Astros Take Game 1 vs Red Sox! Josh Hader Might Be On IL, Astros Sit 67-52 With Mariners Still Close By

Astros Take Game 1 vs Red Sox! Josh Hader Might Be On IL, Astros Sit 67-52 With Mariners Still Close By

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
It as Town.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Good morning man, Welcome to and Tuesday edition of The
Man Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
At Ross This is sports Talk seven.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Yo.

Speaker 5 (00:34):
One rol ball for the right side of bay Sis.
That'll score spent. Haya stops at second, Carlos Carrea drives
in the run and the Astros are on the board.
It's two to one, Boston.

Speaker 6 (00:46):
He works on that, guys, he works on that exact
thing right there, hitting the ground ball over there were
runner at score.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
No way you stand, it's not in no way you
look more than.

Speaker 5 (00:58):
Day two Walkers left center field, racing back on it
is Raphaeli. He won't get there. Then one hops off
the wall, scoring is Paynya Correa right behind him, the
throat of the plate not nearly in time. A two
run double for Christian Walker and the Astros laden three

(01:19):
to two.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's not the worst that tone. It's the first pitched
to Accormick.

Speaker 5 (01:28):
Oh Cash rails this one dude to left center failed.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Have you can test it? Goodbye?

Speaker 5 (01:34):
Off the community leader's side. Chas his first humbert of
the year, is a two run shot and the Astros
leading five to two.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Here's the one two to Anthony.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
Swaying and a mass struck him out on the slider
away and that's hits the ball game, baby, sus Hey.
Houston Astros take game one of this three game series
from the Boston Red Socks, seventh to sixth. The final,
they got hairy and late, but the Astros able to
hold on for their fifth win in their last seven games.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
And I mean hold on for dear life.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Look, Hector Narris, congratulations in your ten year service time.
But brow, I mean I wouldn't be buying real estate
here see you later. That got super dicey down the
stretch as all right. And then there was some picture

(02:39):
that came in and played yesterday.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
I have no idea who the hell it was. Was
your favorite Santos? That's a lot of it. You do
a Walmart commercial? Come on, now, come on this dies.
How didn know at Walmart? Walmart a proud sponsor the
mat Express delivery with an hour. Let's go and we
don't have to. I'm no, we do, Margaret.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
You're still You're still in the old you know, And
I'm gonna order you some Joey Saw and Walmart. No
you're not, and I won't eat it. Turn it up, Jams, Toto,
good Tier three.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
It's fine, Jonathan's the first time you've ever heard this song,
I'm assuming, so.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Of course, Oh you are you are you team total?
This is what my dam he was listening to this
in the clubs. By the way, A very happy belated
birthday to our producer Jonathan Allen, who did not tell
us it was his birthday.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
No, he did on Friday, right, I said off Friday.
But I appreciate. Yeah, but I forgot. Yeah, but I didn't.
Happy birthday, don't know, don't know, don't know it. I'm
buying lunch for the three.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Of us today. You're really trying to shut me up. Yeah,
seeing how that worked where I'll shut up for some lunch,
I figured you would.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Good morning. I get into a Mount Thomas show with
Ross at ten oh four.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
So okay, that's enough. We don't he doesn't. He doesn't
need it. Grown ass men shouldn't be saying happy birthday
to each other.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Okay. I'm trying to express my love through the majesty
of song.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
I mean the reality is this, Uh, when everybody floods
my Facebook page, happy birthday you met, make it a
great one. First of all, you're using the one that
Facebook you should do? Uh did you do this? Or
somebody I knew was making it their birthday every day?
Oh no, yeah, and then we get messages every day.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
So really really quick as we got back to sports,
and that's the show.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Is the essence of there are people that my Facebook
friends that I know for a fact are not really
checking their Facebook page because people will wish them a
happy birthday and they won't like it. And then I
scroll down that person's page and the last post they
have our other people saying again, happy birthday. So they
literally don't check their Facebook page or they're dead. No,

(05:00):
I know they're alive, but I would say dormancy in
all forms of social media can happen. And it's funny
that I will not wish a person happy birthday on
Facebook if I know they're not checking it, so I
text instead. And I think really the most appropriate way
from here on out is if next June fifth, just
venmoment some cash.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Okay, that's that's the gift. That really means. That's exactly right,
all right?

Speaker 3 (05:24):
So what a mixed bag yesterday for a variety of reasons.
First of all, the buzz in the stadium looked incredible.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
What I did? I didn't do anything buzzers L two
a Bregman Korea.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
No, I didn't do any of that. That wasn't the
reason for There was a together stop, highly entertaining game.
Excellent tribute. We missed on the time of it. Yeah,
they did it before the game, before the smart and
that's good. Yeah, brag was awesome about it. And then
he smokes one to his favorite spot in the stadium. No,

(05:59):
Christian Hovey grooved him a flat sweeper in the middle middle.
It was a gift. It's a gift from Christian Javier.
It was a appreciate a meatball, as a kids would say. Yes,
and so you're thinking, oh, this is a sweeper that
didn't sweep.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
So you can think it's a long night.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
And then Christian Javier settled down five strikeouts in five innings,
and yeah, that was it. Over which I hit, I
hit the under on hits. I got wrong on the innings.
That's okay, but he got the win and the Astros
won it. And then come to find out that people
didn't know who Del Santos was, nor did I. And

(06:38):
that's fine because I've lost track at fifty relievers his
team has gone through this year, and then Bennett, Sue says,
come in and finished things out. He's the leftender you
weren't anticipating, but he was the one that came out
there and did it. Yes, And then you had to
worry about wool where's Josh Hater and then finding out
after the game that he came to the ballpark not

(07:00):
feeling great and it's going to get some tests done today.
I would say the chances of Joe a spotted telling
us how he's doing right now at twelve thirty would
be zero percent. I mean literally, there's no chance in
the world he's going to tell us how he is. Yeah,
we're still waiting on some test guys, and we'll see
what happens. He came to the ballpark with some discomfort
yesterday and we're kind of waiting on the results there

(07:22):
and we'll go from there. Yeah, that's exactly what he's
going to say. If let me tell you this, If
he tells what can I do? That's so incredible. If
he tells us what the results are posted all over
social media and get us some attention. Hmm, that's not
a bad idea. Actually, so yes, he had the thirty

(07:45):
six pitches on Friday, was not you Saturday, did warm
up Sunday, and then apparently when he got to the
ballpark and started doing his plios they call plometrics like
stretching and stuff, that's when he felt the discomfort. According
to Joe spot It last night. Okay, so we will
ask again. The chance of him giving us the true answer,

(08:06):
whether he knows it, doesn't want to say anything, or
they're still testing things is zero percent. We will not
get the definitive work, but we will ask. But a
very nice victory, a great comeback, lots of home runs.
Urreus with a home run last night. Yes, camp met
with a huge double last night. Yes, McCormick with his

(08:27):
first blast of the year. Who was a fun one
there was. It was definitely a nice energy to the
building yesterday. Was it place sold out or close to
what they announced as attendance? I think multiple people talked about.
I listened to a little bit of the post game, which.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Is fir for me. Thirty nine three thirty, that's really good.
That's basically say it was the.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Biggest Monday crowd of the year, and multiple people in
the postgame talking about it feeling like a playoff atmosphere.
That's outstanding and a desperately needed victory. You do gain
a half game on the Mariners because they did not
play yesterday. You also, uh, I have a lead of
one game in the American League West. It is that's
way too close for comfort. I like it, Like I'm

(09:07):
telling you, I'm sick to it's too easy. Don't be
sick to your stomach.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
It's baseball.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Like my favorite quote and we'll play it later on
from Joe Spottle last night, They're like, what was that like?
Having Innyell Della Santo's hold on and then Susan he
was like that was fun. He said, it was a
good time, Like it's just baseball, a bray. You King
and hater were down and he found a way to
get the win. With Hector and Aris trying to blow
the game, it's fun.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
I just don't want to see hecing Aaris anymore. I
don't know that you will.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
I just I'm I'm sure he's a very nice fellow
and he's beloved by his teammates and whatnot, But yeah,
I just can't do it anymore. My favorite thing is
people going you gotta get rid of Hector and Harris.
Let's get Ryan Presley. I'm sorry, what you want the
guy that was DFAED from another team that is shaky
and past his prime? And you're like, now, let's go

(09:59):
get the other guy who is DFA because he's shaky
and past his prime. All I know is I think
that Ryan Presley of twenty twenty two could walk in
that door any day now, so could Hector Naris. Hector
Nerris was great. Was it twenty two or twenty three,
whatever those years it was, he had like er in
or two. Yeah, all right, So we do want to
get in on the text of the astros with you folks,

(10:21):
and if you'd like to join the radio program, it's
seven one three two one two five seven nine A
zero seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
We'll mention the numbers a couple of times throughout the
course of the act because we want you guys to
be a part of the show. I mean, maybe you're
in the ross category of Hey, this is what a
Pennant race is all about. This is what mid August

(10:42):
baseball is supposed to be. I'd like a five game lead.
I mean, I know you would too.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
I would too, but hey, you take what you can get.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
You roll with the punches, and it's it's I would
say interest is up in every game, and I think
that's cool.

Speaker 7 (10:55):
That.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Yeah, I just felt like a little more breathing room
because the fact of the matters, the managers are better
baseball and Frank and I hate to say this, the
Mariners right now, especially if we find out something about Hater.
That's a better baseball team. And you got a hold
on for dear life. Here, I'll tell you who else
likes the tight race. Jimmy Crane. More interest, more ticket
sales thirty nine thousand in the ballpark yesterday.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Now of course that's.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah, yeah, I would have regardless. I will say this,
I would say if they had a ten game lead,
it wouldn't be as many.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
M just a guess. No, I'll say this.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
I will disagree with you because I believe that you
are about today Korea coming back, and you had Bregman
playing as fart of them. Oh today, you don't even
want to count because that's going to be a dollar
dog knight.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
It's always dollar dog knight. Well, I got a gut
feeling about that.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
By the way what I got A way random off
the board, gut feeling about that. Write it down so
you don't lose track of what it is. And if
I hit, I need massive credit. And then of course,
as gut feelings go, if I don't hit, who cares? No, No,
I'm okay with that. By the way, let's do this.
You're talking about meaningful games. I'm looking in September, the

(12:02):
Mariners come into town. The Mariner's game is like the
week of the weekend of the twentieth. Okay, so that's
a Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Yeah, that's right, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Seattle,
Seattle Sale. I bet you that Sunday game gets moved tonight.
So yes, be on a bet, just throwing a just
just doing a guest on that good feeling.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Write that down so I don't forget that one. That's sir,
that was actually too early, all right?

Speaker 3 (12:26):
Seven one three two one two five seven naughty. I'm
pretty maature about a few things. Seven one three two
one two five seven ninety serious serious sounds like Texans
injury happened yesterday. We'll get into a little bit of
that on the radio program today. We've got gut feelings.
We've got the NFL rewind today, We've got Joe a
spot at twelve thirty, and we have you at seven

(12:49):
one three two one two five seven nine zero seven
one three two one two five seven ninety. We're with
you today until two o'clock. We want you guys to
be involved in the show, whether it be on the
phones at seven one three two seven nine zero or
on Twitter at Sports empty at Sports rb RV. And
please wish the birthday boy Jonathan uh a very happy

(13:10):
birthday from yesterday. I don't know if he'll be here
a year from now, so you might as well get
it out a out of your system now before he decides.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
To go find a better job with more money.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Will you stop saying that out loud every time you
say that we lose a producer. Oh, it's my fault
because I say it. Okay, Jonathan, you're doing a great job.
We want you here forever, Jonathan. We look forward to
having you here until the first of the year. Seven one
three two one two five seven Hoey, Yeah, I can't
runer that Megan Repino podcast fast enough.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Oh my god. Who see there's.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
A lot of crappy alternatives out there. Thankfully we're not
one of them.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Man, there's a lot of crap out there. Trust me.
Maybe some people think we suck. That's fine. Well, I
know some people think we suck. I know it's funny.
I was looking at today at some people on Twitter
lines up and it's like, there are people that have
that have blocked me and I don't even know who
these people are. That's a shame. So if you want to, yeah,
you know what I might do.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
I might there starting a top five block list of
the week people that have blocked me the well, shut out, No.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Who cares? All right, we won't do it? Then leave
it alone, Matt, I will. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
You're always my You're always like my balance. Somebody should
I say this or should I do this?

Speaker 2 (14:18):
No, don't do it. Somebody's got to keep you in line.
I think you've done a right green job so far.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
Seven one three seven one three two five seven nine
zero purely speculation, Uh Josh, hater, But I mean it
doesn't sound good.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
It doesn't sound particularly good.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Honestly, if you want to take good news, at least
it's August twelfth, and if you can try to hold
on you got some time left in the season.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
It's better to hear this August twelfth and September twelfth.
Hopefully you don't want it to be surgery or anything
like that. I don't know. Yeah, we're pretty purely speculating,
as you said, So that's what we're gonna do. Frevin
Jordan more speculation on that apparently fell down, yelled. Guys
were a little shaken by the whole situation. Frevan Jordan
fought hard to get back after just missing most of

(15:12):
the last year, and then.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Well we'll see.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
Well, everybody was on a knee praying for CJ. Guard
to Johnson, and apparently he's fine. So we'll see what
maybe Dan like like a small church s like team
building exercises. That's right, like in Talladega Nights where they
act like that one guy was dead to try to
inspire Ricky Bobby and then he wasn't. That's right. You know,
we take a knee here every time we hear a

(15:35):
bad sports taken. Oh well two to six, we're dropping
knees all the time. That's on his knees the whole show.
What No, you can't say that? What Friday?

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Yeah, oh, I'm not even here on front. Oh you
know what?

Speaker 3 (15:48):
You know you're gonna be on Friday and Thursday too,
going to Austin your town for what Carly's volleyball first
big tournament of the year. M By the way, shout
out to Kingwood Volleyball playing our first game of the
season tonight. Wonderful. There'll be a great pa announcer. They're
doing the call. Huh No, I heard that guy sick
and they're using you. No, no, no, no, it's.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
All ready to go. That's pretty good. How much your charge?

Speaker 5 (16:14):
Zero?

Speaker 3 (16:15):
I do it for the lost yea, you better tell
them at least fifty bones. No, come on, that's some work.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
I announced my dog.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
I mean he didn't give away the golden pipes for free.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Matt, Well, that's true.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
I wonder if I can ask him for if I
can invoice them, I should play invoice.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Humbold School District or the Kingwood Mustang.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
All right, So if y'all want to see an outstanding
Division one setter, get ready to do her thing six
point thirty nine king Would High School.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, I'll show up. I'll be there.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
I'm telling you the divorce that's playmate full of Miller,
Jiller lights, Jiller gits. You cannot bring alcohol inside of
a high school, okay, legal, I mean you put it
in a stanley.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
There you go, much better.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Let's talk to Mark on seven ninety and ten twenty three. Mark,
good morning and thank you for holding.

Speaker 8 (17:05):
Hey.

Speaker 7 (17:05):
Thanks Matt, and I'm a king with dad myself.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
There you go, your daughter, thank you, There you go.

Speaker 7 (17:12):
Absolutely. My daughter's actually on the jv and varsity tennis team,
so very cool.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Well, if you ever gone to a game, comes to
introduce yourself, I most certainly will.

Speaker 7 (17:22):
I appreciate you guys. And listen, Matt, I know what
a pet peeve of it is with this whole wave thing.
I'm literally I'm literally listen. I'm literally sitting there. Chazy
just raked a bomb, everybody fired up, Smith walked, and
then all of a sudden, people in left field stands
are trying to start some kind of freaking wave.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
I said, are you guys.

Speaker 7 (17:44):
Trying to kill the momentum and ruin it for everybody?
I'm trying to pay attention to the game with some
of our big dogs coming up, and what ended up
happened nothing after that? We you know, there was one out.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
So man, guys, just stop it.

Speaker 7 (17:58):
Wait till the eighth inning when the game's out of
control and nobody's paying attention to anything, but not in
the middle. It's the fourth freaking inning. Man, come on,
what is going on with you? I just man, I
just don't get it. Man attention.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Mark. I'm right there with you.

Speaker 7 (18:16):
And so I stood up and I was waving my hand.
I said, no, don't do it. And some Boston fan
was sitting behind me and she's going, yeah, do it,
do it, because you know she's a Boston fan. So anyway,
that was a fantastic game last night. It was so
much fun. I'd rather not have been seven to six,
but my gosh, they found a way to get it done,
and it's it was just fun being able to go

(18:39):
there and watch that game with all the extra stuff
going on. And I agree with people, it was like
a playoff atmosphere. It was lots of fun.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Great.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Thank you for the phone call, Mark. I appreciate the
nice words and the analysis. I mean, look, I don't
want to sound like a rug record. I apologize. So
you know how I feel about the wave. You know
how I feel about the people that do the wave.
That's most important. Those start the wave, and it just
shows you that, you know, we're still struggling with baseball
document in this town. We just are, and I have

(19:07):
to I've come to accept it. I cannot continue to
beat it over your heads because I think most of
you that are smart people don't do it. But the
dumbs are out are out gaining the smarts.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Now. I'm with you, Matt.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
I go to dyke In Park to watch baseball, not
to throw my hands up in the air when the
crowd is going around and around around certainly non critical
moments of games.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
People crush you for it, and I think it's funny
though they do crush before all the kids, Well, teach
you know what.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
I went to the games with my dad when I
was a kid, and we talk baseball.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
We talked about how the best arm arm in your
outfit should be in right field. We talked about situational
hitting and don't they don't double switches anymore. We talked
about double switches a lot way while.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
I was a kid. I just did just I just
I just I just want to smart and play.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
We would play games the situational baseball like We'd be
sitting game watching my dad and he'd be like, all right,
you're the third basement. Balls hit to you on this play,
there's a guy on first two outs? Whatever, what do
you do? You know, just like talk baseball with your kid.
That's a crazy idea.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Do you hit run here?

Speaker 8 (20:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Exactly? Do you even lay the butt down?

Speaker 3 (20:12):
I mean again, we're not super big bunt fans, but
there's an occasional.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
Use for it. The thinking man's game. Yeah, it's the
hardest sport to intelligently discuss because there are so many nuances. Hmmm, Okay,
I'm gonna tell you this.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
I say football, this is no I would disagree because
I think football's the strategy and all that is there
isn't mean either a good play call or it is
made or not.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
I mean, it is what it is.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
But I think baseball to me, Look, I've been doing
baseball postgame shows, give or take hall for twenty five years.
There are still things about baseball that I still learn
about every single day. I'll give you an example. Yesterday,
you know the cut? You know the cut fastball is yes,
And I just thought, are these baseball nerds just going

(21:00):
to get two into the weeds about what a pitch does.
A fastball is a fastball, but a cut fastball has
some significant movement very late in the pitch when it's
thrown effectively. So you know what I did last night, Wal,
I was watching the game. I went to YouTube and
I looked up cut fastballs and I watched two minutes
of really good pictures with cut fastballs. Okay, Mariano Rivera, Yeah,

(21:20):
I mean I just great cutter. And it sinks late,
not a SINGI be about a sink. It's a little
bit of a sink. It does go to the glove
side hand of the pitches glove side run. It's like
a half slider. So yeah, it's incredibly when thrown right,
it's got this really biting late movement which really defies
physics in some respects.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
But I'm saying I'm.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
As a fifty three year old man who loves baseball
and has been watching baseball in my life, I wanted
to get into the.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Weeds about cut fastballs a little bit more. So I did.
And that's what you have to do.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
Yeah, it's a constant study, it really is. Okay, not
doing the wave is not a study. Let's take a
short time out. I think we were pulling that way right.
I mean, we gotta be a politter in the show.
I mean I want to be.

Speaker 8 (22:04):
I mean there's some.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
People that I'm gonna just one. I've made it two
segments without crushing fire Joe spot of people. So I'm
very proud of myself. I'm not gonna let you do
it today. Okay, I'm gonna back off. IM not gonna
let you do it the day off seven one three
two one two five sevens what I just tell you sorry,
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
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with the two sports teams in his town. And by

(22:27):
the way, you know, I'm a Today Show watch I
guess my wife and I watch and we drink our
coffee in the morning. They had uh clutch the mascot was there,
the bear. And they're announcing the NBA's opening night schedule,
and of course by now everybody knows the Rockets are
playing the Thunder and opening nine in the NBA. I
have to make a change in the greatest theme song

(22:47):
in television sports history, and it's because I'm hearing it
a lot in the last six months and it's fantastic.
Ten twenty nine Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Matt Ross, will you at ten.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Thirty three Sports Talk seven AUTI we have a little
bit of breaking news. ROSSI we've done a second one
in or No, I think it's a two, don't you think?

Speaker 8 (23:17):
Uh?

Speaker 9 (23:18):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Why not? Hey, go ahead, whenever you're ready. He's getting
a call.

Speaker 8 (23:25):
Oh is he?

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Okay? That's fine? What one is? Fine? Then get up?
There was the second one? Oh now it's three, we're
the two and a half.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
It's uh, we don't really count your foe, Okay, it's rude.
Jonathan m Alexander first on the scene. The Texans plan
to place Brevin Jordan on the injured reserve after his
injury in yesterday. It's practice, per source, followed up by
Adam Schefter with accreditation to Jonathan m Alexander. So, congratulations

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to him on that. Texans placing Brian veron Jordan and
you reserve. As John m Alexander reported, so we talked
about the injury yesterday. We were wondering if everyone was
just doing a team building exercises, but no Brevin Jordan
on I are no specific mention of what the exact
injury is.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Uh yeah, just came back.

Speaker 10 (24:21):
Well.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
I mean my guess is the Demiko will speak to
the media today and give you an update on that
Brevin with a torn acl in twenty twenty four. And
you know, sports is cruel. It just is football, the
corolest of all. There is a guy and I don't
know who it is, and I apologize for not knowing
who it is, but there was somebody that just spent
a season on the injured list. This weekend, played in

(24:44):
a preseason game and got hurt very early and has
it's going to be gone again. I mean, the body
is the body is only going to do so much.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
My for instance, take Dell.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
You know, as much as I love him for being
a Houston Cougar, you know I was not carrying the
flag for him being drafted because I was afraid. I
was afraid of his frame and five five what was
he five seven one sixty five somewhere in that range.
You're just you're going against big safeties, linebackers, corners, and
even though the injuries were flucish in both regards, does

(25:17):
somebody at six one two nineteen have to worry about
such things. I would say the injury of the second
injury for sure. I mean somebody flew into his knee
when he's catching a touchdown. I mean that could happen
to anybody. And then he says that was kind of
a freak thing, but kind of doesn't matter. I think
it was such a major injury for him. We're wondering,
I mean, if he's ever going to come back, and
if he does, how effective he's going to be.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
So Brevin Jordan, Uh, I don't know how long that's
going to be.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
And again, my guess is you'll get a further update
from the tech when the Texans are hit the practice. Yeah,
injured reserve isn't the death knel at once was you
can be on IR and then be designated to return later.
You guys that can do that, right, I think I
think it's more Now is it a pandemic?

Speaker 2 (25:55):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (25:56):
I knew for a while it was you could you
could take two guys to come back at a certain
period of time. Uh, let me tell you, Dalton Schultz,
my man, you gotta have a great season, because I
mean Brevin Jordan was now was gonna was that right?

Speaker 2 (26:08):
That's a lot.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
Uh Bredman was gonna First of all, double tight insets
is always a quarterback's best friend, especially on short yard
of situations. And Schultz did not have a good season
last year. Now, the camp he's having this year apparently
has been pretty good, which is an encouraging sign. But
so far the value of his performance since signing that
was a three year deal has not been good. And

(26:33):
if you're still gonna be a run oriented offense, which
I still believe that's what Demiko wants at the end
of the day, double tight insets are a very big
part of it. Yeah, it would have been nice to
have him back. I'm not super worried about it from
I mean, you can just stretch out defenses and people
are playing too high safety anyways, a bunch of just
no matter what kind of sets people are playing.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
It certainly hurts, but you dealt with it last year,
You're gonna deal with it. And while Brevin Jordan's kind
of always feels like a breakout candidate, it's not like
he has this storied history of being this right.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
They a huge impact player. They know what it's like
to play without him, so it's not a significant change
of plan. All right, let's go to Mike Is whether
it's at ten thirty seven of the Matt Thomas hild
Ross Mike, good morning.

Speaker 11 (27:21):
Hey, how you guys are doing this morning?

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Fine? Thank you?

Speaker 12 (27:24):
Hey, real quick, I just wanted to shift a different perspective.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
On the whole wave thing.

Speaker 12 (27:29):
You know, me and my wife go to Pop six
games a year, and you know, do I think the
wave is stupid? Of course I do, But I understand
why it happens because I mean, if you look at
the row on the right of the left when you're
in an Astros game, it's usually a family of four,
and three of the people in that family of four

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don't give a crap about the pitcher's era or the
guy in the batter's box.

Speaker 11 (27:55):
What he hits with runners spy position. They're there because
Pops to.

Speaker 12 (27:58):
Do him in the car and took him to the game,
and it's hello, kid nine, or it's friends night. So
I mean, that's why it happens. I just think that,
you know, the Astros in Major League Baseball promote environments city.
You know, that's what's going to keep people interested in Jay.
Let's be frank, Baseball is slower sports than basketball or football.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
So there's there's roles, and.

Speaker 7 (28:23):
I get it.

Speaker 12 (28:23):
I think it's ridiculous, but that's here's my perspective, my mind.
I think it goes down.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah, thank you for the phone call.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
I appreciate it. I think baseball is a family friendly sport.
It's a sport that has tradition and history, and there's
a mascot, and there's the girls, and there's the giveaways.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
There's plenty of things that make the sport pace. Well. Yeah,
the shooting Stars.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Shout out to Astros appy if she's listening, Uh, former
Astro shooting star.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
I mean, I don't know. Okay, Look, first of all,
let's say this, Matt.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
You hate the wave and you rail against it on
but it's like nobody's gonna die over this.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
No, it's not like, uh, I mean we've never gone.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
And said, hey, honey, we gotta leave this stating because
the wave going. Yeah, exactly, fun exactly. I think you
should be there to I agree with Matt for the
most part. Now, I'm okay if it's like ten to
one in the fourth inning or something, or the games
completely out of hand, whatever, but I have this. I
have this crazy idea that man agrees with that if
you go to a baseball game, you should watch the

(29:31):
baseball because it now. It has happened at Texans games,
but it's extremely rare because people are engaged in the game.
I have never seen it happen at a Rockets game.
It just seems to always happen in the baseball And yes,
it does happen because the game is slower. But also,
as I said, if you're just taking the kids there
to be in the ballpark and then sit on their

(29:55):
tablets and do the wave the whole time.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
You're wasting your money. Just stay home.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
Part of being at the game is putting the phone away,
watching what's on the field, and enjoying the sport. I
mean again, I didn't focus when I was going to
baseball games in nineteen eighty and eighty one at the Astronom,
I wasn't worried about the wave. I was worried about
learning about Nolan Ryan, and learning about Billy Dorian, and
learning about all my favorite early astros, Alan Ashby. It

(30:21):
is a different time, sure it is, and the world's
greatest babysitter is phones and tablets. But I'm just I
don't know. It's just crazy notion. Let's go to the
game to watch baseball. Yeah, that's all we're saying. And
by the way, and if it offends some of you,
which clearly does, that's fine. I mean I this, yeah,
and the car brought up. I mean it was very
polite about it and understood it and get it. And

(30:42):
it's like, yeah, it's families and yeah. But also the
wave sometimes it doesn't happen at all, and if it does,
it happens for like three minutes. So it's you're just
looking for three minutes of entertainment for your child.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
I don't know, I don't know whatever. I just I
just don't get it.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
I just I raised three children to enjoy sports. They
didn't say, Dad, we got to give to the baseball games.
We can do to put our hands up in the air. Now,
my kids do like the wave, and they antagonize me
about it constantly.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Of course, and guess what, nobody died over it. Nobody
died over it. It's just a disagreement.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
They just know that when like tonight, they may try
to do it the Kingwood volleyball game, I will not
partake because I'll be announcing they do that. No, but
they when the club season back when I was, when
Carly was younger, all the parents knew that they didn't
like the waves, so they'd say and it would.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Go parent, parent, parent, parent. But they were doing it
just to spite me. And I put my hands down.
That's funny because I'm a wavebuster. Oh you didn't put
your hands up.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
By the way, if you do not like the wave
follow the official Wavebuster's hou account on Twitter It's Wavebusters
and show you it's not that interesting. Well, it's not
going to follow me back, So why should I know?
It only follows one person back. Yeah, you it's my burner. Yeah,
that's where you go to. Well, actually you don't have

(31:56):
to go anywhere else when you're blocked by somebody. No, no,
you used to, right, but not anymore. Now I can
still see your book.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
No great idea. Yeah, I was like, I don't get I.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
Am blocked by people are blocking me like a mota,
like I'm some sort of pass rusher or something. M
the I'm the pass rusher of social media. I come
at you hard and if you don't like it, you
block me. And of course there's people on there. I've
never even had any conversation with my life that have
blocked me. Okay, man, it's how does that make you feel?

(32:26):
It's okay, I've lived. You've brought it up twice now. Well,
just because we're bringing it blocks and waves and stuff. Way,
Buster's h ou give it a follow there's thousand and
fifty followers on theirself.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
You need to move past it, man, I will okay,
all right?

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Uh seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
We got a gut feelings coming up at eleven thirty today.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
I do want to get into how Alex Bregman's reaction
changed from AB one to a B two.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
That was interesting last night, how it came out that way.
We'll discuss that. Plus what do the astros do if
we're worried about mister Hayter's left arm? Seven one three
two one two five seven ninti. It is the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross seven one three two one two
five seven NINTI. All right, we've gotten feelings come up

(33:11):
at eleven thirty. Uh, we got Joe a spot at
twelve thirty. So Clutch the Rockets Bear is in New
York and today the worst kept Seeker wasn't announced officially
by NBC. The first set of games on NBC since
two is I think it's two thousand and two, since

(33:32):
the NBA has left NBC Doubleheader Opening Night. It will
feature your beloved Houston Rockets against the Oklahoma City Thunder
in Okase. It'll be ring Ceremony night, and the game
will be here on Sports Talk SEVENINTI. Of course I'll
have the call, but the television is going to be

(33:54):
on NBC and Peacock. And I've been listening to this
song ross about one hundred times in the last week.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
That's weird.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
My all time favorite theme song is Monday Night Football
on the ABC ESPN. But I think I'm about to
trumpet into this. This might be the new number one
for me. I guess we're gonna hear it so much.
What'd you say your previous goat was?

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Then? Then I thought, oh, this is the goat.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
I told you that when I beat you in these
sports themes Fantacy five and.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Ask your opinion. I'm just telling you my opinion. Okay, Yes,
this is the goat. This is the goat. Close No
no no no no no no no, don't say it's
not close stop stop, stop, stop stop, get it heady.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
And it's because, of course, this reminds me of nineteen
ninety four, nineteen ninety five, understanding that when I truly
and fully fell in love with sports, see how this
will always be number one for me and it's not
even and see for me, I in love with football
as a kid listening to our web ghosts sell when

(35:05):
he when you would hear you got your homework done
at seven o'clock, because at eight o'clock and see if
you can find the Monday night football theme. I think
Jonathan's talking to somebody, but that's fine, if you can
find the Monday night football themes. I wanted to make
sure my homework is because at eight o'clock I wanted
to hear D D dun and then Howard Cosell would

(35:26):
narrate the introduction. And that's when I fell in love
with football. So I guess it's to each his zone.
When you fall in love with something and you, I mean,
this is nice, this is this is number two.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Dad Marino, the Slinger.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
Front Pittsburgh finds Mark Tupa in the corner of the.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
End zone Miami.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
Well then early seven nothing, lean back comes Richard Todd
hands it off to Wesley Walker and walker down the
side on there he goes. Jets put up two light skulls,
the rematch from the Sunny Orange Bowl. It's the Dolphins
and the Jets on a base. Oh my god, so good.

(36:15):
Forget what I said. This is still number one in
my mind.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Oh my god, you're so.

Speaker 6 (36:20):
You did a whole segment on how Rainbow.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Rock is number one and changed five seconds. You said
you listened to the other one one hundred times.

Speaker 13 (36:27):
I did.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
But I haven't heard this in a while. I'm back
in level this song. This is great, This is like,
this is like an old girlfriend from high school. You
haven't seen her in a long time. You go into
the one that hated you and spin in your face. No, no, Clett,
never spin in my face. Say call me back when
you're agne clears up well, or you can drop some weight,
Matt at some point, which I've done, but will pass
my prime now and then you're.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Looking great, Matt.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
Yeah, those two are the tops. Okay, And and and
I don't know if I think number three is probably
Fox NFL Sunday. But that's that's a drop. That's a
significant drop. I don't remember. I'd have to go through it.
Don't do it. I don't want to do as I lost.
I went to Wimbledon and lost it, which is fine.
I ran talk breakfast at Wimbledon. Uh oh, I'll tell

(37:14):
you it was three huh or maybe two?

Speaker 7 (37:17):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (37:17):
Wha, wha, wha wha, go ahead, CBS. Oh, college basketball,
college basketball, Rossy, you don't do this to me. Don't
even play it. Why not because it hurts back what
happened in April.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Oh, I want no mention of college basketball until it's
college basketball.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
Ser I don't. I don't remember. I don't think I
was even there. I was sick out a fever. Now
we got to hear jim Nance. Another disappointment, but they
uston Cougar's as they fail yet again as a final four,

(37:57):
a record a whopping seven final fours without a championship victory.
Can they do it again? The most futile basketball program
in history goes to choke once again at the Final
four in Indianapolis. Look, if we let Ross go today,
it won't be a huge loss.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
I can bring somebody back in here really quick. Now
they got to ride better, believe it or not.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
Chris Webber thinks that if the Cougar is choked too much.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
On the citys.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Yeah, this is this is that I'm I'm locking it
in top three whatever you want to put them.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
What do you think?

Speaker 3 (38:44):
Yeah, one, two, three, five, alright, one two three, Fox
is four. And how about ESPN Sunday Night Baseball Music done?

Speaker 2 (38:52):
That's dun I don't know.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
Why we got into this, but what being is this
round bar rocket is getting me in the mood. I
told you that's one hundred times before. And a lot
of people were complaining about TNT losing the NBA coverage.
I think NBC is gonna do a magnificent Jeff. First
of all, Mike Tarico is an excellent broadcaster. Even though
it's a Syracuse guy. Most of these guys are PUDs.
I think he's outstanding. Everything he does is top freaking shelf,

(39:19):
and so they're in a good spot.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
I'll be curious see how Amazon does their games.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
I mean, will they try to reinvent the wheel a
little bit or just keep it as a traditional NBA game?

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Maybe clip coupons on toilet paper in the middle of
the broadcast. That'd be actually pretty funny.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
Past left side of ed Toms and nine foot are
up and good and coming up for the next fifteen minutes.
You can get a toaster of him for just fourteen dollars.
You cannot throw commercially. You cannot throw discounts in the
middle of a car.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Tell me Amazon won't.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
Well, yeah, no, I have ad clickable ads in the
middle of the prime video of Thursday Night Football. I
have never one of those before me either. It's just
on principle. But I mean they've got Iron Eagle and
Kevin Harlan doing the games over there. I mean, we're
gonna be We're gonna be in good shape. But yeah,
today's show had to clutch. The mascot got up there
a free trip to New York just to announce that

(40:14):
the first game is gonna be October twenty first against
Oklahoma City Beautiful. I gotta watch that ceremony live and
by getting their rings cool and then the Rockets are.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Gonna beat him.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
Katie goes back to his old stomping grounds, dropping forty
close front of the show.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
Kevin durant Son.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
He's not that close of a friend. We haven't had
him on. You think we can get him on to
follow us on Twitter. No, I'll ask be a huge
gift for us, it would. Yeah, you know, people ask him.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Honestly, it's been a failing by you that he hasn't
been on the show yet.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
He hasn't got anybody show yet. Yeah, but I mean,
if there's any show he's gonna be on, should we this?
We got a shot at all on media Day?

Speaker 8 (40:55):
For sure?

Speaker 2 (40:55):
You are official Rockets insider. I'm an insider.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
Yes, all right, ten fifty seven on Sports Talk seven outy,
let's get the second hour started of the show and
that will feature again coming up in thirty five minutes.
Uh gut feelings news that noon is coming up. We
have a very exciting astrois game. Oh you know what
we forgot to do. We'll do this start in the
top ten o'clock eleven o'clock hour. How did you think
the reaction was for Alex Bregman As the night progress,

(41:19):
We'll get to that after Ross told you about Sander Jennick.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Is the Matt Thomas Show with.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
Ross Madan Ross whether you at eleven oh one?

Speaker 2 (41:34):
All right?

Speaker 3 (41:34):
So Bregman gets the warm round of applause and he
goes tank to left field and after that did you
see did you hear the second ab There were a
few booze?

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Yeah, why not?

Speaker 3 (41:52):
You know what, I can tell you for a fact
that he didn't care about it, Nor do I, nor
should anybody else. This notion of well he was the greatest,
one of the greatest astros of all time, which he
was in my opinion, he's in an Emmy territory nine
years of greatness. He'll get his orange jacket. Yeah, he
will get his orange jacket. He will be a They
don't do ballots, but he will be an early candidate

(42:14):
for Astros Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
Oh, they're desperate. Well, the problem is they put too
many people in too fast. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
And still Tony Yusabio can't make it. It's ridiculous. But anyways,
I digress. She should some As I told you, I
was listening to the postgame show, which I don't normally
do last night. Somebody was saying that they were in
the crowd and maybe people can tweet us or call that.
A lot of the booze were kind of tongue in cheek,
like boo ha haha, because he hit the home run. Yeah,
but they still love him. Yeah, I can tell you

(42:42):
this Dylan Brooks, WI get a nice round of applause
and first time he comes here. Oh, the second night
will be a different story. His first follies get a
big boot back to hating him.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
Look, I think the first everything was handled by the
Astros yesterday beautifully. The ceremony was nice, the tip of
the app the standing ovation for Carlos Korea. Everything went well.
I mean even they're obviously the result was the most
important thing. But I you know what one AB is
plenty one AB is more than enough. Say do what

(43:14):
you're doing now, you're breaking. You're there with the Boston
Red Sox. You are playing for your playoff lot in
not playoff life, but you are staying in first place life,
and you need to strike him out or get him out. Yeah,
don't let him hit cheap shots to the Crawford boxes.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
That's which has been his m O. And that's okay.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
Now, I don't know. My guess is that his went
about what three or four rows deep? I think I'll
tell you the distance and how many ballparks it.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Was out in.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
Oh can I mag yes, sure, and get I get
a plus or minus one? No, you got a nail
it on the head or you lose. Okay, I cannot do this. No,
not too much. It's good of the thirty, well out
the twenty nine. It gets out of three eight real,
Oh so it was pretty much a bit better than
a hate. Yeah, it's still not a lot, but yeah,

(44:01):
threehundred I think it was three hundred fifty three and
fifty one feet and it was out of.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Eight ball barks. Yeah, I had to go check. I'm
telling you, I have only this is really strange.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
I've only sat in the Crawford boxes twice in my life,
and the first time it was not It was twenty
seventeen sports RV. Okay, it was the double header in September.
It was fresh after the floods. It was Verlander shows
up in the middle of the game to go sit
with his teammates. The crowd was it was. It was

(44:32):
that it was a series against the Mets. I want
to say. It was a double header and the Astros
I think won both games, and Springer hits a home run.
And I'm telling you, I don't know who I was
sitting with. I don't know if it was family or
it was coworkers or whatever the case would be. But
I and I'm gonna go ahead and say it. I'm

(44:53):
be perfectly honest with you. I'm a woos. That ball
was sizzling to the Crawford boxes. The guy one row
behind me, into my left shoulder, caught the ball. I've
never seen a man's hand physically swell up before my eyes,

(45:13):
but he caught the thing. And all I remember was hearing,
we can find the date and find the exit velo.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
You really can? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (45:23):
Why should be like nothing? That should be like seventy
four and no, I want to say it was September.
It was a doubleheader against the Mets, twenty seventeen for sure, Okay,
and this you see, this would be you said he
would uh verlin. It was just traded, so it'd be
like early Well that was the August thirty Fest time.
That was when I used to have that. Yeah, so

(45:44):
he literally got the town. I don't first game or
second game. I want to say it was the first game.
Don't hold me to that though, Okay, but I was
in the Crawford boxes like I have. I mean, in
all the years I've been going to Minute Made Park
whatever name it was, or now Dyiking since two thousand
and two, thousand. That was the first time I ever
sat back then I said, this is pretty cool until

(46:06):
that ball came a sizzling through my and it almost
clipped my left ear. Yeah, that's why I would never
get mad at people crush people for so Yeah, I'm
just gonna give you awll some advice if you've never
sat out out.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
George Springer home run, second inning off of Matt Harvey. Yeah,
that's it. Okay, Now I gotta go chase down.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
I'm so happy you could do this for us. There's
nobody that cares about this accept me, and for that
I thank you for it.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
We don't keep talking. I gotta chase this down.

Speaker 7 (46:30):
All right.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
Follow me on Instagram at sport I got over twenty
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Speaker 2 (46:53):
No, We're not gonna have.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
A party at three can't we have a party of
three thousand, okay, whatever, folks, please follow me at sports irvy.
Matt wouldn't mention his Instagram at all, and then and
then I started doing it, and now he pimps his
every day because he was because he got jealous, because
I was getting follows.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
You were gonna You're a good influence on me. Yeah.
Actually I knew that was gonna happen, So I did
do that on purpose, Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
George Springer home run ninety seven point three miles an
hour off the bat?

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Is that wasser mile? Okay? In the second?

Speaker 3 (47:23):
I mean ninety five is considered hard hit okay, So
I didn't feel bad that I didn't try to go
catch that thing.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
Hardest hit ball to the hardest hit balls in this game.

Speaker 5 (47:32):
JD.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
Davis, you had a home run in a double at
one O eight point eight and one O eight point three. Oh,
then I feel bad because one oweights are being hit
and I was getting mad at ninety seven ninety seven
miles hours flying.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Out of there. Mathcay, I just want to make sure
that that is funny. We could look that up.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
What I start calling you, mister research. I do like
the research. Your very good.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
I have a curious mind and I like to look
things up. So what all right? No, I'm not I'm
actually you for this. I'm shocked. I'm shocked too.

Speaker 7 (48:04):
Well.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
At sports RV, I'm going to fall sports RV, you
won't find much except these really strange videos with stats
behind his head and his.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Hair wafting around. But you know, do again do you?

Speaker 8 (48:15):
Well?

Speaker 2 (48:15):
What's what's the great content on yours?

Speaker 7 (48:17):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (48:17):
Pictures of me with Haul Cogan okay, from like twelve
years ago? Well, I mean it puts things in perspective
for sure. Yeah, okay, Yeah, somebody dies, let's make it
about me and put a picture of me in the
guy up.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
Yeah, I get you. You did quite well. Actually, it's cool.
It's great stuff. Oh, by the.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
Way, here it is. This is from a friend of
the show, Ryan mcmaggart. You're talking about their doublehead of
the first home games after the hurricane. Aj Hinch made
a big emotional speech pregame.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
I listen.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
I love Brian McTaggart. He's great, but he is the best?
Is it an American hero?

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Fine? Scott's irishman? Yeah, he's there and a lot.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
He's Brian mctager's in a lot of the most important
astro events of the last gazillion years.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
He was there. He was there if it happened to
the astros, generally, he was there. Yeah. He and I
would school together at University of Houston.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
We're like two peas in upon including you cowering from
a ninety seven mile an hour home run I did.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
I would.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
Could you imagine if I tried to catch the thing
and it would have not only not caught the ball,
but my hand would have stolen up. I missed days
of work. That'd not have been good, but it probably
might have hit you in the noggin. I can't have that,
I know, but I'm questioning your hand, that coordination. Oh,
I would too. I'm the quote unquote non athlete of
seven ninety I can get that. I'm very well aware
of who is the least athletic person, me, the station, Me.

(49:34):
People don't know this. Wex has got game. He's a
good point, I'm to see. I know your skeptical three
tournaments with we He was hitting me with dimes over
the top on pick and roll ten years ago into
my hands ten years ago, and like though he was
telephoring the ball into my hands and we were getting
the last we're getting buckets, Maddie. No, I'm telling you

(49:57):
that was yesterdyear, ten years ago. Do you go to
high school Saint Piaus or something like that? One of
those uh, one of those private schools. Here was a
point guard. He's like the Muggsy Bogues of the league. Yeah,
I was thinking more of Mark Price. But that's fine.
You do you have the Hooper for real? No, there's
zero more. No, there's zero more. I mean, once your hooper,

(50:19):
you're always hoop.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
I used to play back in the day town telling
you we were running picking rolls and I wasn't even
expecting to get the ball, and I just look up
and the balls in my hands.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
He's dropping dimes. I'm serious, dead serious.

Speaker 8 (50:31):
Get it?

Speaker 2 (50:31):
Uh, when that's off, you get what? Okay, I buy it?
I think all right? Game two of the series tonight.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
Uh and again Joe Spott is going to join us,
coming up in about an hour and twenty minutes.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Okay. Uh So, how worried were you about that? That
that that what ending? Would they score the fore run?

Speaker 3 (50:55):
Yeahs and I was pretty worried.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Oh my God, it was one hard hit ball after
the other. It was tough. I mean, Brian Abrady was down.
Brian King, I think Joe.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
Spotta said after the game wasn't available in the series.
Josh Hater wasn't available because now he's got shoulder discomfort.
So to navigate that lineup, the the Boston Red Sox lineup,
and to fight them off and get enough run support
to go out there and win that game. I mean,
Steven Oker gave up a two run shot and he's
been great all season. I'm gonna give you an unpopular tank.

(51:29):
Would you like to hear this?

Speaker 2 (51:30):
Yes? Okay? And I want to make sure I preface
this one hundred times over. Okay, I'll count.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
Josh Hater is one of the best closers in baseball
in twenty twenty five. The numbers bear that out. Okay,
you hear what I said? What did I just say,
Josh Haters? Oh boy, here we go.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Saying it. So I can Gosh Haters a great one
of the best relievers in the baseball if.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
He's out for a lengthy period of time, I think
Brian and Brad can do it.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
Oh yeah, that's not unpopular. He could be a closer. Absolutely. Okay,
So I while I'm very concerned.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
For instance, if the Astros were to lose, who is
the one player that is on this roster that is
super healthy that the team couldn't live without? Jeremy Pinion, Well, no,
because you can move. You could actually move Carlos Carey
at a shortstop. So that doesn't even give you the answer.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Who would be the biggest loss, I'll say, Jeremy Pinion, Still.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
Can I tell you? Can I fight for Carlos Kreyer
being the biggest loss.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
If you want to. We don't need to tell about
from a leadership standpoint or something.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
No, I'm talking about the entire Who is the one
player that would hurt on?

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Well, we forget about that.

Speaker 3 (52:56):
By the way, Space City Sports and a tweets is
we need different sounders because he was afraid that something
was yourd one was the sounder?

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Well, breaking news is breaking news? Yeah it does. We
can't deal with your predilections. It's not our not up
to us.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
Yeah, sorry, you can move karreat as short So the
Jeremy Paaniel Los would hurt. Now that's your leadoff guy
and he was good. But who do you play at
third base if has got to go to shorts.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
That's why I think you bond.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
That's why I think Carlos Korea hurts more than a Jermany.
I think they would keep Carlo's Karrey at third. They
did that when Paine was out on yeah Saturday in Boston,
that's right, he did.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
They do that.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
Al Tuo Bay has been hitting the ball really well.
Ops is back above a hundred, comfortably.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Good for him.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
But my point, going back to my central point, the
hater loss.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
We almost scare a lights flickered on the powers going up.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
Anyways, Uh, I think we have a generator, so we
should still be on air the hater loss. If it's
anything of a length, it's gonna hurt tremendously. Okay, well
then fine, I'll say Hunter Brown. But Brian A Bray,
you fills in comfortably there. Now all of a sudden,
your leverage guys move up a spot. Yeah, it's I mean,
who's your second best leverage guy? Now, Bennett Sussa got

(54:16):
four saves. I mean, I'm not kidding, four saves exactly
a guy kind of. I mean, look, he's had a
good he's been good for the Astros. But you got
a lot of scrap heap guys, and that's why I
thought they would get a right handed reliever at the deadline.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
They did not.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
They tried for that, They tried for starting pitching mm hm,
and unfortunately we're in. You know, that's why I'm telling you.
You tell you think bringing in Ryan Presley is the
worst thing you've ever heard in your entire life to
be an eighth inning guy. If you think he's washed,
you think he's washed, I mean, I get that.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
I think he's washed. Now, Okay, you're you're desperate.

Speaker 14 (54:53):
Now.

Speaker 3 (54:54):
I was more against bringing him in before this hater
injury one point five to two whip folks walks in
his per innings pitch. I think there's nothing left in
Heckard Norris's team. There's nothing left in Ryan Preslick's tank either. Yeah,
I look trading one for the others. I just think
I want to, Hey, let's get rid of this recently

(55:15):
dfaid reliever who was good in the past and is
thirty six years old. Okay, who we're gonna bring in
the recently dfaid thirty six year old reliever good in
the past. Not trying to over to defend Presley here,
but he has that horrific game early in the season.

Speaker 7 (55:29):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
Can we take those numbers out of it? Are they
a little bit better?

Speaker 3 (55:33):
I mean it have to be his A field independent
pinching is something I like. It doesn't have to do
with Era five oh two. That's a horrible number, worst
of his career. And again whip one point five two four,
that's a horrible number.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
But also part of it is too you need another pitcher.
Are you gonna go get somebody that's been there, done that,
or go get somebody from the minor leagues that's getting valuable.
I mean, I would rather have somebody else.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (55:56):
He's thirty six years old and he was designated for assignment.
He was slippy. He we saw slippage in his game
the last two years here. I mean, look, I'm not
gonna be up at arms and say it's horrible if
he comes here whatever. Okay, But and I don't know
if it's even on the radiar, So could he be
on he'd be on the cups. That's true, that's true,
all right? Seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety.

(56:16):
We've got gut feelings coming up at the bottom of
the hour seven one three two, one two five seven ninety.
If you want to join us say hello. You can
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(56:39):
Tuesday on the Matt Thomas Show. With Ross coming up
in the next segment, I've already got one.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Did that is your his way off the board? Am
I gonna make fun of you? Or am I gonna go? Okay?

Speaker 3 (56:51):
I see you're going you gonna say I see where
I'm going with this? Okay, very nice, but we'll see
it involves the astros. It is sports business related. Hmm hmm.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
And I'll leave it at that, okay.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero We
are you know you were talking about how I like
a little separation between A.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
And B, meaning the top two teams in division. Mm hm.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
And you're talking about how Jim Crane likes it, which
is fair. But to be honest with you even if
they were up five. We got some sexy teams coming in.
Yankees have yet to get here. Those three Seattle games
are gonna be huge. You still got two more at
the Red Sox and Red Sox I don't know why,
but still have a huge national fan base. Who Rangers

(57:46):
will be here. You know, Arlington's gonna come down and
hang out for a long weekend. Okay, so no, they'll
be fixated on the Cowboys will be in season by
the Yeah, but they're gonna be ok at that point,
and so they're not gonna be checked out by the sex. True,
they're still gonna be hopeful. They're gonna turn it around.
They're still waiting for Micah Parsons to be signed. Their
greatest coach of all time, Brian.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
Shott in Heimer. You know what he I've listened.

Speaker 3 (58:09):
A little bit of Brian Schottenheimer. It looks affable. Yeah,
he's just a guy. He's a replacement level head coach.
But that's what they do. So Jerry Jones likes. Yeah,
he likes the guys replacement level.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
Yes man.

Speaker 3 (58:21):
Yeah, I was gonna say if you questioned anything he does.
The last time somebody questioned what he did that was
Jimmy Johnson, and they haven't gone to Super Bowl since. God,
it is amazing to me the power of that organization
despite the fact its intense mediocre, mediocre play for thirty
freaking years. Yeah, it's easily the longest NFC championship drought.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
I think it's besides you now.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
Of course the Texans have never made it, but right,
it's been a longer drought. Well, the Lions haven't gone
to the Super Bowl, so that's what they made a
champion AFC Championship, NFC Championship saying, Okay, that might if
you want to, you know, we do our Thursday. I
just don't get it. That might be the greatest if

(59:10):
you had like a Hall of Fame induction ceremony for
the I just don't get it. It would be the
Dallas Cowboys to me, because I look, I understand Texas,
I understand Dallas for worth, but there are fifteen year
olds that are in Cleveland, Ohio. There are fifteen year
olds that are in Missoula, Montana. There are twenty two

(59:32):
year olds in Conquer, New Hampshire Ross that live, eat,
and breathe the Dallas Cowboys. As Chris Collinsworth said last year,
if we could put the Sunday the Cowboys on Sunday
Night Football seventeen times a year, we would do it.
I don't get it either, because it's I mean, it's
a brand, it's a nice logo, just a star.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
But even really good shows.

Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
That have bad riding lose ratings, you know what I mean,
Even really good shows who lose their main stars, they
have a goodbye, they end their run. I mean, I'll
use a terrible example. The nineteen seventies, the most popular
sitcom was All in the Family. All the Family in

(01:00:24):
the first five or six years was cutting edge. It
dealt with topics that were never discussed on television. It
went through stereotypes. It was first of all very funny,
but then it got softer as the family got older
and they lived, and so they said, you know what,
we got to end the show. Dallas Cowboys in the
early nineteen nineties were going to Super Bowls left and right.

(01:00:45):
You had a Hall of Fame quarterback, you had a
Hall of Fame running back, you had a Hall of
Fame wide receiver. We had a great defense. But that
was thirty years ago. But yet even to this day,
for their consistent mediocre play. They just have a grip
on America. And it's not just Houston of the Dallas
Cowboy fan club, not just North Texas.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
Every single time.

Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
There's a reason why every opener the Cowboys are on
national television of their games eight times a year. They
just have this insatiable draw that I just don't get.
I mean, yeah, just the mystique from years past, and
most years they're at least decent, are making the playoffs.

(01:01:29):
It's not like they've I think if they went two
and fifteen for five years, it would be a lot
different than what it is now. We wouldn't see them
on Sunday Night Football nearly as much. And I think
it also part of it is the teams they play
are in super mega media markets. They play the Giants
twice a year, they play Washington twice a year, they
play Philadelphia. Those are entrenched regional, not regional, but divisional rivalries. Yeah,

(01:01:51):
I think that's true, and they're they're generally in the mix.
I'm just trying to pull up.

Speaker 8 (01:01:59):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
Seven to ten last year, but Dak Prescott was hurt
and then they were twelve and five for three straight
years before that. So it's not like they're they've completely
fallen off the map for a long period of time,
I give you, but it just feels like for a
team that gets as much an exposure and every single
thing they do is dissected on national television for multiple

(01:02:21):
hours per day, you would think they at least have
at least one Super Bowl appearance in their mix, and
they just don't. That's a shame. So their fans are
really nice and not delusion at all. We got a
minute here left. If they're the most overhyped national brand,
all right, excuse me the reprophrase. If they're the biggest

(01:02:42):
national brand that doesn't have the foundation of success behind it.
What's the number two Yanke? I mean five super Bowls
is still among the best? Oh, the Yankees. Number two.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
The Yankees of the World Series last year, so that's.

Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
I would say the Lakers, but then they won in
twenty Yeah, Yankees haven't won since two thousand and nine.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
So yeah, but the.

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
Yankees were in the World Series, lie, I mean they
got to the you know, they didn't win it, but
they thought that was They hadn't been to the World
Series in two thousand and nine before that, so we'll
go Yankees, probably so, But I mean there are other
teams like Red Sox didn't hadn't won since you know whatever,
nineteen eighteen or whatever, but they were still a big
brand and they were on Sunday Night Baseball every week. Yeah,
playing the Yankees, because again, why part of it rivalry?

(01:03:21):
When you play the Yankees and Red Sox fifteen times
here or whatever it was back in the day you
had thousands millions people watching it. They didn't care about
either one of the teams. All right, loving twenty eight
Time for some gut feelings. Ross has a sports business
gut feeling that I cannot wait to hear about. If
you got a gut feeling of what you think is
gonna happen sports prediction wise, let us know seven one three, two, one, two, five, seven,

(01:03:43):
nine zeros.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
Listen up, been so appeal? Wasn't that tumm yo? They
got a gut feeling. This is their gut feeling on
the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
All right, let's see how it any own Instagram. I
got four new followers, Ross, then enough.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
We got we can't have a party of twenty eight
oh seven. I believe a party of three thousand. You
were so funny Instagram.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
At sports empty.

Speaker 3 (01:04:10):
Let's go all right, this is where seven of you
thank you at sports RV. Even I only got the
four at sports RV on Instagram. I'm pumping out quality
content and you're just putting old pictures of.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
You and a dead guy who's racist.

Speaker 3 (01:04:22):
Well he said a racist thing, for sure, But I
mean a lot of guys in the business forgave him.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
They did. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
I only had one conversation with him. It was very pleasant. Well,
I think he probably said some things he regrets in life. Yes, absolutely, Well,
a lot of people not even never mind, Let's move on,
all right, talk about old Cogan's legacy right now?

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Okay, yeah, it's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
Seven one three two one two five seven three two
one two five. My my page is mostly picture pictures
of barbecue and uh video content that I've been putting up.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
Your head does not match the screen? What does that
even mean? What do you want? It's just off putting.
What would you what would you like? Where would you
like my head?

Speaker 8 (01:05:04):
Now?

Speaker 7 (01:05:05):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:05:05):
Word?

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
Nor what's in the bottom third of the picture. I
don't see who the problem is? You want it floating
at the top. Why don't you move it around? Move
it around like a ghost? Seven oneot? You get that
it's eleven thirty five.

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
You hear that? Get that? That's good? I got it.
Wasn't that good.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
I'm just listen to show Friday and Austin because I
want to hear this stuff. Why because I want to
see how you do it?

Speaker 13 (01:05:27):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
Wait, yeah, and Thursday two.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
Don't forget lord, I sent the email out Sunday. I
don't pay attention to I know you do. All right, Uh,
let's see how we did last week. By the way,
we got two open lines if you want to get
in seven one three two one two five seven nine
zero seven one three two one two five seven.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
How do we do last Tuesday? All right?

Speaker 10 (01:05:44):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Last Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
You said Esak paratus is done for the year, which
he's not yet.

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
He's trying to come back.

Speaker 5 (01:05:55):
He's rehabbing.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
Matt okay, I ain't changing you know it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
You said the Astros need another bullpen game other than today,
so they haven't had a bullpen game since. But that
was when what Okert was the opener and then Arraghedty pitched.
You said, Micah Parsons will get a new contract. It
still gonna happen. That hasn't happened. You also said you
and Ache will win at least seven games this year.
I imagine you met basketball, because now certainly you couldn't

(01:06:22):
have been football. Seven seven wins. It did not stutter
go Koug's okay. I'm wishing them the best. Thank you
to an extent. I had Aesar Prats out for the
year as well. I said Arraghedtty four innings pitched wrong,
one earned run wrong. I said Astros won the series

(01:06:43):
in New York. Correct, correct a mundo. Jonathan had five
plus case for Arraghedtty. I think, yeah, did he get five?
I think you're right. Did he get five or four?

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
I don't know. I'm gonna go look it up.

Speaker 3 (01:07:02):
Oh and thanks to the three new people have followed
me on Instagram. Appreciate you. Oh my gosh, continue on
at sports r V. I appreciate you, folks. Let's see, Yeah,
it was five k's for Araghetty.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
So there you go. Jonathan Allen nailed that, and that
was the last week's picks.

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
All right, Now, your sports business prediction is gout feeling,
go for it.

Speaker 7 (01:07:24):
What is.

Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
Today, Matt, The day of the week. It is Tuesday.
What does that mean? Normally hour dogs diking part.

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
Next year.

Speaker 3 (01:07:36):
It will be two dollar dogs. Got feeling, Well, that's
kind of rando. I told you it was rando. Price
of foods going up. Two dollar dogs is still a
pretty good deal. It's been one dollar dogs since they
were bad. Jim Crane likes to hike things up, make

(01:07:58):
a little extra cash. Two dollar dogs on Tuesday's gut
feeling from left field, or really from the concourse.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
But you get my drift. I am going to completely
disagree with you. Okay, Yeah, I could be wrong. It's
a gut feeling. That's right. It's not the worst thing
you've said for trust me to two hours plus. It's
almost like, hey, you now can get assigned seats on
the Southwest because you're trying to raise money.

Speaker 3 (01:08:28):
Yes, that's what they're not doing it for. It's their
convenience for people. Have you looked around what's going around.
I could see them raising the cost of beer and
popcorn and peanuts. Do that again, more so than trying
to raise the dollar dog. Okay, because again is it
like the dollar fifty costco dog?

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
It just gets you in the door. Yeah. But it's
only one day a week.

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
They tried to raise that and how successful were they
Not very well. It's because the CEO said, over my
dead body or something. I thenk there was a whole
scuffle over it. Jim, if you're listening, appreciate you all
the things you've done for our community. Keep the dollars
and keep the dogs at a dollar. Public backlash on
that will not be worth it. You might be right,
but it's been dollar dogs for what eight nine years? Yeah,

(01:09:12):
but they were a lost leader eight or nine years ago.
You you're doing it because you want people to spend
the money on the tickets and the beers.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
I know why they're doing it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
Nine nine nine means nine beers two dollar dog is
still a good deal. It's not nearly so random. I
don't even want to argue about that. It is a
random gut feeling. I hope you're wrong. I hope I'm
wrong too. Got a lot of fat I like to
go on Tuesdays. Yes, you do media dining twelve or
four dogs, four.

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
Jeeps? Kate.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
No, By the end of I did three, and by
the end of the third, I'm like, I'm gonna go
to the media dining again. Ah, you feel the dog
grease getting into your stomach. It's not good gut feeling.
Astros Mariners will be tied at some point this week,
but for the completion of Sunday's games, the Astros will

(01:10:03):
still have at least a share of first place. They
will not fall into second place by themselves. They will
not fall the second place at any point. Yes, but
I will say Seattle will at some point catch them
in to be even Stephen.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
Also, you said the Sunday Seattle game against the Astros
in June, in September.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
It's going to fly if they do flexing at all
on Sundays. Okay, hold on, let me write this down.

Speaker 3 (01:10:30):
That was a very long give me the short versions.
Don't fall the second, Astros don't fall a second this week.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
Okay. I hope you're right.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
Okay, And Sunday night baseball for the Astros Mariners.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
Texans C J.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
Garner Johnson does not play Week one.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
Such a hater.

Speaker 3 (01:10:57):
No, I'm just saying, because what are we learning from sports?
We're getting these for We're getting these forecasts way ahead
of time. Might be able to play Week one, or
he might not. So I'm gonna go onto my not
card because you're a hater. You're an OUTAIZ might be
a right, might be available to play sooner rather than
lighter and slap. He was hitting live VP on Saturday.

(01:11:20):
I was in Florida. Today's Tuesday. He's getting he's looking
good will when it happens and happens. Okay, And by
the way, Joe Mixon also will not play week one. Okay, okay,
I'm good.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
Who's on the hill tonight for your Houston Astros, Matt,
that'd be h brown Bees. I mean you have tummy
spencil arro what do they call it?

Speaker 5 (01:11:45):
Matt?

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
When you go at least six innings and you give
up three or fewer runs, it's a quality start. Who
you heard it here? First? What's up? This is for
Eric in Bay City? What did he say?

Speaker 8 (01:11:57):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
He's an Eric. He's an arrogatdy hater.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
So that's ridiculous. I need you to get this quality start,
or at least don't get shelled out there. I would
really appreciate it, really appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
I have faith. I have faith in my guy, Jonathan.
What do you got for guts? I'm going for the
long ball. Oh Cooper Hummel, No.

Speaker 3 (01:12:18):
I stop when you got DFA yesterday. Guys, I'm gonna
stop doing Tuesdays. Okay, sorry, go ahead, No, I got it.
We win these next two series as well as the
first game on Monday with Detroit. The way we're looking
at I just I'm feeling confidence. You're saying five of
the next seven basically. Wow, I'm saying they go straight,

(01:12:41):
they sweep the Red Sox whoa, and then get the
first game out of Detroit.

Speaker 2 (01:12:47):
All right, mm wow.

Speaker 3 (01:12:51):
That's how I'm feeling. That's how you're feeling. All right, Wow,
that's that's pretty damn bo to be honest with you.
All Right, I want to do it, Josh Hader Guiel, Nope,
me either would. But I don't want to say.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
Don't do it. Not allowed, not allowed.

Speaker 3 (01:13:14):
I'm just asking a question. I got another one. Uh,
you're not back by September first?

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
Oh? I think I had that one a long time ago. No,
I did.

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
Actually, wait a minute, I don't know, Jonathan, I did
a ruling. I think I said September first.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
Yeah, where it was when? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:13:38):
Many months ago? He said that in June. Yes, I
had that September first bit way before you did. Now
you can climb on if you want to. I don't
think you did. I think I did. Thank you Jonathan
for that. By the way, literally not anywhere in here.
Matt made stuff up.

Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
You said zero home runs for the rest of the year.

Speaker 8 (01:13:55):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:13:55):
How was he going to get back in September first
and hit zero home runs? No, I'm saying he can play,
but he don't any home run. He's gonna play for
a month and hit zero home runs? He could play,
see hold on, I can go it. He could play
two games September and then go back on the injured list.
Oh okay, No, I don't have you. I don't have
you saying that anywhere. Just not definitely wrong. You both

(01:14:17):
got false memories off season hand procedures. The last thing
I had for you I said, he hits at least
two Okay, I'm saying back by September first. I don't
have that written down for you anywhere. So okay, I'm
not ready to put a date on it. Then if
you don't have it on there, then I'm not putting
in doing it today. September first, what's up? Let's go
zero home runs and I hope I'm wrong, but I
don't think I'm gonna be wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
I hope I'm wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:14:38):
You're wrong, Paul James, Dave will get to you next
eleven forty four. It is the Matt Thomas Shoe Ross.
We need your gut feelings to get him in right now.

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
Sports Talk seven ninety real quick, before we go the phones,
Jonathan Alexander clarifies one thing, And when you get put
on the injured list before injured reserve, before the season starts,
before cut, your season is over.

Speaker 3 (01:15:02):
So bre so Brevin, Okay, done, So he's done. Though done, Zoe.
It's too bad for him. That's two straight years. My goodness.
That is not the way you want to think about
your twenty twenty five season after going through the ACL
on twenty twenty four. Fantastic. All right, here we go.
This has got feeling time, which means you gotta get
in You gotta talk quickly, get your predictions in on on.

(01:15:24):
Don't talk Jonathan fast, but just like regular fast seven
one three, two one two five seven ninety David in Vegas.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
Wasn't your gut this week? This is a homer call,
but it's serious.

Speaker 13 (01:15:36):
I got a gut feeling that there is a rookie
in the National Football League that is gonna make real
noise and the Texans are gonna wish they had drafted him.
This is Caleb Johnson, third round picked by the Steelers.
Running back was the second best running back in the
country behind any statistical category after asking Zent last year.

(01:15:57):
Wasn't the first running back picked in the draft this year, Dente,
But he's gonna win that Steeler job. He's gonna be
talked about for Rookie of the Year, Offensive Rookie of
the Year, and detections are gonna need a guy like that.

Speaker 2 (01:16:10):
They could have had him.

Speaker 3 (01:16:12):
M hmm, alright, that Caleb Johnson of the Year. Caleb
Johnson Rookie of the years is David in Vegas. Appreciate
that speaking out a left field.

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
That's fine. It's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:16:22):
Our lives are full of being out of left field,
Jake and Katie, Jake.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
What's in your.

Speaker 5 (01:16:26):
Gut, hater, is gonna have to have Tommy john and
he's gonna be out for.

Speaker 2 (01:16:31):
The reth with people.

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
Good shoulder at least go with the tar torn labor.
I guess yeah, you can't. You can't Tommy john a
shoulder and Tommy John and elbow in a forearm. But
that's about as far as it goes. I don't I
don't want to hear season ending anymore. I've heard a
plenty of that. Joe spotted coming up at twelve thirty.

(01:16:57):
Twelve thirty, Brian, what's in your gut?

Speaker 11 (01:17:02):
Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
Guys?

Speaker 11 (01:17:03):
For one thing, tell that guys shut his bumb ass.

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
Up about that arm. Here you go for one.

Speaker 11 (01:17:10):
Hey, today we start the ind of the suite. We're
gonna take the boss and out like way so that
they did at their house.

Speaker 12 (01:17:18):
And the guy the arm's gonna.

Speaker 7 (01:17:19):
Be just fine. And we fished all year long.

Speaker 11 (01:17:22):
He's hides it up and get it ready for this
weekend coming up.

Speaker 2 (01:17:27):
Hmm. I like that, you know what.

Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
I do have a Josh Hader gut feeling. Please, I'm
gonna say it. I don't think he's up for the year.
I mean, I could coin flip and say he's out
for the year.

Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
I met it. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
I have a feeling in my gut, and that's what
the segment's all about. I'm gonna go with you and
say it's a shoulder tendonitis and that he's gonna be
he's going to miss he's gone on the injury list today,
but it will be nothing of a season ender, so
I'll agree with you. Yes, Jonathan, you want to make
it three. Oh, he's busy there working.

Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:18:05):
Was that one up here? I no, no, you got it?
Here it and that's okay. It's got a good frame
rate on this and this new camera a little sixty
fps over here?

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
What is this? Looks good? What are you talking about?
What are all these technical terms? Cy? FBS is sissy frames?
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
Sorry, there's a way above. Matt's had one Edukay, that's good.
I felt good. Oh, I'm sorry to know what FBS was,
fps or whatever. I'm working here, well here with ibs
to my right. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Clay, what's near guy Clay?

Speaker 4 (01:18:40):
Hey guys, uh, yeah, I got a couple of them
one the I'm with you, Matt. I think the Astros
and the uh are going to be neck and neck
all the way to the end of the end of
the year, into the season. I'm thinking if Siella wins
the division, that the Asstros with the wild card are
going to go deeper in the playoffs and then the
Mariner's art.

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
You're gonna make you're making You're making a prediction the
Astros go further than the postseason in Seattle. Does we'll
accept that go ahead exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:19:08):
But I think they're gonna win the wildcarp. I'm not
sure if they're I don't it's still good about them
winning the division, although it's not gonna matter if they're,
you know, get in as a wildcard. Number number number
two is. I don't know what's going on with Myers.
I haven't heard very much about him, but I think, uh,
Jordan's at least, at the very least a month away,
and I don't, you know, I'm not really sure if

(01:19:30):
he's gonna play it all this year. It's definitely going
to be an off season surgery. And I think Myers
would be back are the end of September, but I
don't really know. They haven't really talked about what his
status is or I haven't heard what's going on with him.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
He's going down to Florida. Thank you for the phone call.
He's well, that was going to Florida today or last night.
I think, coach your first class? What do you think
Connery plus I imagine he's he was in first class.
That's a lot of money. The Astro spend that that
That Houston West palmb shuttle. I think the discount the

(01:20:03):
Florida Complex League. They got a direct route.

Speaker 2 (01:20:05):
I think, yeah, maybe there's in a crane plane. You
never know. I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:20:09):
I can't guess on injuries. I mean, I told you
I'm done with injuries. When they show up, they show up. Yeah,
I mean, he's he had been running on flat ground
and now he had been rehabbing, and now Jake Myers
is going. There was a mass update yesterday with a
lot of the injured guys, Derek and Humble.

Speaker 2 (01:20:24):
Derek's in your gut.

Speaker 9 (01:20:27):
Oh, the Astros.

Speaker 8 (01:20:29):
Will beat Boston.

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
They will sweep them.

Speaker 3 (01:20:32):
Nice, Nice, Derek, thank you very much for that. Anything else, Nope,
he's done. You didn't get up. I'm done, Harry, Harry,
what's in your gutt?

Speaker 9 (01:20:46):
Roll Harry?

Speaker 3 (01:20:49):
You guys.

Speaker 9 (01:20:52):
Right now, you guys know where I'm going with it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:58):
Yeah, Ribs spar ribs hot Dogs.

Speaker 9 (01:21:01):
Told budwise Er after getting that need today, I'll tell.

Speaker 4 (01:21:05):
You what if we lose Josh, guys, it's gonna be painful.

Speaker 7 (01:21:09):
It's gonna hurt Heck, we.

Speaker 9 (01:21:11):
Might lose the division of the Verders, but we'll find him.
Is a wild cop matchup, and I'm telling you right now,
Seattle's gonna be gloomy and gloomy, and it's gonna be
a heck of a run for him to ultimately get
beat by a right Presley coming out of the pen.

Speaker 3 (01:21:34):
Thank you, Harry. I'm not nearly offended by that. It's
not the best Harry.

Speaker 2 (01:21:38):
I've ever heard.

Speaker 3 (01:21:39):
I think, well, it's not a Harry Carry impression. It's
a Will Ferrell doing Harry Carry impression, right, Hi, if
you were a rack of barbecue spare ribs, it's.

Speaker 2 (01:21:54):
Yeah, that's it's the impression. Is the Matt Thomas Show with.

Speaker 5 (01:21:59):
Ross Swinn in their last seven games?

Speaker 15 (01:22:12):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:22:12):
Probably? Man, Jeff Bagwell all over the calls? Can I
ask for Jeff Bagla? Who's some pipe by play?

Speaker 9 (01:22:21):
Play by play?

Speaker 3 (01:22:22):
Yeah, let's do it? Why I want to hear it?
The first of five years one broadcasting repertoire. I mean,
I appreciate the greatest aster of all time four hundred
and forty nine home runs career PS ninety eight. Uh,
he's the second greatest aster of all time. One jose
Al Tube is the greatest, and he's only two hundred

(01:22:44):
home runs behind. Postseason is a lot of the grade.
Sorry it is okay. Then he hit one ninety when
they won the World Series in What are his.

Speaker 2 (01:22:54):
Career posts numbers compared to Jeffrey Allen Bagwells. I don't know,
but he.

Speaker 3 (01:22:58):
Hit one ninety when they won the World Series in
twenty twenty two. So L two VA is a playoff
chokers that you're saying, Oh, he's amazing Division series, amazing
Championship series, and amazing postseason altogether. And he went like,
oh one for did he go for like thirty something
or what was it? Oh for twenty someday? L two
A postseason stat? Do you really want me to do this?
Don't you?

Speaker 2 (01:23:17):
I don't want you to do that. I'm gonna do it.
It's fine. L two A has been great. Let's give
it the news at noon.

Speaker 3 (01:23:26):
Josey L two Bay's career postseason numbers.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
Oh, this is a okay, go on first, good well
you were bringing it up.

Speaker 3 (01:23:35):
Well, I gotta here the guy. I got a bunch
of see here. This is a bad website. I gotta
figure out a better one. Go onman as you suck.
He's hitting two seventy one with an eight forty one ohps.

Speaker 2 (01:23:51):
Very good in the postseason.

Speaker 3 (01:23:54):
Jeff Bagwalls, I don't know, but he certainly didn't get
the plate appearances, so it's a smaller sample size. Well,
nobody held Jeff Bagwell back from getting those posts and
played appearances.

Speaker 2 (01:24:05):
Yeah they did.

Speaker 3 (01:24:05):
Who team game like I said, l two hit one
twenty two terrible.

Speaker 2 (01:24:11):
Jose alto Bay is the greatest of them all period.

Speaker 3 (01:24:14):
In his story, Jeff your second, Jeff Bagwell Grace Astro
of all time, thirty three postseason games, thirty three games,
two twenty six batting average, twenty four hits, two hit
home runs, thirteen RB eys, eleven runs scored, thirty three
postseason two.

Speaker 2 (01:24:33):
Bay got one hundred and five games.

Speaker 3 (01:24:35):
Jose the goat, worst base runner in Astro's history, first
base runner Natro's history, greatest aster of all zero thirty
thirty seasons. Don't fight me on this eight thirty oh
ps for l two a career. I said, turn it off,
turn off, turn turn it off for Bagwell.

Speaker 2 (01:24:51):
Time for instant Bowl. Let's just knock this out right now, lose.

Speaker 3 (01:24:53):
It's Okay, no, no, if you are emotional, We're not emotional.
We postseason is a huge part of the great I
know huge. I'm just saying, who is the better player?
Jose Al two the better player? Now the fact to
the news at noon? Hit the music.

Speaker 2 (01:25:10):
I'm staying out of it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:10):
Better defensively, better base runner, more power, more on bass.

Speaker 2 (01:25:15):
All right, anyways, I don't know why we're doing this
right now. What's the news at noon?

Speaker 12 (01:25:21):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:25:21):
Thet well, Josh Hater has shoulder discomfort, Matt your thoughts? Okay,
Matt's eating on air in the middle of the segment. Sorry,
So I will continue to talk about what else is
going on in baseball. No update from the Houston Astros.

Speaker 2 (01:25:38):
All happening with.

Speaker 3 (01:25:40):
One of those two Brock one of those two people
dropped the F bomb on Rastros Radio one today. Somebody
just text them about how our buddy Hounds is to
listen last night. Ian f bombs happened never in my career,
but the sound of the hearing there I did one.

Speaker 2 (01:25:54):
Did you really man? We dumped it.

Speaker 3 (01:25:56):
It was on a pre game. It was a Rockets
pre game with me and Michael Connor for a playoff game.
Really and I dropped an f bump. But I was
talking about how I was, like I said, basically, Russell
Westbrook plays so bleeping hard something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:26:12):
Oh, I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:26:14):
It was in praise of It wasn't out of anger
or frustrating words.

Speaker 2 (01:26:18):
At the end of the day, I don't see why not.
It's made up?

Speaker 3 (01:26:22):
How Come I can say buck, truck and suck, but
I can't say you're right.

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
I mean, it's just a phrase, it's just a word.
It's nothing. It's stupid. It's the dumbest thing I've ever
heard of. I just why is it a bad word?

Speaker 3 (01:26:38):
Well? There are I mean the SCCD clarteres are a
bad word. I didn't exactly. It's dumb, it's arbitrary, it's
made up. It's just phonetic sounds coming out of your mouth.

Speaker 2 (01:26:46):
Hm.

Speaker 3 (01:26:46):
I never quite thought of it that way. How Come
I can say function it's a verb? How Come I
can say funk? I've called people that by their but
with the using of a noun. But if I take
out the end, all of a sudden, it's the worst
word in the history of time. It's dumb, all right,
And that's your news. And dude, we got that. We
got out of that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
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Speaker 3 (01:27:09):
Matt uh D from d from What's Happening passed away
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Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
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Three full three seasons, only sixty five soul can it
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It was called The's Door What Knows? Called What's Happening?

Speaker 2 (01:28:08):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:28:08):
Okay, they grew up and that's What's Happening after that?

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Not much for any careers. We're all looking for work. Yeah,
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Speaker 1 (01:33:36):
Now back to Matt Thomas at ross VI Real Fine
Fine Sports Talk seven ninety Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
Not a not a goat theme, but it's not bad.
Say something you're smirking over there. No, I'm not allowed
to voice my opinion on the show. No I didn't
say that that. Oh my yell as you regardless whether
you voice your opinion or not. So, what's happening? Nothing? Hey, hey, hey, all.

Speaker 3 (01:34:37):
Right, we got Joe spot in ten minutes and it
can't come any faster, honestly breaking.

Speaker 2 (01:34:44):
Down what's happening and what's happening now?

Speaker 3 (01:34:47):
Yeah, did you hear about the Oklahoma quarterback?

Speaker 2 (01:34:51):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:34:53):
Screenshots of past references to sports gambling on its Venmo
account surfaced yesterday. Has denied it to school officials about
ever being involved in gambling. School officials became aware of
the matter late last night and in planning an investigation.
M m screenshots posted Monday night showed mateer we should

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mention his name. John Mattier allegedly twice included the term
sports gambling in memos for transactions. On November twenty two,
while he was a freshman at Washington State. Both transactions
were allegedly made to a Venmo account for somebody named
Richard Roten, believed to be a teammate at Washington State
at the time. As all of you should know by now,

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college athletes are not allowed to bet on any sport
involving NCAA ties penalties up to a loss of eligibility.
First of all, Another one is, I just don't guess
my thursd year are gonna be loaded. I don't get
why it's anybody's business who I have venmo to and
what I do. I don't know why any of you
make it public. Yeah, it will always be private. I now,

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Am I curious why you spend money on stuff?

Speaker 7 (01:36:05):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:36:05):
But why you're not gonna know my business? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:36:08):
We don't even know which various only fans models you're
donating to. If I was to do such a thing,
which I'm not that you were asking them, I'm sorry
I didn't so uh, but you wouldn't be that now
you've all we've all put funny things on there, Yes,
but you get like foot massage. Even putting sports gambling

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sounds like he could be joking.

Speaker 2 (01:36:31):
No, see, I disagree.

Speaker 3 (01:36:33):
I think if you know, if you're an NCAA athlete,
you there are just you know, point shaving would not
be funny.

Speaker 2 (01:36:40):
Gambling would not be funny.

Speaker 3 (01:36:41):
I think I think he is completely in the wrong
and did the dumbest again nineteen year old, Yes, nineteen
year olds do stupid things. Now you don't know and
I don't know. But okay, if he knows that, you
don't you stay away from joking about that. Then why
would he do the actual act of sports gambling and
then put that on the memo? That makes even less sense?

Speaker 2 (01:37:02):
Yeah, you'd it?

Speaker 3 (01:37:03):
Actually would do you do the opposite, you would say
something else for sports betting.

Speaker 2 (01:37:07):
I just think.

Speaker 3 (01:37:10):
You just you just want to go shake the kidding.
What the hell are you thinking? I'll tell you something.
I don't care. I don't care if he's if he's
betting on a game that he's not involved in, we
put U c l A whatever, I don't care. First
of all, you can't prove this, you really, he can

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say that it was a joke and as long as
he gets his story straight with whoever he sent his
teammate that he sent this money to say, I think you,
I think you can't. I think there is a line.
You cannot bet on something that you're actively involved in.
But you guys underestimate Russ, You underestimate how connected are
us college athletes are?

Speaker 2 (01:37:47):
So that because snowball shave?

Speaker 3 (01:37:49):
Yeah, all right, well yeah, how much money did he
I just I'm gonna put it this way. I need
to see more details if he bet, if did he
was this? Did he send him five dollars?

Speaker 2 (01:37:56):
No money on that? Well, there was an a There
wasn't an amount of money on this thing, was there?
I would think there would be. I was there. Oh yeah,
I didn't see it. I don't even know.

Speaker 3 (01:38:02):
I saw the screen shots. Yeah, I don't remember seeing
an amount. Yeah, if you want to bet on a
baseball game or so, I don't have a problem with that.
But you cannot bet on something that you're actively involved in.
And I think every league says the same exact thing. No,
I get that, Okay, I will understand that. Yes, there
can be some sort of point shaving whatever, and there
have been college athletes that are doing this, But I mean,

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a bunch of things have to happen. He has to
be stupid enough to be putting this on there to
be actually betting on sports, and then he has to
be stupid enough to have connections to UCLA or USC
where he's compromising the integrity of the game. And I
just don't I guess I just don't necessarily buy that.
So what I think you would in honestly taking the
layer pushing everything back a little bit, he opened up

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a can that should have been closed. He probably opened
up this investigation for all the wrong reasons. There's there's
probably nothing going on, but you are just asking for
trouble by just trying to be funny.

Speaker 2 (01:38:57):
You're just asking for trouble. Yeah, well, if he.

Speaker 3 (01:38:59):
Knows that he shouldn't be funny in doing that, then
he also should know that he's not gonna be betting
on sports gam actual sports gambling and put that on there.

Speaker 2 (01:39:07):
So I don't what the hell he's doing.

Speaker 3 (01:39:09):
And unless we find out that this was like hundreds
of dollars or something, literally, I don't know what the
threshold would be. I think the threshold is one dollar.
You just can't better it was twenty bucks against his friends.

Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
I don't care. Well. N tibill A certainly cares. Now
that's that they don't vou I.

Speaker 3 (01:39:24):
Don't think you should lose your college eligibility because as
a red shirt freshman you stupidly bet twenty bucks with
your friend on a game, and not with a bookie,
and not with a a a.

Speaker 2 (01:39:35):
Sports gambling website or whatever. Part of me says.

Speaker 3 (01:39:42):
If I'm sitting on the couch and watching a game
with you and I say twenty bucks on USC, I mean,
where's the integ where's the compromise, compromising of the integrity
of the game. But we need more details. But and
if you're gonna do it, which again we have to
can't be naive for this. If you're gonna do it,
don't put it anywhere in but it.

Speaker 2 (01:40:00):
Can see it.

Speaker 3 (01:40:01):
If you and I are football players and we're making
a bet on Penn State Iowa, and you and I
are playing ball at uh Texas, then you and I
can do that and we just keep it between ourselves.
But to put it on the venmo again, my guess
is that's probably it could be you know what, It
could be a alias for weed. Honestly, yeah, who know

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what I mean, But that's a very good plan. I mean,
it could be an aliens for frunt be stupid come
up with literally anything else, literally anything. But that's what
I'm saying. That's the thing that's crazy about this. He
literally could have found any other terminology for weed, hookers, booze, whatever. Yeah,
he chose sports betting. Yeah, I've sent a friend's money

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and put like foot massage or something like that. Yes,
like like I sent one. You made the most amazing
egg salad sandwich.

Speaker 2 (01:40:50):
Ever you did. No, I'm just using weird I Oh god.

Speaker 3 (01:40:59):
Now what I do want to chalk it up to
is at nineteen, we all did stupid stuff. We all
said the wrong things, wrote the wrong things, misinterpreted things,
thought we were funnier than we were. So that's what
my guess is this Oklahoma quarterback did. But damn, you're
opening up a can of worms. But even putting the

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word betting, ross, I just think there's just there's very little,
if zero, tolerance for betting as a college athlete on
an NCAA event. I just do because you, as Jonathan
brought up, you were open up on a whole new
avenue of is this point shaming? Did you call buddy
years that you played again so you went to high

(01:41:41):
school with or you played in a college camp with, Well,
there are both teammates on the same team, right, yes, okay,
I mean, well, more will come out on this, but
I'm going to say this is for me a nothing
burger unless one hundreds of dollars are spent and there's

(01:42:01):
some investigation.

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
Needs to be launched. I just don't know if you
did do sports bang, why you couldn't say no, stupid, No,
Why we're all on the same page. He's stupid. Yeah,
he's just not right. That's the reason why it's at Oklahoma.
I mean yeah, kind of right. When he was at
Washington State.

Speaker 3 (01:42:20):
Oh, okay, Washington If anybody's really playing, who goes to
Washington State.

Speaker 2 (01:42:24):
And he's from little Elma, Texas. I know some people.
Was he supposed to play for Mike Leach twenty twenty two?
Commit no, no, no, he was City State?

Speaker 22 (01:42:34):
Ye?

Speaker 2 (01:42:34):
Yes, sorry, yeah, all.

Speaker 3 (01:42:36):
Right, let's get a quick time out. I just want
to pass out along to you. Is in today's edition
of What Were You Thinking? Let me actually a segment
that eventually, uh Joe Spotta is with us. In about
a handful of minutes, his astros won in a very
impressive playoff type atmosphere.

Speaker 2 (01:42:51):
Talk to him about that in just a moment.

Speaker 3 (01:42:53):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
to one three two one two five seven ninety One
of our favorite times of the week is to spend
twelve forty minutes with the manager of your Houston Astros
one game lead over the Mariners American League West. After
yesterday's win over the Red Sox, Joe A spotted with

(01:43:13):
us here on seveny Skip, good afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:43:15):
Do you thank you for the time.

Speaker 3 (01:43:16):
As always, We've mentioned it many a time so far
in our show today, it felt like you were in
game one of the Alcs last time at your ballpark.

Speaker 2 (01:43:25):
Agreed, right, it did?

Speaker 8 (01:43:28):
It did feel like it.

Speaker 11 (01:43:31):
Yeah, the energy in the ballpark was.

Speaker 8 (01:43:34):
It felt like a playoff playoff game. The game itself,
you know, the scoring right, trying to keep maintain that lead,
trying to navigate, you know, through our bullpen. It really
felt like a playoff game for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:43:54):
I'm assuming you have no update four us on Hater
unless you do, and we'd love to hear it. But
let's go back a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:44:00):
Tell me what your conversation was when he first came
to you and said, Skip, I don't feel good.

Speaker 8 (01:44:06):
It's not that's the last thing you want to hear
from any you know, any of your pictures, any of
your players. Yeah, it was. It was not a great feeling.
And we'll well, you know, we'll get more results here
this afternoon.

Speaker 3 (01:44:22):
You know, I don't know, uh, what has happened in
your world. You deserve a much better faith than this,
because I feel like every time something's going right, and
I teach you about having a bubble wrap guys, but man,
oh man, I would say this, at least it's the shoulder,
not the forearm and elbow, because we kind of hear
when we hear that kind of stuff, we automatically think

(01:44:42):
Tommy John.

Speaker 2 (01:44:43):
So who's to say, But what was it?

Speaker 3 (01:44:46):
Like you said, navigating And you've had to navigate quite
a bit this year with a very irony guys in
your bullpen. Has that been your biggest perhaps change from
year one to year two is having to massage who's
getting days off, who's thrown enough, who needs it throw
that kind of thing?

Speaker 8 (01:45:02):
Uh, Yeah, it's been it's been a it's been a challenge.
You know, I've been you know, we have been blessed
we having some guys that can actually have in really
good years in our bullpen. Guys who have been asked
to do a lot with not having a ton of experience, uh,
and they have done a really good job. So that
that does makes it a little bit easier. But you know,

(01:45:27):
to keep everyone healthy and trying to win as many
games as possible and protecting your assets for to finish
the regular season has been I think one of the
biggest challenges, uh, for me.

Speaker 2 (01:45:41):
For me definitely as a manager.

Speaker 3 (01:45:43):
You said something last night in the post game that
struck me funny. You said that was fun trying to
go through that with all you having your leverage guys.
I don't know how much of the fans agree, but uh,
clearly I love that attitude from you, that like, hey,
this is just a baseball game, and you're enjoying this
this late inning strategy, especially being down your guys. It's
kind of, uh, you don't have any other choice.

Speaker 8 (01:46:05):
Right, you know, if it's for me I was talking,
you know, I know for you know, as a fan,
as as a manager, you want things to go smoothly
and you want you guys to all be up and available,
but that's not the reality of these games. And when
I said fun is as more personal the fact that
you know, I I think about my career, my journey

(01:46:28):
and be in a position to uh manage a team
and in an organization that'd be so successful and being
in that spot you dream about I dream about those moments, right,
That's what as a leader you want to lead players
set put him in a position for them to have success.

(01:46:48):
They had to get big outs like suicide the last
out in the ninth inning. You know that's exciting because
I know how hard he's worked for that double Santos
getting an opportunity to get big out for us. He's
bouncing around all year, okur or you know that. That's
exciting for me. And he's fun to watch my players

(01:47:08):
step up and and and and have big moments in
their careers. That for me, I enjoy that that aspect
of my job.

Speaker 3 (01:47:15):
Well, Christian Javier got to start for you, what did
you see from him out there? Of course, settling in
after that two run shot from Grugman and just conversations
with him after about how he's feeling good.

Speaker 8 (01:47:26):
I was, you know, again, another another another.

Speaker 2 (01:47:29):
Player who has work.

Speaker 9 (01:47:31):
He's way back.

Speaker 7 (01:47:32):
I thought his stuff was really good.

Speaker 8 (01:47:34):
Aside from that two run home run. I thought he's
stuff you know you we saw his fastball to ninety four,
ninety five. He had the the hop that we we
know when Javier is healthy that that's the movement that
we looking on his fastball. He's breaking ball through some
good one. His change it was okay, like we we
we're going to work through those things.

Speaker 9 (01:47:54):
But he looked healthy.

Speaker 8 (01:47:56):
He looked like he came ready to compete and moving forward.
I felt really good aware havevier he's at right now.

Speaker 3 (01:48:06):
So these guys go through these rehab appearances down in
the minor leagues and they don't necessarily go deep into
games three and two thirds, maybe four, maybe seventy pitches.
So when you sent Christian Javier out there, you don't
know what expect, how much to expect from him, or
did you guys kind of have a game plan to say, Hey,
I'm gonna watch you through the first fifteen.

Speaker 2 (01:48:26):
We can try to get you to seventy five.

Speaker 3 (01:48:28):
Take us through what that is like taking a guy
that hasn't seen major league competition and then asking him
to go beyond what you expect from a starter when
it comes to number of pitches thrown.

Speaker 9 (01:48:38):
No, you're right, And another thing is, like you mentioned.

Speaker 8 (01:48:40):
Earlier, earlier, it felt like LCS game. That's also another
thing that you had to take in consideration. There was
a lot of stuff going on in our ballpark yesterday,
the energy that Korea coming back, the Bregman mayor the
you know you're as Javier as an individual getting back
on the mound after missing the whole entire season. All
those motions play into your performance. So you know, he's

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pitching into play the lights as they're not as bright
as it in the major league game.

Speaker 7 (01:49:08):
We're in a pennant race.

Speaker 8 (01:49:09):
I'm looking closely to see how we react and how
he acts from you know, doing that not only the
pitch count, but I'm also looking at his effort, how
he's breathing in between innings, my conversations within, how you feel,
how he's handling the hole. There's a lot of stuff
that goes on that goes into my evaluation of his
performance on that day.

Speaker 3 (01:49:31):
You're about to hit a slippery slope because you've got
forty or so games left, give or take, and then
you've got a one game lead, You've got just a
few days off, you've got some stretches of games coming
up where you'll play ten in a row or thirteen
in a row, something like that, and you're custom to that.
How do you feel like you're going to balance off
time with Damn, we need to win this game coming up,
and I need my full line up in there as

(01:49:52):
often as possible.

Speaker 2 (01:49:54):
Yeah, and you know, I think I.

Speaker 8 (01:49:55):
Think I will use my DH, the DH spot to
keep those guys off their feet some also, Well, I
start I will start asking these guys to show up
to the ballparks a little bit later and trying to
make sure that we sleep in, we recover and do
all that kind of stuff. Uh, you know, we we

(01:50:15):
do have forty games left.

Speaker 7 (01:50:17):
We do have some guys that.

Speaker 8 (01:50:19):
Are getting closed coming back, so that's also could help
get some of these guys a breather. And but it's
you know, that's another thing I need to watch closely.
We if we're going to be in a position to
make uh push you at the end, we need these
guys to be in a good spot physically.

Speaker 3 (01:50:37):
Astro's manager Joe Spotto was here on a Sports Talk
seven ninety Spencer raic Getty throwing for you again, how
do you assess where he is now and what he
needs to do tonight?

Speaker 2 (01:50:49):
Little bit of bad luck in his last start.

Speaker 3 (01:50:52):
He also did get the sixteen whists, but the foreign
field hits, but also did get hit hard.

Speaker 8 (01:50:56):
Yeah, and you know, and I think I think, you know,
I expect him to be my much better today. You know,
you know, commanding his pitches, getting to the lanes that
he needs to get to to get some swinging misses,
to get some quicker out.

Speaker 14 (01:51:10):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:51:10):
This is the line is the rest of the line up.
You have to pitch ahead an account. You can't fall
behind these guys. They go grind of bats that put
the ball in play. They hate balls hard. You know that.
I expect him just to have a couple of lefties
in there today. So you got to be on top
of your game. You got to have confidence on your pitches,
on your game planning and being able to throw your
pitches in different counts for strikes and expand when you

(01:51:34):
have to. You know, I've seen the Spencer throw the
ball really well against these guys last year in Fenway.
I remember that start, and I know he cannot. I
know he can go back there and do it again.

Speaker 3 (01:51:45):
Speaking of starting pitching, Jason Alexander was brilliant for you
over the weekend. Look, when you're on the cusp major
leaguer sometimes battling between Triple A and major leagues, you
got to just take whatever role you're given. But has
he done enough in your mind to say, all right,
let's get that arm ready for every fifth day as
compared to bouncing back between middle releaf and starting.

Speaker 8 (01:52:05):
You know what, I think he's done well enough to
get an opportunity for our next start. You know, thing
changes every single day. Like you mentioned, we're going to
have a long stretch of games here coming up after Thursday,
so we might need to change some things up just
to keep everyone fresh, to keep everyone, uh, you know strong.
We do have some some some guys really close to

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coming back, some starters really you know, close to coming back.
So those guys will also play effector and in in
in our in our push.

Speaker 2 (01:52:34):
All right to let you run again. Let's reiterate.

Speaker 3 (01:52:36):
So, do you feel like when you get to the
ballpark today you'll get a better feel of Josh or
what have the officiaitions told you in terms of how
long is going to take for them to evaluate what
was causing this sore us?

Speaker 8 (01:52:46):
Yeah, so we we're going to do more testing, uh,
this afternoon, so you know, by by two three o'clock,
hopefully I have uh, you know, a better diagnosis of
what you know, what what the discomfort uh is? So yeah,
I'm just I'm here right now. So you know, hopefully
we get some some good news. You know, you don't

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you don't wanna ever want to hear one of your pictures,
you know, shoulder elbow like you mentioned, right, But but
hopefully we we we get to speak to the doctors
and we get some some good news.

Speaker 3 (01:53:20):
I'll say this, Skip and you know this a bray
who's been nails for you this year. You've got four
saves out of Bennett's sussa, I mean of anything. And look,
nobody wants to lose Josh hater, but it's You've got
some great lieutenants that are ready to help out if necessary.

Speaker 8 (01:53:33):
Yes, yes, And I think yesterday was a perfect example.
Hands on deck. You know I'm gonna I'm gonna be
using everyone at different times, doing the game, different pockets,
right these lefties, and they'll be ready. These guys, they
understand where we at right now in this season and
and and.

Speaker 7 (01:53:52):
They know they need to pick Josh up.

Speaker 3 (01:53:54):
Thanks for visitors always and hope you get some good
news out of Josh. We appreciate the time as always.
All right, guys, thanks well, see Joe spottle with us
here on Sports Talk seven. Yet he will meet with
the media today at four o'clock like it normally does
on digging on games I started seven, so there'll be something.

Speaker 5 (01:54:10):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:54:13):
The most positive thing is tired shoulder needs an eel
stent to relax it.

Speaker 2 (01:54:18):
I don't know, want to inflammation.

Speaker 3 (01:54:20):
Yeah, get him some tile and all back in a
week elite maybe if he's the it's gotta be fifteen
for a picture.

Speaker 2 (01:54:26):
Yeah, good icing, ice and heat, wrap it up, ice
and heat, heat and ice. What a rice method? Yeah?
I just he's gonna be fine.

Speaker 3 (01:54:38):
To me when it's farm and elbow, I always get
I always think the worst automatically, he's going to be fine. Okay,
you heard it here first it's a gut feeling or
he's not. That wasn't the I'm sorry, he's going to
be fine.

Speaker 2 (01:54:52):
Ross.

Speaker 3 (01:54:52):
People need to reassurance to me. I haven't seen the
charts yet, Matt. But then you can't say he's fine,
just say hope the best. He's he's great, the best
Matt and Ross with you. We're here till two o'clock.
What is Believe It or Not?

Speaker 2 (01:55:05):
Today? Is at all things? What's happening? Hell?

Speaker 3 (01:55:08):
If I know all right, that's coming up in one
hour from now, I'm going to try to do an
advance Believe It or Not and do it out of
the before I think the prize horse.

Speaker 2 (01:55:24):
Let me know, they take them off the scent. Okay,
I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:55:30):
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Speaker 2 (01:56:21):
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Speaker 3 (01:56:24):
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Speaker 2 (01:56:37):
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Speaker 7 (01:56:49):
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Speaker 22 (01:56:50):
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Speaker 8 (01:56:58):
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Speaker 2 (01:56:58):
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I don't listen all right.

Speaker 3 (01:57:03):
Seven Any takeaways from Joe No, so we'll know more
on Josh Hader kept a good poker face. Didn't sound
chopimistic or pessimistic to me. I think probably he knows already,
just can't say I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:57:18):
That's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:57:19):
There's things I know I know already about us that
I want to tell in the public. Really yeah, like
what I can't say. I want to be coy like
Joe Is. I want to be coil like Joe Is.
All Right, that sounds like you're a single from your
debut album.

Speaker 2 (01:57:38):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (01:57:39):
Okay, So the Astros w one game, we are rooting
hard for the Baltimore Orioles the next three days.

Speaker 2 (01:57:43):
Yes we are. And then we're rooting very hard against
the Baltimore Orioles of the weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:57:47):
So here's how it's going to work. We want the
Orioles to win tonight, Wednesday, and Thursday. We want severe
weather in Baltimore on Thursday, so there's plain interruptions.

Speaker 2 (01:57:57):
Okay, So they do.

Speaker 3 (01:57:58):
So the Mariners don't get here until the middle of
the night. Although the last time we worried about that,
the Rangers came in here and killed the Astros. But
that was also that's true. It was it was a
must win Friday and they lost. That was a Lance
color Star from how they lost the must win game.
And they're still in first place. They are They've been

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in first place a long time for now. Brevin Jordan
on the injured list. He's done for the so that's
no surprise on that Texan's depth chart. Well, you've got
who's who? I forget who the backup is. I got
Davis Mills.

Speaker 2 (01:58:37):
No, no, no, tight end. Kate Stover. That's exactly what
it is. You been Kate Stover.

Speaker 22 (01:58:42):
Guy.

Speaker 2 (01:58:43):
I don't know. I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (01:58:48):
I'm just all I could tell you is that everybody
in their mother was bragging about how Brevin Knight was
looking so good in camp.

Speaker 2 (01:58:53):
And and Brevin Jordan. Who's Brevian Knight? Oh NBA player.

Speaker 3 (01:58:57):
Kentucky alom, I believe, yeah, Brevian Knight, Brevin Jordan, all
looking really good at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:59:03):
Got to keep your Brevin straight.

Speaker 3 (01:59:05):
By the way, speaking of that, another Jalen has found
the way in the Texans. Oh I lied, Brevin Knight
went to Stanford.

Speaker 13 (01:59:12):
Damn it.

Speaker 2 (01:59:12):
That's fine. Nobody was judging you.

Speaker 3 (01:59:15):
So let's go through every you know we could do
a believer or not on every single Jalen in the Texans. Joe,
how about Jalen and jade EN's Oh let me help
me out here, So that would put these people if
they're twenty two, twenty three, twenty four years of age,
that means that they were born in two thousand, two
thousand and one. Was that name supposedly super I mean,

(01:59:37):
clearly it was super popular during that time. Well, there
was one Jalen that was very famous that I believe
was the first Jalen. I don't know if it's like
on record in the history of time, but like the
first Jalen Rose, that's correct, the very first Jalen. Ever,
like I said, maybe there was some guy in the
eighteen sixties Scotland or something, but I believe because they

(01:59:59):
just say the.

Speaker 2 (01:59:59):
Story is told.

Speaker 3 (02:00:00):
They just picked up Jalen Reed, who was a former Patriot.
So put it this way, he popular right popularized it.
Although Jalen he's not the first Jaalen in the history.

Speaker 2 (02:00:12):
But now you're seeing Jalen with j Ellien, j A
y Ellien, j A y l I N.

Speaker 3 (02:00:20):
I know, it's very confusing. It's like, I mean, I'm
you've got We've talked about this before. I've done Rockets
Thunder games last year that had Jalen Green two Jalen
Williams of the thunder on the floor at the same time.
Jeff Green Jeff Green, Oh h Candridge Williams and there

(02:00:49):
and there was another Williams somewhere on the floor. I
mean it was it was like I was trying to
navigate through a maze of Jalen's and Williams'.

Speaker 2 (02:00:56):
But like the true trained professional man, you navigated the waters.
I did, okay. Like Magellan, Well, he died so maybe maybe. Uh,
like Columbus Well.

Speaker 3 (02:01:06):
Got a checker too, but paced I Leon, I think
he did some bad stuff too. Never mind, where is
this going, Chris Cross?

Speaker 2 (02:01:21):
All right? Back to the uh tight ends position.

Speaker 3 (02:01:27):
The Texans tight ends currently as we speak are Dalton Schultz, Yes,
Cage Stover, you're IRV Smith Junior?

Speaker 2 (02:01:36):
Yeah, who the hell is that? What do you mean?

Speaker 3 (02:01:39):
Former Vikings legend and Luke Leche seventh round pick. Yes,
not a great tight end room, It's fine. Whatever is
it that much better with Brendan Jordan? Well, we got
a breakout for five years, that's true. He was class
of twenty one.

Speaker 2 (02:01:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:01:58):
I don't know why people are trying to act like
Brevin Jordan was. I mean, iyme for fifteen hundred yards
and ten touchdowns. I will say this, if you were
to look at.

Speaker 2 (02:02:05):
The among the most active storylines of Texans training camp,
I think Brevin Jordan's name would be in the mix.

Speaker 3 (02:02:10):
Yeah, he's good and athletic and and has some promise.
But well, you're back where you were last year and
you've got more options at wide receivers.

Speaker 2 (02:02:17):
So I'm fine.

Speaker 3 (02:02:17):
I'm like, I'm gonna tell you I might have to
get in a gut feeling at some point about Christian Kirk. Okay,
well let's do it right now. We'll backtrack. So let
me ask you this. Are you going do you want
to say a thousand year od receiver? No, well, then
won't be your gut feeling. Then what is his season total?

Speaker 2 (02:02:35):
We'll bet?

Speaker 3 (02:02:36):
Can we find that? What's his player prop? I mean, no,
you don't need to make a bet of this, just
just what is your guy? I think he's going to
be I think he is flying away under the radar,
and I think he's going to be very good out of.

Speaker 2 (02:02:47):
The slot for the al Right, how about the Texans?

Speaker 3 (02:02:49):
Do you want to say that Christian Kirk will be
the second most effective receiver behind Nico Collins, that he
will outperform Jayden Higgins and Jalen Noel. Are you right
in John matchif he makes a team time, I think
he's going to Yeah, John Matchew, that's easy, s.

Speaker 19 (02:03:06):
U.

Speaker 3 (02:03:08):
I I just wonder whatever his you know what, I'm
gonna find his uh like his player projection. I'm gonna
find it on a fantasy website. I'm gonna go over
whatever it is. Remember, health is part of the great
here too participation. That's true, and he's he's had some
injury problems. But as I can continue to tell you,
and as all the best fantasy minds in football will

(02:03:28):
tell you, you cannot predict injuries. Guys slip down boards
all the time because people think they're injury prone, and
then you can draft them and get good value. How
about this is a gut feeling that when the dust settles,
and the dust could settle Week one of the season.
How about this on the offensive line, how about arianta
Urs being your starting left tackle?

Speaker 2 (02:03:50):
I could see that.

Speaker 3 (02:03:51):
Because I think that's Let me ask you this, If
Arion is your best tackle, why are we wasting time
putting him at right tackle and hoping that Cam Robinson
underperformed and his past his prime, is gonna be able
to protect them, give him a few games a seasoning.
I want to, but if I'm gonna place him as
my left tackle, I'm as we'll do it might as
we'll get him comfortable to the vision about the play. Well,

(02:04:13):
then you wasted twelve million dollars on Cam Robinson. Well
that's not my fault, and that's that Well, that's a
Texans fault for doing that. Do you help me out?
When Cam Robinson was signed, didn't the whole world go,
what the hell were the Texans thinking?

Speaker 8 (02:04:29):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:04:30):
No, Oh, I think if you if you looked, I
think you'd be able to find pretty. I don't think
the whole world said what the hell are they doing?
He's been a decent starting left tackle. He's not gonna
He's not a world beater. But yes, he gave up
a lot of pressures, but overall he was He's been
solid throughout his NFL career.

Speaker 2 (02:04:45):
I think it was kind of he's a warm body.
He's not like he's not to me.

Speaker 3 (02:04:49):
Even though he'd given up the highest pressures. I don't
think he had the highest pressure rates. And you know what,
maybe part of the reason why is because Blake Fisher
sucks and that you can't move that is part of it.

Speaker 2 (02:04:58):
You you can't you need cat. I'm Robinson at left
because you've already paid him to do so.

Speaker 3 (02:05:02):
Blake Fisher's not ready to take over being a starting
member of the offensive line. You might as well put
you know, Arion to Ursery at one position. You get
him ready for one, and then move him the left
tackle next year. Okay, if you if you want to
argue that, I can.

Speaker 2 (02:05:14):
I can go with that. All right.

Speaker 3 (02:05:15):
So Fantasy pro season projections for Christian Kirk six and
forty nine yards. I'm going over, folks, what's up? Fifty catches,
that's a lot. I'm going over battle right, what's up
in full play?

Speaker 2 (02:05:29):
Here?

Speaker 3 (02:05:30):
Three and a half touchdowns? That feels about right. I'm
going over yards and receptions both I'm hitting. The pollis
double bet over the receptions and over the odds. Christian Kirk.
You heard it, hear faced?

Speaker 2 (02:05:48):
Why does w f an care about Christian Kirk at
this point?

Speaker 7 (02:05:50):
Now?

Speaker 2 (02:05:51):
This seems a good handicapper voice. It's funny. You never
hear a like a French recruiting some yeahs or Georgian
you know, Oh, Joce Southern bell here.

Speaker 3 (02:06:06):
Yeah, I got the Steelers plus the phone and a
half on a coated line. Well, I need to hear
from John Matteer first, see what he thinks. But I'm
going over Christian Kirk. I think yards in reception.

Speaker 2 (02:06:17):
What's up? I'm writing down? I got feelings. Put it
down there. Good for you? What's up? Final Hour The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We've got to believe it
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Speaker 3 (02:06:24):
You may join us right now as we celebrate the
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Speaker 2 (02:06:46):
He's with us on Thursdays at eleven o'clock.

Speaker 3 (02:06:50):
Just put on a tweet that should give you, guys,
as Astro fans, some energy and some excitement. Do you
know what Christian Walker's ops was in the month of
April Sports Harvey UH five one, six ninety seven. In May,
it was six twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (02:07:07):
In June six.

Speaker 3 (02:07:08):
Forty six, all incredibly disappointing underperforming numbers. July's ops. Yeah,
all eight thirty three good in August so far nine

(02:07:28):
nice Christian Barker. So people who wanted him DFA need
to shut their bomb ass up. Nobody wanted them dfan.
Oh no, no, no rational thing. Well you can add
that qualifier. But then we whittled down a lot of
the fan base. All right, you're ready for a hot take. Yes,

(02:07:54):
the Astros postseason success will be more incumbent on Christian
Walker than Jordan Alvarez.

Speaker 2 (02:08:03):
Boom, disagree? All right, give me your argument and I'll
and I'll tea you mine. Mine's nice and simple.

Speaker 3 (02:08:09):
Yeah, you're he's saying he's not gonna be there, He's
gonna be ready, and he's gonna be massing Homer's baby.

Speaker 5 (02:08:14):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (02:08:15):
Okay, we're gonna have a serious conversation with this. Why
you you don't know and I don't know. Here's what
I can. I can deduce things.

Speaker 3 (02:08:22):
Okay, How in God's Green Earth is somebody who hasn't
played since early May, who is still going through hitting
progressions in Florida gonna all of a sudden be the
October hero for the Astros.

Speaker 2 (02:08:38):
It the dots don't connect. They just don't.

Speaker 3 (02:08:41):
It's August, Matt, It's the second week of August. Season's
not over. Season's not done yet. He can be back
by Siptember first doing what what if his hands hurt?
He's swinging a mat and so all the things that
he had to hurt his hand that hasn't been surgically fixed. Yeah,
and we're waiting for Swelling to go down. Is all

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of a sudden gonna be oh pain free for the
last two months of the year.

Speaker 13 (02:09:06):
Oh hell no.

Speaker 2 (02:09:07):
And if he's gonna play through pain, got lem for
doing it. But I ain't counting on it. I know
you're not gonna count on it.

Speaker 3 (02:09:14):
That's why I said my take is, okay, Christian Walker
is needs to be will be a more valuable piece.

Speaker 2 (02:09:19):
If this team goes anywhere, then you're to avaro okay,
And I can disagree with that. Neither of us know.
But but you see, we'll see.

Speaker 3 (02:09:29):
You got the guy, which is patently ridiculous. You've got
the guy not playing one hundred and thirty games for
the rest of his career. So we don't know, and
I don't know, and you don't know. We'll see it
play out. If he's gonna get hurt every The twenty
eight year old's gonna get hurt, get hurt every single
year for the rest.

Speaker 2 (02:09:44):
Of his life. The dots don't connect, they just understand.

Speaker 3 (02:09:49):
But I'm also gonna tell you if if we're on
September twelfth, i'd be with you. We're on August twelfth,
so in a couple of weeks, I'll be ready to evaluate.
I'm not calling you crazy, and I want you.

Speaker 2 (02:09:58):
To do this for me honestly. Okay. If I'm about this, no,
I want you to pounce on this. No, I'm not
gonna say a word. No you should because you're gonna
get all mad at me. No, I'm not, because I'm
telling you in advance. Okay.

Speaker 3 (02:10:07):
If he does anything for this team the rest of
the year, first of all, I'll be glad to be wrong.

Speaker 2 (02:10:13):
Secondly, it will help the Astros.

Speaker 3 (02:10:15):
The Astros with a something close to healthy yord On
Alvarez makes us a ridiculously potent lineup, especially if Christian
Walker is going to have the better the next forty
days of his life be really great forty days. Yeah,
he could well have a setback two days. Ord On Alvarez. Yes,
we don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:10:30):
I don't know. I'm telling you I'm not and I didn't.
I'm not saying I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (02:10:34):
I disagree with you. I'm not saying you're crazy and
you're making outlandish statements. I'm saying I am just more
hopeful that something will happen. It's been since May third.
He is swinging up, he's taking a live BP. Now
he's in Florida again, right, which is known as setback
city for him.

Speaker 2 (02:10:51):
So I get it.

Speaker 3 (02:10:53):
But if if we were even three weeks later than
where we are, I would feel less confident. But if
he's swinging a bat and he is just your DH,
I think he as I said, I'll stick with this.
I think he does need an off season procedure. They're
gonna mitigate the pain. I feel like this is totally
just made up on my part, that they have a

(02:11:16):
timeline to where they can manage, have him manage the
pain for a few weeks to get ramped up, and
then play the playoffs and see what happens, and then
once the season is the second the season is over, he's.

Speaker 2 (02:11:27):
On the operating.

Speaker 3 (02:11:27):
If he does that, that's admirable. Okay, So now I'm
gonna speak to you with ignorance. Here it goes, if
there is nothing structurally wrong with the hand anymore. M hm,
And he's been swinging. How much swinging does he have

(02:11:48):
to do if if there's nothing wrong with the hand. Yeah,
if he's going to swing a couple of weeks, why
wouldn't he be swinging in triple A right now or
double A right now? Because they're just building him up.
I guess I don't know, Okay, and you know what,
And to be fair to you, you don't know the answer.

Speaker 2 (02:12:05):
Oh, I don't. I haven't seen the charts. Well, they
should let us see the charts. We'd be much better
at sports hosts if we knew the charts. No, I
can't read the chart. I don't get what the hell's
going on?

Speaker 3 (02:12:13):
When when when one hand is really like a full
of goodness and it looks like the Hamburger helper hand, Yeah,
and then one almost like a catcher's man.

Speaker 2 (02:12:22):
You know, it's not great. It's not great. Uh, yeah,
I'm saying is this?

Speaker 3 (02:12:27):
You know I've been hesitant about this because of the
fact that I not necessarily the astros giving out ironis information.
It's just things have never made sense about this, And
I don't know why you have to go down to
Florida yet again to do this.

Speaker 2 (02:12:43):
And now, okay, going from Thursday to Saturday to Saturday
to Tuesday to well.

Speaker 3 (02:12:49):
Then tell well, then help me figure it out. Then,
if he's going to be out for the season, then
why are they even going through any of this charade
just for for bleeps and giggles. They're obviously hopeful that
he can come back and be helpful.

Speaker 2 (02:13:00):
I think what they're thinking is Jordon is going to
call them up one day and say I'm tired of this,
my hands are ready to go, let's play.

Speaker 3 (02:13:10):
But I don't even think. I don't even think Jordon
thinks he's ready to play. Maybe why is he taking
a live VP? Well, he is taking a love anybody's
taking two days off in between majorly Baseball on work.
That way, we're down to forty games. And that's another
thing too though. When he does come to the playoffs,
you do get a lot of days off. Not really,
you play boom boom boom off day. Well, wild Cards,

(02:13:32):
you play three straight days. Yes, that's why you get
a day off and you start the series. The baseball
schedule came out as a matter of fact today. If
the Astros win the division the first yet, they're not
doing it early anymore. They were thinking about starting it
early and they're not doing that. You get more days
off the first game if they win the division series,
he's playing three days in a row, maybe like twice

(02:13:53):
in the whole playoffs. Probably right, It'll be October first,
would be game one October excuse me, October one. Fourth
of be game one October fifth will be game two,
off day on the sixth. Oh, so you don't have
to think it's travel seventh rest of hands, seventh and
eighth would be games three and four and then an
off day for the ninth. You play a game five
on October the tenth. That's division series now, so two

(02:14:16):
off and then two and then off two.

Speaker 2 (02:14:17):
Yeah, that's that's that's pretty typical. And put some mice
on the hand. He's all good.

Speaker 3 (02:14:21):
Now, if you have to play the wild Card, you
play three straight days thirty September thirtieth, October one, October second,
you get one day off and you start your series
in October the fourth. And again I'm not blaming anybody.
I'm saying if he's not gonna help at all the
whole season. Then why is he even why is he in?

(02:14:42):
Why do they flying him a Florida right now? Because
they want to give this a go. They they've been
wanting to give us a go for three months now.
It's almost like going all in on a poker hand.
You're already pot committed. You might as well see what
if you can get anything left, you.

Speaker 2 (02:14:58):
Can win the hand. I don't know. Well, so maybe
he's gonna win his hand. Maybe winning hands is a
poor choice of words.

Speaker 3 (02:15:05):
He's got to lose again so far this year, it's
been three months. There have been multiple setbacks. He's hating
a IVP. And again, I'm just talking about the calendar.
If we were even two weeks, if we were in
the same spot we are, even two weeks from now,
I'd be more on your side that I am keeping
my expectations at zero. And my expectations aren't that he's
going to come back and hit ten home runs. Let's

(02:15:28):
say it's going to get a couple of weeks of
ramp up and then be ready to go for the playoffs.
And we'll see, and he's going to be playing through
some pain, which he has not done a lot in
his career and probably doesn't want to do. He was
playing through the initial pain and that's possibly why we're
where we are. And he has played through So he

(02:15:48):
played through pain once. Yeah, what would make him inspire
him to do it a second time? Knowing what he's
doing it now?

Speaker 22 (02:15:55):
Right?

Speaker 2 (02:15:56):
He's not playing right now? No, he played earlier this
year in pain.

Speaker 3 (02:15:59):
He's progressed thing. He's trying to come back. If he
wasn't gonna try to come back, then they would have
shut him down already.

Speaker 2 (02:16:07):
I think.

Speaker 3 (02:16:08):
No, I think they're so far into this that they're
hoping to get something out of this. Yeah, they clearly
have hope and a prayer. So I have hope in
a prayer, let's go. If they had no hope, he'd
be shut down. And that could, like I said, that
could happen to day. We could literally get we could
be four o'clock news wire, Jordon's had a setback, he

(02:16:31):
shut down.

Speaker 2 (02:16:32):
It could happen absolutely.

Speaker 3 (02:16:33):
All right, what this way? Can you can we be
meeting the middle ground? If he has one more setback?
Are we gonna we call it a day?

Speaker 8 (02:16:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:16:39):
That's the problem.

Speaker 3 (02:16:40):
Sure, So as long as running out Yeah, as long
as there's no more setbacks, then we have to say
a small prayer every night before we go to bed
in hopes that it's he can contribute. At some point
this season, John Mattier has a release a statement, and
that is the quarterback at Oklahoma. Yes, and you'll hear

(02:17:02):
that coming back one fourteen. It's a Matt Thomas show
with Ross here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 8 (02:17:15):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (02:17:15):
When you hear the fifth of Bay Tobin, you get
your platform shoes out, you get to the dance floor.

Speaker 2 (02:17:22):
And you say, sports Tuggy RV, give me some NFL rewind.
Is that what they said?

Speaker 3 (02:17:27):
No, but it did sounded good at disco ball Fat
lined Coke get ready to get on the disco flight.
I had a dream last night that my wife was
doing coc on adulta Airlines flight.

Speaker 2 (02:17:39):
She's like, what, what's the matter. She wasn't obviously, but
I'm just saying, you know, you're truly one of a kind, Matt.

Speaker 8 (02:17:55):
What I mean?

Speaker 3 (02:17:55):
I told you I had the weirdest dreams you'll ever
meet for anybody. I had three wild dreams last night.
Are we doing match dream interpretation or are we doing
NFL rewind let's go okay, Brevin and Jordan placed on
IR for the Houston Texans. He is going to miss

(02:18:17):
the season, as Matt Thomas outlined, apparently, if you're put
on IR at this point in camp, you are going
to be out for the year. So unfortunately, Jordan carted
off the field yesterday. It happened during an eleven on
eleven drill corps. As a quarterback.

Speaker 2 (02:18:36):
CJ.

Speaker 3 (02:18:37):
Stroud threw the pass down the seam. He jumped but
could not corral the pass. When he landed, he immediately
fell to the ground and grabbed his lower right leg.

Speaker 2 (02:18:49):
CJ.

Speaker 3 (02:18:49):
Stroud, very emotional, had to be consoled by Derek Schultz
and others.

Speaker 2 (02:18:53):
Some people are calling c J.

Speaker 3 (02:18:55):
Stroud soft for caring about his fellow players, just calling
him soft. I don't know, were being ridiculous, But Brevin
Jordan out for the year tight ended room. We were
hoping to be not necessarily a strength, but some guys
that could pop up some depth. Yes, Matt, that's a
good word. Well, you're lacking in some of that depth
now with Brevin Jordan out for the year, I mean

(02:19:22):
Christian Kirk season.

Speaker 8 (02:19:24):
No.

Speaker 3 (02:19:24):
The reality is you feel bad for a guy that
worked all the way to get back into the team,
on the team and healthy, and now he's got to
go out again. I mean, this is football's cruel and
with being non guaranteed contracts, frankly, two season ending injuries
in a row, I mean, Brevin Jordan's NFL career might
be in severe jeopardy here. It could be you can

(02:19:44):
catch on somewhere. There's always room for redemption in the NFL.
I feel like, all right, moving along other stuff in
the NFL, James Cook, Bill's running back returning to practice
today amid his contract disput with the Buffalo Bills. They're
calling that a hold in, Matt, and that's becoming very
prevalent in the NFL there. They're like, you're gonna find

(02:20:06):
me how much I think that maybe in the last
CBA they must have up the fines or something like that.

Speaker 2 (02:20:10):
Well, people are also wave them off. If you find
a player you have, that player must pay the fine.

Speaker 3 (02:20:17):
Okay, So the running back holding and he was in
full uniform and fully participated throughout today's session for the
Buffalo Bills. Minute So if you're a hold in, what's
the difference in that and just being their period? Well,
It's like you put a name tag on your and
says I don't want to be here, Like if actually
you beat's a Marshawn Lynch. I'm only here so I

(02:20:37):
don't get fined. So does you only go a half ass?
I mean I don't know, you know, I think you
fully participate, but then once games start, you're threatening that, like, hey,
once game start, I might hold out.

Speaker 2 (02:20:47):
Okay, but I'm trying to say.

Speaker 3 (02:20:48):
I'm trying to say a little cash for the summer
I got you. I'm trying to make sure my wallet's
not as light elsewhere in the news, Matt Miles Garrett,
did you see this cited for driving one hundred miles
per hour in a sixty mile per hour zone in Strongsville, Ohio?
Give it a two hundred and fifty dollars fine, does

(02:21:09):
not have to appear in court Thursday morning.

Speaker 2 (02:21:11):
If he does pay the fine. May I give you
a somewhat of a hot take?

Speaker 3 (02:21:17):
Yes, if you are caught speeding at one hundred miles
an hour, you should have your license take away.

Speaker 2 (02:21:28):
For a year. I don't think that's a hot take
at all.

Speaker 3 (02:21:33):
I I do not know of a situation in this
world in which we live in, that there is ever
a need to go one hundred miles per hour. I
think the chances you hurting yourself and others, yes, is
ridiculously high, because you might think you got a sports

(02:21:55):
car then get up there, but even sports cars can
sometimes get out of control of those speeds. I think
my caparsons, like you said, Mike Comparson's right, mm hm,
I'm sorry, No, Miles Garrett, Miles Gay, excuse me, Miles Garrett,
shame on you. One hundred miles an hour is embarrassed. Well,
there's even more to this story, Matt. Three years ago,
Miles Garrett was issued a citation for failure to control

(02:22:18):
his vehicle in a single car crash where he was
driving at least sixty five miles per hour on a
road with a forty five mile per hour speed limit.

Speaker 2 (02:22:28):
That even furthers my point.

Speaker 3 (02:22:29):
He suffered a left shoulder sprain and a right biceps strain,
as well as cuts and bruises after his vehicle went
off the side of the road. Also, afterwards, after that
first incident three years ago, he talked about how he's
never gonna speed ever again.

Speaker 2 (02:22:48):
He lied, just like the average person lies.

Speaker 3 (02:22:51):
Yes, he did, so he lied, and everybody's putting fast
and furious means on Twitter about Miles Garrett.

Speaker 2 (02:23:02):
Uh funny stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:23:04):
All right, Speaking of fast and furious, Von Miller was
recently on a podcast talking about how.

Speaker 2 (02:23:11):
Pass rush moves are overrated.

Speaker 3 (02:23:16):
He talked about how of one hundred and twenty nine
of his sacks, maybe five of them were on actual
pass rush moves. And he tells people all the time
that he just used speed to power, reacts to the
offensive lineman and then he got his sacks that way.

Speaker 2 (02:23:34):
He's just branging about his athleticism.

Speaker 3 (02:23:37):
That's what it feels like. I mean, he was so
fast and bendy as you know Madison twitchy too. He's
also twitchy, twitchy, bendy, high motor if you will. His
ability to get around corners with bend and speed to power,
I mean, it was incredible. So von Miller talking about

(02:23:58):
how pass rush moves are overrated, and that's what he
tells everybody else in his pass rushing room. Maybe those
guys are like, yeah, okay, we're not all built with
the gifts that one von Miller does have. But one
one hundred and twenty nine sacks for von Miller says
maybe only five of them came from usual actual pass
rush movies.

Speaker 2 (02:24:18):
Stop bragging. Yeah, we're all proud of you, all right,
Matt moving along in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (02:24:24):
Jordan Love do have a thumb procedure on his left
thumb as he has a ligament injury there, but he's
expected to be ready for the season opener for the
Green Bay Packers. And also Matt Stafford was supposed to
practice yesterday for the LA Rams. Not at practice. He

(02:24:45):
was in playing clothes. Not a practice today either, by
the way, got the latest word on that. Could it
be Jimmy Garoppolo versus the Houston Texans in Week one?

Speaker 2 (02:24:56):
Uh? You want a gut feeling it?

Speaker 3 (02:24:59):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (02:24:59):
Why not? We're speculating on injuries all the all show. Yeah,
I'll do it. I'll go Yeah he's out. You're saying
he's out week one.

Speaker 3 (02:25:09):
I'm saying that Jimmy Garoppolo will be the starting quarterback
for the Rams in Week one against the Texans.

Speaker 2 (02:25:14):
Okay, three twenty five on CBS, Kevin Harlin, Melanie Collins,
you had to go there. I had to go there.
America is going to go there.

Speaker 3 (02:25:25):
America's gonna go there, all right, there you go. That's
your NFL rewind. Lastly, this is purely because the television geek.

Speaker 2 (02:25:34):
I'm in me. Oh wait no, there was one thing
we had we tease, we have to get to. But
go ahead, please, go go ahead.

Speaker 3 (02:25:38):
Your's are more important, John Mattier, The allegations that I
once participated in sports gambling are false. My previous Venmo
descriptions did not accurately portray the transactions in question, but
we're instead inside jokes between me and my friends.

Speaker 2 (02:25:51):
I have never bet on sports.

Speaker 3 (02:25:53):
I understand the seriousness of the matter, but recognize that
taking out of context, those Venmo descriptions suggest otherwise my teammates, coaches,
and officials at the NCAA that I have not engaged
in any sports gambling. I will believe him, I'll say,
believe it. He's either extremely well, he's stupid.

Speaker 2 (02:26:12):
Either way. I don't think extremely stupid to gamble, That's
what I say.

Speaker 3 (02:26:16):
Like, it doesn't make sense he would actually gamble on
the games and then label it as sports gambling.

Speaker 2 (02:26:22):
Yes, he just needs to come up better phrasing.

Speaker 3 (02:26:25):
And whoever anything else, Yeah, and whoever sorted this joke
needed to stop, all right, And that is oh real quick.
I love retro stuff. I think a lot of people
like retro stuff. Cbslger, we love it. Just announced five
minutes ago that Bret Musburger is going to join James Brown,
Bill Cowerd, Nate Burlson, and Matt Ryan on a retro

(02:26:46):
addition to the NFL today in Week three of the season.
They're going to go back to the old graphics I
use back in nineteen seventy five for the NFL. Today,
it'd be the one pregame show I'll watch that day.
I'll be watching fantasy pregame stuff. I love retro stuff.
Can't can't give me enough retro I understand. Do you
think we should a retro show? Remember member Berries, Yeah,

(02:27:07):
we do a We can do a January twenty ten
edition of The Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (02:27:11):
The young producer named Ross who didn't have all that
facial hair and gray hair. You're gonna shave and we're
gonna shave my head.

Speaker 3 (02:27:15):
We could do a retro used to get a four
guard on the top and a two guard inside. Hmmm,
hey wait, Mane, why are you ripping on his hair?
No odds can't imagine Ross with a four guard his.

Speaker 2 (02:27:27):
Media credential still has that. I think, yeah, I could
show it. That's in my car. All right, that's the
NFL RE one, Thank you very much.

Speaker 9 (02:27:33):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:27:33):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two seven ninety. I will, By the way,
we got to do this, probably before we really get
super busy. I have found tapes ross of one of
my first ever broadcast in nineteen ninety one. It's on
a cassette tape, me doing Tomball high school football. So

(02:27:55):
we may we may be putting that some of the
little retro uh in the next week or so. Seven
one three, seven ninety Potter once has he's got a
gut filling on the Astros one in the PM here
on Sports Talk seven ninety Believe it or not, coming
up in the next segment. It's gonna be a masterpiece.

(02:28:18):
Your best work is done in the last half hour. Yeah,
but I know nothing about this show. You can't make
up stuff, you know what I'm saying. I got nothing,
I got nothing to base it off of. I'm gonna
need some help from you during the next break.

Speaker 2 (02:28:29):
All right.

Speaker 3 (02:28:30):
Notable guest stars on What's Happening The Doobie Brothers I'm
not gonna use that one.

Speaker 5 (02:28:34):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (02:28:35):
It looks good. I'ma make one up. I'm doing it
right now. You want? Would you like me? We could?
You know, let's make Let's see, let's see how the
price horse and Jermaine Jackson. I'm gonna say.

Speaker 3 (02:28:47):
Jermaine Jackson appeared on a season two episode, Okay, and
I will give you a believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:28:53):
M what's uh? Let's see?

Speaker 3 (02:28:59):
Oh Rogers Roger I think the character's name was Roger
Thomas Rogers. Activity while in high school was to work
for the student newspaper that doesn't Believe It?

Speaker 2 (02:29:18):
Okay? I zoned out? Oh no, it didn't zone out.

Speaker 3 (02:29:20):
I was writing a question what Rogers Rogers Rogers Rogers
activity will in high school was working for the high school.

Speaker 2 (02:29:32):
As a what janeitor?

Speaker 3 (02:29:34):
No, as a as a reporter for the high school
newspaper that does a believe it? Okay, So there you go.
If you guys get that wrong, I swear to God
if that one is wrong in fifteen minutes, I'm going
to probably retire.

Speaker 2 (02:29:50):
I can't afford to retire, but I'm going to retire.

Speaker 7 (02:29:52):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:29:52):
You're doing great. A lot of pressure on whoever's going
to get that question ponder on seven. Good afternoon, Hey,
good afternoon, guys.

Speaker 11 (02:30:01):
Hey listen, I got I've got three gut feelings to
Houston or two Astros one Texas.

Speaker 16 (02:30:07):
Okay, the the Astros is if we make excuse me,
if we win the ALCS, Cam Smith is the m
v p UH.

Speaker 15 (02:30:19):
Number two is either combination or any one individual of
these three individuals are on our roster the last game
of the season. I don't know they would make the
playoff roster, but it's Justin Berlander, Ryan Presley and here's
the Shaker, Martine Maldonado.

Speaker 11 (02:30:38):
Somehow either get DFA and we pick them up somehow.

Speaker 2 (02:30:42):
Why why, wait minute, why why do you need him?
We don't need him.

Speaker 11 (02:30:50):
Back together.

Speaker 2 (02:30:51):
Come on, that's no ponder stop, no listen. I don't
give you guys a lot.

Speaker 11 (02:30:57):
And I have an Avid Avid Avid after and I
and listen, I'm an educated baseball fan.

Speaker 2 (02:31:03):
Are you sure, coach?

Speaker 23 (02:31:05):
Yes, right, well, listen, listen on the sporty maybe not
the personnel moves, but.

Speaker 11 (02:31:11):
But I'm telling you that there's a weird feeling and
we have no need for him. With Caroteni in Indias,
I get it. But there is still that gut feeling
that Verlander, as much as I do not want him,
back winds up on this roster as a player coach
for the end to say they did the same thing
with Carlos Beltran, same thing what eight years ago?

Speaker 3 (02:31:33):
Well, they better do in the nice next nineteen days
because if he's not in the Astros organization by the
end of August, he's he can't play the playoff roster.

Speaker 23 (02:31:41):
Understood, Yes, sir, I know that deadline now now listen,
the Texans one is kind of a comical one. And no,
I'm not a Texans fan. I'm a Dolphins fan. We're
not going to get into that today.

Speaker 11 (02:31:53):
That being said, I think they find a way to
get the baby.

Speaker 22 (02:31:57):
Blue into some kind of uniform this year, Justine that
I know, but way more than what they have.

Speaker 3 (02:32:08):
No, you can't, you can't. You can't mystery uniform. The
NFL has got to know about it. You can't mystery
put a uniform together.

Speaker 2 (02:32:15):
So Pond, let's let's put things in perspective.

Speaker 3 (02:32:18):
I'm gonna take what you said, and I'm gonna give
you percentages more Baby Blue in the Texans uniform. Zero
percent chance Martin Maldonado signing with the Astros zero percent chance.
Justin Verlander leaving the Giants to go play for the
Astros zero percent chance. Ryan Presley, Ryan Presley five percent chance.

Speaker 11 (02:32:39):
So let me ask you this on Justin Verlander? Why
why was it such a big Just like Carlos Korea,
it was it came out of nowhere. I mean, I'm
sure there was something somewhere the media caught a hold
of and then boom, it comes into fruition. But with
with Berlander, that was a hot top pick for what

(02:33:01):
seventy two hours.

Speaker 2 (02:33:03):
There's no post he's got to get released.

Speaker 11 (02:33:09):
So you don't think they would do that as as
bad as he's been for them of the season.

Speaker 3 (02:33:13):
Well, if he's as bad as he's been for them
this season, what what what possesses the Astros to grab him?

Speaker 7 (02:33:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 11 (02:33:19):
Why did we get Carlos Beltran all those years ago?
Why did we bring him back and pay him all
that money Verlander.

Speaker 7 (02:33:25):
Two years ago?

Speaker 2 (02:33:27):
Beltran wasn't that much money. Bel Trump was a one
year deal at limited money.

Speaker 19 (02:33:32):
That it was.

Speaker 2 (02:33:33):
They buried his glove. Yeah, I mean he was a
d h.

Speaker 3 (02:33:35):
I mean you at least you can get some value
to him playing six days a week. You're not going
to pro rate the money that he made for Verlander,
thank you, Ponder, Yeah, per Are you sure you coached baseball?
Are you sure you're recommending baseball is good? Maybe he's
more of a you know, teaching him about it, he said.
Maybe Bettter knows more about the game than he does

(02:33:56):
about personnel moves. So going back, yeah, he admitted that
Tomamnsky of Houston back to back to back AAU champions that's.

Speaker 2 (02:34:05):
A deep cut by the way people do today. I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:34:07):
First of all, there's no chance, Jonathan, Jonathan, do you
know who Tomamansky is about any chance?

Speaker 2 (02:34:14):
Oh my gosh, it just you just talked to him
and the camera just worked. I know.

Speaker 3 (02:34:18):
It's crazy, freaking me out. No, Thomas helping us out,
all right, So you're doing you know who Tomamnsky is?
Do you know who Fred McGriff is, The crime dog,
the crime dog. Yeah, the crime dog. No, he got
the five hundred homers, didn't he?

Speaker 2 (02:34:31):
Oh? Sure? Uh, but not in the Hall of Fame though, right,
I know.

Speaker 3 (02:34:37):
I grew up over there in the coast of Arlington,
So I know, is Nolan Ryland my camp. That's only
two I really knew, I Camp Or I don't know.
Is that Matt Camp, Mac Camp?

Speaker 2 (02:34:46):
I just know I had to Joy. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:34:47):
There's a Tony Camp who just retired camp too, Yeah,
the Dodgers and but the somebody else too, Right, there's
a Tony Camp, Jack Kemp, the former congressman, former NFL quarterback.
You do famous camps. No, it's too late to all right.
I might be making up a lot of stuff about

(02:35:07):
what's happened. Just give you a believe it well one,
there's a questions. Don't worry about it all right? Uh
this ought to be the fit of complete right here, Larry.

Speaker 14 (02:35:19):
How are you good? I just got through listening to
Ponder and I was driving my truck and I down
there ran off the road because it was such an
insane take. I've never heard anything crazier in my life

(02:35:41):
except for the one swim possibility maybe to get Presley back.
But then on the other hand, with Pressley being the
attitude Gasey he was when we signed Josh Nder, I
don't know if I want play back here, but here's

(02:36:01):
the one thing that I want to know from you guys,
where is aj Blueball in the pitching rotation in the
minor leagues where he can come up and help us,
either in the third game of the Boston Series or
sometime in the Baltimore Series.

Speaker 3 (02:36:25):
I don't anticipate him being in either one of them, honestly,
and there's you've already got you got Hobby or backing
at arraghetti bag. Blue Ball would only be needed if necessary.
And by the way, he just pitched I think two
days ago and was in the PCL Pitcher of the Week, so.

Speaker 2 (02:36:39):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (02:36:39):
I think blue Ball is gonna be ready for twenty six.
I don't think he's going to be a guy that
you're going to count on for anything except for maybe
a spot appearance because you're you got tired arms.

Speaker 2 (02:36:49):
I don't know what barring injury.

Speaker 3 (02:36:52):
Well, that's not so much that you have to put
the caveat with these twenty five astros. Man, what a
story this whole season has been. It's been a whole
whole movie, but hopefully it's been a band. It's a
horror movie, is what it is. It's been a story
of you know, you gotta have you gotta fall down
before you get back up, Matt, Really, yeah, it reminds

(02:37:12):
me Jonathan, my my favorite baseball team ever.

Speaker 2 (02:37:17):
You ready for this?

Speaker 3 (02:37:18):
Jonathan stayed with me on this for thirty seconds listening.
So I used to watch this baseball team play and
the owner was trying to sell the team, so she
wanted to dumb the team down. She took him off
planes they were riding like like prop planes to games,
stripped the roster. They stripped the roster and then they
made them go on buses to games because they want

(02:37:41):
the owner wanted the team wanted to lose.

Speaker 2 (02:37:45):
You know what they did. They rallied Jonathan and they
won because they won in spite of the owner. And
the owner was kind of hot.

Speaker 3 (02:37:52):
So they used this jigsaw puzzle thing they put together
for her, and every time they win a game, they
took a piece of the puzzle off of the girl's body.
So they won all the games they'd see her naked.
That's baseball right there.

Speaker 2 (02:38:09):
Let's play Believe It or Not?

Speaker 3 (02:38:10):
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Speaker 2 (02:38:24):
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Speaker 3 (02:38:30):
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We simply call it beat Believe It or Not? And
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Speaker 3 (02:38:44):
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statement about what's happening. The statement is completely and utterly
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Speaker 2 (02:38:57):
You'll say this or notts in a row. When you
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Speaker 7 (02:39:05):
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Speaker 2 (02:39:05):
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Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety Joe
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Speaker 12 (02:39:25):
It or Not?

Speaker 7 (02:39:26):
Yes, and that was that major league.

Speaker 13 (02:39:30):
I don't know what.

Speaker 2 (02:39:31):
I don't know what you're talking about, Joe.

Speaker 3 (02:39:32):
The movie Okay, What's Happening was canceled because Fred Barry
aka Rerun threatened to go on strike for better pay.

Speaker 2 (02:39:40):
Believe it or not Believe it? That isn't believe it
absolutely statement number two for the win.

Speaker 3 (02:39:47):
The original title of the What's Happening Show had exactly
two exclamation points, believe.

Speaker 8 (02:39:52):
It or not?

Speaker 2 (02:39:56):
Matt Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (02:40:06):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety David
on seven ninety David, who's your favorite part of today's
radio show?

Speaker 11 (02:40:14):
Good feelings?

Speaker 3 (02:40:15):
All right, David, here's your question. Dwayne from What's Happening?
His favorite catchphrase was hey, hey, hey, believe it or not?

Speaker 2 (02:40:26):
Believe it? Believe it? Okay for ten thousand empty bucks?
How did he say it?

Speaker 19 (02:40:33):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (02:40:34):
Hey, hey, there you go. That's my man, all right,
staym Number two for the wind.

Speaker 3 (02:40:39):
In the original script for What's Happening Rerun was written
as a skinny white kid believe it or.

Speaker 8 (02:40:44):
Not believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:40:47):
There you go, Holly ray.

Speaker 3 (02:40:53):
Lewis on seven ninty Lewis, You're ready to play Believe it?

Speaker 8 (02:40:55):
Or not.

Speaker 1 (02:40:57):
Believe it.

Speaker 2 (02:40:57):
Fred Barry had his middle name illegally change your rerun
Believe It or not?

Speaker 7 (02:41:04):
Not?

Speaker 2 (02:41:04):
He did dump bump but dumbo.

Speaker 3 (02:41:12):
Chad on seven ninety, Chad, what was your favorite What's
Happening episode?

Speaker 14 (02:41:18):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:41:19):
Gosh, you got me on that one. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (02:41:21):
Rogers' activity while in high school was working as a
reporter for the school newspaper.

Speaker 2 (02:41:26):
Believe It or not?

Speaker 14 (02:41:29):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:41:30):
Yeah, I just told you that twenty minutes ago. Statement
number two for the way.

Speaker 3 (02:41:33):
And Jermaine Jackson appeared as himself on a season two
episode of What's Happening. Michael was referenced to, but he
did not appear in that episode. Believe It or not.

Speaker 7 (02:41:44):
Not?

Speaker 2 (02:41:45):
That is correct?

Speaker 14 (02:41:46):
All right?

Speaker 3 (02:41:49):
People know there?

Speaker 2 (02:41:50):
What's Happenings? Mark on seven ninety Ready to play Believe
it or not.

Speaker 4 (02:41:55):
Believe It?

Speaker 3 (02:41:56):
What's Happening was originally just supposed to be a limited
run summer replacement in program, but was picked up for
a full run after proved wildly popular.

Speaker 2 (02:42:04):
Believe It or Not?

Speaker 13 (02:42:08):
Believe It?

Speaker 3 (02:42:09):
Yes, believe a number two for them when Danielle Spencer's
last acting credit was in a two thousand and one
episode of days of our lives.

Speaker 2 (02:42:17):
Believe it or not.

Speaker 6 (02:42:21):
Believe it, yes, please please stop batter stop bad.

Speaker 2 (02:42:38):
We runs alive, believe it or not not. That's right,
he's dead, all right. Rest.

Speaker 7 (02:42:43):
That was de.

Speaker 3 (02:42:45):
Up next the Dwayne and Rodge of Houston Sports Radio
BA Tybe. No, that's on the classic rock station. No,
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