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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. That's one one
mad eh, Now, I don't know what it is. It's
definitely two. Hit it. That's two. Your decision, Jonathan, Do
you know what it is?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Not at all? Okay, Two's good? All right, Matt? Can
I take three guesses? Sure? And as long as I'm
tell me if I'm run on this first one? Sure?
What Astros are changing hitting coaches? That's correct? Yes, well
with one hitting coach. Ooh, the Astros are parting ways
(00:40):
with hitting coach Alex Centron, sources tell the Athletics, says
Chandler Rome. More changes are expected on Houston's coaching staff.
So everyone who's complained about Alex Centrone, your long national
nightmare is over. The offense will be number one in
baseball next year. Isn't that a good thing? Hit for Matt? Yes,
I I think I said I would we both I
(01:01):
think we both said yeah. Yeah. It felt like it
was trending in that direction. Dana Brown had said publicly
that they would like a change in their approach, and
we'll see what happens from here. But Alex Centrone, who
has been here since in Houston since two thousand and
nineteen signed a three year contract after the twenty twenty
two season contract was done. And I don't see anything
(01:25):
about Troy Snicker and whether or not, but I believe
his contract was up as well. So I don't see
anything about Troy Snicker in this article from Chandler Room
of the Athletic. But first on the scene, Alex Centron
no longer the major league hitting coach for your Houston ash.
Now you have said this, and it was wise in
your part to say this. You had said, Hey, there
(01:47):
have been a lot of players in that clubhouse that
said they are team alex Centron. And my retort back
to you was, it doesn't really matter that the player's
endorsement only carries so much weight, and that would be
this will be yet another example of why why players
may say one thing but front offices, coaching stabs and
(02:08):
ownerships say other things. Yeah, and it seemed like the
writing was much more on the wall when I mean,
Dana Brown was speaking publicly talking about issues with the
team approach, and I think Joe Spotty said the same
thing too, And that's that's when it felt like certainly
there was there was going to be a change made. Well,
I'll put it this way. If you were in a
situation where you were wigging out about whether or not
the manager or the general manager or both were going
(02:29):
to come back, it wasn't just going to be let's
bring everybody back and let's run it back. There was
no There was going to have to be some sort
of job guys. Yeah, and yeah, hitting coaches. Man, this
is awfully cliches, but it sounds like it's they're hired
to be fired. Yeah, I would say, I mean, yeah,
it happened. The Rangers fired their hitting coaches. You had
(02:51):
some other hitting coaches changed recently. I think the Yankees changed.
They had a new guy this year. Maybe within the
last two years. It happens. Yeah, I would be consistent.
The players have to perform at the major league level
no matter who the hitting coach is. Yeah. The reality is,
I don't expect this team to all of a sudden
be a top ferocious, top five team offensively unless again
(03:11):
the free agency. Look, Kevin Durant is gonna make the
Rockets offense a better offense than it was a year
ago because Kevin Durant's a better player. Yes, well, we
just respect the Dylan Brooks but Kevin Durantz a player
player than Dylan Brooks is. I'll be interested to see
what happens. It'll be funny if if your runs back
and pain is healthy, and Escock Paratus is back and
the offense is really good, and then everybody's be like, so,
you told you so, it's all about the hitting coaches. Well, yeah,
(03:32):
a lot of those guys are missing time last and
guess what. Alex Indron's gonna be really mad because he's like, man,
I didn't get a full roster exactly, and it's it's
a tough situation for him. But the offense, of course,
wasn't up to par, certainly not with runners in scoring
position and the guys who like to be aggressive up there,
the jose Al Tuoves, the the Diaz's of the world,
and not working counts. Especially after Escock Paradis went down,
(03:57):
it was a problem. Yep, yeah, this is zero surprise.
Now the snicker get to keep his job, well they
you know, I don't know how many of the thirty
teams have tandem hitting coaches. I don't know either. I
think I looked because we did hitting coach, believe it
or not. The other Yeah, we did I'll have to go.
I'll have to go look it up. I think I
(04:18):
went to basically every Oh, that's right, there was this
one page. Sweet Yeah, most places have a hitting coach
and an assistant hitting priach. I mean I understand, but
I never got the impression that Snicker and assistance me either.
This I think it was a TAN Baseball reference page
list Centron as the hitting coach and Troy Snicker as
the assistant. I would say they're kind of co hitting coaches,
(04:39):
all right, what's like most everybody's got at least two
three people named. Yeah, I mean the roster's too big
to have just one guy focusing on that, so that
doesn't surprise. All right, So astro fans, uh, you got
your wish? Yes, Now many of you didn't even know
who Alex Centron was, so this will be kind of
a little bit of an exercise and get to know
your former hitting coach. Well, IM, don't believe or on
Alex Centron or something that's you know, that wouldn't be
(05:03):
very polite, No, it wouldn't. Although we do dead people
all the time. Somebody said, I hear they're replacing him
with a bunting coordinator. We gotta move runners, guys. I
feel very confident telling you that we're not going to
see a forty percent jumping bunts next year. Although you
know the fans would like. The Trot's been doing a
(05:24):
fair amount of bunning in this series. That's not gonna
because but part of the reason why is the Trot's
offense not very good. The Trot's offense for two months
has been garbage. I don't know how they put up
eight runs at a day. It's stunning because they don't.
They don't. They don't have much sock in their lineup. Yeah,
was it was it? Then they put up nine or something,
and it was supposed to be the most, the most
in a playoff game for them since like nineteen sixty eight.
(05:45):
Oh yeah, sixty eight Tigers did win the World Series,
by the way they did. Yes, look at you. Yeah
called double day Thomas over here. You better than call
me Abner. What's the rest of we got? We have
the News at Noon theme. We're gonna go with us
the rest. This is kind of the news at new
there it is. This is big news. I'll be interested
to see how jose al tuove if if he gets
(06:09):
a new offensive philosophy, start taking a bunch of pitches,
and again, Josel Tuba, Carlos Correa, you can pick probably
a handful of other players are like man, we are
Team Cintron at the major league level, it does not matter.
Somebody had to be a fall guy, and Alex s
Ron is the first casualty of that said list. You
only had four guys. Well, let's put Cam Smith in there.
(06:30):
He got four hundred ninety three played appearances. He's your
top five played appearances guy. Al Tuove disappointment, Walker disappointment,
Janerty is disappointment, Jeremy Payne had a career year, and
then Cam Smith overall was a disappointment. I mean he
just was. I know, he wore down and all that
type of stuff. But you ops six seventy one ops
plus eighty seven. That's a disappointment. So for of your
(06:50):
top five plate appearance guys were disappointments. But also, of
course Gesak Praatis was great, he was hurt. Jord On
was great, he was hurt. Carlos Kara was great and
he come to late in the season. I got one
for you, all right, So if we're ready to make changes,
I don't think this will be the only one. Are
we going to get a Chandler Rooms breaking news sounder
in the next couple of days, maybe a week or
so about the medical staff being completely over? I would
(07:13):
imagine that's what I kind of thought it might be. Yeah,
it says. In fact, Chandler's Stories says the Astros are
parting ways with hitting coach Alex Centron and more changes
are expected on Houston's coaching staff. Yes, I said that,
Oh I did, Okay, I was, I was listening. I
wonder I just want to repeat things. Appreciate when you
(07:33):
have co anchors just sometimes like the yeah, they reiterate, yeah,
emphasize if you will. All right, what else you got? Oh,
we're still doing the news inon Sure, I thought that
was the news INONU elsewhere on the news at noon?
Yankees lose? Actually, can we play that? O the heres
a Vladimir Guerrero Junior noted Yankees' hater. I mean he
(07:54):
hates the Yankees. You could tell after the game. Yeah,
go ahead and play this, Jonathan, if you have.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It, Yankee, let's go.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
He really enjoyed himself, isn't he? Yeah, he was. That
was Vlattie Junior and of course a big puppy. Yeah,
big puppy. I love him. You know that was Lad
Guerrero Junior who started it. He's the first one to
say it. And David, is he really upset because maybe
he didn't get the top of money he made wanted
from them, from the Yankees. I don't think so. He
(08:40):
just seemed to hate the Yankees. There's like quotes floating
around and talking about him never wanting to play for
New York. He's pimping these home runs big time that
he's been hitting the Yankees. Did you see the one
where he was scoring? I think was he sworn from
second or from third? He like full Pete Rose dove
into home plate. He hates the Yankees, and he actually
ran backwards on one of the home runs to do that.
But I'm just saying he did cartwheels. Yeah, he he
(09:04):
shipped his way from third base to home pulled out
his pants like Randy Moss. Oh that is so on that.
It was a disgusting act by Randy Moss. I think
Joe Bucks like, why didn't I say that? Yeah, I
think from from maybe from his vantage point, he thought
he actually took the drop, which would have been disgusting.
Nobody want to see some barrass out there. No, not
(09:25):
in Green Bay, all right, and Rossie, we've got the
rockets last night knocking off the Kevin Durant is a
Houston Rocket. Folks, how much of that game did you catch?
Missed his first three buckets but then did not miss
after that, seven to ten from the field, twenty points
for Kevin Durant, one for two for three. You also had,
(09:48):
uh Men Thompson with a great game. He had nineteen points,
six assists, seven rebounds, filling up the score sheet like
we're gonna expect him to do. By the way, Joe
was asking, is Tony Paris Chica on the hot seat?
Quite frankly, honestly, that sounds like that could be a
possibility too, for sure. Yeah, if you're keeping your job
(10:10):
and you got a year left to keep your job
to try to go a new contract, and the people
above you say make changes, you're gonna make those changes. Yeah.
And frankly again, uh, missing Tony Petty. I mean it
wasn't like Andy Tony Pettis, Gary Pettis. Yeah, we need
some solidity, uh at third base, some solid just now,
(10:31):
of course there are times where I'm sure Gary Pettis
there was people blowing through his stop signs, but it
felt like it happened more last year than it did
the previous third or four right, Like they didn't. They're like, Carlos,
you ran through that sign at third base. We have
a third base coach. Yeah, Jeremy Peney is like, what's
his name? I've ever met the guy? Yeah, it was
like saying I just like saying Paris, Chica. Mm hmm.
That's my alias is year on the road for the Rockets.
(10:53):
Tony Pettis cheek and that is the news at noon. Yeah,
the coaches are gone, all right, okay, offense is saved
seven one three two one two five seven. Body, you've
been wanting it, you've been asking for it, you've been
calling us, you've been bludgeting Ross over at the h
on his Twitter account Twitter right now? Are you good?
(11:13):
Y'all gonna go for our sports?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Are?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Maybe because the worse He loved the hitting coaches, and
I was like, you know what, change got my name?
Oh yeah, I said, they're the greatest ever. Come on
now you get you get your chance, come in here
and go, you know, what we were right, you were wrong,
which again we never we never argued with you all.
We just said it's not their fault. Yeah, but and
I will stay consistent
Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. That's one one
mad eh, Now, I don't know what it is. It's
definitely two. Hit it. That's two. Your decision, Jonathan, Do
you know what it is?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Not at all? Okay, Two's good? All right, Matt? Can
I take three guesses? Sure? And as long as I'm
tell me if I'm run on this first one? Sure?
What Astros are changing hitting coaches? That's correct? Yes, well
with one hitting coach. Ooh, the Astros are parting ways
(00:40):
with hitting coach Alex Centron, sources tell the Athletics, says
Chandler Rome. More changes are expected on Houston's coaching staff.
So everyone who's complained about Alex Centrone, your long national
nightmare is over. The offense will be number one in
baseball next year. Isn't that a good thing? Hit for Matt? Yes,
I I think I said I would we both I
(01:01):
think we both said yeah. Yeah. It felt like it
was trending in that direction. Dana Brown had said publicly
that they would like a change in their approach, and
we'll see what happens from here. But Alex Centrone, who
has been here since in Houston since two thousand and
nineteen signed a three year contract after the twenty twenty
two season contract was done. And I don't see anything
(01:25):
about Troy Snicker and whether or not, but I believe
his contract was up as well. So I don't see
anything about Troy Snicker in this article from Chandler Room
of the Athletic. But first on the scene, Alex Centron
no longer the major league hitting coach for your Houston ash.
Now you have said this, and it was wise in
your part to say this. You had said, Hey, there
(01:47):
have been a lot of players in that clubhouse that
said they are team alex Centron. And my retort back
to you was, it doesn't really matter that the player's
endorsement only carries so much weight, and that would be
this will be yet another example of why why players
may say one thing but front offices, coaching stabs and
(02:08):
ownerships say other things. Yeah, and it seemed like the
writing was much more on the wall when I mean,
Dana Brown was speaking publicly talking about issues with the
team approach, and I think Joe Spotty said the same
thing too, And that's that's when it felt like certainly
there was there was going to be a change made. Well,
I'll put it this way. If you were in a
situation where you were wigging out about whether or not
the manager or the general manager or both were going
(02:29):
to come back, it wasn't just going to be let's
bring everybody back and let's run it back. There was
no There was going to have to be some sort
of job guys. Yeah, and yeah, hitting coaches. Man, this
is awfully cliches, but it sounds like it's they're hired
to be fired. Yeah, I would say, I mean, yeah,
it happened. The Rangers fired their hitting coaches. You had
(02:51):
some other hitting coaches changed recently. I think the Yankees changed.
They had a new guy this year. Maybe within the
last two years. It happens. Yeah, I would be consistent.
The players have to perform at the major league level
no matter who the hitting coach is. Yeah. The reality is,
I don't expect this team to all of a sudden
be a top ferocious, top five team offensively unless again
(03:11):
the free agency. Look, Kevin Durant is gonna make the
Rockets offense a better offense than it was a year
ago because Kevin Durant's a better player. Yes, well, we
just respect the Dylan Brooks but Kevin Durantz a player
player than Dylan Brooks is. I'll be interested to see
what happens. It'll be funny if if your runs back
and pain is healthy, and Escock Paratus is back and
the offense is really good, and then everybody's be like, so,
you told you so, it's all about the hitting coaches. Well, yeah,
(03:32):
a lot of those guys are missing time last and
guess what. Alex Indron's gonna be really mad because he's like, man,
I didn't get a full roster exactly, and it's it's
a tough situation for him. But the offense, of course,
wasn't up to par, certainly not with runners in scoring
position and the guys who like to be aggressive up there,
the jose Al Tuoves, the the Diaz's of the world,
and not working counts. Especially after Escock Paradis went down,
(03:57):
it was a problem. Yep, yeah, this is zero surprise.
Now the snicker get to keep his job, well they
you know, I don't know how many of the thirty
teams have tandem hitting coaches. I don't know either. I
think I looked because we did hitting coach, believe it
or not. The other Yeah, we did I'll have to go.
I'll have to go look it up. I think I
(04:18):
went to basically every Oh, that's right, there was this
one page. Sweet Yeah, most places have a hitting coach
and an assistant hitting priach. I mean I understand, but
I never got the impression that Snicker and assistance me either.
This I think it was a TAN Baseball reference page
list Centron as the hitting coach and Troy Snicker as
the assistant. I would say they're kind of co hitting coaches,
(04:39):
all right, what's like most everybody's got at least two
three people named. Yeah, I mean the roster's too big
to have just one guy focusing on that, so that
doesn't surprise. All right, So astro fans, uh, you got
your wish? Yes, Now many of you didn't even know
who Alex Centron was, so this will be kind of
a little bit of an exercise and get to know
your former hitting coach. Well, IM, don't believe or on
Alex Centron or something that's you know, that wouldn't be
(05:03):
very polite, No, it wouldn't. Although we do dead people
all the time. Somebody said, I hear they're replacing him
with a bunting coordinator. We gotta move runners, guys. I
feel very confident telling you that we're not going to
see a forty percent jumping bunts next year. Although you
know the fans would like. The Trot's been doing a
(05:24):
fair amount of bunning in this series. That's not gonna
because but part of the reason why is the Trot's
offense not very good. The Trot's offense for two months
has been garbage. I don't know how they put up
eight runs at a day. It's stunning because they don't.
They don't. They don't have much sock in their lineup. Yeah,
was it was it? Then they put up nine or something,
and it was supposed to be the most, the most
in a playoff game for them since like nineteen sixty eight.
(05:45):
Oh yeah, sixty eight Tigers did win the World Series,
by the way they did. Yes, look at you. Yeah
called double day Thomas over here. You better than call
me Abner. What's the rest of we got? We have
the News at Noon theme. We're gonna go with us
the rest. This is kind of the news at new
there it is. This is big news. I'll be interested
to see how jose al tuove if if he gets
(06:09):
a new offensive philosophy, start taking a bunch of pitches,
and again, Josel Tuba, Carlos Correa, you can pick probably
a handful of other players are like man, we are
Team Cintron at the major league level, it does not matter.
Somebody had to be a fall guy, and Alex s
Ron is the first casualty of that said list. You
only had four guys. Well, let's put Cam Smith in there.
(06:30):
He got four hundred ninety three played appearances. He's your
top five played appearances guy. Al Tuove disappointment, Walker disappointment,
Janerty is disappointment, Jeremy Payne had a career year, and
then Cam Smith overall was a disappointment. I mean he
just was. I know, he wore down and all that
type of stuff. But you ops six seventy one ops
plus eighty seven. That's a disappointment. So for of your
(06:50):
top five plate appearance guys were disappointments. But also, of
course Gesak Praatis was great, he was hurt. Jord On
was great, he was hurt. Carlos Kara was great and
he come to late in the season. I got one
for you, all right, So if we're ready to make changes,
I don't think this will be the only one. Are
we going to get a Chandler Rooms breaking news sounder
in the next couple of days, maybe a week or
so about the medical staff being completely over? I would
(07:13):
imagine that's what I kind of thought it might be. Yeah,
it says. In fact, Chandler's Stories says the Astros are
parting ways with hitting coach Alex Centron and more changes
are expected on Houston's coaching staff. Yes, I said that,
Oh I did, Okay, I was, I was listening. I
wonder I just want to repeat things. Appreciate when you
(07:33):
have co anchors just sometimes like the yeah, they reiterate, yeah,
emphasize if you will. All right, what else you got? Oh,
we're still doing the news inon Sure, I thought that
was the news INONU elsewhere on the news at noon?
Yankees lose? Actually, can we play that? O the heres
a Vladimir Guerrero Junior noted Yankees' hater. I mean he
(07:54):
hates the Yankees. You could tell after the game. Yeah,
go ahead and play this, Jonathan, if you have.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
It, Yankee, let's go.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
He really enjoyed himself, isn't he? Yeah, he was. That
was Vlattie Junior and of course a big puppy. Yeah,
big puppy. I love him. You know that was Lad
Guerrero Junior who started it. He's the first one to
say it. And David, is he really upset because maybe
he didn't get the top of money he made wanted
from them, from the Yankees. I don't think so. He
(08:40):
just seemed to hate the Yankees. There's like quotes floating
around and talking about him never wanting to play for
New York. He's pimping these home runs big time that
he's been hitting the Yankees. Did you see the one
where he was scoring? I think was he sworn from
second or from third? He like full Pete Rose dove
into home plate. He hates the Yankees, and he actually
ran backwards on one of the home runs to do that.
But I'm just saying he did cartwheels. Yeah, he he
(09:04):
shipped his way from third base to home pulled out
his pants like Randy Moss. Oh that is so on that.
It was a disgusting act by Randy Moss. I think
Joe Bucks like, why didn't I say that? Yeah, I
think from from maybe from his vantage point, he thought
he actually took the drop, which would have been disgusting.
Nobody want to see some barrass out there. No, not
(09:25):
in Green Bay, all right, and Rossie, we've got the
rockets last night knocking off the Kevin Durant is a
Houston Rocket. Folks, how much of that game did you catch?
Missed his first three buckets but then did not miss
after that, seven to ten from the field, twenty points
for Kevin Durant, one for two for three. You also had,
(09:48):
uh Men Thompson with a great game. He had nineteen points,
six assists, seven rebounds, filling up the score sheet like
we're gonna expect him to do. By the way, Joe
was asking, is Tony Paris Chica on the hot seat?
Quite frankly, honestly, that sounds like that could be a
possibility too, for sure. Yeah, if you're keeping your job
(10:10):
and you got a year left to keep your job
to try to go a new contract, and the people
above you say make changes, you're gonna make those changes. Yeah.
And frankly again, uh, missing Tony Petty. I mean it
wasn't like Andy Tony Pettis, Gary Pettis. Yeah, we need
some solidity, uh at third base, some solid just now,
(10:31):
of course there are times where I'm sure Gary Pettis
there was people blowing through his stop signs, but it
felt like it happened more last year than it did
the previous third or four right, Like they didn't. They're like, Carlos,
you ran through that sign at third base. We have
a third base coach. Yeah, Jeremy Peney is like, what's
his name? I've ever met the guy? Yeah, it was
like saying I just like saying Paris, Chica. Mm hmm.
That's my alias is year on the road for the Rockets.
(10:53):
Tony Pettis cheek and that is the news at noon. Yeah,
the coaches are gone, all right, okay, offense is saved
seven one three two one two five seven. Body, you've
been wanting it, you've been asking for it, you've been
calling us, you've been bludgeting Ross over at the h
on his Twitter account Twitter right now? Are you good?
(11:13):
Y'all gonna go for our sports?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Are?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Maybe because the worse He loved the hitting coaches, and
I was like, you know what, change got my name?
Oh yeah, I said, they're the greatest ever. Come on
now you get you get your chance, come in here
and go, you know, what we were right, you were wrong,
which again we never we never argued with you all.
We just said it's not their fault. Yeah, but and
I will stay consistent
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