Astros Sweep The Phillies! Sitting #2 In the American League With A Record 48-33, Astros vs Cubs Tonight !

Astros Sweep The Phillies! Sitting #2 In the American League With A Record 48-33, Astros vs Cubs Tonight !

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten oh
two in ahe town.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good morning, and welcome to a Friday edition of The
Mat Thomas Show with Ross. This is Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
I got news for you.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
You're stuck with me for the majority of the rest
of your career.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah. Great, depressing as hell. What's up a reaction? I'm starty.
Who's getting I'm going a happy hour at two thirty?
Who's coming with me? And you go find you make
a lot of money, and you go find a trophy
wife who's younger and uh huh a while older.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
You find a younger wife.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
And Kevin Drant's old though, Yeah that's true. You go
for a cougar with a lot of money and experience
and fakies. Oh yeah, you're getting Trevor's girls GM. Not
in her DMS. I'd never DMed her once, like in

(01:12):
all of her photos. I didn't like any of her photos.
I went and looked through my legs. So it was
a case of misteak and identification. No, it must have
been a story or something. I don't know. The figer
must have slipped. Burt Reynolds is dead and Haiti is dead.
These are all people that have been sl Frey Stewart
is alive. That's true.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Fred Stewart is alive. And it was a deep poll
just for me.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
That was a very deep pull. Wait what he was
stealing something and was getting chased by the police and said, hey,
that that ice rink looks good, looks like a soft
landing spot. He thought it was pillowy. I mean, wouldn't
you want to go thought it was snow. Wouldn't you

(01:57):
want to run to the playland at the gallery like
a land world? Know, you'd want to runs to the exit? Matt, Yeah, yeah,
I do you know you Frank, you don't even you
don't even listen. You don't even listen. I'm talking Frank
Jalen Green.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
He scored single digits in four games.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Frank, I value you, my friend. We are we are
friends at the end. What's fear of armadillo Kevin, that's
what you have? Armadilliophobia?

Speaker 6 (02:25):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Absolutely? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Is it because they roll up?

Speaker 4 (02:29):
I'm actually really because they just exist. They don't touch them.
They give you lepards.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
I'm not gonna touch them.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, we are an Armberdido.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Free touching show. No, we've touched critters before, but never
one of those that will never happen again. Good morning, everybody,
it is ten oh four. That's how you get the
Friday started. It is and anything goes Friday. Here on
a Friday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Raw
Sports r V. How the hell are you were rocking
the I'm doing Great Man Night? Yes, I was rocking

(03:01):
the doc first Sunday ninety nine point one. Did they
ask you to play some Whitney Houston foll of Iceline
diam music?

Speaker 7 (03:07):
No?

Speaker 3 (03:07):
They had a nineties cover band out there and I
was just handing out some stuff with some wonderful, lovely
people from our promo team. We got two promo people
at the Sunday ninety nine point one remote. How many
do we have a sports talk seven ninety? I think
we haven't had one in six years? All right, So
nineties cover band? What was the definitive song that they that?

(03:27):
What was our showstopper? I don't know. I didn't I
didn't go for it was for seven thirty and the
appearance was still eight. So whatever the showstopper was, I
was not there for it. What is the greatest song
in the nineteen nineties? The greatest song of the nineteen nineties.
I don't know too much work. We're prolling some Green
Day Mambo number five by Lou Bega, the greatest hit

(03:47):
of the nineteen nineties. I was gonna go Chumbawamba. Yeah,
that's We've actually done this in past years. We did
decades worst number one songs. We did do that, and
I want to say one of us chose Chumbawamba, did
we not? The most popular song of the nineteen nineties,
according to Google Ai was One Sweet Day by Marie

(04:08):
Carey and Boys to Men. Now that was a jam.
It was number one for like thirteen weeks or something.

Speaker 6 (04:15):
Right.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, I've never been a host of sixteen weeks, never
been a huge Maria fan singer, but it's appearance wise,
she's singer.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
She wanted an all time great singers who's hitting those
high notes.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
But Mariah Carey.

Speaker 8 (04:26):
Oh, I want to give a shout out to two
of our callers for giving me songs just since oh really,
Will and d Man Will gave me Summer Breeze the
Isley by the Edition, Oh okay, that is good, and
then Hair of a Dog by Nazareth Fire.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
I know Aaron Doug by Nyer Nazareth. I want to
go shout to damn man, you guys made my playlist.
What about breeze In by George Benson. We've played that before.
That is a fantastic yacht rock selection. I recently found
out that was a cover. Really it was written by
Bobby Willmack and some Hungarian dude who shout nameless. I

(05:00):
don't remember if I can't pronounce difficult. All right, here's
the radio program today. Anything Goes Friday and anything Goes Friday.
We have mentioned Nazareth, yep, Carrey, the Boardwalk and no
sports items yet. Well that's what we're here. I mean,
we still have three hours and fifty three minutes to
cover here. Anything goes Friday, Yeah, I mean, look, the

(05:22):
Astros put a day game yesterday. I unfortunately and thankfully
everything came out okay. But I got caught up in
the I forty five mess yesterday. Oh so after the
show yesterday and laugh and matter Actually it was it
was kind of sad in respect. Obviously, a mentally challenge
woman or whatever case may be, she had some issues.

(05:43):
She had some issues and a gun, and so she
gets on I forty five and I told you. I
had to lunch right after the show yesterday and make it.
I got there in time. It was getting back. It
was the problem because I went and saw some friends
after the after that I thought it was in the woodlands.
That was. It was at Cyprus what in forty five
that's more spring. But I was coming back into the city.
Uh oh from from the lunch. Yeah, okay, so I

(06:06):
would mention the place, but it'll spend money with us.
It's the plug.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Uh So what was like, I say.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Oh, do you do? Did you go round and beltway?
I did? I went uh to the Greend Parkway, snuck
around and got onto Hardy Toll Road and then made
it way back in the city. Okay, so yeah that
was That was a tough deal for and thankfully she
surrendered in traveling zom.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
But man, I mean, I don't I don't know what's
going on in her life.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
But to sit on a freeway just to put the
chair down and with a weapon, I mean, oh what
a wow. You can't be doing that. No, that's that's
not good at all. All right, So where are we
going with this?

Speaker 6 (06:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
Oh so listen the Astros.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
That was fun. Astro's pat to day. Game one scored
one run, yes uh, first game two runs a second
game yesterday exploded. So that's my quick math tells me
that's five runs in three games.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
Five I've runs and a sweep.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
That's a one point six six runs per game average. Guy,
Do you have h you know these things? Can you
textas instruments? Thomas? T I little alone story. T I
over there in sugar Land used to have a holatiously
big softball league. Oh really Yeah, in twenty one and
twenty two year old Matt Thomas would try to go

(07:23):
over there and play softball and meet some ladies, and
they realized that, hey, I sucked at softball, but I
was poorly and see uh, I wasn't making a whole
lot of money, so it was just kind of a u.
It was like a golden burrow of losses for me.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
Have you umpire the games? Sticky at catcher?

Speaker 9 (07:40):
No?

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Well, catcher has felt rude umpiring, sure, because you usually
put the slow guys. An athletic can On movie.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
Just said all those things applied to you. I didn't
say it, you did.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
That's true. Get your knee pads and get in the
get in the ketch knee pads with softball games. I'm
a squad, Maddie. Get you a little step stool to
sit on. I got on one knee. Okay. Then the
ball hits you in a wrong spot and you're hurt,
and you don't want to look like you've been pained.
But the balls hit you, they're gonna hit you.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
Wear a cup? Might want a cup to a softball game?

Speaker 1 (08:14):
What?

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Why not? Who wears cups of softball game? You gotta
protect the jewels at all times. That's when you cover
use your left hand, all right, it is that anything
goes Friday, the Astros win. Oh so then during this
large rainstorm you know they had a huge rain to
light in Minneapolis yesterday. Yeah, what the hell if we're
doing Wednesday, I want to tell shut your obamass up
weather or ain't nobody got time for all these storms

(08:35):
every other day or sometimes every day. It's ridiculous. We
got a chance of rain this afternoon, but the entire country,
so I think, and I didn't know that.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
I didn't look at this.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Maybe we can find out the Seattle Minnesota game had
I mean multiple hour rain de light Okay, because the
game I think started around the same time the Astros did,
And it was like five thirty and I was listening
to the game. Seattle. The Twins score eight runs in
the sixth inning and win the and it was ten

(09:05):
nothing when I got in the car. I don't know
what the final score was. But thank you Minnesota for
finishing up that game. Thank you Carlos Krayer for him
being a big part of that eight run six inning.
And the Astros lead continues to grow where it's almost time,
not quite yet, probably got forty games or so to
go to do it.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
But for what I could tweet?

Speaker 3 (09:28):
What was your favorite Seattle Mariners as a twenty twenty
five baseball manute? Don't be scared put your name. I
don't know, I don't know the name on it. I
don't need that skin your boy softy coming after you.
I don't need I don't even Mariner fan coming after me. Yeah.
They are rabid and angry for whatever reason, and unsuccessful largely. Yeah,
what the hell's wrong with you, Seattle fan? They act

(09:48):
like they've won fifteen World Series. They're insane. I'm trying
to think you here, Uh, I want to see what
the rain delay was? Okay, fan grafts odds to make
the playoffs for the Astros ninety four point four percent,
division eighty one point one percent. The rain to line, No,
I'm talking about the I'm not telling you the rain
delay right now four hours and twenty two minutes. That's meaty.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
That's Minnesota being cheap skates.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
First of fall, it's too cold to play there in April,
and it's too cold to play there in September, and
it rains in the summertime. There your fault. It's a
lovely place to live on. It's very nice, but it's
just ridiculously balls of wall cold.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
I can't do it. So that's why I'm here with
you all right.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Ted twelve on the radio show today, we've got open line.
It is anything goes Friday, which means anything you want
to get into. Whether it be the astros continued dominance
in the American League West, whether it's the fact that
the first place fell off you feel this skame to town,
I got swept, whether it's Kyle Tucker and uh the
return of Ryan Presley as well for the Cubs in town. Huge.
Are they gonna play Johnny Cash for more when he

(10:51):
comes in? No, they'll play nothing. Sometimes they do that
for guys when they come back. I can't imagine Ryan Press.
I'm not saying they will now they're gonna do the
whole light show. I would think not, But you could
play this put the song on in between innings? Why
not all I'm talking about when he comes on the mouth.
I thought, sure, when he's coming into the game. Yeah,
just between innings. M I'm gonna put that as a minus.

(11:16):
Say do that they did that recently? I thought for
a reliever who came back somewhere, didn't the didn't the
Bruis do that for Josh Hater or something like that?

Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, but that's the Brewers' I'm asking about what the
Astros would.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Do, Okay. I'm just saying it's been there's precedent. Okay,
I'm sure there is. I I don't. It feels like
Ryan got squarely down the stretch here with the Astros, Okay,
which is not fair because he was awesome in twenty
twenty two. Oh, I'm sorry I got his ego hurt
because Josh Hater, the best closer in baseball, got signed.
When when we would you cry about it? Ryan, Ryan Presley,

(11:45):
friend of the show might be listening right now.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
You never know.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
I'm sorry, Ryan, I love you. That was Ross seven
one three Matt seven one three two one two five seven.
I we got our I'm sorry to get to at
eleven thirty today. People always think things I said, you
said anyway, So I'm just gonna put everything everything bad
as though. Why does it like we had Joe spotted
in our day? I know he doesn't differentiate our voices,
I mean my voice. He didn't like my question, So
you were like, that was ross that he despised your question.

(12:13):
It was the big Astros news of the day. Sorry, well,
but the thing was that he's not gonna comment on it. Yeah,
we might just say I wish I'm wishing him the best.
That's all I wanted.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
But you can he can deflect the question as well, which.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Is what he says. Right, here's what you could have
Cis said, So Scott Boris is gonna cost you another
player your thoughts. That's if you're gonna go all the
way I wanna do that you could that that would
have been the real play. And then he'd been like
seven one three two one two five seven ninty Non
Florida Stories we have hell yeat or not.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
I'm sorry's at eleven thirty.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Matter of fact, Roster's apologize Joe spot It for bringing
up Scott Boris's name on the show. I did ted
fourteen on Sports Talk seven ninety. So just how big
is the Astros winning Marchin going to be the America
League West? I mean, my god, they are just they
don't they they don't. They don't even have a good
offense on a win games. They let Jake Myers back

(13:05):
clean up again? Yes, hey, what do you mean they
lent He's not gonna make a wish kid. He's on
the team hitting number three hundred. Well he was, I
think yeah, he bought an auction on him and they
would get a lot of the back clow. He didn't
win an auction. Yes, I believe that's sick exactly what happened.
That's just kidding, rude, crazy. I mean, look, Jake should
be in the lineup. Yeah, he was won for forties,

(13:26):
sitting three oh six. Who should be up there him?
Are two fourteen Christian Walker? I would say maybe Yan here,
Oh he'sitting two thirty eight with an ops is six
forty nine. It's we're halfway through the season, folks. It
ain't early no more. It's eighty literally a midway point,
eighty one games in, and Yinter and Christian Walker are

(13:48):
still doing this. I wonder if Joe has told the
Beat writers don't ask about Christian Walker. We know who
he is. Hmmm. I mean he would never ask, would
never say no, not publicly no. But he's signed. But yeah, well,
I mean he talks to the guys off record, of course.
And by the way, athletes do have down years. The

(14:09):
problem is, you just hope it's not a down part
of the rest of his career, right, Is it just
just somebody needs to leak out. He's been playing the
whole season with a torn obleak well, he's had the
he had the blique injury early. Yeah, it makes me
feel better. That's like crackle his back. Yes, No, I
don't hear it, No any I do. Okay, Sorry, our

(14:31):
phone lines work at this point, right making sure I
just don't have shampoo in my ears.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
I'm just going crazy. Our phone lines aren't working.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
I think by the way, they resolved that thing, and
they never said anything that trouble ticket I made like, oh,
you said it's gone now all right, bye, not our problem.
But anyways, Joe's Christian Walker and yournerty is, what's the
deal ummy on?

Speaker 7 (14:55):
Here?

Speaker 4 (14:55):
Is slumping season? Slumping Christian Walker? Is it?

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Could he be in decline? I mean, look, the clients happened,
and here's the thing, we don't know when they're happening.
The players don't know. It comes down to to me.
But again I'm not a trained baseball mind. But ross
Mike thought would be probably bat speed. At the end
of the day. It is the number one culprit. Rose
bad speed too. Last year and the year before was
average seventy five miles per hour, which is considered that's

(15:23):
the line of demarcation for what they consider a fast
swing seventy five miles an hour and above. He's at
seventy four point one fast swing rate fifty two point
eight this year forty one. But that could be a
number of things. He could be getting pitched differently, he
could be chasing. When you chase more, you're out of
the zone. You're not gonna be able to get good

(15:43):
swings on stuff. Yeah, so just the raw bat speed
doesn't tell you everything, but the numbers are declined that way.
So I would say this, and look, we're not going
to try to over metric you on this show because
I think it just goes in one, you know, or
at the other. But I think we should take the
numbers you just gave us and look at him a
month from now. Yeah. I mean, it's just like I said,
very simple, seventy five is a fast wing. He's at

(16:05):
seventy four. He was at seventy five last year. So
seventy five considered average, seventy five considered fast. It's considered fast. Okay, Well,
so if he's seventy four, it shouldn't be that big
of a decline then, right. I mean, I'm trying to
do you to think. So yeah, all right, let's talk
to some great people here on Anything Goes Friday, Ryan
and Montgomery at ten twenty two on seven ninety Ryan,
good morning, what's on your mind.

Speaker 10 (16:25):
I'm not gonna lie the lady in forty five. We've
all thought about it because I hate forty five. But
my whole drive home from work yesterday was screwed up
because what people didn't know was in Magnolia, a dude
killed his stepfather with a machete and then drove headfirst
into a garbage truck on one nine at the same
time that was going on.

Speaker 9 (16:46):
On for what Yeah, I just had to park it.
That's a non Flida story for you right there.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
I don't think so I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead
and say thanks for giving that to us, and right
now we're gonna just godn't say we had that one.

Speaker 4 (16:56):
Yeah, what's going on in the HTx.

Speaker 9 (16:59):
Now that magne. Yeah, that's true that people are man. Well,
I'm from Cyprus originally, so I don't claim it entirely.
That's good a killing it. I'm so excited for the
rest of.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
The season killing it.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Hey, use a different phrase, right what.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
I'm just kidding, ll go ahead and don't say it's
a murderer's role line.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
Iup BEI there, don't use that one anither, well, because
that will be true.

Speaker 10 (17:22):
Took the words right out of my mouth, Matt, But no,
I scheduled my entire workflow schedule around listening to you
all on Fridays.

Speaker 9 (17:29):
So excited. I'll talk to you guys later.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, very much, appreciate it. By the way, we're getting
word from our friend Grace. It says when Springer came
back the first time they played poison in as first
as Bad.

Speaker 4 (17:40):
There's a precedent of that.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
I remember Josh Reddit going to Oakland and they played
what's that song he used to walk up to Careless Whisper?

Speaker 4 (17:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
I wonder if relief pictures are a little bit different
because they usually use it as motivation to go in
and get the final outs of a game.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
Oh yeah, I'm just out.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
There just saying it may not be true, but yeah,
so for blown Josh Red to prove that walking up
to Carol's whisper, Well, you know, you tease me about
what my what would be your walk up song? Sleep
down the Fire? Rage against the Machine?

Speaker 6 (18:12):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (18:12):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (18:13):
I just made that up. I was just gonna say,
who am I talking to? What's his face with me?
Asked Jeff Passing. That would be his walk up song? Yeah,
he might go with Gorilla Radio. He actually he did
go with I'm a Loser. He would go Bright Beck. Yeah, okay, hmm,
what would I walk up to?

Speaker 9 (18:30):
See?

Speaker 3 (18:30):
See the Family Ties by Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keen.
All right, here's what we're gonna do. Howdrong can we
play that song? Is that?

Speaker 4 (18:39):
Because it has I got cuss.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Words in it. Yeah, but I'm sure it's fine.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
Well, can we get a Here's what I do.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
I want to get a clean version of that song
coming back from the next break, and I want you
to introduce the segment because you will be the one
to get the next semea going. So if the song works,
that means you right now you want to wait? I
want to wait till the ten thirty Okay, Okay, we'll
do it. I'm gonna introduce.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, you introduced a segment and then.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
A guy you gotta call me coming up to the plate.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
No, no, no, uh.

Speaker 9 (19:07):
No.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
I want to see how the show flows based off
of this song. Okay, because don't you think walk up
songs are a way to motivate yourself? I guess I
bet you never heard the song any day, Matt, Please,
you don't like family ties? Why were you shaking your head?
I guess the people. I guess the people going, No,
it's not it's not horrible, it's not horrible. WHOA I
like it? That wasn't really in a selling point, No,

(19:29):
it really was.

Speaker 8 (19:30):
But if fitz Ross like if it was his walk
up song, though, it definitely fits them.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
I was at NRG Stadium, and sixty thousand people were
jumping up and down, going nuts when that song came on.
I would probably be I'd be someone that would would
choose a song almost every different homestead. You'd go with
Sailing by Christopher Cross. I'd go with something that make
people laugh for sure. Okay, like if you if you
had a walk up song and you put on so

(19:56):
you know, like if people put Copacaban on people with
people with the crowd like this is funny. We did
Fantasy five walk up songs and you won. Yeah, because
much if most of any done, and people were upset.
A bunch of seventy year olds calling in and we
love all of you. Robert on seven ninety Robert, good morning.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
Good morning man, Good morning ross Man. Has been a
long time since I've talked to you guys.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
Where you been you've been hiding? Yeah, what the hell?
Yeah we've been. We've missed you.

Speaker 11 (20:22):
Job so I work overnight now, so I'm basically sleeping
when y'all come on.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
But now I, uh, I was running late today, so
I decided to give you guys a call.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Yeah, what do you think? Uh?

Speaker 12 (20:34):
You think San Pristie's kicking himself in the in the
butt about the Durant. I mean, I feel like the Rockets, uh.
And you're the perfect one to communicate with me about this.

Speaker 6 (20:47):
Uh. I think they over they overpaid for Durant. I mean,
what do you think. I'm sure y'all probably talked about it, but.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
I overpaid you. You would be the only one, the
first person that would have said he they've overpaid. I mean,
in fact, if you were to go Google, was there
fade trade value, you'd probably hear that.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
You see the term underpaid probably one hundred times.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Really, Yeah, Because again, the guys that the strongest commodities
the Rockets had in their mind were Alprin Shangoon untouchable,
a Men Thompson untouchable and if you want Jabari Smith
and or Taris and you better add to the to
the trade. And neither one of those guys were a
part of it. So uh, Jalen Green was the kind

(21:29):
of the guy that was talking about more than anything else.
You didn't have to give up any more first round picks,
and you already did the number ten pick that was
already there to begin with, and you give up a
bunch of second round picks with the the day.

Speaker 4 (21:39):
Who really cares?

Speaker 3 (21:39):
I mean, I'll say, Robert, it just wasn't much of
the There was no one that thought the Rockets overpaid.

Speaker 6 (21:46):
So basically they sacrificed draft picks for you know, hoping
that Durant can help them win a championship.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Now, yeah, I mean, first of all, you can't decide
who wins the trade until until it plays out, whether
the Rockets go to go to what championship, whether Kevin
Durank can play, whether he's healthy. I mean so, but
no at this point. Look, we got to figure this
out on the court first. But the term overpaid is
something that I even Phoenix fans are like, we didn't
we didn't get enough.

Speaker 4 (22:12):
I don't think really yeah.

Speaker 9 (22:14):
Crazy.

Speaker 6 (22:15):
All right, Well, thanks for your feedback and I love
y'all show.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
Thank you. Robert.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
Have a funny story for you, Well, let us aside
it's funny or not.

Speaker 6 (22:24):
I had to move to Fort Worth.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
That's not the funny, that's depressing.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
Actually.

Speaker 11 (22:30):
Yeah, so the first time we went to a grocery store,
we told the cashier we moved from Houston.

Speaker 6 (22:36):
He goes, oh, well, I guess you got to switch
baseball teams. Now, I said not a chance in hell,
and I'll hang up and listen.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
Thank you, And then he checked your food out. Uh,
by the way, I'll tell you I got a hot take.
Robert's closer than the people that say the Rockets gave
up nothing, that they overpaid.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
Say it one more time. It's closer to this, and
both are wrong.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
But saying the overpaid is closer to the truth than
saying they gave up nothing, which some people have been saying. Yeah,
I mean, look if Jalen Green twenty five and six
and all of a sudden doesn't do what he did
against Golden State and has a great playoff series, Yeah,
I mean, you gave up twenty what howlds Jalen twenty three,
twenty three, twenty three for thirty seven. It's volume scoring,

(23:19):
but somebody's got a score, and it's eighty two games
of value got out of in the last two years. Yeah.
And Dylan Brook's a good role player and he was
the the Rocket's best three point shooter. I have the
right over the season was Dylan Brooks and frankly went
even close. Now we'll see what happens to what's his name, Malawak?
The draft pick number ten the duke player. Yeah, that
the Rockets drafted to put the cap on even foot

(23:42):
seven wingspan. That's insane. Yeah, but Bowl Bowl's got a
seven foot seven wingspan and he just doesn't know one.
He didn't go number ten. I don't think we'll see.
I'm just saying, you look at the history of ten picks,
like Paul George was a number ten pick. Yeah, Austin Rivers, Yeah,
I'm Hayson Walls has been good for the Oklahoma City Thunder.
He was a number ten pick. I'm just saying, yeah,

(24:03):
but the Rockets couldn't control that. Mala Walk was there
at ten. I like the move. They're swinging for the fences.
But they didn't give up nothing. But they didn't overpay either, Robert.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
Sorry.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
Yeah, and we'll look, well, it will judge just two
years from now. There were a lot of people that
thought the Astros overpaid for you say, can coach you?
Oh my god, that was a firestorm. Remember, we had
to be we had to be like calm people down.
I mean, Joey lit Berfito, I mean there were people
that were crying in the streets, crying. There were people
that were printing low Brifito Jerseys. It was a lot

(24:34):
of Let's be honest, it was a lot of ladies
because he's handsome. He says, it's a real talk. Be
like if a lot of ladies that would be in
the same spot. Yes, I don't know what the next
segment of the show is, but it's gonna be introduced
by Ross. We'll see if he is not introducing anything,
we gotta bring up the topic. Okay, sure, So we're

(24:56):
gonna find out if Kendrick Lamars saw what was called again? Uh,
it's called Matt's number one, mats number two? What is
it really called? It doesn't matter. It called family Ties.
It's called family Ties. Will this song make him a
better host in the next sime of the show? By
the way, a lot of people are saying, Captain Taneil,
that feels fair. Yeah, Leve, we'll keep us together. It

(25:18):
would be a great way to get that would get
you going.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
We'll try it. Get you ready for a three pitch
trek out?

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Yeah? Seven one. You think I would strike out on
three pitches? Yeah, you would up three times. It'd be
emmaculated thing. That's okay, I do the same. I can't
hit I haven't hit a fast pitch. I can't hit
one foul ball. No you're oh no, there's no chance,
all right? Seven one three two one two five seven
Autie seven one three two one two five SEVININTI is it?

(25:43):
Anything goes Friday? Here on the Matt Thomas Show, with
a word for tallured brewing. Oh this this is melting.
Oh this is so good. This is like Picasso of
radio so music.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
Crack this up in your car right now to Manette fat,
go ahead, Matt, freeze with it.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
To me so good, like half the words are getting
bleeped out right now.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
To the Matt Thomas Show. It is ten to thirty
eight in the am here on Sports Talk seven ninety
Matt Thomas Show, with you until two o'clock. We got
the news at noon, coming up, we get non Florida
stories at one thirty. And I'm sorry is at eleven thirty.
I'm sorry he's at eleven thirty. You need to do
a lot of apologizing, Matt.

Speaker 4 (26:35):
What what will be my biggest apology this week?

Speaker 3 (26:37):
I don't know. There's are all your misgivings throughout your
entire life to miss, don't it? Apologize for the spam
calls that I get that I interact with you should
leave those people alone.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
My wife gets so mad at me.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
She gets mad at you. It's mad at why. I
think it's funny. I mean, it's cookie, It's it's I
I'm deranged. I swear violently at them. It's like a
pressure relief for you. I guess. Yeah, let's go to
a release valvel pressure valve.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
Two things I do.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
I swear at them and I belch at them. You
belch at them? Yeah, that is bizarre on command? Yea, yeah,
you got one ready to go, locked and loaded. I
mean I have turned my phone on. You know, Normally
I have a silencer, meaning that if if someone don't
know their number, he goes right to voicemail.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
I've turned it off today. I'm kind of in the mood.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
Do you just pick whatevery day you want to do it? Yeah,
I'm kind of the mood to do it. That's interesting. Yeah, well, Matt,
that last song we came back with was Kendrick Lamar
and Baby King. It's called Family Ties. I think it's
actually baby Keem song. But anyways, did you see the news.
It relates to Kendrick Lamar the Super Bowl halftime show
and Antonio Brown's attempted murder charge all wrapped up into one.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
Please connect it out from me.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
Okay, the man who protested during the halftime show, I
don't know if you saw this. He put us to
Sudanese flag up and said free Gaza or something like that.
During the middle of the halftime show. It popped up briefly.
Some people noticed it, some people didn't. Louisiana police said
they weren't going to arrest anybody. Well, they put out
an arrest warrant for the guy they found him, a

(28:11):
forty one year old New Orleans resident named sule Karnaine
Kwame Non Tambu. It turns out he's the same guy
that Antonio Brown is wanted for attempted murder. He the
guy he shot at is the same guy that was
a dancer during the Kendrick Lamar halftime show and was

(28:32):
protesting with the free Palestine flag. Isn't that a bizarre
conflict in residence? That is an odd connection. Yes, world,
that is weird. Antonio Brown put out some tweets talking
about how he's innocent, this guy's been harassing him. This
is probably not his social media manager. Yesterday or last
evening Antonio Brown, saying the guy's a fraud, liar, stalker

(28:54):
and criminal. Arrested in twenty twenty two for stealing six
figures of jewelry from me, then showed up with my
show at Role Loud in twenty twenty three trying to
assault me. Why is Antonio Brown doing Rolling Loud is
like a music festival. Why is Antonio Brown doing a
show it Rolling Loud. I don't think Antonio Brown knows
where he is. CTE definitely got him, and then in May,

(29:15):
he snuck into a gate at the event, came right
up to me trying to steal from me and threaten
my life. The media has not told this story yet,
instead painting a false picture of me that night, I
was fighting for my life with his intentions. First of all,
why is the guy getting arrested for just flying a flag?
I bet you Kendrick Lamar steps in and somehow it
takes care of this guy's legal fees or something. Although

(29:37):
maybe if he's a real criminal. And I don't know
what's going on with the Antonio Brown situation. This is
just a bizarre story and all these dots are getting connected.
It's a bizarre story with people that I don't think
anybody can relate to it. I can't relate to this story.
Antonio Brown, No, that's your guy, you love will following
him on Twitter. I think he is hysterical on Twitter.
I also believe that when you told me you don't

(29:57):
think it was him, I going, okay, maybe it was
the social media manager. But there you go. Mask you
wanted me to tie it in and there you go. Okay,
So let's say this. Jonathan is a consumer of this
radio show. Forget about you being an employee. Okay, did
you enjoy how we've taken the show in this direction?

Speaker 9 (30:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (30:14):
I think it's very you know, everything's you know what,
everything goes Friday, you know that's what that's the that's
the whole point.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
Thing goes Matt, including a guy who was including a
Super Bowl halftime dancer getting shot at by Antonio Brown.
For you to non Florida story that one thirty everybody,
you know, I should.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
Just saved that Florida story and a better story. Yeah yeah, wait, wait,
you can save it if you want to.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
I'm good. All right, different audiences, you're right, yeah, ten
forty two on Sports Talk seven NINTI it is The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. If you'd like to come
in and say hello, you may do so at seven
one three, two, one two five seven nine zero seven
one three two one two five seven. Auntie, we got
to tell you about this Utah Jazz draft pick drama. Okay,

(30:55):
I think it's pretty filthy, but I want to get
a phone call before we do that. And again, Astro
is certainly on the brain. Is they won again. They
swept the Philadelphia Phillies. They have won five of six
and now that league continues to grow in the American League.
West Mile on seven ninety mile.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
Good morning, Milo, good morning, good morning.

Speaker 13 (31:20):
I just I was wondering if this could be the
you know, the greatest air of Houston sports ever and
what would it take. The Astros I just read they're
on pace for ninety five wins. That's with most of
their starting pitching out. I mean, we know how injuries
have impacted them. The Rockets just won fifty two games
and look poised for a deep playoff run next year.

(31:43):
The Texans, I think could win at least twelve games,
and we've seen what they're doing in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
So what do you guys think it's gonna take now.
Are you asking if is it the greatest era of
Houston sports history now or or it could be?

Speaker 13 (31:57):
Yeah, dude, is it now? And what would it ache
for it to be if it's? If you guys don't
think it is.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Okay, I'll answer that question for you in a matter
of moments. Wow, professional radio teas. We do a few
things professionally around here. Seven one three two one two
five seven diety. If you want to get in, I've
got an easy answer for that, right. This is a
perfect walk up song. It gets people cheery. You grab

(32:27):
each other arm in arm, fans don't even know each other,
warm and embrace. Root for the local team ghost Ros.
It's a great way to start the segment. Captain and Taniel,
which one is alive? Or are both dead?

Speaker 4 (32:44):
Senil's They're both dead? No, Neill's alive. Are you sure?

Speaker 3 (32:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (32:50):
Sure, okay, Captain is dead? To Nil's alive?

Speaker 14 (32:52):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (32:53):
Toan Neil about ten years ago basically while Captain was
so alive, said, we were in a level's marriage for
forty years. That's fun.

Speaker 8 (33:01):
No.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
So basically love didn't keep them before love the lack
of love kept them together.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
Yeah, all right.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
So the question was posed, are we in the greatest
stretch of Houston sports? No chance at this point, no chance?
Tell me when it was?

Speaker 13 (33:19):
Then?

Speaker 3 (33:20):
When was the golden era of Houston sports? Texans Playoffs,
Rockets two seed just traded for Kevin Turant, Astros twenty
twenty two World Series? And it depends are you talking
about a single year or stretch, That's what I'm saying,
don't I don't even know if you could possibly answer
the question. Okay without moving the goalpost. So when was

(33:41):
the better error? Because you said definitively it's not, no,
because I think the only way you can ever have
a golden era of anything is if multiple teams win
in that same year. Yeah, but I mean the Boston
people have, Patriots and self have. But he asked if
it was the golden era of Houston. Okay, so it's
never happened. If it's never happened, it's never happened. So

(34:02):
let's go to the two closest examples. Okay, this year
would be very very close. Okay, the nineteen eighty six
would be close. The Celtics and the Rockets went to
the NBA Finals. The Astros went to the Nationalague Championship
series when there was only one playoff series. Any they
lost in sixteen or fifteen whatever, I don't know what.

(34:23):
And I believe the orders went to the playoffs or
were very close. I know they've seen eighty six Houston Oilers.
Let's shiit. I'm not one hundred percent sure on that.
Uh they were five and eleven. Okay, so I'm awful
little bit. Now here's the thing. Why are they close?
Let's also remember the Houston Cougars were twenty seconds away
from potentially winning a national championship, that's true, and then

(34:43):
they choked. They didn't choke. It was a very controversial
whistle in the second half of that game, very controversial.
Dropped the ball on the ground and stared at it,
very controversial. There was some sort of like a illegal
substance on the basketball. Must have been Warren Moon. By
the way, in nineteen eighty six, thirteen touchdowns, twenty six picks.

(35:07):
Come on Warren.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
But eighty seven had it been better?

Speaker 9 (35:10):
They were?

Speaker 3 (35:11):
That was a short season too. I want to say
eighty seven was short run though the strike shortened season. Yeah,
they were nine and six, so yeah, it was short Okay.
So eighty six. You're going with I'm gonna probably go
this this is the closes so to you know, Matte,
I'll rephrase, this is the closest you can get to
the greatest. Does somebody have to win it all? Now

(35:32):
since seventeen Astros won it all? But the Texans weren't good.
The Rockets were real. I again, I don't think if
we were if we got a minivan together and we
took all of us went over to the Rockets training facility, right, Okay,
do you think they'd be runninground going man, I am
so satisfied with how things turned out. I think they

(35:52):
were like this was part two of a build a
step up. I don't think there's I don't think there
was bro hugging even to this moment. I think they're
thinking about the need to get better. We didn't want
we don't We didn't want to go to the playoffs,
have the second best rock in the West and losing
the first round. Now granted it was highly competitive top
to bottom, but I don't think the lost in the
first round. Lost in the first was a disappointment to

(36:13):
losing the first round as the two seeds, even though
you're playing a team that shot up the standings when
they made a good trade. It won the division last
year and lost in two games to the Detroit Tigers
on their home field. At a long twenty eighteen, I
think the Texans were good. The Rockets made the Western
Finals and the Astros made the ALCSS and lost to

(36:33):
the Red Sox. Yeah, so I would give you when
Joe West made a horrible calling, I'd give you twenty
eighteen over twenty twenty five. This is TVD. Yeah, we'll
see what the Texans do this year. AFC stacked Astros
are doing great. It's one of the best eras of

(36:54):
Houston sports. Oh, by no means it's not bad. If
we're doing years and you're counting the twenty two champion
and you're counting what if you're doing multi years with
what CJ. Stroud is doing right now, what the Rockets
are doing. Honestly, I'm going to say, yes, it is
the best era in Astro and in Houston sports history.
I'm going to say this. I'm enjoying it a lot,
a lot more than say twelve years ago. If we're

(37:15):
not doing a singular year, because an era is not
just one year, I'm saying it is the best ara
in Houston sports history. What's up? All three teams are
really good, and one of the three teams is going
to surprise and be better than we thought, one is
going to get better, and one is going to probably
stay complacent and stay right where they are. You think so,
I think they're all trending upwards. I believe the experts

(37:39):
in one of those leagues does not believe there's an
upward trend. Okay, because every time I look at one
of those power listings and power polls and I by
the Rockets some of the Texans. I still see Baltimore,
I still see Kansas City. I still the AFC is tough. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
So if they made the division round, so go back
to back.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Years and prove the offensive line we made the final
four of their conference in back to back years. Oh
my god, you're such a Texans hater. Go gets No,
I'm I'm a c j apologist. The poor kid you're
running for his life. We'll see, we'll pray. Yeah. Oh,

(38:19):
we already got our bet, we already got our season win.
We got our season win bet. Yeah. But I think
SEC regulations say they have to know they're on the air.
Just say it real quick. Hi, you're on the radio.
I'm gonna say it clearly. Good morning.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
You're on sports Talks of an ani. How are you.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
Hello? Oh no, there the only even you're not even
going to answer the phone. Well, hello, Matt, this is
your doctor about that infection. I've been Tailor's antibiotics dog
every day, trust me. Ten fifty seven. It is the
first hour. We have three left to go, you know
the first hours of me. Oh wow, god, we got

(38:59):
a hundred any minutes left to go? Give you easy, breezy,
anything goes Friday. It did go quick, all right. Next
thirty minutes you're gonna have a chance to apologize, and
lord knows many of you need to do that. Power
number two of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Matt
is on the phone with a telemarketer right now, so
he'll be with us momentarily back. Okay, it was not

(39:21):
a real person, Matt. I know what you do is
they ask you a bunch of generic questions. Uh huh.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
You give them the answer they want to hear, and
then the live person goes.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
Thank you very much for Jonas when you like, and
he just host your number.

Speaker 4 (39:31):
And go to the card and then I belt her
a lot and call him names and I hang up. Oh,
they hang up on me.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
I mean, hey, however you want to spend your time, Matt,
it's stressed Rick from Rick and Morty, it's stress relief.
Jonathan's what it is? Very stressful life working with YouTube
for twenty hours a week. What are you stressed out about?
Four hour show rockets, duties, pre and postgame shows. I
want that, Adam Clinton, Adam Weser life. That's not bad.
Oh Wexer is running around town though yes, I don't

(39:58):
think he likes anybody. He just wants run around town anyway,
chase after stuff. We appreciate him, all right. Uh eleven
o one on Sports Talk seven ninety al Right, I
have to tell you what do you have to tell them?
The astros are kicking ass and we will discuss them
A lot of the next story is from fire Joe
A spot of Guy. How's fire Joe A spot of Guy?
Going doing seven one three, two two seven ninety Let

(40:19):
me ask you this, all right, while you go for
a couple of things, I'm gonna try to look up
and see there's a hashtag out there. Fire Joe Aspata,
and see if there's any traction to this. I'll see
if I'm getting fire Joe. I think, well, Eric in
Bay City was sticking with it, but he's got a
screw loose, so we're not really worried about him. But
I mean, maybe the Astros are doing great. You know

(40:40):
what I I just put in our hashtag fired Joe
a spot. And there's a bunch of people that have
done it. From what's the most recent one though, uh
five five so a month, okay, some guy named Ben Dover.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
Okay, yeah, it sounds a little. That sounds legit.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
Some guy October of twenty four. That was during the
playoffs last year, twenty four. That was ridiculous, very painful
watching the Astros get bounced because Aspata was badly outmanaged
by a J. Hinch.

Speaker 6 (41:16):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
Let's see what else we have here, badly outmanaged. They
couldn't get a hit. This is a lot of it
from last year. Astro Fans seventy eight A spot is
not smart enough to be a manager. Hashtag fired Joe Aspata. Wow,
this is people are idiots. I will give you. I
will give Astro fans credit. This is ninety nine percent
of this is from twenty twenty four. I don't see
anything from twenty twenty five, but we have receipts. Okay,

(41:43):
so shout out to let's go to each Paradis fan
hashtag fired Joe Aspata Okay, Paradis fan, uh astro's anonymous?
Jordon more like snored on? Hashtag relentless hashtag fired Joe Aspata.
Where is Jordon? It's his birthday, by the way, collecting
them paycheck? Yeah, this guy bend over hashtag fired Joe

(42:08):
Aspata hashtag fire Alex Cintron hashtag fire Dana Brown.

Speaker 4 (42:13):
God, let's see what Dana Brown's done.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
I mean, they've got so the the Kyle Tucker Trade,
a bunch of phone and this astros Twitter, y'all have
a bunch of phonies. They're idiots. It really is embarrassed
to everyone. Some of you are smart. No, I would say, look,
I would say ninety five percent of rockets Twitter is cool.
I would say, oh yeah, no, I'm okay, let's make

(42:39):
some fun. Let's make it twenty five Okay, twenty five
percent of rockets Twitter is cool. Yes, twenty five percent
of texting Twitter is cool. Oh, they're the most delusional,
and then I would say five percent of astro Twitter school.
Can you imagine spending an entire summer building up Davis
Mills off of like five highlights?

Speaker 4 (43:00):
This Mills plays football today? What a bunch of dumb ass.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
How about Hey, I got my Texans training camp take us.
I can sit sit one hundred and twenty degree temperatures
and get water thrown at me. M you know the
training camp practices. You know you gotta throw water at them.
I'm sure to keep them cooled off. They spraying them,
They're hosing them down like dogs in the front yard.
You mean to tell me they had been some sort
of relationship building in the Texans training camp camp. So

(43:25):
people are copulating in the stands and they're getting hosed down,
is what you're saying at Texans practice, I'm saying it
might have happened. Oh cover three shells getting them going.
Oh man, did you see that block by uh, what's
uh do Cam Robinson? Yeah? Blown block by Cam Robinson.
You see that pressure allowing a lot of pressure chill mix,
it got that three hard running. Oh my god, get

(43:48):
over here right now. Oh that's a fake media doing that.
Sorry line penetration U end sing Okay, Uh yeah, no,
the Mad Thomas show astros with a nice with a

(44:09):
game against Chicago Kyle Tucker should be warmly received. I'm assuming,
I guess. So why would you Nobody would boo him?
Oh he'll probably some jackasses of boom. Am you kidding me?
By the way, crowds for this series with the Phillies,
they were excellent. That place looked Somebody brought it up.
I don't know who it was. It came on my
for youtab. Somebody brought it up on Twitter like this

(44:31):
look like a better day game crowd that was during
the playoffs thirty seven yesterday. It looked full for a
Thursday afternoon against the Phillies.

Speaker 4 (44:39):
Or were they giving away anything? Yeah, that's exact the
exact same thing I said.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
I didn't look. I don't know if there was a giveaway,
but normally Thursday day games the big giveaways. Well, no,
I did.

Speaker 6 (44:51):
I got some.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
Tickets for a friend of mine and he said there
were lots of school buses, so I think the daycare
crowd helped out.

Speaker 4 (44:58):
Okay, got you dropping the kids off?

Speaker 3 (45:01):
Literally?

Speaker 4 (45:03):
Uh yeah, I mean let me tell you something. Oh gosh,
I ever told you.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
My story about my daycare experience during the summertime when
you were in daycare. Yeah, not like last year. I'm
talking about when I was like six. That's why they
got that restraining order. So in nineteen seventy nine, I
moved to Houston with my mom and my dad and
I went to a daycare. My mom was getting her
job for her teaching job. Yes, And we went to

(45:29):
some activity and all of us in the on the bus,
not every one of us, but probably of the thirty
kids on the bus.

Speaker 4 (45:37):
Apparently we didn't act very well.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
Okay, So the teacher, as a punishment, took three kids
in which they thought they liked that they behaved well,
and took them to a U Totem, which a convenience
store at the time, and got them drinks and brought
them on the bus. And those three kids had a
drink while the rest of us sat in the hot
heat of the bus while they were inside the convenience store.
So you were one of the bad kids. I don't

(46:01):
think I was. It seems like you, but I was
guilty by association. Oh okay, you were framed. So framed job.
I got home and asked, and my mom said how
the field trip go. And I told her what happened,
and she called the daycare, and apparently a lot of
other parents called the daycare. It's the exact same thing.
They closed the daycare down. Are you for child abuse?

(46:24):
Is your mom's name? Caaren?

Speaker 9 (46:26):
No?

Speaker 3 (46:26):
No, it was I'm on this. No kids they get
mad at that's like, that's like really bad. It's crazy
you say that. You can't do that because my brother
was in daycare when I was a kid, and I
might have been in the same daycare and something happened
there and they shut it down. And then my mom
was on TV. The local news interviewed my mom. She
was on Channel thirteen. I don't remember it. You'd have

(46:49):
to ask the story for her, because I was like
four years old. I don't remember the story. She was
on TV because they shut down the daycare that they
were bringing us to. Thanks Mom and dad. Yeah, shut
it down. How many daycares are getting shut down around here? Well,
I mean, I again, I don't know that game at all,
but I'm going to assume that you can't take three
of the children and get them something to drink in

(47:11):
hot June July temperatures in Houston, and you're not either
twenty seven on a hot bus, no air conditioning, no water,
no drink crazy, So you snitch on the daycare and
they got shut down. That's awesome. I'm gonna tell you.
Seven year olds are allowed to snitch, especially about something
like that. Well, that's all they do. That's all a
seven year old does. Who doesn't sinch it a seven
year old? Fifty three are a little different. So yeah,

(47:34):
that's one of my earliest Houston stories that I remember
is being in Southwest Houston. That was when I was
I was living in the a Leaf. I gotta ask
my mom was going down? What's going down with that? Daycare?

Speaker 4 (47:44):
Shot out on Spice Lane. But we recorded it on
like a VHS because my mom was gonna be on TV.

Speaker 3 (47:50):
Oh moms. Ross's mom love her.

Speaker 4 (47:54):
Her name is Karen. I wasn't gonna bring that up.
I was gonna send it for you to say, bring
it up.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
Seven one, three, two, two, five seven nineties Steve Is
and Celi on the Matt Thomas joll Ross.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
Steve, good morning to you.

Speaker 15 (48:08):
Good morning, Matt. Hi just wanted to talk about some
of the people that were that were right in and
saying fire everybody. You know with the Astros and I
mean yeah, and you know and with the Houston teams.
You know, the Texans. Yeah, they had a guest being
coach for a few years. But the White passed all that.
The people need to be a little more patient when
they talked about our sports teams, you know, just because

(48:31):
they okay, yeah they didn't made a business decision and
traded uh Kyle Tucker. Yeah that was a hard blow.
But right now with with what came out of it,
I mean it's like Alex who on third base, you know,
I mean I forgot about him already. They gave a
great offer, he didn't take it and he didn't want
to be here. But all I got to say for

(48:54):
those guys that are right in and they're they're losing
their mind real quick on some of this. Shut your
ball mass up a little bit.

Speaker 9 (49:01):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
It's always a good time to tell people that thank you,
to feel like we get as many of those almost
on Friday as we do on Wednesday. Yeah. Yeah, and
then you have to apologize if you meet like, let
me tell you something, if you've ever tweeted hashtag fire
Joe a spot it you should come and apologize. You
should seven one three two one two seven. You know
what we will now We will not only let you

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clench yourself with that, we will give you your props
and say thank you for doing that. Because there are
very few people. If I went again, I just went
to it. I went to Twitter and put in the
hashtag fire Joe a spot. I went to one of
those person's websites, and now all their last twenty tweets
are nothing but great things about the Astros in first
place and may we're on fire and we just finished
off with sweep.

Speaker 4 (49:42):
But the Phillies so funny people.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
The craziest thing to me is that people don't learn
a lot of people who are on Astros Twitter. Sure
they joined in twenty seventeen, but that's still eight years
of watching baseball. They don't learn about the ebbs and flows.
They're still like this series and you gotta trust us
when we tell you it's it's it's a long, long marathon. Yes,
so nobody did trust tenth theenning calls in the first

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month of the season. Fire quit Centron Miller, Jo's big
you ll just invent coaches a fire snicker. Yeah, coaches
already here. Bagwell needs to be fired. What Dana Brown's
inepty can't doesn't know what he's doing. Now, I'll say
this in fairness. At some point, letting somebody go is
going to hurt. That's why I'm keeping a very close

(50:32):
tab on this Hunter Brown slash Jeremy Payne.

Speaker 4 (50:36):
This is two three years away. Can I keep a
tab at all?

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Yeah? You sure not close? Not worry about it, Okay,
Jeremy Paine is here for the fortile future. Yes, see
twenty eight or twenty nine free agent. I forget.

Speaker 4 (50:54):
Uh this year. Next year he'll be a free agent
in twenty.

Speaker 3 (50:57):
Eight twenty nine?

Speaker 4 (50:59):
Is Hunter Brown?

Speaker 3 (50:59):
I think think so? Okay, Yeah, all right, it's a
long year, long ways down the road. Need not fret.
I'm not going to. I refuse to fret. I'm fretless. Oh,
I'm just preparing. I'm prepared, matt I'm prepared that those
you know, one of those guys gonna be here. It's fine.

(51:20):
And so the Astros hope that Bryce Matthews or whomever
else is in the Astros pitching staff can come through
and replace the guy that's going to be probably a
top three finals for young Ryan Gusto is rated to
take over front of Brown. By the time you started
having some positive comments about Ryan Gusto. There we go,
There we go. You hear that, Jonathan? I mean, how
am I to take him two months? If I something
nice about Ryan Gusto along two months too? Mm hmm, Man,

(51:41):
it's five y as do great? Got you win last
time out? I would say, sub gotta win. Sub Yo
Grand of the Astros offense helped. I guess they did
eleven thirteen on Sports Talk seven ninety seven, one, three,
two five SEVENINTI the Cubs of a three game lean
the Central. The a is leading the West six and

(52:02):
a half games. How good is that? All Right? We
got to tell you what's going on with the Utah
Jazz and we don't know, No wan to bring that
up on the show. But I find this potential saga
very interesting, Okay, I'm intrigued. Two friends of the show,
Stephanie and Grace, sent me notes that said that there
was no giveaway at the Astros game yesterday, and you said,

(52:22):
what was the crowd? Thirty one thousand, thirty seven thirty
thirty seven thousand. Day again Thursday, they bring the radios
binding chance, I hope. So we love that you listen
to games and watch them at the same time. It's
very possible to do that. Mm hmm. Thirty seven thousand
for a day game. Okay, So any of you that

(52:45):
were at the game yesterday, how many thousands of buses
were there? Like the yellow buses, not like you know,
like the charter buses. Okay, talk you know. Good, good
for the Astros, good for them, for Jimmy Crane.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
If I was again, if I was in charge of marketing,
I would give away something eighty one times a year
because I get my thought is this, okay, give away
something that costs you three or four dollars of make
and you're charging thirty nine dollars a day, you're still
net gaining a lot. I think there is a line
to toe. First of all, you're not doing it one
like the Yankees coming to town or or a big Yeah.
I think that makes it look bad if you do
it like that. They don't care dynamic pricing, and they

(53:22):
not giveaways with the Yankees or Rangers coming to town.
That's just me.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
You come to a game, you're gonna get something in return.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
I guess there is the point of where where people
get used to or comfortable to things to where you
wanted to give away to be special and do you
have a pop Yeah?

Speaker 8 (53:37):
And if like you weed out the actual watchers and
actual fans that way too.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
It's like if something's on sale all the time, it's
less likely to be bought. Okay, just put stuff on
sale like seventy five percent of the time. This is
an open, honest question. Then I don't know of the
eighty one the marketing term for it a camera. How
many games are giveaways? I would you say forty? I
bet it's more than that. I mean week we could
look up the astros about it. Yeah, go look it up?

(54:03):
All right? Uh well, well we got this coming up
in a few minutes. Generally weekends for sure. And then
two Hello Kitty Nights they want to get, they want
to they want eighty one Hello Kiddy Nights. Place goes
nuts for Hello Kitty.

Speaker 8 (54:16):
I got so mad at me when she realized I
didn'tet tickets for the Hello Kitty game.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
So do you I I have one of the little
Hello Kitty uh cats? Do you want it?

Speaker 4 (54:25):
I was gonna give it to my niece, but.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
It's coming up Oh, if you're going to your niece
that I was different. I was going to but then
my mom got two of them for them. Oh, I
have an act for you.

Speaker 13 (54:34):
Here it is.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
Yeah, you got it, bro, just gotta remember to bring it.

Speaker 9 (54:38):
I remember.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
I can tell you tell me because I'm very forgetful.
Do you order the daytimer yet? I did today? Okay?
Can I buy you another one? When might get my
new one? No, I'm gonna buy you an eighteen. We're
gonna give me one of those big ones. It's like
the size of a giant check for me. I told
you I would video, is right, I would a video
call you from I'll tell you what I want an

(55:00):
the leather one. That's I wasn't gonna I don't even
get look at mine. I don't even have a No,
I want Italian leather real quick. What's the daytimer? Show him?
It's like it's like a calendar. Look and you put
look at the screen. Matt puts a bunch of stuff
like what uh yeah, the very nice, very convenient. Nowadays

(55:21):
everybody uses Google calendar. But I'm like, Matt, you just
want it. We're old school. Oh yeah, yeah, Because here's
the thing with this thing. I can look at my
entire month as compared to looking if I'm on my phone,
I can't look at my entire month. All right, let's
get to this Ace Bailey figure. Okay, So Ace Bailey
is the fifth pick of the NBA Draft was by
the Utah Jazz. And I don't know if you guys
know about this, but he was a young man that

(55:45):
did not go to any pre draft workouts for any team.
He was at the Combine. He obviously had his college day.
He played a Rikers. Right. Was he the second Rutgers player?
I think it was the top five? Yes, okay, but
he Dylan Harper somebody the Harper run, Harper's run Harpers.
So he is he He might have been a diva

(56:07):
coming out of birth. What your name is? Ace?

Speaker 4 (56:11):
Clearly gotta think you're pretty cool.

Speaker 14 (56:15):
So uh.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
He made it known through circles there was only a
handful of teams he really wanted to play for. Now
that list has not been identified, but they're presuming it's
probably some of the Eastern Eastern teams, not necessarily the
championship teams, but just teams in the East Coast that
there were a lot of the smaller market teams. He
didn't want to go to. Danny Ainge runs the Utah

(56:38):
Jazz organization from a front office perspective, and he's like,
I don't care. We think you're a special basketball player.
If we're the Utah Jazz and we're going to be good,
we have to use our draft.

Speaker 4 (56:48):
We can't.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
We don't normally get a lot of freedoms to come here.
We got to use our draft. And once you get here,
go ass Downovan Mitchell. You'll have a good time, You'll
win a lot of games, and then you'll eventually get
unhappy and and ask force to be traded. In Cleveland,
So he gets drafted, and he's trying to say all
the right things, but he's just not saying all the

(57:09):
right things, basically saying it wasn't an indictment against Utah.
It was an indictment against everybody. Everbody knew where I
was and what I could do. There was no sense
of me going through all these things. Usually, the day
after a draft pick is announced, they fly to that
city that night and go and they get in the
private team's plane and they go sleep well and they
do a couple of things. Pr Yeah, well, the Utah

(57:32):
Jazz also had another first round pick by the name
of Walter Clayton Junior. Walter Clayton Junior Ross gets drafted
and he loves being a Utah Jazz. He loves being
a first run NBA draft pick. Gets on the plane,
goes to Utah and is ready to have a press conference.
Gets was not ready to have a press conference. Acet
Bailey uh oh. He apparently has had minimal if no

(57:55):
contact after the decision was made to the Utah Jazz
drafted him. What is how do you do that? The
GM calls you? So Danny Ainge is running things right,
but he's is either president or is he a GM
or whatever he is. You get called from Danny Ainge,
You're like, man, I'm good, you're Leaven Danny age on Red. Yeah,
that's crazy. So the Utah Jazz have announced that we're

(58:19):
not changing who we are. They're telling Windhorse, so telling
Sham's we drafted him for a reason. We're not gonna Acquiesce.
We're not gonna, you know, because he's mad he got
signed it with Utah. He's gonna be a Utah Jazz man.
We're gonna make sure that happens. There is a Monday
press conference scheduled to meet the two first round draft picks,
and the big question is going to be will Ace

(58:39):
Bailey be there. If Ace decides he does not want
to play for the Utah Jazz, he is well within
his right to do that. He has to set out
an entire season. That's an entire season of money he
would not be making as a number five draft pick.
That's really really, really ross great money or rookie first

(59:00):
round player. I mean, first of all, if you're a
first round pick, you're making good money, but it's a
slotting scale. Cooper Fly is gonna make the most the
two guy in the three four, so he's number five,
so that's still gonna be good money. If he decides
he doesn't want to play for the Utah Jazz, which
is well, he cannot play for any other team this
year unless the Jazz trade him, and Jesus Jazz have
said we ain't trading you. His only other option would

(59:22):
be to set out this entire season and then do
one of two things. Sign as a free agent, or
you go back in the draft. I don't know who
this kid is, but if I'm a Utah Jazz fan,
I hate this vibe that this and look, this is

(59:43):
not a I've never heard of this recently. It happens
in the NFL occasionally. I don't want this, you know,
this player to go be the greatest example of that.
But is is this the next generation of our of
our of our basketball players or do you think this
is a one Yeah? I mean it's one guy out

(01:00:04):
of the whole draft? Did it right? Right? And I
mean also it's Utah. Don't as far as the least
desirable places for people for NBA players to want to go,
I think they're on the short list. Oh, I think
it's number one. Okay, having lived though, I can tell
you it's probably number one. But the reality is this,
you don't have to live in that city all your year.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:00:27):
Number two. You're the number five draft pick. If you
get redrafted next year, let's say you go twenty two,
or you don't even get drafted in the first round,
think about the millions of dollars you are leaving on
the table, because again it's a slotting scale. Yeah, I'm
trying to see how much of the number five pick.
I actually can't believe the NBA rookie scale.

Speaker 13 (01:00:46):
I he.

Speaker 8 (01:00:51):
I think he'll show up essentially the other athletes deserving
of the spot. And I think that's why you not
even bring up how many athletes at home that versed
him or whatever didn't get a chance, or do you
pick that are sitting there screaming at the top of
their lungs, like, are you serious?

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
Right now?

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
Number five overall pick. It's a four year contract, forty
one point two million dollars. So let's do this. Let's
say he skips out and gets redrafted next year in
the twenty third selection. What is the twenty would go down?
I don't know, I'm just guessing. Okay, what is the
twenty third pick? Twenty third pick gets fifteen million, So

(01:01:25):
it's gonna cost him because he doesn't want to play
in Utah. If he was a good pat, draft of
twenty three could cost him twenty six plus million dollars.
Life lessons learned. We'll see what happens for somewhat, for somewhere,
for some dude who doesn't now look Salt Lake is
not advantageous for African American athletes. It's just the reality.

(01:01:47):
It's just the reality of it. But remember again, you
get there in October. If you leave in April. You
can go spend any time you want, anywhere else you
want to. And if you're there in June, and that
means your team is really damn good, right, you're playing
for the AA finals. Yeah. I think this is a terrible,

(01:02:07):
terrible mistake for this young man. We hadn't done anything
yet but the but we have. We don't talk about
these stories very often. Now.

Speaker 4 (01:02:14):
I do believe he'll be there Monday.

Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
I think so too.

Speaker 4 (01:02:17):
But why are you doing this?

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
That'd be interesting because especially now, I mean, the players
have more power he now. I know, I don't know
how much he was making at Rutgers, but the reason
they had, like the somebody in Rutgers is shelling out
a bunch of cash. They've been wanting a bunch of recruits.
He had offers when he left high school from Ohio State,
Oregon in Texas, and he shuns all of them to

(01:02:39):
go to Rutgers. I believe because their money. There's nil
money a lot. For whatever reason, a bunch of in
il money's popping up at Rutgers, which is odd because
they weren't very good. Tony Soprano. I don't know who's
doing it, you know, where you know where Rutgers is. Uh,
Piscatawataway Gataway And that sounds like a perfect name, Piscataway
New He's a scat Away. My daughter was being recruited

(01:03:02):
by Rikers. Okay, she didn't get in that big Wreckers cash. No,
we're hoping the rhy Island cash is good. All right,
but I'm not looking forward to if it happens.

Speaker 4 (01:03:12):
I told you, didn't you say there was something I
could donate to.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
Yeah, you can. I'm gonna do it. An you're gonna
do it if I get my bonus.

Speaker 6 (01:03:21):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:22):
If I don't, I'm just well, this is very intriguing
to me that a first round pick, a number five
overall selection, with guaranteed super really great money for a
fifth pick is basically saying I want to choose where
I want to go, and if I don't, if I'm
not happy war I get to go, I'm not going
to play, and in theory could cost him tens of

(01:03:45):
millions of dollars. I mean, what's I think the draft
next year is supposed to be pretty good, a pretty
deep draft. Yeah. Jonathan Gravoni was on last night talking
about how how low the draft is for next year. Yeah,
he gonna sign he'd be all right.

Speaker 4 (01:03:56):
I think you're right.

Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
All right, Time for you to apologize, and Lorna Ross,
you got a lot of apologizing.

Speaker 4 (01:04:01):
Know what I actually I keep a Google doc.

Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
Let me see if I wrote anything down that I
need to apologize to you about this week? All right,
if you want to say sorry for anything you've done
wrong or said wrong. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven. Honey,
it's our one of our favorite times a week because
we get to cleanse, we get to say we're sorry
for things that we've sort of said or done.

Speaker 4 (01:04:24):
And your chance to apologize is next with Ross.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
Twelve four in h down, Good monsters, and welcome in

(01:04:59):
the third hour the Man Thommy's Show with Ross. That's
his sports talk. Seven. Burt Reynolds is dead and Haiti
is dead. These are all people that have been free.
Stewart is alive. That's true. Fred Stewart is alive. And

(01:05:21):
it's a deep poll just for me. That was a
very deep pull. Wait, what.

Speaker 4 (01:05:37):
What's fear of armadillo?

Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
Kevin? That's what you have? Armidilliophobia?

Speaker 6 (01:05:42):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
Absolutely, yeah, is it because they roll up. I'm actually
really because they just exist. They don't touch them. They
give you lepard share. I'm not going to touch them.
Oh yeah, you're getting to Trevor's girls. GM not in
her d MS. I had never DMed her once, liking

(01:06:05):
all of her photos. I didn't like any of her photos.
I went and looked through my legs. So it was
a case of misteak and identification. No, it must have
been a story or something. I don't know. The finger
must have slipped. Smith crescendo, the big course at the
end is really powerful. Okay, keep it up, kids, You

(01:06:28):
going ten oh three?

Speaker 7 (01:06:30):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
Katta Smith keeps you up. And then you go find
you make a lot of money. You go find a
Trumphy wife who's younger and uh huh a while older.
You find a younger wife and Kevin Drant's old though.

Speaker 4 (01:06:44):
Yeah that's true.

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
Well you go for a cougar, I guess, with a
lot of money and experience and fakies. Yeah, yeah, I
do you know you?

Speaker 5 (01:06:58):
Frank, You don't even you don't even listen. You don't
even listen. I'm talking, Frank, said Jalen. He scored single
digits in four games. Frank, I value you, my friend.
We are we are friends. At the end, he was
stealing something and was getting chased by the police. Yeah,

(01:07:19):
and said, hey, that that ice rink looks good. Looks
like a soft landing spot. He thought it was pillowy.
I mean, wouldn't you want to go thought it was snow.

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
Wouldn't you want to run to the playland at the
galleria like a landing world? Know, you'd want to run
to the exit? Matt, all right, they're away now. Everybody
get ready for the final two hours of the Matt
Thomas Show. A ross. So I got an email and
it said, Matt, I'm sorry for being so hard, and

(01:07:47):
I was like, I can't read the rest of this,
and then I realized it was signed the ice in
the galleria. Hmm hmm. All right, thank you to that listener,
Yeah for listening. Thank you to the ice in the
galleria that had time to send us an email. They

(01:08:07):
broke that poor Chap's legs. We've had a couple of
weird like the woman in the freeway yesterday, we got
the ice guy in the galleria. It's never a dull
moment in Houston, Texas. And then the machete attack and
magnolia magnolia machete attack. If there's a few things, there's

(01:08:28):
a way to go down in life, and that's not
gonna be it. I'd rather not die via machete. I'm
going just I'm My favorite on the board is death
by natural causes in my sleep. Mm hmm. Okay, we'll
see lease in the list being hit by a tree.
It's like that was a thread. Okay, I mean, if

(01:08:52):
you got it, we got adds up on the board.
Oh you know, I didn't want to have this conversation.
It flips me out. Man. Everyone's going to die.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
I know this.

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
Twelve oweight, Sports Talk seven on Anny Time now for
the Newson. Oh yeah, every day at twelve o'clock or thereabouts,
we give you the main headlines the day in sports.
And with that, here is the Garret Crochet of sports.
And it was the first thing I saw on the
list there. Okay, here's Ross. Uh yes, Matt, how about

(01:09:21):
your swinging stros Okay, maybe they're swinging their arms and
pitching more than they're swinging their bats to two and
Smith lines it over the leap of the shortstop turner
in the left around their paradis and he will score
without a throw.

Speaker 11 (01:09:35):
Pam Smith popped up at first base, Astros lead.

Speaker 3 (01:09:39):
At two to one.

Speaker 10 (01:09:42):
Oh yes, come up with some big hits here at
Dyked Park and does it again right there to get
the Ashtros a lead here at the eighth inning.

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
Two hits for Cam Smith yesterday, Philly's scoring one run
in three games. How about you score five runs in
three and a three game series and you sweep the series.
Impressive stuff for the Houston Astros, Cam Smith, as I said,
with two hits, Matt average up to two seventy one
mm hm ops up to seven forty four. And how's

(01:10:11):
that right field play? Right field play has been excellent. Yep.
He's been bumped up into the lineup to the five
spot deservingly ahead of Christian Walker and your ideas, and
he's responding well. The Astros have the Cubs in town
this weekend for a three game set where Ryan Presley
and Kyle Tucker will receive a warm welcome I imagine

(01:10:34):
from big crowds this weekend. I will predict because A
the Cubs are heritage ran yep. B there's some good giveaways,
I think, yep. And see it's a weekend summer series,
and there'll be a lot of Cup fans. I'm telling you,
there's gonna be Cup Nation. It was the first thing
I said. I know, I'm saying, I'm backing you up.
Cub Nation will be there in full force. What they

(01:10:55):
call themselves, is it just cub Nation. I don't know,
I've made that up. I think it's just gonna be uh,
Wrigley Villers, well, probably Wrigley Villagers. We're still we've been
twenty five years away from them being on WG and
every night. I don't know who they I used to
watch them all summer, and the Braves maybe just generations
of fans that were just cub fans because mom and
dad were Cubs fans. I don't know. When the Astros
were out of the playoffs, I would as a kid,

(01:11:17):
don't hate on me, I would root for the Braves
just because I watched them so much. Oh, I spent
my summers watching the Cubs and Braves Poennix's. I didn't
have HSC, so I didn't get to see all the astrogames.
The only Astro games is a kid I saw with
the road games the Cubbies they call them the Cubbies. Yes,
what the Cubs. This is not this is not breaking news. No,

(01:11:37):
just like sometimes they call the the Strows. I got
some more for you here, Jonathan, you're ready. Yankees, the Yanks,
the Red Sox, the bo Sox, Phillies, the Phills mm hmm,
the Athletics, the A's Celtics, C's Mariners ms mm hm.

(01:12:00):
What else? Steelers, the Steeles, No Steely Dance. No, they
don't call them Steeler dans. I was just that was
a little bit. You tried one two first. Now I
confused him. Continue the news at noon. Please. The twenties, Well,
they actually call him the I think I can say twinks, right, twinkies. Well,
it has a certain connotation, doesn't It's not great. I've

(01:12:22):
never know some of them. Won't do it again, but no, okay,
Well move on, Happy pride months. Everyone moving on on
the news at noon, h hold hold on, Diamondbacks, d
Backs pod race pods according to Tim Bond Temps and

(01:12:46):
Jonathan Givoni or Jivoni whatever you say. Ace Bailey, of course,
who so far has not reported to the Utah Jazz,
there was a team in the top five who was
told by Ace Bailey's reps to not pick him. Bailey, though,
after being drafted by the Jazz, said quote, I can

(01:13:08):
control what I can control. They feel how they feel,
but my team and me focusing on basketball and them
doing what they're doing, so it happens whatever. That means.
Very cryptic for a number five pick, who should be
happy to be at the top five of a draft,
to be forty one or what did we say? Forty
one point two MILLI? Yeah, who that's his first contract?
Who that's of the fifth year of option is picked up? Yeah? Yeah,

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and most teams pick up the fifth year unless you're
just a complete busted Oh kay. I think it might
be four years for a five pick. I don't know.
But his fifth year option NFL or his fifth year
option in the NBL's first options then I saw was
on spot track was four years, But I don't know.
It could be either way.

Speaker 4 (01:13:50):
Yeah, he's doing all right. Hey, the money goes further
in Utah, right, They like you.

Speaker 3 (01:13:56):
That it would in LA. I'm like, you can get
in a deep dive on Utah, okay, because I can
give you a personal experience about Utah having lived there
for two years two and a half years the news
and don'ts I'm good way more.

Speaker 4 (01:14:11):
Casempolitan today than it was when I lived there.

Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
That's good. They still have near beer, right, that's getting better.
They don't memberships anymore. And the women are ridiculously attractive,
I mean beautiful Stepford wives. Come seek them sound and
that's your news at noon, Thank you very much. By
the way, there are rumors about Cam Wentmore potentially being
traded for what. I don't know, but that's the name

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that has been brought up by many an NBA expert,
here's the thing you are. You are going to have to.

Speaker 4 (01:14:46):
Limited play the first two years of his career.

Speaker 3 (01:14:48):
Right, fair to say it was the twentieth pick to
begin with, so maybe the reputation wasn't spectacular coming out. Yes,
and they he slid in the draft. Yeah, he was
expected to. I'd be curious what you'd get in return.
I'd be very curious. Could you even get a late
first a couple seconds. I don't think you get a first,

(01:15:11):
But I think wherever if Cam went mored winds up
getting trade, which I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:15:14):
If it's the case, he's gonna go score forwards? Is
he gonna defend?

Speaker 3 (01:15:18):
Is he gonna.

Speaker 4 (01:15:19):
I mean, obviously the same thing for the Rockets.

Speaker 3 (01:15:20):
He if if the Rockets love him and say, hey,
we've made some moves, we got an opportunity for you
to come in and play fifteen twenty minutes a game,
he score fifteen points.

Speaker 4 (01:15:27):
I'm all for that.

Speaker 3 (01:15:28):
Yeah, But posted that they've had their eyes on him,
and he's been around the organization for multiple years and
they trade them away for a couple seconds or whatever,
then clearly they don't think the stock is high, or
maybe he needs a change of scene, change of scenery.
Same thing with Jalen Green. All right, seven one three
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Speaker 4 (01:16:01):
Not at one point fifty?

Speaker 11 (01:16:02):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:16:02):
All right, hey twenty seventh DJ screw um. You know
you want to do?

Speaker 7 (01:16:09):
Is you to?

Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
You ought to? You ought to write the questions and
then read them and then see if I could try
to help people out, because if if there's anybody in
this marketplace that knows the DJ screw it's me. That's true.
You're such a screwhead, Matt. Know what they call the
fans of his? Yeah, you got all the screw tapes
from back in the day, I do it. They aren't
cassettes really, yeah, oh yeah, they were on cassets. Actually. See,
I told you I knew this guy.

Speaker 4 (01:16:30):
I knew, I knew I I they call me the Screwmaster.

Speaker 3 (01:16:33):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven. Honey, let's let's
brag on the Local nine. And when we come back,
let's do and we have branking news here on the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. That's one.

Speaker 4 (01:16:53):
That's all you get.

Speaker 3 (01:16:54):
Oh uh. Source is telling Seam Sharani ESPN that Jay,
Sean Taitu, Aaron Hollidy, and Jeff Green will all be
getting new contracts to play for the Rockets next season.
Oh that's good.

Speaker 4 (01:17:06):
It feels about one sounder right for those three.

Speaker 3 (01:17:10):
Mm. I mean that's in theory thirteen fourteen fifteen. On
the roster. Maybe Aaron Holly is a little bit up,
depending on if he backs up it and play some
point guard minutes.

Speaker 4 (01:17:21):
If Amen doesn't shift over there.

Speaker 3 (01:17:24):
Yeah, it's good. Good to have all those guys, I
mean those are yeah, those would be in theory or
last three guys pretty much. That's okay.

Speaker 4 (01:17:36):
Injuries happen. Yeah, welcome back, Uncle Jeff.

Speaker 3 (01:17:40):
They're like you'r Bennett Sussa's of your world and you
know has been a productive part of the team. Good. Yeah,
more than Nick Hernandez's Seth Martinez going, Man, I could
be doing this one. I want where is Seth Martinez is?
That was the sacrificial lamb. I was the Ryan Guesta
before Ryan Gusta became a Ryan Gusto. Oh, he's on
the Marlins, who just finished off sweeping the Giants in

(01:18:02):
San Francisco. He has not pitched at the major league
level for them.

Speaker 4 (01:18:05):
H that's fine. We're gonna do all right.

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We are
very happy to tell you that the Astros did pick
up another victory yesterday. Brian and bre you opened the
yard and three is now three and three on the season,
as Ernie is one point seven to two. Finished up
the game last night. He was throwing some some nasty stuff.
Jan Air Diaz America's catcher. Goot the single army of
the America's I mean, at least for our squad. He

(01:18:29):
is Okay, he's the astros catcher of the of the future. Well, yeah,
he's like what is he? He's not young anymore? He's
like twenty yes, six twenty Yeah. I keep pointing for
that first base transition. I thought, maybe, you know, I
was I thought Christian Walker would slow that down. Maybe
he's not. I don't know what slowed down at this point.

(01:18:50):
Jake Myers again, was your was your fourth place hitter?
What's wrong with that? Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:18:56):
I think he's third on the team in ops.

Speaker 3 (01:18:58):
Yeah, seven sixty two is third highest by high Penia
eight seventy one and Peretta's at eight twenty. Uh. Josel Twove,
do we have to talk about he was zero for
twelve and then he had a break broken bat single,
so at least he broke up his oh for twelve. Yeah,
it did strike out twice yesterday, seven thirty eight oh
ps in the seed. We're halfway through the year. Mm hmmm.

Speaker 4 (01:19:18):
He has had some bad bat at Balllock, folks.

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:19:22):
So he can't improve mm hmm. I mean I look,
I think Josel two Bay. If this team is going
to make a deep postseason run, if they do, presume me,
to get to the postseason, you'll have.

Speaker 4 (01:19:32):
To be a part of it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:34):
You mean, your top four have gotta be your, I
gotta be your. Whoever that top four is Payna Peretti,
is al Tuo Bay, and whoever that fourth person is
could be Jake, could be Jordan. Maybe he could be
Christian Walker if he gets the second half of the year. No,
Jordon has to be a factor if this team's going
anywhere in the playoffs, got it? See that?

Speaker 4 (01:19:51):
As much as I want to agree with you, they're
doing this without him.

Speaker 6 (01:19:56):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
Yeah, I mean, look, they're gonna regress.

Speaker 4 (01:19:59):
I understand they could if everybody comes back.

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
They could have a lucky first half in a second
half where they're actually just really good. Because quite frankly,
I think there's been a little bit of lucky especially
if you look at one run ball games. I think
they're what sixteen and seven in one run ball games
something like that. Also a factor of having a good
ball you have a good bullpen, you're gonna win a
lot of one run games. Yeah, I don't think that
necessarily has to regress the mean. I think that's a
byproduct of what has been your strength. It could, but

(01:20:25):
history has shown even regardless of bullpens strength, things tend
to even out, but sometimes they don't over a full season.
It happened to the Mariners. Brian King has been a
little leaky as of light would be fair in saying that.
I would also say I don't think that Hater and
bray are gonna have under two eras all season. It
could happen, but we'll see relievers especially towards it, especially

(01:20:47):
high usage relievers. Well, we're very happy at this point
that Brian A. Bray Hu's arm is not falling off. Yeah,
they've been great. What's he got thirty seven games? If
he's well under half, if feels like it's a lot
less than he was at this point a year ago.
He was he I think it was seventy eight last year.
I'll look it up and I think he's at thirty
seven this year. Seventy eight last year, Yeah, thirty seven

(01:21:09):
this year. So at least he's under he's pacing well
under half the games, which is good. By the way,
the Astros with the game yesterday played eighty played eighty
one with eighty one left to go forty eight and
thirty three. That would put them if you're on pace guy, yes,
ninety six on pace is fine when you're halfway through
the season. I'm okay with on pace guy. On pace guy,

(01:21:33):
like two games in and.

Speaker 4 (01:21:35):
What was Vegas is over under beginn of the year?
Eighty seventy.

Speaker 3 (01:21:39):
Six or seven and a half? You think I pegged
them for eighty eight? Personally, we have to go back
and look at our season prediction. You know what, now,
halfway through the season wouldn't be the worst thing to
check those out. Are you still bad on those at
this point? Or is it too late? Futures? Are the totals? No,
they'd be adjusted. Okay, Oh, here we go. Seven ninety

(01:22:01):
hosts make their twenty twenty five predictions on the Chris
Cordy Blog, and Matt Thomas picked for the home run
leader for the Astros. You remembers win total? You had?

Speaker 4 (01:22:13):
Don't remember eighty eight? Really?

Speaker 3 (01:22:15):
Okay? Al West Champ Astros? Do you remember your World
Series pick? Yes? Go ahead? Orioles, Yes, those birds are dead?
Uh Dodgers and Nash Dodgers. Orioles correct? I had home
run leader yord On, Keep it simple, man, he's been hurt.

(01:22:38):
I also had eighty eight wins Astros. Oh, this is
poorly copied and pasted, but that's okay at Astros at
the as a Al west Champ and I.

Speaker 4 (01:22:49):
Also we did the same thing.

Speaker 3 (01:22:51):
Did he just copy and paste ours? This actually makes
me angry at Dodgers Orioles as well, because the Orioles
had won back to back playoff apparent this is one
of those two years here they won one hundred games. JK.
Allen had eighty four wins for the Astros. Hmmm, said JK.
What a hater? M that's hey, the way they were hitting,
it seems like it was gonna happen. Chris Gordy had

(01:23:14):
as the Astros home run leader Christian Walker. Ooh, well
these are any other who was the best of the group.
So in that group everyone did yord On. You you
went off chalk with Yainer. Jonathan Allen had Jeremy Pania,
but it's East Separatus right now. He's close though, and

(01:23:35):
the most wins anybody had was Gordy. He had them
at ninety so he's filming pretty good about himself. But
everybody was mid e eighty nine to ninety eighty eight,
eighty nine, ninety and that was and when we made
those numbers, that was not that Again, that was coming
off of losing Bragmant Tucker, losing Tucker and having probably
we made those predictions at least one guy on the
Tommy John list.

Speaker 4 (01:23:55):
We were, yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 (01:23:56):
Two guys, Yeah, two guys, and the Tommy John having
Tommy John, Spencer rig Getty's miss time. Uh, we didn't
know what Cam Smith was gonna be. We thought he'd
be good, and we had didn't know who sixty percent
of the bullpen was gonna be. We were like, oh,
he's just getting thrown in the right field. It turns
out he's just a freaking phenom because he's like one
of the best right fielders in baseball.

Speaker 4 (01:24:13):
M And I don't think I don't I don't think
they were stupid picks.

Speaker 3 (01:24:19):
No, and remember again we hopefully knock on one that
won't happen, But there could be there are the Astros.
If I even put this in existence here and get
mad at me, I was just saying, there's a chance,
like every other baseball team, but there could be a
little slumpage in the second half. There could be a
streak of losing seven to ten or something. Look, I'm
just gonna put it out there. I'm just gonna say it. Yeah,

(01:24:40):
the one run ball games. Luck it can it can
sustain for a season. Generally, it can even out as well.
Don't get mad at me, suck, don't get mad, s up,
don't get mad. Twelve thirty Sports Talk seven ninety is
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We are an hour
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(01:25:03):
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(01:25:23):
about Thomas Show. If we missed any thing in terms
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to talk about Mussa Eugerie being out for the Toronto Raptors.

Speaker 4 (01:25:39):
If we went to a bar right now, Oh jeezus, turn.

Speaker 3 (01:25:43):
This video off. God's face, I'm gonna take your phone
away from you.

Speaker 4 (01:25:47):
You're a thirteen year old girl. Shit, you should he Look,
we'll put him in the corner. But I mean I'm scrolling.
I wasn't like a stop.

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
I want to sell you.

Speaker 8 (01:25:56):
In the DMS, I was not in the d MS. Also,
it was in ross was used aull time. I'm just kidding.

Speaker 3 (01:26:03):
By the way, friend of the show Hans listening to
us in Denver, Jonathan says a few more for you.
The Cardinals are known as the red Birds. When you
hear that, Yes, Angels are the halos h The Nationals
are the Nats, the Brewers of the Brute Crew, and
the Dodgers are the sea Suckers.

Speaker 4 (01:26:19):
Okay, I didn't realize that. I didn't realize they.

Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
The Pirates are the Bucks, the Bucks, the Buccaneers, the
bus The White Sox are the pale hose. H o
s E.

Speaker 4 (01:26:32):
Don't use that one. That's so that's really old. The
Reds are the red Legs, the.

Speaker 3 (01:26:38):
Sun Sinnati red Legs versus the pale Hose. Tonight had
come miss you a park. Now that's baseball. You know
what we need the crackling sound of old timey music
behind you when you do that. What are the what
are the ones we need to let you know? On
in football? Oh, the Giants of the g Men, that's
the New York Giants. The Dodgers are the trolley Dodgers,

(01:27:00):
Buccaneers Bucks. I just said that you're doing Okay, I
love this on your phone end zoned out? Umm what
is this old time?

Speaker 7 (01:27:11):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:27:11):
Yes, thank you. We're all get that again for a
nice game at Crosley Field. Where's Crossley Field, Cincinnati? Okay, yeah,
what's up? That's where the first night game was. What's up? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:27:24):
Trying to get you're trying to get me, Matt. You're
making a fool of your mouth.

Speaker 3 (01:27:30):
This one brought to you by Doctor Stunchman's Wonder Pop.
It cures what hell's you? Doctor Stuntsman's Wonder Pop.

Speaker 4 (01:27:41):
That's it. I thought that we're done. You're gonna keep going.

Speaker 3 (01:27:44):
Plot how you're gonna have some club out play off
something I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:27:48):
I don't remember the nineteen twenty six reads.

Speaker 3 (01:27:51):
All right, y'all did okay?

Speaker 11 (01:27:53):
That was good?

Speaker 3 (01:27:54):
Jonathan, Always feel like you can add music to the show.
Just as for ambiance to accent, accent the point perfectly.
That was a lot of maybe feel America right for
that that made me a problem. We're getting there. It's
only taking you a few months to make get to
hang out the show. I appreciate that old time in music,
good times. Can I just tell you that this is

(01:28:15):
this is sing sing with old times. I watched the
baseball movie that was Old Time this past weekend and
I couldn't turn it off.

Speaker 4 (01:28:23):
A league of their own class really really enjoyed a
leg Davis.

Speaker 3 (01:28:31):
Geena Davis, Yes, a younger Madonna, Yes, before she started
looking at your guard Boyle Rosie O'Donnell. No, Gina Davis's
sister on the in the movie. She was okay, okay,
I don't remember. I know who you're talking about. What

(01:28:53):
was her name?

Speaker 4 (01:28:53):
I forgot?

Speaker 3 (01:28:53):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 4 (01:28:57):
What else is that?

Speaker 3 (01:29:01):
Tom Hanks, Tom Hanks great cameo for John Lovetz was
good in there as well. Oh, Lori Petter, Petty, Lori Petty, Petty, Petty,
I say Petter Petty, I mean, if you want to
with consent, you know, what is she doing these days?
What is Lori Petty doing? Now, I don't know. She's

(01:29:22):
a she's a painter. Oh, yeah, I remember Lori Petty.
She's sixty one years old. Howld Geena Davis right now?
Just looking at her right now, I would be your
personal googler here, geez. Hold on.

Speaker 4 (01:29:34):
People ask me all questions all the time. I try
to get them answers.

Speaker 3 (01:29:36):
That's true. She is sixty nine, Geena Davis. Geena Davis
is sixty nine years old. Let that sink in first.
Do you remember the movie star she was married to. Okay,
maybe not a star. I'd say pretty famous, be lis star.
That's really a wide Yeah, I know, net you throw

(01:29:57):
in there. It's a bit of centric.

Speaker 9 (01:30:01):
He was in.

Speaker 3 (01:30:02):
He was in multiple major blockbuster movies, not as the lead,
but in the nineties he had a huge run of
being like secondary character in massive blockbusts.

Speaker 4 (01:30:13):
Give it up?

Speaker 9 (01:30:13):
Who is it?

Speaker 3 (01:30:13):
Jeff Goldblum. Oh, I would call him an a listter
for a short term. Okay, but yeah, Jurassic Park in
the Fly, Yeah, Geena Davis's first role I ever saw
her in You ready for this? No, she was a
actress in the movie TUTSI she was, Yes, she was.
She was very young back then obviously she was April

(01:30:36):
Page in nineteen eighty two.

Speaker 4 (01:30:37):
I haven't, and she had.

Speaker 3 (01:30:39):
She had a seen where she was wearing nothing but
lingerie and she looked fantastic. Who's this Geena Davis? Google
Geena Davis and TUTSI and you'll thank me later. Peak
Geena Davis was of course lung kiss good night. You
ever see that one?

Speaker 6 (01:30:58):
I have not.

Speaker 3 (01:30:59):
It's a good one. I thought she was fantastic in
the link of their own, Yes, she was. I'd put
that in my top five baseball movies. What do any
think about that? That's fine, that's fair. I think top five,
no particular order. Here we go, here we quickly to
me one, two, whatever order you want. Bull Durham major
League correct correct link of their own three. Well, actually

(01:31:19):
I'm not like three, but I'm talking top five, no order. Wait,
I'm sorry, I forgot Sandlot's one. And then it's Bull
Durham in Major League, Major League, Bull Durham. What's the
one with Robert Redford? Oh, the natural, the natural. And
I'm gonna probably go with Rookie of the Year. For

(01:31:40):
the love of the game, I'm going rookie, the Rookie
of the Year yeah, don't hate. How about a little
big league bad news Bears? Oh, bad news Bear, that's
og Moneyball creep in there? Nope, I liked Moneyball, but
no overrated over and they an Art Howe, who's one

(01:32:03):
of my favorite all time astros, was horribly miscast in
that movie.

Speaker 4 (01:32:06):
Philip Seymore Hoppins, one of the all time great the
movie money Ball.

Speaker 3 (01:32:10):
Yeah, oh I love that movie they're talking about. I
don't know, is all right? That's fair?

Speaker 4 (01:32:16):
But Phillip Seymour Hoppins the book is a very easy
read if you want to terrible.

Speaker 3 (01:32:19):
Miscast on that. Okay, Okay, there you go. Phillip Seymour
Hoppins one of the all time great actors. So it
wasn't Art how Art Howe was mile mannered then easy going,
and that Phillip Seymore Hoffins character was not or was
not Art Howe. That's not the way Billy Bean tells it.
I know That's what I'm saying. It wasn't a fair
indication at all. Okay, So there you go. All right, Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:32:44):
For a quick break, time for a very quick break.

Speaker 3 (01:32:46):
You if you enjoyed that last time, you're get more
of that coming up in the next hour in seventeen minutes. Now,
we forgot to mention bench Warmers, starring Sean Salisbury. It
was a football movie, bench Warmers. It was a baseball movie.
Are you sure with Shawn Salisbury?

Speaker 4 (01:33:05):
Would Sewn Salisbury be in a baseball movie?

Speaker 3 (01:33:08):
He was. He worked at the at the UH at
the athletics store in the movie.

Speaker 4 (01:33:13):
I never saw it. Okay, yeah, I saw it, But
you're trying to correct me. Well, I thought it was
a football movie. It's a baseball movie.

Speaker 3 (01:33:20):
But I thought that's bench warmer. You're thinking of a
you're thinking of the longest yard.

Speaker 4 (01:33:24):
That's what I'm thinking of.

Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
Okay, bench Warmers. Oh, I thought war was a football
movie too. Well, hence I'm the only one. Okay, Well,
you're both wrong.

Speaker 14 (01:33:31):
You saw it?

Speaker 3 (01:33:33):
Bits of it? Did you spend wan bit?

Speaker 1 (01:33:36):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:33:36):
Wait?

Speaker 3 (01:33:36):
Bits of it?

Speaker 8 (01:33:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:33:39):
It was on it was on Comedy Central or something.

Speaker 3 (01:33:41):
I watched like a third of it. Oh, baseball loving
millionaire helps three inept nerds form a baseball team to
compete in the meanest bullies in the little league. Yeah.
See Sean Salisbury as Brad the Brad, a little league
coach and proprietor of a sporting good store who picks
up on Ritchie and Clark. See. I watched that movie
replayed on Comedy Central, and it probably got Sean Salisbury

(01:34:03):
some residuals.

Speaker 4 (01:34:04):
So you're basically putting money in Shawn's piggy bank, aren't we?

Speaker 13 (01:34:07):
All?

Speaker 4 (01:34:07):
Yeah, I feel like we're doing a lot of that
these days.

Speaker 3 (01:34:09):
All right? Twelve forty four on The Matt Thomas Show
with Ross seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven nine.
If you want to visit with us through Twitter, it's
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not one hour from now? About the movie Benchwarmers you're

(01:34:30):
writing it, I have never seen it. I've only seen
third I guess I'm ahead of you. What was the
movie that was about the uh oh, the Replacements? Was
the football movie that I was I was thinking about, right, am?
I right about that?

Speaker 4 (01:34:40):
I don't believe Sean Salisbury was in that one man.

Speaker 3 (01:34:43):
I thought it was in like every movie sports movie
nineteen NINETYU ress Shane Falco, It's a good movie.

Speaker 4 (01:34:49):
Good pulled by you.

Speaker 3 (01:34:50):
Everything was the water Boy. No, I definitely know the
water Boy. That was Henry Winkler and Adam Sandler. Mm
hmmm A good A good football movie. Oh it was great. Yeah,
I loved the water Boy Gregan I was a kid.
We used to call himself a water what engineer or something? Yeah,
an aqua engineer or some saquatic Yeah, something like that.

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Twelve forty six seven eight twelve fifty one. The Astro
has opened up a three game series tonight with the
Chicago Cubs. Will be on the air. I'll have the
on deck show for you at six o'clock. First time
for Kyle Tucker after fate being an Astro for seven years. Now,
Don's the Chicago Cub uniform to eighty seven, sixteen home runs,

(01:35:34):
forty nine runs batted in, and an OPS of nine
to twenty two. He's been hot hitting lately because that
was the He really hasn't had any huge slumps. I
mean there's been a little bit of down days, but
it's not been a When you have an OPS above
nine hundred, that means you've had a pretty good seaton.
Obviously an excellent season. Yeah, he dipped below nine hundred

(01:35:55):
for a few games. But since then, Yeah, he's been
heating up at the plate. I mean ask you this question,
would it be would you feel a little better if
he doesn't re sign with the Cubs? What do you
mean feel better? I feel already feel great. You've got
Cam Smith's whole career, esak pratus under control for multiple years.
And Okay, Hayden wasn'ts he got hurt, but that's still

(01:36:16):
a win. Well, you're no doubt correct in saying it's
a win so far. Mm hmm. But what I think
it would even be a little bit sweeter if he
was to sign somewhere else. I don't even care, just
because again you would then you would then back up
your assumption that he was going to go to the
highest bidder and that there was no chance realistically he
was ever going.

Speaker 7 (01:36:36):
To do that.

Speaker 4 (01:36:37):
He's already gonna do that.

Speaker 3 (01:36:39):
But don't you like it when the other team also
loses that you win in a trade and they lose? Wow?

Speaker 4 (01:36:44):
See look at this pettiness, Matt. No, they're in the
National League.

Speaker 3 (01:36:47):
I don't care. Who cares they get. You already won
the trade. You already won the trade. And if they
signed to Chicago Cubs. But I don't know, dude.

Speaker 4 (01:36:55):
The Chicago feel like they've won that they lost the
trade at this point.

Speaker 3 (01:36:58):
No, uh, probably not, because they were going all in
to make the playoffs. And I can ask the question
with it is do you do you have to have
a trade? Does somebody have to win a trade? Can
both sides lose a trade? And some time sometimes both
teams win a trade. Yeah, it was Yeah, Jed Hoyer,
that's who it was. I couldn't remember his name. It's

(01:37:18):
Jed Hoyer is going all in because he's probably at
the end of his rope and he's trying to make
them right. He's trying to make He doesn't regret the
trade either, because he's got a nine hundred Cole Tuck
has a nine hundred ops and they're in first place.
I will say this, and I'm just gonna be brutally
honest with you. If he goes somewhere else next year,
there'll be an extra sense of whow not only do
we know this was coming, but we thought we forecasted

(01:37:39):
a year ahead of time and we got something in return. Yeah,
I mean, you knew he wasn't gonna stay here anyways. No,
so they've already won the trade. Espich Paratus is already great.
Cam Smith, You've got his whole career ahead of him,
and so far, I mean he's got a seven forty
oh ps and playing great right field. That's value now
and this is basically his floor. So yeah, you're doing

(01:38:00):
great both teams, by the way, forty eight and thirty three.
Brandon Walter will go for the local nine no wins yet,
still looking for his first major league win. Ere a
three point eight zero. Wow. He's a lefty, not a
particularly hard thrower, but you know what, has stepped in
when needed. He's been getting the job done as much
as possible, and the bullpen's been carrying the weight and

(01:38:20):
then the timely good hitting has been happening. And if
he wins tonight, he'll have more wins than Justin Verlander
will have had so far as a Giant. That's a shame.
By the way, the only thing I care about the
Kyle Tucker trade, I mean a contract is if it's
over seven and a half.

Speaker 4 (01:38:32):
Years, what do we have bet on that?

Speaker 1 (01:38:38):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:38:38):
Fast casual? It was a fast casual.

Speaker 3 (01:38:41):
You insisted we upgrade it to Habachi Grail ooh, because
I like Abachi all right, So seven years or lower?

Speaker 4 (01:38:49):
I win, eight or higher? You win.

Speaker 3 (01:38:51):
Kyle's Kyle Tucker twenty eight. I think ops at nine hundred.
How old was Wan Soto when he got his deal? Oh, younger?
I think he's up twenty six now or something. Okay,
I'm gonna throw this at you, and I don't expect
you have an answer, because I don't have answered for it.

(01:39:14):
How many guys above twenty eight years of age not
named Albert Pouhols are getting ten year deals? Well, I
just need over seven and a half. Number one, okay, okay,
so let me rephrase. How many twenty eight year olds
are getting eight years or higher? Max Free just signed

(01:39:35):
an eight year deal with the Yankees. He's thirty or
thirty one?

Speaker 9 (01:39:38):
I think.

Speaker 3 (01:39:39):
Okay, So there's your one. There's one right there. I mean,
good for you to get that off the top. But
you can say I'm going with this. It's easier to
give the mega deals when the kids are younger. Bobby
Wake got his sub twenty eight, Wan Soto got his
super Deal sub twenty eight.

Speaker 4 (01:39:53):
Manny Machado got his. This showy Aatani he's a unicorn.

Speaker 3 (01:39:57):
I know you can, we can dismiss the an example,
I'll give you that he got ten years, but also,
I mean he's a he's a freaking nature. Aaron Judge
also a freaking nature got nine years. Well was he? Hell,
he's thirty three now, so I think he I think
it was he was around thirty pretty close right. Um

(01:40:19):
when did how old was Corey Seeger when he get
that ten year deal from the Rangers?

Speaker 9 (01:40:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:40:25):
So there have been a few guys, yes, So it's possible.
I'm hoping in this case that he doesn't get it.
So I get the habachi feeling good? Can I get
extra shrimp? Nine hundred o ps? I get scallops? Okay,
whatever you want? You're paying? Now what if you're paying
if I'm paying Terrykin chicken? No, we're putting it you.
We're putting you on the beef eavns. By the way,

(01:40:46):
biggest we'll get you on try. Biggest scam about hibachi
grill is the additional charge for the fried rice. They
charge you more. Yeah, oh at four dollars more?

Speaker 6 (01:40:55):
What?

Speaker 3 (01:40:56):
Yeah? Yeah? What instead of steamed? Yeah, you got to
get the fried the fresh fried on the on. This
hibachi is delicious delicious. But oh, with so much food,
I don't need that additional Oh you're gonna do it, well,
you're paying for it. I'm just letting you know.

Speaker 4 (01:41:10):
Head, I'm getting the fried rice, all right, that's fair.

Speaker 3 (01:41:14):
No, that's the best, the fresh off the hibachi fried Oh,
it's just got the it's it's got that extra I
don't even I know how to explain it. Qua qua
see certain something. Let's got that extra fried freshness, the
correct the gag on there too. Oh good, fried rice

(01:41:35):
is good. But I can eat a fried rice. Let's
have a big weekend, Kyle. Let's keep it going, Kyle.
If you uh, if you hit their shin again this weekend, Oh,
come on down judging that's not right. Yeah, that's your
best shot. If he like tears an a C L
or something, all right, Well, open with Charlie in the
final hour of the show. If you want to jump in,
you may do so at seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two

(01:41:55):
five seven ninety one hour left to go, not Florida
Stories at one thirty and hell yeah or not? Would
you be working on beginning in a matter of moments? Right,
what fifthy category Fried Rice. I mean, could you do
spots hy Bochi spots? No, no free plucks? Yeah, if
they want a sponsor, if you're a sound a nice one,

(01:42:15):
Uh yeah I did.

Speaker 4 (01:42:17):
We had a spam call. I gotta take twelve fifty
eight on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:42:22):
One to three on Sports Talk seven ninety one of
the biggest fan bases of outside of.

Speaker 4 (01:42:28):
The Houston area will be here.

Speaker 3 (01:42:29):
And it's stunning to me that it continues to be
as strong as it is because the Cubs are not
a I mean, they didn't win one World Series, but
it's not like they have been a ridiculously successful franchise
year in and year out of the last thirty years.
The television WGN back in the day, you got that.
But even so, you would think with all the astro
fans here that they would be able to swallow up

(01:42:52):
cub Nation. But Cubs fans, I think are all over
the place. Yeah, you get a lot of transplants here
in Houston. Yeah, people who grew up or I mean,
they're a nationwide brand. They are, so just don't if
you go to the game, then I just don't be
a wigged out because you hear a lot of Cup
fans cheering. It's like Pittsburgh Steeler fans and when they
come to Texans games, Pittsburgh fans are bumping around here.
They're just drunkards, high cholesterol sweater wearing noxious people. But

(01:43:17):
I digress. Astros and Cubs will have it for you.
All of the Ondeck Show at six o'clock, Kyle Tucker
and Ryan Pressley their first games. Now, if you're the
Astros marketing, Kyle obviously was a much more long standing,
bigger piece of the Astros puzzle. But do you think
you do you put a time around who has a
longer tribute? Or do you do the same thing? Do

(01:43:39):
you combo? Do you combo them a great play by Tucker?
You do something pregame or do you wait until? No,
you got it. You gotta do a pre game, right right?
You do like Kyle Tucker one day and seven two
Ryan Presley the next. Oh wait a minute, why don't
you can't you knock them both out in the same day?
Oh you do one video for combo video. I'm just tough.
That's like when your birthday's near Christmas and you get

(01:43:59):
a combo get it ain't right? Or like when you
get the email from the people at your office it's
your birthday. You think it's your own special day and
you have to share it with four other people. You
and yours came in like two days late. Yeah, sorry
to forget about this person and all, but in yours
was four days ago.

Speaker 4 (01:44:15):
That's fine. I could completely forgotten one year. They didn't
put me on there.

Speaker 3 (01:44:18):
It happens, I used to. I got a cake for
my fortieth birthday. You did, yeah, with a picture of
my face on it. Well, we had a better budget then, man,
we did all right. Astros and cub six o'clock first pitch.
Rockets Summer League schedule is out.

Speaker 13 (01:44:31):
Oh it is.

Speaker 3 (01:44:32):
Can't wait for all those great draft picks. Hey, you're
gonna see some red Chepper playing. Come on, malaw wak
Rockets legend.

Speaker 4 (01:44:39):
No will he will not be done on the Rockets gear. Okay,
never mind.

Speaker 3 (01:44:44):
Yeah, by the way, all the trades that you will
have seen in the NBA, and it will be official
on July the sixth, h okay, which I'm presuming shortly
after that. Excuse me, mallow watch, Mala watch. I fixed
the Sunday, so I'm guessing July seven seventh will be
a big day for us as the I'm guessing Kevin

(01:45:07):
Durant will be in town. We'll get a chance I
hide to him. That'd be great. I would love that.
I'm get nervous thinking about it. You should be nervous.
I don't know that.

Speaker 4 (01:45:16):
I'm trying to think if I've ever really been nervous
interviewing anybody.

Speaker 3 (01:45:20):
I'm always nervous about interviewing people. Oh really, Yeah, he
doesn't show, Matt, you do a great job. Well, I mean,
I mean, I'm trying to think of Okay, So you
are a Texas basketball fan, one of the biggest ones
in the community, one of the rare ones. Hook them horns,
but you do. You did love when Kevin Durant was
on your squad. I went to the Yeah, I was.
I went to several games when I was there on campus. Yeah,

(01:45:42):
when I used to do way more basketball game than
I did football. Actually, you gotta understand when we said
Nolan Ryan on a weekly basis in the show, Yeah,
that was my fave. I used to love Colin Nolan.
We would be doing something on the range. We've had
dream on a couple of times, kem O. I just
want he when he goes with us on a playtffcam
sometimes and I'm right across the rope from him on
the bus and he goes, what's up voice, and I'm like,

(01:46:04):
that's because he didn't remember your name.

Speaker 4 (01:46:06):
That's correct. But at least he calls me something. Yeah,
that's true.

Speaker 3 (01:46:09):
He knows who you are? Yeah, regular who I am.
I've taken many pictures. I remember that time you blocked
John Stark shot. Oh, I'm I definitely do a Chris
Farley on on the Chris Farley Show thing. And I've
interviewed Earl Campbell a handful of times. Those are my
three favorite titles. King got mad at Adam Clinton? Well,
who doesn't? Because Clinton was talking about the narrative about

(01:46:31):
Jordan not playing, and Clinton was getting to that part
of the story like he didn't want to hear it. Yeah,
he was like shutting him down already. Apparently that's funny.
But Clint can explain that better, but I can. I
can tell you there have been now the normal guy
that will come on with this, like on the Astros
sometimes on Tuesday. I'm very comfortable with Joe, very comfortable
with all the other managers. We've had, But there have
been a handful of athletes that I have been generally

(01:46:53):
speaking in awe of good. It would be Kevin Durant.
One of the all time breaks.

Speaker 4 (01:47:00):
I used to interview Roger Clemens and I was in
all of him.

Speaker 3 (01:47:03):
Still am I mean I still regardless of what happened
with all the steroid stuff, He's still one of the
greatest pictures I've ever seen in my entire life. Now,
Kevin Durant hates the media, so I don't want him
to hate us. You gotta be cool. So I did
a little fact checking on the hate part. It doesn't
hate Okay, it doesn't like it. It's not one of
his favorite things to do.

Speaker 4 (01:47:23):
He doesn't like hot take machines, and we're not going
to be hot take machines.

Speaker 3 (01:47:26):
And by the way, do not go after him on Twitter.
He will come after you, especially if you tag him.
That's true even if you don't. And he had been
a care But my guess is, do you do you
think he wakes up and delooks? He had his name
on Twitter absolutely because somebody called him out for it,
and he's like, yeah, so what. That's what I love
about Kevin Durant. Somebody's like, I didn't even tag you

(01:47:47):
are you? Are you out of here searching your name?
And he's like, why not, I'm bored. And another thing
was brought up. People are saying, well, you know, you
bring Kevin Durant here before his leadership. There's no need
for him to be a leader. Now, well, it will
be nice if he's not, if he's not a detriment
to the leadership. Yeah, but he may Douk has got

(01:48:09):
the leadership thing fixed. I'm not worried about that. And
I think he's gonna lead. He's such a hard worker.
He's gonna lead by example in that way.

Speaker 4 (01:48:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:48:16):
Yeah, you don't need him pep talking this team. No,
there's a bunch of badasses in that locker. I mean
you have a Mayadoka who doesn't necessarily said, hey, ma,
can do me a fair grad these grab these kids.

Speaker 4 (01:48:24):
They're not listening to me.

Speaker 3 (01:48:26):
No, that's that's not you may He may have brought
him here for let's talk to Charlie in Rice Military.
What a great part of town, by the way, to
live in Charlie, you're on seven ninety. Thank you for
holding a good afternoon.

Speaker 9 (01:48:38):
Hey, uh, Ross and Matt I am.

Speaker 7 (01:48:42):
Yeah, usually in rice military, but today I'm up and
this week I'm up in Dallas working hard on the
Miss Texas. Patchet's putting myself through some tough work up here.
It's going to be on television, so I'm working for television.
I think in Houston it's going to be on my twenty.
But anyway, Ross and so you guys have influenced me.

(01:49:03):
I haven't been on Twitter, Twitter, but now I am following.
But I also got to meet Ross at the Baseball
Astros game earlier. But I've been up here all week
and watching the Astros. I really wanted a three three
zero shutouts to the Phillies that almost turned out.

Speaker 3 (01:49:18):
That would have been cool.

Speaker 6 (01:49:20):
And I also want to.

Speaker 4 (01:49:23):
Field of Dreams in the baseball movies. You guys, I
wondered where you would put that.

Speaker 3 (01:49:27):
Ooh, Matt hates Field of Dreams. Oh, I'm not a fan,
and I haven't seen it since I need to watch
it again. I haven't really seen it since I was
a kid.

Speaker 9 (01:49:36):
It's just such a good historically, I know.

Speaker 3 (01:49:38):
Yeah, thank you, Charlie, appreciate you. Yeah, thanks Charling, and
good luck on that Mixed Texas Texas pageant. You know
I went to school with Miss Texas. You did, I did?

Speaker 8 (01:49:51):
We I forgot to say something earlier today. You guys, Matt,
you like yacht rock, right, yes, So he wanted me
to call me to you to rate. You can call
me out by Paul Assignment.

Speaker 3 (01:50:04):
Okay, Jonathan, Matt was telling a story about Miss Texas
and then you interrupted him to bring an off air
caller about yacht rock.

Speaker 4 (01:50:17):
How do you feel right now?

Speaker 3 (01:50:20):
No, you're not an idiot. You're not an idiot. That's
pretty bad. I just it's just like, all right, yeah, okay,
this will be clipped. Go to your yacht rock Go ahead, Matt,
yacht rocker or Miss Texas, whatever would you want to go.

Speaker 4 (01:50:35):
I'll knock out both here. You can call me out
on a one to ten.

Speaker 3 (01:50:40):
Ten being Michael McDonald one being that Peanut Colata song,
I'll probably give yacht rah. You're getting Pina Colado one.
Oh that's a jam getting caught in the rain.

Speaker 4 (01:50:54):
It's something I would hear in a cheese ball. It's
cheesy restaurant.

Speaker 3 (01:50:57):
No, I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:50:58):
All of yacht rock is cheese.

Speaker 3 (01:51:00):
Yeah. Here, I'd hear it in the back of a
rapple rease you you were the cheese king, so stop it.
You can call you can call me out.

Speaker 4 (01:51:07):
Was an eight and a half. We Love Will Keep
Us Together by Captains and eiel's that cheesy. That's not
you'll rock.

Speaker 3 (01:51:12):
Oh it's not. There's a captain, but that's the name
of his baby. There's no rules of this made up
genre anyways, it's made up. It's preasing. Uh, you can
call me out.

Speaker 4 (01:51:22):
Nine and a half. Miss Texas Uh was the chi letter.

Speaker 1 (01:51:26):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:51:26):
We were We would school together, same graduating class, May
Creek nineteen ninety. Her name is Kara and Sarah what
Kara Williams And she was Missed Texas nineteen ninety and
USh this up.

Speaker 4 (01:51:37):
She and I went to high school.

Speaker 3 (01:51:38):
Together, Miss Texas USA or Miss Texas. I think she
was Miss Texas USA. There's the Miss America pageant, right, yeah,
and then there's the Miss USA pageant. I see Suzanne
Lawrence from nineteen ninety so maybe ninety one maybe yeah,
I have been ninety one because we're graduated in ninety.
Ronda Morrison Nope, from Cold Spring. No, I told you,

(01:51:59):
Mija Main Creek High All right, it must be Missed
Texas USA. Okay, I'm going to look down one up. Jeez,
I'm not calling you a liar nineteen ninety This says
Stephanie Kuon Keen, Katie Young, Chris Boke, Chris Boguard. Now
I might have to call you a liar like you
did Gordy.

Speaker 1 (01:52:20):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:52:21):
Gordon may have been a bit of an embellisher. Carol
Williams or Williams Carol Williams w I as in regular Williams. Oh,
nineteen ninety six. Okay, so it's a been, it was
a while. Yeah, you're way off.

Speaker 9 (01:52:35):
Well, there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:52:35):
She won congratulation to her.

Speaker 3 (01:52:37):
Yeah, miss Texas USA. There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:52:40):
That she and I were high school friends. Let's say sweethearts.
We were not sweethearts, but we were friends.

Speaker 3 (01:52:46):
Do you ask her out?

Speaker 4 (01:52:47):
No, I was a mascot. She was a head shir litter.

Speaker 3 (01:52:50):
Hey man, you missed one hundred percent of the shots.

Speaker 4 (01:52:52):
You don't take it's true love.

Speaker 3 (01:52:54):
One thirteen Non Florida Story spottom of the Art, Get
you Non Florida Story Ross and get to something on
hell Ya or Not?

Speaker 13 (01:53:00):
Oh my god, is it?

Speaker 3 (01:53:01):
The show's almost over? It is almost do for Believer
or Not we're going to miss Texas or not? Uh nom?

Speaker 4 (01:53:09):
How about Carol Williams. No, no, it's not nice. No,
let's say what do we want to do?

Speaker 3 (01:53:17):
I don't know what's the tops number one sports news?

Speaker 4 (01:53:22):
Ace Bailey, you wanna do some? Ace Bailey?

Speaker 3 (01:53:24):
Can you do it?

Speaker 9 (01:53:25):
Can you do?

Speaker 3 (01:53:25):
Admandre Lenore arrested for obstruction charge. But a forty nine
ers cornerback? That doesn't sound like a great you believe
or not topic? Helly or not? How about famous aces?
How about the okay? Fu like what Ace Bailey like?
Ace Rothneys Stroker?

Speaker 14 (01:53:40):
Ace?

Speaker 3 (01:53:41):
Who's that?

Speaker 4 (01:53:41):
That's a movie with Burt Reynolds in it?

Speaker 3 (01:53:43):
Okay? Can an Ace be a one.

Speaker 4 (01:53:47):
In or in eleven? In black check the answers believe it? Look,
we're down to thirty five minutes. You're right, I can't hurt.

Speaker 3 (01:53:54):
Not my fault. I'm trying.

Speaker 4 (01:53:56):
There's no bad ideas in a brainstorm. Thank you?

Speaker 3 (01:53:58):
One fourteen on Sports Talks, it is the Matt Thomas
Show and Ross We're with you till two o'clock. Believe
it or not? Today hell here not Today's cann be
all things about Texas State. Congratulations Texas State Bobcats. You
are now in the brand new pac twelve. That would
be the Pacific twelve there just next to the Pacific Ocean. Well,

(01:54:20):
I mean it's like having Cal and Stanford in the
ACC or West Virginia in the Big Twelve, which I
gets worse. Oh yeah, Cal Stanford in the Atlantic Coast,
Atlanta SMUs in Atlantic Coast conference.

Speaker 4 (01:54:37):
So yeah, we should.

Speaker 3 (01:54:38):
We should just rename these things the habs, the have nots, Habs, SEC,
Big Ten, havents everybody else. We'll coach you on that.
By the way, Yeah, did you see that the Big
twelve and the Big Ten create signed up with Renroe
to pay their athletes that way renro Row Rowe is

(01:55:00):
now a corporate sponsor of those conferences. Really and Maybow,
I guess they just make money off of the people
who they charge fees. When they want to send the
money immediately, yep, never do that. I never do that. No,
I always wait a couple of days. Yeah, but you know,
if you're in a pinch, I understand you're dealing drugs,

(01:55:21):
got to pay for the reup real quick. We were
talking about this before off air. Ross You I have
only door dashed one time in my entire life, in
your entire life. I've only done it a few times,
and it's normally when I'm not fit to drive. It's
not incapacitated, but inebriated. And this is today's Matt's bougie
moment of the day. Oh so we sometimes went on

(01:55:43):
the road with the Rockets. We stay in these super
ridiculously nice hotels. Yes, And there's not a lot of
places to do within walking distance to go get food,
so you wou you would make sense to DoorDash And
a lot of the Rocket players do DoorDash things sst
the coaches.

Speaker 4 (01:55:59):
A lot of those guys.

Speaker 3 (01:56:00):
I wind up paying the expensive food to eat at
the hotel because I'm afraid the door dashes are gonna
find me. Huh. The fees are gonna be expensive, Okay.
And three do I want to hear him at this
hoty toty nine star hotel and get a phone call saying, hey,
you'r Rick role is downstairs?

Speaker 4 (01:56:16):
Well you can see them the app when they're close.
You can just go down to the lobby.

Speaker 15 (01:56:19):
You know.

Speaker 8 (01:56:19):
You know, Matt, my coach, I grew up with that.
He's runner as well. He said he will never door
dash just because he doesn't like the same reason you have.
It's a big bad and I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:56:29):
Really afraid that they're gonna eat my fries. Well, generally
they you can get stuff sealed these days. No, they
do do still, though they definitely will get in your bag. No,
I don't want to make it in my bag with
a couple of fries. They're not making much. I did
Postmates for a while. You don't make Jack, you make
like eight bucks an hour. Can you tip off those
or no? Yes, I would think if I but see

(01:56:50):
if I'm gonna tip Oh yeah, it's I'm gonna feed
a rig rack in order of fries. It's a waste
of money, and I make floors. I'm just spend ten
minutes rhyming everything. I'm not even free plugs. I understand
it downgrades the people that you say, Jick Flurry, we

(01:57:11):
know what you mean. Your it's not shrouded in mystery
should be James on seven twenty five, James, how the
hell are you? I'm doing good?

Speaker 6 (01:57:21):
Hey, guys, listen on this outfield.

Speaker 16 (01:57:24):
I know they call up guys. They called up guys
like Cooper, and then they called up.

Speaker 4 (01:57:27):
The mail guy Jack Taylor.

Speaker 3 (01:57:30):
Trammel.

Speaker 16 (01:57:30):
Yes, yeah, why don't they use a little Perfino or Chazz?
They just don't want to use them anymore.

Speaker 13 (01:57:36):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:57:38):
The Blue Jays. He was traded away for.

Speaker 16 (01:57:39):
You say, well, I'm thinking of another another outfold.

Speaker 3 (01:57:42):
Yeah, Chas McCormick has hurt. Chas McCormick's on the injur list.

Speaker 16 (01:57:45):
James, Okay, there's another outphot that they were using a
lot and now they're not using them at Oh, I
can't I saw him on the benches day, but I
just kept the name wrong. But anyhow, I just wondering
what happened.

Speaker 7 (01:57:53):
To that guy?

Speaker 3 (01:57:55):
The guy who's name you don't Yeah, I can't remember.

Speaker 4 (01:57:59):
That's that's right, It's Friday. What are you gonna do?

Speaker 1 (01:58:02):
It was?

Speaker 13 (01:58:04):
You know what?

Speaker 3 (01:58:04):
It wasn't one of your best, but at least you
admitted and for that you get bonus points. Thanks for
the folk. He's like, yeah, I sucked. I appreciate that.
Who is he thinking of on the bench outfielder?

Speaker 1 (01:58:19):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:58:20):
I was quite disappointed. He actually went with the Joey
little Brafito card. But we've only talked about him. That's
pretty being gone for a while. And yes, Chess has
what was it a back injury or something back spasms?
I can't remember. Yeah, yeah, I look that up. Sorry, Oh,
I'm sorry, left oblique string. Everybody's got the oblique string.

(01:58:43):
I'm an oblique strain right now. Chas McCormick nearing a
rehab assignment and we'll get an update I'm sure from
the skipper later today.

Speaker 4 (01:58:50):
I thought, didn't Brendan Rodgers had an obliqu strain too.

Speaker 3 (01:58:53):
He got that. He got his in the batting cage.
McCormick did take batting practice on Wednesday. That's good. Is
he thinking of Zach Dezenzo? He's yeah, he's hurt. That's
what I guarantee you that's who James is thinking of of.

Speaker 4 (01:59:07):
Okay, maybe Jacob Melton. He's also hurt.

Speaker 3 (01:59:11):
And we don't need Meltin hurt because that's the guy
that's a high end that's one of the few high
end prospect guys.

Speaker 4 (01:59:18):
Yes, I thought it as a future phenom, but he
is their number two prospect.

Speaker 3 (01:59:24):
Well, I mean I think he is one of the
highest ranked him. It was him and Bryce Matthews is
to the highest prospect. He's still prospect.

Speaker 4 (01:59:33):
It's good enough lefty bat and good in the field.

Speaker 3 (01:59:36):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:59:36):
Uh, time for some non Florida stories.

Speaker 3 (01:59:39):
Mine this week is from Mecklenburg County, North Carol Mecklenburg,
not Carl Mecklenburg, a once guest of The Matt Thomas Show.
Oh God, Gordy's getting like Emmett Smith to come on.
Uh he's getting Joe Montana. We got you, Emmett Smith,
Barry List apologize, I get such a bad memory. You

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don't remember. Yeah, we figured it was Okay, he's hurts.

Speaker 4 (02:00:08):
James, do us a favorite?

Speaker 3 (02:00:09):
James check the injured list before we call about guys
and asking why they weren't playing.

Speaker 4 (02:00:14):
We can't hap out as a Google service dot.

Speaker 3 (02:00:16):
Com No because James, no, no, no, no. James gotten
smart with me before, so I'm not gonna be nice.
If he was a regular caller, I would James Google
dot com or astros dot com or Google. And that's
even not even being nice. I mean it's like we
call a radio show. We're asking about guys who aren't
playing and they're hurt. Let's go keep on speed and

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then goes Friday.

Speaker 4 (02:00:40):
What are you gonna do?

Speaker 3 (02:00:41):
Okay? Sure not. Florida stories are up next to.

Speaker 14 (02:00:46):
Find interesting stories that sure outside.

Speaker 3 (02:00:51):
The state of Florida and share them with the people abused.
It's time for non Florida. It's time for non Florida.

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Store from coast to coast will bring a strange.

Speaker 1 (02:01:21):
And wild.

Speaker 3 (02:01:25):
No alligator trails, but something that will make you smile.

Speaker 4 (02:01:33):
It's time for laughs from far and wild.

Speaker 3 (02:01:40):
In this crazy world.

Speaker 5 (02:01:43):
There's nowhere.

Speaker 3 (02:01:49):
Protests are a part of a way to tell the
world you're unhappy with a certain vote, way of life,
feeling no ocean and as long as they're peaceful, by
all means, you should try to do it. I got
a dumb protest for you here Sports Survey as we
welcome you to non Florida stories. Here on the Matt

(02:02:10):
Thomas Show Ross at one thirty three, I send you
to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

Speaker 14 (02:02:15):
Mecklenburg County, Mecklenburg Country Time lemonade and you sit on
the polch and you send with your girl, have some
sweet tea and swat the flies and power and powder
bake biscuits.

Speaker 3 (02:02:30):
The Mecklenburg County Commission meeting was disrupted by protesters recently
in the of the Central Piedmont Community College Law Enforcement
Training Center that's what they're the meeting.

Speaker 4 (02:02:40):
Okay, you're saying, well they what are they mad about?

Speaker 3 (02:02:42):
What are they mad about? Well, they're mad ROSSI about
property taxes going up. And I'll tell you exactly. They
passed a two point five billion dollar budget, including a
property tax cent of hike of ninety six cents per
one per ten thousand dollars of home value the medium
home price Mecklenburg, North Carolin. How about this is three
hundred and seventy seven thousands. The heck they don't out there?

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The average homeowner will now have to pay thirty six
dollars more per year. Doesn't feel like it's a huge
need for a protest, does it. Well, they protested anyway.
They had to stop the meeting because someone went inside
the chamber and released crickets. What yes, hundreds of crickets.

Speaker 1 (02:03:25):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:03:27):
The meeting had to pause while a member of the
cleaning crew came in to vacuum them up. Witness is
telling Joe Bruno of Channel nine in Charlotte that the
crickets were everywhere. The protesters were eventually escorted out and
the meeting resumed, Commissioner's releasing a statement. Mecklenburg County condemns
any inappropriate out of town comments or other disruptive tactics

(02:03:47):
during a Border Commissioner's meeting or any other public meeting.
Civil public participation is a bedrock of democracy. The board
has made it clear that the abuse of public participation
will not be tolerated. And get rid of your crickets. Okay,
I want you to just pretend you're in the cleaning
crew of Mecklenburg County and you get this nine to
one one focal, get to the Commissioner's office right away.

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Maybe somebody unfort maybe vomited, Maybe there was a coffee spell,
there was something that happened.

Speaker 4 (02:04:16):
They say, bring a vacuum.

Speaker 3 (02:04:17):
You're gonna suck up crickets for half an hour. It's
that a great life. Imagine having to suck up crickets.
What I said was wrong, nothing wrong. I don't know
what the heck's going on these crickets. Why are people
why are people dropping crickets everywhere? I don't know. I

(02:04:39):
don't like it. What if you had your job, I
mean business card said I'm a sucker. I'm a cricket sucker.
Hold on meeting or zoom, just sucking up crickets.

Speaker 4 (02:04:54):
For like a half an hour.

Speaker 3 (02:04:55):
I don't think that's full time profession, Matt. I don't
think it's a daytime job. What if you went home
and your honey, your wife said, hey, ross with you today.
I looked at the Commissioner's court office. I think interesting happened. Yeah,
I had to suck up crickets. Well, because the protester
came in and laid out crickets all over the place.
That's got to be some kind of crime. I would

(02:05:16):
you would think so animal attack.

Speaker 4 (02:05:20):
Very creative.

Speaker 3 (02:05:21):
I don't think it's crazy. They can feed them to
various snakes and whatnot. With those crickets to the commission
I mean they're when't wasn't their fault? Crickets? I don't know.
Crickets are a purpose, did they not? Yes, eat bugs,
they're food for other people they eat. Yeah, I'm sure
they're an important part of the ecosystem. Now you get
them at Seattle Mariner Games. You could saltan crickets. I

(02:05:44):
believe they're lightly salted roasted. I meant to try. I
wanted to try them, but I forgot when I went there.
I don't want you to try. Why not they look
I don't want you to get sick. People eat them.
I want you get crickets. You can get crickets at
certain restaurants here in Houston.

Speaker 4 (02:06:00):
I'm sure you could. It's a hard pass for me, though,
give it a shot.

Speaker 3 (02:06:04):
If other people are eating it for sustence, why can't you?
Or people using him in protest or the US. But
it's a multifaceted, So shout out to Meckleberg County clean
up authorities for having to suck up crickets for half
an hour. Average home price or median home price median? Wow,
it's three hundred and forty thousand in Houston, by the way,

(02:06:26):
is that good or bad? That seems high? But I
looked at Austin it's five hundred and sixty five thousand.
Oh my god, I drop half a MILLI by the way,
I saw what I could sell my house for. Oh
it's been uh oh, I'm sure it's pretty good. You're
getting that high rise, Maddy, Come on, one step closer
to the high rise. I want a doorman. Yes, he's
gonna high rise. You're gonna put me on the black list. Now,

(02:06:47):
do I want a full time made or do something
comes in like once a week housekeeper cook meals for
us today Thursday. Cause I think if you hire a
full time housekeeper, no, one time. No, there's only gonna
be only two of you living in a house. What
do you know? How dirty are you getting? George and
Louise had it. They had a full didn't they have

(02:07:07):
kids or something?

Speaker 6 (02:07:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:07:09):
But he was an adult. Line was an adult. They
had one kid. Okay, well that's also a TV sitcom
from the nineteen seventies, just saying it's not real life, Matt,
that's not on in Florida. I did a full time housekeeper.
Unless you like, have young children, I don't get three.
Are you gonna unless you want to want somebody to
hang out and watch TV with you the whole time,

(02:07:29):
like you wanted to hang out and watch your prices
right with you? Like cards? Fun fact, my mom was
once right and one why whoa why did you bury this?
Just wait if I get time to get a new car.
Would you know that's Matt's favorite show? When when did
she want? Was she on there? Nineteen ninety?

Speaker 11 (02:07:48):
Uh?

Speaker 8 (02:07:49):
Matt probably saw that in the video and everything she wanted?
Bed said she lost in the final things for a
car because she overbidded by one thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (02:07:56):
Oh, the guy won the trip, it was heard.

Speaker 8 (02:08:00):
So she went to the showcase. Yeah, since you want
to show. Okay, she won the entire bedset. I grew
up with her whole bedset, in the whole bedroom she won.

Speaker 4 (02:08:07):
You slept on a Price's right bed.

Speaker 3 (02:08:09):
Yeah, it's amazing. I gots I got the video. I
have it on you. Does she kiss Bob Barker? Not
saving my hut? Though? Wait?

Speaker 4 (02:08:18):
Wait, wait, why are you making these noises about his mother?

Speaker 3 (02:08:22):
Because usually women that go on the show kiss kiss Bob,
all of them on the cheek. Not all of my
body was in the majority. That's weird. You on Family
Feud you had to kiss Richard Dawson the least known time,
and then you tried to slip tongue in there. You
married one of them. Terrible. That's my Florisa right going. Okay,
thank you, I'm gonna go real quick. Yes, Matt, did

(02:08:45):
you know that there's a burglar on the loose in Duncanville, Alabama?

Speaker 6 (02:08:51):
Hm?

Speaker 3 (02:08:51):
Hm, burglar caught. Uh. Also, I guess it's the tuscal
loosid police. So I guess Duncanville is close a man
robbing a quick stop on Highway eighty two in Duncanville
early Sunday. He was caught on video as he had
on a face mask and a full Scooby Doo costume. Right, Yes,

(02:09:15):
his name is Jay Manzel. No, well it could be Actually,
anyone who can help us unmasked this villain may call
the number to submit an anonymous tip, the police said.
The police also had a bunch of jokes, saying, have
you interviewed fred dafne, Velma and Shaggy?

Speaker 4 (02:09:36):
Do you end this yourself or just in the script? No,
this is okay the news story, all right, okay.

Speaker 3 (02:09:43):
Enough when he gets caught, Another person wrote, when he
gets caught, this is on the their Facebook. Actually, when
he gets caught and their mask is taken off, he's
gonna say if I would have gotten away with it
if it weren't for you med link kids. Scooby Doo
did not steal any stacks snacks, but through some stole
some cash the register, and Scooby Doo is currently on

(02:10:03):
the loose making off with some cash and some change
at the quick quick stop. Was the last time he
did a Scooby do impersonation? Oh, racky, that's a New Years.

(02:10:25):
I'm done. I gotta write believe. I'll leave you alone. Jonson,
do you do a Scooby Doo impersonation? I got a
Florida story? I got that? Ah right, go and give
us your Florida story, that non Florida story, of course.
Of course.

Speaker 8 (02:10:36):
A forty two year old man contracted Beverly Hills, Texas
from belly' Hills, Texas police Chief Corey Martin on June
thirteenth about a package he had received from his ex girlfriend.
K w KT TV reported inside was a copy of
a maror certificate indicating that the man was married, but
he told Martin that while he had been in a
relationship with the woman, Christine Mary Spearman to thirty six

(02:10:58):
of Waco and even as obtain a marriage license, they
broke up before the wedding even began or even was planned.
After investigating, Martin determined that Spearman had convinced a pastor
to certify the marriage without the groom present, and then
filed the certificate at the county clerk's office. Martin said
he researched the law and found only once an ear

(02:11:19):
that this allows to happen active military overseas, unable to
make it. Even then when that happens and overseas, you
still have a proxy to be in like a decision.
So come to find out she had did this on
like for three years something like that. So she was
arrested for third degree of fell and he's stocking and
taking a jail, woke up married and then divorced.

Speaker 4 (02:11:47):
That's myen A four story. Thank you, Jonathan.

Speaker 3 (02:11:52):
What forty three on Sports Talk seven ninety Let's play
helly Air. Not all things about the Texas State Bobcat
By the way, quick note if y'all do it once
around Texas State on our fantasy five list the best
once around university campuses around the State of Texas seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one three,

(02:12:12):
two one two five seven ninety All right, I've got
astros on deck for you. Time at six o'clock, so
I'll be at Dinkin Park hanging out with my friends.
I did not bring a jacket with me. The press
box is usually forty degrees colder than the regut rest
of the stadium. Uh it was. We're gonna get the
roof open between down the end of the year, you
think any chance not till playoffs, I don't think is

(02:12:36):
that nice?

Speaker 12 (02:12:36):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (02:12:37):
I was ready for you to say that exact thing,
because we wouldn't have said that in March. The Astros
are going to the playoffs. They're gonna win the American
League West. They are only a let me look at
the latest standings. By the way, this is going to
just show you again of the season of amazement, that's
what you want to call it, where this local team

(02:12:58):
is again Vegas had an we're between eighty six and
eighty eight wins. Granted, we're all at the halfway and pole,
and this team could slamp, hopefully doesn't. But right now
the American League has the Detroit Tigers at fifty one
and thirty one men a good team last year wild
card team, but have been playing beyond their means this year.

(02:13:19):
The Astros of the second best record at two and
a half out at forty eight and thirty three. Overall,
the Astros are the fourth best record. Actually they're tied
for the third best record. Who also owns that third
best record? It's a team. The Astros are playing tonight
the forty eight and thirty three cups on deck at
six o'clock, first pitch at seventy ten, and I will
host a tenth inning show right after that. That's great, Matt.

(02:13:42):
I'll be covering tomorrow and I will listen. This is
not very convincing. I might listen. That's okay, that's fine.
If I'm really bored, I'll listen. The show goes on,
it does. The tenthending caller has been better the last
few weeks. It was April and may, to be honest
with you, yeah, now you're gonna have liquored up.

Speaker 4 (02:14:03):
Weekend drunks should be some good ones.

Speaker 3 (02:14:08):
And what's a giveaway today? Should I stick around for
the giveaway? I always wait for it in the press
spot for people don't know the press box. You get
whatever the giveaway is, they give it around, They give
unless of Telemundo people grab all of them. Wow, they're feisty. Yeah,
I'm just gonna say, you generally have to clear them
out of your spot. We have we have two seats

(02:14:30):
and generally tell them, who know, there's eight people there?
Well when there's big giveaways, especially, and then they do
photo shoots with the bibbleheads.

Speaker 4 (02:14:40):
The new selfie of the bottle.

Speaker 3 (02:14:42):
Seriously, they put the field in the background there selfe
with the bibble. No, I don't think so, think so.
I have either five minutes up and calling the show.
What should we do? We should play? Uhmerica's fastest growing
sports ready game show will simply call it beat leaving
it out. And here's how it works. You call seven

(02:15:04):
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven onie Monday through Thursday,
we called it b leaving it up, and on Fridays
we call it a hell yeah not. And here's how
it works. I'll read your stament about Texas State University.
It's a Farmer Valdez throwback jersey. By the way, I'm
definitely getting one, are you kidding? I'll be wearing that

(02:15:24):
bad boy third inning. I'll read your saming about Texas State.
Statement's completely netterly acurate. You'll say this, Hey, you have
the saving team roundings fully buck come made up. You'll
save this two helly airnouts in a row when you're prize.
What are you playing for today?

Speaker 8 (02:15:37):
Of course the Sports Talk seven ninety t shirt a
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on sale again at Ticketmassa dot com.

Speaker 3 (02:15:55):
And if you get three Texas State questions in Roe rash,
you know what you get anybody an invitation to a
Texas State sorority party, We're gonna be kicked out immediately,
Texans Mark on seven Aint you ready to play? Hell
yeah or not?

Speaker 9 (02:16:11):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (02:16:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:16:12):
Texas State was founded as Southwest Texas State University in
eighteen ninety nine.

Speaker 4 (02:16:18):
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 6 (02:16:20):
Hey?

Speaker 7 (02:16:20):
Oh yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:16:21):
No, it was Southwest Texas State's normal school, little minutia asque,
but still wasn't.

Speaker 4 (02:16:27):
That's what it was called.

Speaker 3 (02:16:28):
Okay it, that's fine, And it had like four different
names before it his Southwest Texas.

Speaker 4 (02:16:32):
So he's telling you to suck it.

Speaker 3 (02:16:33):
Chris on seven Aunty, what was your favorite part of
today's ten to two radio show?

Speaker 15 (02:16:39):
I love your show Positive astro vibes.

Speaker 4 (02:16:44):
That means you just turned it on.

Speaker 3 (02:16:46):
The Texas State acceptance rate is eighty nine point five percent.
Hell yeah or not? He yeah, that's right, eighty nine
point five percent.

Speaker 9 (02:16:59):
I mean.

Speaker 3 (02:17:02):
Statement number two for the win US News and War
Report ranks Texas State as a two hundred and thirty
seventh best university in the nation. Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 6 (02:17:14):
Not it is.

Speaker 3 (02:17:17):
Two hundred and thirty seven top three hundred. Congratulations to them.
There's only like three and five. That's not true. Mike
and Katie on seven ninety Ready to play? Hell yeah
or not? Hell yeah. The Texas State college motto is
victorious gravatus humanitis veratus, which is Latin for prestige, seriousness

(02:17:42):
and humanity and truth.

Speaker 4 (02:17:43):
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 13 (02:17:46):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:17:48):
Uh State. Therefore, statement number two for the way the
Texas State Bobcat is named Freddy, after the school's founder,
Frederick Hayes.

Speaker 4 (02:17:57):
Hell yeah or not? Hell no, that's correct. His name
is not Boco.

Speaker 6 (02:18:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:18:06):
It's a student vote Boco the Bobcat. They voted via
the school days paper in like the twenties. Jeez, who knows,
they're too Ken on seven nint you Ready to play?
Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Texas State University Athletics
were first owned As Varsity, but changed to Bobcats in
nineteen twenty one because of the time the University of
Texas used the same nickname.

Speaker 4 (02:18:25):
Hell Yeah or not?

Speaker 3 (02:18:28):
Hell Yeah, no, no, no, you can't steal anything from
Texas A get mad at you. Let's go to h
Kenneth on seven. Oh, Kenneth drop. Let's go to Mark
on seven, Nintie Mark? What was your favorite part of
today's ten to two radio show?

Speaker 9 (02:18:46):
Everything?

Speaker 3 (02:18:48):
Texas State boasts a number of notable alumni, including former
President Lyndon B. Johnson, country legend George Strait, and Astro's
media rep Steve Grande Believe It or Not.

Speaker 13 (02:19:02):
Not?

Speaker 4 (02:19:02):
Oh jeez, how do you not know?

Speaker 3 (02:19:04):
LBJ and Steve Grant the whole show, the entire show
at ten thirty, eleven, thirty, twelve thirty. We brought Steve's
name up from the Astros like five times, Kevin and
Parland on seven ninety Kevin, You're ready to play Believe
it or Not? Yes, Texas State Home with the Cadaver Farm.

Speaker 4 (02:19:22):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (02:19:23):
The Texas State Bobcats all time football record five hundred
and forty one losses, excuse me, five hundred and forty
one wins, five hundred and four losses twenty five times
believe it or not. Oh, that's googleable, gosh not?

Speaker 4 (02:19:41):
Oh, why don't you have that in front of you.

Speaker 3 (02:19:43):
Then Cadaver Farm.

Speaker 4 (02:19:46):
That sounds weird.

Speaker 3 (02:19:49):
They do a lot of medical research over there. Coming
up next, one of the next two people on the
show could not get into Texas state. Was it Wexler
or is it Clinton? Find out next on by Team Talked,
you had six for Astros baseball. On Sports Talk, Sevenditing