Astros Start 2nd Half Of The Season, Damian Willard Returns To Portland, KJR Softy Joins The Show

Astros Start 2nd Half Of The Season, Damian Willard Returns To Portland, KJR Softy Joins The Show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
O one in a town. Good morning, and welcome your
Friday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. There's
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
You're oh, I'm telling you.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
The faster Jonathan talks, the more we can interpret our
own way. Interaction erection, I think interaction you interracial erection?
Like what I mean, I have to look it back
on it. I mean, that's a category on your ebony
and ivory. Is nothing wrong with that, man, It's a
category that leans. Okay, but the step brother and the

(00:45):
step mom?

Speaker 3 (00:47):
All right, are you doing this at ten o four?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
No, I'm just saying it's just a it's just a category.
On God's Day Friday, Good morning everybody, ten o four.
Sports Talk seven ninety isn't anything GUYSWS Friday? O God
it Friday. Oh man, Hey, Matt. I'm watching this British

(01:10):
Open or excuse me, the Open and they're all I mean,
they're they got heavy coats on. It can't be fun
walking the course at fifty one degrees or whatever. They're
having a nice time.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
I thought.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
On Lewis Course in Northern Ireland, it's the Open Championship
here Scottish Shuffler is on minus four through three. Do
you think when we do Irish Irish accents that that
Scottish sports hosts do American accents back to their audience? Probably,
but but those accents are much more fun and lively.

(01:43):
The American accent is just flat. We have a boring accent.
This is not fun, right. It feels like to me
that if you are doing if you're doing Scottish radio
in Edinburgh, okay, well I'll give you one. I think
maybe they would do and they would They probably do
New York and Boston extent. I was going to go south.
Oh we could do that too. Yeah that's low hanging fruit.

(02:04):
You can doug like it is, but I mean you
can't do a Kansas City accent. Is there sports talk
radio in Edinburgh? I don't know. Now I've done I've
been on London radio, but I don't know if it's sports.
There's a prank call? Actually was it? That sound like
they knew what they were talking about? But yeah, that's

(02:26):
I don't know. I think it mattered it. So if
you're if you're Irish, are you mad that we do
the occasional it's such a wonderful. Yeah, I'm showing, I'm
honoring it can get reverence. Yeah, I mean I'd like
to try to do a four hour show in an
Irish accent. I think it would probably hurt. But I
do appreciate like actors and actresses who are from other places.

(02:48):
Like shit, we were talking about successful Ship is from Europe.
I don't know where she's from, but she has a
very thick accent, and she goes with an American accent
and she pulls it off. Okay, Yeah, I would say
it feels like, uh, almost fifty percent of working actors
have European accents and then just do American. Doesn't Kate

(03:08):
Win's let have a thick accent. Uh, yes, she's from England.
You look like you're hesitant to verify. I mean no, yeah, yeah,
she is right. Okay, so it's maybe not as difficult
as we think it is because they both those ladies
pull it off brilliantly. Yeah, is it? Anything goes Friday. Clearly,
if you'd like to be a part of our radio

(03:30):
show today, you may do.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
So.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
We give you a long leashed Monday through Thursday. The
leash is extended on Friday. I gotta tell you. By
the way, our phone numbers are seven one three, two,
one two, five, seven nine zero seven one three, two,
one two, five, seven nine zero. What do you gotta
tell me? Matt, the CEO and the woman. The memes
so good, the absolutely going bonkers. Now what I'm what

(03:59):
I tried to do, and it's impossible to do because
we're wearing trying to do an entertaining radio show. I
try to think about the spouses, and so it's terrible.
And I can't imagine being the spouses, being our husband
and our wife being the joke of America, because they
are the joke of America. I mean everybody, even those

(04:22):
the people that are not like active on social media,
are somebody showing somebody this. Somebody it's appearing on Facebook,
And even people that are not against a grammars or
if on Twitter or whatever or snapchatting, they're still seeing
it on their Facebook feeds. It's taken over. It is.
And by the way, the number one beneficiary of all
this is that band. You can say it, Matt, I

(04:46):
feel like Shine, I feel like we're done Coldplay. They're not.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
No.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
We took the loss yesterday and we took it bad. Yeah,
you said they were doing ten days in a row
in Wimbley. Yeah, which are which is a huge stadium, right,
seventy five eighty thousand people. So, I mean, yeah, it's ridiculous.
I thought you were going to say when you said
I got to tell you guys something, I thought you
were gonna say, Uh, you've changed your mind and you
will never say another bad word about brisket. No, brisket

(05:13):
was brisket was good. It was actually great, Thank you.
I was gonna press you. No, no, no, we went
to a place. I don't spend money with us, and
frankly they don't need to because they're always busys. Oh
my god, so we didn't. She's Australian. People are saying, oh,
that's okay whatever. I knew it was somewhere and it was. Yeah.

(05:34):
And yet so when ship's doings as native Australian and
she's doing it, that's amazing to me. Sarah Snook, why
did you make that noise? I'm just saying, that's listen.
Oh thanks for that. Yeah, she's from Adelaide, South Australia.
I miss s ac session. I just do all right,

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So I watch it again. Didn't go anywhere but I
kind of know what's going to happen. And now on
the second one, Dad is doing McDonald's commercials for the
last five years. But you want a four piece nuggets
and a choice of a McChicken or a mcdouble and
fries and a drink for five dollars. Yeah, he's been

(06:16):
a bump bump bump, a great actor for years. Let
me tell you this, I'll take that dude over that
burking guy. Oh the burking song. No, damn, I want
I want to hit what that's a jam? I can't
stand it.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
You know what think?

Speaker 2 (06:30):
No, yeah, that's a jam. He's the one who's going
for water whopper to running rings. Then you get it
four or five dollars, then you shove it in your mouth.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Then you get sick.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Big kay. Oh hell no, I don't want them meet
that guy. I want no part of b K guy.
I told you he was the freestyle king. Johan Jonathan
kid focused. That's pretty funny. Uh No, Now I will
say this, it has gotten a little tired. They have

(07:04):
running into the ground. You wanna get a chicken sandwich,
then you get some fries and then a chocolate cooky.
Also Jonathan another thing. He like tends to run things
into the ground. I'm done. We'll talk astros, then we'll
talk some rockets and Texas Training Camp. You want one

(07:25):
of those three things, join us right now. See that's
what I've done for me. It's a catchy ass toune.
I don't care what else said. But it's been running
to the ground for sure. B case like Okay, it's
got what they call it Q scores or whatever. Like
people like it. Well, it's interesting they move back to
their old original logo and all their restaurants. Yeah, I
don't know. Everybody always goes back to retro because people

(07:46):
get nostalgic and then they like it and they go
back to the retro. But I mean, the Burger King
logo is not spectacular. It's a bun with the winter.
Retro reminds me when their food was actually good. Hey hey,
I think of Wapper Junior right now. Yeah, that's right
in front of you. I'll take a whaler too. That's
what's called the fish sandwich. Oh. I thought that was

(08:08):
what you used to do in college. Wish I could
get a whaler back then. Guys, everybody listening, I'm lost.
This is if y'all. Yeah, you should be lost. It's
probably your best interest to be lost. All right. We're
talking about the latter, not the former. It is and
anything goes Friday then uh, Softie's going to join us
at eleven o'clock today. Yeah, oh man, smack smack talking

(08:30):
smack talking Seattle. We just we just are I'm sorry,
are coming up at eleven thirty to day. Should we
apologize to Cold Play for the harassment we gave them,
for the success they have not only with our our audience,
but they're filling up stadiums across North America and in Europe.
I mean they got scoreboard on us.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
They do.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
We honored them with Believe It or Not. Yeah, we
got that going on today. We've gotten on Florida stories
coming up, and we have hell yeah or not. We'll
give you frequent British excuse me the open updates. Yeah,
watch out now, Seriously, how entitled can you be if
you have to call yourself the Open It's like it's
like the Ohio State Open. If you put the in

(09:13):
front of anything you do, you're just a little smarmy. Okay,
It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Sports Talk seven
ninety seven, one three, two, one two, five, seven and
anything goes Friday, Come on in and join us here
on seven ninety did you listen to the Sean Salisbury

(09:34):
Show this morning and the nine o'clock hour Sports Harvey,
do you want me to tell the truth? I would
like you to lie, please lie?

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:44):
I caught the whole hour. And what was your favorite
part of it? When Seawan was talking, Oh, by the
way about the Open Championship, what are our prizes today?
I'm believing or not? Don't they any go? We gotta
give passwords because here's the thing we've been we can't
give these things away. So we can't do passwords for
for prizes that no one really particularly. Yeah, we can
tease him though. That's how you build interest, Matt, because

(10:06):
at least one person listening would love to go see
Wang Chung. It's funny because and this is comes no surprise.
I was telling our promotions person. I said, we're having
a hard time giving these bad boys away. I mean, like,
not hard, it's impossible. And we're trying though, and he's like, man,
we can't get rid of him fast enough. On Sunday,
I'm like, well, you may be able to go to
our prize vault if you want to. At the end
of the show today, the Sunday audience loves them some

(10:27):
Wang Chung really and John Waite. Who else is going
to be there? Rick Springfield and there's somebody else going
to be there too. I forgot Paul Young. Paul Young.
I think the keyboard is from Banana Ema. I think
will be there well was not was will be there
as well. There was some stuff that need I mean
Prince eighties, Michael Jackson later eighties, but like like eighty four,

(10:50):
you don't get those charts and they're like, oh, what
a load of crap this is? You know, It's funny
because I am not a huge fan of the eighties
in general. But Duran Durant, I like, I don't know,
it's so inconsistent for me. My life is inconsistent. Like
Depeche Mode. No depeche Mode for me. Oh uh huh
no uhu. Although Take on Me was a song at
least to wake up to every morning in the seventh grade.

(11:12):
It was on the radio every day at that time
when I went Culture Club. Carl Chamillion is a banger, yeah,
like Ciddy Lauper. Oh God, nails on chalkboard. Yeah, it
was the Bengals. No, thank you, it was a dark time.
What else Eadie Brickell New Bohemians? Oh, oh god bad? Okay,

(11:36):
moving on. So I was listening to the dann to
the Shawn Salisbury Show featuring Dan Matthews, and they were
talking about the Astros series coming up, and they were like,
and Dan, I mean out of nowhere from downtown. He
went deep in the bowels of his hot takes. He said,

(11:56):
if the Astros get swept this weekend, okay, they're not
in the division. Wow. Now, in theory, that could be
the sign of future devastation for the Astros. And in
theory it's not the hottest take of the world. It
would be, but it would be a very hot take
you to say this. In the middle of July, was

(12:16):
still two months of the season left to go, two
plus months left ago. Hold the phone. Was there not
a certain host in this town who said that a
Friday game against the Rangers was a must win game,
like a week and a half ago. Yeah, because of
the travel considerations. And they lost that game. Yeah, it

(12:36):
was that they did. And there's still five games ahead
of the division. So it basically tells me that stop
talking about how bitching the morning about your flight schedules.
That's true. Also, you know what they did. The Rangers
got to Houston last Friday at six am in the morning. Okay,
they put their head down on the pillow and they
woke up at two o'clock and said we're gonna whip
that Lance mccutter's ass. And they did well, And I
mean they did over and over again. He couldn't locate

(12:59):
his pitches and then when he did it was meatballs.
E R on the road, one ear in the road,
twenty six HOMEA at HOMEO. Uh yeah, I honestly, I
mean it's a hot take. It'll be a big hit
to their odds. It's a sizzler, But I'm I don't
think it's the most sizzling take I've heard on this station.

(13:22):
Oh we've heard way worse, trust me, over the years.
March back in the day, it's doozy Momrge said that
when it's all said and done, that Jordan Alvarezo be
the greatest aster of all time. See again number first
of all he's he does. He is the all time
ASTROS leader in ops plus number one, number two that
wasn't the craziest and someone once told me attendance is

(13:43):
part of the grade. And number three that was under
the auspices of a segment called it was called hot
Takes with with momorage or something like that. Was it
called I don't know, a hot take of the week. Yeah, sure,
so he had to come up with a hot take
that was a sizzler. Yeah. I'm not going to ever
declare a team not winning a division after a sweep

(14:06):
of a series. No, I didn't them to win the division.
And I still felt confident about that. Okay, you know
when you you frame it that way that they're going
to lose the division with a two game lead in July, Yeah,
I mean you're right, You're right. You know what, I'm
be better than that, said, stop saysling on the station.
Oh you're convincing man. I'm coming over to your side,
all right. Good. Yeah, saying they're not going to win

(14:28):
the division when they have a two game lead in
July is a little Oh. By the way, remember at
the end of the year, you do have some games
in your back pocket. You've got a seven game road
trip to end the year with games since Sacramento and
the Angels who will be long out of it. So
you got those in your back pocket. You want to
if you want to be down a game in the

(14:48):
division with seven left to go, you got to punch
a chance. That's what I'm saying now. You just can't
go on the road to the West Coast and goof
it up. But I'm but you've got you've got a
spot to be good and you can't have eighteen people
in the aisle or whatever people I was. I was
getting some gas yesterday and buddy of mine called him
and said, listen to the show yesterday, and he's like,

(15:09):
do you really not talk about Astro's injuries? I said, yeah,
I'm done talking about him. I can't do it, Rossie,
I can't do it. I can't hear about what I'm
supposedly hearing about what's happening in West Palm Beach or
what who's throwing on flat ground. Yeah, I'm fatigued. I
thought we're going to the Florida Complex League. Sounds good, right, Yeah?

(15:31):
I think mc tagger's gonna beat us there somebody and
need some live bats. You can go get in some
swings against Christian Havevier. By the way, speaking of that,
I forgot to mention this. So they did the swing
off the other day in the All Star Game. Did
you see who was throwing the ball for the National League?
I did not? Don know Ebel. Oh, okay, he's a
coach with the Dodgers. Huh. I don't know if he's

(15:53):
what if he's a third base coach, first base or
or bench coach? Dono Ebel. When I moved to Salt
Lake City in two two thousand and five, five, yeah,
two thousand and five, was the manager of the Salt
Lake Bees, the Triple A team of the Angels. Okay,
and they invited us out to go hit batting practice
one day.

Speaker 6 (16:12):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
And that's when I hurt every bone in my body
because I didn't wear gloves and I had not back
and you had a wooden bat. Would actually did wood
bat with no gloves. I have never been in that
much pain in my life. You would bat raw point
being is in your hands? Who was throwing me the balls?

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Do you know?

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Evil? Okay?

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (16:32):
He was the manager and he I said, how fast
are you throwing it? He goes about forty five miles
an hour.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
I did make some contact I did hit pull side
to the shortstop. I was pretty pleased about that. That's good,
but there was nothing that left the infield. You hit
a lot of six four six threes. They called me
back in Salt Lake automatic out Thomas put out Thomas
six to three, Thomas seven. So I'm going to give

(17:02):
you a guy's a recommendation if you ever get invited
to go to any sort of swing practices, whether it's well, frankly,
if you're a if you're in a batting cage, huh,
you have to wear gloves you're going to in and
by the way, stay away from wooden bats. They're just
going to be heavy. They're going to hurt you, and
you're not gonnable to move out of your bed for
four days. Thank you for the tip, Matt, But I

(17:24):
mean my hands are like Yournn's hand hurt. Maybe maybe
my hand maybe I got arthritis there and didn't even know.
Maybe you could give him some tips for hands hand healing.
Really he needs some. I mean I think he uses
his hand more than I use my hands. Clearly, Yeah
that's true. So I'm just but back to my original point. Yes,
you know, the and the and the astros do it.

(17:45):
Have done a much better job the last month giving
us reports on all the injured players in their game
day notes, and they'll do that. I'm sure they'll do
that today, I would imagine. But I don't care. Uh,
it's all conjection. I will say, yeah, I care a
lot less than I did. I won't say I don't
care all, but I mean, I'll read the updates. But

(18:06):
it is what it is. I mean, Luis Garcia, we're
over over two years for Tommy John Yes, he had
multiple setbacks. Christian Hobvier, where are we on that? How
long is it about a year? I think it was
June of last year? Okay, so that's somewhat normal progression.
Spencer Arraghetty, I mean the worst, the worst thumbs thumb
fracture in the history of thumb fractures. Yeah, it was

(18:29):
April seventh. I think JP Franz is there a all
points bolting out for him? I haven't even heard a
word about him port. JP's like, man, do I even
get the injury report? I mean, I'm not even an
damn injury report. Brendan Rodgers, same thing. Brendan Rodgers hurt
himself second base not granted, it didn't hit a lick,
but he was decent enough defensively. Hadn't heard a word

(18:51):
about him. Yeah, I think the next thing we hear
about him might be DFA. That's probably true, all right.
Ten twenty seven, It is the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross coming up at eleven o'clock. We will visit with
our friend Softy from Kate Jr. Radio in Seattle. Uh,
we gotta talk about the NBA. They didn't get some
They didn't get a whole lot of good news from
Commissioner Silver. They No, they didn't. They didn't. They didn't

(19:11):
get a we're definitely on the path ordist expansion. They're like,
it's more they called it more from the owner's curiosity. Ooh,
curiosity is not a bad thing, Matt. Well, you've been
waiting for twenty years to get your franchise. I think
they're sick and tired of hearing about curiosity. It's like,
you're curious if your girlfriend's gonna, you know, take that
next step in your relationship. What's the next step? Matt

(19:34):
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven In eights and
anything goes Friday, come on and join us here on
Sports Talk seven ninety. I don't know if this move
is a needle at all, because I'm I was trying
to read through it today and I couldn't even get
to the whole article because I was so bored by it.
The executive director of the NFL Player Association resigned today, Yes,

(19:59):
and I I don't know how to do with the
collusion reports. Yes, or there was some conflict of interest
in some other things that he was involved with, that
I think, and that's where I fell asleep. Okay, so
what do you?

Speaker 6 (20:11):
What do you?

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Did you read the whole story? I did not, but
I saw pabloatory taking a victory lap, so I imagine
it did have to do with his reporting that the
NFL owners, via an arbor, they determined that they were
colluding or were encouraged to collude against the players and
Lamar Jackson and big guaranteed contracts for quarterbacks. And yeah,

(20:37):
that report had come out and Pablo Tory was basically
taking a victory lap on Twitter last night I saw.
But it looks like to me that the main reason
why he is resigning is because there is some sort
of group licensing firm called one team Partners that is

(20:57):
involved with the financials of the nfl PA and the
MLB Players Association, and that apparently mister Howe, the man
who is the Player Association, was working on behalf of
the group that was handling this and that's of the
group what I just call it something, Yeah, no, how A,

(21:18):
he's a consultant for that group that was trying to
see it's just very convolutive. Well, also this in a
story I'm pulling up is also a report by ESPN
revealed two player representatives who voted for Howe were not
aware that he was sued in twenty eleven for sexual
discrimination and retaliation while he was a senior executive at

(21:40):
Booz Allen. Yeah, so there's there's some side business deals
that did not seem like they made a lot of sense.
Maybe the players are like, why are you turning a
blind eye to this collusion stuff? And oh, by the way,
you've had a checkered past all the above, and the
Players Association chief less than two Lloyd how less than

(22:01):
two years on the jump, Demorris Smith has been that
was there forever. Yeah, so they're looking for a new chief.
You know, it is interesting that you would have one
person do it. I mean, I guess you have to.
But you have your union. Maybe I'm I'm not a

(22:22):
union expert, but you have union with players that are
making seventy million dollars a year, and you've got a
union in the same union guys making one hundred thousand dollars,
not one hundred but veteran minimum or yes, street for
engine dollars. It's it's hard to really keep everybody satisfied
when you've got different agendas based off of the income
they're coming in. And generally veterans are going to look
out more for themselves than young players. Yeah, and generally

(22:47):
owners want to do the opposite because young players are cheaper.

Speaker 4 (22:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
So not again, not not a huge conversation point. I'm
sure Mike Florio can't talk enough about it, but it's
for the sake of this show. It's just interesting that
that they had had a lot. I mean, uh, the
Morris Guide was there forever and now there this guy's
been this Lloyd Howe has been there in a very
short period of time. And I don't know if it
impacts anything. I think labor situation in the NFL is good.

(23:13):
Major League Baseball by the way, not good.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
There they're careening towards the mark lockout, aren't they? Two
thousand at the end of the twenty twenty six season,
and the word salary cap is not going away? Yeah,
but I think they're even gonna big shut your obumass
up about it. So with you and I having zero
legal experience, okay, yes, if I wanted a salary cap

(23:41):
based off of money that is made by the league,
so it can fluctuate if could I give could I
give up and have a salary cap, if I gave
up some years of arbitration. But I'm saying does arbitrationism
has to go away completely? I think? So? That's that's
so you if you're if you're on the players side,
you have to give up arbitration completely. There's no middle

(24:04):
ground in your mind, it'd be right. Well, so what
is it nowadays? Three years and then three years of arbitration? Yeah,
two years of arbitration. Go Those who don't know. It
takes you six years from the time you start playing
Major League Baseball for you to earn service time to
be a real true free agent. There are some caveats,
some different rules, Super twos and whatnot. Yeah, because baseball
is so much different because like when you're in the NBA,

(24:24):
you're on the roster, you're on the team. Now they
have two way contracts. We can go up and down it.
But I mean that's not the norm. You generally have
one or two of those, and I think you can
only have two. Yeah, And with baseball, I mean you
got option guys. I mean how many It was an
alarming amount of different players. I don't even want to
say the number because I don't remember it that have
played for the just the Astros this year because of

(24:48):
all the injuries that they've had. Well, the Diamondbacks I
think have had thirty one different people pitch for them. Yeah,
the Astros, I think you're in the upper twenties. Uh,
let's see, Okay, that's they have had twenty seven different pictures. Yeah,
I think the Diamondbacks are number one at thirty one. Oh,
but that also counts, says our salads are, So let's
do twenty six. Okay, Okay, Hey through an inning? Did

(25:10):
he get out?

Speaker 3 (25:11):
Yes, yes, yes, he's get the messy are on the
team at.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Zero So if I was, and I'd have to ask
a labor person if I said, if Major League Baseball
came to the players Association said we must have a
salary cap, and the players came back and said, okay,
we'll do a salary cap, but we're going to do
a based off of league proceeds, which is what everybody
else does. And oh, by the way, we want you
to get rid of arbitration that we are now free
agents after four years compared to six. Is that an

(25:37):
easy resolution or is it a lot more convoluted than that. Yeah,
I don't know. I'm sorry I was adding this up.
It's twenty two players have had a plate appearance for
the Astros and service time, and twenty six pitchers, so
we're talking about forty eight on the twenty You have
a twenty six man and they've had forty eight people.
That's crazy. But yeah, I don't know. I just don't

(26:00):
know that it would happen with this with a salary cap.
Why would the why would the Yankees or the Dodgers
ever agreed anything like this. Well, I'll put there this way.
Do you have to have a salary floor when you
have a cap? Absolutely, because guarantee you the Pittsburgh Pirates,
the Miami Marlins, the Cincinnati Reds. They're not hitting many
sort of numbers at this point. If you're gonna have
a cap, you have to have a floor. Mm hmm.
And I don't think, yeah exactly. I don't think those

(26:22):
bottom teams would agree to that. So I don't know.
Are they going to try to come to the table
with it just as a bargain? Are they going to
come to the table with salary cap knowing it's going
to get struck down, but that might get them some
give on some other things. Yeah, because this isn't a
question of the league struggling. They have a new television
contract coming up next year. Attendance is good, merchandising is good.

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The International game has helped, I mean major League Baseball
not thriving like the NFL for that matter, of the NBA,
but it's I think they're very well. But they're but
they're doing very very well for themselves. And that's why
Rob Manford can stay as commission as long as he wants.
Commissioners are are not because their sweet personalities. It's how
much money they're bringing to each of their respective owners.

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And Major League Baseball owners thirty of them are all
doing quite well in the public, you take the flack
and in private you make the cash. Yeah, and that's
what he's been doing. And that's what three different, four
different men do in this country. They get ripped and
Gary Bettman gets booed on every NHL game. Even Adam Silver,
who was largely well received when he first got the job,

(27:28):
he gets booed. Now Adel's that's he wakes up. He's
getting booed, and Manfred's hated. But man for guess what
Manfred's done. He has given you shorter games. He's given
you shorter pitch is the pitch clock. He has given
you better attendance, and he's the ratings are up in
televienton I mean every week Fox extra wildcards, extra wildcards,

(27:48):
extra revenues, keeps teams interested, where half the teams around
this time of year we're selling off. I hated the
third Yeah, I was it twenty two they brought the
third wildcard. I hated the third wildcard, But I I
respect that it keeps more fan bases invested, and it
keeps more teams invested, and it and at the bottom line,
it makes them more money with more playoff games from

(28:09):
TV packages. And I respect the fact that major League
Baseball doesn't waste time with playoffs. I mean, you get
that your season ends on Sunday, You're playing wildcart on Tuesday. Yes,
you get one day to rest travel. Yeah, that's there.
You're kind of used to it. But we're gonna be
talking about this, and I really believe that there's going

(28:30):
to be that. But the thing is, are these owners
doing this against themselves? Are they looking what the Dodgers
have done the last couple of years and said, you
cannot continue to backhaul this money. You cannot continue to
pistol whip or cash whip us on if you're Boston
or New York because you're making more money because your

(28:51):
television deals. Get it that way. Could you see ultimately
television deals being split up among the thirty teams. On
the individual front, I don't know. I mean it feels
like to me that when these arguments come into playing,
these lockouts, that these own the owners in sports are
fighting with each other as much as they are the
players association. Yeah, they're gonna have to band together. Matt.
Sometimes your enemy, when you have you and your enemy

(29:13):
have a common We were talking about you, we were
talking about unions. What does the New York Yankees and
the Florida Marlins have in common. They both make money,
but one makes significantly more than the other. That's true,
you know, I guess. I mean, yeah, two owners groups
and two two unions. You know. It's now that I
think about this, there is it's hard to get collectively

(29:34):
everybody in the same page and everything. That's why the
nil and the transfer portal is a mess. The agenda
at Alabama is way different than the agenda at Boise,
at Boise State and maybe boy it's a bad example
at Ohio Bobcats. Yeah, the Bobcats. That's why we're never
gonna get ANIL regulated. It's I think if it does,

(29:57):
it'll just be among the power for San Diego State
and Michigan nothing in common when it comes to their
athletic budgets. No, I mean, I'll be brutally honest. The
University of Houston, I think has the lowest budget among
the twelve of the sixteen Big twelve schools. Is that true?
It's among the lowest for sure. How does that make

(30:18):
you feel mad? I'm not thrilled?

Speaker 3 (30:21):
So are we?

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Are we different than other schools in a Big twelve?

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (30:26):
In some respects. Well, yeah, I mean you even have
that in the sec. Yeah, Vanderbilt can't relate to what's
going on in Auburn. Yeah, Mississippi State, it's one of
the worst ones, I would guess. Yeah, So, man the
hell wants to go to Starkfille, Mississippi and the damn
cowbell over and over and over again. I think I
would have to wear earplugs if I went to a
game there. I have never been to Starkville before and

(30:48):
have no interest. I've been to Oxford, not on the bucket.
Let me some Oxford. Why do you love your Oxford?
Beautiful city, gorgeous campus. You keep on using, uh, the
adjectives and then not the now that I'm thinking you're
gonna use spectacular scenery. Ten forty three. It is the

(31:11):
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. How would you like to
join us on Anything Goes Friday? We've had full phone
lines the entire time during the show today and it's busy.
All right, So did you figure it out?

Speaker 5 (31:20):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Jonathan? Do we have eighties? The is love the eighties again?
This today I've got the same. This is the last
last day, guys, we'll get the last eighties so right,
here's the thing. If you get it wrong today, you
win the tickets. Anyway, No, we should give them the
people who want them. Yeah, well we had one this week.
The actually want to talk about this if they get
it wrong, ask hey, do you still want the tickets?

Speaker 4 (31:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (31:39):
What is play for fun? Okay, we're like we're like
the We're like the ultimate consolation prize. You win, you
get the tickets. You lose, you get the tickets. Yeah.
I think I have three back here. So she got
three pairs of tickets and win's the concert? This is eighteenth,
the oh tonight, yesterday, that's the death we gotta get.

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Did you to the councert? Then?

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Where is it?

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Cynthiah? Yeah, Woodlands, Pavillion. Hmmm, it's gonna be balmy, be
a little steam, I'm gonna say, sun alike. Well, if
you're in the lower level, you get the circular the
ceiling fan going yeah. But if you're in the lawn,
you get the cool breeze and you can make your
own breeze. Matt, Yeah, you made your own breeze when
you had the burrito before the event. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two one,

(32:26):
two five seven Softy KJR joints us to preview the
Marritter's side of things in fifteen minutes on seven ninety
time for Gordy drop By. He was hanging out with
his buddy Brian Kelly locked on sec was all over

(32:48):
the place.

Speaker 7 (32:48):
Oh the hotel in uh in Atlanta, they tried to
do a couple themed lunches.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah, and one of the days they did a Cajun themed.

Speaker 7 (32:57):
Oh no, First off, if you're gonna make red beans
and rice, it should not just literally be a red
bean and white rice, like there's gonna be a little
bit of sausage kind of, you know, like a little
bit of something in there. It was like dry, almost
like kidney beans and rice. Well, that's not beans and rice.

(33:17):
I got one worse for you.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
The NBA broadcasting meetings last year, they service lunch before
they start the meeting. Faetas you ever had Jersey City
Hotel Fortas. That doesn't sound great. So what you do
is you smash some of the beans with your wooden
spoon against the side of the pot and then that'll
make a little bit of the beans gravy. Don't make
that face. Now, That's how you make it good, Jonathan,

(33:39):
don't make that face.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
They also had gumbo, which I would not give.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
That is not red beans. I would not give you
if you were kidney beans with rice on top.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
Of That's what I said, That's what it was.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah, okay, let me give you some generic takeaways and
you tell me agree or disagree. Sure, Arch Manning, My god,
the pressure on that young man is going to be
intense this year.

Speaker 7 (34:00):
I will say though it the hype wasn't as big
as I thought.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Really it was. I got the impression it was big.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
He was sure and there was a big crowd around him.

Speaker 7 (34:08):
But I because I even talked to Chuck Dunlapp, one
of the head SEC guys, I said, where does that
compared to tebow Manziel. He goes, Oh, it doesn't even
compare those were He goes, nothing to him with top
well top Manzel the year Manzel came because that was
off of freshman Johnny football heisman phenom.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
I mean, everybody in.

Speaker 7 (34:29):
The world wanted a piece of Johnny football so and
then t Bow was you know, Tibo so number two.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Very little conversation about the teams, a lot of nil,
a lot of transfer portal conversation.

Speaker 7 (34:44):
Yeah, because that's what's on the coaches minds right now
because they're they're in the middle. They're in the midst
of recruiting still for this class because the whole recruiting
timetable shifted. You're trying to get as many kids in
now because signing day's December. So once you get in
the season, you're not really doing anything recruiting. You're focused
on week to week football. So that's kind of where
they are right now. But you're right, I wish, you know,

(35:05):
we could get back to the days of let's just
talk about the damn football.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Let's talk about the game that's happening. But it's everything
else right now.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
But to be fair with someone that doesn't have a
dog in the fight, if I turned the SEC network on,
I do want to hear what Brian Kelly's thoughts are. Yeah,
and that is compared to what's going to happen when
his backup safety. Now, if you want that, there are
places to get that. I get the grandiose opportunity for
an interview with for five minutes. I want the big

(35:32):
picture stuff, all right. Number three, I don't know if
you caught these sound bites. I told you this, somebody
off there at you. How does Mike Elko sell anything?
I mean, you have to go. I'm sure he's a
wonderful football man and a good coach, and I think
people are very excited about the future there. But every
time he was asked a question, I was like, is
there a heartbeat? Is there any again? I don't need

(35:56):
a cheerleader up on the stage. But he's ever from
Jimbo the Mike Elko radio show. Mike can't be particularly entertaining,
the Jimbo auctioneer.

Speaker 7 (36:06):
I missed that. Yeah, hey, we got you know, Jimbo
Fisher was always entertaining. But el Elka is a football guy.

Speaker 4 (36:13):
Though.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
This was when he first got hired.

Speaker 7 (36:15):
I remember hearing the stories like Jimbo stopped even taking
recruiting trips, like or Jimbo would come in.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
If he came in, he was with an entourage.

Speaker 7 (36:22):
And it was this big thing, they said Mike Elco
his first week on the job at A and m
was going recruiting. He's literally driving his pickup truck to
high schools and it's just him. He gets ounds just so.
He's very blue collar, he's very tough, nosed defense guys. Yeah,
although I did see. And this is where you know,
media training. You want to train these kids up a
little bit more armage read Adams their offensive lineman.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Did you see what he said?

Speaker 7 (36:44):
Later he was asked about how much did it mean
to you that Texas game? You guys were this close
to beating that it almost came back and all this,
and he goes, yeah, it just lets me know we're
this close to just dominating the conference. And they're like, wait,
you think just because you play a close game with Texas.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
It really wasn't that close anyway. It was just it
was an address response. They got like a pick six
at the end or so, it's something at the end
that made it a little closer, But it really wasn't.

Speaker 7 (37:10):
Talked to Billy Lucci a good bit. He's excited. Oh sure,
go to Austin, brother, that's gonna be a good game.
I means versus A and M's back.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
If you had a raft and you had two of those,
what do you call those? Life life life life vest
It's you're gonna have one of them, Billy Lucci or
Chip Brown get the other one. Who's getting it? I
like both those guys, I didn't care how you like.

Speaker 7 (37:36):
Luc is a great hang at Like when you're you
get back from dinner at night and you just hit
the hotel bar before going to bed. Luch's story time.
He has got stories for days. Are they all true though? Yeah,
because I can let me tell you something. I'm a
good storyteller too, but I don't tell the truth all
the time. Well every yeah, every fishtail's got a you.
The fishes got to get bigger after every retelling. Right, Oh,

(37:57):
the other one that was that's a fun hand hang.
Darry nok, Darry Noaka and Peter burns their front hanks.
But Darry Noka, he's a huge NBA, got a huge
OKC fan, and he he was he is just clothing
in this okay see thunder uh glory. And I said, uh,
I said, what do you think about Katie coming to Houston?

Speaker 6 (38:15):
Bleeded?

Speaker 3 (38:15):
That mother bleed? But I'm like, I didn't know Darry
had this mouth on him.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Now, Darry makes probably five times what you make, okay,
seven to eight times? Is he pick up the tab
of the bar, does you go Dutch?

Speaker 8 (38:26):
No?

Speaker 3 (38:26):
I mean, you know it's one.

Speaker 7 (38:28):
It is like I'm getting another drink you want, what like,
they'll do that, you know, but they're not buying all night.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Okay, okay, that seems reasonable. I think Darry should be
paying for anybody. I mean you you given Chris Gordy,
Yeah he locked on sec locked on Darry Noka. Okay,
they gave you like free drink coupons. It is much
better Omni And it's nice. How's the hotel? They're nice?

Speaker 3 (38:49):
Yeah, and it's like right, it's attached to the College
Football Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Where oh it said the cn Tower yes or whatever
it was. Yeah, yeah, okay. Land is a good town.
It's fine. How many times you've been once? Well, then
how can you judge me? It went for a Super
Bowl week. That's the Battery and Drewis Park's really nice.
It's it's a hike to get up there. It's a
forty dollars uber every time you want to get up there.
And by the way, get used to that Houston suburbia.

(39:13):
Sports teams are coming ready.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
For it though.

Speaker 7 (39:14):
I'm telling you right now, I phone with the mouth
when I get to the Battery, and you've got a
sports bar ten feet outside Truis Park, like you can
literally drink up until first pitch and walk right into
the ga. We don't have that in Houston.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
I was a Jellette Stadium last Sunday the station Jilats
Stadium has a little called Patriot Place, and there's probably
twenty five restaurants. There's a bowling alley, there's a movie theater.
There's lots of high end there's a high end female shops,
you know, like U Victoria's Secrets got a location. The

(39:48):
produ yeah, produ.

Speaker 7 (39:49):
Is Jerry's like, you're gonna buy a product purse when
you can come to the Cowboys game.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
I mean, now, the question is, I guess where are
you gonna put that in Houston? If you do, and
we'll will people go to Texans.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
Place well where home Plate Bar and Grill was.

Speaker 7 (40:03):
The rumor was Jim Crane is going to build Houston,
live there or whatever the variation of them.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
And those places we're doing so great. They going on
year three of just a parking lot. And then he
realized the value of downtown Houston the day and.

Speaker 7 (40:14):
He's making a ton of parking. And then here's the
other caveat because there's nothing around there. How many times
do you go, We're going to the ballpark tonight. We'll
just see dinner there. So Jim Crane will getting your
money inside the ball Yeah, but I heard, I heard
from sources that it is. It is going to be
built up and it's going to be very nice, I hope.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
So, yeah, sources.

Speaker 7 (40:30):
I want to get the ball rolling here though, I'd
like to enjoy it before I die, you know, five years.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
So if you want to, if you want to drink something,
you're going to do that, correct, Yeah?

Speaker 7 (40:40):
Sure, oh yeah, absolutely, especially sorry I didn't know it,
didn't you.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
You're such a pro to transition.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
I didn't.

Speaker 4 (40:48):
I mean I.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Get back the Astros.

Speaker 7 (40:52):
Way tonight as with a a Crawford box from Carbock Brewing.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
I got back last night. Stop up my frisit.

Speaker 7 (41:00):
I'm ready to go Astros out on the West Coast
road trips some late nights. Grab yourself at Crawford Bok
while you're sitting at the cup for your home, maybe
listening to the Strows on the radio. Robert Ford, Steve
sparks out there on the West Coast. Joy Crawford Bok
goes perfect with your Houston Astros and of course bird
right here in Houston, Texas. Over there at Carbock Brewing
and uh, Ross and I will be back out there
very soon. We'll be taking a new Crawford box cast

(41:22):
later this afternoon. Make sure you check it out, all right,
that's Gordy.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
We're gonna go to Seattle Nex and talk to us
Softie Mariners Astro Smack. Next on seven ninety than is
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross eleven O two in
h Town. Good morning, our number two of a four
hour festival that we call them Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
As anything goes Friday, we will apologize to people coming

(41:48):
up in thirty minutes and Ross, knowing your life the
way that I do, you'll be apologizing to several people next.
You have to actually show a remorse to apologize. That's true.
You've got no soul. We got that eleven thirty. We'll
wake the strippers up at noon. We've got non four
of stories at one thirty and hellyah or not for
I love the eighties tickets and whether you get the

(42:08):
question right or wrong, you're going to the concert. You're
getting Wang Chung tonight. You are getting Wang Chung tonight,
all right, our good friend, the most successful member of
the Seattle powerhouse radio station. Kay Jay, are they? Sports leader?
Softie's with us here to smack talk his beloved Seattle Mariners,
who are about to drop two out of three at
home to get a second half of the season off

(42:30):
to a disappointing start. SOFTI, how the hell are you?

Speaker 1 (42:33):
This is just so dumb. This whole thing that we
do is just so dumb, you know, because I only
hear from you when things are going well. Astros are
five games up. You know, where were you last year
when the ms were ten games up and you guys
were fading away?

Speaker 9 (42:47):
And then I got a.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
Phone call from you. Oh, the Mariners have blown their
divisional lead.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
Let's get softee on again. So once again, our relationship
just proves it to be what it's always been, which
is one side and it's always about you.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
Bet you better call me when the Texans play the
Seattle Seahawks on ESPN The OA Show on the Monday
night night.

Speaker 4 (43:08):
Yes, are you coming up for that? Bad boy?

Speaker 2 (43:10):
No chance?

Speaker 4 (43:12):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (43:13):
All right, No, No, it'snot got that.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
There doesn't he no boot?

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Yeah, that's fine, I don't care, all right. First and foremost,
we're gonna get to some other stuff before we just
before we get to the Marritors Astros. Adam Silver is
just pon y'all's chain, And I'm sorry for you because
your city deserves an NBA team. What's going on with that?

Speaker 4 (43:30):
When you say pulling our chain? What do you mean
by that?

Speaker 1 (43:33):
Like he's using us as a pawn now to get
Portland and Arena like David Stern did thirteen years ago
with Sacramento. Because there's a lot of people that think
you might be right. I mean, there's just a lot
of skepticism man in Seattle, right, Like this has been
seventeen years now since they played their last game against
the Mavericks, eighteen years since Howard Schultz uh became a

(43:56):
Benedict Arnold and the most hated sports figure in the
history you have Seattle sports. I have not been to
Starbucks in eighteen years because of that bastard. That's my
own little personal protest. I know it doesn't mean Jack
squat to him, but it makes me feel better and
I'm doing it. So there's a lot of skepticism in Seattle.
But the NBA is using us as a pawn again.

(44:17):
And he brought out the Portland thing kind of out
of the blue the other night, and people were like,
whoa is this happening again? Where he's going to threaten
Portland with relocation maybe to Seattle unless they get off
their ass them build a brand new arena for the Blazers,
you know, down there in Portland. And then the conversation
turns to, well, what if they can't get an arena

(44:38):
and what if Phil Knight doesn't step up to save
the day, which he's already said he has no interest
in buying the team from Paul Allen's sister Jody Allen,
would they possibly move, and would Sonic fans want.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
Them to move?

Speaker 1 (44:51):
And then you get all the high and mighty sports fans. Oh,
I don't want to do to them what was done
to us, and I want nothing to do with the Blazers. Hey, look,
all of us were I'd love to have an expansion
team one hundred times out of one hundred. But if
the only option, Mattie is the Blazers, give me the
damn Blazers. I'm not feeling bad about it either.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
Get some T shirts, mane, give me the damn Blazers.
Bring Kevin Blazers.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
Baby, give me thirty five year old Damian Lillard, give me,
give me Clyde Drexler, give me row Jerzy, give me
the ghost of Bill Walton with a headband back in
the day in the seventies. Come on, give me Jack Ramsey,
give me all of the baby.

Speaker 4 (45:26):
I want it all.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
The jail Blazers want.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
Yeah, you don't want that group, David Sotomayer, I want
it all, baby.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
Well, I want you to root for the Rockets this
year because former Seattle Sonic great Kevin Durant has come
back to Houston, Texas or never.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
Yeah. Yeah, there's a love hate relationship with him up
here as well. In Seattle. I love the guy. You know,
he was only here for a year. But I don't
know if you're a member or not. You probably don't
because there really would be no reason for you guys to.

Speaker 4 (45:56):
Remember it at all.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
Two thousand and eight, they're playing their last game ever again,
the Mavericks, Clay Bennett's and the crowd sitting courtside. The
crowd's yelling save our Sonics, Save our Sonics, and Kevin Durant,
as a rookie, is egging the crowd on, waving his
hands in the air. Keep going, Keep going. Right in
front of the guy that just drafted him number two
overall less than a year prior. So for me, just

(46:19):
for doing that, he's kind of a hero. You know.
He's been a little bit sensitive about stuff since he's
left Seattle. I think he's got to stop worrying about
what people say about him on social media. But let's
face it, the guy in his he's in his mid
thirties at this point in his life.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
He is what he is.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
But I think we've always kind of appreciated him for
the guy he was when he was here when he
was nineteen years old. But Maddie, that was a long
damn time ago, my friend.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
Yeah, and don't forget Jeff Green, former Sonic great as well.
We can't forget Jeff Green. JG.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
Yeah, Jeff had a Georgetown boy is in the house, baby, All.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Right, there we go, man, Sophy, let me take you.
It's nine oh seven. There he wakes up that excited. Yeah,
if it's not Starbucks, it's.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
Some kind of My wife actually asked me, why are
you up so early? I said, because I can't sleep.
I'm fired up to go on the air with Matt
Popkins and Houston.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 4 (47:10):
Around the house all night long. I got all time
the energy.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
I took a bunch of melowtonin, tried to pass out,
bunch of bed and drill nothing work man, and I
just couldn't sleep. I was I was so fired up,
but I was just living with so much anticipation. So
come on this radio, Jo, So I've been ready.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
To go for five hours. That's what I'm talking about,
Softy k j R. Seattle V sports leader up there
in the Pacific Northwest. All right, So the ms go
to Detroit and sweep the Tigers. Meanwhile, the Astros go
one and five on their homestand before the break. Look,
we haven't heard from anybody from the Astros or the
Mariners all week long leading up to this. But how

(47:48):
is how your local nine feeling with a chance here
to cut into the Astro lead even more this weekend?

Speaker 4 (47:53):
Well, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
I actually am shocked at how optimistic I am about
the second half of the year. Normally, I'm just the
big negative bastard, right that just thinks everything's gonna fall apart,
the pitching is gonna.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
Go down to drain.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Julio had a great series against the Tigers, but then
had the All Star Break and it was a terrible
time for the All Star break for him, and Cayl
Roley's gonna cool off and this thing's gonna fall apart.
So that normally would be my attitude. But I just
think the major difference between the second half Mariners and
the first half Mariners is that at some point, very soon,

(48:28):
probably in the next couple of weeks, when Bryce Miller
comes back, they're gonna have a full, healthy rotation.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
And they're almost there.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
They've got Castillo, they've got Kirby, they've got Gilbert, and
they've got the All Star and Brian Wu So they've
got a dynamite rotation. And guys, here's the deal. They
really haven't had that the entire season because for the
first time since this foursome got together, if you want
to call it a fivesome, that's fine, they've been relatively healthy.
That's why so many people like me were pissed off

(48:58):
about what happened a year ago when they blew that
ten game lead and missed the playoffs. They had great pitching,
they led the American League of the era, and they
became the first team to not make the playoffs since
the Blue Jays in two thousand and eight, when you
led the League of ra you leave the league in
era you make the playoffs, damn it, especially when it's
easier now than ever to get into the playoffs in baseball.

(49:21):
So last year was an embarrassment for this franchise, absolute embarrassment.
But here's the deal. First half of the year, Kirby,
Gilbert and Miller only made thirty two starts combined first
half of the year. Last year they made fifty nine,
that's twenty seven games, Matt twenty seven games in the

(49:41):
first half of the year where they did not have
Logan Gilbert, George Kirby, Herb Bryce millars. Yet their only
five games out and they got the number three wild
card right now, look out, baby, when those horses get healthy,
look out.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Wait a minute, what the hell are you talking about?

Speaker 8 (50:02):
You?

Speaker 9 (50:02):
Have you seen our squad out?

Speaker 3 (50:04):
We got Zach.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Short playing short. Do you even know who'sac sually? We
had Taylor Trammell playing. For the love of god, what
are you talking about?

Speaker 4 (50:11):
Former Mariner right there? Don't you disparent Taylor Trammel. That's
my boy, that's my guy.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
He's a sweetheart. Can't hit, but he's a sweetheart. Ross
with you as well as Ross with you as.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Well, honestly, and look, I realized that your rotation has
been banged up as well, right you guys, everybody up.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
I got no centerfielder, I got no shortstop, I've got.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
No left fielder.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
Jordan's hand has fallen off.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
Yeah, I'm not comparing the Mariners to Houston. Hey, you
know what you guys may think, honestly, God, you're so.

Speaker 4 (50:41):
Arrogant it is unbelievable.

Speaker 6 (50:44):
You.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
You may think that the baseball world revolves you know what,
You're worse than Yankee fans, fans terrible. You may think
the baseball world revolves around you and everybody compares themselves
to you. Nuh uh No, you got six teams that

(51:05):
make the damn playoffs. Man, all I'm talking about Matt, honestly,
and I'm being serious about this because we've been saying
this for years now.

Speaker 4 (51:11):
With this rotation.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
Just get your ass in, just get into the playoffs, right.
I mean, you know as well as I that anything
can happen come playoff time in baseball. This is not
like the NBA, not like the NFL. You know, maybe
there's more parody and hockey in the postseason. But baseball,
anything can happen, right, but get your ass in, And
I just think it would be it would be such
a down for the second consecutive year for the Mariners

(51:34):
to have this kind of talent, and now they're complimenting
it with Cal Rowley Orandio Rose Arena, that all star
JP Crawford's having a much better season than they had
a year ago. Deadlines two weeks away. They're gonna make
a move. They have to make a move. They have
a ton of ammunition, butt loads of ammunition in the
minor league system to go out and acquire some talent.

(51:54):
So I'm fired up, man, And it's not all about
the Astros or beating them. Frankly, I don't even give
a damn if you guys win the division, take the division?

Speaker 4 (52:03):
Who cares?

Speaker 1 (52:04):
Who really cares anymore about division titles in baseball? Honestly,
just get your ass in the.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
Playoffs, all right?

Speaker 2 (52:10):
You mentioned a trade deadline, Ross do as well here
ASoft You mentioned the trade deadline?

Speaker 3 (52:15):
How and Seattle being hot and cold on people?

Speaker 2 (52:18):
How are you feeling about Jerry Depoto And you said
you think there's going to be a couple of moves made.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
They just have too much talent and they have too
many holes to go out and soil those holes to
not make it happen. I mean, you got four guys
I think in the top ninety five guys in the
top one hundred whatever, and Baseball America's prospect list. I mean,
they got a young catcher named Harry Ford who really
is kind of blocked by cal Roley. There's nowhere for

(52:44):
him to go, and he's in Triple A crushing the ball.
He's a candidate, you know. Colin Emerson infielder is another candidate.
Las Montet is another guy that people are high on
right now in double A. But he's a candidate to
be moved. They've just got too many bullets to fire
at the deadline to not go out and make a move.
They need a third baseman, they need a first baseman,

(53:06):
they might need a second baseman, and they probably need
a reliever. So that's the thing with all those holes
that we're talking about, they're managing to kind of hang
in there with an earshot of the west and you know,
right there on the wild card race.

Speaker 4 (53:19):
Man.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
So I'm telling you this, if they don't significantly improve,
and that might mean going out and getting to Jared
Duran or maybe au Haiti or Fuarez bringing his ass
back from the Diamondbacks along with Josh Naylor. Maybe go
grab McMahon from the Rockies, whatever, something like that. If
they don't significantly improve it. The deadline, Jerry Depoto is
going to get barbecued, barbecued in this town, and you.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
Will barbecue on Twitter because you're not afraid to do that,
and for that we love you.

Speaker 6 (53:45):
I am not.

Speaker 4 (53:47):
I don't hold back, man.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
I don't care too craps about Seattle you. I don't
even mute you. I actually follow your stuff. That's a
crazy part about things is that I don't even know
what you're talking about half the time. It's u W
crap all over the place.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
But I still follow you. I still read it and
still love.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
It because you have passion. I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
I gotta be honest with you. I haven't seen a
thing that you've tweeted.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
Agos Right when cal Raley appears on V Sports later,
do you call him cow mister Raleigh or do you
call him the dumper? What do you how do you
ever hear of call him?

Speaker 1 (54:20):
Yeah, we just call him, we call him, just call
him the man. He is the freaking man, dude, I
mean he is. First of all, did you hear about
the latest endorsement he's got.

Speaker 2 (54:27):
Have you guys heard about that oil diaper? It depends
or what what do we got?

Speaker 4 (54:31):
Honey bucket?

Speaker 1 (54:32):
He's doing a deal with Honeybucket, the outhouse honey bucket. Yeah,
so if you ever find yourself out and about and
you gotta go look for a honeybucket because cal Rawley
endorses Honeybucket. Now do you guys have those down there
in Houston or is out of Northwestern We have.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Plumbing here, yeah, you know. Now we take showers inside,
we take showers inside.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
Well you know what it's not it's not five thousand
degrees in so we can all hour outside and go
to the and relieve ourselves our on our lawns. But
he's doing an endorsement for an outhouse company. Now, I mean, look,
the guy is uh, he's on pace to have a
historic year, as you know, and you know, going after
Bonds is probably gonna be a little bit too much.
He would have to average a home run every two

(55:15):
games the rest of the way. Uh to tid Barry Bonds.
But can he get the Judges record?

Speaker 4 (55:20):
Can he be the.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
First Mariner home Mariner player ever to get to sixty?

Speaker 3 (55:24):
But here's the deal with him.

Speaker 1 (55:25):
He really is strike out home run wak guy right now.
I mean, you know, I took some time off in
the last few weeks. In the last three weeks, Kyle
Raley's got nine hits, Matt, and six of them are homers. Okay,
So he's kind of starting to remind me of maguire
back in the day when he would have, you know,
forty five home runs, but seventy RBIs you know.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
So we'll just know that he's gonna have a bet.
He's gonna have a worse second half. He's only gonna
get your probably seven or eight home runs, and you
guys are gonna peter out and maybe slip into the
third walld Car We'll lose in two straight games. To
call a season, focus on the Seahawks.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
Yeah, well, you know what, listen, man, I see I
know what you're doing, and I don't like it. I'm
not really nice to be honest with you. You've invited
me on this radio show to be your guests, and
I think your guests better totally.

Speaker 6 (56:07):
All right.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
I will look forward to talking with you when the
Mariners come to Houston or when the Texans by the
Seahawks on esping where you have to have Fubu to
watch the game.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
It's Fubo by the way, whatever, I.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
Don't care what it is, Okay, it doesn't really count.

Speaker 4 (56:23):
This guy a thing or two about Matt. This isn't
nineteen seventy five. We're not home playing our Atari with
rabbit ears.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
To get TV.

Speaker 4 (56:32):
Have things like the internet now, by the way, you
can stream shows.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
Hey, what time is a fabulous sports babe on KGr.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
That's all I want to know, the fabulous sports babe
Nancy dan Ellen. You know what, I never got a
chance to work with her. I've been here for thirty
two years, and just as she was going out, I
was coming in, which probably would have been a good thing,
because I'm not sure if the two of us would
have gotten along. All right, but I'm telling you that
you said alone, when I.

Speaker 4 (56:53):
Do talk to her again. She lives in Florida.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Now nice the legend Softy kJ are listening to him
five to nine pm Central, three to seven Pacific on
the iHeartRadio app about that. That's what I do.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
That's what I do, all right.

Speaker 4 (57:07):
Through you Houston.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
He drops his mic on that, So I'm talking about
right there, that's what Softy does entertainment, all right. Eleven seventeen.
He should apologize for us. Uh, you should apologize. I'm
breaking on time. Yeah, that's fine. It was good content.
It was what are we gonna do?

Speaker 4 (57:24):
Well?

Speaker 2 (57:25):
I don't know. The thing goes Friday anyway seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven. And if you want to
come in and smack talk Seattle, we can do that here.
I'm sorry. They're coming up at about fifteen minutes here
on seven ninety all right, we're gonna do some I'm sorry.
Is coming up at about ten minutes from now. It
is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. I have a
topic for us at twelve twenty today sometimes and I

(57:49):
want you to think about the topic. Okaye yet, okay?
But twelve twenty twelve, twenty twelve, twenty, Damian Lillard is
going to just sign a three year contract to return
to Portland. Now he's this year, so he'll sign a
three year deal. Get forty two million dollars. It's not bad.
It's really good for guy. It's oh wait a second,
he's getting forty two million dollars while he's not getting

(58:10):
he's not gonna play sessions two years. He's gonna play
three years. He's only gonna play two years, but get
paid forty two over the two. It's technically a three
year country what Yeah, why because he loves Portland that much?

Speaker 3 (58:21):
No, why would Portland do that?

Speaker 2 (58:24):
Honestly, ross Uh, there's probably something left in the tank.

Speaker 6 (58:27):
Not much.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
No, he's not gonna be a gimp. He's gonna be
so much of his game he's not a good defender,
and so much of his game is predicated on his quickness.
And he's going to be coming off an Achilles injury
and he's thirty five. That's what fourteen million dollars a year?
That's I mean, I know that says to sound stupid
for me to say this, but it's that's not a

(58:49):
lot of money in today's NBA. Honestly, it's not. So
it made me think if we could bring back somebody
here to Houston. Oh no, don't even count the money. Okay,
I don't worry about the money, Josh Christopher, who do
you want to bring back at any one of the
sports twelve twenty Come up with your answer. Okay, real quick,
before we asked for you to call and apologize people,

(59:10):
I got a new Twitter account for you to fall.
I've never asked you to follow on airport before. I'm
not going to do it.

Speaker 6 (59:16):
You have to.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
You have to follow at the Tampa International Airport for
Twitter account, they questioned people. Well, at fly TPA is
the name of the account, and I happen to see
a couple of their tweets. The one I saw this
morning was the best of the Uh is it verify?
Let's see any people they have? They have one hundred
and twenty one thousand followers. Yeah, but it's not verified.

(59:39):
Official doesn't mean anything. Yeah, this official account of Tampa
International Airport United follows them. Uh yeah, Todd Kallis follows them. Yeah,
I mean Tampa. He's from he lived in Tampa for
a long time. So they did it a couple of
days ago where they added a bunch of tweets this
good morning from the Giant Flamingo. That's something was a

(01:00:00):
within their airport homework. Crocs are not allowed and having
a beer at eight am is is acceptable? Okay, Okay,
that was pretty funny, right, Sure? Did you see what
they tweeted out just a handful of hours ago. I
did not three hours ago. Get your girl a plane
ticket to see Coldplay or her boss will. Oh, that's
pretty funny. Everybody is using this as a jumping out

(01:00:22):
free board everybody. So when you have an airport doing it,
you know you you are making headlines. That's great. And
there have been multiple fake statements floating around. Has there
been an official estatement from me? I put the fake
statement on the this is fake. Don't believe this, okay,

(01:00:44):
because Colin Coward put it out there, Oh my god,
Anderson Cooper put it out there. There were a bunch
of different people that were of national recognizable that got
duped by this. And the first three paragraphs sound legit. Yes,
the fourth paragraph is where it goes off the rails, like,
come on, I liked the other one that I saw,
the unofficial one when it was like you know what,

(01:01:06):
I like to apologize to my family, blah blah. It
is true. I am a fan of Coldplay, even even
their later stuff like I will read to you the
fourth of the fourth paragraph because it's okay. It was
the part of it that made okay, that makes sense.
Let's see where it is. Oh, here's the fourth I'm
taking my picture of myself eating the brisket. That's good.

(01:01:26):
Check it out at sports MT on Instagram. So apparently
this Peter NSCBS is a fake and that's why I
got away with it. I can't read it. I can't,
I can't. Unfortunately, I cannot read the final paragraph because
because I was I didn't retweet the itself. Ross promoter
your something important? Yeah, why don't you follow me on

(01:01:48):
Instagram at sports RV. I just got over a thousand
appreciate to all of you that if disappointed you. I've
just been trying to put more stuff on there, more content,
you know, grow my my media career, to get out
of Matt Thomas's shadow. So if you would like to
help me do that, NFL rude and get me at
sports RV on Instagram, I would really appreciate a follow.
You can meet me right after. I just need to

(01:02:08):
get the numbers up for sale. Staff. That's all I do?
Is it helping no at sports RV on Instagram? Please? Yeah,
I'll have to find it. But point being is the
fourth paragraph was, oh, my review is My review of
the Ruth Robert Cue Brisket Philly will be dropping later
on my Instagram. My review of the brisket was amazing.

(01:02:30):
For let me let okay, let me tell you my
order really fast, okay brisket a mm hmm uh. The
Geese sausage plano cheddar but on chednar b. Oh, you're wrong,
it's a plus ribs a.

Speaker 6 (01:02:45):
Uh huh uh.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
Con pudding corn pudding B little dry but still good.

Speaker 10 (01:02:52):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
The coslaw, which people say, why do you get cosal?
I happen to like Coastla a lot. Cole saw on
barbecue is a classic combo. But I just don't like
coal salce, so I know. Yeah. People, My wife's like,
why did you get Coastala because I like Coastla coasla
A minus.

Speaker 6 (01:03:04):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
The pickled onions A, the pickled pickles A. And the
sauce barbecue sauce, very little bit of it. A better
than Ksey masterpiece about saying a fraud and a liar.

(01:03:26):
You don't know that. Yes, I do banana pudding more
than most banana pudding A plus. Oh man, that was good.
Carrot cake a plus. The desserts were The banana pudding
was smooth, creamy, not too sweet, not too sweet. And
yet you kept saying, I'm gonna have I'm only gonna
have one bite and you want to paying four bites

(01:03:47):
of it. Yes, we had three grown men at the
table and we split two desserts. Yeah, and we were
very confident in our in our masculinarity as we were doing.
And you gave me a lot of your meat.

Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
I gave you a lot of brisket. I put my
meat on your plate.

Speaker 4 (01:04:01):
And you ate it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
It was delicious. It was delicious. All right, ladies and gentlemen.
Knowing the way I know you people out there, you
need to apologize. Really, you've had some issues this week.
We give you the opportunity, free and clear to say
you're sorry, if you're ready to do that and be responsible.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety in Houston, Texas,

(01:04:32):
it's time to come clean. I've met you, I know
who you are, I know what you're all about. Meaning Ross,
it's time for you to say two, well, actually two
three very simple words. I am sir, I am sorry.
That's three words. So sorry, apologize to the people of Houston, Texas,

(01:04:52):
Rossy me and those of you on the radios, the
great listeners of the Matt Thomas schell at Ross Mmmm
right now, I will go for me a minute. You
know what you need to apologize to an entire cut
of meat. Look, I like brisket. I loved when I

(01:05:12):
tasted yesterday, But I'm not gonna go get brisket today.
It's just not one of my favorite things. Like I
could eat ribs twice a week comfortably. I could eat
sausage twice a week. Oh jeez, Why don't I even
stop myself anymore? I don't even know. But point being,
is this that kind of meat I'm only gonna devour,

(01:05:35):
you know, once or twice some a quarter like the
next or we're going back on a barbecue run in
the next sixty days before the start of the NBA season.
That's good enough for me. I just I'm just, I
just don't love brisket. I've gotta kick you out of
the state I love. You.

Speaker 10 (01:05:52):
Know what?

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
We need to get you a good one two punch?
What is that brisket? Enchiladas? Oh? Hell no? Two things?
You don't like? What you see I didn't find you
brisket inchilat is that you like? Did you see the
new uh murder Ming Burger. They're doing a brisket whopper.
Everybody's getting a hold of brisket now. Man, it's crazy.

(01:06:15):
It must be cheaper than it. Arby's is doing it.
By the way, that Philly looks good. But I saw
a bad review from somebody I know on the Arby's
on the on the Darby's Philly, the things you learn.
I wanted to try it. It looks great and I
love a good Philly. I have the brisket Philly at
Mouth Barbecue. Yes, so real quick. We've been to Pinkerton's
and we have been to Truth. Yes, Truth greater than Pinkerton's.

Speaker 3 (01:06:37):
True.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
In my opinion, Truth is one of the five best
and in the state to me. So we're gonna go
the next place, the rint room. Are we going to
uh Ratlins. We'll see. And there's a lot of options.
There are a lot of options, all right, I'm gonna say,
I'm sorry, there's a lot of options with great brisket.
But it's the whole package. It's the sides, it's the
So you want the whole package. It's the package, it's

(01:06:59):
the meat, it's the it's the dressings, it's the it's
the service. As somebody would want to say from Snoop
to nuts. Yeah, all right, as soon as Johnathan gets
off the phone, I canna apologize. Why you're gonnapologize?

Speaker 9 (01:07:12):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
Actually I gotta apologic to Chris Gordy. Yeah, go ahead
to a lot of people at the SEC media days
and people in general. And it's not really for me necessarily,
but it's on behalf of my people. I mean, who
is looking for family? Oh okay, continue on, very stuffy, arrogant,
wouldn't give Chris Gordy or Dan Matthews any guests, Very

(01:07:34):
kind of rude and short. The Texas Sports Information Department
should be embarrassed about how they treat media. And I
understand all is arrogant and elitists. Yeah, I'm not like that,
but I still would like to apologize, especially the Gordy
who was extremely annoyed. And it's been that way for

(01:07:56):
literally their radio partner here in Houston. So Sports Information Department,
you got to be ashamed the way you treated schmish Morny,
who is going to give you great coverage. So I'd
like to apologize, all right, I want to apologize to Jonathan.
SFA is a very nice campus. SFA is a great
place to get especially for teaching for education degrees. SFA

(01:08:18):
has a very competitive volleyball program. They do, yes, they
do very competitive. SFA is a nice alternative for a
lot of folks that want to get away from Houston,
but that'd be too far away from home. It's got
a very friendly ninety percent acceptance rate. I mean that
is accurate. I believe you have to have basically eighth
grade English as far as you as far as you

(01:08:40):
have to go to get I don't know if you
have the four more of the ladder.

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
Oh, oh my god, hold on, hold on hold.

Speaker 2 (01:08:49):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (01:08:50):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
I'll stop. It's after today, no more, no more former
ladder jokes. I'm sorry. Okay, I'm sorry. But the most
important thing I want to tell you is I'm sorry
that the cougar is gonna what.

Speaker 9 (01:09:04):
I knew.

Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
What I knew that was gonna drop cliffs.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
I got a clip for him about fifty two to six,
somewhere in that range.

Speaker 5 (01:09:15):
Sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
I have a lot of friends that are s F
A grads or like got in just by giggles uh
one that they had forty bucks to burn on the
app fee. All right, so if you want to recognition
is all wrong right now, I've you know what, I've
only been an Acadotia's maybe two or three times in
my life.

Speaker 3 (01:09:31):
Is there a good place to hang out there?

Speaker 11 (01:09:34):
It's more like you get there and it's like a
cozy said, like, everybody who gets there and what the
hell is that?

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
You know what? That is a small town? Like you know,
you got a little bars and go to you know everybody? No, no, no, no,
that's the apartment renter mat that's showing you the four
hundred square foot studio. You're like, man, this is kind
of small. No, it's cozy. That's that's when you use
cozy when you has a euphemism for small and nothing
to do. It's nostalgia. Yeah, let's you leave you like, dang,

(01:10:02):
I missed neck.

Speaker 4 (01:10:03):
You know you miss.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
All right bits and pieces. Let me tell you the
Nackadotius is the number one thing to do is to
hang out on us at a sonic? Is that the
number one thing to do in there?

Speaker 11 (01:10:16):
No, it's like go to Benita and just drink or
go to flash or shot you do the show from Benita?

Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
Oh you okay?

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
Banita like the fish you can if you want. I mean,
it's what it's Have you ever been in the South
of the South of the Golf when the Benita run? No,
I'm not okay, I don't even know what that is.
Somebody tweet Matt with what that's reference to say? Or
more times like have you ever been in the South
of the Golf when the Beanita run? Don't need to

(01:10:45):
go to Urban Dictionary for that. You should know you've
seen that movie. Okay, So if you want to apologize,
the only person is ready to apologize for something is John.
And John, we thank you for that, but there's a
we We've met a lot of you. You have a
lot of things to apologize for. We're gonna give you
one more chance before you make fun of you. Collectively
seven one three, two, one two five seven Onty, John,

(01:11:06):
thank you for being first up. What do you want
to do if what you want to apologize for?

Speaker 12 (01:11:10):
Of course it's multiple things down now that I remember
that back in my days where you said a bulbusticker
on the back of my trick said go ropers date
loving too.

Speaker 13 (01:11:20):
Damn.

Speaker 4 (01:11:20):
I'm sorry, but I had the sticker.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
I understand, I understand what he said.

Speaker 4 (01:11:29):
And that's when I was dates covering out go rovers
they loving too?

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
What needs loving to John? Have you been huffing paint today?

Speaker 4 (01:11:38):
Not anything this, Sparkley.

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
Go ropers. I didn't mean it. What the hell is
that my man mixed the wrong medications today? Okay, oyeah,
it's a mixed medication Friday. What he's hallucinating? Painkillers? Glue
and Jack Daniels do not mix. Well, what the hell
was that? That was incredible? That was actually incredible. It

(01:12:06):
was the most Texas, the most you know what he
called us from Nacadocia's probably just calling for me. You
SFA Alumni Hall. This is when I was working there.
Those are the colleges you would get.

Speaker 7 (01:12:16):
Late at night.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
Oh man, m Well, at least he was able to
dial the numbers. I mean that takes some effort. He
might have downed the wrong numbers. Maybe you're trying to
call somebody else. All right, if you want to apologize
for John, you can do that if you're related to John.

Speaker 4 (01:12:35):
But that was great.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
I got I literally don't un to stand it what
he said. That made part of the segment segment Okay
seven one three two one two five seven ninety, we're
gonna go wake the strippers up in about twenty minutes.
By the way, what's the stripper like life like in
Nacadocia's I never asked you that before. Are there stripper clubs?
There's one? I know for a fact, there's one. No
cigarette burns, a little sketch. You might have an eyeball

(01:12:58):
missing when you come out there. Yeah, well, gonna beat
you up, you know, because it's like you have to
go down like fift, like maybe ten miles off campus
to even go, and it's like in the woods. What's
it called. I can't. I can't tell you the name, dude,
I gotta look it up. Oh, he's trying to play
dumb girls listening to some our colleges had a lot
of strip clubs because they need to pay their but
it's not of nowhere. They literally call it nack of nowhere.

(01:13:21):
Now I had we don't call it that day. Now
I've had dinner at the Billies in Lufkin before I'm
gonna have to shreeport. Oh really, yeah, that's what everybody goes.
They got a great route back round back, make house.
So actually answer your question. People in uh Knakadoshes, we
just go to Lufkin. Basically, if you want to do anything,
go to party and go to party in Lufkin. You're like,
you know what.

Speaker 5 (01:13:41):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
Hey guys, we got to hit the big party town
this weekend. All right, where are we going Lufkin? We
go drive two hours south? No, no, no, let's go
fifteen minutes north. Lufkin's much more exciting.

Speaker 11 (01:13:51):
You got money, you go to Tyler Tyler, Tyler, Tyler,
Big party.

Speaker 3 (01:13:56):
Like, hey, when you get really feeling good.

Speaker 2 (01:13:59):
You go to the big party down Tyler. They got
a ruby rouge days there. They really getting lit. They
might have ah me Gi, I'm Riday's dollar dollar ritas. Yeah,
all right, then you gotta drive back. Ri I p
two Renigan's cheap Margarita's. Renigan's was really cheap back in

(01:14:19):
the day. How they went out you you pushed them
out of business eleven forty three. You want to apologize
for something, You want to apologize for your ears. Listen
to our radio show I Get that too seven one
three two one two five seven ninety I'm exasperbated exasperated

(01:14:50):
that too. That was an honor, Jonathan, That's what dated was.
Oh no, you've been mispronouncing where it's mister run the gamut?
Yeah for years. I'm not running the gambit right now,
and you've been running the gambit of your fetitional fictitional
fictitional words. I used to have a list of those.

(01:15:12):
That's fine, that's rude. I just need to delete that list.
Doesn't matter. Yeah, we all wink me. You know most
of the good words. Well, we all make mistakes. You
most read good words as well. I mean I couldn't
get a graduate degree from s f A. But who
could just you know what you know? Yeah, you're right now.
We need to stuff. We need to We need to

(01:15:33):
pump them up the gas want we need him to
build this up, just down until until the beat the
td E CU beat down.

Speaker 8 (01:15:43):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
You gotta get him tickets, right, yeah, of course, See,
let him do this because I want to be at
the game with making a video incident right to the group.

Speaker 3 (01:15:55):
Be your first text in there.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
Yeah, usually we get the exclamation points or got it.
You don't really offer much beyond that, and that's fine,
that's okay. You should apologize for being a surprised that's surprise.
You should apologize, say you're sorry. No, I texted him,
I sent him a meme, not responded. You're right, I
should have responded to your response. I'm sorry. Yeah, look,

(01:16:20):
I just gave you a heart. If you ever wanted
Ross's number, He's going to disappoint you with his lack
of brought. The two people that I work with are
horrific returners of text. I give myself a B plus
eight minus. You guys are in the C minus D
plus group. You just are, and you should say you're
sorry for that. You know what. I am sorry. I've
been trying to be better. I think I have been better, honestly,

(01:16:45):
and I'll say sorry too. You know.

Speaker 11 (01:16:46):
Sometimes I don't see the message and I'm just like,
you know what, I forget about him, and you know,
I have to get you feeling and I apologie.

Speaker 6 (01:16:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:54):
By the way, I found that last yeah, if I
found that last paragraph from the fake Andy Byron statement.
So the first three lines, I want to apologize for disappointment.
I want apologize to my family, and he apologized to
his company. Here's the fourth paragraph. I also want to
express how troubling it is that what art, what should

(01:17:15):
have been a private moment, became public without my consent.
I respect artists and entertainers, but I hope we can
air we can all think more deeply about the impact
of turning someone else's life into a spectacle. It's not real,
not real? Oh that those real?

Speaker 10 (01:17:33):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:17:35):
No, even Ai said immediately, that's not what it was.
A I jumped your dog rock? Yeah? Oh wait, are
you tired of people asking what grock for? In sepretation?

Speaker 3 (01:17:47):
You can really know that?

Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
Oh you good? Idea? All right, we got a couple
more minutes left.

Speaker 3 (01:17:54):
I can't you're telling me.

Speaker 2 (01:17:56):
We had one drunk ass pill popper calling in for
a say he was sorry about something.

Speaker 3 (01:18:02):
I'll read you. The other one I saw that was funny.

Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
Go ahead, sny by the way seven one three two
one two five seven nine zero. Let me start by
apologizing to my family, my wife, and our wonderful employees.
My behavior is inexcusable, and the shame I'm receiving is
well deserved. I tried to hide my actions, but the
truth has finally been revealed. I am a cold Play fan,
and not just the first two albums. I also like

(01:18:26):
the recent stuff. I'm gonna take some time to contemplate
my future. Please respect our family's privacy at this time.
That was I was Roland when I read that one.
So if you think, do you think if we went
and found cold Play right now they'd be embarrassed by there?
What happened? No, that should be Apparently that guy what's
his Lily singer's name, Chris Harris or something. Yeah, he's

(01:18:47):
the one I called melt. He was calling more people
like the whole show. They were putting people on the
jumbo tron and he was like, are you guys together
or are you guys on a on a day? He's
asking if they're married or more like pip. I can't
remember the way he was phrasing it, but I saw
it on the internet, so it must be true. That's funny. Yeah,
so yeah, if your colplay, don't feel bad what you did.

(01:19:08):
People don't think. People are generally speaking, like to be
on the JumboTron unless you're having an adulteris affair and
you don't want to be on the jumbo tron, but
then you should be out of public places. My favorite
part was the girl to their or to their right
on the left that clearly knew everything.

Speaker 11 (01:19:24):
I was like, at the girl, I don't know if
you guys, No, she's actually a part of that company
as well.

Speaker 2 (01:19:30):
Yeah, she was in HR as well or something like that. Honestly,
was this diabolical by her? Did she set this up
so that she could become the new HR chief? Do
you think she went along with it because she knew
if she said something to somebody about it that she
would get in trouble at her own job. Like, you know,
what I'm doing is illegal, but you're not telling anybody

(01:19:50):
because if you do, you're gonna lose your job too.
You're saying you don't think people would climb their way
to the top.

Speaker 4 (01:20:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
I was thinking bad but sneaked their way, that's up, Okay,
I was saying.

Speaker 4 (01:20:03):
That she is.

Speaker 2 (01:20:05):
I think she means she could be. Yeah, I don't know.
That's a good question. But she obviously knew exactly what
was happening. But she's thinking, if I have a chance
to go to a concert in a suite with my
boss and my boss's boss, yeah, I got a chance
at her career advance At worst case. People were all saying,
like she was the tag along so that people wuld
be like, yeah, it's a work event. Oh, there was

(01:20:26):
working being done. He's complicit, all right. Last, before we
get to the strippers, we wake them up. Let's say
how to Josh. Josh, what do you need to apologize for?

Speaker 9 (01:20:36):
I need to apologize for retaliating against the eighteen wheeler
that cut me off pretty bad in traffic and I
break checked him pretty hard. And I guess a few
people almost died and called my company and got me
yelled at for today. So wow, I'm not really that
sorry about eighteen wheeler, but I guess the other innocent families.

(01:21:00):
But that's about it. And hey, thanks for letting me
wake up the strippers a month ago or so when
you were out. It was the highlight of my life
on my thun saught of My son thought I was
pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
Oh Josh did Yeah, he did a good job. Well,
there was mixed reviews, but I thought he did really something. Josh.
I'm gonna give you an open invitation. Anytime I'm not
here on our Friday, you're more welcome to come in
and do it.

Speaker 9 (01:21:25):
I'll try to. I'll try my best on those very
rare Fridays that mister Matt Thomas, missus, Oh what are.

Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
You talking about? He's on Johnny Carson skin. Let me
tell you something, Thank you, Josh. In two years I'll
be missing those fridays you're traveling to see volleyball. Oh
you know what, I'll get to I'll leave on Thursdays,
do the show on the road on Fridays. It's important
for us to hang on as much as we can.
Thank you, Matt.

Speaker 3 (01:21:46):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:21:47):
Uh yeah, breaking in front of an eighteen winner is
going to cost some issues, so just do what I do.
Just middle finger them. And yeah he did an a
company truck, so I guess he received complaints that stuff.
You were still, am I driving safe? If not call
this number. I've called those numbers with you. Absolutely, that's
all hilarious. Yeah you know you would you call you,

(01:22:08):
Karen Thomas. Now, let me tell you that's the reason
why you do it. If the guy's driving like an
a hole, you should call him out. And I'm saying
that you were doing that, Josh, but it sounds like you.

Speaker 5 (01:22:16):
No, he's not.

Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
Fifty seven and he already yelled it. E. That's a
tough way, all right. Let's wake the strippers up. We'll
do it next. We'll hear our noon open, and then
we'll get to coming up at twelve twenty. In twenty
five minutes from now, after the news at noon, Damian
Lillard is going back to Portland. Who do you want
back in Houston? Don't worry about money, don't worry about contract.
We'll get to that. But the strippers are next. Here
on Sports Talk seven ninety. This guy that wrote all

(01:22:42):
these songs is not only a great SFA alum, he
might be the greatest alumn of any personal live at
any school. Are not alive? He's dead now? Sorry? Whatever?
How done he die?

Speaker 5 (01:22:53):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:22:53):
It was a horseback riding accident. That's a lie. Just
wait to this next hole or was it? I don't know.
I'll look it up for you, all right, We have
non Flora stories coming up. In twenties, says, following several
years of declining health, he died at his home in
the party town Tyler.

Speaker 4 (01:23:14):
How was he?

Speaker 2 (01:23:15):
Eighty? Okay? Good life? Eighty years baby, let's go. Songwriting
Hall of Fame two thousand and six. And all he's did,
all he's given us is one head after the other.
No duds in that group. There's probably a few duds,
all right, non Florida stories coming up at the bottom
of the arm. Mine is from Morocco, Morocco, Morocco, really, yes, okay,

(01:23:40):
and involves a Paris Man, a Paris Man from So
this is in French Morocco. I don't know where it's from,
but I'm just telling you. A Paris Man in Morocco
is my category on today's edition. Paris Man in Morocco. Yeah,
that was That's an album by Will Jennings. Will Jennings
wrote a song for Barry Manelotte called a Paris Man
from Morocco in Morocco. But you know, I'm gonna write

(01:24:02):
this down put that as a knot a Paris Man
in Morocco. Now, if somebody says that's a believe it song,
We're gonna we will have end. We will end the
game and say it was a good run. Seven one three, two,
one two five seven. Astros and MS starting a three
game series tonight, nine to ten. First pitch on deck

(01:24:24):
eight o'clock here on Sports Talk seven night, I will
have the tenth inning show and on deck tomorrow Dann
Matthews has just the on deck tonight uh Astros on
a five game lead on the MS in American League West,
Astro is starting a would you say, a semi important
road trip? I think a semi important is probably a
fair estimate must win trip for the Houston Astros.

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
It is not.

Speaker 2 (01:24:47):
Don't listen to him. Three with the Seattle Mariners, three
with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Speaker 4 (01:24:55):
M hm.

Speaker 2 (01:24:55):
I don't know much about the Diamondbacks at all. I
don't think people in Phoenix even know much about that.
Their sellers. I know that they're sellers, so they can't
record right now. It's gotta be bad. They have been
talked about with plenty of players, for sure, because Corbyn
Burns had Tommy John right or he's hurt yep, and
then I don't know what's going on the rest of
the squad. Let me pull this up. Yeah, they're forty
seven and fifty. How far are that from wildcard in nationally?

(01:25:19):
I bet that you're not that far. But I think
teams who are not that far off still, they're five
and a half. That's enough to kind of pack it in.
That's that's selling mode.

Speaker 4 (01:25:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
Not only they're five and a half back, there's six
teams ahead of them and so three spots, and then
there's three teams that are within two and a half.

Speaker 3 (01:25:37):
So you have to hop all those teams.

Speaker 2 (01:25:39):
Yeah, not only are the Mariners five back of the Astros,
they are the third wild card and they have a
one and a half game lead over Tampa Bay. Boy,
Tampa Bay must have fallen off the map lately. Yeah,
they've dropped eight of their last ten. Brendon Lowe three
wild cards are the Yankees, Boston and Seattle. Tampa's a
game and a half out, the Texas Rangers are three

(01:26:02):
and a half out. Oh, I didn't realize that are
that close. Minnesota's four back, the Angels forty seven and
four and a nine or four out, Kansas City four
and a half, Cleveland four and a half. I'll tell
you what of the you have three division winners, So
that's fifteen to twelve. You have nine of the thirteen
teams within four and a half games of the wild

(01:26:22):
card HM ten of the thirteen. The only three that
are really far away. Baltimore is seven and a half out,
the Athletics are eleven, and the White Sox are nineteen
and a half out. So you got you got five
nine teams within five of the Wald card. You know
what that that in the list will ultimately be decreased. Well, well,

(01:26:43):
will decrease because somebody's gonna be sellers.

Speaker 4 (01:26:47):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (01:26:48):
Somebody's gonna sell Angels. Kansas City, Minnesota will be sellers.
Somebody's gonna sell.

Speaker 4 (01:26:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
At some point you got to look at yourself in
the mirror and say, we're talking contenders. Do you know
we haven't made a moves. We haven't thought about that
in these parts since two thousand and sixteen. We were
talking about last year for a mit for a little
while when we were when the Astros were ten bad
up the team, not only when not only when they
ten back. It took like two weeks to get all

(01:27:12):
those sen games back and then so yeah, they made
it up quick, really really fast. That's what I'm saying.
Five games. It's a good lead, not big enough, but
not everything. And you were really walking into him today.
Why can't I just have a logical conversation the show
about everything being interpreted differently? I didn't interpret anything.

Speaker 4 (01:27:31):
Do you pause?

Speaker 2 (01:27:33):
No? I didn't. People heard your pause. There's no pause,
definite pause Astro Now, of course, Matt fangrafts. Playoff odds
don't mean everything, but they have the Astros seventy three
point five percent to win the division, and I believe
in the eighties to make the playoffs. Uh, ninety three
point four. That's scary high.

Speaker 3 (01:27:54):
Don't say that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
I'm just saying, don't say that. Let me tell you,
and I didn't stutto when I said it originally. The
Astra are one of the American League West Boom. Let's go,
all right, Yankees Keith at one ten on seven IY
y K, good morning, Good afternoon to.

Speaker 13 (01:28:06):
You, Good afternoon, and happy Friday, same to you. I
hate to reign on y'all parade, but I'm just giving
you a prediction for today, ninety four and sixty eight
that will be the Yankees record. We're gonna pick up
this third basement by the name of En e Ols
suare got thirty one one. We're getting Louise heel back.

(01:28:30):
We're gonna add another starting pitcher and two relief pitchers
because we don't mind spending money.

Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
Matt.

Speaker 13 (01:28:37):
So when the when, the when, the everything, all the
stuff rolls out. By the end of the year, it
will be the New York Yankees.

Speaker 9 (01:28:47):
The World Champions of Baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:28:51):
The way, by the way, nobody's making four moves. The
trade down I heard our Suddy Softy from KJR the
marriage make one move would be a startling day decision.
Nobody's making five moves. We're gonna go get a third base,
but go get a short stop, go go to get
a new team. I mean, come on now, thank you
YK for the phone call. But no teams will make
maybe two deals. Most teams make zero. And if it

(01:29:15):
is like three, one would one or two would be
like reliever deals, like bullpen but I mean like major
everyday starter position or starting pitcher play. But Yankee, you
can't call sixty six WF A N and say the
Yankees need this and this and they're gonna go get that.

Speaker 3 (01:29:29):
And make some moves at the deadline.

Speaker 2 (01:29:31):
Brian Cashman, let's go. Yeah. I think the Yankees will
make a move, okay, but they're not going to wholesale
change their operation.

Speaker 6 (01:29:40):
Here.

Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
I say this, The Yankees have done they can do it.
They have spent money. They always will huh. Their modling
system has been very good for them. Twenty fourth. I
was just looking that up as you brought that up.
But I think it's been significantly higher in the last
few years. Yeah, but they traded a lot of those
guys away, so do and stuff like that. Well, the
Astros used to have a good minor league system too.

(01:30:03):
A lot of them keen, a lot of them matured
into great major league players, and then you lost a
couple of draft picks in the scandal things. Bring that up?
Should you should you judge a minor league system? Fifth
maryor what? They have seven top one hundred guys. Uh huh,
don't bring that up. Mariners have seven tough what? Well,

(01:30:25):
just remember the Yankee. The Mariners don't typically spend money.
Say what you all about Jim Crane. He spends money.
Doesn't spend as much as you want him to, but
he spends money. One thirteen of the Matt Thomas Show
at Ross Non Florida stories are coming up in the
one thirty segment, Uh Believe it or Not? Hell you'
or not is highly googlable about the greatest SFA alum

(01:30:48):
of all time, Jimmy Buffett.

Speaker 3 (01:30:51):
Are you kidding me? He mentioned Galveston Bay. Yeah, it's
the same way all over to dance.

Speaker 2 (01:31:07):
Jimmy Buffett, overrated, underrated, properly rated, because if you stay overrated,
the parrotheads are coming after you.

Speaker 3 (01:31:19):
Over go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
That was ross that come on, He's got like two
good songs. And these people just want to get drunk
on a bunch of pina coladas and put on their
flip flops and their Hawaiian shirts. And that's fine. But
it's not like he's one of the great all time musicians.
Let's let's be serious that.

Speaker 3 (01:31:39):
I mean, no, it was.

Speaker 2 (01:31:41):
It's not one of his most popular songs. No, all right,
so who's the blonde stranger? So let's let's put it
in perspective. Yes, until his passing, he would fill up
arenas and stadiums and all over the place. Jimmy Buffet's dead? Yes,
are you serious?

Speaker 3 (01:31:58):
Well, I didn't know when.

Speaker 2 (01:32:01):
Are you within the last two years? No? Way? Yeah?
You thinking? George Strait, No, George is still alive. Should
it be here that our boy Jonathan thinks that George
Strait's dead? Georgie, hold on, hold on, George Strait is
about to do a charity performance for the Central Texas folks.

Speaker 4 (01:32:23):
You not heard that.

Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
I'm gonna tell you I'm not the biggest country fan ever.
I will never in ten million years confused the Great
George Tree with that hack. Jimmy Buffett. I mean, come on,
man o, my god, have you with the Nashville has
said this? I mean he rest I forgot. I believe
he died of skin cancer. If I'm not mistaken. Oh well,

(01:32:46):
thanks for bringing us Friday. Okay, So anyway, I have
I have been to Vegas many times where he has performed,
and at the MGM Grand Arena. Yeah, thousands and thousands
and thousands of people come out. There's a big Vinn
diagram of people who are parroedheads and swingers. That feels fair.

(01:33:07):
And they have guts. The girls too, I mean it
is true. It is what it is. Women that are
parroent heeads have guts. Not that we're judging. Oh people
have to Hey look, peanut Colada is high high coloric value.
Pheads Uh, parent heads are what his fans. Okay, I
would say he is properly ready. He does head come

(01:33:30):
mat how many? What are your name? Okay? After teeth, burger, paradise, cheese?
Hold out? Why don't we get drunk a jam? No?

Speaker 10 (01:33:39):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
Why don't we get drunk and screw one of their songs.
But did he write that? No? I hate mean it? Okay, okay, Margaritaville,
Come Monday, which that's my favorite one. Oh why don't
we get drunk? I guess was a song cheeseburging paradise, Uh,
Peanut Colada? Want on each hand? Changes it atitude change

(01:34:00):
pina Coladas. I thought that was Garth Brooks. But he
sings on that song. Oh it's a it's a duet. Yeah,
the original is No, I don't know, but he sings
one of the versions and then another one is what
changes in latitude, changes in attitude. It's a good song.
Did we say it's five o'clock somewhere? I don't Is
that him? He's on that too, yes see, but doesn't

(01:34:21):
Alan Jackson song though, But I mean he's still a
part of it. He's he gets credit for any being
on that thing. Okay, I'm just gonna say he's properly
rated to a slight leaned overrated but with no means
mad under you know what? Hmm?

Speaker 4 (01:34:35):
Tell me?

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
I want to hear this.

Speaker 3 (01:34:36):
You getting soft? You getting soft? Maddie s a scan
of the parent Heads.

Speaker 2 (01:34:41):
No, No, Come Monday is one of my twenty five
favorite songs, all in the afternoon on a Friday. The
parroent heeads are already three. Penia Colada is deep. They're
not listening to this show come Monday, to be all right.
And I do like Margaritaville. I don't know how Margaritaville
is a certified jam. I'm with you, Cheezberg and good good,
it's come on and that whatever that crap was, he

(01:35:04):
just played with horrible changes latitude, change in attitude. Oh,
we hear that, Ruben on seven out at one twenty five, Hi, Rubin.

Speaker 8 (01:35:12):
Hello, how are you calling from Braswell, Texas A longtime listener,
first time caller.

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
Nice to hear from you. We appreciate that very much.

Speaker 5 (01:35:20):
I was trying to ask about the Astros.

Speaker 8 (01:35:22):
I my family and I we have tickets for the
Boston Red Sox game on Sunday, I think it's the
third of August, and then we're gonna follow to New
York to watch them.

Speaker 5 (01:35:30):
Play against the Yankees that following Friday night.

Speaker 8 (01:35:33):
But we noticed that some of the home dugouts are
on the opposite side of the Astros. Uh ashes have
him on the first base side, and some of the
other ones have him on the third base side.

Speaker 5 (01:35:43):
Is that I haven't really noticed that until recently.

Speaker 2 (01:35:47):
Uh, it's it's every team's preference. There is There is
no rhyme or region. You just some of it has
to do with the uh, the construction of the facility.
Some of it is they just choose to prefer to
have it on one side. There's no rhyme or reason
to it.

Speaker 5 (01:36:03):
Got it. And I also heard that you were broadcasting
from the Boston area last week.

Speaker 2 (01:36:07):
I think I was in Rhode Island on Monday and Tuesday, Yeah,
and Wednesday.

Speaker 4 (01:36:11):
Oh okay, Well.

Speaker 8 (01:36:11):
We're gonna be driving through there probably after the Boston
game on Monday Tuesday.

Speaker 5 (01:36:16):
So you mentioned something about lobster rolls. Where did you?

Speaker 2 (01:36:19):
What do you recommend everywhere? If you're in Boston, I
want you to go to a place called Legal Seafoods.
It is a chain, but it's still spectacular And I
don't know if you like Legal Seafoods. It's but there's
about Sea Legals. There's about ten of them in the
Boston metropolitan area, and they're all delicious. They serve great food. Uh,
there's some that are more casual on others there's some
that are very fancy, but it's excellent. The seafood is great,

(01:36:42):
the people are nice, and the lobster rolls are fantastic.

Speaker 5 (01:36:47):
Wow. Okay, okay, great recommendation.

Speaker 2 (01:36:49):
Thank you, thank you, thank you for that much for
the phone call. Appreciate it. Yeah. Well, yeah, again, I
don't know Boston well enough. I'm sure there's other places
that are better than Legal Seafoods. I'm just telling I've
been going to legal Seafoods for the last ten years
and it's never let me down. Yeah. And to follow
up on that, if you want some good home cooking,
you go to the Boston Market. And if you want

(01:37:13):
freshly made original donuts, that know what you'll get nowhere else.
There's a place called Duncan that serves just the Boston area. Absolutely,
there's like forty eight Duncans in forty eight places, then
forty eight feet if you're a hotel. Karen is with
us at one twenty seven. Hello Karen.

Speaker 10 (01:37:32):
Hello, So I called earlier, but I couldn't stand the
line to tell you it's Edinburgh. Edinburgh is in South Sex.

Speaker 2 (01:37:38):
Oh Edinburgh. Yeah, fixed, Ross, apologize for your mistake. You
said it wrong first and I followed you. I don't care.
I make mistakes. I don't need to know that. No better,
I don't know anything or anything Edinburgh.

Speaker 10 (01:37:52):
Okay, So the other thing is Jimmy Buffett is the
jam and yacht rock is too. So Matt and I
probably roughly the same age.

Speaker 6 (01:38:01):
But yeah, come Monday, it'll be all right.

Speaker 2 (01:38:05):
Great song, great song.

Speaker 4 (01:38:07):
Pirate looks at forty.

Speaker 2 (01:38:09):
Hire, looks bad color, talk about it.

Speaker 10 (01:38:11):
It just not.

Speaker 2 (01:38:12):
I mean, these are just thanks learning, go ahead, say it,
good digger, good dig your grave, go ahead. These are
basically novelty songs. Mm hmm. Continue, He's a novel he
makes it's stick novelty music. And that's fine. If you
love it, if you want to listen to it, that's fine.

(01:38:33):
Matt asked me my opinion, and I gave my opinion,
and that's that. Non Florida stories are next. Good segue
one twenty eight sports talk seven nut seven one three
two one two five seven And we've got non Florida
stories coming up here.

Speaker 3 (01:38:52):
This fifteen one would on k j GM.

Speaker 2 (01:38:56):
Just good music. Oh, I hit the post, let's gout scout.
I seriously, I want to host an airshift on Sunday
and Mark Sherman, the program director, won't let me do it.
He's been telling you to shut your bumps about really.
I mean, I would be a great DJ playing today's

(01:39:16):
hits and yesterday's favorites. You telling me you do it
for free. No, I want to get paid. Oh okay,
Well to see that's where you take the l real
quick SEC media poll is out. It is the number
one team according to the media for the SEC Championship
would be the Texas Longhorns, number two, Georgia number three,
Alabama number four. LSU coming in at number eight is

(01:39:40):
the fighting Texas Haggis. Oh number eight. Good for them.

Speaker 3 (01:39:44):
That's nice.

Speaker 2 (01:39:45):
He get you the Texas Bowl again, right, you'd hope?
All right, just throwing that out there. Let's talk to
our friend Doug pikey host the weekend show. I believe
it's called Bowling and Friends with Doug pike here on
Sports Talk said.

Speaker 6 (01:39:59):
Y oh my god, Yeah, Bowling and Friends. That's me, man,
that's all I talk about.

Speaker 5 (01:40:06):
God, I'm doing all right.

Speaker 12 (01:40:08):
I heard you guys talking about the dugout thing, whether
first or third for home team.

Speaker 4 (01:40:13):
And I have a theory and I'll share it.

Speaker 6 (01:40:17):
If you want it.

Speaker 12 (01:40:17):
It's that, in this age of algorithms and stats and
and everybody paying such close attention to tiny details, if
you're in the first base dugout, anytime one of your
players crowns out or pops out or flies out, it's
a much shorter, yep jog back to the dugout than
it is to the third base dugout, and that just

(01:40:39):
saves them a little bit more.

Speaker 6 (01:40:41):
Energy, maybe to chase down a fly ball for Jake
Myers or something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:40:44):
Yeah, that has been a theory ever since, really dugouts
were discussed. I mean, I've been talking about it. Yeah,
it's it's nothing, it's nothing new. Uh, it's all it's
all about preference. But I would think most teams would
prefer to be on the first base side. You're absolutely
right about that.

Speaker 6 (01:40:59):
It's totally inditionally go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:41:02):
Twelve tier twelve teams are on the third base side,
eighteen are on the first base side.

Speaker 6 (01:41:07):
Yeah, that kind of shows it right there. Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:41:09):
Traditionally, when I was growing up playing ball all the
way through, it was always a home team.

Speaker 2 (01:41:14):
We had third base.

Speaker 4 (01:41:15):
That was it.

Speaker 12 (01:41:17):
But now it's different because I guess they're gonna save
a couple of glories. Well that's all I had, Matt,
I wish I had more. I don't know any bowling
stuff I am. I'm observing. I'm watching closely the Open Championship.

Speaker 2 (01:41:29):
Why would you see the rain that was there earlier today?
My god, it was a downpour. Scotti Sheff was coming
on Trump.

Speaker 6 (01:41:36):
How did he do?

Speaker 10 (01:41:37):
He was?

Speaker 6 (01:41:38):
He was four under through seven.

Speaker 2 (01:41:40):
He is eighth under for the tournament through fourteen holes.

Speaker 6 (01:41:42):
Oh okay, Yeah, that's that's heating her. Expect he is
heating up just like me. I'm about to go heat
it up out at Blackhawk.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
Look at this little sponsor play there we go. They
do they spend money with us, and if they don't,
we have to rhyme up.

Speaker 6 (01:41:58):
No, man, we're good. We're all good. We have a
good relationship with them.

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
That means you get to play free golf. I get
you as I know what your relationships are all about.
Thank you, dog, We'll see you later. Doug's like, hey,
I'll get like I go on the radio show. We'll
get him a free plugs. I can play my eighteen
holes for free. Why not? Doug Pike's bowling in Friends
tomorrow at seven o'clock. That's he's outdoors, he's fishing, he's golf,
he's everything official. It's just the Doug Pike show, right, Yeah,

(01:42:22):
he's vain, the outdoor show with Doug Pike. He's vain. Well,
I mean it's not you know, gone fishing with Pike. Okay,
all right, let's get to some mounta floor Pike's place. Oh,
that'd be really good. Pike's Place tomorrow at seven on
Sports Talk seven. Let's get to the nine and floida stories.

Speaker 3 (01:42:40):
Oh fins is right.

Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
Now, you get about forty seconds of fine, what thanks?
You got about a minute and a half. Then you
go first. I'll go first. Share them with the This
is such a Jamos's.

Speaker 3 (01:43:03):
I'll side for Florida.

Speaker 2 (01:43:12):
Stole from coast to coast, upgrading, strange and wild. No
alligator exales, but something that will make you smile.

Speaker 3 (01:43:28):
It's time for left from far and wid.

Speaker 2 (01:43:35):
In this crazy world, there's nowhere I would like to
tell you about.

Speaker 3 (01:43:45):
A sixty two year old man.

Speaker 2 (01:43:48):
In France, left on vacation from Morocco with his wife
and his daughter in the family car. Sports Harvey and Jonathan. Okay,
they made several stops at gas stations along the way.
During one of those breaks, something peculiar happened at around
four point thirty in the morning. The man, whose name

(01:44:09):
has not been revealed by the media. Well, he left
the gas station, you're saying, well, what's so strange about that? Right,
he left the gas station without realizing he had forgotten
his wife. He only realized his mistake about one hundred
and eighty six miles later. He quickly called emergency services

(01:44:32):
for help. It was a very bizarre conversation, as a
man not only had to explain how he could have
forgotten his wife at a gas station, but also had
trouble remembering which gas station it was. You're saying to yourself, well,
what did the daughter do? The daughter was asleep during
this and didn't realize that mom was left at the
gas station. ROSSI, Jonathan, I'm calling one hundred percent BS.

(01:44:55):
You forget your spouse somebody in the vehicle. You turn
to your right say hey, honey, are you hungry or
did you remember that story I told you thirty minutes ago.
You cannot forget anybody in your car for one hundred
and eighty six miles. You can't forget him for one
mile much less ondred eighty six miles. I think this
Patty man should be called out for his BS and

(01:45:19):
arrested for for abandonment. I'm calling BSD. He forgot, That's
what I'm saying. He like meant the left he left
her intentionally. Yeah, I'm calling it BS. So the Patti
man going to Morocco, you'd be ashamed of yourself leaving
your wife one hundred and eighty six miles behind. And
that's my non Forida story. Okay, Jonathan, you're next. Okay,

(01:45:43):
mine is coming from England with Ronna Davies of sitting
born or did a baby rattle from sheen? Or was
she in for her stepdads. That's like the Chinese website
that's cheap stuff right yeah, like it's like shine, yeah,
is she in?

Speaker 11 (01:45:58):
It's like where they get closed, like she'd closed but
her she got it for a baby rattle for a
five month old Online reported on July second. Uh, it
turned out when she online time and then it came
in among the rattling beads is how the toy. She
was shaking it around and to her surprise, it was
a human fingernail inside the baby rattle and then she

(01:46:25):
went on this camera ran about howard these getting the
baby toys.

Speaker 2 (01:46:29):
Up safety standards and she only got a refund for
a hundred sheen points and she had no comments. They
still haven't made a coment about this human fingernail. So
let's these sweatshops down there need to need close down.

Speaker 3 (01:46:46):
So what are they?

Speaker 2 (01:46:46):
What do they normally put in rattle stuff? I thought
it was like the little like, uh, those little beads, right, yeah,
I don't know the beads, plastic beads. You have kids
that you like to my youngest son, My youngest is
seventeen years old. I don't know what these les. You like?
The plastic beads, right man, A client likes the beads too.
He'll tell you about it at two o'clock.

Speaker 3 (01:47:07):
Excuse me, all right?

Speaker 2 (01:47:12):
Is it my turn?

Speaker 8 (01:47:13):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:47:13):
It is your turn.

Speaker 2 (01:47:13):
We've given you enough time to delay, all right, Matt. Well, Unfortunately,
there was a data breach for one of the biggest
corporations in America, McDonald's. They run a platform, a hiring platform.
It's actually called mchire and mhire has a chat bot
dubbed Olivia or job Applicants. They sign in, they chat

(01:47:37):
with Olivia, and they asked them a number of questions
and then try to evaluate the applicants from there. The
only problem is that Olivia, the mchiger chat bot got hacked.
Oh no, there was a security team that put in

(01:47:58):
the name use their name in password to hack Olivia
the chadbot. The username was one two three four five
six and the password was one two three four five six.
Stop stop stop stop Yes. Sam Curry and Ian Carroll

(01:48:21):
were security researchers and said, without much thought, we entered
one two three four five six for both the username
and password and we were immediately logged in.

Speaker 3 (01:48:32):
It turned out we had.

Speaker 2 (01:48:33):
Become the administrator of a test restaurant inside the mckire system.
The information included names, email addresses, phone numbers, addresses state
where the job candidate lived, the authoritentication token they used
to gain access to the website. They could see every
chat interaction from every person that has ever applied for

(01:48:54):
a job in McDonald's by using one two three four
five six the McDonald's mc hire system. HM, I'm supies,
how good this story is. He's found so quick McDonald's.
He's quick about a lot of things. And the software
company that runs. Uh the uh the chatbot paradox both

(01:49:18):
have so far declined comment. You just can't look. I
used work for McDonald's, had zero problem with them, but
I mean, thank goodness, it was just some kind of
security research. Everything mixed something at McDonald's. Yeah, you get
mc hired, you get m Did you get mcfired, No,
I mc quick. Did you get mcpromoted? I did? I
was just I was an assistant manager. Did you hit

(01:49:39):
the mcglass ceiling? Did I get mc vacation?

Speaker 6 (01:49:43):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:49:43):
I did.

Speaker 2 (01:49:45):
I got mcfatter too when I was there too, And
you gave up mcfloorburgers? Who I did? John, I'll tell
you the floorburger stories eventually. Yeah, okay, look good to that.
There was more to that story. Whoa Scottie Scheffler is? Yeah?
Minus ay through he's he's one lording. All right, that's
non flora stories. Yes, highly googleble edition of Lightning Quick

(01:50:06):
Answers we need today. What's the guy's name again? Will Jennings?
Will Jenny Jenny? He's an enterprising Yeah it was Now
he's Ncadoes, the greatest alum ever at Stephen F. Austin
State University. But by the way, Stephen it's called Stephen F.
Austin State. Yes, I joined the ut system, right, so okay,

(01:50:27):
keep cutting them checks you of h what are you
talking about?

Speaker 1 (01:50:31):
Way?

Speaker 2 (01:50:32):
Yeah, well I will find out how much you're paying
you hope it's not too much. You don't you're not
flying there, so you're just taking a couple of buses
public though both public universities. I'm sure it could be fine.
Go ahead and make a Freedom of information Act. It
might not be difficult. We'll get you all some Chick
fil A and a couple of buses for gas with gasoline.
Come here and get your seventy to seven ass whooping
and go back on the neck of nowhere. One forty

(01:50:54):
four on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 3 (01:50:55):
One one.

Speaker 2 (01:51:03):
This show Got Blue real Quick? Or the off air?
Did Adam clanning? I'm working Saturday's on Deck in tenth
Innings show? When is your next on Deck in tenth
Inning Show?

Speaker 8 (01:51:13):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:51:13):
I couldn't tell you. I didn't think. So what are
you doing? In this final segment, we're gonna play Believe
it or Not in about a minute or hell yeah
or not? We have some if everybody wants to who
wants to? Wang Chung? Tonight? Are we still offering tickets
to losers. Yeah, anybody that wants to Wang Chunk Chang
the night excuse me, Wang Chung tonight can win. How
did you get on the topic of beads earlier? That's

(01:51:35):
what I want to know. You sent me a text
that I like beads. I said, Okay, that's whatever you want, Adam,
that's fun. One time when I put the question mark emoji.
One time when I was living in my apartment and
I was about, oh wait, we're on the air five minutes.
I have to go in the show. What show we do?
We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show

(01:51:57):
Monday through Thursday. We called it Beads leaving it out,
But I'm Friday's. We call it A hell Aaron. And
here's how it works. You'll call seven one three two
one two five seven nineties seven one three two one
two five seven NINTI Today's edition of A Helly Aaron
is did Will Jennings? Is it Jennings? I don't know
his last name. Yes, I don't even know. Oh my god,
you didn't put it on the screen. You didn't put
on the screw you know who? The great SFA alum is.

(01:52:20):
I don't even know who he was three hours ago, Jennings.
Did he write the song or producer? We're going with
writing or producer? Or what are we doing on this?
Rote wrote the song? If he did, you'll say this
he writing fast answers. If he didn't, you'll say this.
If you get the question right or wrong, you win
a prize. We can't do one. You gotta get two right,

(01:52:41):
one correct answer? Are you serious, Jonathan? One correct answer?
They're going to what tonight? Going to the Pantings to
see Rick Springfield, John Waite, Wang Chung and Paul Young
on the I Want My Eighties Tour Friday Tonight Tonight
the Willnasvillian Tickets on so now at ticketmathaw dot com.
Mike Gun SEVENINTI ready to play? Hell yeare not? He

(01:53:03):
will wrote It's a Heartache by Bonnie Tyler. Hell yeah
or not? That's right? Congratulations you won. That's nice. Renee
on seven ninty Renee? What was your favorite part of
today's ten to two radio show? The Whole dang Thing
A Paris Man in Morocco sung by Barry Manilow. Hell

(01:53:26):
yeah or not?

Speaker 8 (01:53:28):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:53:29):
Oh Jesus, we just made it that song an hour ago.
You didn't listen to show Renee You're a fraud. Brandon
on seven ninety Brandon, you're ready to play hell yea
or not? Typical male by Tina Turner Hell yeah or not?
Hell no, you didn't write that. Taylor on seven ninety Taylor,

(01:53:52):
you're ready to play hell yeah or not?

Speaker 13 (01:53:55):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:53:56):
I'll never love this way again by Dion Warwick hell
yeah or not?

Speaker 4 (01:54:00):
Un not?

Speaker 6 (01:54:02):
He did.

Speaker 5 (01:54:07):
This way?

Speaker 10 (01:54:08):
You did?

Speaker 2 (01:54:09):
I know I'll never stop. Please this way I get
great song?

Speaker 8 (01:54:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:54:15):
Please ring? What is sham? Please make it? Stup? John
on seven ninety John, you're ready to play higher helly
are not? John is not? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:54:27):
Your offensive singing got him to hang up?

Speaker 2 (01:54:30):
Look did our winner hang up? Our water hung up?

Speaker 3 (01:54:34):
He didn't want to.

Speaker 2 (01:54:34):
Wang Chung Please, if you want to Wang Chung seven one, three,
two one, please tweet out five seven sewn on seven
and you're ready to play helly are not?

Speaker 6 (01:54:45):
That's warning Chung?

Speaker 2 (01:54:46):
Hell yeah? All right, here we go. Looks like we
made it by the great Berry Man Low hell yeah
or not?

Speaker 6 (01:54:52):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:54:53):
There you go. You're going to Wayne Chung to night.
How's your family?

Speaker 4 (01:54:58):
Ross? What is this.

Speaker 2 (01:55:00):
I just have to click on this because I don't
know what this is. Because it's fine. You don't like Chorriso.
I do not like Jeruso. No, it's it's it's creasy. Yeah,
I know Jhonna, don't don't see. Don't even react to
Matt's food whatever you would. Sorry, it just said Matt
to Riso.

Speaker 9 (01:55:16):
So I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (01:55:18):
Okay, we got a minute left from the show, a
minute and a half seven one three, two five seven. Oh,
we're trying to get people. We have nobody's in the
history of Helly A're not okay? I will just play.
I will just play drops until somebody calls in. How
about that? One three two, one two five seven, Hontie,
Come on now, play, let's go. Let's go to Chris.
Chris on seven. He ready to play Helly are not?

Speaker 6 (01:55:40):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:55:41):
Please remember me by Tim McGraw Hell yeah or not?
Oh yeah? Hell You're going to see Wang shot Rick Springfield. Oh,
Jesse's girl Banger. It's not bad. I mean it's great.
In Boogie Nights Taylor on seven. You know what tail

(01:56:02):
You've already lost today. I don't care. Yeah, who cares
of this? Please remember I forget it saving all my
love for you. Whitney Houston hell yeah or not? No,
he got you wrong twice in the same giving us seriously,
don't even hang up on these people. Bill, Bill, Bill,

(01:56:24):
I want you to win, so mad you are the
you the goa. My heart will go on by Celine
Dion Hell yeah or not. He You're going to see
weg Chunk being filmed Pedro on seven. He ready to play?

Speaker 5 (01:56:42):
Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:56:45):
Tears in Heaven. Eric Clampton, Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 4 (01:56:50):
Hell yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:56:51):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:56:51):
You're finally figure us an entire weeks. Gracious. Up next
Wexler and class have fun with that. Joe there entertain
for the next four hours.

Speaker 3 (01:57:01):
They're the eight team.

Speaker 2 (01:57:02):
I'll talk to you Saturday for Astros baseball. Wow, it's
a late night on the Westchester to eight forty. First pitch,
Dan's got to do the ten. You're gonna call you
on the tenth. You'll be busy. I'll be hammered a
team next on seven, ETI