count, meaning that if he records the out,
they're gonna go back on defense, and that starting picture

(45:50):
of his own maybe back on the mountain sooner than
he wants to be.

Speaker 7 (45:54):
Yeah, there's been a couple of situations where, you know,
a pitcher of ours has had a long inning and
then there's been the first two outs made on three
or four pitches and somebody's had to go up there.
A couple of times been Carlos and take a pitch,
take a strike, and just try to at the very
least make along at that. It kind of comes with
the territory. It's just, you know, playing the game. Carlos

(46:14):
is also a guy who's comfortable hitting with two strikes.
He's comfortable going deep into the count. So for him
to be willing to take on maybe a little bit
more of that responsibility is him, you know, kind of
seeing an opportunity that I can do my part and
maybe a little bit more, because you know, the last
thing you want to do is go up there and
tell a Yiner Diez or Jose al Tuove to be

(46:34):
somebody that they're not. That's not going to be productive.
It's not necessarily about when you're swinging, go up there
and swing at all the first pitches you want, if
they're good pitches to hit. Don't go up there swinging
that first pitch sliders, you know, in the other batter's
box and either you know, rolling over or being down
on one every time. So it's not necessarily about when
they're swinging. It's what they're swinging at in those situations.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
Staying with they hitting.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
We talked to lot this year about cam Smith, how
good he looked early on, he just unfortunately continues to
struggle out there. What are you seeing from him?

Speaker 7 (47:10):
A guy who's got some things to work through with
his swing and his timing and his mechanics, who's at
a point in the season where there's not a lot
of time or energy to be able to put into
getting that work, and he's just kind of got to
fight with what he's got from here on out. You know,
he can't go into the cage when you're this deep

(47:31):
into the season and put in our long hitting sessions
trying to figure it out and going out for early
batting practice every day like you can in spring training
in the first month of the season. At some point
in the year, your swing is your swing, and right
now he's backed a little bit to where he was
to start the year. It's a little bit stale, it's
a little bit late, but you know he's trying to fight.
He's trying to hit the ball the other way because
that's what he can do right now. You know, every

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once in a while he's trying to use the count
in his favorite to be able to you know, cheat
a little bit and get the head out. But it's
one of he's he's just in the spot right now
where it's your swing is what it is, and go
out there and fight and try to produce he can
and that's what you got for the rest.

Speaker 6 (48:07):
Of the year.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
Thank you for your efforts.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
As always, my friend on TV and radio, we appreciate it,
and we'll talk with you soon. Thanks for the time,
all right, thank you. Got a Brian Bogacetic with us
every Wednesday here on Sports Talk seven eighty all right.
A clip of Dana Brown talking about two things that
people have only been asking about. Why was from Brough
off yesterday? And obviously the situation evolving what excuse me,
you're white? Well from I was? I was actually telling

(48:32):
the truth was on the mound?

Speaker 7 (48:33):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (48:33):
Why from by Jordan had the day off? And the
battery yesterday was an issue the pitching and the catcher.
For those of you who don't know eleven fifteen of
Sports Talk seven ninety all right, we have obviously spent
a lot of time on the astros and we're going
to continue to do that because, look, it's the top
of mind. I mean again, I cannot I'm flipping to
the channels R in the break, every every sports network

(48:54):
is talking about this, and you're gonna hear some passionate
words from day Brown. But you're also going to hear
a general manager defenders player, and that's what he's supposed
to do. I mean, could you imagine if Dana Brown
went on our radio station, said Frobert, you nut job,
would you would you calm the air ass down? That
wouldn't That would have not worked out very well for him.

(49:16):
So uh, you got to take everything with a little
bit of a green of salt on that.

Speaker 4 (49:19):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
But there are some ends it's saving here and this
is taking a while, but I think you'll appreciate the
Fromber conversation. You'll appreciate the Jorda'm part of the conversation.
So well, it's about seven minutes. I want you all
to sit back and relax to it, listen to it,
and then we're going to do shut your bomb mass up.
We got to get to Steve Balmer and the Kawhi

(49:41):
Leonard because that's so juicy the Texans, by the way,
announcer captains. I mean, we will tell you who that
is coming up as well in the next to forty
or some minutes in the news at noon. Okay, Pabulatory
has been coming up with some bombshells. Pop this pablotory
cat he he going for the juggular. All right, So
now the Dana Brown audio is edited, ready to go.
This is about seven minutes. We'll sit back relaxing. Oh
oh yeah, okay, good, I think so all right. Here

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here's Dana Brown talking with Sean Salisbury this morning about uh,
why Jordan was not in the line up yesterday and
how they're approaching the rest of his playing schedule the
rest of twenty twenty one. We have to stall for
a couple of more seconds, Matt as everything loads up.
How are you? I'm good? You know what follow sports
RV on Instagram? I really would have difficulties. Allow you

(50:27):
a chance of promote your Instagram at sports empty. At
sports empty, you saw your Instagram follows.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
It's the worse. Go ahead, now do it.

Speaker 8 (50:35):
This is part of his build up, and he had
one more game that we wanted to, you know, allow
him the rest because you're still you know, you're still
at that build up part. We we've we've pushed them
hard enough, you know, and we we wanted to give
him that one more day, probably going to play the
rest of the you know, the rest of the season,
you know, as long as he's stills good to give

(50:55):
him that chance to take the day off because you're
still in that build up mode. You got him, Remember
he didn't play for almost four months, and that's like,
you know, longer than the offseason, So you have to
allow him a chance to build up, and you don't.

Speaker 4 (51:10):
Want to reaggivate anything.

Speaker 8 (51:12):
And he's been doing so well that we want to really,
you know, protect him because we're going to need him
down the stretch with those last twenty games and in
the postseason. So we don't want to take any chance.
And so we gave him another day off. And now
if the plan is that, you know, we can give
him like five or six in a row. Because he

(51:34):
is building up still and we're pushing him.

Speaker 10 (51:37):
Who's making the decision how he feels daily and the
build up, Well.

Speaker 8 (51:41):
It's collective, right, So the first thing, it's two things.
So the first thing is you you know, as a group,
we talk and we try to put out a plan
for him in terms of coming back right, and so
we set a schedule. And then after we set the schedule,
we of course have to ask the player, Hey, how
do you feel right? I feel pretty I feel pretty good.
And so as long as he continues to feel good,

(52:03):
we're gonna we're gonna play him and we're gonna put
him in the lineup. But we still have to go
buy the schedule that we set and so look, he's
to the point where he's probably gonna get at least
five or six in a row, you know, but you
want to build up to that point. And you've got
to remember four months off is four months off.

Speaker 6 (52:20):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (52:21):
You know, you can be well rested, but you still
have to get back to the build up so that
you don't you know, re injure anything. And I think
that this is the plan that.

Speaker 4 (52:31):
We set for.

Speaker 10 (52:31):
Yeah, and this is more in micrawl and I'll always
lean on you for this and and even more so
than than fans that want to know. So let's say
five games in he's raking and your plan was on
the sixth game to give him a day off. And
you go to him and he says, I feel great.
Does he stay in the lineup or do you get
him that day off?

Speaker 4 (52:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (52:50):
At that point, you because it's five in a row,
you can roll with them, right, But when when you're
when you're building them up, and you let them get one,
then two in a row, then three in a row,
you know, then you know, four or five in a row,
and then he still feels good and that's a good sign.
I mean, you could probably roll with it when you
give him like five in a row, but you really

(53:11):
want to protect him, right, and so look, that's the
schedule we set out. I mean, you know, right, wrong
or indifferent, but you have to have some type of plan.
You know, when a guy is coming back, you just
can't throw him in the fire and say go get
him now. Look, this is a postseason game.

Speaker 10 (53:26):
Of course, you know, explain to me what you saw
last night and why we should believe that it was
miscommunication as opposed to frustration.

Speaker 8 (53:34):
Yeah, that's a great question. You know, let's talk about it.

Speaker 4 (53:37):
Right.

Speaker 8 (53:37):
So you've got a very competitive, very competitive farmer Valdez.
He's pitching against the Yankees. He gives up a home run, right,
a grand slam that kind of like, you know, put
the game out of reach for to speak, right, So
I believe that he was absolutely frustrating it. If anybody

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ever played any sport and you're a competitor, you know
how competitive this game is. You know a competitive other
sports is. You know, you get frustrated, you get rattled,
you're you're angry, and so you know this didn't happen.
And sometimes you get so angry you can't see straight,
and you know you crossed them up. You know, they
had a conversation after the game and they squashed it.

(54:24):
I don't think people understand the competitive nature when you're
casing the panet race, you're playing in New York Yankees,
you have high drama and you give up a grand Slam,
you're down six to nothing.

Speaker 10 (54:38):
Why not say that? Why not just sounds frustrated? We
screwed up, we got it fixed. Were competitors. It happens
instead of like crossed them up by a respect because
the math doesn't add up. And I understand the media
and the way we approach it, but why not just
say that, because look, this.

Speaker 8 (54:52):
Guy is very competitive. You cross you get crossed up
all the time. Sometimes you get so frustrated in your
mind in the heat of the battle, you're anticipating throwing
one pitch, a guy calls another pitch, and you're so
frustrated you forget that what you what was just called?
That is part of the game that happens all the time.

(55:15):
I think the I don't know why. Look, people always
want to look into different things in sports. It is
the competitive nature of players. It's the same competitor that
competitive nature. It's the same competitive nature that makes you good,
and sometimes that same competitive nature could be part of

(55:37):
what screws.

Speaker 4 (55:38):
Up the game.

Speaker 8 (55:38):
It just happens. I want to just put.

Speaker 4 (55:40):
It to bed.

Speaker 8 (55:41):
You can get crossed up. It happens. You forget it happens. Like,
we should really not dwell on this. We should move forward.
This team is three games up with twenty three to go,
and they want to talk about somebody getting crossed up.

Speaker 10 (55:56):
Do you, as a baseball guy, trust that he can
handle the motion in a bad way in the postseason
if it goes sideways? Are you were you feeling about
him right now?

Speaker 4 (56:05):
Yeah? Here, here's what it's called, Sean.

Speaker 8 (56:07):
This is the this is the real deal, right you.
You have these competitors that compete in sports, and you
know what it's called. It's called the mound visit. As
soon as you see him getting a little frustrated, you
head to the mound. You go out there, you talk
to him, and basketball you call a timeout, and football
you call it timeout. You have to go to the

(56:29):
mound and you can give him a mound visit.

Speaker 4 (56:31):
Ye. Look, I do not.

Speaker 8 (56:33):
I do not, and I will repeat this over and
over again. I do not want to pull out the
competitive nature of farmer. It is the one thing that
makes them really good and uh competitive. Right, you don't
want to take that away from a player.

Speaker 10 (56:48):
You don't want to coach it out of him, right,
I get that, no doubt, want to.

Speaker 8 (56:51):
Coach it out of him. However, you do have to
stay under control. So it's gonna take a mound visit.
It's gonna take hey, hey, hey, Anyboddy, Look, you just
made it hell of a pitch. The guy flipped the base,
hits the right, the run scored, it's over, blush it,
let's go. We got to get we got two outs,
we got to get the next hitter. That's what it's called.
That's what that's what it takes to be a champion.

(57:11):
And sometimes we have to read it. And it's exactly
why coaches are on top of it and they call
the time out. You know, you have you have a
twelve pitch at back where guy files the ball off,
where the bases go to continue to file the ball off,
hit the base hit, ties the game, mount visit, settle
them down. That's what it's all about. And you have

(57:32):
to read the team leaguers of these competitors, and sometimes
it takes just a mound visit, and so let's let's
not you know, fall from her for being a competitive,
mean guy that will, you know, do whatever you have
to do to win. But let's keep them under control.
And that's the way I see it. And I don't

(57:53):
want to pull that competitive nature from them, you know.
I want them to continue to compete, and we'll work
with them and try to get them settled down when
it when it gets a little frustrated. It's all a
part of the game. It's all a part of sports.
There's always this competitor that you have to calm down,
all right.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
So the question would then be are the Astros doing
a good enough job of calming him down because it
feels like he's been generally speaking cranky for two months
from defense to what happened last night. And again you
can say we're making a big deal of it. It
was the Yankees, it's September baseball. Everything is under a microscope.

(58:36):
But we get te other things to get to. We're
gonna give it a little break for a while because
we're gonna tell some people to shut their bomb asses up.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. If
somebody's irritated you this week's sports survey. Somebody's made you mad.
Somebody attacks your lack of not enjoying a brisket on
a lovely Wednesday. Seven one three, two one two five
to seven ninety. Shut your bomb ass up. Ain't nobody

(58:58):
got time for that? Get your calls in next here
on seven ninety All right, next twenty five minutes, very
cathartic for us. There's a lot of things you want
to say to your spouse, your girlfriend, your coworker that
you know is not right, not appropriate, to get you
in trouble. Guess what not the next twenty five minutes

(59:18):
here on the Matt Thomas Show, Ross we tell people
to shut their bone masses up shit, so bowmass up man.
Or if somebody at the office is just going on
and on and on about how Eliot was to get
their oil changed or what it was like at the
post office. Ain't nobody got time for your life?

Speaker 11 (59:38):
Hey, nobody get for today exciting.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
Things about your life.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
Tell us about it.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
You've got boring Monday and stuff about how the parking
garage was hard to drive around today. Nobody got time
for that.

Speaker 11 (59:46):
I'm saying, Hey, nobody, get tame for day.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
All right, ross what you got?

Speaker 12 (59:50):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (59:51):
Okay man.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
I was at this past weekend, the weekend concert with
no no e writers a no in there's well there
two ease, but not three. They ran out, you know,
they ran out of letters on the Marquee. It'd be
a tough puzzle on Wheel of Fortune.

Speaker 5 (01:00:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
By the way, if you've got something that bothers you
seven one three two one two five seven nunny seven
one three two one two five seven nunni.

Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
That was a not from believing, by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Anyways, So I am in the row of the seats
or where I am, and we have there was three
of us, and we had we had seats sixteen seventeen eighteen.
So we get to our seats, we sit down, everything's
all cool. Well, then there becomes a dispute. Somebody says
we're in their seat, so we have to we look

(01:00:40):
at the seats in the way that they're numbered.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
It goes from fifteen to twenty in four chairs, not five.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
There's a miscounting, so we count from the end there's
thirty seats in the row, and then we fix it.
Then like thirty minutes later, somebody else says, somebody else
is in their seat, so they count from the OtherSide
and and they find out the row is supposed to
have thirty chairs, there's twenty nine. Somebody miscounted the chairs.

(01:01:12):
People were like yelling at It was getting tense, not
with with us with the first the first thing, it
was like, okay, cool, war a good But then the
other people getting tense because there were thirty people in
the row and there was only twenty nine chairs. Okay,
so NRG stadium, ain't nobody got time for you people?
Not being able to count to thirty, hey, nobody. They

(01:01:34):
had to take one of the guy who was seeing
seat twelve because he was the one that was by himself.
They put him kind of like in a weird area
a couple of rows before where he had to stand
because there was no chair and they weren't going to
bring one out. That poor guy. I mean, he got closer,
but he had to stand the whole time. It was
like a three hour concert. Ain'tybody had time for you energy?

(01:01:55):
What are y'all doing out there?

Speaker 11 (01:01:56):
Ain't nobody get in time for it?

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
I never want to hear the story again why it
was convoluted? Okay, well, I mean all right, I'm not
gonna tell it again. There was thirty people in twenty
nine chairs and everybody was getting like upset with each other.
So you know what, Shame on energy, That's what I'm saying.
Shame on them. Shame all right, whatever, you know what,

(01:02:20):
shut your bum mess up?

Speaker 5 (01:02:21):
It?

Speaker 2 (01:02:21):
What one of your better ones?

Speaker 6 (01:02:23):
Shit your bum ass up?

Speaker 8 (01:02:24):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
I've decided I'm gonna be a better person, I said
April first. I've been thinking about this since I've been
driving this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
I got ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
I really I have no one to shut their bum
ass for. I I oh good because I got another one.
I don't have anything for Ain't nobody got time, but
I am. I am a Domins day. Okay, well good,
I got another one. Please, maybe briefer than the previous one.
Happy birthday to Dan Matthews. Yeah. Jbar M, a sponsor

(01:03:03):
on this station, brought some barbecue so delicious ribs and
and beans cake out there. And there's somebody who has
self glossed themselves mister Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
Yes, there is mister Tree, which we know.

Speaker 1 (01:03:18):
This guy loves free. I mean he is mister handout.
There is free delicious brisket out and available, and he
did not put any on his plate. Yet he calls
himself mister Texas. Shut jobomass up. See see Frankie doesn't
believe relate to it. That's fine. Can I give you

(01:03:40):
an explanation? No, I don't want it all right? Seven one.
I'm gonna give it to the audience. I'm only gonna
eat a certain amount during the show today, huh. And
if I'm going to eat, I'm gonna grab a third
rib about six ribs I love and I got actually,
I actually got too much beans and too much souad
out there, beans, potato, salad, brisket ribs. That's a good

(01:04:03):
play to barbecue right there. Thank you Ross for calling
me out. Well, I wasn't going to but then you
you poop pooed my story, so poop poo It just
was a little long, that was what she said.

Speaker 13 (01:04:16):
Eleven thirty nine seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
nine zero.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
Let's go to Kyle in Paarlane. Cow, what's the matter
with you? Cow? Cow?

Speaker 14 (01:04:33):
Do you know what's wrong with me? Mt?

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
Mister Texas, Yes, sir.

Speaker 14 (01:04:36):
I had a good I had a good feed on
these day that Texa was gonna lose and arch Man
he was gonna get hurt. And I was completely right
while those University of Tu Cougars went ahead and shut
out who we played?

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
Got that right? Wait a second, arch Man and got hurt?

Speaker 14 (01:04:50):
Well, yeah, didn't you see crying in the tunnel on
the way out like a little bit?

Speaker 6 (01:04:54):
Oh a little bitch? Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
Then you did?

Speaker 15 (01:04:58):
Cow?

Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
You just you went right for the jug. You know,
I didn't see him crying in the tunnel? Actually was he?
So can you cry?

Speaker 6 (01:05:04):
Can you?

Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
I'm asking you, Kyle? Can you be a male crier
not crowd like a little bit? Or does it if
you're a male you automatically cryed.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
Like a little bit?

Speaker 14 (01:05:13):
Well, I think if you've had a definite family that
one thing. But just when you lose to a team
you should have been no.

Speaker 4 (01:05:18):
Reason to well, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
The line moved back to Ohio State at the very end.

Speaker 14 (01:05:24):
Well that's true, but you know we're gonna give you
any time to get on you.

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
A little bit ros Yes right, uh.

Speaker 6 (01:05:31):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
No, people are saying this is Michael Taff not arch Manning.
So should I tell boss up Kyle? Or was a
I generator or file. I don't see arch manning crime man.
Did he want to cry? Yes? Absolutely probably? Well, I'm
okay with crying after sporting. What about when Nick crian
and cries during the national anthem see being a little bitch. No,
we should be careful. We called the little beast. You know

(01:05:53):
it's okay to show some emotion. Well, so, I you
know what I got news for you? I weeped during
the lou Holtz segments. Wow, yeah, I'm a sensitive. Oh
you mean Lee Corso? What did I say? I can
probably cry? That was terrible mass for calling him Lou Holtz.

Speaker 4 (01:06:18):
Oh I got one.

Speaker 6 (01:06:18):
I'm glad.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
I'm glad the regular man is back. E sp Yes,
what in God's green earth are you doing sending Lee
freaking Carso and his member of his family on dark
breast airlines to Columbus. Get him a gen charter just

(01:06:40):
like you get a herb Street and that damn dog.

Speaker 11 (01:06:44):
Get Lee a.

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
Charter to and from Columbus from Orlando. Ain't nobody got
time for Lee Corso flying commercial on his last ever
trip free ESPN.

Speaker 11 (01:06:55):
Hey nobody got tap Ford.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
That's ridiculous. iHeart meat. I should also fly charter. Oh god, when.

Speaker 1 (01:07:05):
I'm here from the CEO.

Speaker 6 (01:07:07):
Shit, chou ass up man.

Speaker 11 (01:07:09):
I'm not Michael Berry.

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
I know your name. I don't bring nine million dollars
at the table or ten or fifteen or whatever he brings,
but I bring a fair amount of change when Ross
and I go next year to West Palm Beach. We
won charter service. Anybody got time for flying commercial?

Speaker 11 (01:07:23):
Ain't nobody got tap.

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
For CEO Bob Pittman on line one, he says, shut
jo bum mass up. Congratulations as up an extension. We're
happy for him and were good and Rich Presler, well
mind be nice. Jimmy, Jimmy and Tambaw. What's the matter
with you man?

Speaker 4 (01:07:40):
I got two of them today?

Speaker 10 (01:07:41):
Number one.

Speaker 16 (01:07:42):
Matt Rosster's story was interesting.

Speaker 7 (01:07:44):
Why are you being ruth ye?

Speaker 6 (01:07:47):
Jimmy, ass up man.

Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
You know what, Jimmy, You're not interesting? Shut your bum
mess up?

Speaker 6 (01:07:52):
Shit jos up man.

Speaker 4 (01:07:54):
I hope your couger so eleven or twelve or eleven.

Speaker 1 (01:07:57):
Okay, it's too late. It's one win, baby. You're area
even on a long week behind Jimmy.

Speaker 5 (01:08:03):
I just.

Speaker 17 (01:08:04):
That'll be vacated and then, Ain't nobody got time for
promber about this having a mental breakdown and assaulting our
catcher whatever else was going on last.

Speaker 1 (01:08:16):
Night, assaulting the catcher, Hey hit him in the padding,
how Bruce said, by the way says ourselves are right
now the way the astros have plenty of time for that,
because it's all it's all been.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
Nobody been done, It's all been done.

Speaker 1 (01:08:32):
Seven one three two one two five, seven ninety If
you want to tell somebody to shut their masses up
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero
eleven forty four, it's the Matt Thomas shild Ross. As
you listen, we appreciate you doing very much. So to
sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven nine zero to Ray Ree and Re, I

(01:08:57):
thought I was gonna do this.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
You know what, I've changed my tune. I'm only I'm
a fraud.

Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
I was on the phone for forty minutes before I
got to a live operator to pay for my data
plan on my prepaid data card that I use for
my radio broadcast, forty gd minutes. The whole phone you're on,
not the whole phone, it's the phone. No, it's from
my data from the king Wich.

Speaker 11 (01:09:20):
Studios Okay, hey, nobody get that.

Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
How much FaceTime are you doing on that whole phone?
I'm I have. How many people in your life have
more than one phone? My brother because it's that because
business is payingful them. Okay, I don't. I don't think
I should even count. My father has a work phone
and a personal phone. How many people do you know

(01:09:46):
have brown have brown whole phones? Brown ho phone?

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
I know too, and I'm not saying that either one
of them?

Speaker 4 (01:09:51):
Are I know? Zero?

Speaker 1 (01:09:53):
I have two?

Speaker 6 (01:09:54):
Uh No?

Speaker 1 (01:09:57):
And the question I always ask is which phone am
I on? Thankfully I'm two for two on bros.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
Proud of you.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven Hontie Mark on seven,
Untie Mark, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 18 (01:10:11):
Well, uh tell the arts manning haters. Shut your bumb
ass up. He's gonna be fine. He has two uncles
who are first class quarterbacks in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
He's gonna get help. He's gonna be fine.

Speaker 18 (01:10:29):
So shut your bumb ass up.

Speaker 6 (01:10:30):
Sits up.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
He is gonna be fine. I'm not even in Texas fan.
I hope you're I hope you're right.

Speaker 12 (01:10:35):
Mark.

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
My name is in Texas, hater, I'm in Texas in differenter?
Can I say I'm concerned a little?

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
No? No, I'm not letting.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
It's his third he hits his third year in college,
but he's head with the year three starts. But he
is a third year quarterback. I mean, you know what,
I would have liked him to look better. He'll be
great against San Jose State, and then after that if
he's gonna be great against San Jose State. But what
if he's not. If he's like seven for fourteen, that
line is thirty six and a half right now. By

(01:11:03):
the way, if we had to bet a thousand dollars on,
what would you do if you had six.

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
And a half thirty I guess I'll take San Jose.
Did you start?

Speaker 1 (01:11:15):
Once you get up twenty eight, you're probably running the
clock out. You get the running clock going thirty six
and a half. You gotta be ashamed of yourself playing
something like that. What do you mean you heard me?
They just played Ohio State on the road or do
a cupcake or three cake? You don't even get the batter.
San Jose State's a legit program. No there, they've been
bowling recently. No they're the they're there the SFA of

(01:11:36):
Northern California.

Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
No, they're better than SFA.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
Come on now, all right, Ryan and Montgomery at eleven
fifty two, Ryan, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 2 (01:11:45):
And they're in the Hawaii Bowl last year?

Speaker 19 (01:11:48):
Every time Ross, I'm talking.

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
All right, you know what, I'm okay, Well, here we go.

Speaker 6 (01:11:54):
Watch?

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
Would you shut Joss up?

Speaker 6 (01:11:59):
High up on? Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:12:00):
What's up?

Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
You just hung up? I'm sorry it was his time
to shine. You've got three hours in fore minutes. Tell
me to shut up. Sorry, you're gonna get hung up?
Certainly not in this segment. Wow, Ryan, I did not
do that. He can call back Ryan, Ryan. Ryan met
Ryan a bunch of Yeah, Ryan's a good guy. Ryan
drinks beers with us Tellier Bruin. Come on, Ryan called back.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
No, you don't have to have no one. People are
now afraid to call the show.

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
If you are not afraid to call the show seven
one three two one two five seven out of If
you're afraid to call the show, then't don't call because
right now again nobody there. Look what you've done. You've
taken a early You've given up the city of Houston.
I've given the city Houston, opportunity to come out and
just say what you want to say without repercussions.

Speaker 2 (01:12:47):
And you've just shut people down. Disgusted me.

Speaker 1 (01:12:51):
You tell me to No, I just am disgusted by
you in general. What else is new? Oh it's also Wednesday?
Oh there he is. All right, we'll get Ryan back on,
you know, turn your microphone off. All right, I'm gonna
leave it. I want I want you to behave yourself now.
I'm believing you. Give me a slice that cake. We
can get some water. Give me some cake of that too, Ryan.
It's just me and you, my friend. What do you

(01:13:12):
got today?

Speaker 19 (01:13:13):
I'm sorry, I'm justum fumed up about my shut your
bum ass up. I'm sorry you caught a straight on
that one. But so I like eating pizza. My wife
knows I like eating pizza. But every time I call,
I just want cheese, pepperoni, extra cheese, and she hijacks
my freaking order every time and she changes it, and
I just all I want is regular pizza.

Speaker 14 (01:13:34):
Honey.

Speaker 18 (01:13:35):
I love you, shut your bum ass up in the
way I.

Speaker 14 (01:13:39):
Want it, and that's it.

Speaker 19 (01:13:41):
That's all I gotta say.

Speaker 8 (01:13:42):
Guys.

Speaker 6 (01:13:43):
Shit, So bum ass up?

Speaker 12 (01:13:44):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
Pepperoni. But extra cheese is a classic. I got news
for you. I wouldn't order extra cheese. I think it's
a scam. No, you get extra cheese. And depending on well,
also depending on who you order from and where, certain
places have certain locations that aren't as good as others.
I would say, check the Google ratings. I'm just saying this.
If I got somebody that's gonna order extra cheese, I'm

(01:14:06):
gonna probably just give you one little more, a little
run through the whole cheese thing that's gonna gonna cost
you two three dollars more. I don't know. It feels
like that's the cheese should be something that should be
plentiful to begin with. Okay, we want to buy a
bag and keep it at home and sprinkle it on
every slice yourself, just saying, I think it's like it's
a it's you know, it's a sucker socker order. Are

(01:14:26):
you a big Parmesan on the cheese guy? Yeah, every slice,
every bite or some with and some without. And I
actually like red pepper on it as well. I'm actually surprised,
mister Texas Loves, who is who are you talking about me?
You're not talking about you. You are not you you
are You literally had delicious free brisket and you passed
on it. That is not something wanted to stay with

(01:14:49):
a certain amount of protein. By what that home pun
on part? Last time?

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
He was terrible. First, Shut your bum ass up, mate, shit,
you ass up?

Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
Man made you like baseball? Your umpire suck behind a
home plate. They're trying their best place.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
Still suck. How was that lady doing? I think she
was one and done.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
Maybe really they called her up for one game. Well
she did two games. She worked like the bat dog.
They called him up for one game and sit him
back down.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
You just called her a bat dog.

Speaker 1 (01:15:15):
I'm just taking the comparisons, all right, Please continue this comparison, police,
I wanted to hear more of it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:21):
Go ahead, it's time for breaking.

Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
No, it's not. We got we got at least two
minutes here. I am declining this rope you're handing me.

Speaker 7 (01:15:34):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
I don't think I knowing you've ever said this, but
actually are we hearing from her? She's online too. She's
telling me to shut my bumb ass up. Pill Ross says,
welcome to shut your bass up.

Speaker 4 (01:15:45):
Wow, really, what's up?

Speaker 8 (01:15:49):
You know what Ohio, stay pay Texas last week?

Speaker 20 (01:15:52):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:15:52):
That is correct? No, I don't remember that was no game.

Speaker 8 (01:15:56):
Oh Ohio stay play Nicks.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
No clue, don't care.

Speaker 16 (01:16:00):
Yah, they're freaking grambling grambling.

Speaker 4 (01:16:04):
Oh why are you kidding me? Grambling?

Speaker 2 (01:16:06):
What's the what's the line on that one?

Speaker 7 (01:16:09):
That's what I'm saying. My friends say the line is
forty forty eight.

Speaker 8 (01:16:14):
I want to I wanted. I want to tell you
ship a ball man as though, because they will lose
by forty's siblings shit, sobam.

Speaker 6 (01:16:20):
Ass up man.

Speaker 1 (01:16:22):
So he says, take grambling, get take the points now.
I think he's saying take Ohio State. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
they play grambling woof woof? Then Ohio, I got one
for you too. That's really gonna be I think there's
a chance of it becoming a national story. Our friends

(01:16:42):
down the street at HCU, you know you used to
be HBU that started football like seven or eight years ago. Yeah,
they're playing in Nebraska in a couple of weeks. So
what do you think? So what what do you mean?
What's the story. They're gonna lose by seventy points, okay,
but they've got got on their side and a check
that too. Check's more important. God likes checks. God loves checks.

(01:17:05):
Yes' d out's at the end of every service. That's true, Himie,
you're last up, himI? What's the matter with you?

Speaker 8 (01:17:12):
Okay?

Speaker 15 (01:17:12):
So we got an MVP World Series guy doing a commercial.
He's teuting the great food at this restaurant and to
show the quality of the food and have him.

Speaker 7 (01:17:25):
Eat a chip.

Speaker 5 (01:17:26):
Yes a chip?

Speaker 2 (01:17:27):
Yes, a chip?

Speaker 1 (01:17:30):
So marketing department, he himI, I have I have never
been to Rocks been there?

Speaker 4 (01:17:41):
Is it?

Speaker 12 (01:17:42):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
Tell me the truth? Tell me that because you're I
think you're your span. Is that safe to say? YESI
would be the name, himI? Is the food good at
Ro Rondas?

Speaker 5 (01:17:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:17:52):
It's good.

Speaker 7 (01:17:53):
That web saying why have n't meet a chip?

Speaker 12 (01:17:56):
Haven't meet a.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
Nacho that's also a chip? How about a big how
about a big pork belly enchilada?

Speaker 15 (01:18:04):
Well, do something other than a chip?

Speaker 1 (01:18:10):
Thank you? himI? Mostly had that place after two am,
when it is fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:18:17):
Before two am not so much.

Speaker 1 (01:18:19):
I'm not sure you have no idea what it's what
Rondos is like pre two am.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
Maybe it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
It is true, it'd be like going to rob a
row and saying this seafood here is great, and then
taking a bite out of French bread. I mean, you
laid it there, but it's not what you're going there for.
Well maybe they didn't want him to get a spoon
out or a fort something. Can it his hand. It's
you know, you sit down and you eat first. It's
not the worst idea ever. I don't think by Wait,

(01:18:48):
if you're a Mexican restaurant and you don't make your
own chips, shut your bumb ass up. There is a
there's a chain in this town. I will not mention
what it is. Doesn't make their own tortillas and doesn't
make their own chips. Me as, mister Texas will not
take your restaurant.

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
He or not, mister Texas, Yes I am. You won't
eat inch a lot? Is that said?

Speaker 1 (01:19:05):
Mexican restaurant? You are not, mister Texas. But I'll have
a chlopa. Oh my god? All right, Uh, the astros
should have had their picture step out. We'll explain next
on seven Dotty. All right, so I was perusing. I
hope you like a little Joe Jackson. I haven't heard
this song in a long ass time. It's catchy, it's

(01:19:26):
eighties catchy. It's fine just during the dark period for
the early eighties, pri Ma Donna pre other greats the eighties.
Nineteen eighty two did work quite well for itself. Right,
number six the billboard Hot one hundred. That means it
was a number one hit at some point during the year.

(01:19:47):
All right, So I was peruising the for u tab
on my peaked at number six on the on the
Oh you never got number one during the your course
of the year. No, Okay, Will Middlebrooks is that name
ring a bell to you? Yes, he has a broadcaster
for the Boston Red Sox used to play it major leaguers. Uh,
I'm looking at what he said on CBS, and I'm

(01:20:09):
not pulled the audio it because we're obviously just looking here.

Speaker 4 (01:20:11):
Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
He was not a fan of the decision by Fromber
to throw the ball at the chest of one Caesar
Sanchez or Salazar. Well, who's come out and said this
is a great idea wonderful MOVI just said, And we're
gonna have to probably play this because I want to.

Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
I want to hear it in.

Speaker 1 (01:20:31):
I don't know the CBS Sports put no this would
not be the quote at the top of the CBS
Sports which says, this is an all time scumbag move
teammates all.

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
Times scumbag move.

Speaker 1 (01:20:44):
I mean if he crossed him up on purpose, that's yeah,
scumbag move kind of comes to mind. All right, So
we're gonna play this audio coming back out of the
break right now, twelve o eight. We gotta get you
the news at noon and we go what to the
gan Lisa Farda of what was that former channel? Even little.

Speaker 2 (01:21:10):
Sweetheart, careful of that one.

Speaker 11 (01:21:14):
It's like a U turn on that one.

Speaker 2 (01:21:16):
I slowed down in turn just getting the news.

Speaker 1 (01:21:22):
Uh, yes, Matthew, we are talking about the Houston Astros. Well,
not only were the hitters one for seven with Arson's
scoring position and you had Jeremy Pania. One of those
non hits was a bunt attempt that went back to
Max Freed and got the run of lead running thrown
out third. Hey, Yankees, what would you like about your
mic is on?

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
Your mic is on?

Speaker 1 (01:21:42):
That's cool?

Speaker 2 (01:21:42):
I mean, tell you go to hell And I was
just kidding. Oh yeah, I'll go now, Yankees.

Speaker 1 (01:21:47):
Funny how Yankees Key didn't call when the Astros took
two out of three in New York. Funny how that works.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
I can't wait to hear his insight here in moments.

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
Yeah, continue anyways, Astros lose seven to one. From er
Valdez gave up a grand slam and the big controversy
which everyone in the baseball world is.

Speaker 2 (01:22:06):
Talking about now baseball world.

Speaker 1 (01:22:09):
Two pitches later, from er Valdez throws a sinker down
the middle, says, ourselves are clearly not ready for the
pitch got crossed up?

Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
Wasn't intentional or not?

Speaker 1 (01:22:21):
Astros say that it wasn't, but everyone is talking about
it in the baseball world.

Speaker 2 (01:22:28):
Matthew, and again, let me, let's be blunt about this.

Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
If this was a douchey move, which some people are,
you're gonna hear from Will Middlebrooks here shortly in a
couple of minutes. If you make a mistake within your company,
you're still gonna cover it up. If we we at
seven and he made a terrible, terrible mistake, your mistakes
for years, you've been Yeah, you know what you've been
covering up my achievements is what you can That's exactly

(01:22:55):
what it is. Some things you're gonna cover your ass
and if the Astros have a problem with they're a
starting pitcher and they're third string catcher getting crossways with
each other, They're not gonna tell us, because that's what
people do. If there are issues, we're gonna have to guess.
But doesn't mean that people can't analyze it, and lord

(01:23:15):
knows America certainly has analyzed this in the last twelve hours.

Speaker 8 (01:23:18):
We like to.

Speaker 1 (01:23:18):
Speculate, we like to talk to the bottom line is
what does this mean for them going forward? Is something
that they move past. And more importantly, can Farmer go
out there and give get outs without giving up a
bunch of runs, which he's done basically somewhere around like
five of this last six times he's going out Yeah,
all right, Astros still have a three game lead over
the Mariners because they lost the Rays again yesterday. Shout

(01:23:39):
out to the Mariner Shout out to the Mariners, you guys, guy.

Speaker 12 (01:23:41):
Sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:23:42):
They make all these big moves, they've got this deadly lineup,
they've got a great pitching rotation, and they just lose.
I think Astro's fans are really upsets. A Mariner fan
doing right now, way more active at the trade deadline
than the Astros work. We should do s m's O's
problem is, I wouldn't know who half the players were.

(01:24:03):
You want to talk about dominant can zone. Okay, so
tomorrow maybe who Josh Naylor is a big dumper r
fwatteth all right, so tomorrow the race will lose tonight,
I mean the Mariners tonight, will do MLS tomorrow, and
we'll call SOFTI at the same time.

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
Uh, you know, you know he's already met.

Speaker 1 (01:24:24):
He already calls you out that you only call him
when they lose. We're gonna have him on when the
Astros and Mariners play, and when the Texans and the
Seahawks play.

Speaker 2 (01:24:31):
Okay, all right, speaking of the Texans, we have the.

Speaker 1 (01:24:32):
New captains announced.

Speaker 2 (01:24:34):
Oh I didn't see that. Go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:24:35):
I mean, it's all over the place. I don't care
about that. See Jay, No, no, we don't Christmas guess
we don't Gus and Texas captains who should have been
on there? Who should? Okay, here are the Texans captains, Stroud,
Nico Collins, will Anderson, Aziz al shay here and darry Ogunbowale.
Sounds great to me. Let's break it their thoughts. Anybody
want to comment on the Texans captain selections. Okay, man,

(01:24:58):
if you had to rank the captains in order, how
would you rank them?

Speaker 5 (01:25:01):
Go?

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
CJ one the field two through five? Okay and me
there you go. By the way, Brian loves my Lisa
Faranda call.

Speaker 1 (01:25:09):
I don't know who that is. She sent some commercials. Now,
that's why I saw her last week. I was like,
been good girl? Step all right?

Speaker 5 (01:25:19):
Uh oh?

Speaker 1 (01:25:20):
And Kawhi Leonard? Yes, how do we explain this in
a very Pablo Tory toy? Right, Pablo.

Speaker 6 (01:25:30):
Babla.

Speaker 1 (01:25:32):
The Ala Clippers have been accused of circumventing the NBA's
salary cap by paying twenty eight million dollars to Kawhi
Leonard for a quote no show job, which is a
staple move of college football over throughout the years. Do
you think the Clippers would would give him twenty eight
million dollars in a side company? Pablo Torri said, he's

(01:25:54):
been investigating this for like eight months. I don't think
he's coming out with this, and he's doing this because
he was feeling for his health.

Speaker 4 (01:25:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:25:59):
He He's like, I really had this hate towards La Clippers. Yeah,
Bill Belichick and UNC came after him. For his reporting
and then they got they got slapped. So I just
don't think Harvard graduate Bablo Torri spent eight minute, eight
months on this without vetting and vetting some more. And
what do you do for the NBA? This is like

(01:26:21):
you just gotta cost you draft picks and fine, seriously,
it's kind of got to be severe. It's got to
absolutely hurt you, like hurt your franchise. You can't really
take away wins or anything. But I'm thinking like a
first round draft pick can't take away. You can't take
Leonard's contract. I mean two first round draft picks. Let's go,
by the way. Got a question from my buddy Wade.

(01:26:41):
What's more scum here?

Speaker 2 (01:26:43):
What more scum here?

Speaker 1 (01:26:45):
Scummy? Yeah, scummy, come here, come here. What's the scummiest
thing from Bervaldez throwing at Saldo as Our's chest or
Ricky Vaughan sleeping with Dorn's wife in Major League? Hmmm,
well he didn't know, right, that is correct? So yeah,

(01:27:06):
I'm gonna go with uh done of the above, say
it like you mean it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:14):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:27:15):
Phones are next, uh Jeane and Galveston Yanks? Can we
can you please can we plead for people to get
ahead of Yankees Keith. Okay, here's the thing, Jeane and Galveston,
we don't, uh, you don't have a high rating on
our collarboard. So I'm a little nervous about that coming
up back. So we have here's what we got it
for two callers on our screen. We have a low
ranked caller, yes, and Yankees Keith, which we've deemed is

(01:27:38):
a low caller.

Speaker 2 (01:27:39):
We believe we can.

Speaker 1 (01:27:40):
Get higher value, higher quality.

Speaker 2 (01:27:42):
Callers that are currently on the screen.

Speaker 1 (01:27:45):
I believe he's also Texans Keith, formerly Titans Keith and
Rockets Keith. Such a fraud seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven eight. If you believe you're a high end
caller called us next, we will put you to the
top of the list. Now, if you don't think you
can call and provide something, then we won't put you
at the top of the list. Seven one three two

(01:28:06):
one two five seven nine zero seven one three two
one two five seven ninety all right, So this is
Will Middlebrooks. He is the Boston Red Sox analyst. Now,
the question you always get asked ROSSI is that if
this was a Boston Red Sox pitcher Catcher, would he
had the same pisson vinegar that he would be for

(01:28:27):
a Houston Astro And typically the answer is no, Especially
if you're employed by a team and by a network.
Uh huh, You're gonna be a little more of a
sugarcoat than you would be if you were not employed
by the team.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
So it's a natural.

Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
It's natural, and everybody gets accused of it, so you
have to just take it with a grain of salt.
By the way, we are not employees of the Astros,
even though I got accused of that the postgame like
couple weeks ago. I'm not. I'm a life I'm a
lifelong fan of the Astros. How is that mine? And
I am a lifelong fan of the Rockets. I'm also
the voice of the Rockets' employed by Rockets.

Speaker 12 (01:28:57):
It is what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:28:57):
But I think I'm pretty fair with them. I'm not
employed by the Texans. I've never been a fan of
the Texans, and I will be a fan of the
Texans when they go to Super Bowl. Until then this year,
maybe it's not happening. I'm mentally I'm in a really
good place with the Texans. They win it's great. They
lose no emotional connection whatsoever. All right, here is will Millerbrooks.
This is on a CBS sports feed.

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
He's on Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:29:21):
The reporter or the anchor said, hey, what do you
make of what? The astro said that it was a
mix up between the battery and that there is nothing
to see here.

Speaker 21 (01:29:31):
What are they supposed to say. They're not going to
come out and say, yeah, I drilled them on purpose.
I think this is an all time scumback move by teammate.
This is one of the worst things you can do
as a pitcher. He was angry because Salazar didn't want
to throw that pitch. Franbert wanted to throw that pitch,
so he told him to back off the mound because
the pitch clock was about to go off. Back off,
Let's get the pitch I want. He threw the pitch anyways,

(01:29:54):
gives up a homer. Then he's mad and does that.
You just you can't ur bashly crossed up a picture.
The reaction was everything I needed to know. When I
initially saw it, I was thinking, okay, it was a mistake.
Then you watch the reaction of Framber. No remorse, no
my bad, no, nothing, no reaction, because your initial reaction

(01:30:15):
anytime you cross up a catcher as oh, oh my god,
like I'm so you can really hurt a guy. You
squared them up in the stern them with ninety five
and you didn't even react. That's I'm sorry. If he's
my teammate, if I'm that catcher or going down the tunnel,
and you're getting these hands either now or after the game,
you can put them and that that just can't happen.
It's like he's pouting like a five year old out there.

(01:30:37):
He's been an emotional picture. This has happened his entire career.
He's one of the better left handed pitchers in the game,
but sometimes his emotions get the best of them.

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
That's a that's the most recent.

Speaker 1 (01:30:46):
Example right there. All right, thank you will getting those
hands in the first things First, yes, sir, i've seen
farmer with his shirt off, Saysar Saltzer.

Speaker 2 (01:30:55):
Don't want that smoke. No, you don't. You don't want
to catch those hands.

Speaker 1 (01:30:59):
And you had when you throw ninety seven. You got
quick twitch muscle fibers in them hands. Okay, I'm just saying, Saysar,
don't want them hands. Number one number two. Can I
go Devil's advocate on you. First of all, I will
say it does look bad. It looks intentional from Fromber
in my opinion, right it would he have hit him

(01:31:23):
in on the first pitch of the ab or is
it because they disagreed on that second pitch that that
is information that is intel that I don't have any idea.
And then also I will say I could see a
situation where Fromber did accidentally hit him, but he's still
so upset that he didn't really want to react to
Salazar and show him remorse because he's still fuming from

(01:31:45):
giving up the Grand Slam. Here's the thing we're all
we're doing is conjecture. It's not irresponsible conjecture because we're
not the only ones doing. In fact, we're not even
ones leading the charge on it. I'd like to give
Farmer the benefit of the doubt. Frankly, it's hard. I'd
like to. I'd like to be able to say stuff
happens because you know what and life stuff happens. You

(01:32:05):
may bark it of some of your coworker, doesn't mean it.
That means you got something that is emostly charged situation.
But the problem is again, it's who's doing it as
compared to if it was even Brian a Bray that
did it, every literally everybody on the baseball pitching staff,
including Lance mcculors, would get the benefit of the doubt.

Speaker 2 (01:32:24):
Well, yeah, he'd be next in linecross himself up.

Speaker 8 (01:32:29):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:32:30):
Charles is with us at twelve twenty four on the
Matt Thomas Show, had Ross Charles, thank you for holding in.
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 (01:32:39):
Sure.

Speaker 16 (01:32:41):
Yeah, you know, I don't like putting everything on the
coach where what what is? What's the lineup?

Speaker 8 (01:32:50):
You know?

Speaker 16 (01:32:50):
I mean when we were at one hundred and twenty
nine games, I'm thinking, man, every day they come into
a new lineup, how does anybody bat not knowing when
they're going to back the night before, when they go
to sleep, and at.

Speaker 1 (01:33:03):
Twenty nine they step in the batter's box and then
they swing the bat amen and.

Speaker 16 (01:33:08):
They're they're great, they're pros.

Speaker 7 (01:33:09):
They ought to be able to do that when called upon.

Speaker 16 (01:33:11):
But every day changing the order. At one hundred and
twenty nine games a spot I had changed the order
one hundred and five times and batting clean up.

Speaker 1 (01:33:20):
Well, they've had a number one, they've had a lot
of injuries.

Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
Number two.

Speaker 1 (01:33:23):
Yeah, you have different guys who are performing well and
not in different guys who are in different matchups, right.

Speaker 16 (01:33:30):
And we're always changing players to keep them from getting injured,
and the order is always changing. Why did Jake Myers
do so great in his breakout?

Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
May you tell me?

Speaker 16 (01:33:41):
Because because Chas McCormick got hurt. They were vying for
the position. One day one would play, the next day
the other would play, and they were both batting around
two twenty. McCormick gets hurt, Meyers steps up game, he says,
this is my field, this is my bat and he
batted like three fifty seven all through May and it

(01:34:04):
never went down. Chas McCormick came back and he was
trying to come from one to sixty and by the
end of the year bringing him in, he got it
up to about two twenty. But McCormick's went down from
three whatever it was down to two eighty because he
was being played out.

Speaker 1 (01:34:23):
Jordan now is is healed.

Speaker 16 (01:34:25):
Supposedly, and you don't start him against the Yankees? Well,
they want to keep him healthy.

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
Maybe you answer your own question.

Speaker 16 (01:34:39):
We both yeah, yeah, but he's got to play. I mean,
that's he's healthy. I don't want to keep him healthy.
I want him to play healthy from now throughout the season.
He's got a hammer the Yankees. We've got to beat
the Yankees. We've got to put our best players in
the best lineup, and we never have the best line
up if you've got Christian Walker batton fourth. I mean, Christian,

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what's the average batting average across the league right now?
It's like two forty seven. Walker's got two thirty something
with runners in scoring position, which it was down the line,
it was what one ninety eight for the longest time.
And the man who should be batting fourth if you

(01:35:22):
really want to bring someone up, they put him in
in the beginning of July.

Speaker 7 (01:35:26):
They moved him down.

Speaker 16 (01:35:27):
From the seventh spot where he was batting like three
fifty three eighty maybe even I'm sorry, two eighty, two
fifty two seventy whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:35:36):
He was batting.

Speaker 2 (01:35:37):
You have, you have given us so many numbers. My
head is spinning, Charles, Yeah, and.

Speaker 16 (01:35:43):
It should be, because that's what what the numbers were
played on, and you have all those numbers. If you
look at him and the spot, it does too. But
he thinks, oh, you got to bring a lefty in
because they got a left handed pitcher, and you take
out a rebate when he hit it, when he hit
a double that drove Jiner and it was it was
a z it was a zero score. The second basement

(01:36:06):
that we recently.

Speaker 6 (01:36:07):
Got is just great.

Speaker 16 (01:36:08):
But you're right, yes, yes, that's when we were playing
the Brewers and Hunter was pitching and and and they
were playing great game. But he was the only one
to get a great hit that brought Jiner all the
way home and that was that was a good call.
But they got him out right right at Home Place.

Speaker 4 (01:36:26):
And then and then they pulled.

Speaker 16 (01:36:28):
Him to put to put someone who's bat in one
hundred and eighty and and then Hayesu Sanchez, they pulled
cam Smith, and then they pulled Dubond. And that's just like, hey,
when when Tanya got hurt, did they put in the
bat first?

Speaker 1 (01:36:44):
Why not du Bond?

Speaker 16 (01:36:45):
Why not du Bond who batted for for al Tuva
and had twenty two game hitting streak. Dubon should never
be built for the game.

Speaker 1 (01:36:54):
Yeah, yeah, it was two years ago. Care all right, enough,
it's enough, almost enough Smith Camp Smith go to.

Speaker 16 (01:37:04):
Give you carry ten games he played batting force. They
won seven or eight out of ten, and then they
moved him and he had it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:12):
He want him cleanup.

Speaker 1 (01:37:14):
I don't want to ca Charles. I can't, I can't,
I can't Smith Charle, Charles. I can't have camp Smith leaving.

Speaker 7 (01:37:21):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:37:21):
No, no, he's in one ninety four. No, Joe Charles, Charles.
What are we talking about, Charles. He's been one of
the worst hitters in the team and maybe in baseball.
I don't need a batting clean up.

Speaker 7 (01:37:31):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:37:31):
I don't Charles, just me and you talking him.

Speaker 2 (01:37:35):
Brood.

Speaker 1 (01:37:35):
God, that was too long.

Speaker 4 (01:37:38):
He was, but he was so he was so smuck.

Speaker 1 (01:37:41):
He got it all figured out. Joe spot is an idiot. Hey,
they sat yard on. He answered his own question. This
is all I'm asking is from some of you people
who are asking why. Charles asked yourself why he's sitting
DoD The Astros want to win games. Yes, And then
he answered it very quickly. It was a playing day
off and they don't want to. I'm getting hurt if
he goes out there and he goes and gets five

(01:38:02):
AB's and he cracks his hand in half. Everybody's saying
they rushed him back. But Charles's the numbers though, two
eighty or two fifty or three fifty. I don't know, Hey,
you have those numbers buys making them out.

Speaker 6 (01:38:15):
No, you don't know that.

Speaker 2 (01:38:16):
We could be very accurate.

Speaker 7 (01:38:17):
You don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:38:17):
God, cam Smith has been horrible for two months. You're
not putting it to clean up and and yet LSI
is a good cleanup hitter.

Speaker 6 (01:38:27):
Duh.

Speaker 1 (01:38:29):
Charles brought some bad. Charles brought Charles. Charles wasted five
minutes of my life and I'm I'm out of here.
I'm walking out of here. They give me some more cakes.
Quite moist twelve thirty one on Sports Talk seven ninety
seven one three two, one two five, seven ninety twelve
thirty six on Sports Talk seven ninety It's Matt Thomas
Show with Ross. We've got at one twenty today, a

(01:38:50):
little bit of an update on the Astros from the
mind of Brian Goboga, Sevic love It, Willie Fritz at
one thirty here today on seven ninety and Believe or
Not at one fifty, which is all things about cross ups,
crossword puzzles, CrossFit, crossroads. You can do a lot of
cross you could, Jane and Galveston. Jane, how are your friend?

Speaker 12 (01:39:14):
I'm all right, Matt, Thanks for getting to me. Sure
I heard mister stats the call before. Yes, yeah, I
heard that. A lot of it was ridiculous, like I'll
pointed out, you know, cam batting for give me a break.
But but anyway, uh, you touched on it. So I

(01:39:38):
wanted to know how or done. So your nun's not hurt.
He was just rested.

Speaker 1 (01:39:44):
He was resting. He was available off the bench. Yeah,
he would have if the game was close, he would
have been available for pinch hitting duty.

Speaker 12 (01:39:50):
Yes, Okay, they never did say anything.

Speaker 2 (01:39:53):
I didn't know, Joe spot I said a pregame Yep,
it was before the game.

Speaker 1 (01:39:57):
He was because it was asked at anytime the any
player is out for between now and the end of
the year, it's gonna you're going to be asked by
that by the media that's there.

Speaker 4 (01:40:05):
Yes, so is he Has it.

Speaker 12 (01:40:06):
Been announced he's playing tonight?

Speaker 1 (01:40:08):
No, they will make the announcement when the lineups come
out at about three o'clock this afternoon. The presumption is
that Dana Brown said earlier today Jeane that he doesn't anticipate.

Speaker 2 (01:40:17):
You're not needing any more days off, but again, things
can change.

Speaker 12 (01:40:21):
Right right, Okay, well look you are doing a great job,
and I'm I just I just want him to win
and uh that this's gut to start hitting more than
the Pitching's all right. I will say this, I don't
like what the picture did last night about his body
language after the guy hit the Grand Slam. When I

(01:40:44):
was growing up, I played catcher, and if a picture
act acted like that, I would go out to the
mountain and talk to him. I really would.

Speaker 1 (01:40:55):
Probably wanted he probably wanted to take He probably wanted
to take him like like Will Middlebrooks said, Gene, thank
you for the phone call.

Speaker 2 (01:41:00):
Take him down to the tunnel and throw hands is
what he wanted to do.

Speaker 1 (01:41:05):
Now, for what it's worth, Michael Schwab, he's got somebody
in the clubhouse that talks to him. He's not a reporter,
but he's got people that he talks to, and he
tweeted out a few minutes ago. Sources tell me tensions

(01:41:26):
rows and Astro's clubhouse last night after the loss, when
players confronted fromber Valdez for his in game actions against
his oar Salas are the argument escalator and coaches eventually
stepped into calm the situation. While intent behind the pitch
remains unclear, Valdez's initial refusal to address Salazar frustrated many
in the clubhouse. I don't think Michael's making that up.

(01:41:47):
I also believe that could be true. Well, he could be.

Speaker 2 (01:41:50):
I mean, he could be making it up.

Speaker 6 (01:41:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:41:52):
I mean, I don't think there's a reason for doing that.
You think there is a reason to do that. Notoriety,
Oh that's true. Clicks cussing discuss, speaking of cussing discuss.

Speaker 6 (01:42:03):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:42:04):
You know, look, Michael's got somebody. I mean, there's doesn't
He's broken some things, he's been wrong another he's been wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:42:09):
Yeah, it's it is what it is. But I I
I read that, and I go, okay, that that sounds
like that could that's not him trying to embello something.
I don't think. Yankees Keith who doesn't call when his
team loses to the Astros, but when they win he calls, Hello.

Speaker 4 (01:42:23):
Keith, good afternoon.

Speaker 1 (01:42:25):
How are you amazing?

Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
So you're very busy after that well after that series
in New York.

Speaker 4 (01:42:29):
Huh, absolutely, I have a life outside, of course.

Speaker 2 (01:42:38):
Funny.

Speaker 1 (01:42:38):
It's when the Yankees winning you don't have you got
plenty of time to call, But when you're very busy
when the Yankees lose. Can I get it? That's fine?

Speaker 4 (01:42:44):
I was shave in my head? Why why you kept
me o?

Speaker 22 (01:42:48):
He know me and my wife are going to take
a trip to Yankee South Stadium broken.

Speaker 1 (01:42:55):
Oh my god, you're just the worst, not even a real.

Speaker 22 (01:42:59):
Yankees Unfortunately, I can't find my glove, and I'm a
little nervous because we're gonna get a lot of line
shots tonight against your second and third string pictures. It's
gonna be kind of hectic to protect my wife from
all this.

Speaker 2 (01:43:18):
What you mean the ace of the staff is on
the hell tonight, Jason, Alexander.

Speaker 4 (01:43:23):
The staff was on the hill. Your eighth of the
staff was on the hill last night.

Speaker 1 (01:43:29):
I was joking about Jason. Let me tell you some
I ain't scared of whatever this is called. Will Warren
he is he wears jersey number ninety eight. Please he
should be. He should be a spring training picture down
in Tampa right now. Not worry about the Astros.

Speaker 4 (01:43:43):
Well, what do you think about the pictures that y'all
got for to that tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:43:46):
And tomorrow SI Young one, two and three. I think
they're wonderful.

Speaker 4 (01:43:49):
Oh yeah, Matt, I got my broom. I got you know,
last last I know what you knew at the end
of it. Last year, me and my wife went to
the first four games of the season. Do you remember
what happened? No, first four games?

Speaker 2 (01:44:06):
Last Nope, I do not.

Speaker 4 (01:44:08):
Well, you got It's called selective memory. I think you
have no.

Speaker 1 (01:44:12):
No, they call me mister memorization. So I remember what
happened in the twenty twenty two ALCS. I do too,
in the twenty nineteen ALCS and the twenty seventeen ALCS.
In the twenty fifteen wild Card, I remember what happened? Then, Yeah,
I do. It's called a pupets, that's what happened.

Speaker 4 (01:44:28):
I also remember that you guys were investigated for a
bunch of Genie scandals.

Speaker 2 (01:44:34):
No, no, no, that was actually the Yankees.

Speaker 1 (01:44:36):
Actually, no one, No, there was a letter from the commissioner.

Speaker 2 (01:44:40):
Yeah, you're confused.

Speaker 1 (01:44:40):
There was a letter from the commissioner, and Rob Manfred
tried to keep it secret. You're talking about the Yankees
and there cheating.

Speaker 4 (01:44:45):
Yeah no, no, I think you're news understood. Left.

Speaker 1 (01:44:50):
Oh okay, you say you were talking about Carlos Beltrean
who came from the Yankees and said, you guys, sign
stealing is behind the times.

Speaker 2 (01:44:56):
Here's how we did it in New York.

Speaker 1 (01:44:58):
Correct. Thank you to you for the phone call. And
I can take what you can do with that. Does
that broom of yours that made happen sweep?

Speaker 4 (01:45:07):
Could happen?

Speaker 1 (01:45:08):
Could happen? But I mean again, life, And let me
tell you, I don't care if the Yankees want to
swoop the Astros, that's fine. Let's go raise cut those again.

Speaker 2 (01:45:18):
Cut that magic number down.

Speaker 1 (01:45:19):
God, imagine if the Mariners weren't wetting the bed, we'd
really be freaking out. Well, you know they play well
at home. They just they are atrocious on the road.
Shout out to the Mariners from me, shout out or
shout out to all the Rays. The Oriole squass has
beaten in the last few weeks. Uh, White Sox have
got some wins there. It's all good. You get you know, Patire,
you writing some things down.

Speaker 2 (01:45:39):
I like, guys are gonna getting important. I got you
all right. Twelve forty three. It is the Matt Thomas.

Speaker 1 (01:45:45):
What's that Are you proud of me? That's fine, I can't.
I'm really largely indifferent to what you do. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven, And we're gonna talk about
this Kawhi Leonard situation we come back. It's very interesting
and we'll get to ask you guys as sports fans,
what the commissioner of the NBA should do. If it
is indeed true, we'll tell you the story next twelve

(01:46:07):
forty three Sports Talk seven ninety Texans on the practice
field today getting ready for the Rams. They will play
them Sunday at three twenty five. The captains were announced.
I don't think it's any surprise. DJ Stroud's among the captains.
Alsi's Alsha ears among them, Goomblewalles one, Will Anderson is one.

(01:46:31):
It's all good. Nico Collins is a captain and that
will conclude Captain talk on the show today. We will
try to reach out to somebody in Los Angeles tomorrow
get a RAMS protecional thing. It's captains captain and to
Neil Captain Kirk. By the way, a lot of people
asking for the Chris Cross Criss Cross Apple sauce, jump jump,

(01:46:51):
Christopher Cross anything crossing up. I'll figure it out, all right.
Coming up in the next hour, we're going to play
some of the conversation we have with Brian Bogosven. That's
gonna be about one fifteen or so. Willie Fritz is
with us at one thirty to talk about the Cougar's
game against Rice Ows believe it or not. So we've
got a lot of things to get to, all right.
So again, if you did not hear, and this is
a bigger issue that if you're not even a huge

(01:47:12):
basketball fan. So, there is a saturary cap in the NFL.
It's a hard cap. There is a cap in the NBA.
It was not a hard hard gap, right, it's just
very soft cat, very It's got all sorts of different things.
But most of the teams are over the cap, yes,
and pay penalties. And there's a luxury tax threshold that
Major League Baseball has, although they don't have a true

(01:47:33):
salary cap. So there is an investigative reporter named Pablo
Torre who did a rundown of the relationship between Bill
Belichick and his horror girlfriend.

Speaker 2 (01:47:48):
Hey what, it's very strong.

Speaker 1 (01:47:52):
Okay, slutty girlfriend. You can get sued. Okay, Hussey. Hi,
my name is Ross and those words were uttered by
that Thomas. Hi, I'm Rossfield Loreal and I said no, no, no, sir, okay,
sir and his little friend and about their relationship and
how North Carolina has been trying to distance themselves from this,
and man, I have to worry about her. Let me

(01:48:14):
worry about that record more so anything else. But that's
a different issue of a different time. So Populatory for
the last handful of months has found out that the
loss that Steve Balmer, who's the coach of the coach,
the owner of the Clippers, and he was a Was
he a Microsoft guy, I believe if I'm not mistaken, Yes,
Microsoft billionaire, billionaire and built the into it dome, which

(01:48:36):
part of it is really awesome. Part of it's a
hot mess. And I don't want to get into the
logistics of that. Why what do you mean plumbing didn't worker? No, No,
the plumbing worked. That went to the bathroom, just fine.

Speaker 2 (01:48:44):
Thanks, uh.

Speaker 1 (01:48:45):
But you're always trying to make sure the player is
taken care of. You can pay him as much as
you can within reason, because you have to have you
do have a salary cap in the NBA, and word
is that, uh through Pablo Tories investigative reporting that Steve
Baumer created a dumming company in which he paid another

(01:49:06):
dumbing company twenty eight million dollars for marketing. That dumbing
company is owned by Kawhi Leonard h And it's worthy
of you checking it out on Twitter if you are,
if you're on those streets, I'm sure other social media
platforms can find it as well. But the bottom line
is is that there was twenty eight million dollars in

(01:49:28):
additional funds over a start. I believe it was a
four year stretch that the Clippers were or that Steve
ball Martians and the Clippers. So Steve Ballmer was paying
Kawhi on the side, which is obviously highly illegal by
all intentsive purposes in the NBA. Now, you can do
that on your own if you want to, but you
cannot pay a player a side money that would go

(01:49:49):
directly against the rules of the NBA salary cap. So
the Clippers easily today said this is false, this is wrong.
I don't know what pabulatory is making this up. Tories
like I've been doing, I've been researching this for six seven,
eight months. I stand by my resources. Blah blah blah
blah blah. Now what will Adam Sober do about this?

(01:50:10):
Adam Silver clearly works for the thirty different team owners,
of which Steve Balmer is probably one of the most
affluent ones, if not the most affluent. If Steve goes
to build them out of that bad's Donald Sterling situation
that he did. If Steve Balmer calls Adam Silver and
says there's nothing to see here, goodbye, does Adam Silver say, okay, boss,

(01:50:34):
I got you, or does he create an investigative team
to figure out if indeed Kawhi Leonard received twenty eight
million dollars in additional funds that were illegal by NBA standards,
And if it is, and they deemed it to be illegal,
what kind of penalty should Balmer and the Clippers get.
The Clippers have had a statement, release a statement. Please

(01:50:56):
neither mister Balmer nor the Clippers circumvented the salary cap
are engaged in any misconduct related to Aspiration. That's the
name of the company, Okay. Any contrary assertion is provably false.
The team ended its relationship with Aspiration years ago during
the twenty two to twenty three season, when Aspiration defaulted
on its obligations. Neither the Clippers nor mister Balmer was
aware of any improper activity, but Aspiration or its co

(01:51:17):
founder until after the government instituted its investigation. The team
and mister Balmer stand ready to assist law enforcement in
any way they can. Okay, that's about as strong of
a we didn't do anything wrong in that statement that
you can put out there. So ross somebody's lying. Did

(01:51:39):
Pablo torre spend did he lie about months and months
of investigating? I he does have a person that he
hid the voice and the identity from on an audio
on a video on audio tape that basically said, yeah,
we saw this money going right to Kwie Leonard. And
the first thing reaction was what the effort we do
and said in this guy money. I I'll tell you

(01:52:02):
what I think please. I think that there was something
in place for Kawhi Leonard to get a little extra
on the back end. But I also think the Clippers
and Steve Balmer probably put their ducks in a row,
have enough documentation to try to legitimize this company and
legitimize this money that was spent to where at least
in front of a judge, they could argue that it

(01:52:23):
looks good enough to not have any sort of either
criminal or whatever. And the only the only thing they
could do, this defaulted company could do is say, here's
what we paid him for and here's what we got
in return.

Speaker 6 (01:52:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:52:38):
The argument that Pablotori has is that there is no
evidence that kawhile Hundtern has done one bit of marketing
whatsoever for this defaulted company. And that's where the rub
is that everybody else what's the name of that company again, Aspiration,
that everybody that's spent eighty dollars on marketing done any marketing,

(01:53:00):
and there's been other celebrities that are involved in this,
have accountability. There is no accountability for Kawhi Leonard. Yeah
that when you think that, wouldn't take an easy Google
search Kawhi Leonard here for Aspiration whatever they even do.
I think they're a plant company from my plants. Yeah,

(01:53:21):
I think it's something about that twenty eight million dollar
endorsement deal for a plant company. I'm not for sure,
do know what I'm saying. It sounds a little Yeah,
I think, Look, these types of bribes and backhanded kickbacks
and plant handing, pork barrel whatever would call it. Has
been happening for years and years and years, and a
lot of times people are really good at covering their

(01:53:41):
ass on this, so we'll see. My guess is if
they did something wrong to your point, they'll they will say,
you know what, go look on our records.

Speaker 2 (01:53:49):
But you have to prove it correct.

Speaker 1 (01:53:53):
You could, I can hand you cash through through a
dummy corporation, but you have to prove that that something
nefarious or whatever. I don't know if it's illegal. I
guess no, it's not. No, it's not illegal.

Speaker 2 (01:54:05):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:54:06):
If Steve Balmer is a company wants a hand I
mean yards, that's his due, that's his own process.

Speaker 2 (01:54:11):
Now it's on publicly. Hell a company, he can certainly
do whatever he wants.

Speaker 1 (01:54:13):
But the problem is you are paying an employee to
do first of all, do nothing, and second of all,
you're doing it to a guy who's also employed by
the team that you own, who by the.

Speaker 2 (01:54:22):
Way, has to be restricted by a certain a mono salary.

Speaker 4 (01:54:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:54:25):
I just don't know what any sort of legal ramifications
would be, just because the last sentence of their the
Clipper statement the team and mister Balmer stand ready to
assist law enforcement in any way they can.

Speaker 2 (01:54:33):
So I don't know what that means exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:54:35):
Okay, So is it does it? Do you feel like
it's cut and dry somebody's line or somebody has their
uh think it's probably I think Kawhi Leonard got some
kickbacks and they probably got some documentation to try to
make it look not that bad. So your gut feeling
is this isn't much do about nothing, or this feeling
is that he.

Speaker 2 (01:54:50):
Took money illegally.

Speaker 1 (01:54:52):
But my also my gut feeling is that you get
a lot of high priced lawyers involved, and if they
covered their ass enough, it's going to be very difficult
to prove in a court of law. Yeah, I got
If Adam Silver says something about this, I'd be very curious.
Steve Baumer one of the most affluent of all the owners,
not that Donald Sterling, the former owner, wasn't. But this
is something that I'd like to see investigated. It's like

(01:55:15):
it's like the old school. Didn't that happen with Ritt
boemar at o you back in the day he had
a job at a dealership and never worked to show
it never worked it yeah, and it happened with other people.
I mean, this is just just cover your bases. Yeah
all right, Uh, final hour of the Matt Thomas Show
Ross will feature a visit with Brian boga Sevic and
Willie Fritz and believe it or not and you come

(01:55:36):
on in. Next segment is yours seven one three two
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We thank you for listening to Sports Talk seven ninety.
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Speaker 1 (01:55:52):
We buried the lead on the Matt Thomas should Ross
in the final hour here at one o three and Ross,
I want to apologize for audience, and I'll apologize to
you because you are back Red Ross.

Speaker 2 (01:56:00):
Go ahead, Uh, congratulations.

Speaker 1 (01:56:04):
Davis Mills got himself a seven million dollar deal yesterday
to bay the backup quarterback for twenty twenty six for
the Texans.

Speaker 2 (01:56:11):
Yeah, yeam Mills, you're a team. Let's catting this.

Speaker 1 (01:56:14):
Guess he wants his guests. I thought you wanted to
apologize because CJ. Gardner Johnson's at practicing and you're looking good.

Speaker 2 (01:56:19):
In for week one. He's looking great. Good for him.

Speaker 1 (01:56:21):
You said he's gonna be out week one. He's gonna
be one and done, one year and done, not one
and done. Okay, Oh he's gone. Please, I didn't say
he's staying. I'm a Texans insider. I know these things.
All I've told you is about mixing boom. You had
the under wins the last two years lost. I lost. No,
it's insider, doesn't mean that that's facts. I give you
spit facts of spit predictions. I am a man that

(01:56:43):
spits the fact because I don't have a bias towards it.
I'm not a homer, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:56:47):
I don't know. You're a hater. No not, I'm a
realist Texans hater, Matt.

Speaker 1 (01:56:52):
I want them to do well. They've got a lot
of people that you don't.

Speaker 7 (01:56:54):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:56:54):
I but it doesn't hurt me when they don't do well.
I hurt when the Astros get their ask kick. I
hurt when farmber velled. That is just throwing at his ketcher. Okay,
I heard Johnson looking good for week one? Okay, how's
that offensive long gonna be? Are yonta ers ursery is
ready to do. You know what, Davis Mills, be ready,
my friend, because you might be playing in week two?

(01:57:16):
What happened to the other guy? Graham Mertzy is still there?
Graham Mertz?

Speaker 2 (01:57:21):
Do you think he hangs out with Frankie Westmoreland?

Speaker 1 (01:57:24):
Yay, you know those bros. We are fraternity Sigma. Kay,
you mean Frankie west Moreland and Graham Mertz. Those are
some good dudes, good throwbacks, some bush lattes.

Speaker 2 (01:57:35):
Those guys. Let's get some zemas. Yeah, nobody drinks semas man.

Speaker 1 (01:57:38):
Do they drink well? Selters? Oh they're Selter guys, Selter bros.
We've had some Sheelter Bross producers in the show too. Yeah, Shelter. Yeah,
that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:57:51):
You know who's who's a Selter drinker?

Speaker 3 (01:57:54):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:57:54):
You Nope, you like fruity sweet drinks. I've never had
a Selter before. Okay, but you like like fuck Cranberry
that I do. We were ordering shots at the draft book.
I think the draft sports play not personal and personal.
We're getting quila and you ordered a sex on the beach.

Speaker 4 (01:58:12):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:58:12):
Seven one three, two, one two five seven More on
Brian Boga Civic thoughts about the fromber we'll be calling
it frobergate when I call it the cross up. Oh,
the cross up, Yeah, the cross up. Allegedly. Nothing to
see here, says Dana Brown, says Ourselsar says, hey, I
pressed the wrong button. Frommer says, hey, I threw the
wrong pitch. Those both can't be true. No, Jason on

(01:58:35):
seven ninety at one oh six, Hi, Jason's.

Speaker 20 (01:58:39):
Having my friends is always love the show.

Speaker 1 (01:58:42):
Thank you.

Speaker 20 (01:58:45):
One of my favorite players is Kawhi Leonards. So that's
why I wanted to call sure. And I'm not going
to send somebody because I don't know the facts, but
I could tell you. I went to school for sports journalism,
and the source is sometimes is a bad thing. You know,
you got an owner that, like you said, clearly felled

(01:59:08):
out the whole Clippers situation with Donald Sterling. Not only that,
he's also got them a new stadium where they could
now play in their own place and not be the
little brother to the Lakers, which right now we all
know they're kind of doing better than the Lakers. But
you know, this is a situation where you know, I'm
with you. I want to see if it goes anywhere.

(01:59:30):
I want to see if it gets investigated because you
know this, this isn't just any ordinary owner. This is
like one of the richest men in the United States, probably.

Speaker 7 (01:59:39):
Even the world.

Speaker 20 (01:59:40):
I mean, he's got more money than half some of
the owners that have the teams now that they have.
But like when you anytime you say you have an
unnamed source and you know, and the police or whoever
looks into it, that unnamed source eventually gets named and
off the records, doing an investigation kind of don't count anymore.

(02:00:01):
So his his p's and q is better be in
order because if it does get looked into and he's wrong,
his career is gonna be screwed up for the rest
of his probably journalism life.

Speaker 1 (02:00:12):
What I want to know, isn't Jason thank you for
the phone call? Who is paying Pablotory? I mean, is
he I know he goes on networks in a podcast. Yeah,
but I don't pay the bills. I mean, it can't
to that level. Oh, it can work for some Pabloty
has got to have something else going on. You can
You can't be taking six months to investigate something and
not and rely on podcast money. You just can't. There's

(02:00:36):
just nothing.

Speaker 2 (02:00:36):
There's not enough in it?

Speaker 4 (02:00:37):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (02:00:38):
What is select few? Most people don't make obviously money
money for a living. Let's see, let's see what his
career is or what his bio says on his Twitter account.
Pablo Torre.

Speaker 7 (02:00:49):
P a b l O.

Speaker 2 (02:00:52):
I mean, he's got to work for somebody, right, the.

Speaker 1 (02:00:57):
Part of the podcast has partnered with the athletic but
I don't know if they okay if he's working with
them or what. Yeah, he's a journal I mean he's
got again got legit followers, not verified. Good for him,
didn't pay them money for that. I just don't know.
Unnamed sources working in sports, I mean, and working at politics,

(02:01:19):
you can't. How did this guy say he went to
journalism school? You can't trust on any sources. It's now
can sometimes in journalism one on one Yeah, and a
lot of sources want to be unnamed and or reliable. Yeah,
I mean there the person that that Pablo had on
his video was a guy that was an accountant for
that company. And unless he an actor to portray that person,

(02:01:42):
I mean, I would assume he's accurate. There was a lie.
That's funny.

Speaker 4 (02:01:49):
Guys, this.

Speaker 1 (02:01:52):
Does not look good for Steve Bomber and the Boys.
Steve Bomber, by the way, the eighth most wealthy person
in the United States. Number like the number eight. You
can probably guess the top three. Something involved with Walmart.
All right?

Speaker 2 (02:02:10):
No, oh, I guess.

Speaker 4 (02:02:14):
Is one.

Speaker 1 (02:02:16):
Number two would be oh, Amazon guy Jeff Bezos. This
is number two. Okay, but we congratulations on his uh wedding.
Number three also pretty famous? Okay Amazon? Who am I
forgetting eBay known? I wouldn't be eBay Apple. No, give

(02:02:38):
me the name Mark Zuckerberg. Oh face facebooks will make
him good money? Well, Facebook owns that, Instagram and WhatsApp
and probably more. Wow, they're doing okay over there, I'm
looking at Adams Silver has said nothing at this point.
Something on Twitter says Adam Silver is going to Sunday

(02:02:58):
strongly awarded letter the owners that'll show them.

Speaker 2 (02:03:01):
Oh, they also have threads.

Speaker 1 (02:03:02):
Don't forget We've all forgotten about threads at sports RV
on threads.

Speaker 2 (02:03:06):
Thanks, you're wasting your time.

Speaker 1 (02:03:08):
Threads. What's the one that uh blue sky? Nobody cares
about that on either one. It's just everybody's nice on there.
At least I don't know nobody's called me a douchebag
on there. Well I can call you douchebag in your
face right now. You know, Well, that's why I like
to do it with Blue Sky. It's the anti MT.
I haven't posted this. I'm as petty as it gets.
I wouldn't want to be on Blue Sky. I want
to hear meanness. I know see that you're what's wrong
with America. I am wrong. You know what I mister

(02:03:30):
Texas is America.

Speaker 4 (02:03:31):
You are not.

Speaker 6 (02:03:32):
Stop.

Speaker 1 (02:03:33):
Why do you keep pushing this horrible bitcus people by
buying into it? Nobody's buying into it. One yea who
on Twitter buys into it? I haven't shout out to you,
my friend. You appreciate you're.

Speaker 2 (02:03:44):
Not a yain.

Speaker 1 (02:03:45):
Everybody else knows. Frank you hold you on Twitter? You
gave me mister Texas yesterday. Yeah, he just gave me
the hook them signs. And you hate your Dr Pepper Yes,
sweet tea, Yes, enchiladas, yes, Tamali's yes. Uh. You like
beans and chili.

Speaker 7 (02:04:00):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (02:04:00):
I'm not averse to it. I'm not a I'm not
a bean snob. You're out, You're out, all right?

Speaker 1 (02:04:04):
Up next our friend Brian Bogusovic chimes in on the
Jordan on step Off Gate. The Cross Up. The Cross
Up a new mini series coming from CNN. The Cross
Up Up next one to twelve on Sports Talk seven
ninety once seventeen is the time. It is the Matt
Thomas Show with a Ross. We got Willie Fritz coming

(02:04:25):
up in about to thirteen minutes. We will brag about
the shut out victory against Steven f Austin and we'll
hear from the coach coming up in a few Also
today at one fifty, we're doing famous criss crossing of
Chris's and Crosses.

Speaker 4 (02:04:40):
What did you say?

Speaker 1 (02:04:42):
Well, I want to make sure you what you're comfortable
with today's topic. Are both Chris and Cross alive or
did one of them pass? I forgot well, Christopher Cross
still alive. He survived COVID. Nasty COVID for him. As
a matter of fact, he was paralyzed for a short
period of time. Really, you know, there's it was like
a one percent group that lost. But he's walking around now,
so I'm wishing him the best. You did not go
ahead and see him at the Chuck Talut casino. By

(02:05:03):
the way, you did not comment on the tweet that
I put out over the weekend about who was on
the yacht rock channel? Is that it Bill Withers? Yeah,
what did you say? I sent a gift and that
was it was somebody staring at their phone and then
dropping it on the ground and discussed what was the song?

Speaker 2 (02:05:26):
Was it Lovely Lovely Day? That it's not yacht rock?

Speaker 1 (02:05:28):
That is Let me tell you something, as someone who
knows yacht rock better than anybody. That's not a yacht
rock song. That's just good old fashioned soul. This is
what happens to. You have a stupid made up genre.
You just been the rules.

Speaker 2 (02:05:38):
However, you like.

Speaker 1 (02:05:42):
Breezing yat rock Lovely Day not love yat rock?

Speaker 20 (02:05:46):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:05:48):
What makes one yacht rock and whatnot? I'm kind of
the I'm kind of the judging jury on that. Okay,
well yeah, well I'm asking your criteria. My criteria is
were your reasoning? Smooth catchy beat? Lovely Day is smooth
and catch You want to beat. You want to listen
to it on a boat, you want to listen to
it at the pool. You want to listen making sweet
love to your girl. Why wouldn't you listen to Lovely

(02:06:09):
Lovely Day while you're making sweet love with your girl.
You could, but it's not like it meets all those criteria.
That's true. There are a lot of songs. I mean,
there's you know, respect would be all those things too.
You wouldn't want to respects not yacht rock? Yeah, shure
some respect?

Speaker 6 (02:06:25):
That would?

Speaker 2 (02:06:26):
You showed her the respect? These des What good times
we're having?

Speaker 1 (02:06:31):
Oh my god? Yeah, Frankie, you're learning the worst from him.
Thank god you've got me here as a leader. Just terrible.

Speaker 6 (02:06:39):
All right.

Speaker 1 (02:06:40):
Our friend bar every Wednesday at eleven o'clock and we
talked with him and we'd usually play the best of
this conversation during this segment of the show to get
Willie Fritz coming up about ten minutes from now right
now here is our visit or some of it with
Brian bogusvic As, he discussed exactly what he thought as
he watched the I don't if it's meltdown, lack of

(02:07:04):
composure or the mix up cross up between fromber Valdez
and and says our uh geronimo or not? We says
ours last name, I'm Jhona Blank says our salas are
makes sense?

Speaker 2 (02:07:16):
Here's Bogie.

Speaker 7 (02:07:19):
Yeah, I mean the optics of it were about as
bad as can be. And if it were a cross
up or whatever, it's a hell of a coincidence and
when it happened. But you know, whatever happened between Fromber
and cessor Salazar, they can work that out. I've seen
worse things happen in clubhouses that guys work through and

(02:07:39):
get over, and you know, we can get through stuff
like that. I think the bigger issue for the team,
the bigger issues for Fromber, you know, this year and
moving forward and other teams looking at it is once
again for for you know how many times here in
the last six eight weeks, you've got a guy in
the mound who is good enough to be a side

(02:08:00):
young candidate, a guy who is good enough to carry
a team to the playoffs and carry them deep into
the playoffs, standing out of the mound in a huge
game and he's fighting multiple battles. I mean, it's hard
enough to go out there and you're facing the Yankees,
it's the hottest team in baseball, and you're frustrated by
the rapport with the catcher and we've seen them be
frustrated with defensive alignments and we've seen them be frustrated
with plays being not made behind him, and you know

(02:08:24):
your focus has to be one hundred percent on I
need to get the guy out who's standing in the
batter's box. And when you're swimming in your head and
there's all kinds of other things going on, it's distracting
and you're not going to get your best performance. And
it's a team that needs Fromber's best performance to get
them to the playoffs and to you know, have any
shot of going anywhere in the playoffs, and they've consistently

(02:08:47):
not gotten it, not because he's not capable of it,
but because I mean it seems distracted.

Speaker 1 (02:08:53):
Does that move its way through the diamond, the guys
in the lineup, the clubhouse, or could there be a
certain aspect of man we love Fromber? He's our teammate,
he's our bro. When he's on, he's giving us six
innings seven innings of two hit ball. But sometimes that
just comes with the package and that they can shake
it off. Or does sometimes that become a detriment when

(02:09:16):
you have a guy that you know is as good
as he is, had these kind of and meltdown maybe
too strong of a term, but uneasiness on the mound
when you are sitting here trying to hold on for
dear life to win this division.

Speaker 4 (02:09:29):
It's both.

Speaker 7 (02:09:29):
I mean, you know how much time guys spend around
each other during the course of the season, how well
they get to know each other. It becomes like a
sibling relationship. And you know, everybody knows that they're siblings.
You love them for the good and for the bad.
But they're also the people that can frustrate you the most,
that you can fight with the most. And you know,
guys understand each other. They understand how each other, how

(02:09:51):
everybody ticks, and you know, you know what their good
days are like and what their bad days are like,
and you learn how to work through them together. But
this time of the year when everybody's supposed to be,
you know, forgetting all of your personal stuff and moving
in the right and in the same direction, and it's
you know, twenty six guys in the clubhouse and the
only thing that matters right now is winning games. To

(02:10:12):
have somebody who's so vital to that seem like there's
more going on than just that. That is about as
frustrating the thing as there can be in the clubhouse.

Speaker 1 (02:10:21):
Brian Bogosivic was U was here on Sports Talk seven
ninety Let's go to the bats. We know they've had
some issues with runners in scoring position, and we've talked
all season long about approach and changing your approach, but
staying within yourself. What do you think is just happening
as far as as a collective, because everybody seems to
be struggling, especially with the runners in scoring position situations.
As far as meetings and talking with coaches and each other,

(02:10:46):
what do you think is happening behind the scenes right
now with the Astros and this funk they've been been in.

Speaker 7 (02:10:51):
Well, I think I think in the clubhouse, the thing
that you're most trying to express and the thing that
you're most trying to spread throughout you know, all of
the hitters, the meetings and everything is relax. The last
thing you want to do is be going up there
tight trying to do more pressing. And you don't want
to turn a second and third one out situation into

(02:11:12):
a pressure situation for you. Right, that's a pressure situation
for the picture. You're not supposed to be feeling like, oh,
here we go again. I hope I'm not the guy
that gets out that's taking a positive and turning it
into a negative. So you're trying to kind of smooth
everything over and just tell everybody to relax. You know,
they're getting hits, not necessarily yesterday a lot of hits,
but in general, there's runners on base, there's stuff going on.

(02:11:33):
That's why they're getting those scoring opportunities. So if you
just continue to push forward, you know, law of average
says you should start to get those hits with runners
in scoring position. But and at that with the runner
and scoring position is not the same. Pictures are going
to be more careful, they're going to go to their
best stuff. They're going to try to prey on your weaknesses.
And we've seen a lot of times where a very

(02:11:54):
aggressive team gets into that runners in scoring position situation
and turns it up a notch and gets even more aggressive,
and pitchers are able to pray on that. There's been
a lot of that bats in those situations that have
ended early on not the best pitches to hit well.

Speaker 1 (02:12:09):
One of those situations was Jeremy Pania with runners on
first and second.

Speaker 2 (02:12:13):
What did you make of the bun attempt there?

Speaker 7 (02:12:16):
Well, you know, first and foremost, I hope everybody understands
it wasn't a sacrifice punt, right, He's bunting to get
on base. He's trying to sneak attack the third basement.
He's sitting back on his heels, deep in the hole.
That's you know, he's trying to move the line along.
You know, if it works out and you're sitting there
bases loaded for jord on it, it's a smart play.
I just think where his stature is. I guess you

(02:12:38):
could call it in this lineup. You know how good
he's been this year, you kind of want him to
be above just trying to sneak a hit. Hey, go
be a run producer. I know you're hitting lead off,
but when you get these opportunities, we need that. I
will say this just in general, in a situation where
a pitcher is struggling to throw strikes where there's not

(02:12:58):
a lot of balls being put in play, walk keep
by a pitch, that's usually a good time to try
to sneak a bunt down in fields, kind of on
their heels a little bit pictures maybe trying to lay
one in there. So the rationale behind doing it isn't terrible,
but the fact that you know make make the argument
that he's the best hitter on the team throughout the
course of the season. You need that guy to go

(02:13:19):
get the big hit, not just move it along.

Speaker 1 (02:13:21):
What about the fact that Carlos Korea has kind of
added that responsibility of taking perhaps more pitches than he
wants to because of the fact there have been so
many innings It feels like in the last two weeks
where he has seen the guys in front of him
take just a couple of handful of pitches and all
of a sudden, that picture across from him is in
a low pitch count, meaning that if if he records
the out, they're gonna go back on defense, and that

(02:13:42):
starting picture of his own maybe back on the mountain
sooner than he wants to be.

Speaker 7 (02:13:46):
Yeah, there's been a couple of situations where, you know,
a pitcher of ours has had a long inning and
then there's been the first two outs made on three
or four pitches and somebody's had to go up there.
A couple of times been Carlos and take a pitch,
take a strike, and just try to at the very
least make along at that. It kind of comes with
the territory. It's just you know, playing the game. Carlos

(02:14:06):
is also a guy who's comfortable hitting with two strikes.
He's comfortable going deep into the count. So for him
to be willing to take on maybe a little bit
more of that responsibility is him, you know, kind of
seeing an opportunity, I can do my part and maybe
a little bit more, because you know, the last thing
you want to do is go up there and tell
a Jiner Diez or Jose al Tub to be somebody

(02:14:27):
that they're not. That's not going to be productive. It's
not necessarily about when you're swinging. Go up there and
swing at all the first pitches you want, if they're
good pitches to hit, don't go up there swinging at
first pitch sliders, you know, in the other batter's box
and either you know, rolling over or being down on
one every time. So it's not necessarily about when they're swinging.
It's what they're swinging at in those situations.

Speaker 1 (02:14:48):
All right, swing for the fences, do anything, get runners
in scoring position like you had a couple of days ago,
and more impartly, if you win, chances are you're going
to gain some ground. Because the Mariners, all they like
to do is lose to teams on the road, including
the Rais. Last couple of days, let's talk to our
good friend Willly Fritz. He's a head football coach of
our school, your school, America's school of course at the

(02:15:09):
University Houston. We'll talk with him next here on Sports
Talk seven. Hontie, Willie Fritz, the head coach of your
Houston Cougar is my Houston Cougars and America's Cougars, presented
to you by our friends the Joint Chiropractic, the official
chiropractor of the University of a Houston football coach. Fritz,
thanks for the time, congratulations in the opening night when
what was the beyond the shutout? Because shoutouts and no

(02:15:31):
matter who the opponent is tough to find in college football.
What else did you love about the performance last Thursday night?

Speaker 5 (02:15:38):
Oh well, a bunch of men. Essentially we tackle extremely
well for game one. You know, you always worry about
that you don't do a whole lot of live scrimmaging
and live tackling and do all sorts of work with uh,
you know, dummies and agile bags and I got these
big rings. You do a little close proximity tackling as well,

(02:16:02):
but for us to come out and tackle the way
we did, you know, after well, I guess twenty five practices.
I was happy when we had eight missed tackles, and
that's pretty hard and good.

Speaker 1 (02:16:13):
In week one, it felt like your defense, beyond the
fact that it was exceptional not giving up a pointing,
probably could have a couple of pick sixes along the way.

Speaker 2 (02:16:22):
Is that good nature?

Speaker 1 (02:16:23):
Grief from guys dropping balls or like, hey, this is
fine this week, but we need you to grab those
in future games.

Speaker 12 (02:16:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:16:29):
We always talk about, you know, winning the turnover takeaway battle,
and all my career as a head coach, we've won
ninety one percent of games and we've been plus one
or better. It is probably the most telling statistic in football.
And you know, we were plus two, which is great.
I think, you know, thirty three years the head coach,
I've lost one game and then plus two or better.

(02:16:49):
But I could have been about plus six. We had
some drops and I told the guys, let's start getting
greeting to catch those balls in the opportunity to get
a funell recovery. We miss that as well, but you're right,
we had some. We have some you know, opportunities to
get a few more picks, and uh, you know, one
of them for sure could have been a pick six,

(02:17:10):
but uh, it's came on and we just need.

Speaker 12 (02:17:13):
To improve on that.

Speaker 1 (02:17:15):
It is so interesting for me coach, because I saw
your team for the first time playing as all of
us did, so many different names. And look, that's the portal.
That's guys graduating, that's recruits that have come in. Uh,
is there still going to be a little while before
everybody knows who everybody does well, everybody can do. Are
these non conference games going to carry more weight because

(02:17:36):
you've got to figure out who is really going to
be on your depth chart come conference season.

Speaker 5 (02:17:41):
Well, I think you're right. You got we looked at
that and I told you, guys, you're earning playing time,
you know, not only in practice but also in the game.
And we got to figure out as coaches what do
they do well where they do not so well? Try
to keep them away from that. We've got forty one
new guys, twenty one of them or becoming freshman when
he decided to really get freshman class and really please

(02:18:04):
those guys. I think all of them have an opportunity
to be good player here at University of Houston at
at some point Diamond. Then we dropt some guys in
from the portal also, and you know, we're kind of
figuring out what they're doing, you know, as far as
in our system, because we're doing things a little different
than maybe where they came from.

Speaker 1 (02:18:24):
I'll be honest with you, it was fun watching Connor
get his feet. What is a Houston Cougar quarterback but
his tight end. And I know he got banged up
a couple of times during the game against the Lumberjacks.
I can't wait to see his progressions because he looks
like a grown ass man on that football field right now.

Speaker 7 (02:18:38):
For you.

Speaker 5 (02:18:39):
He's he's a football player, you know. Tainer Cozelle is
uh you know, he's sixty six six seven, he's about
two fifty runs, excellent routes, tremendous movement, great length. You know,
sometimes the guys had tall and didn't have real long arms.
He's got long arms which he can kind of catch
the ball out in front of them, away from the defender.

(02:18:59):
And yeah, he's he's in great shape. He had a
little banged up. Decided not to play him anymore and
that when the game was in hand, but you know
he's he's gonna be very good player for us.

Speaker 1 (02:19:12):
If I was to pull aside Connor after the game
yesterday or on Thursday and then looked at his tape
after and maybe the visits you've had with him this
week during practice, what would you say was his bright
spots and what do you want to see him work
on as you get ready for this game against Rice.

Speaker 5 (02:19:27):
Well, I think that Connor is like everybody. He was
first game playing in quite a long time, and timmy
know his teammates a little bit, and you know that
first game, you know, you try to draw it up,
and I hope he got drawn up like they're going
to do it, but it was a little bit different
some of the looks and coverages and fronts and things

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like that that they presented to us. I thought for
a first game, he did a really nice job and
he's only going to get better. This will help him
grow as a as a quarterback and leader in football
player in our program, So you know, there's a lot
of good things to build upon from game one.

Speaker 1 (02:20:06):
I was watching so much college football this weekends. I'm
sure you have as well before you as you're preparing
for the rice game. You know, it's kind of a
little bit of a running joe coach that you can't
trust college kickers. I don't know if it's just a
good batch this year, but there were some major kicks
made all across the country. You had several kicks made
in the game against SFA from field goal perspective to
the extra points. Are we now seeing a better crop

(02:20:29):
of place kickers out there or are we just doing
a better job of evaluating And because again you've got
portal and you've got nil and you've got ways to
compensate these young men that you're expecting more from that
position maybe than from years past.

Speaker 5 (02:20:43):
Well, you know, I think they're getting better at coaching.
You know, I think that was kind of like, oh,
I guess I don't play golf twenty thirty years ago.
Tell you and have many people could help you with
your golf swing, and same thing a little bit with
punters and kickers and ampers, and there are some specialist

(02:21:03):
coaches out there that and you know, our our guy
does a really good job. And you know, so it's uh,
there's a lot more information and drills and technique and
you know, plant foot too close to the ball wherever
the case may be, and we're in the past, and
you know, everybody's kind of only worried about to go

(02:21:24):
through those two uprights out there. That's the only thing
anybody can really coach. So yeah, I think you're you're right.
I've watched a little bit of football this weekend too,
and there's some good kickers out there. There's some good
kickoff guys. Not very many opportunities to get kickoff returns anymore.
Guys are kicking are real deep, So there's been an
improvement in that area for sure.

Speaker 1 (02:21:47):
Wellie, are we sure that Ken Haffield's not running rice again?
They had fifty five attempts against Louisiana Lafayette last Saturday.

Speaker 5 (02:21:56):
You know, coach at Abel's does a really good job
with that spread gun option attack. You know, I ran
that at the same Houston State when we had our
good run, you know, back in the early two thousands,
and then we ran it over at Georgia Southern, and
and uh, you know, it's difficult because it's hard for
you to prepare for it. You get the speed of it,

(02:22:17):
and uh, you don't have as many practices to work
on it as you'd like.

Speaker 12 (02:22:23):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:22:24):
You know, so we had a lot of success at Davidson,
and you know, the big thing that we've talked to
our guys about is number one, we've got to have
our alignment correct and you gotta have your eyes on
the right thing. What's your keing on that particular play
because you start looking at other places you can ask
problems because it is an assignment football. But they got

(02:22:44):
to have somebody on the dive, You got to ask
somebody on the quarterback, and you got to have somebody
on the pitch.

Speaker 1 (02:22:50):
Is there any benefit to playing rice in that style
right now? I mean, is there anybody else on the
calendar this year that's going to pose that? And if there,
if the answer is noted that that's a lot of
work for your young men. The learning a very short
period of time so early in the season.

Speaker 5 (02:23:03):
Yeah, you know, it's one of the good things is
we've worked on a little bit during preseason camp. You
know there's some days we go fifteen minutes here, fifteen
minutes there, and and then also we're able to work
on it on Monday. We had a Thursday game, we
lifted and you know, kind of put that game to
bed and then get the kids off Saturday and Sunday

(02:23:23):
and then jumped into it. So we really got five,
you know, five days of preparation instead of the four
that you usually get.

Speaker 1 (02:23:30):
Coach, thanks for the time is always congratulations. I enjoy
these road trips that go six miles from campus to campuses.
It was easy for us to travel with and we
wish you the very best of Saturday against the Owls.

Speaker 5 (02:23:41):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (02:23:41):
Gokuz All right, thank you. Will I appreciate Willie Fritz
joining us here on Sports Talk seven hoey. Believe It
or Not is up next ross ross between the Bogus
Evic interview Willy Fritz, I mean this is going to
be a masterpiece of a Believe it or Not. Don't
get your hopes up. You know, it's almost like some
of your best work is done when you're on when
you're under pressure. Yeah, there's no pressure, so.

Speaker 2 (02:24:04):
Let's still get your hope. Let's at basically gonna.

Speaker 1 (02:24:06):
Suck then, Okay, So a horrific edition of Believe It
or Not is coming up next to here on the program.
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Speaker 6 (02:24:40):
One seven pm.

Speaker 1 (02:24:42):
Here on Sports Talk seven nine to the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross. You've got Astros on deck coming up
at six o'clock, I believe, with Matt Thomas joining you
from dyke In Park. Astros looking to bounce back against
the Yankees. It is another nationally televised game. It's on
MLB Network, It's on Amazon Prime Video. I think it's

(02:25:06):
stalon Space City Home Network. I'm not sure I know
where it's gonna be. It's gonna be right here on
your home for your Houston Astros. Sports Talk seven to
ninety Jason Alexander will be on the hill versus Will Warren.
Right now, Astros slight underdogs plus one ten. It's a
minus one thirty four of the New York Yankees. There
were slight underdogs yesterday and well Fromer wasn't good. He

(02:25:29):
gave up a Grand Slam, and then now there's a
huge nationwide controversy about him possibly intentionally getting crossed up
with his catcher. It just certainly was not a good
look a team. Adam and Adam are coming up at
two o'clock to make sure you stay tuned for that,
and we'll get to believe it or not here in

(02:25:50):
just a couple of seconds. Look at the at the
end of the day, whether we believe let's says ourselves
are and Farmer Valdez said publicly, which it's hard to
believe them both. One said they threw the wrong pitch.
One said they hit the wrong button, so he hit
the wrong button and he thought he was gonna throw
that and he threw the wrong puch. Unless they got
double crossed up, it doesn't exactly make sense. So hopefully

(02:26:11):
it's gonna be all water on the bridge. And next
time Farmer goes out like he did when he bounced
back against the Rockies, he can go throw seven innings
to shut up all or something like that. So you're
promising there'll be another another kerfuffle involving something involving Farmer
valk I promise that.

Speaker 8 (02:26:23):
No.

Speaker 1 (02:26:23):
I want you to though, for the mental health of
the Houston Astro fan base. Can we have Can we
have nice fromber? Can we have the farmer that was
tweeting him like a month ago where that broken? He
was great for like a year plus, limiting the blow ups,
looking good out there. I mean, he was giving up
from runs here and there, but he wasn't just having
the wheels completely fall off. But they didn't Detroit. They
did last night. He'd been great at home all year long.

(02:26:45):
He could have just gotten Trent crush him out. We're
probably not talking about a lot of this, except for
Astro was probably still lost. I hope Carlos Kray went
him and said, you pulled that crap one more time.
I'm gonna beat your ass. I don't I don't care
what they said. Pub Can Carlos Crea beat his ass?

Speaker 12 (02:27:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:27:01):
I'd like to see it. We got Ooh Kray has
got a bad back and a bad ankle. Oh, so
you're saying Korea wouldn't be the guy. You're not the
only one, right, Oh, you're not all crack him in half.
But he's not that kind of guy. No, who you
sending honestly, don't forget.

Speaker 2 (02:27:21):
Robert got a screw loose.

Speaker 1 (02:27:23):
And now he might not be. Uh so you're saying
from ber is Twitter in that club hatch he's got
the biggest arms. Well, Camp Smith's got camp since he's
too nice. He's super nice. He's super nice. He's a rook. Yeah,
he's from West Palm. Ohs, Palm can get dirty. That's true,
especially if you're done. That's ninety five nice on one side.

(02:27:43):
Pawn chops and whores, that's your your word of the day,
I think, but whores, sorry.

Speaker 2 (02:27:53):
Scantling clad women that do things for money for money.

Speaker 1 (02:27:58):
Five minutes up to go this shy what should we do?
We should play Umerica's fastest growing sports radio game show.

Speaker 2 (02:28:10):
We simply called it be Believe It or Not. And
here's how it works.

Speaker 1 (02:28:13):
It calls seven one three two one two five seven
Nutty seven one three two one two five seven ninety
Today's edition of Believe It or Not is all things?
How did you describe it? Rossie thinks about Christmases crosses.
I'll read you just name it about cross the staments
completely utterly anchor. You'll say this believe it same as
Erroni's football commit up. You'll say this nah two crosses

(02:28:35):
questions that you get correct, We'll get you one of
three things. One is a seven ninety t shirt. One
is a pair of tickets to see Alice Cooper and
Judas Priest October twenty sixth at the Woodenan's Pavilion. Tickets
are on sale now at ticketmaster dot com. Or Ross
you ready for this three two one or back of
tickets with pit pass de monster jam. I don't retaint

(02:28:56):
the entry stadium.

Speaker 4 (02:28:58):
A bad idea.

Speaker 1 (02:28:58):
I see look what you did. Tickets out on sale
now at ticketmaster dot com. Uh, Victor on seven ninety Victor,
You're ready to play Believe It or Not?

Speaker 4 (02:29:10):
Believe it?

Speaker 1 (02:29:11):
The first known crossword puzzles were published as a children's
book back in eighteen ninety in New York City. Believe
It or Not?

Speaker 2 (02:29:20):
That is a not statement Number two for the Wind.

Speaker 1 (02:29:23):
The adolescent rap duo Crisscross Song Jump hit number one
of the US Billboard charts in nineteen ninety two, and
was there only top forty hit Believe It or Not.

Speaker 5 (02:29:36):
Not?

Speaker 2 (02:29:36):
No, I had three more in the top forty.

Speaker 1 (02:29:38):
Congratulations, you're going.

Speaker 2 (02:29:39):
To Judas Prix.

Speaker 1 (02:29:43):
It's your favorite Judas Prix song man. I believe it's
April Flowers bring May showers. So I'll go with breaking
the law. Brian on seven NINTI. Brian, what was your
favorite part of today He's ten to two radio show?

Speaker 4 (02:29:55):
Well, you both ganged up on that Yankee fan priceless.

Speaker 1 (02:29:58):
Earl Moore pitching the major leagues from nineteen oh one
to nineteen fourteen. It was nicknamed Crossfire because of his
side armed throwing style. Believe it or not?

Speaker 4 (02:30:07):
Believe it?

Speaker 1 (02:30:08):
Yeah, it's math fact model did his games back in
the day.

Speaker 4 (02:30:11):
No, he did not.

Speaker 1 (02:30:12):
May rest in peace, God love you Malow statement number
two for the win. The first known crossbows originated in
China around six point fifty BC. Believe it or not
Believe it? That's correct. Well we have a little mini
We got a mini jamdle in here. Four statements, two winners,
four correct answers. John on seven ninety John, You're ready

(02:30:33):
to play.

Speaker 6 (02:30:33):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 4 (02:30:35):
Believe it.

Speaker 1 (02:30:36):
There was a game show in the nineteen seventies called Crosswits,
where contestants were paired with celebrities to solve crossword puzzles.

Speaker 2 (02:30:43):
Believe it or not.

Speaker 1 (02:30:46):
Believe it? Yes, believe it statement number two for the win.
While the Medal of Honor is the highest army decoration
in the United States, the second highest is a Distinguished
Service Cross. Believe it or not? That is also correct.
Six statements, six correct answers Jeremiah on seven, Are you

(02:31:10):
ready to play?

Speaker 6 (02:31:11):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 4 (02:31:12):
Believe it?

Speaker 1 (02:31:13):
The Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball team won the NCAA
Tournament in nineteen forty seven.

Speaker 2 (02:31:21):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 1 (02:31:24):
Oh ah, here we go, Jeremiah, A chance for a
perfect day.

Speaker 6 (02:31:31):
You ready here?

Speaker 1 (02:31:31):
It is no pressure. Christopher Cross. He is alive, Believe
it or not? Not, He's alive. Oh, that was the gimme.
We just talked about it. Threw the gimme at the
end today. Just talked about he got over COVID and

(02:31:54):
was paralyzed for a while, but now he's fine.

Speaker 2 (02:31:56):
I think it was exact quotes. I we got a
minute left to go.

Speaker 1 (02:32:01):
I know Ross is packing up because Lord knows, he's
been super busy the last half hour listen to interviews
and replace and writing those great questions. How does he
get Christopher Cross wrong?

Speaker 2 (02:32:10):
That was the layup drift. It was a dead deal,
all right.

Speaker 1 (02:32:15):
Astros take a three game lead into tonight's game. The
Mariners and the Rays play tonight at six thirty five.
George Cady is thrown today. Kirby's record eight and six,
e area three point ninety four. His whip is one
point one six.

Speaker 6 (02:32:30):
It's good.

Speaker 1 (02:32:32):
It's not as good as he used to be, but
it's still good. Oh man, he's horrible. Is he Ara's
three ninety four? What's Frommer's three forty? The Mariners? By
the way, according to Matchup Predictor, of a fifty point
six percent chance of winning the game, Mariners are a
minus one forty five on the money line. That's interesting.
The Rays are a plus one twenty. They don't think
that this Adrian Hauser dude's any good. He's seven and

(02:32:53):
four with a two eighty five. Ernie, that's like saying Ernie, Okay,
I'm gonna say that a lot tonight. You know why
Why because I'll be hosting the on Deck Show six
o'clock right here Sports Talk seven aunty, where I'm sure
everything will be coom down. You're playing a bunch of
interviews at Mailee in good job. M No, you're gonna
hear great insight analysis, recap and read some game notes

(02:33:14):
and maile it in with some interviews that we've already
heard three times.

Speaker 2 (02:33:17):
Should be great.

Speaker 1 (02:33:18):
H you've only played it, replayed it once, you know.
I think people want to hear from Dayna Brown. I
learned from the best.

Speaker 11 (02:33:29):
Yes, you did.

Speaker 2 (02:33:31):
That's infinitely.

Speaker 1 (02:33:31):
I learned from the best. You did, learn for the best.
I'm next. It's Swxler, It's Clinton, It's the team. Have
a great rest of your day. Frankieff Sandy job as
our producer. Every buddy Jonathan's back tomorrow. The whole gang's
all here at ten to two. Right here, Sports Talk
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