Astros Take The Series Furthering Their Position As #1 In AL West, Is Isaac Parades On New Shortlist For Team MVP?

Astros Take The Series Furthering Their Position As #1 In AL West, Is Isaac Parades On New Shortlist For Team MVP? 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ten oh one, inn h Town.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Good morning, and welcome to a Friday edition on the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross That's Sports Talk seven ninety
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
That might have been the most disturbing non flora story
we ever had. It'll be up to myself to find
a more non in a serving story today at one thirty. Hello, everybody.
Hope you guys are and ladies, I should say, are
in for a good Friday show. If you are, maybe
you can find something down the dob, but we're gonna
be here anyway. Hey, Matt, how are you?

Speaker 3 (00:34):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Long time no talk? It's been a couple of days. Yeah,
it's nice to get a little break sometimes. Mmm uh yeah.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
I wouldn't say I was lounging. Put it that way.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
I had some family things to take care of, nothing serious,
but those things are in the rearview mirror. Great, and
I'm here to spend a Friday with you, my friend,
and the great people of Houston, Texas. Wonderful. For anything
goes Friday, it is and Matt Thomas goes from raw
and I feel kind of goosey, So let's do that.
Let's really let's just goosey. Well, loosey, goosey, Lucy goosey.

(01:06):
That's fine. Let's just tear the bag open. Was just
empty it all out right now, the bag of what
the bag of silliness? Okay, because we can break down
Texans backup offensive linean if you want to, I'm good.
We can get into is Damian Pierce gonna be a
difference maker in twenty twenty five He won't, or we
can get into Dana Brown trying to open up a

(01:28):
can of whoop ass on the field before the game yesterday.
He wasn't throwing hands, he didn't have brass nuts. Come on, man,
he had elbow pads. If he wasn't twirling a switch plate,
I thought I saw numb chunks. I don't know if
it was me or maybe I was just so delirious. Okay,
so let's get into what happened yesterday. First and foremost,

(01:48):
Essak Preddies. I would have to say, the biggest surprise
for me of the entire season has been him. Okay,
I thought he would be mid He is mid times.
He's almost exceptional. He's all I mean, he is almost
worthy of an All Star. Not now. He had a
little slump about a week ago, I think it's at
of us because he was playing almost every single inning

(02:11):
and he had two home runs yesterday. Frobert is becoming
mister Quality start after quality start after quality start gave
you a seven more yesterday. The Astros now have the
lead of a game and a half of the American
League West because Seattle bault at home. I think my
buddy Softy is losing his mind today. Probably you're probably

(02:32):
just think, you know what I think about this. If
you're a Seattle fan, Your Sonics are now OKLAMBA City
Thunder and are going about to win the championship.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
Well, I still think about to win this. I do too,
I do too.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
But that's the second time the Thunder urb in the
NBA finals since Seattle's lost an NBA team, So that's
got to be painful, right, Yes. Then you have the
fact that the Baltimore freaking Orioles, who fired their manager,
who are like just dangling in the American League East,
go up there to Seattle, beautiful City. I haven't been
in a long time, but I was, and they swept

(03:05):
the Mariners on their home field. Look, everybody hurts, as
my good friends at rim and would say, yeah, and
then your big headlining off season acquisition for the Seahawks
was Sam Darnold. Now, cal Rawley is still hitting the
ball left and right, all over the ballupon us he is,
so that's good, but they're not getting a whole lot
of Azuli Wriga has been a disappointment since that big

(03:26):
contract was hurt. Yeah, he had that big breakout season
and then he's had like a couple of hot months
here and there where he's been slumping everywhere else.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
But he's still great in center field. He's still got
a lot of value.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
But I don't know how he's doing now because wasn't
it that Astros series where he had gotten he had
the back stiffness and he was missing some times.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
It feels like to me that he was supposed to.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Be a dynamic player that we were supposed to talk about,
like as the replacement for Ken Griffy, to be the
face of Seattle, and it just hadn't turned out that way. Yeah,
he had a huge rookie season and then he's just
been I don't want to say pedestrian, but he just
hasn't lived up to it, especially at the plate. Since then.
He's still spectacular in the field, but he just he
hasn't been there at the plate. It does scare you
when you sign these super contracts. Not that Julio is

(04:09):
not working hard, not that Julio lost his passion for
the game, but sometimes things just don't work out. Yeah,
he's great in the field still, but he's hitting right
now two forty four with a seven to twenty oh ps.
It does have ten homers, but that's not what you
paid for. I mean, you paid for the entire package,
all right, so you had that. So that's Seattle. Let's
get to Houston. So yesterday, No, I was watching the

(04:31):
weather channel and I was looking at Astros Radio MLB's
you're watching the weather channel. No, it was on my phone.
Oh okay, and they were like, you know, the skies
are threatening. So I went and look at the raidar
of Pittsburgh. I'm like, oh, there's some pretty heavy rain coming.
And they never started the game on time. Then about
an hour into the rain to lake, it did eventually

(04:52):
start to rain, and then it really rained and really rained,
and they're looking at this thing, going, when are we
going to start this thing? So then you had game officials,
you had umpires, you had people and see the Pittsburgh
Pirates were on the field. Joe Aspoto went on there,
and then Dana Brown comes out, and that's when Dana
brought the GINSU knife and said, we're not playing this game.
We got to get to Cleveland. We have a big

(05:13):
series coming up. Cleveland's a playoff team at this point,
we need to be ready to go. And they said, Dana,
we're playing this game because my guest is they looked
at the schedule and said when can we squeeze this
in somewhere? And my guess is there was And again
they sat there and look at their schedules. They can
know when to squeeze something in. Yeah, and it probably
just didn't work out. So they said we're gonna we

(05:34):
have a window at nine o'clock. That was Central time,
ten o'clock in the East. So they played the game.
It was a quick game, but they did play it
and I could hear everything. Yes, the crowd was sparse, sparse,
but there was a lot of Astros fans who probably
made the trip up the Pittsburgh. A lot of fans
were there. I think the Astra fans were liquored up. Oh,

(05:55):
of course, what else you gotta do when you're waiting
around for three hours in the ballpark drinking eighteen dollars beers,
let's go. Do you think if you're the pirates, you
cheap them bizzel beers up? But you think you're like, yeah,
we got you. Now you're not leaving the Ballparky must
they should do rein deway prices. I don't disagree, because
if you're gonna stick around, because if you leave, then
even though you got the tickets sold, you're losing revenue
because those people have left. And the crap probably wasn't

(06:17):
great to begin with, even for Paul Skiings it was
like under sixteen thousand. It's fifteen something. Yeah, it's it's
a city that has largely said you don't care about winning,
so we don't care about going unless you just want
to get out for cod, which is fair on the
part of Pittsburgh, honestly. So the Astros won that game,
Dana Brown was very upset. They did play the game,
and apparently Dana got quite heated. Didn't apologize for his

(06:40):
remarks or what he said. And again, I I think
that maybe and again I don't know the conversations. People
will never know, but Dana's probably thinking we got to
figure out a way to squeeze in this game somewhere else.
I've got to get my guys to Cleveland, Colton Gordon,
who's pitching tonight. And normally sometimes and they do this yesteryear,

(07:00):
they would sometimes send their advanced picture to the city
at day ahead, like fly him to pitt to Cleveland
to get to get a good night sleep.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
I don't know if they did that or not.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
My guess is it was such a that the game was,
it's such a short flight between Cleveland and Pittsburgh that
they probably said, ah, you're still gonna get to bed
at midnight. He said, plenty of time, and that obviously
didn't happen. They got to Pittsburgh and their hotels about
I guess three thirty in the morning, Eastern team. He
could have taken a car. I don't think it's that
close midst couple hours. But but I don't they're not gonna.
They're not gonna uber Greyhound. You're not putting a starting

(07:33):
pitcher on the Greyhound. You're just not well, what if
it's Ryan Gusto? What Ryan guts overdue to you? He's
trying guy, he's your seth Martinez. You didn't. You didn't
treat Seth Martinez with with this kind of disdain. Sometimes
they did not me personally. It looks like it's a
two hour and six minute drive.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
It's not bad.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
That's not bad.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Actually, so it's about a maybe thirty minute flight by
the time you get up there. He could have made it,
he could have booked them something.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
I will say this. I was talking about this with
the crew of off air.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
You're going to see, I think in a concerted effort
by general managers to say we're going to play less
games back to back nights where you have to travel. Now,
the Astros do it very rarely, but it's usually within
the state in which they're in. Like the Astros have
played a game at night here and have gone to Arlington.
If you're playing a game in Sacramento or in San Francisco,

(08:24):
you can go to La Anaheim our flight. They do that.
But those getaway days are for a reason, and that's
to get away and get to the city that you
can as soon as possible. And I don't know what
the weather was like yesterday at say one o'clock Pittsburgh time, but.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
It certainly wasn't good.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Last night and again you can't forecast the rain.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
But they're gonna be thinking about this kind of stuff,
I'm sure for the future.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
And you can't put a roof on that beautiful ballpark
looks great the way it is. No, there's a lot
of ballparks you can't put roofs on. I mean, imagine
what Dykin would look like without a roof. It looked beautiful,
it would be amazing. Luckily it's retractable. They just never
open it. We have two roofs in our city that
never get used. Correct, Oh, they're used. They're just used

(09:07):
to in a stationary position. Yeah, they're just rusting, that's why.
And I don't know have we are we seeing? We're
tractable roofs being built other places now. I think the
Tampa and New Tampa place I think was supposed to
have one. I'm not sure. If I'm going to build
a new stadium, I'm just gonna cover it up period.

(09:27):
I'm not I'm not going to waste the extra money.
I'm sure it's additional cost for sure.

Speaker 6 (09:31):
There.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
What about in the Vegas Ballpark, it's just having an
overhang kind of seattle.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
So we need it in Houston. Most importantly, Astros win game.
It happened front of Seattle. Get your playoff tickets now, okay,
let's go. I mean because the division sucks? Why did
declare it? Right now? I would love you too, I'm
not gonna do. I'm not that nuts. Uh you are,

(10:01):
I'm sure that's true.

Speaker 5 (10:02):
All right?

Speaker 4 (10:03):
It's in Anything Goes Friday?

Speaker 1 (10:04):
What do you guys want to get into and lady
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Ross isn't Anything Goes Friday. I think it's a wish
Matt Thomas a happy Birthday Friday.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yeah, it's funny.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Everybody who calls in start your call with happy birthday, Matt.
I got no gifts from the two people that I
work with on this show more than anybody else. I
know what you make. I'm not getting you anything you
do I have. I told you I don't think I wanted
to make that public. But that's a different issue for
a different today. Yeah, I'm very upset. All right, real quick,
we will get to the NBA. What a fan fantastic
finished last night? It'd been Oh my gosh, that was

(11:04):
blowing coverage on the show today. Well, we're gonna be minimal,
but I will say this, And I thought about this
as I was watching it, but didn't realize that other
people caught onto it.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
What's that ABC and the and the NBA.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Treated yesterday like it was a mid January regular season game,
right with the intros? And I mean there was a
little bit of an intro to start the game, not much,
and but the floor, you know, usually there's a the
Lawrence O'Brien Trophy is in the middle of the floor. Yes,
and the very those amazing little cursive graphics, let's say

(11:40):
the finals. Even JJ Watt.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Noticed that, and I was like, damn, JJ, you're right
on this.

Speaker 7 (11:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
I saw that a lot of people were tweeting about it,
and it doesn't yet you're right when it's the NBA Finals,
when your championship is on the line, when the entire
season and offseason and trade deadline and everything that we
talk about in all the course year long about the NBA.
It's for these moments, especially in the NBA, when it's
it's rings, rings, rings, rings, rings culture more than the

(12:08):
other sports. Correct. So if it's rings, rings, rings, rings, rings,
you need to play this up. And you know why
they don't have it because they had to get the
portals of those little computer animated graphics with the sponsors
on the four It's it's for revenues. I love the NBA,
but man, they just don't. They can't get out of
their own way in some things. And I would think
I would say that with a lot of sports, but damn.

(12:30):
I mean, it was just so aggravating that it just
looked like a raider old game. Nothing no poping circumstance, nothing,
no lineups, no big presentation, no just it was just there.
And thankfully that's such a small thing when it comes
to the game, because the game is the most.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
Important thing, and the game.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
You could have turned it off multiple times last night,
especially after the first half. Indiana had nineteen first half turnovers,
imber remember that high with a good team like that,
but they came back, and Tyrese Haliburton has never used
something that was a detriment to him, more to his
you know, to his what do you call it in

(13:19):
trying to get himself fired up, like when he was
named the most overrated player in the NBA bulletin board,
maturialip on, whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 4 (13:27):
Okay, since that day that that came out, he's been amazing.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
He was always amazing before then, but really amazing since then.
It hits the game winning shot, I mean, boom three
tens after Oklahoma City led ninety nine point nine percent
of the game and stayed under his fourteen and a half,
which I appreciate, but yes, Tyrese Haliburton with a big shot.
I mean you look at the stat line and you're like,

(13:53):
all right, fourteen, tennesses, ten rebound, six assists. Not like
he lit the world on fire, but a lot of
it was the Oklahoma City Thunder. I mean, look, they
toss Lou Dort on them all game. Blue Dort his
first team All yeah, can't shoot, but he's really were
you talking about he made five freeze last night, but
normally can't.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
Once in a blue moon.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah, and I think his three point percentages were better
this year. Passion is I just every time he played
the Rockets and well, but he was He's always been
great defensively ever since he got into the leak. So yeah,
he did a good job really overall of slowing Tyre's
Halliburton down. But it's just like the Pacers keep doing this,
they keep on defying the odds, they keep on winning
these I saw somebody like added up there or basically

(14:36):
compounded the win probabilities. It's like one in one and
a half million or something that they would have won
all these four games that they've won when they're down
like seven points with a minute to go or whatever
it's been. It's been crazy. Like the live betting on
this has to be crazy. Yeah, all right, if somebody's
been live betting the Pacers all all postseason, they're doing
pretty well. I'm just going to say this is a
blanket statement that we're going to talk to John and

(14:58):
Santa Fe if you would like to talk about last
night scam, if you would, if you would want to
talk hoops, we would be we want to talk rockets. Yeah,
A lots of strange things out there. We are welcomed.
We would like you to do so seven one three
two one two five seven and not force on you.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
No, we may casually bring it up.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
Like we it's anything goes Friday. It isn't anything goes Friday.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Let's talk to John and Santa Fe on seven ninety
at ten twenty four, John, thank you for holding in.

Speaker 6 (15:26):
Good morning, Hey, good morning, and happy birthday, Matt to
thank you very much. So man, Look, yesterday I was
just scrolling around on social media and on one of
my astro sites, one of the questions was, hey, which
astros should make the All Star team? And there's probably
thirty forty people that replied. Of course the obvious people

(15:47):
you know, Hunter Brown and Josh Hater and Jeremy Paine,
you and there was some other people throwing in out
to a which personally, I don't think he's having an
All Star season. He's having a decent season, but it's
not a you know what I'm saying, He's not having
an All Star season, especially for an outfielder. But I
decided I was gonna comment, and this is exactly what
I commented word for word. If you're not listing, if

(16:10):
you're not lifting East SoC Paradus, you're not paying very
close attention. I mean, that guy has played a stellar
third base and I'm look, Pain has been great, Hunter
Brown's been great. But East SoC Paratus is our MVP
so far this season. And uh that that's all I
wanted to say. Man, I just think I don't think

(16:31):
Esoch is getting the run.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
That he needs. I mean, look at the Shoester numbers,
then Bregman.

Speaker 5 (16:37):
To this point.

Speaker 6 (16:38):
Now, I realize Bregman's gotten it is hurt and and
and and had to slow it down.

Speaker 5 (16:43):
But I just want Esox to get the run.

Speaker 6 (16:46):
That he needs and and let's get him in that
All Star game.

Speaker 5 (16:49):
And that's all I got to say. I'll hang up
to listen.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Thank you for the phone call. Uh, third base typically
is you know, those corner positions are loaded when it
comes to talent. I don't know exactly who's having a
worse or better season than Esak. His OPS is comfortably
over eight hundred now and again he now has fourteen
home runs on the air, so he's kind of pacing
for probably close to thirty his third base club, which

(17:14):
was deemed quote unquote average. We heard Ross and I
did directly the front office and the coaching staff say
average third base. He's done a good job. He's had
a little bit of a slump, but he's gotten past
it and he has been the power surge for this team.
Because Janner Diez the numbers are down, Christian Walker's numbers

(17:36):
are down, llseel two base numbers are down. Whom else
am I forgetting that would be significantly down. Penia's up,
so that wouldn't count. But yeah, I mean with with
with this team that has had a difficult time slugging
and driving and runs, he's done it. Yeah, he's he's
been huge. The caller called him basically their MVP. He's yeah,

(18:00):
he's on the short list right now with Hunter Brown.
We mentioned talked about Josh Hater. I mean, he's a reliever,
so it's tough to make him the MVP of the team.
But Estak Paratus has been a huge. Couple of home
runs just raight. It's not like you know he needed him,
but he's getting them. He's hitting pout with power, he's
driving everything. The left field continues to do that everybody

(18:20):
knows he's about to pull the ball, and then he
still does it. It's impressive, which makes me think, why
does anybody pitch him anything but inside? Make him just
have an awkward stroke. I mean, if you're throwing outside corner,
he is going to just rip. Yeah. Of course, our
great guest that we have, Brian Bogosec, talked about that
a couple of weeks ago. It's basically he's not cheating
and hanging over the plate. It's just basically the natural
plane of his swing. So it's you can pitch him

(18:43):
however you want. He's still doing a row, which is
great because most left fields in Major League Baseball, I
mean there's a reason why they're short pokes. Yeah, I
mean there's four or five ballparks are going to be
paying the ass. I mean, going to Cleveland, I don't
think is particularly easy, but there'sn't a ballpark he can't
hit a home run? Yeah, no, have to left field? No,
all right? Ten twenty eight Sports Talk seven on eight

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Speaker 4 (19:06):
Eleven thirty.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Did you you don't apologize for anything you've said in
the last couple of days. Think so, I mean, why
are you looking at me like that? I just want
to make sure you've you've been behaving yourself. Are you
evil eyeing me? I'm not evil, I don't think so,
just being observant, just to make sure, because the street
giving me the oh as they say, what oh ho
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know exactly. I know exactly what oho is. It's a

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chocolate cupcake with white filling. And it's sorry, I do know. Hilarious.
Wow Matt, Wow, Oh that's a ho ho right, all right,
on that note, that's what Jonathan was dating before a minute,
I like apologize on behalf of Matt Thomas.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
Jonathan dated a few apologies.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Jonathan Jonathan dated some ho hoes back in the day.

Speaker 8 (19:52):
Never dated, you know, oh, just one night stand, good
for you, one night on the pullout couch, those western
Kentucky days.

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anything goes Friday. We spent some time here talking about
the green folks man Thomas is having. I mean, he's uh,
you know after his birthday he hit a little bit hard,

(20:25):
won too many margaritas.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
Ah down there, all right, drink some of that. What
do you got coffee?

Speaker 9 (20:31):
You drink?

Speaker 10 (20:32):
Whatever it is?

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Went down the wrong pipe? Where's it going with this? Oh?

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Stop the dot stop as anything goes? Friday Here on
Sports Talk seven hunty ten thirty three is our time
at Ross with you here until two o'clock. A couple
of other weird things from the NBA last night. Number
one Adam Silver always has his State of the NBA
pre Game one press conference, and there were four any

(21:00):
things are brought up, and he says something really weird
about and I'm just looking at Twitter about this about
he thinks that fans are really concerned about the television ratings. Now,
I think, Kevin Mean, I've acknowledged many of times I'm
very intrigued by television ratings. I don't think, generally speaking,
a lot of our audience or sports fans that are.

(21:22):
But he says something was really weird Ross yesterday. He
said that people come up to him and instead of
talking about how great it is to have Indiana Oklahoma
City in the NBA Finals or how things are going
that people come up to him and ask him about
the television ratings. I think he's fought out line. Why
would you go to the If you're going to go
up the commissioner and say anything, that's the first thing
you're going to bring up to him when you're on

(21:43):
the street seeing the commissioner of the NBA, Hello's TV ratings.
I see a lot of discourse around the NBA and
a lot of especially with these finals and it being
I mean, there was a lot of talk about the
market size. I feel like there was more talk about
the market size of these finals than in the basket.
But that's that's not the fans, that's US media type.
Huh uh Okay. I do think there is a lot

(22:03):
of people and then there's a certain contingent of a
certain political leaning who likes to dunk on small NBA ratings. Yeah,
I don't think it's I mean, look and all that
is true, And I do believe that people in the
industry get do you want to market watch market size
or do you want to see how the wokeness of

(22:23):
the NBA has affected their league or whatever the case
may be. But if you're if I mean if if
I guess here's the question, if if if you and
I were walking the streets and we were and we
saw Rob Manfred, what would we bring up? AutoMac ball
strike is the immediately first thing we bring up. I'd

(22:47):
bring up how he brought he protected the Yankees and
try to keep their letter sealed for so long and
then made the Astros the fall guy in the whole
bit cheating scandal. I just ref I can't believe that
an NBA. Again, we're not talking about this could be
one of twenty people that came by. But his thought was,
I don't know if Guido that's walking thirty eighth Street

(23:09):
in New York is like, you know, these TV ratings,
how are they gonna be? First of all, again I
don't think the average fan particularly cares. And secondly, he
doesn't care. You can say all the political things he wants.
He's got a big, fat, multi billion dollar deal coming
from Amazon and NBC, I think more so than other
sports there are. It just just in my observation, I
could be wrong, but it just seems like a lot

(23:29):
of people do try to tear down the NBA, and
then they do that via ratings which sometimes go up,
sometimes go down, and when they're really bad in the
bubble and nothing else was on and the ratings are bad. Absolutely,
I think it became a big talking point for a
lot of people, and I think people who are into
the me personally. I don't really check the ratings or whatever,
but I hope they're high. Also, people would talk about
it as a dying sport or a boring sport, which

(23:51):
I don't think it's either. I can can shut their
mom as up for a day or two. Well, I'm
just gonna say this. Is there a segment of the
popular that does not watch the NBA. I get it,
but it's funny. I will I will protect the person's
identity because he's a friend of mine. But this friend
of mine will ask me about rocket stuff. You know,

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are they gonna make a move for Jalen Green or
move Jalen? Are they gonna move out? But are they
gonna go get Yannis? So when someone brings it up
to me, that wouldn't necessarily in my mind think that
that's a lean towards I do watch the NBA.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
I do pay attention. So I follow up this conversation
I had.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
With this friend of mine with are you did you
see last night's game between you know, Oklahoma City and
who they play in the Western Finals? So they played
Minnesota and soa hecuse, No, I don't watch the MBA anymore.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
So.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
I think there's a certain segment of the population that will
tell you they don't do something, but yet they do it.
I would agree with that as well. I'm not talking
about the NB. I'm talking about it in life in general. Oh,
like for instance, I I I do not consider myself
to be a very political person at all. Mm hmm I.
I tend to stay away from it, certainly on this
show and in the Uh it was hard yesterday. Oh yeah,

(25:11):
my god, Yeah that was hard. But I do watch
Meet the Press every week. Okay, that's my one hour
that I do like to kind of see what's going on. Now.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
Whether you like that show, just like, no matter, I
just normal.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
It's my Sunday nine o'clock, you know, having coffee and
break Yes, brou it's not o'clock. Any are things. There
are things that happened prior to noon. I don't know
if you're aware of this or not. No, not really.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
So it's just funny.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
There's I think there's everybody's got a little bit of
that I don't do this, but yet you do it, Like,
for instance, I'll give you another thing I do. I
tell you, folks, I don't watch the morning TV shows,
but nine times out of ten I wound up watching
them because I want something on and I'm not I
don't want to watch Today show. Yeah, I'm watching Policy.
Your lady's watching ninety Day Fiance And you're like, I
don't watch trash television. And then you're location looking like,

(25:55):
oh my god, did she say that? Like Real Housewives
of said City? Did what's your name? Say that about
what's your name? And I'm like, what's the matter with me?
I said, I don't watch that stuff, So I you know,
I don't know if it translated to the NBA, but
it was intriguing to me that this friend of mine
was asking me about the Rocket's future, but that when
I said, hey, did you catch XYZ playoff game?

Speaker 9 (26:15):
Now?

Speaker 4 (26:16):
I don't watch the NBA.

Speaker 5 (26:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
It feels like people can't tell you fast enough they
don't watch the NBA. I mean, it happens. I'll tweet
something about the if I make a thousand tweets about
the Astros nobody says anything. If I make a thousand
tweets about the Rockets, I would say at least thirty
twenty five to thirty percent of them. Somebody is just like, oh,
I don't watch the NBA. Why are you talking about this?
No one cares, blah blah blah. Well, it's because it's

(26:39):
the most political of the sports. There is no ifans
or buttons. It's political. What we would have seen political lately,
No lately, but there has been a track word. I mean,
we can't be naive to that. The NBA has made
it way more political than the other sports. The NFL
stays away from it for the most part, Black lives
Matter or doing any anything. I mean, we we can't
be na anive to this. I mean the NBA is again,

(26:59):
say what you want about how political it is. It
should be less or more. There, they're athletes there, Steve
kurt and Greg Papovitch are the chairman of the board
of back Yes they are. You don't have what NFL
coach tells you how they feel about their politics. It
feels like Bill Belichick would yeah, meeting so I could
give you.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
I can give you just Kerr and Popovich and be done.

Speaker 5 (27:20):
So.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
The other weird thing that happened yesterday at the NBA
is that Rick Carlisle has his pregame media get together
before he even starts taking questions about the finals. You
know what, the very first thing he brought up was,
which I thought was very intriguing, interesting, how great Doris
Burke is and how pissed off he was. That Doris
Burke's future with ABC as a number one broadcaster came

(27:41):
into play.

Speaker 4 (27:43):
Just kind of an odd random thing.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
She's okay, she doesn't bother me, she doesn't bother me
as much as what's it in Richard Jefferson's just provides
nothing for me. ESPN and ABC can't replicate Mark Jackson
and Stanley and jeff a gund He can't replic Kate chemistry,
Matt like the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yeah, I mean he can't replicate it.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
We've been trying to be naturally, trying for fifteen years
to build chemistry.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
We just can't do it.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Brian and Parland with his at ten forty one on
seven uinety Brian, good morning, Hey.

Speaker 7 (28:15):
Good afternoon, Happy blated birthday.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Thank you sir, appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (28:18):
I hope you had a wonderful day.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 9 (28:20):
Hey hey.

Speaker 7 (28:21):
Real quick on when it comes to the NBA, I
don't follow the NBA as much as I follow the Rockets.
I do tune into the Rockets games down, but to me,
once the Rockets are out, I kind of tune out.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
But the one thing I did notice.

Speaker 11 (28:33):
And it just seems to me that the NBA schedule
is just way too long, like two and a half
weeks to get through just the finals from the fifth
if they make it all the way to game like.

Speaker 7 (28:44):
By this point, I have NBA fatigue, like I saw.
I see clips at the end, like I saw Caliverton
shot to win it, and so I'm aware of kind
of what is going on, but it like to sit
there and watch that entire game, I have zero interest
in it, but I.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Will sit and watch the Rockets.

Speaker 7 (29:00):
So I'm a Rockets fan, not necessarily as much an
NBA fan, but I just think their.

Speaker 9 (29:04):
Schedule is too long.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
So that was kind of my you.

Speaker 7 (29:07):
Know, I know it's all money driven when they went
from five games to seven games for the first round
after the play in, but I don't know if it's
the number of teams or what I mean. If baseball
can get done in roughly six six and a half
months for one hundred and sixty two games, I get
a different type of physicality and stuff like that. But
for the NBA to not be able to get through

(29:28):
eighty two games in less than nine months, I mean,
to me, it's just a little too long. I know
you'll probably disagree being an NBA guy and in.

Speaker 9 (29:37):
The voice of the Rockets on the radio, but that's.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Just my own personal life. Well, I mean, think about
they start playing in late October and they're done in
the second week of April, so that's November, December, January, February, March.
It's about six months of a regular season. You can't
play every day. You can't play every day, I do
believe three days, you know, like the next game of
the NBA Finals and not until Sunday night. And that's not

(30:00):
necessarily because the NBA. That's that's that television dictates those days.
They want to hire a viewing audience. Sunday nights are
a higher TV viewing nights, and Saturday nights they always
make sure Games seven, potential Game seven will be on
Sunday night always. That's that's just and so it's not
the NBA doing it. What's what's the NBA acquiescing to
the TV partners of what it's doing. Yeah, no, I
I I get it.

Speaker 7 (30:19):
And it's just I think by this point in the season,
I'm like, Okay, you know, if the Rockets running obviously
at being gaged, sure by that point, I'm just I'm
just like, okay, yeah, just get to the draft and
let's let's move on to next year by now. But uh,
I don't know how much it was a good win
for the Astros last night in Pittsburgh and hey to
take to just keep winning series at this point, I'm

(30:39):
not anticipating a bunch of sweeps.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
I just think this offense is too inconsistent.

Speaker 9 (30:43):
But at this point, hey, when you get mccolors.

Speaker 7 (30:45):
In Brown or Brown and fromber throwing in a series,
you've got a chance, a good chance to win two
of three of those obviously, you know, and you're hoping
Gordon just keeps shing it. But I just don't know
how much longer you can can tendue this.

Speaker 9 (31:00):
I mean, you are just.

Speaker 7 (31:02):
Relying on the bullpen, and you know, eventually, thankfully Frommer's
getting you deep into games and you need that out
of him and Hunter Brown, and eventually it's just gonna crack.
And I think you saw a little bit of that
in the Tampa series, where you know, you relied on
these guys so long because the offense can't do it.

Speaker 9 (31:19):
And hey, I thank god you play in.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
The Al West.

Speaker 7 (31:21):
But you know, I hope they can address something. And
I'm hoping maybe, you know, just getting Jacob Melton in there,
just not that he's a savior, but just giving the
lineup a different look with another left handed bat. And
you know, maybe when your comes back, it just changes
the way they work the roster and maybe bring some
some life back into that offense. But you know, this

(31:42):
pitching staff is going to crack after a while. But
another good win, another good series. Hopefully they can take
two out of three in Cleveland and get it done.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
But enjoy your.

Speaker 7 (31:51):
Birthday week in matt than he Ross spoils you, and
you'll let you win a fantasy vive sometimes.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Somedays in the last one, I have the belt.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
No pitching staffs can we get We'll get to this.
I'll just say this, No pitching staff can be great
for twenty six weeks. That's just an unrealistic And if
you're going back to Tampa Bay's when the Astros were
showing leakage, they've been pretty good since then, right, Yes,
I mean they were two off taking the Pirates on?
But hey, people, are you gonna respect the pirates? Who

(32:25):
seventy six year old Andrew McCutcheon, How old is he?
I was like I thought Tommy fam was out of baseball.
He's on the Pirates. Did he play with Willie Starger?
Was he part of our family? Did I think he
and cap Anson were playing together back in the day?

Speaker 4 (32:37):
Dump? Who's another famous Pittsburgh pirate?

Speaker 5 (32:40):
Yay? Back?

Speaker 1 (32:41):
And it's like in the fifties, Willi Starger, Roberto Clemente,
give me somebody pre nineteen seventy. I don't know. I
just put nineteen fifty Pittsburgh Pirates here. You go, Matt
anybody good?

Speaker 5 (32:52):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Clyde mccolow, all right, we'll figure more of this out
coming back ten forty six more of pirate history talks. Man,
these you're a coach in sports, you don't get a
shelf life. You understand that. Did you say you just
got fired today? Yes? That would be Tottenham Hotspur manager

(33:16):
Ange postik Ugloo. What and what I understand a word?

Speaker 5 (33:21):
You say?

Speaker 4 (33:21):
You were speaking Greek pig Latin.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Yeah. They won the Europa League and then he still
got sass sacked, as they say in Europe. Stars. I
thought you hadn't You hadn't heard this from yourself yet.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
I am not.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
I'm sure I'll be getting text. Stars coach Pete de
Bourgh fired today. Pete Daburr after three seasons with the
Dallas Stars. They give to the Western Conference finals each
of those three seasons and they fired him. Wow, I mean, damn.
I have a very stupid question. Please, what kind of

(33:53):
strategy goes into hockey coaching?

Speaker 4 (33:56):
I cannot answer that question.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
I am not the official hockey guru of seven ninety Okay,
well we used to have uh, yeah we did. Yeah
mon vern. Oh, he's a dad's Canadian. He's not making
he's making real wages in guy's health insurance. I hang on, whatever,
it's so, if you're a Dallas Stars fan, should we
text him to call in?

Speaker 4 (34:20):
No, he's busy. Is he a Dallas fan or was he?

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (34:25):
Was he just an NHL fan fan?

Speaker 1 (34:27):
No? He had one of the Canadian teams, right, because
his dad's from Toronto. Wey. Yeah, so he around Toronto,
US and he hates a Dallas and he was rooting
for Team Canada. Okay, so what does it take to
be a good NHL coach? I mean, obviously it takes.
So this guy wasn't doing it, that's true. Three so

(34:48):
three years, three finals, you're good. Like I'm still blown
away that Thibodeau. Good.

Speaker 4 (34:54):
Let go Thibodeau.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Yeah, but oh you're he I mean people in NBA
circles did think that he was a little bit too
much of a dinosaur. Yeah, his not necessarily being cranky
twenty four to seven. He was cranking only twenty three
to seven. It was one hour day. He was pleasant,
but uh, you knew at some point playing seven guys
on a regular basis was gonna bite him in the ass.

(35:19):
And by the way, did you see who was expected
to take an interview with them? I would be run
our test. No, it was on to run our test
Jeff fan Gundy, and it will not be Jef van Gundy.
I don't say it's gonna happen because I think Van
Gundy and Thibodeau are good friends.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
It looks like Jason Kid's going to talk to them,
to the Knicks.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
Now, we had the report I think it was maybe
yesterday or the day before that Mark Stein floated that
they were the Knicks were quote intrigued into quote by
Jason Kidd and Ima Udoka and rafel Stone and Tillman
Fertidah sent him a text and checks you obumass up.
It was a voice text. Yeah, they said it in Unison. Yeah,

(36:00):
hey Mark, no wonder you don't work for a major
network and shut your ball mass up. Click. So yeah,
that that didn't get that that that went nowhere. So
Jason Kidd could be going there could be again that's
I just sawtural reports. I don't know that for sure.
They're in a good spot. Well, if Kyrie Evering comes
back and he's back ready by like January February, you've

(36:22):
got Anthony Davis, you're getting Cooper Flagg. And the reason
why bent apparently Jason's won the least listen is that
he was I would say, completely blindsided by the problem
by the Lookadota Trader. That makes sense, and also the
East it's just gets easier to coach in the East.
The West is just ridiculous. I think you have more
better a better chance with the Knicks, especially with Jason

(36:43):
Tatum out for a year plus. You have a better
chance with the Knicks of getting to the finals than
than with the Mavericks. Saying it's not close, and you're
not anticipating Indiana being a long term dynastasy. Could they
could be a thread. The Caves will still be good
as well. Fox, We'll see, but that's it. You know,
you get to play Washington and Charlotte a bunch of times.
You know, the Luca Lebron Laker is going to be

(37:04):
a threat eventually if the team gets built better around
the better around them. The Thunder, Juggernaut, Nuggets are good,
Wolves are up and coming. Do the Warriors have another run?
And oh, by the way, the number two seed Rockets, Yeah,
go to the Heat. I would go to the East too,
now that I think say it out loud, and look,
he's he's a customed he's he's actually was a former
coach than net so he knows what it's like to

(37:24):
be a New York Metropolitan team. Is that where he
ran into somebody and knocked the drink all over the
floor because he didn't have any timeouts left? Yes, what
a pull Bucks coacher next, and Net's coach then I
can't remember it was one of those two. Obviously it
wasn't in Dallas. But yeah, that was that was ballsy.
And then he got fined. They're like, you can't do
that because they had him on microphone. Literally did he

(37:47):
know there's cameras and microphones everywhere around in the NBA court? Right,
He's like, hit me, hit me, hit me. It just
shows you that people do crazy stuff. So yeah, if
if that indeed it is true, could Jason mean again,
I guess the question would be do does Dallas want
something in return? But if I'm boy, could you imagine

(38:11):
trading a coach away who I think is pretty well
I mean, I think well regarded in Dallas, played there,
so coach there, they seem very happy with him. Could
Nikol Harrison get rid of the best player and a
really good coach that Dallas had just to fill the spot.
And how does that even work? They're gonna have to
send draft picks or something or I don't I don't know,
I don't know if there's you could also just let

(38:32):
him out period, I mean, you know it ain't happening.
But yeah, Ema at Doka being considered, I mean again,
did a couple of years ago would he may have
said absolutely, of course he would have. But I think
if I'm Emay and I'm smart guy and hemy smart,
and he's going to turn this into let's let's talk renegotiation.
The Knicks are intrigued by Ima Doka, and I'm intrigued
by Scarlett Johnson. Isn't it funny you and I share

(38:57):
are intriguing thoughts about Scarlett, who I think all of
the planet does.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
She's haging. Well, she's very gracefully Sophia Fagar.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
We're intrigued by, Yes, some a hyak, we're intrigued by
very intrigued. It doesn't mean it's happening. Nicks. Yeah, get it,
stay out. We ain't got time for you to be
trying to poach our coach ten fifty nine on Sports
Talk seven on a second hour of The Matt Thomas
Show with Ross is coming up. Hey, thirty minutes from now,
you need to say you're sorry. You've all said and

(39:28):
done things this we do you apologize for. I guarantee
you that the two of you said something derogatory about
me while I was going the last two days.

Speaker 4 (39:37):
No, it was mostly Adam Clinton.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Hour number two of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
Here on Sports Talk seven ninety coming up at eleven thirty,
we have I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Did you do it?
Just so I'm good? At yesterday? What was your number?

Speaker 4 (39:53):
What was your best? I just don't get all.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Let's see I did. I just don't get it. The
ten guys that are following Livy Dunn around to airport
and trying to get her to sign stacks of autographs
and stalking her. What is a Livy Done autograph worth?
I don't know. Zero dollars to me, only has worth
if you put worth on it, Matt, you should put
that on the back of a T shirt. I'm looking

(40:16):
forward to candle on there. Uh. And then what was
my other?

Speaker 5 (40:22):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (40:22):
It was the it was ESPN. We're reporting like one
of their top headlines was Rick Patino not interested in
next job? Okay, cool, Rick Patino, You're seventy two years old.
He needs to stay at Saint John's and retire there period.
I don't think they're interested in you either. And then
there was a Jeff Fan Gundy story, but it was
like Jeff fan Gundy possibly interviewing. Now I know he's

(40:42):
a Clippers assistant, so at least he's back in the game.
But I mean, come on, no way, no chance, no way,
no how as the Matt Thomas would say that Jeff
Fangunny's gonna be the deat Kicks. Rumors, again, it's just
somebody thrown it out there. I think of somebody on
TV said that maybe Rick brunts and Jalen's dad, who's
a Knick's assistant coach, would be one of becoming the
head coach there. Really yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
Mean, it's just again we're in rumor season here.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
There were some There was some story about Rick Brunson
getting involved in something I thought like, not good. It
was a clickbait headline. So it was basically Rick Brunson's
controlling a lot of things and they don't like it.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
So again, it's just the speaking of rumors. We'll keep
it local on the Rockets.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
Wonderful. So Kelly ico Eco a couple of days ago
was talking about how the Phoenix Suns have amped up
their conversations with a variety of teams about Kevin Durant
and that they have dropped their asking price a little bit,
which is probably smart on their part because they remember
these teams spent a lot of time each other at

(41:41):
the pre draft workouts. In Chicago. Phone lines are open,
you can text and all that, and so they're probably saying,
what we think Kevin Durant is worth is really not
gonna be worth it. I think they want a top
ten draft pick. Guess who owns the Sun's pick. It's
the Rockets at number ten. There's other teams that they
went to three or something nice. But unfortunately, so Kelly

(42:02):
says that Phoenix has Rockets have engaged a lot. Well,
there's a morning radio show in Phoenix who I've gone
on with occasionally because there one half of the team
is a PA announcer for the Sun. So we got
to know each other. You guys got a union. No
I'm not a PA guy anymore, but we ye know.
The point being is this, Uh, the guy used to

(42:25):
work for the Arizona Republic, the paper in Phoenix, so
he's a newspaper guy where he now is in radio
and he's a PA guy. No, no, no, he's no,
that's fault. So that guy not my friend. His partner
said that is not a true story, that there is
no amping up, there is no several rocket phone calls.

(42:47):
He calls it one hundred percent completely inaccurate. So again,
this is a who did you hear it from? Take
it with a grain of salt. Do you really believe
this person? Or is this person sending you go in
a goose chase? So I just own it out there.
Do I believe the Rockets and Sons have had a conversation.
I absolutely hundred percent believe it. How deep those conversations are,

(43:07):
I don't know. Raphel's not giving me daily updates. But
that way, it's possible also that you can hear from
two different sources, and if one source isn't aware of
the conversations, they are saying that's not happening.

Speaker 4 (43:17):
Correct, they could both be true.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
They know Also, I mean back in the day, there
was something that Kelly Echo had reported that was refuted
outright by Sam Amic. So this is not the first
time something like this has happened. I'm just saying, yeah, yeah,
I don't know who to side with. I don't particularly care.
It doesn't really matter, just if you're gonna do something
to something. But I do believe this that Kevin Durant

(43:40):
will be traded before the deadline before the draft, which
is in less than three weeks now, Okay, well, gut
feeling on a Friday, Yeah, I do, I think because again,
if you're Phoenix and you're trying to gain draft capital,
must be there must be something the draft you like,
and you don't. You're not looking for draft capital in
twenty twenty six. You want to start this. If you're
gonna start at a rebuild, you need to get started now.

(44:02):
So why would you wait until after the draft to
start thinking about it when you have a chance to
get that If you can get a top ten pick,
be able to choose the guy that you actually want,
that makes sense. So that just will he'd be heading
to Houston then, and uh, the conversation about Devin Booker
doesn't go away, and it feels like that's that's not happening.

Speaker 4 (44:22):
Yeah, I don't, I don't. I don't really get into
it either.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
I mean, I would love Devin Booker here, He's he
is a.

Speaker 4 (44:28):
Career whole corps basically, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
But that would probably require much more of a giving up,
more than probably the Rockets would like to do. Though,
So at this point, especially when he makes a crazy
amount of money twenty eight years old. M see, basically
getting his prime.

Speaker 4 (44:45):
You're getting his prime now.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
The question is when you're twenty eight, you still have
a lot of wear and tear on the tires. I
mean I've I've called several Devin Booker games, six hundred
and seventy three games he's already played, yeah, ten years
at the league. He's not a child.

Speaker 4 (44:59):
I mean, there's there's a lot to tread on those time.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
He's a vet. But he's also led a team to
an NBA finals yep, but also by himself. They've also
lost sixty games a year several times. That's true. So oh,
he played seventy five games last year. Good for us
and him, I mean, good for that thirty six and
forty six mm, But he's good. I think he likes Phoenix.
I think he likes whatever that direction is. And if

(45:24):
it takes a step back to go two steps forward,
I think he's probably buying into that. Yeah, they stayed
the course with him, believed him as well, believed in
him as well, right when they could have very easily
disposed him very quickly. So yeah, yeah, I U I
would be super surprised if Devin Booker has traded anywhere
much less Houston. So that's it on that it's anything

(45:44):
goes Friday seven, one three, two one two five seven,
honey your Astros last night. Man. Remember, for the first
month of the year, ladies and gentlemen, we were trying
to balance between good Fromber and bad bad Fromber. Yes,
he has been good who exception shut down cy Young
Frommer And he's only had one really bad blow up
game where he gave up like seven earned runs. I

(46:07):
can't remember against who I can bring up. This run
he's had as of late has been fantastic, one quality
start out to the other gave you seven yesterday through
a complete game less you know, eight and less than
ninety pitches before that. He's is he building value for
his next city or or are the Astros going okay?

(46:30):
Maybe we should put something in front of him soon
to see if there's any interest, because look, every pitcher
is built differently. Ninety nine percent of them ross want
to go get where the money is. But we have
seen a lot, especially with the Astros. Their players, the Javiers,

(46:54):
the Alvarez, the al two Ba. The foreign players typically
like to have the security. Now, maybe Fromer's different because
he look, he's like, look at look at how I
pitched the last five or six years. And by the way,
you can't all of a sudden start talking contract with
me when you've had years to get this resolved. So
that's why I kind of lean towards regardless of how
this thing ends for from Ber, the Astros will either

(47:16):
put together a deal that will be is this real
or not really put together much deal at all, which
then the people that will call in and say, well,
if that's the case, then let's Kyle Tucker the guy,
so we get something in return. Because think about this,
if you don't make that Kyle Tucker trade, you don't
have Essach Priadge, you don't have Cam Smith, you don't

(47:37):
have Wesnski. You're sitting there holding a You're holding a
draft pick, and draft pick that means basically, six years
down the road, give or take. You also have a
gold glove right fielder who's capable of going thirty thirty
for thirty, Yeah, thirty and thirty.

Speaker 4 (47:54):
But you never thought of it. You never thought of.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
Keeping Yeah, yeah, I think. I think because the astro
playing for the offseason seemed to me to be kind
of towing the line and if you did sell Farmer,
And we talked about this in the off season. Once
Tucker got traded, I thought Fromber might be the next
domino to fall, and they're saying, hey, we're gonna do this.
But then they signed, once they signed Christian Walker, I
can't remember which happened in which order, but once they
signed Christian Walker, was like, Okay, they're actually going to

(48:17):
try to win.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
Yeah, to a point.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Last fire starts for Fromber, Kansas City win eight innings
before after that at the Rangers seven innings, win, after
that Seattle six innings, when he's won five consecutive decisions. Yeah,
he's had one disaster start and then two pretty bad ones,
but then everything else has been very good. Actually, he

(48:42):
does not have decisions. He's only three and three, so
they've they've won the games he's played, but then he
has not had decisions in all of them. Last six starts. Yeah,
he's the team is six and zero and he's got
a one eighty four ere It's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (48:57):
God, it's it's ridiculously good.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
Of course it was the Pirates, Well, it was also
beat the Rays up and that race team beat the
Astros badly. Twenty six swings on his curveball and eighteen whiffs.
That's insane. And he's had no arm trouble. Correct help
me out, I miss, I'm saying that I'm going off

(49:23):
of past performance my future. I mean had a little
bit last year at the beginning of the year, he
had a little bit of elbow's sollness, remember, and we
got all got super scared, and then he came back
and he was He missed like a month and he
was fine or however long. It was the conversation about
moving him before the deadline. Will still be around no

(49:45):
matter how big the leader is. But you're in the
first place. No, I think if you're in first place,
it should never be around. But I'm talking. I'm not
talking about Dana, I'm talking about Astro fans. Well, then
you shut their basses up.

Speaker 5 (49:55):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
We had Aggie Doug. I mean, I love a dog.
It was one of the dumbest callers ever had in
his life. T Probert for two great pictures, three or four. Yeah,
go see, go see if you've made the Dodgers new
nextra picture.

Speaker 5 (50:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
So I just it's it's to me very interesting that
and then can a lot of players. I would say
most of them don't want to negotiat during the course
of the season. It's not that the player, it's the
agent too, because if you're a frobber and you're pitching
away that you've done over the last two months, you're like,
you know what, Astros, you could have had this for

(50:34):
a while. Instead, I'm gonna go find out what twenty
another teams think of my value. Yeah, they're showing off.
It's like a soft launch of their divorce. He's losing weight,
being more motivated, eating healthier, healthier, getting body enhanced therapy,
getting some body enhancements, getting some enhancements. Is that? What

(50:58):
is that is? He is fromer Valdez, the hot girl
that's thinking about going out with another bro. And then yeah,
if you're in a long term marriage and she starts
losing weight, no, no, no, not a marriage.

Speaker 4 (51:11):
It's a long term relationship.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
You had a chance with the ring on the finger
a long time ago, yes, and you haven't done it,
and now you're thinking about going to purchase one.

Speaker 4 (51:19):
She's like, don't go to that jewel. You're fine, That's
exactly what it is.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
This is a five year relationship with no ring and
all of a sudden, that girl's looking a lot better.
She's going to the gym five times a week to
see her personal trainer. Chad, it's any same as Blaine Jonathan,
how long have you been going out with a girl?

(51:43):
There will be two years and what changed? Some change
like six months, two years and six onths something of that.
But the three year mark, huh, he's in what we
call the danger zone zone. You're in it. That's a
danger zone. If you don't know what it is, you're
about to find out Like this, y'ad did see Rossi's face?

(52:07):
I said, two years? His whole face has changed. And
oh god, if you'd have said nine months and been like, oh,
you're in a good spot. Fitta out a year. But
that's okay. You you went to two years and change,
Oh hell no, you'd be single before you know it.
Eleven fourteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
Eleven nineteen.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
I'm sorry, so coming up at the bottom of the
hour seven one three, two, one two five seven eighty,
if you want to jump in our conversations and anything
goes frowning, and if you were listening to our conversation
off air. That would definitely be applicable when it comes
to anything goes. I haven't. I'm sorry, but I don't
know if I want to admit it publicly you then
the answer is yet. I don't want you to get
mad at me. Oh that is the best tease ever.

(52:49):
Ten minutes you're leading off. I'm sorry. Now, how mad
will I get it? You won the ten We'll see. Oh,
I can't wait. This is perfect? How much I'm nervous?
Much of the Texas Tech Texas College Women's World Series?

Speaker 4 (53:04):
Did you watch it?

Speaker 1 (53:05):
I had it off. I have multiple TVs in my
living room and with a with a massive rein de lay.
TV one was the finals. TV two was the hootball game. Yeah,
you know, almost a furious comeback. I it was fine
to me. I enjoyed it. I mean, I think it's
the best out there. How about that Texas Tech picture. Yes,
they call her the she made it. She makes a
million dollars at the Yeah, from UCLA. She can't remember

(53:28):
somewhere else, No, I can't remember pimping? Is this the
That is just a Texas Tech fan. That's just that's
the guy, that's the the Solder Oil and Gas cup.
I don't know what his name is, but if you said,
I would know, Nijerie Kennedy. I believe he's.

Speaker 4 (53:42):
Worth billions of dollars and he's a Texas tech alone.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
And I think Pat Mahomes made a sizable donation to
their collective.

Speaker 4 (53:48):
Yeah, Bobbi, he was there with his wife.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
Yes, he was. His wife had a lot of work done,
has had some work done. Not that I'm judging, no,
not that you should no. But Pat mahon also wasn't
what the with the people he was in his I
didn't realize that had luxury boxes at the Oklahoma City
Softball Stadium. Well, you want to be insulated, I get it.
H Stanford, she came from not UCLA, sorry, but a

(54:11):
million millie for a softball pitcher. Great for her. Tell
me this is a bad thing. This is awesome. You
have to know, though, you're not getting that back. And
I guess if you're a fan of a particular person
or player team, you should never think of the NIL
as a good investment.

Speaker 4 (54:33):
Yes, because let me tell you something.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
I love the University of Houston, and University Houston has
to play along everybody else in the anl game. Our
basketball program is funded pretty well. Yeah, well there's some
five star quarterback coming next year. Yes, yeah, I'm you
Guaran Damn T's getting good money. But if he told
me to go somewhere to do, I mean I wouldn't.
Why would I trust a nineteen year old about where
to get my auto work done. I mean, you know,

(54:56):
you have to be acted a skin in the game.
You have to a little bit of build the credibility.
It's in exact. I mean, there's been a ton of
guys who's made millions of dollars in nil five star
players and not panned out and or transferred. Yeah, so
it's it's yeah, but paying up for I don't know,
arch Manning seems like my payoff. We'll see one year
or two. You think it for him? Oh, I think

(55:16):
he's gonna stay. I think I think it was made.
I think the quarterback draft apparently coming out next year,
and I think he's gonna go. I remember when Andrew
everybody thought Andrew luck was gonna come out, and then
he didn't. He wanted to say. I think he likes school.
I also think the reason that he stayed, I think
that it's it's it's kind of parent family slash family
driven to where they sat him down and said, hey,
you're not going to play this transfer portal game. You're

(55:38):
picking a school, you're going to get your degree, You're
going to spend at least four years at the college.
I think the Manning family is kind of I don't
want say, guiding along, curating whatever you want to say
his career and advising him to kind of not be
like everyone else who hits the transfer portal every five seconds. Yap.
You can see what a grandpa archie in Grandpa. She says, yes,

(55:59):
a little. What can I do for you? How does
he talk like he's one hundred and three from West Virginia.
I don't know, But then you didn't Uncle Eli get
drafted by the Chargers that you told the Chargers are strong.
He can't play there.

Speaker 4 (56:13):
I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
There's no history whatsoever. I have no basis for this.
It's just feels like and that's why I did think
that he'll if anybody doesn't have to worry about money,
it's the Manning family. Every maning. He's made millions of
dollars and he's thrown like twenty passes. So he's doing okay.
He can keep making money, and it would be up
to him if he felt like if I had to venture,

(56:35):
a guess it will be multiple years. But also we
don't know how good he's going to be. There's a
lot of hype, but I keep pointing back to last year,
and some people fellow long term brethren, keep getting mad
at me that I'm like, Okay, we if he's so good,
if he's this NonStop phenom, then how come he he
quinn Ewers, gets benched for him and then he never
comes back?

Speaker 4 (56:54):
Can I give you what you want him to be?

Speaker 1 (56:57):
Okay? A younger version of Josh Allen, the greatest capability,
can use his legs and also throw the.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
Ball at the time.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
I think of him as more bulky and maybe not
as big of an arm I'm trying to think of.
But he is extremely fast, and they brought him in
a running places last year. I mean, you didn't they
didn't hide the fact that arch Manning was coming in.
He was going that the red option was a part
of it, and he could obviously take off and run
if he wanted to sosi me the I would say,

(57:27):
I would like for him especially in the college comparison,
Josh Allen wasn't extremely accurate. I want him to be.
I want him to be more of a pocket guy.
But they can run. He was running a little too
quick and trying to make the big plays last year,
and Sark wanted somebody who was going to stay within
the structure of the offense right and make the right play,
which Queen you Wewers did or well you know some

(57:48):
of the time. So if Quinn says I want to
stay in college as I've got money, he had have
gone somewhere else. I mean, there's no doubt in my
mind that Quinn could have gotten some decent Anil money
if you'd have stayed. I I think probably behind the scenes,
Sarkin whoever, was like, we all love you, Quinn, We're

(58:09):
going with Arch next year. Do with that information what
you like? Does that if you want to in the
big world of college athletics and football, you cannot push
the foot around this.

Speaker 4 (58:18):
You have to tell them the truth.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
Yes, that's coach Sark and other coaches have talked about that.
The second you lie to a player, they're hitting the portal. Yeah,
and you're gonna either make him mad or you're gonna
make the guy who's been waiting his turn mad. And
that would have been I mean, if if quinn Ewers
goes back to Austin arches out, which would have given
me a gut feeling hit. But you lost, But I lost,
and that's fine. I believe you put your name on that.

(58:42):
We gotta no chance. I put my name on a
lot of things that that would have been one of them.
You do put your name on a lot of things.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
But Connor Wegman has come to rescue the University of Houston.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
What nobody's talking about. That a lot of people are
buzzing the streets is incredible right now, Okay, I'm sure
you know they don't have to tell us.

Speaker 4 (59:02):
Any getting paid. Oh, he of course.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
I imagine. Come on, I don't know how big of
a check Tillman cut. Well, the problem is, I don't
think Tilman's doing a lot of the check cutting. I
think I think Tillman, and again I don't want to
put words in his mouth. And he's obviously contributed a lot.
I think Tilman's biggest contribution was to the Fertita Center,
and he said, this is my big donation. Do with

(59:25):
what you wish, do with it what you wish for, right, wish? Yeah,
do with it what you wish. There you go, but
don't keep bothering me. Oh, he's been the shadow ad
for a while. An't here. He didn't sign up. Come on, now,
he didn't sign off on the Willie Fritz side. Well

(59:46):
he he definitely wanted Dana Holgerson. Oh yeah, go codes Man.
By the way, congratulations with my friend Chris Peesman now
the athletic director at Ark State.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
Not a terrible job.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
How much of money's making next year off land and
spot how I don't know how much? How one hundred
thousand dollars a year? That's four and thousand dollars. You
can spend that pretty well in Jonesborough, right. I've never
been to the Jonesboro but I'm assuming it pays well man,
that's okay for their cause of living. Can't be very high.

Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
By the way, I checked the archives. Yeah, twenty twenty
two and twenty twenty three, you said arch Manning would
transfer out. But that was just gout feeling, thank you,
and it would have been true. Was wrong, It was
wrong one percent wrong. But again I'll say this again,
if if Quinn comes back, arch is out. Well, yeah,
if you're on head balls, he'd be your uncle. That's

(01:00:38):
a terrible announce If something that didn't happen and wasn't
close to happening would have happened, you would have been right.
I'm with you. Ross is gonna apologize for something that
apparently it's gonna get me mad.

Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
I can't wait to find it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
What is it gonna be that? You know what? I
would apologize for that, Jonathan, do you know what this
thing is that he's feel sorry for himself? Sorry? I'm
ready for it too. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:00:59):
Oh, okay, ever, I'm gonna go get some water.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
All right, you have one half hour Houston, Texas to
apologize for something you've done this week. Although if Ross
is I'm sorry, it's terrible, you may not get time
to get in here because I may just rip the
crap out of him for the next thirty minutes seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven ninety eleven twenty eight

(01:01:21):
call in and apologize. You've done terrible things trying to
make restitution here on Sports Talk seven ninety All right,
let's go, you know what you need to do. Call
Semon one three two one two five Sevenati and say
these easy words.

Speaker 5 (01:01:37):
I'm I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 12 (01:01:44):
That sad job.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
Alright, Ross you you open this can, you might as
well enter the contents.

Speaker 12 (01:01:53):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:01:53):
Fine, So yesterday, Matt, was your birthday?

Speaker 1 (01:01:57):
Yes? And uh one Adam lton Yep was sitting in
and during a break he was talking about getting revenge
on you. Yeah before I think you said happy birthday
to him and you put a picture of James click
I did on Twitter and it was genius. And so
he said, who does all? Who could I use for

(01:02:18):
Matt Thomas? So you're behind Master Roll guy six Flags guy.

Speaker 4 (01:02:25):
I'm sorry. So I was like, you know what, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
One that bothers him is when people say he looks
like the six Flags Astra World guy. There are two
of them, two of these different people. The guy that
sells the vacuum cleaners and the infomercials Overnight.

Speaker 4 (01:02:40):
Yes, and the aster Ll guy six Flags story.

Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
I gave Adam Clanton the idea for his revenge happy
Birthday video to you, and you know what, I'm sorry, Matt, Yeah,
You're fine. It's rude. I knew it was something that
would I don't know how much it bothered you, but
I knew would be something that you have a history
of not caring for. And I and I gave that

(01:03:06):
material to Adam Clinton. I actually wait, I just actually
when I saw it, I chuckled.

Speaker 4 (01:03:12):
So, okay, not bothered at all by it?

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
Well, I was frankly more bothered that you didn't wish
me I have a birthday until about seven o'clock last night.
When was I supposed to call you at any point?
Good morning? Nine thirty? Ill, No, it's too lad. No,
don't send me anything. We hold on wet the we
get the work email a day late. Why can I
be a day late? Because those people never I never see.
I see you every day. Happy birthday, Matt. I was

(01:03:38):
waiting to tell you in person. That's a lie, That
is a not out lie. Okay, fine, I'm sorry I
didn't tell you happy birthday earlier. Well make up for
me by buying me lunch in about fifteen. Well, if
it makes you feel any better, I forgot to call
my own father last month.

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
You forgot your father's birth I mentioned, No.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
I didn't forget because we were going to have dinner
later on, I mentioned it on air, but I had
gotten busy and for I'm very forget fall, so I
didn't call him. But I didn't call him later in
the week when we were doing his celebration. And how
did he take it. I think he's a little better.
I think he's probably he was a little upset, but
I'm sorry. So I'm saying, if that makes you feel better,

(01:04:16):
it shut it, it shut I'm closer with my father
and I am you.

Speaker 4 (01:04:19):
Even though I see you more, I'm indifferent to it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
I see you more than you know what. That's actually
disturbing to say out loud. Minute, It's true. I see
you more than any person other person I see on
the planet. We're twenty hours a week usually. Yeah, Oh,
I'm gonna throw up, and then we go to like
Charles occasionally. It's definitely more more than that. We're in
the car now, Yeah, when we're watching people hit on
fourteen's you know what, you know what. I'm sorry for

(01:04:46):
bringing that up. Yeah, don't bring out here upset again. Yeah,
that pissed me off more than having six worlds six
flights guy, exactly. Oh you just seeing the video, Jonathan,
you said, Yeah, I didn't even know. I was like's like,
and that's that's messed up.

Speaker 12 (01:05:00):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
It's not.

Speaker 4 (01:05:04):
It's not bothersome. It really isn't that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
Yeah. So it's a good job by you to give
him my fault. I'm sorry if you It just shows
you Adam doesn't have an original bone in his body.
Somebody's got to feed him some good material. Yeah, I
mean he has to feed off of wax for two
to six every day or two to four thirty, depending
on when when there's an East Coast astro. You should
apologize for taking shots at Adam Planting.

Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
All right, I'm sorry, Adam.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
I got another one. It's sports related, please do. I'm
sorry for continuing to doubt that the Indiana Pacers. They
keep on doing it. Jonathan Allen's called it from the start.
He also said Indiana Pacers in seven, which I thought
was just Siames. I'm sorry he said that in six.

(01:05:53):
Actually I think someone what I thought was insane. But
you know what, the Pacers and Tyres Halliburton keeps surprising,
and I'm sorry for doubting them. Sorry, I'm sorry astro
fans that Farmer Valdez will not be an Astro after
this season. It's really the worst kept secret, right, He's

(01:06:18):
gonna make somebody very happy for a few years. And
that Campens story draft pick won't do much for people,
except that maybe if that can Pen story draft pick
in six years is a thirty home run guy, it's fine.
Or maybe he's the next great left handed astro starting pitcher.
He passed up. I think he's he's second all time

(01:06:39):
Astro's lefties strikeouts now shown on the broadcast Wagner first. Nope,
Bob Knepper starting pitcher. Good, good guess Bob Knipper was second,
but passed him. Who was all time lefty strikeout guy?
It was campdon No, but I think came to was

(01:07:00):
somewhere in the list. He was a starter this century,
this century, okay, part of the tail end of the
good times and a lot of the dark times. Lefty
was yes, yeah, yeah, okay, I got you.

Speaker 4 (01:07:19):
I liked Wanda.

Speaker 1 (01:07:20):
He was fine. He was terrible when he first came up,
really rounded in a form and became a solid starter.

Speaker 4 (01:07:25):
Yeah, Like, where's a dog go?

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
And he's got a great name, Wandi Rudding. Is there
any other Wandi's in sports?

Speaker 5 (01:07:32):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
Yeah, Clifford.

Speaker 4 (01:07:34):
What does he do?

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
He's a bowler, Wandy Clifford on the PBA tour. Yeah,
I didn't know that three time champ. All right, So
now that you know what we have to do seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven ninety I'm sorry for
you Ross that. Rob Manford yesterday said that they're gonna
think about trying to get the ball Strike Challenge system

(01:07:55):
into place for Major League Baseball, and they're not gonna
go full throttle long. It's at least something we're gonna
out of this system. We're gonna we're going to spend
the capital, yeah, and resources and manpower to install this
in every ballpark to where we can get every call
right with a touch of a button. Yep. And we're

(01:08:16):
not gonna use it. Well, they're gonna use it three times. Yeah,
they're gonna a couple of times a game. And that
that Tampa Bay Petter Taylor, whatever his name, walls will
have zero pom tapping has happened. Not getting injected from
a game probably not either when he's back at Triple A.

Speaker 4 (01:08:32):
No, they do it at Durham North Killing.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
I don't do it in Tampa Bay that often. Uh yeah,
I was encouraged by that. Uh A step in the
right direction. It's better than nothing. I would agree with that.
I'll say this, if it's seamless, then they'll eventually go
to it. You have to fight with the union, but
the union you're gonna union. You're gonna be fighting with
the players union. Frank they just re upped with the Yeah, well,
I think you can probably get it smoothed over with

(01:08:55):
the players Union probably, like I said, a small recalibration
of the strikes on make it a little bit bigger
to make pictures happier. But also, I think they just
did a five year deal with the umpires union, So
so we're looking a five years at least, I would
think so. Or they can they can play hardball with
the umpires union. I mean, you're an umpire more of

(01:09:18):
an expert than I am. Am I stupid to say
if they don't have call balls and strikes that literally
you or I can for the most part go out
there and be an umpire. Well that's what they're saying,
is that what we do? What are we doing out there?

Speaker 4 (01:09:31):
Period?

Speaker 1 (01:09:31):
What separates them the union umpires who are the best
of the best from college umpires, or or they do
their jobs in theory when evaluated better than anybody else does.
When you take out balls and strikes, what is it
they're doing better? I mean, I'm literally I'm asking. I
don't know. I don't. I mean, I don't. That's they're

(01:09:53):
better at out and safe on the base pass, handling
the tenor of the game, maybe handling manager. You're not
going to argue with managers so much anymore when you
if you go full abs, I think you're just you're
you're adding just more computers and more robots and more
things to take the human element out. In baseball more

(01:10:14):
so than any other sport believes in the human element.
It just does a euphemism for bad calls. Eleven.

Speaker 4 (01:10:22):
Your turn is next.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
If you want to apologize, corus first up seven one
three five seven one. If you want to apologize for
something you've said or done this week, I want to
apologize real quick. With the person that was going the
wrong direction in the uh entrance to Race of Rexus.
We had steak the other night and he was going
the wrong direction and I honked at him, rolled my

(01:10:46):
window down and gave him a two finger salute. You did,
And he started yelling back at me, and I'm like,
why I'm going the right way, You're going the wrong way.
Don't do that, man, You're gonna get shot.

Speaker 4 (01:10:55):
That's probably fairly accurate.

Speaker 1 (01:10:56):
Sorry, people are packing up in each town. But I'm
just saying he had our lives in our hands. He
was going the wrong way down the street and calling
on on it. That's good. Sometimes you just gotta do
what you gotta do with the two fingers. Two fingers
some one knee on the wheel and two in the air.
That was probably the most dangerous thing that happened the
whole night. Seven one three, two one two five seven

(01:11:18):
ninety twelve two in Age Town.

Speaker 12 (01:11:25):
Good for egg stir rappers.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
And walk over to the third hour the mat Thomas
showing Ross.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
There's Sis sports Talk seven ninety. You don't know this, gentleman,
but I am obsessed with organizers. I go to Rafice
Racks just to go. I don't buy anything, I just
like to I like to go window shopping there. Office racks,

(01:12:11):
office racks, yeah, or rapels. Don't do no, no, I
haven't had that problem. And I squished in there like

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a yeast roll. So yeah, I ain't falling down. I
might be bogging down the whole coaster.

Speaker 5 (01:12:41):
But I.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
Don't go back. If you're an attractive woman with large
breast come to shoot videos for us, No, I don't
click that she's gone. You feel about these college baseball

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players with like four buttons undone that has some chest break?
You to that that's disgusting.

Speaker 4 (01:13:14):
Do you think that guy shaves his chest?

Speaker 1 (01:13:16):
Absolutely, that's good unless he's just a hey this he's
got alopecia?

Speaker 4 (01:13:19):
Did you all shave your chest?

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
Let us know? Seven one, three five, seven ninety It
was Cardi b Yes, three other women, Stefan Diggs.

Speaker 4 (01:13:30):
On a boat. What could go wrong?

Speaker 1 (01:13:33):
Nothing for Stefan that that sounds like a good time
to me. Four women, Stefan and the boat. Oh, I
think he was doing all right that weekend. Have you
seen the video?

Speaker 8 (01:13:43):
Russ?

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
Yeah, you have it?

Speaker 4 (01:13:45):
Wait which video? Which the video?

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
You and Blue gass and in reach into her nose
and she got a coal high through that and has
had the No that is no, I don't doesn't add it.
I don't believe it. I need to we need a
medical doctor to break this down.

Speaker 5 (01:14:06):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:14:09):
Non Florida stories every Friday, Gay every Friday the show.
I'm telling you, you think those non Florida stories are good,
we got more coming up in ninety minutes. It is
a Friday edition All about Thomas show with Ross. I
almost fired. Had to wake the strippers up. I've never
been that late to think about that. I was literally

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I was like, oh my god, I gotta wake the
strippers up. Well you did it, Matt. Now they're awake.
They are awake, all right. Twelve o five Sports Talk
seven I onety the most controversial fan bases in college
football on Twitter in fifteen minutes. But first we present
to you the News at noon, and we'll do that
with the Justin Stapleton of sports He's a weather guy.

(01:14:51):
Any yeah, perfectly, Rossfield areale the Justin Stapleton of Sports News.
Uh okay, I yes, I can. I can handle that.
I will be the Justin Stapleton of Sports Talk Sevenney.
As we start the news in noon, Man, we'll get
a lot of things to go get to here on
the segment. Let's go ahead and start with the Houston

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Astros and well, some controversy before the game, but during
the game, the Astros crushing them pirates. Oh one, that's
drial deep town the left field line. If it stays fair,
it's God, it's fair and it's gone. Second home of
the night for East Sock Parades. This one a two

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run shot and the Astros late as eight to two
AESAC hitches fourteenth of the year East SoC paradus fourteen
home runs, eight twenty one ops on the season. He
continues to hit well, as does Jeremy Pania. He had
three hits in a run batted in in around to

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an eight to two victory for the Houston Astros. Frombert
was a great seven inachs. Pitched two earned runs, given
up three walks, but eleven strikeouts, lowering a season era
to three point zero seven. Do we have two top
ten now fromers? Win loss numbers aren't great, but the
era is really good. I don't care about win loss numbers,

(01:16:15):
all right? So we got two top ten SI young
candidates on the same time, I would say so Frommer's
finished in the top ten. I think each of the
last three years we'll talk about how up and down
and blah blah blah he has been. If you finish
in the top ten and three is sign Young for
three straight years, probably four. As long as he stays healthy,
you're pretty darn good and he gonna get paid anyway.
It's gonna gett paid. Dana Brown signs the contracts for

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the Houston Astros, but he was none to too happy
before the game, getting into an argument for with what's
his name, don Kelly? Don Kelly, I think the.

Speaker 4 (01:16:46):
Term manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
Yeah, the interim manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and things
getting heated down on the field. Dana Brown, speaking with
chan Lerome after the game, talking about how he is
frustrated wanted to protect the boys, also said he preferred
to bang the game. For people who don't know, bang
means just get done with it, get rid of it,

(01:17:09):
move on to the next game. Gun. So you canceled
the game? How did that term originate? By the way,
it's because it's only a baseball term. No, No referees
can bang a coach with a technical foul. I banged
him with one.

Speaker 4 (01:17:29):
That is accurate.

Speaker 5 (01:17:32):
Eight.

Speaker 1 (01:17:33):
You write that one down. Yeah, anyways, danaan technical Dana Brown?
Bang Yeah, Okay, you can bang bang a gun and
bang bang a home run, but it's just a little
bit different to bang a game, meaning canceling it. But
those are Dana Brown's quotes and is a baseball term.
I've heard it before. I would have preferred to bang it,

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said Dana Brown. Bang it good. I'm just arguing that
the team wasn't getting into like three point thirty in
the morning at the earliest to take on the Cleveland
Guardians for a weekend set. So things getting a little heated,
and it looked like some of the Pirates brass was like, Hey,
what's going on with Dana Brown coming out us like
this bro. But Dana Brown says he was trying to

(01:18:15):
protect the boys and they protected him because fact fact
is that it was in Cleveland. Going to Pittsburgh, it
might have been a different story, but Cleveland's a team,
it's a playoff contender. You want to be have as
much rest as possible because the competition playing the Guardians
is significantly going to be better than playing the Pirates. Well,
there you go. The game went on. The Astros win

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eight to two. They're game and a half up on
the Seattle Mariners in the Western Conference. Elsewhere in sports,
Matt the NBA Finals. Some of our flight time last night.
For the for the flight, flight was twenty nine minutes.

Speaker 5 (01:18:50):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:18:51):
They landed at two fifty two in the morning. Look right,
so get your stuff off. It's an hotel.

Speaker 4 (01:18:57):
Four o'clock.

Speaker 1 (01:18:59):
How long is taking a deep plane on a private jet?

Speaker 5 (01:19:02):
Quicker?

Speaker 1 (01:19:02):
Right, there's sixty people. That's still with all the equipment
and stuff. What equipment. I thought somebody was handling that.
I thought they had guys who were good. You said,
didn't you say, guys bring you your bag and stuff
like that. I'm talking about like the bats and the
balls and the you know all that. Okay, more intensive
than was they two based not picking up balls of
bag bags of balls. They hit them off the plane.

(01:19:25):
You don't have time to eat. You're into a too,
shrimp into your shrimp cocktail, matt, and you're landing. That's
why you eat before the plane takes off. I got
these things down. I'm not sure you do all right.
Well elsewhere in the sports world, Pacers and Thunder getting
after it in the NBA Finals, Thunder nine and a
half to ten and a half point favorites. They were
keeping the Pacers at arm's length, but yet again, the

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Pacers with a late comeback. What what Robert Ford was
at the NBA Finals. Robert can do two games at
one time. Now we have the time out here, we
go it with.

Speaker 6 (01:20:02):
Three driving, with two pulling up.

Speaker 7 (01:20:05):
Head heading with three tenths of a second to go.

Speaker 11 (01:20:09):
How many more times can this team do that?

Speaker 5 (01:20:16):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:20:16):
Grade the call?

Speaker 1 (01:20:18):
That was great? Will you grade the call professional?

Speaker 4 (01:20:21):
Very good?

Speaker 1 (01:20:22):
One to ten? Ten? You're such a liar. I didn't
know that guy or something. I know all the thirty guys. Okay,
so you're just trying to be nice. I don't call
it at ten out of ten.

Speaker 5 (01:20:33):
It was like eight.

Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
I liked it, yep, thought it was good. Okay, pacers
up one. Nothing on the thunder. I might have to recalibrate,
but I head thunder and five. I'm staying with thunder
too easy. I'm gonna say it's thunder and five. Okay,
let's see the line already out for game number two
that will be on Sunday, it's ten and a half,

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basically holding strong from where it was previously. Serious price
they are are still last. I looked they started the
series like seven to one favorites. They moved down to
three to one favorites. So you lose home court advantage,
you're down one nothing in the series, and you're still
over three to one favorites, which means about seventy five
percent to win the series. So basically, again, if you're
three and a half, it means you gotta spend three
point fifty to win one hundred.

Speaker 4 (01:21:17):
Yes, then feeling nearly is bad.

Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
Yeah, I think you got ahead to Lake Charles after
the show three fifty. That's not terrible value sports RV.
I don't think it is. Is this gonna jump up
once they win this game on Sunday night?

Speaker 5 (01:21:31):
You're right?

Speaker 1 (01:21:36):
Is a Sunday a must win game before the Oklahoma
City Thunder? Can I go off of history? The entry? Yes,
Indiana won two games in New York and guests who
won that series in six games? Indiana pastors, So I
would say absolutes must win for sure? Yes? Sure, why not?

Speaker 4 (01:21:51):
Let's go over it?

Speaker 1 (01:21:52):
Oh why not? Didn't the didn't the Rockets lose two
games at home and then they beat the Phoenix Suns. Yeah? Sure,
example is also thirty two years. I'm sure there's some
more recent examples. Anyways, that's your news. At New matt
the Rays are playing the Marlins for a day game.
The pitcher Zach Little is how you pronounce honey? Are
little honey pronounced that guy's name? Uh? A little? I

(01:22:14):
think little in it L like T T E l L.
He is already sweating profusely. There's nobody in the stands
that play seats twelve thousand people. Nobody's there. Let's tell.
Let's tell. It's balls the wall hot there. I'm sure
it's quite stay and then the Marlins are wearing dark
black uniforms. What is wrong with these two man? This
guy almost got hit and these kind of swung the

(01:22:35):
bat and gets strikes out. Oh, oh no, it's a
one nere mine. It's a defensive, hot weather day game.
Nobody there. It's the Sunshine Series. They're going all those
empty seats. That's place seats twelve. There's four thousand people there.
How are the Ray's making money? Oh because they don't
spend any They don't spend any. They keep it all

(01:22:58):
and they still make the big TV contracts that benefit everyone. Yeah,
all right, twelve fourteen, It is the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross when we return, all right, we're bringing in
Gordon to help us out with his next segment. Because
this is going to be a little bit of a
huh kind of segment. All right, they're according to CFB

(01:23:23):
select dot com.

Speaker 4 (01:23:24):
Are you familiar with this website?

Speaker 1 (01:23:25):
Ross? They have seventeen thousand It's one of the big
heritage college websites. I mean, everybody's all over there. This
has got to be something this guys, you you know
what CFB select dot com is, Gordy, I've never heard
of that. They're not part of the Lockdown Network?

Speaker 4 (01:23:40):
Are they?

Speaker 1 (01:23:41):
No? Never heard of it. They say they're rarefied. They
have seventeen thousand followers and they follow eighteen thousand, seven
hundred people.

Speaker 4 (01:23:48):
Sounds like a Dann Matthew's account. All right, let's move forward.

Speaker 1 (01:23:51):
Now this is these are the twelve most controversial fan
bases on Twitter. And we'll go in no particular order,
but we'll say the two Texas schools for last. It's
up to us to figure out why they are controversial. Gordy, Tennessee,
why is why are they one of the twelve most
controversial fan bases on Twitter?

Speaker 10 (01:24:09):
They're pretty rabid fan base. They talk a lot of trash,
They do a lot of oh.

Speaker 1 (01:24:12):
My god, wow and everything. The Big Boss is running
you food, the Michael Barry treatment, lunch goodness, gracious, all right,
perfect Tennessee. They're pretty.

Speaker 10 (01:24:22):
They are pretty spicy on social media. Okay, I mean
they are us against the world. You're gonna see it
this weekend when they play their super regional at Arkansas.

Speaker 1 (01:24:30):
They hate each other all this is football, though, this
is just football. Oh you know that's that's not true.
Most controversial fan bases on Twitter. Okay, it's okay, that
makes sense. I will go with the next one. I'll
take Nebraska. Nebraska. They're living off of what they did
twenty five years ago, and they think they're on the
cosp of being what they wore twenty five years ago,

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when in reality, Nebraska hasn't done Jack Squat in the
Big ten and Franklin wasn't very good the last few
years in the Big twelve.

Speaker 10 (01:24:57):
They think they're one was a Tommy Frasier. They think
there're one Tommy.

Speaker 1 (01:25:00):
Fraser away from going national change kind of thing to
the ghost of tom Osbourne's coming around in time. Now, Ross,
I'm gonna let you handle this next one. UCF Central Florida.
I think I know the answer to this. I don't
know the answer to this, I'm gonna go with a
little brother to Florida, Florida State, my own. Okay, well,
let me add on to it.

Speaker 10 (01:25:18):
Remember a few years ago they went undefeated and they
didn't get to play for a championship, so their coach
had them ring. So that's when they really started. That
was with Frost when he was Scott Frost was still there.

Speaker 1 (01:25:29):
All right, this one I have no idea on except
I'm gonna go with the university. This is University of
South Florida that they didn't get invited the Big twelve.
Shout out to my niece. She's a cheerleader there.

Speaker 10 (01:25:41):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I don't know what USF has.

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
To be to be hot. I think it's they got
that UCF got in in the us F.

Speaker 10 (01:25:51):
Remember that time you brought me to a UCF basketball
game and there was ten people there when you have
h played there years ago.

Speaker 4 (01:25:57):
Now that's seventy five strong, So shut up, goes.

Speaker 1 (01:25:59):
That was that was the press. All right, we're going
back to the as dicky times. We're going back to
the SEC here. Alabama is a controversial fan base. No, no, no, Auburn.
Why is Auburn of controversial.

Speaker 10 (01:26:09):
Fan base again, same thing. They live in Bama's shadow.
They think that they're they they live off cam Newton's
success from you know, over a decade ago, and they
they they've been downdrodden. I mean it has been bad
under Hugh Free so far.

Speaker 5 (01:26:23):
Ross.

Speaker 1 (01:26:23):
Why is Florida State a controversial fan base on Twitter?
I don't know, Well, you provided nothing so far in
this time. I'm sorry, We'll get the college expert. It's
another one. They went deferring to the expert.

Speaker 10 (01:26:33):
They went undefeated and got left out of the playoffs
because their quarterback was that Jordan Dramas got hurt and
the committee decided, we can't put you in with a
hurt quarterback.

Speaker 1 (01:26:41):
North they're always defend, defending Tallahassee PD.

Speaker 10 (01:26:44):
They come after Kirk Herbstreet, remember, because Herbstreet defended was
like they didn't belong in and they're like, I hate you.

Speaker 1 (01:26:50):
Yeah, that was the whole thing. That's true, all right,
few more, This is the most controversial fan base on Twitter,
according to something called CFB select dot com. North Carolina
is because they're being made fun of for hiring Belichick.
Maybe after having Mac Brown, Jordan Hudson running everything over there.
If you're in your seventies, they want you as coach
and you dn't c Yeah. Lou Holt apparently one of

(01:27:11):
that job in Get It. I think he was a finalist.

Speaker 10 (01:27:13):
University of Miami, another one of a team of yesterday,
still living in the past.

Speaker 4 (01:27:19):
I've noticed a trend on this.

Speaker 1 (01:27:21):
These are schools that were once amazing, like Tennessee football
twenty years ago. Was Philip Fullmore leading that team? And
tem Martin and Peyton Manning and all that kind of
stuff there irrelevant. Well, we're going to get to some
that have really never had any kind of run up.
All right, two more, We're going out west. The Oregon Ducks.
Why are they a controversial fan base? Always the bridesmaid,

(01:27:42):
never the bride. I mean they have been, they have
been one of the football powers the last decade, yet
they have absolutely nothing to show for it other than
a Marcus Mariota heisman and the fact that Phil Knight
has spent up teen amounts of money and basically said,
I want to win a national championship before I die,
and I will spend any amount of money nearah.

Speaker 10 (01:28:00):
I laugh every time I see a recruit pick Organ
I'm like, there's no way in hell you know anything
about Oregon or what they do.

Speaker 1 (01:28:06):
It's all money, all right. I'm gonna take a guess
on this. The next one, California University of Kelbrokley. I'm
gonna go we should have been a part of the
Big Ten. We warn't. I'm gonna go with we are
a one of the most prestigious public schools in the country,
and we don't get any run. Stanford has thought of
in a higher than.

Speaker 10 (01:28:26):
Cal is yes, and and Cal more known for their
on campus protests than they are success on the football.

Speaker 4 (01:28:32):
And unisex bathrooms ironic everywhere you go there.

Speaker 10 (01:28:34):
That's a school that had Marshall and Lynch and Aaron
Rodgers and couldn't achieve ultimate success there.

Speaker 1 (01:28:40):
That's a shame, all right. Or down to the last
two and they're from Texas coming in is one of
the most controversial fan bases on Twitter. Texas A and
m I bet Ross you gotta have come in. It's
a great fan base. They're not delusional at all. They
don't act like they know their place. They certainly wouldn't

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act like they have won a championship every single year
of the last twenty years rather than not since him
were invaded. Oh my god, embarrassing. Get they get their
coach stolen and they're they're their basketball coach goes to Maryland.

Speaker 10 (01:29:24):
Did you know did you hear that story a few
weeks ago where they're like, we got to cut back
on you know, office expenses, pens and papers and.

Speaker 1 (01:29:32):
Office notes, you know, the whole Jimbo buyout. We're really
having to cut corners. Do you know that people got
laid off because of the Jimbo I have a friend
of mine that got laid off, and A and M's like,
we have to start trimming the fat.

Speaker 10 (01:29:44):
What do you think revenue share is going to start
doing on these campuses? Wait, we have to pay the
players now, jim Sorry, we got to cut the fat.
Video coordinator, you're out.

Speaker 1 (01:29:54):
The last one on this list. I completely one disagree with,
and I find this to be an atrocity. The University
of Houston has a controversial fan base, the fan bases
who aren't nearly as big as they think they are.

Speaker 10 (01:30:07):
The only thing I could see from that is the
run to the champion, losing the title game and the reaction.

Speaker 4 (01:30:14):
Afterwards, Well, what was so crazy about the raction.

Speaker 1 (01:30:16):
Blaming the refs. But that yeah, agree, terrible officiating. We
should have been handed the championship like everybody else gets
handed their China championships. Well it was handed then did
it got dropped by? Who is that guy?

Speaker 5 (01:30:32):
What was his name?

Speaker 1 (01:30:32):
To drop the ball?

Speaker 10 (01:30:33):
Could make There was a good nugget from U of
H last night. Did you see that big news?

Speaker 4 (01:30:38):
Yeah, the five Stars staying there.

Speaker 10 (01:30:39):
Key Sean Henderson shuts down his recruitment. He everybody's after
this kid. So that is a huge get for Willie Fritz,
the Air Apparent.

Speaker 1 (01:30:47):
Because of excellent academics, no great facilities, not really a
warm environment, sweet people, dangerous checkbook. Yeah, you don't know
that one. You don't know. You don't know furniture endorsement. Hey,
you don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:31:02):
All right, before I let you go, Gordy, uh, let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:31:05):
Let's add one each of you at a school to
will each to all three of us. Let's add a
controversial fan base on Twitter group. It's Alabama.

Speaker 10 (01:31:14):
For me, it's it's it's they are still they still
believe they are all they they the Nick Saban dynasty died.
You have nine and four de boor that's who you
have as your head coach now and they are thinking
they are, Oh, we are in the playoff, brother, We're
gonna win the SEC this year. Okay, let's see Alabama.
Let's see.

Speaker 1 (01:31:32):
Well, I would say Texas, but not Texas fans actually
care about Texas.

Speaker 4 (01:31:36):
I wouldn't add it to my group.

Speaker 1 (01:31:37):
I'm gonna go with what. Yeah, you guys are apathetic
most of the time, apathetic one hundred thousand in the
stadium every single week. I'm talking about in general. I'm
gonna add Notre Dame. Yeah, I think Notre Dame fan
loses its mind from their slumbers. I'm gonna go back
to Baylor fan. Are you very controversial?

Speaker 5 (01:31:58):
Well, that's not.

Speaker 1 (01:32:02):
They don't still defend our browser this day. Some of them,
Well who would that be? No comment?

Speaker 10 (01:32:08):
Can I tell you, guys, Friday night of opening weekend
of college football, Auburn is at Baylor. That game's on Fox,
Big Fox. That monumental game for both sides. If you
Freeze loses that one, he's dead man walking at Auburn.
If David Randa loses that one at Baylor.

Speaker 1 (01:32:29):
Wow, he must be a big buyout. Well, you and
I interviewed Dave a few years ago, Big twelve.

Speaker 4 (01:32:35):
Yeah, that's right. He spit in your face. Very cerebral.

Speaker 1 (01:32:39):
I mean it was almost like what do you call
those things when you get the when you have a
heart attack and you're trying to assess it somebody, those
little cabulator, those paddles, he needed some paddles. Do you
know who his college roommate was. Give us a hint.
He was a U of H head coach Dana Holgerson,
Tom Herman. Oh, so both both what do you call him?

(01:32:59):
The really smart guys? What's the magna cum laie? Oh,
you're talking without mensa? Mensa? Both mensa? Well, of course
I may goes to you of ages of mensa. All right,
how we spending?

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Speaker 4 (01:33:59):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (01:34:00):
Hey, So, if you're an Aggie and you're a Houston
Cougar fan, do you consider yourselves controversy on Twitter? I not,
I do not, yes, both seven one three, you don't, No.

Speaker 5 (01:34:11):
Seven.

Speaker 4 (01:34:11):
I'm not going to put controversial things on my Twitter.

Speaker 1 (01:34:14):
And you're a Cougar. So I get homer seven one three,
two one two five seven Ettie twelve thirty five, Sports
Talk seven ninety How dare this CFB whatever cause controversial?
We ain't controversial. We're perfect. It's true. You gotta people
gotta care about you to be controversial. Stop Jones says,

(01:34:35):
ohash you think Ohio State or is that Oklahoma State?
Oklahoma State? I imagine she's a longhorn fan of those.
Those fans are kind of weird. They're in the shutting
off of what they did back.

Speaker 5 (01:34:44):
In the US.

Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
They don't even do anything. They would go to bowl games. Okay,
they weren't winning. Job the basketball team, uhould be good.
Now they win one? Did they win? Did they win
a Big twelve championship? Maybe one is gone to games?

Speaker 5 (01:34:57):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:34:58):
They go to like they go to they go to
like to the Nashville Bowl and the Birmingham Bowl and
the you know, the Cedar Rapids Bowl and stuff like that,
Peter Rapids Bowl. It's the Cedar Point Bowl. I don't know.
They go to the bowl games that are putting football
in baseball stadiums. By the way, I'm obsessed with that.
Twenty eleven. Mike Gundy has won one conference championship since

(01:35:22):
he's been there, have been there. He's been there since
two thousand and five, twenty years in one title. Yes,
I haven't got the rocket schedger yet, but I'm at
the Cougar's playing still Water. I've never been to Stillwater
for a game. I don't know if it's good or not.
I'm sure it's fine. It's because probably casino is nearby.
He'd be all right, Uh, there's casino is actually close
to University of Oklahoma in uh matter, about ten minutes

(01:35:44):
from the campus. You better watch out on that Annie
on the blackjack though. That's got to rack up on you.
Six dollars to win five chi obamass up Oklahoma. That's
what they do. People keep going, Yeah, because it's close idiots.

Speaker 4 (01:35:58):
Somebody tell me that they got to that. I don't
know if that's accurate.

Speaker 13 (01:36:01):
Oh is that true?

Speaker 1 (01:36:01):
Yeah? I thought somebody who confirmed to us recently that
it was still there. You know, it's just the opposite. Yeah,
is have you been to an Oklahoma casina recently? Send
a tweet. That's a question a sports harvey. Later on
in this early in July, my daughter's playing her national
volleyball tournaments in Dallas. A shirt. Why be able to
get the kitchen pass to go up and going up
to that it's only an hour away. Yeah, but if

(01:36:22):
I missed volleyball for a casino, that means I got
a pro I'm gonna miss anything? Are you? I can
go now? You live stream it, live stream at the table.
My daughter's played for a championship and I'm at the casinos. Yeah,
betting six dollars and win five. That won't work very well.
Tim and Katie at twelve thirty seven on the Matt
Thomas showed Ross Tim what's going on?

Speaker 9 (01:36:43):
Hey, guys, I got a question.

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
Is it controversial or is it white? The phrase that
was used in what we're talking about has been controversial.

Speaker 9 (01:36:58):
The descriptions all sound like a different.

Speaker 1 (01:37:02):
Colleges are whining because they don't win.

Speaker 6 (01:37:05):
If that's the USC Seawnsbury.

Speaker 1 (01:37:11):
Charlesbury's x Alma mater, I expect to win.

Speaker 6 (01:37:15):
Every year and half the time they're not worth a day.

Speaker 1 (01:37:19):
I can't argue with that USC. I mean, last year
was massively underperforming. But Lincoln Riley, is that the worst
money spent for a big time coach? Yeah? I think
he left because he thought the PAC twelve was gonna
be an easy path to the playoff, and then as
soon as he gets there, they go to the Big Ten,
where it was even a more difficult path. They've been
getting some big recruits over there. They've had, of course,

(01:37:41):
Okayleb Williams, some good quarterback play. They've also got endless
amounts of money too, right, I mean, Shaan's making great
money from us.

Speaker 4 (01:37:48):
At least he can just some of that to use
alma mater.

Speaker 1 (01:37:50):
Yeah, I think they said somehow like he Yeah, he's
one of the highest paid coaches in football, if not
the I'll have to look it up. But because he's
a he's a it's a private institution, so they don't
have to release the numbers. But I think there was
some kind of lawsuit or something, and and so somebody
dug the numbers up and the first year he was there,

(01:38:11):
he made like twenty million dollars. You know.

Speaker 4 (01:38:13):
I've been obviously been to LA a lot of Simpson.

Speaker 1 (01:38:15):
I wonder if LA is more of a UCLA town
or USC town.

Speaker 4 (01:38:20):
Are they both got to be? I would say USC
probably right.

Speaker 1 (01:38:22):
Isn't us private though, but us He's got much more
of a distinctive football back, yeah, past than U C.

Speaker 9 (01:38:29):
L A.

Speaker 1 (01:38:29):
Does going back to Oj Simpson and all the championships
they won and Carson Palmer. Yes, mattner Mark is now
the greatest team of all time losing to the Texas Longhorns.
By the way, were you getting to watch that game anymore?
He's been a long horn network like five times a day.
Are you You're saying you don't think I have the DVD?

(01:38:51):
I'm saying, how often do you watch that?

Speaker 5 (01:38:53):
Do you?

Speaker 1 (01:38:54):
Is it still a little bit? You don't even have
any DVD operating in your home? Yes?

Speaker 9 (01:38:57):
I do?

Speaker 1 (01:38:58):
Are you really? Yes? I have ALU ray player that
I keep near my bedroom TV. You know why, I'm
very curious anytime there's a major flutter kad the cable
goes out for like a couple of weeks anytime or
the inn if the internet goes down. Whenever we have
one of these major storms that seems to be these
four hundred year storms that are hitting us every six

(01:39:18):
months and the cable slash internet goes down, you gotta
put something on. So I keep the DVDs handy all
right here? Time to dial up from pulp fiction. Here
we go. What I don't have any DVDs in my house?
I have a Blu ray Player and a bunch of
Blue rays, but I literally only watch it when the
internet or cable or something. Your five DVD go tos.

(01:39:41):
That game is one, so you got four more? Yes,
I have a uh, I have a Blu ray It's
the best of Triumph, the Insult comic Dog.

Speaker 5 (01:39:53):
I want.

Speaker 1 (01:39:54):
I love that. I can get that from you. You
borrow you better bring it back. I'd be scratch. There's
no chance you said you don't even have Blu ray Play.
I got it at math mice Mooks for like two
bucks and is the best two bucks I ever spent there.
It was the easy Oh that was the easiest purchase
of my life. I'm like, I'm buying this. I like that,
So I have that. I have basically every Quentin Tarantino movie.

(01:40:20):
What else do I like? I mean, Glorious Bastards Saving
Private Ryan, you know the classic, the hits Gladiator. Yeah,
I just watched the movies. Whenever the Internet goes down
after one of the one of the latest hurricanes hits. Yeah, Unfortunately,
where Ross lives or has lived, internet goes down almost
on the daily. I like working here, no, Yeah, great
job at Sinity you're doing fantastic. Let's uh talk to

(01:40:42):
Travis online one on seven twelve forty one high Travis.

Speaker 9 (01:40:46):
Hey, how's it going good?

Speaker 5 (01:40:47):
You good good?

Speaker 7 (01:40:50):
You'all are talking about the Oklahomo that's called Everyone it's
still live and active.

Speaker 1 (01:40:55):
Oh okay. We were wondering if they still had the
blackjack anties.

Speaker 9 (01:41:00):
Unfortunately that is the case.

Speaker 1 (01:41:02):
Oh Sucond Sucond chalk Taw. Who the tall Yeah, there's.

Speaker 7 (01:41:09):
River winds chalk Taw and then the one on the border,
uh Windstar.

Speaker 1 (01:41:14):
Uh. My friend Vanessa who's working for ESPN Mobile or
ESPN three or whatever it is, she was hanging having
dinner with some people from the ESPN production and they
were looking. They asked me if there was a casino
in Oklahoma City and the answer is no, there's not.
But a half hour due south and Norman there is.
So if you know, if you need to get your
Oklahoma fixed there you can.

Speaker 9 (01:41:32):
Go about ten minutes from campus. A little too easy sometimes,
but that's the way we liked it.

Speaker 1 (01:41:37):
Hey, did you go to OU? I did, Senator So
I was there last year and the first ball landing
in Oklahoma City. You're more than driving down there and
see the casinos made me happy, and then there was
a bunch of CBD places around that the campus. So yeah,
I did quite well for yourself.

Speaker 9 (01:41:53):
They got they got some things to keep you entertained.

Speaker 1 (01:41:55):
Yeah, because look and then the walk through the ones
around your own Norman's not bad.

Speaker 4 (01:41:59):
I congratulate you on the as well.

Speaker 9 (01:42:01):
Appreciate that. Yep, Bember sooner. Hopefully of a better year
this year. A little rough.

Speaker 4 (01:42:06):
Who are your home games? Any any any decent home games?

Speaker 9 (01:42:11):
I know, I don't know if it's home. I think
it's Michigan to start the year. I don't know if
it's in ann Arbor or Norman.

Speaker 1 (01:42:16):
Now it is Norman September six. That's a good You
gotta get to that one. Who's who's their best.

Speaker 9 (01:42:23):
Scheme of some tickets already, we'll see if that happens.

Speaker 1 (01:42:26):
Who's their ross? Who's their best SEC home game? Of
of course Texas is neutral site.

Speaker 9 (01:42:32):
Yeah, Texas is. I think we play L s U at.

Speaker 1 (01:42:35):
Home Auburn l s U. Yeah, Auburn or l s U.
You know, if you want to come back to the
Big twelve, you're always welcome, you know that, right?

Speaker 9 (01:42:43):
Hey, I wish we were still there.

Speaker 1 (01:42:45):
Yeah, that's what they all say. Thank you trying to Yeah,
the eighties wanted more money. I wasn't caring. I didn't
care about what conference was in. It's easier to win
the Big twelve. Got a bunch of slappies like you
ah in there now too. I would invite you back
because if we can put the beatdown on you during
basketball season, fall short in the tournaments, we're right on
across the corner, and then you'll keep your mediocre baseball

(01:43:06):
coach keep getting beat up. Okay, that is a friend
of mine. Shut you above, ass up. I'm not let
that happen. Stop you. You're just you know, the thing
that people don't understand is really how awful you are.

Speaker 5 (01:43:17):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (01:43:17):
What am I awful about it? You just took a
pot shot of the guy that you don't even know.
Oh sorry, he's a great head coach. That's much better.
But just the embarrassment of riches in the trophy case
with U of H Baseball, that's my bag. We used
to be there seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven

(01:43:38):
ninety two. I am fascinated about this raise Marlin's game
there's maybe two thousand people in the building. Problem, man
for what are you doing? I mean our granted Tampa
is a little different, but like we're gonna at the
Astros point the A's letter this month in Sacramento four
game series. Yes, they're gonna draw flies. Yeah, two of

(01:44:02):
your thirty franchises are playing in minor league parks all year,
and neither one of them or fill look at them
in empty seats.

Speaker 5 (01:44:08):
Grant.

Speaker 1 (01:44:09):
It's also probably one hundred and fifty degrees there. But
you know what, I will put this on Manfred. The
race should have been moved out years ago. Remember whatever
happened and they were gonna do half in Montreal half
in Tampa Bay, they should have gone all yeah, I
know that was goofy as well. Yeah, but everybody knows
that nobody cares about the Tampa Bay Rays and they
don't spend money. The fan base doesn't care. Why are

(01:44:29):
they there? You know, it's crazy. I don't know if
this has changed. They have some of the highest TV
and radio ratings for Major League Baseball team in Tampa. Really, Yeah,
that doesn't make any sense, That's right, That's what I'm saying.
I wonder if it was just somebody just giving me
some bowl information or not. Okay, I'm more concerned about

(01:44:51):
these Marlins. They're gonna get a heat exhaustion problems. They're
wearing dark black uniforms on a hot mile day in Tampa, Florida.
They're still reeling from the embarrassment of getting swept by
the Rockies. How that happen? I don't It's time to
fold up shop. You have to nuke the franchise if
you're getting swept by the Rockies. Now we drive by
Marlon's Park. I don't know what it's called. It's some
corporate sponsor name. It's a dome stadium. It's really nice.

(01:45:15):
It's right by the Miami Airport. But I don't know
if I want to sit through two hours and thirty
minutes of a team I couldn't name two players from
I mean, of all things, I mean, Miami is such
a beautiful place to hang on and be outside. What
do you want to be indoors to watch a team
full of major league minimum players? Well, let's name Marlin's.

(01:45:35):
I'll start Sandy el Contre. I'm done when I'm done too.
There the manager's arguing. Right now, I don't even know
the manager's name. His last name is McCullough. Oh, Clayton,
Are you sure? You're not even one hundred percent sure?
I'm like seventy five percent sure, Marlin's manager.

Speaker 4 (01:45:57):
Just give yourself credit. Is it CLAYT.

Speaker 1 (01:45:59):
McCall Clayton mccullor what's his background? Don't I don't remember? Donate.
I'm going to let you answer that question easy twelve
fifty two on Sports Talk sitting on an Easy.

Speaker 4 (01:46:11):
Good afternoon to you.

Speaker 5 (01:46:13):
Good afternoon, Matt.

Speaker 1 (01:46:14):
Happy birthday, by the way, Thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (01:46:16):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 13 (01:46:17):
Hey, I'm with Ross with having the DVD player, but
I know you guys are old enough to know the
DVD and VHS combined.

Speaker 3 (01:46:26):
Oh you got the Combo, bro, I got the Combo
Classic top top movie was Harlem Night's Sucking at Bernie's
Major League.

Speaker 13 (01:46:37):
And I bought the the VHS when the Rockets won
their first championship.

Speaker 5 (01:46:42):
When that VHS was Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:46:44):
Yeah, yeah, that was twenty four ninety five.

Speaker 5 (01:46:48):
Gentlemen, love it?

Speaker 1 (01:46:49):
Uh, do you have any CDs left? By the way,
What's what's on your CD count in your car? Right now?

Speaker 5 (01:46:54):
Hoodie and the Blowfish.

Speaker 1 (01:46:56):
Oh, the Blowfish and Pearl gam ten that CD was
the best one. My wife and I argue about our favorite,
hooting the Blowfish song. I still think hold My Hand
is my my favorite, and she says I Only Want
to Be with You is her favorite.

Speaker 5 (01:47:13):
Let her cry let I can listen.

Speaker 1 (01:47:18):
I'm gonna listen to I'm going to a concert tonight.
As a matter of fact, I'm gonna listen to. Yeah,
I'm going to see Sticks, crack crack crack, rear view mirror,
isn't it? Sticks? And random spare parts from other people.
Here's the thing about Stick. Sorry, got off the conversation easy.
But they don't sing lady because the lead singer of
the who sing that song is not a part of
the band. In this band that's currently Sticks hates that song,

(01:47:40):
so they don't play lady. Ladies like the number one song
of all time sailing Away. But I'm in my mind
it's a lady. I'm not a big Sticks fan, but
it is. I'm going because my son wants to go,
so I'm going with him because I'm a good.

Speaker 5 (01:47:51):
Would be blues traveler.

Speaker 1 (01:47:53):
You guys, blues traveler, You got any r M in
your CD player either?

Speaker 4 (01:47:58):
What you got there.

Speaker 13 (01:47:58):
Yes, there playing that also happens. Yeah, that's that's early nineties, right,
are you? That was that will Creep?

Speaker 11 (01:48:06):
Right?

Speaker 5 (01:48:07):
Was it creep?

Speaker 1 (01:48:07):
Yeah? Yeah, Happy Sunshiny Day or whatever the hell? The
song was called Shiny Happy People?

Speaker 5 (01:48:13):
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:48:13):
What was you Tommy John? Question of it going over
every song of the nineteen.

Speaker 1 (01:48:17):
Nineties, No, the question was it.

Speaker 13 (01:48:20):
I don't know if it's a coincidence right now with
the astros.

Speaker 5 (01:48:23):
Or is it is it the pitchcock? But I mean, it.

Speaker 13 (01:48:25):
Seems like it's an epidemic now because you're rushing these
guys and it seems it seems like more of aincidence
with the astros.

Speaker 1 (01:48:34):
How do we fix that?

Speaker 13 (01:48:35):
How do we change that to where some of these
guys don't get hurt? You know, I mean they're they're
they're they're blowing out their their elbows because they're they're
rushing fishes. They have to get to that point. I'll
hang up and listen, gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (01:48:48):
Thank Youzi for the phone call. Yeah, this has been
much much talked about. Yeah, first question, is is it
coincidental that all this is happening with one team or
is it just happens to be a situation that you
happen to get two major league pictures among two hundred
major league pictures that happen to happen on the same team.

Speaker 5 (01:49:10):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:49:10):
I mean, I feel like this could be with any team.
I feel like this that spin rate usage types of
pictures are being thrown, is being discussed by the abstras,
is like it is discussed by the Marlins, by the Expo,
by the Expos, by the Rays, by the Giants, by

(01:49:32):
the Dodgers. I choose to believe that they're not doing
anything outside the ordinary that would cause greater injuries than
any of the other twenty nine teams. I think it's
just purely coincidence that we've got two guys on the
same team and about the same time. Yeah, I would

(01:49:53):
agree with that. I think it's just the nature of
the game. And while the Astros put an emphasis on
spin rate and breaking stuff, that's basically every organization in baseball.
As I'm saying, if the Astros created this, hey, everybody,
we do things here differently. In the reality, they don't
do things differently. They're still teaching off speed. Everybody in

(01:50:14):
manjor league baseball can hit a ninety eight hour fastball,
give or take. How do you make your money your curveballs,
your sliders, your slurves, your change the stupid sweeper thing,
I mean, hey, why is it stupid because somebody called
it a sweeper five years ago.

Speaker 4 (01:50:29):
Don't start making up metrics.

Speaker 1 (01:50:31):
Move on White being is this everybody uses the different
types of pitches if they just do. Are the Astros
rushing people that wouldn't be in their best interest to
do that. It has been a lot of setbacks when
we could talk about that. I mean last week, Colors
Junior had multiple setbackstrc has had multiple setbacks. Are there

(01:50:53):
issues with diagnosis in rehabilitation? That's very fair. We could
argue all of those things. And the Astros, I mean,
they are operating different than other teams. If we remember
Justin Verlander talking about the Mets and how their analytics
are behind the times and stuff like that. But I
don't know how much that would translate to actual injuries.
That's a that's a question for him or someone else

(01:51:14):
to answer. But I think it's just the nature of
the game. We've talked about it, and you know, the
kids playing baseball year round now where it used to
be you'd play football, baseball, basketball, and throwing basically from
age nine all the way a year round and with
a huge emphasis on velocity and spin rates and all

(01:51:35):
that type of stuff, and perhaps the pitchclock. But you
add all of it up, whatever you want to balance,
what percentage of it is, you add it all up.
There's a it's gonna be a rash of arm injuries,
and I don't think it's gonna stop. Let me ask
you this, and this is this. There may even be
no correlation to it. The guys that are getting hurt
are not considered phenoms. Spencer Streider just had Tommy I'm

(01:52:00):
talking about on the Astros Javier was what would you
call Christian? Have youer not a phenom? Justin Verlander head,
Tommy John what Colors Junior? Was?

Speaker 4 (01:52:13):
Was Lance Ever a phenom? First round pick?

Speaker 1 (01:52:17):
Yeah? When he's breaking off twenty four straight curve balls
in twenty seventeen playoffs? Who were calling him phenom? We
were calling him a phenom when he got lit up
in Arizona and complained that the roof was open. I
don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:52:31):
I'm just saying, do guys.

Speaker 1 (01:52:34):
That are more highly regarded not have to worry about
this kind of stuff less than the guys that are
just mid level pitchers that are just trying to try
to elevate themselves to become higher level. Garrett Cole's getting
got Tommy John. Okay, Well, first of all, there's fewer
higher profile guys, right, So if there's ten phenoms and

(01:52:54):
one hundred out of however many hundred pictures there are,
it's gonna be fewer guys. But there are some that
I can think. All right, non Florida stories in half
an hour? What's your non Florida story from? It's from uh,
outside of Florida. Thank you for that. It's always appreciate
the honesty you bring to the table with those non
Florida stories. I need to confirm. Was it tom It
was Tommy John? That Spencer straderhead right, Well, you brought

(01:53:16):
it up. I didn't bring him up. I don't make mistakes.
Oh yeah in UCL. Yeah he repaired UCL in April
of twenty twenty four. All right, Uh, Stephen was his name?
Steven Strider? Sammy Spencer Spencer? All right, we'll get to him.
Deep conversation on him NBA Playoffs last night? And was

(01:53:37):
Daniel Brown out of line? Or riding line for yelling
at people in Pittsburgh yesterday. We'll give you a thought
on that one o'clock Sports Talk seven honey with a
al right, here's today's betting tip of the day. Anytime
there is a day game in Tampa, take the over.

(01:54:01):
It's in the top of the fourth and it's three
to one, Tampa Bay. We just saw a ball that
was barely had top the end of the bat and
it just went about three hundred and eighty feet to
left center field.

Speaker 4 (01:54:13):
Rossie, we gotta get in on this. We're gonna be rich.

Speaker 1 (01:54:17):
My bad did the under with Hunter Brown.

Speaker 4 (01:54:20):
We did the under under.

Speaker 1 (01:54:21):
We were like Charles and we had to tear our
ticket and we were made fun of. Mister Fetita got
some of his money back that he paid me, and
I gave it back to him. All right, man, what
are you gonna do? So last night the Astros went
by the way. That guy in the left field caught
it on the fly. Good for him. He had a

(01:54:42):
frothy beer too. You don't want a frothy beer when
it's ninety five degrees outside. We want to shave in
the middle of the game. Well, I mean, I would
say shave before the game games at one o'clock, you
can shaved eleven thirty.

Speaker 4 (01:54:52):
Okay, all right, let's get to it.

Speaker 1 (01:54:56):
The Astros winning yesterday and there how about this, and gentlemen,
are you ready for how wacky this baseball season has been?
How wacky has it been? I'm so glad you asked
the Baltimore Sucky Orioles. Hey, that's not their name. That's
not on their their official crest. No, it says Oriols,
and homes says sucky on the on the road. You

(01:55:18):
don't sign a contract with him, and it says Baltimore
Sucky Orioles.

Speaker 4 (01:55:23):
How about uber disappointing? Okay, sure.

Speaker 1 (01:55:27):
Fire? Their manager Brandon Hyde hmm, playoff appearances back to
back years, got up to an awful start. They won
one hundred games last year, right with Brandon Hyde, who
two first round exits, by the way, which probably didn't
help his cause. Two years ago it was one hundred games.
So this year the Baltimore Oriols, let me look at
the quick statings, are in last place at twenty five
and thirty How are they twenty five and thirty six? Suck? Jeez?

(01:55:50):
They are the Baltimore sucky oriols last time. In my statement,
they have won six and they've won six in a row.
So at one point they were nineteen and thirty six
either on a heater thanks to the Seattle Mariners. They're
thirteen games out behind the Yankees in for first place.
Let me check and see how they are on the
wild card. Uh, and the wild card they are seven
and a half out. I mean, that's not terrible, give me,

(01:56:13):
but point being is this he they're out? They beat
the Seattle Mariners three times in Seattle. Hm. Meanwhile, your
beloved Astros to two out of three against Pittsburgh. Love it, Pete.
They beat Paul Skeens and then some Gebroni the next day.
I never heard of they lost to They won yesterday
after the game started, some Gebroni nobody had heard of.

(01:56:35):
Mike Burrows is his third major league start and he
threw five five and a third shutout.

Speaker 4 (01:56:42):
So you're calling him, what's his name, Cyborrow?

Speaker 1 (01:56:44):
Is that what you call him?

Speaker 5 (01:56:44):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:56:45):
That's what he if he's facing the Astros lineup. Whenever
some guy has two major league starts and at eight
sixty ra A, it's about time to shut down.

Speaker 4 (01:56:53):
The Astros for six.

Speaker 1 (01:56:57):
They beat Skeens Well, Christian Walker, I cannot and I
love all of you death dearly. Since I love all
of you at least at least tolerate some of you,
and some of you I do love a lot of you,
I cannot accept anymore. The Astros should give up the
farm for Paul Skeins. The Astros don't have a farm.
They could still give it up, and they can.

Speaker 4 (01:57:18):
Give it up. But the Pirates could laugh at that.

Speaker 1 (01:57:20):
They would the Pirates could do an intelligence report on
the Astros. Minor league organizations say there is there is
absolutely nothing you want to give us, Bryce Matthews. You
want to give us Hunter Brown? You want to give
us Carlo's Penia, and then we'll continue to talk later. Jeremy, Jeremy,
what I say, Carlspaine give it? You know, Carlo Spain
you can come dark times as Carl's Penie was out there,

(01:57:43):
I clean up. You get former Pittsburgh Pirate. I believe
short term aster Tony Pain. I don't know if to
Tony Payne you ever play for the Astros. Point ping
is this you give it? You give any outto a Hundro.
You can do any of them. Geronimo, Yeah, I think
we're down on Paynes. The Pirates are not training him
to the Houston Astros. There are many other teams that

(01:58:04):
are more flush with players in the Houston Astros. So
the Astros win two out of three. They don't start
the game until ten o'clock Eastern time. Dana Brown's out
there yelling at people, and I don't and I can
understand it. The problem is he might have been yelling
at people. But if they went and got their count,
you know, you have the little pocket schedules you have,
they probably got.

Speaker 4 (01:58:25):
They brought their pocket.

Speaker 1 (01:58:26):
Schedules out and said, you get an off day, here,
get an off day here.

Speaker 4 (01:58:29):
Can we play this?

Speaker 1 (01:58:30):
My guess is that if we did a deep dive
on this will take us fifteen minutes. Either there was
no off days that made sense, or the Astros were
probably on the West coast that had to travel all
the way east. The Pirates could be the same situation.
They could be in the West Coast, have to travel
all the way east to meet in the middle neutral
set game like in Des Moines. Yeah, somewhere around there,
Saint Louis. By the way, I mentioned this last Star

(01:58:51):
I forgot to finish up. I love these themed games.
The Field of Dreams game. They're playing a baseball game
at I think Bristol Motor Speedway or something like that.
A motor speedway baseball game. Yeah, they're playing on an
auto racing try. They're changed things up, make things interesting.
That's dumb. It's not dumb. I mean Field the Dreams

(01:59:12):
I get, but on a motor speedway. Yeah, I'm gonna
look it up. What you talked for soon? Sure? Follow
at sports RV on Instagram. I would appreciate it. I'm
trying to build it up. I'll be posting more as
I get settled into the account at sports RV. Settle
you've had the account for Instagram, Yeah, but I haven't

(01:59:34):
been using it. I'm trying to build it back up.
All right, here it is. It's August second. It's called
the MLB Speedway Classic. Okay, Atlanta and Cincinnati are playing there.
I could give two craps about the Braves and Reds
playing a game on August a second. Okay, you're playing
the game at Bristol Motor Speedway. Oh hell yeah, I'm

(01:59:54):
watching the game. This seems ridiculous. They're gonna use the
infield grass. Yeah, huh. How are they going to clear
up all the cores vomit from inside of Nascar? And
the tobacco, Yeah, tobacco is all the spatoons. And the
crack lines are gonna be over the field, that's your say.

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And the crack pipes, well, it depends on well maybe
not in Bristol. Not not in Bristol. So it's in Talladega.
So they playing in the middle of a cornfield. Yes,
they They're gonna play in an auto track? Sure, why not?
What's next? Submarine? No, let's make me we were listed
here for a second. Okay, you can't plan a ship
not big enough. No, you get a sandlot game, broken

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glass out in left field. Now you could go to
football teams and play and have just all the raiders
in the oakland A's yeah, but I'm talking about like
true football. So you could have really walked you like
four point thirty to left and then two sixty five
to right.

Speaker 4 (02:00:52):
I mean you could do that, but that would seem
kind of chintzy.

Speaker 1 (02:00:55):
How about you remake historic, Well, you can't have to
build them out of nowhere like construct How about a
game with like the Polo Grounds configuration, it was like
four hundred and fifty feet to center, but I think
it was like two. Well, you don't want to do it. It
was like two hundred feet to right field or something.
You don't want to that. I mean, pesky pole is
embarrassing as it is in Boston. I'm just trying to think,

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what if you're doing the Bristol and you're doing the
Field of Dreams or else, could you legitimately put a
baseball field? I mean, yeah, Polo Grounds, how about this
right field was two hundred and fifty eight feet joke,
left field twohundred and seventy nine feet.

Speaker 4 (02:01:32):
You'd have a twenty five to twenty three.

Speaker 1 (02:01:34):
Game center field four hundred and eighty three feet. You
know who has zero problem with that? Jake Myers. I
was gonna say, Dyke in Park. You get you know,
that's the kind of game you don't want to have
two center fielders. You play with ten, like if they
do an outfield soft like softball.

Speaker 5 (02:01:48):
I got you.

Speaker 1 (02:01:49):
Okay, maybe not exactly Polo Grounds dimensions, but I don't know.
I'm just coming up with ideas.

Speaker 4 (02:01:55):
Okay, you can't play it at a US Open, like
at Arthur ASHJ. We couldn't do that tennis court.

Speaker 1 (02:02:04):
M okay, how about a batting cage with simulated uh? Simulated?

Speaker 4 (02:02:11):
You're a terrible example maker.

Speaker 1 (02:02:13):
Well, I think these are dumb. You don't think you
won't watch Bristol. I guarantee you'll watch some of it.
I don't have no idea.

Speaker 4 (02:02:19):
What it iss my brother's birthday.

Speaker 5 (02:02:21):
I'm busy.

Speaker 1 (02:02:22):
You'll watch it on the birthday. MLB highlights, uh, extended
highlights are your friend and look at the network as
your friend. By the way, too, Yes, yes, we've got
a lot of friends on MLB network. What about in
a rodeo arena? What a rodeo? You get to get

(02:02:43):
the you get the dirt infield already locked in on
the right, see okay, and then you can release bulls
in the fourth inning. I don't think so. I don't
think so. All right, this is a terrible idea gone worse.
I apologize. You should back to Danan Brown. Yeah when
can we come back? We okay? With Dana saying what
he said, I think so. I just think they were

(02:03:07):
hands were tied. That's my feeling. Yeah, yeah, I get it,
that's not and I just don't get it. That's and
I get it. One fourteen on Sports Talk seven one seven,
one three two one two five seven on the End
Goal on This is Friends. Your Astros have a game
and a half lead now with the Mariners in the
American League West. Yeah, like my GM is spicy. I'll
tell you that, Dana Brown, you'll go to fight for you.

(02:03:30):
You went down on the field. He's like, I'm sick
of sitting in this rain. I want to play ball
or get the hell out team. I get my guys
to Cleveland or by the way, not play on terrible
field because you know what, fluke injuries can happen all
the time. And if any team that needs to stay
healthy right now, it's Houston Astros. So good for him.
They did play the game, granted didn't go super long,

(02:03:51):
but still they didn't even arrive till their hotel at
four o'clock in the morning, so they're gonna be a
sleepy yet that's fine. Sleep till noon, get a good
eight hours games, not till six. So if you were
betting man on, So they got in in three three
our time or at their hotel four their time? Three
are four their time? Yeah, okay, and they get four

(02:04:13):
their time, and the game is at seven there. Now
they're an hour later with batting practice, so they don't
have the betting practice till about four o'clock. Yeah, be fine,
get some coffee and a doughnuts. So I guess what
they get to figure out the life of an NBA player.

Speaker 5 (02:04:26):
So we do.

Speaker 1 (02:04:26):
We traveled crazy ass hours. Yeah, they're gonna make it. Yeah. Also,
I mean for most of the players, the game also
not as strenuous as an NBA game. That's why you
play one hundred and sixty two in six months rather
than eighty eighty two. They'll be all right. By the
way it was to be ready to go Adam sober
yesterday or that meeting of the media conversation about reduction

(02:04:49):
in games. No, it'd be no talk of that. They're
playing eighty two I know. And you said it's never
gonna happen. No way, no, how I was right four No,
you said forty minutes.

Speaker 4 (02:05:01):
Yeah, it's still not happening.

Speaker 1 (02:05:03):
Could happen? Was it even a conversation about forty minutes?

Speaker 4 (02:05:07):
I didn't see that.

Speaker 1 (02:05:09):
No, they're not playing. No, they're not gonna play fewer games.
They have to figure something out to get to get
players a little bit more rest, make the season long
even longer. It's already so long, especially for teams that
go into the NBA Finals. Uh No, they're not gonna cut.
They're not cutting eight minutes a game. That's not happening.

(02:05:29):
They're not gonna lose inventory, commercial inventory. And it's also
eight less minutes for people to go buy drinks. No chance. Okay,
if I'm the commissioner, if I'm the commission of any sport,
do I is it my jo? I mean, I know
they get paid obscene amounts of money, but there's nothing
about their job that's a piece of cake. You've got

(02:05:50):
people everyone's always gonna complain, right, Who is a commissioner
that's beloved? There isn't one. The last beloved commissioner. I
would think Haglaboo really wasn't. No Bud Ceiling was sure
people hated Bud Celic. I think people respected David Stern.

(02:06:12):
There's people who still hated him though. Yeah, but I mean,
you're no one's gonna be universally beloved, you know what
I mean? In terms of the least amount of hate,
probably David Stern because think about it, under Stern's watch.
Granted you had Michael and Byrd and Jordan, they came in,
the league didn't grow to astronomical amounts in terms of
television interest, full buildings, better buildings. Adam silver is probably

(02:06:36):
his greatest accomplishment was basically when he took the job
over the Clippers owner Donald Sterling was saying all those
racial insensitive things, bigotry, and they said, you're selling the team.

Speaker 4 (02:06:46):
You don't get a choice.

Speaker 1 (02:06:50):
So that's you know, uh, but I mean if you're
if you're, I don't think I can't find Here's what
I can't find. I can't find a sports owner or
group people that have been generally speaking says satisfyed with
their commissioners. Every one of these commissioners on all these
sports the last twenty years have raised their money and

(02:07:13):
their value of their leagues. You know what, three or
four fold, right, But think about when the McNair has
bought the Texans, what the league was worth at that point.
Did they get it for seven hundred million or something
like that? I mean, is it a billion? It's now
worth four to five times that amount. I mean that's crazy.
Every NFL team has done better, even with Roger Goodell

(02:07:34):
in there. Every NBA team is doing better. They just
signed a hlatiously big television contract. They're going to expand
the two new teams, and they're going to get expansion
money off of that. Major League Baseball they, I mean,
their attendants. Growth is good. They are all three leagues
are doing their best to grow the game internationally. That's
the best, next best avenue for revenues. And then you

(02:07:58):
kind of have to wonder where it goes from there
because everything keeps on going up and up and up
and up and up.

Speaker 4 (02:08:04):
Oh, I think you're gonna see something. I think you're
gonna see it in streaming?

Speaker 1 (02:08:06):
What's the term fat pigs get slaughtered? Who says that?
That's just a phrase I've never heard about. I like it. Okay,
I'm just wondering, not even anytime imminently, but yeah, but
we've talked about this though. Putting everything on a streaming service,
it makes it more difficult to get more eyeballs and
grow the game long term. So are you going for

(02:08:29):
the face? Is it a short term fix right to
hurt yourself long term?

Speaker 4 (02:08:36):
How many more cliches can we add in one segment?

Speaker 1 (02:08:39):
I don't know. Are they robbing Peter to pay Paul
m Damn.

Speaker 4 (02:08:43):
It's my turn.

Speaker 1 (02:08:47):
Are they searching for the forest through the trees? What
if a tree? Are they not? Are they looking at
the trees? Are they not seeing the trees for the forest.
That's what I'm going to say. Let's go on credit
for that. Sure, we'll give you credit half credit. No,
So yeah, I'm just just thinking out loud.

Speaker 4 (02:09:04):
Well, I think the next for all the leagues would
be expansion.

Speaker 1 (02:09:07):
That's how you you get the huge expanis which Adam
Adam Silver talked about that yesterday. And then what you
do at that point is you minimize their TV rights.
You don't let them enjoy the suck off the teat
of the brand new TV deals. Who the new NBA teams, Yeah,
like they shouldn't get full money for the Amazon NBC

(02:09:28):
deals until they've probably been a league four or five years, right,
and get why not because the other teams have put
their money in, because the other teams are going to
be like you better pay what?

Speaker 4 (02:09:39):
Why should you?

Speaker 1 (02:09:40):
Why should you get the money of the new television
deals when you haven't been around yet? Mm hmm, yeah,
I think I think I think the NBA.

Speaker 4 (02:09:47):
Is being quiet. I think we're going to get two
new NBA teams.

Speaker 1 (02:09:49):
It's been a while since we've had this expansion two
thousand and four or five, somewhere in that range.

Speaker 4 (02:09:53):
With Charlotte coming back.

Speaker 1 (02:09:55):
Yes, so I think it's I think it's time. Well,
Adam Silver was talking about he thinks the owners are
going to push for expansion. Owners are gonna push for expansion.
The NFL is gonna expand it to international waters and
then they're gonna by the time everybody plays one game over there,
they're gonna add two more teams. One of them may
be in London, man, I don't know, could be. But

(02:10:18):
if you put a team in London, does that all
of a sudden make those international games nearly as popular
or at least if you live in London or Scotland
or Brazil.

Speaker 4 (02:10:26):
You're getting different teams every year to come in your building.

Speaker 1 (02:10:28):
Yeah. Novelty wears off, and in this day and age,
it wears off even faster.

Speaker 5 (02:10:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:10:32):
All right, Hey, let's get some non Florida stories.

Speaker 1 (02:10:34):
Are you ready? Yes, I know you are. I could
not be more ready. Remember mine last week was about
the woman who got the uh yeah, mine was a
woman that unfortunately got flat CHILDNS from her ex boyfriend
and she had her nasal virus for several months because
of it. Called BS on that I kind of am too.

(02:10:57):
I gotta be honest with you on that. But I've
got a not a similar story, but a similar themes
to it, and we'll get to that. It looks like
I had it wrong. Pigs get fat, hogs get College
is close enough. College just told me that what you know, what, Jonathan,
you have that you have the carte blanche to interrupt
the show when something Ross gets wrong.

Speaker 14 (02:11:15):
As I'm about to press the button, Ross has said
it like like I was about to tell them, I
just got the phone with them just now.

Speaker 1 (02:11:20):
Thank you. I think we butcher more cliche phrases in
any of the radio show in the marketplace. It's four
hours to fill. I was gonna say, we're doing twenty
hours a week here. I mean, we're gonna No, nobody's
gonna beat one thousand. No, we're lucking about seven or fifty.
Got you at the Mendoza line.

Speaker 4 (02:11:36):
Hey, my ops is growing though.

Speaker 1 (02:11:39):
Nineteen Maldonado Asque non Florida Stories next one, eight and
seven ninety we.

Speaker 11 (02:11:45):
Find interesting stories that sure outside the.

Speaker 5 (02:11:50):
State of Florida and share them with the people of used.

Speaker 1 (02:11:58):
It's time for Florida. I'll time for no Florida store
from the coast to coast will bring the strange and wild.

(02:12:24):
No alligator tales, but something that will make you smile.
It's time for laughs from.

Speaker 8 (02:12:34):
Far and wild.

Speaker 1 (02:12:39):
In this crazy world.

Speaker 11 (02:12:42):
There's nowhere.

Speaker 1 (02:12:48):
All right, time down for the non Florida stories. One
requirement Every Friday at one thirty here on the Matt
Thomas Shoe Ross, we bring you bizarre stories as long
as they don't come from the state of Florida. Because
every other market his radio shows wacky radio shows to
give you stories from the state of Florida. We don't
do that here on this show. All right, Ross and
Johnath that we're gonna go to Pennsylvania. A man in

(02:13:12):
Luzern County, Pennsylvania, is facing charges. You're saying, what could
he possibly have done? According to the Wilkes Bear Bar,
I think I don't know. Have it's Barry or bar
Wilkes Bar Township Police. There was an incident that took
place May sixteenth at the CSL plasma at the East

(02:13:35):
End Center. I don't know. It's a place you drop
plasma for whatever. Okay, okay, okay. Jiman by the name
of Chaz Pearson, thirty nine years of age, and he
also uses two z's in of his name, Chaz Chaz oh,
come on. He reportedly got into an argument with someone

(02:13:57):
and this person, this chess. Pearson attacked a man who
farted and didn't apologize. Attacked him. Yes, he accused the
victim of passing gas and not apologizing. When another patron
offered an apology and not the victim, Pearson then did
not accept it and physically assaulted the victim, causing him

(02:14:19):
to fall to the ground and sustain a bleeding head wound.
Pearson fled the scene before police arrival, but was identified
after reviewing video of the incident. Pearson was charged with
simple assault, harassment, and disorderly conduct. Courts indicating a schedule

(02:14:39):
is hearing a schedule for July seventh at Luzerne County
Central Court. So the question I have for you boys
is if the three of us are together, Jonathan, you
passed gas rash, you're mad about it, but I apologize
on behalf on Jonathan's on this behalf. Do you accept

(02:14:59):
his my apology on Jonathan's band.

Speaker 5 (02:15:01):
No, why not?

Speaker 4 (02:15:02):
I need to hear from Jonathan and I look that Ross.

Speaker 1 (02:15:05):
Let's say I spend my whole life apologizing for things
you've said and done. So Jonathan, I want you to
apologize if you pass any gas in front of Ross
the last six months you've been here. I thought they
called you the crop duster. They call him the duster.

Speaker 14 (02:15:19):
Yeah, it's projection. I see see Dusty Thomas.

Speaker 1 (02:15:25):
The following things you've just said are all inaccurate, and
I know what I want to apologize. I want to
apologize to both of you right now as you say
I'm sorry, Hugh. So just if you're in line, you
just can't get away with it, especially I think everybody
knows their own abilities, right, don't you think? Ross? You
know how powerful you're wind is on occasion and when

(02:15:49):
you can get away with them when you can't, Like
if you've had some of your amazing chili, you know
you can't get away with it. You had a nicest
salary and maybe a bowl of soup, you could probably
get away with it. You know it's the worst, But
y'all a gam man, you gamble at the silent payer.
That is true. That is true. See, you gotta be
careful in the gambling. What is worse. The worst is
when you you're really getting hit with about and you're
getting on a plane. Oh you're sick. Now, I will

(02:16:14):
say this, Have I let one go in first classes.
I'm walking to the coach. Absolutely any regrets. They call
you the duster, they call me economy plus duster, plus
duster on the plus duster. And that, my friends, is
my non Florida story. All right, let me get mine
out of the way. Uh, Matt, Are you aware of

(02:16:37):
the trial that is ongoing with Sean Diddy Combs. No,
I do not. It is in New York, of course,
and the trial is ongoing for sex trafficking charges, which,
of course mister Combs has pled not guilty to five
criminal courts counts of sex trafficking and racketeer. Have you

(02:17:02):
seen any of the court sketches that have been put out?

Speaker 5 (02:17:07):
I have not.

Speaker 1 (02:17:08):
Court sketch room artist Jane Rosenborg was apparently confronted by
Sean Ditty Combs during a lunch break yesterday during the trial.
Seawan Didtycomb said, quote, soften me up a bit. You're
making me look like a koala bear. And she reported

(02:17:29):
this immediately right after he said this, I imagine. So yes,
she has a She's a well known sketch artist. She's
been documenting the proceedings for Reuters in Manhattan Federal Court,
where of course, photography and video recording are prohibited. Earlier
this year, Rosenberg was also towed told by Rudy Giuliani,

(02:17:50):
quote she made him look like his dog. So she
was upset about that, okay, as he was in a
civil case stemming from his false accusations two election workers
helped steal the twenty twenty presidential election. And in twenty
twenty three, when Donald Trump Junior I was in court
for I don't know why if it was because his

(02:18:11):
father was in court there in New York, not sure,
he said, quote make me look sexy. So here's what
I don't understand. Why are all these people that are
under severe penalty and under prosecution, why are they worry
about what the sketch artists makes them look like. That's
a question for Didny Giuliani and Donald Trump Junior. But

(02:18:33):
there you go. Did he Comb's upset that he felt
like she was making him look like a koala bear.
I went to a party about eighteen months ago and
had some sketchings out of me.

Speaker 4 (02:18:43):
I was very pleased with it, with their work you did.

Speaker 1 (02:18:46):
Yeah, like one of those cartoons. Yeah, that is one
of those swingers parties where they sketch you pineapple. It
was a Rockets party. And I want you to both
to apologize. You said you said pineapples upside down? Yeah, Hey,
what does that mean? Why don't you would? You shame
in Siana plantation people? Come on, now, you know what

(02:19:08):
I'm talking about, Siana wink wink, and that you're non
Florida story and thank you for that anymore too? You
want to add you done? I'm good?

Speaker 4 (02:19:17):
Okay, Jonathan, you're non Florida story.

Speaker 5 (02:19:19):
Please?

Speaker 1 (02:19:20):
All right? Mine comes from China.

Speaker 14 (02:19:23):
Uh no, it's a Chinese guy from this is in Japan.
Let me Chinese in japaness okay, all right? So a
Chinese student. It was reported by Sky News that he
was a twenty seven year old climber and he had
made an emergency's call as he was climbing the Japan's
Mount Fuji after getting altitude sickness on the Mountain Mountains
uh Mountain trail about three thousand meters nearly ten thousand

(02:19:46):
feet above sea level. They had hit the call for help,
and it was a peak off season. They say, do
not go because the off season is very harsh up there.
But four days later police said they received another call
to the mountain after the student who had said who
didn't want to be named, returned to look for his
phone and other belongings left behind. So this student, this

(02:20:10):
college student, went to go hike on the one of
the biggest mountains in the world. Yes, couldn't do it,
called her up and using tax dollars to get the
helicopter to get him. Four days later, goes back to
get it. Sorry, to see if he can get his
belongings to everything he left in there.

Speaker 1 (02:20:28):
You know what if you if you had, if you
have claiming motion sickness, you have to take the loss
on that.

Speaker 4 (02:20:34):
So it was his phone in his wallet, basically, right.

Speaker 1 (02:20:37):
He said.

Speaker 14 (02:20:37):
They just said other belonging, other belongings, I'm guessing like
his backpack or whatever he was camped up there with.

Speaker 1 (02:20:42):
So does he did He eventually go back and get it.

Speaker 14 (02:20:46):
He got up there and then had the call for
help again because he couldn't get back down.

Speaker 1 (02:20:50):
Oh my god, he went twice and they had to
get him twice. Shame on him ten thousand feet in
the air. Imagine, I imagine.

Speaker 14 (02:20:57):
Imagine that's who taxed us all your paycheck going away
because some guys just just you know, can't make the trip,
you know what.

Speaker 1 (02:21:05):
Yeah, shame happens once. Shame on Uh No, it's not
a shame graduation for me once. Shame on you for twice. Yeah,
you can't get fooled again. No, shame on me. Oh
that's what that what George W. Said. They're saying in Tennessee.

(02:21:26):
Please don't Yeah, there's a saying in Texas. In Tennessee.
I think they got it in Tennessee. Foom with twice,
fool with once? You can't get fooled again. Thanks George.
I have a I have a f I think I
can find that. Actually, you gotta know one to hold
him all right, and no one to go on all in. Oh,

(02:21:47):
you got to know when to go to break. Have
we butchered every cliche possible?

Speaker 5 (02:21:51):
De man?

Speaker 1 (02:21:52):
No, I was quoting George W. Bush. He said, you
can't get fooled again. Okay, I'm just telling you I'm
still getting uh text and tweets about the hog and
how you want to slaughter that hog? Oh whatever, it's
close enough. We All people want on this show is
bad hogs get slaughtered. All people want on the show's accuracy,

(02:22:13):
all right. One forty three is the time. It is
time now for hell Yeah or Not? Ross with is
today's category in hell Yeah? Are not googleble quick answers?

Speaker 4 (02:22:23):
What sport?

Speaker 1 (02:22:25):
I don't have to give a hint. How quick the answers?

Speaker 5 (02:22:29):
What?

Speaker 1 (02:22:29):
How quick are the answers? We need quick answers? Three semple,
so google them. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 4 (02:22:34):
Three seconds? Matta one second? No, give them three.

Speaker 1 (02:22:37):
It's a believe it or it's or not. It ain't
rocket science.

Speaker 4 (02:22:40):
All right, I'm kicking a lot.

Speaker 1 (02:22:41):
Yeah, quick trigger, they call you quick trigger. Fire off
all cylinders quickly. One Sports Talk seven ninety it is
about Talma's show with Ross. Let's play hell Yeah or not?
Seven one three, two one two five seven All right,
astros on deck today? I think it's at five. Who's

(02:23:04):
doing the tenth inning show? You? I'm working tomorrow, Probady,
Matt Gordy's working Sunday. Love it. Check the Adam Wexer
and Adam Clinton post games. They're doing pre games they
did yesterday within their own time. They didn't do yesterday. Actually,
who did, No, they didn't have it was delayed. Oh
so they didn't have to do it, and they worked
till six. I'm so sick and tired of lazy be
what we work with, So damn tired of it.

Speaker 5 (02:23:28):
God ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (02:23:31):
Now wex goes to textan, so we give him the
benefit of the doubt on that. But Clan's got no excuses,
none whatsoever. This is terrible. He also wishes you a
happy birthday.

Speaker 4 (02:23:44):
Yeah, I saw that happy birthday he gave me.

Speaker 1 (02:23:48):
All right, I apologized.

Speaker 4 (02:23:50):
That's fine.

Speaker 1 (02:23:50):
I'm not that upset. Five minutes.

Speaker 4 (02:23:52):
Let to go on the show.

Speaker 12 (02:23:53):
What should we do?

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Speaker 1 (02:24:23):
Whether or not this person is in the Women's College
World Series or she's a US Congresswoman. If she's in
the College RSMUT Congress, if she is a member of
the College World Series team, you'll say this hell. If
she's a US Congresswoman, you'll say this not two hell?

(02:24:44):
Yare or not?

Speaker 4 (02:24:44):
When your prize? Jonathan, what are you playing for today?

Speaker 1 (02:24:47):
Of course?

Speaker 14 (02:24:47):
The seven ninety t shirt and a pair of tickets
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of Blues Tigre are on sale now at ticketmassave dot
com and as well as we have a four packet
tickets today twenty twenty five sugar Land Spased Cowboys game
courtesy our friend at Tyer Brewering Tyler Brewing.

Speaker 1 (02:25:05):
Thank you very much. We're gonna hook you up Tyler Brewing.
Those four passes are for any game you want to
go to. Can you give us a little skye hook up?
Get your brewer tired, bro will go get smashed at
that brewery and then go to the game. Yes you else,
We're at stone's throw from the stadium. John on seveninety
John you're ready to play Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah?

(02:25:27):
Latifa Simon is a picture for Texas Hell yeah or not? Not?
No yeah, she works representative for the State of California.
Name number two for the way. And Katie BRIT's a
picture at Texas Tech. Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 5 (02:25:42):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:25:42):
No, she's a US Senator from Alabama. Frank on Seminini.
Frank your favorite part of today's ten to two radio show, Matt.

Speaker 10 (02:25:54):
Here that you celebrated your birthday at the Racete of REXUS.

Speaker 1 (02:25:58):
Race of REXUS.

Speaker 4 (02:26:00):
Oh so good, so good.

Speaker 1 (02:26:02):
Lauren Alredy first Baseman, Texas Tech. Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 5 (02:26:07):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:26:08):
There you go, number two for the win.

Speaker 1 (02:26:10):
Alana and Johnson right field Texas Tech. Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 5 (02:26:16):
There it is it?

Speaker 1 (02:26:17):
I like when a listener grins and listen to the
show makes me very happy. Seven one three, two, one
two five seven nintis Corey on Seveninty ready to play?
Hell yeah or not? Mazy hornos the catcher for Texas Tech.
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 11 (02:26:37):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:26:38):
No, she's a senator from Hawaii. Oh, Matt on seven ONTI, Matt,
your favorite part of today's tend the two radio show.
This is just glad to have you back. Yeah, thank
you very much. Katie Stewart leftfield or Texas hell yeah
or not? Hell yeah? There it is number two for
the win. Bailey Lindermuth, third base, Texas Tech Hell yeah

(02:27:01):
or not?

Speaker 7 (02:27:03):
Not?

Speaker 1 (02:27:03):
Oh she is, I'm sorry, he says this night things
make sure you want you to win. Roger on sevenint
you're ready to play? Hell yeah or not? Ye Victoria Hunters,
left fielder for Texas, Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 6 (02:27:19):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:27:20):
There it is he statement name number two for them
in Johanna Hayes, third basement, Texas, Hell yeah or not?
Hell yeah? No, she's a representative from Connecticut. Last one
belongs to Mike on seven ninty, Mike, you're ready to play?
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 5 (02:27:39):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:27:40):
Alyssa Slotkin, right fielder Texas Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 2 (02:27:45):
Hell yeah No.

Speaker 1 (02:27:46):
She's a US senator from Michigan. Come on, we got
a minute to kill that one nicely. We can't leave
this or we won't want those guys work at any
extra time possible. You want getting over Tech Ross at five.
So here's my big plans. I'm going to see sticks
tonight with friends. Huge.

Speaker 4 (02:28:06):
There's like three bands or so it's six forty five.
I're gonna get there early.

Speaker 1 (02:28:09):
It sticks, and then it's pieces of like rush and
something else. Right, Uh? Eagles singer two. If I'm not
mistaken Don Felder, not Don Henley, I don't know. Tomorrow
I got astros and Sunday I'm gonna leave my house. Okay,
beat that. I'm not doing anything this weekend. You're not
gonna leave your house and talk Morgan tonight? All right? Yeah, postgame,

(02:28:30):
thank you for that, Thank you for your service. I
appreciate thanks. We can't say it's a short win, no rain, Hey, everybody,
let's hope for a ten Hey what first?

Speaker 5 (02:28:39):
Shut up?

Speaker 1 (02:28:40):
Thirteen inning game that goes three hours and forty six minutes.
It's no thirteen inning games generally these days. So shut
your bum ass up until tonight. Let's go thirteen. It's
the team Next. On Sports Talk seven, Idy