Astros Take The Series vs Nationals & Get A New 3rd Baseman, Trade Deadline Is Today

Astros Take The Series vs Nationals & Get A New 3rd Baseman, Trade Deadline Is Today

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Matt Thomas, Thomas Ross VI RelA is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
With Ross.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Two in h Town. Good morning and welcome to a
Thursday edisue to the bat Top Show with Ross.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
This sports Talk seven out eight.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
Letting the good times roll at mid.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
May Park a little one o'clock day game is our
friend Josel Tuve, the greatest aster of them all ever,
gonna get five hits in the game. That's not the
only thing he's got left to do, right, He's done
everything else. Monumental Grand Slams, batting championships, two hundred hits seasons,
big time postseason play, MVP, three batting titles.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
We have a goal, Glover, No, yes, one goal?

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Why he's the greatest guys thirty something years old getting
four hits?

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Help about the local nine bit for him? Good?

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I mean he's having a good season, better than I
think summer forecasting his career eight thirty oh ps is
only one hundred and eighteen points behind others in Astro's history.
What's the cur ops for him in the postseason compared
to some other grades in a Well, we've got time
to focus on that good board. Hey, Rossie, how the
hell are you. I'm doing great, Matt, How are you?

(01:29):
You're looking already? You can't even wait?

Speaker 3 (01:31):
You asked me?

Speaker 1 (01:32):
All right, Uh, I'm too Go ahead, talk talk all right.
You can talk to me when you're down. You talk
to me when you're writing a song. No, I was
gonna go off a little bit of a Stevie nickshit. Okay, Hey,
it is a Thursday edition.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Turn the station. Why what's on? Shot? He looks shot.
Oh my god, but there's baseball trades going down.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
We gotta watch MLB network without you getting distracted like
some site sort of animal.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Deadline. Can you just.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Stop dog whistling and then uh in stomping your feet
for five seconds. Look, look, Jeff Passon's talking about trades
going down. We have a huge trade that just went
down involving the athletics.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Hmmm.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
And by the way, this trade will slow down the
construction in Las Vegas.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yeah, well, maybe it'll speed it up because they're not
spending no.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Because all right, for those who know Mason Miller the clothes,
you know the guy that throws one hundred and four
miles an hour. Oh my god, the guy who has
the fastest pitch ever thrown in Dyke in park history.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, he just got traded to the Padres. That's a shame.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Oh wow, he's not gonna terrorize the Astros. The reality
is probably Mason Miller was never going to pitch for
the Las Vegas A's.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Right, Well, well.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
He's got no, he's only this is only his Uh,
he's got like two or three more years of control.
It had to be quite twenty twenty twenty eight will
be the first year of the A's play in Las Vegas,
and you and I will be there for that. Okay,
I want to say he's under control till twenty seven
or eight.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
I'll go.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Look, I mean, I don't know the arbitration years of
Mason Miller.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Twenty thirty. Yeah, I was. I thought it was a
long time.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Wait twenty thirty and you can't keep him until then.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
It must be quite the whole.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
But even then, yeah, number three overall prospects, number three
overall overall in baseball, and three others. Okay, well that
nous devrees a shortstop, three others. That makes sense, I guess.
But you still have Mason Miller for under control for
four more seasons.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Right.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
They got JP sears as well, Dylan c sounds like
he's on the move.

Speaker 5 (03:39):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Could that be two Padres are selling?

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (03:44):
I know they're buying. Well, they just bought Mason Miller.
Huh I confused, confused. I didn't think of Stantego Podre fanols.
What the hell is going on?

Speaker 3 (03:51):
I don't know. They're pulling an.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Astros off season today and speaking up the Astros have
a trade in the books, and it sounds like those
of you that were reporting that Carlos Krey is one
hundred percent surefire selection to going to the Houston Astros
maybe losing on that one. Can we have a little
hard to heart with Astros Twitter.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
We can. It's not gonna work. You are not reporters.
You are fans mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
And maybe one of you knows somebody who knows somebody
who's picks up their dry cleaning, or is their home
chef or is their uber driver that may say, oh
I heard this, you're not a reporter. Here are the
two biggest problems Astros Twitter thinks they're reporters and they're not.

(04:46):
They just throw stuff against the wall. And that's why
you have to mute Astros Twitter during this time of year.
I've done that from I will do that from here
on now. And number two, the Texans credential too many
non media to be media. Other than that, the Houston
sports market's in great shape. I think that tend to
They're doing great on sports radio. Oh the Houston sports market. Huh,
I'm sure there's other shows.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Agree with you.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
I'm talking about this one, Oh, this one. Okay, we're
doing great when we're not get when we're staying on task.
We are staying on tasks. Me too, I don't always
do it. No, you you you get off task too.
Because Lauren she Hatty is a goddess. I mean it
is what it is. Put four burly men on there,
and I don't care what the hell is going on
how he makes the show stop? Okay, well that's fine,

(05:30):
keep it on the deadline day. Come on, man. And
she's wearing that on deadline day. I think that's fair.
Tell the truth. She's just wearing a dress. She's got
nice Gams.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Dams.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
I'm gams jams. That's that's a nineteen I don't know,
forties tern problem. We'll do it in your nineteen forties voice,
if you can do That's got some nice gams that
lauda and shot Hoty that launch. I don't know why
I rolled my R. Well, yes they did, Matt just
not on American TV for some reason. A dark complex

(06:08):
and DP there. All right, let's go, let's get back
on the Yes, let's get on task. Yeah, all right,
good morning. And the Mariners lost again last night. Yes,
so the Astros are up five in the division. Beautiful

(06:29):
so as I mean, we were almost like clinically to play.
We lose four of the a's and the first one
to the Washington Nationals. You're like, is this life worth living?

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Right?

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Honestly was all over? And then they beat the Nationals
two in a row. Yeah, you lost five in a row,
and you had Fromber calling out the defense and positioning
and calling Oh if you checked out Frommer's Twitter account,
yes I have. I mean I've seen it. I haven't
really checked it out. Is that that's obviously somebody interpreting
for him. But what he is even really saying those things?

(07:03):
I would imagine maybe not I mean who it could
be a yeah, it could be marketing people. Yeah, I
mean I would say of celebrities that a large like
for instance, my Paul McCartney I don't think it's going
to Twitter. I think Paul McCartney's PR team is doing it.
And I don't know Frommer's got a PR team, but
he's been Paul McCartney's barely Await. No, he's not, he's no,

(07:23):
he's doing great. He was in the Billy Joel documentary
just the other day.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Great.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Those Beatles are those Beatles are never going to die.
Theyrena one hundred neen years old touring. I mean two
out of four are doing great. They're both in then
eighties making millions of dollars, in Paul's case, making billions
of dollars. Well, didn't they sell off the rights to
all their music though way back in the day. I
don't know who owns it now. It was Michael Jackson.
But now then he died. Yes, again, a lot of
people think that he was killed so they can get

(07:49):
the right, so the record company can get those rights.
Wait a minute, this guy fears absolutely Michael Jackson was say,
I'm not saying he did you think Sean McCartney had
Michael Jackson kill Read here, I'm saying it's a theory.
Matt saying no, Jonathan saying yeah, saying John McCartney kill.
Though John McCartney did, cousin, I'm just saying those executives

(08:12):
had that planned. Oh, the executives did. Apparently the doctor
wasn't licensed to administer.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
I don't know, man, it was a whole thing, all right.
Aftros have a new third basement. Thank you, Oh the best.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
We have the trade deadline clock six hours by the way, MLB,
thank you for this six hours forty eight minutes for
fifty three seconds in counting. Do we have our counter
by the way to see this, Jake and Jonathan know
where our counter is. We got John McCartney, got John McCartney.
We need, we need, we need to count. So anytime
here's how it works, Jonathan, anytime we mentioned the trade deadline,

(08:50):
you have to play this clock. And this is a
clock that will just be played for about five six seconds.
It's just for like a production value for the radio show.
And here it comes right about there it is. Yeah,
I'll have John invide it. I don't want to do it.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Let's just fire that off whenever you feel like it.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
This is also a clock for the University of Houston
beating down of SFA in a few weeks. Oh, how
about that one. Yeah, there you go. That's the clock
to work kid. It's kind of scary. It's from a
game show credit. It's used on several games. It was
used on several game shows. All right, seven one three, seven,
and it will take more about the Astros new third baseman.

(09:31):
I would think that probably closes off any chatter of
Carl's carea to the Houston Astros, and that's probably we'll
have official officially. I don't just don't get it. Eleven thirty.
I never got it, and we'll explain more at eleven thirty.
House of another. I just don't get it. That revolves
around baseball and something my son did two nights ago.
Things I just don't get. We'll have that eleven thirty.

(09:52):
Brian McTaggart with us at eleven o'clock. Oh you don't
get that. Yeah, I get it. It's something you can
discuss it seven one three, two one two five seven ninety.
All right, So let's give you the latest on Korea
before we get to the phones. Bob Nightingale reporting that
it sounds like it's dead. Meanwhile, Ken Rosenthal and Chandler

(10:15):
Rome are saying that talks are ongoing. Now there could
be a combination of all of that. Right, all but
dead means they could be ongoing. I guess I don't know.
This is Bob Nightingale has had a good run lately. Yes,
if he if the Astros get him, that's gonna make

(10:38):
him look horrific, which Bob Nightingale has done that before.
I'm gonna be Jonas. I trust Chandler Rome, I trust
Bob Nightingale. So here's what Here's what Bob Nightingale said.
Seventeen minutes ago, the Astros trade talks of the Twins
for shortstop Carlos Krayer are all but dead. The Astros
ask the Twins to pay about fifty million of the

(10:59):
remaining one two point five million left in Korea's contract
and to include an outfielder. The Twins rejected the offer
and aren't budging, but Rome reported I think what was
it yesterday? And Jeff Passing did that the sides weren't close,
and then he on twenty one minutes ago an update.
It's like a rolling update on the Athletic in their
trade deadline page. Yeah, from Ken Rosenthal and Chandler Rome,

(11:23):
talks remain, Yes, sources from both teams downplay the likelihood
of a trade. Talks, however, remain ongoing. So I think
all the above could be true. So let's let's go
to the Nightingale tweet first. The Astros want the twins
to pay fifty million of the one oh two point
five that would be one oho. It's it'd be fifty

(11:44):
two point five over three years. That's very Jim Crane friendly. Yes,
even though it counts towards the tax still, but it's
also nice to get the cash. But at least you
don't have to Yeah, you're not, you're not. You're not
paying at all yourself. Jim Crane like stars. If there's
anything that's you know, if there's consistencies in the Jim

(12:05):
Crane ownership, at least the good times of the Astros,
it's a we don't go over certain length in our contracts.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
And B.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
He makes his general managers really busy chase after stars
late in seasons. Jeff Ly, James Click, and Danni Brown
know all three of those situations, all three of you
to go do that. He doesn't want to pay for
a contract that includes the prime and the decline. He
just likes to give out contracts that only include the decline.

(12:37):
I swear to God if I see one justin Verlinner
rumor here not happening, No one win Come on, no way,
no it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
But my point is this, you.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Could, in theory bring him here. Uh Urius can play
second base, and you could move Carlos to third. Yeah,
and then what happens next year. Paradis isn't part of
the trade, by the way, Uh, Jimmy Jimmy Estock parades.

(13:10):
There wasn't Jimmy Paradus, but it was Estoc Paradis. They're
saying six to seven months. Where did this come from
this morning? Okay, yeah, I just woke up.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
It's fine.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Six to seven months that they hope that he's ready
for spring training means he'll be ready probably by the astros.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Oh of course not. No.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
I was gonna say no. I want to say, who
gets it?

Speaker 5 (13:31):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Who gets uh? The note on that it may have
been at Nightingale Nightingale two. Six to seven months on
top of how long he's been out. That's yeah, that's
like sons like surgery. First off, the bone and surgery.
I want you all to go fill your hamstrings right
this second. My last one's been tight for a little while.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
What have you been doing?

Speaker 6 (13:51):
What do you mean?

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Tell them you need to check that out. I've just
been getting old. No, it's been better. I've been rehabbing.
It is your hamstrings, mester.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
No, I'm fine mine, they're fine.

Speaker 7 (13:59):
Now.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
I've got other issues, trust me. My veins are not
great shape. But that's a different issue for a different time. No,
it's been rehabbiting. But then i've been re injuring. Okay,
so you've been active. Pull that hamstring off your bone
and see how it feels.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Now, why would I do that? Why don't you just
get it off the bone. Let's go.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
I'm off the bone, keeping it on the bone. You
want it on the bone. I like my muscles attached
the ligaments and or tendons to the bone. You're bad
at the bone? No, God, No, George are good?

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Properly right?

Speaker 6 (14:35):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (14:37):
Overrated stole all of his songs on the phones.

Speaker 7 (14:40):
We go.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
Let's talk to line number two first and say hi
to Joe on Sports Talk seven outing at ten twenty four.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Joe, good morning, Hey, how y'all doing.

Speaker 8 (14:50):
I was just gonna say it's impressive with the astors
have done, with all the injuries and still being in
first place. And I was thinking, if you took half
the rock It's roster, half of Texans roster, I don't
think either one of those teams would be in first place.
And I was just want to know if there's ever
been a team that's had this many energy injuries and

(15:11):
still want a championship. And I'll hang up the list
and thank you.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Well, I'm gonna go and say, yes, this is easier
than looking it up. I mean, Mike, what kind of
question is that? I that's a that's a that's an.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
Multiple hour research.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Sorry I missed it. I was looking at George Thorogood,
So why don't you? Why don't you do that?

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Calls back?

Speaker 1 (15:28):
He wrote bad in the bones, you know, and I'll
walk that back. I'll give him some credit, thank you.
I'm sure he appreciates that. But live or dad, George Argud,
he is seventy five years old.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Alive.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
Uh No, I'm sure there have been plenty of teams
that have been beset by injuries that have won championships.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
But I just know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
I guess we'd go to AI, but I don't trust AI.
Uh No, you shouldn't trust Ai, nor should ments Health magazine.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
It's true.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
So here's what I'm gonna get you all home, sigmon, Yes,
find eighteen that had twenty or more injuries that won
a World Series and get back to us and we'll
give you credit. The Green Bay Packers in like twenty
eleven had all like thirteen guys on the I R
something and won the championship. That's Aaron Rodgers new man
roster here, friends.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
I'm just I'm sorry, all.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Right, the man wanted a baseball rh Yeah, don't give
us this football. So I'm sorry. That was the first
thing that popped in my head. There you go, there's
your antw The Green Bay Packers in some year, thanks Ross.
Remember they went on they were moving a magical wild
card bro Sarconia encyclopea Encyclopedia Bricanic, Bricannic, Barchanica, Britannica.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
I'm sorry it was to Jonathan.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Encyclopedia is, of course the encycl Have you ever know
an actual Have you ever opened and thumbed through and
read an actual encyclopedia like one of those thick ones? Yeah, okay,
what letter was it? What letter was the encyclopedia yeah, alphabetized.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
You read the whole thing. No, I just the whole
wagons for a project for sources Wikipedia didn't count.

Speaker 7 (17:10):
I know.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Are their cliff notes still in twenty twenty five?

Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yes, and they're very helpful. Oh yes, lord, I won't
have my papers things?

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Do you?

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Thank you?

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Cliff Notes? Terry cliff in uh parts of Ohio? The
unknown part of all Terry? Where you calling us from Cleveland? Cleveland?
You sound cheaper this morning, Terry.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
How the hell are you good?

Speaker 6 (17:30):
How are you good?

Speaker 3 (17:31):
What's up?

Speaker 6 (17:34):
What do you think about? I'm a big Houston fan
and a Philly fan. Where do you? Where do you
think about getting uh Steven Kwan from the Guardians?

Speaker 1 (17:46):
I think it's very unlikely. He's won three straight gold Gloves,
and he's a good contact hitter, and he's under team
control for a couple more years.

Speaker 6 (17:57):
According to uh WTAM and Cleveland.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
They're willing to trade them WTAM is or the Guardians are.

Speaker 6 (18:09):
No WTMM sports director.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Oh, the sports directors willing to trade him? Wow?

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Two eighty six this year nine home runs, thirty eight RBIs,
one hundred and fifteen hits. I mean he he's gonna
be an if he gets moved. He would be a
huge addition to any baseball team. He's twenty seven years old.
I mean, he's completed three seasons in the majors. He's
won three goal gloves and left yeah, oh, left field. Yes,
let's see career ops seven to fifty five ops plus

(18:38):
one thirteen. That's pretty good. Not a ton of power,
but a good contact hitter. Yeah, and would be absolute
in addition to any baseball team.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
Not a free agent.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Until twenty eight and thing ain't happening, Yeah, until twenty
They means you got to give up serious, serious prospects.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
I mean, hey, I would love Stephen Kwan.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
I wonder if that caller Cleveland just calling different states,
cities around the country. That's actually not a bad idea.
I mean, it's Stephen Kwan. He's calling everybody calling the Dodgers. Hey, guys,
what'd you like Stephen Kwan? Why is Garrett Cole making
these phone calls? It's funny it's cal mcnermann makes those calls.
It's always it's always Garrett Cole is making those calls.

(19:21):
Garrett Cole actually is not busy. He could probably make
those like Stephen Kwan. You know, he's got seven kids.
I didn't realize that Stephen does no mc if If
Stephen Kwan's got seven kids, he's he's got to slow down.
He's under thirty. Cal's quite fertile, clearly because my wife's like,
how many kids they happen? I didn't know I once
I went to wikipedi. He's got three with wife one

(19:43):
and four with the Hannah. We can play seven on
seven with my children. You're gonna get it managed for those.
For that horrific accent, you just are, You're gonna get
it monighed for a lot of things. Well, Jona said,
I wish we had a better example for you in
your young broadcast career than this man over here.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
To my right.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
I'll tell you the bartender and hell and like my
whiskey on the rocks, and I'll see you there.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
No, No, I've already.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Determined I'm stuck in purgatory. Okay, Yah, let's come right. Yeah,
that's the first time Chip that's ever done that. He's like,
y'all are way out of here, way out of left field.
Go to break, Go to break. He says, ten, what's
not wrong?

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah? More of this?

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Uh, I think it's fifty to fifty. Quong gets moved,
but it's gonna be for a haul by way.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
He's not coming here.

Speaker 9 (20:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
But the one team I'm really pissed at, the Seattle Mariners,
will tell you about that next ten, twenty nine on
Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
Outy.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
All right, So the Mariners go get Josh Naylor from
the d Backs last week, right.

Speaker 10 (20:52):
Yes, and then they go get you a Hideo Suarez
last night. Seattle must be stopped, you hear me. So
you got those two and you get the big crapper.
I mean, it's the big dumper man. The same difference,
the Mariners are going to be a threat. This is

(21:14):
a problem gang number one.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
It's funny that the Mariners had uh Io hany O
swatth and they could assigned him to a deal and
they're like, we gotta keep payroll low, so.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
We're not gonna sign him.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
And then he signed somewhere else and they trade prospects
for him, kind of like the Astros did with Justin Verlander.
But I mean all that notwithstanding, the bottom line is
they're way better on the field and.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
Some serious sock to the corner good spots.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Yes, good thing that the Astros have a five game
cushion right now, but I do have a feeling, gut feeling. Yeah,
the Mariners are coming. Rangers aren't going away either. Holding
this race already would be premature.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Who would do that?

Speaker 7 (21:56):
Not me?

Speaker 3 (21:58):
No, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get that shot in.
But you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
I know they're good, man. They made some moves, they
got good pitching, They're gonna be a threat.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
This is legit. This is bad.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
This is not good for us here in Houston. And look,
I'm on Yurius is pretty good, but it's something else
has to happen. You gotta have things go your way
with the injury side. We've got to see something else
happen today, and and then it's it's all about being
in that aos race with the good news being that
you have the five game lead. But I'm feeling more

(22:30):
scared of the Mariners that I have all year long.
From what I understand, I don't have a great frame
of reference on yours. I did put some season highlight.
I found a YouTube clip of some mid season highlights
for him this year. You put it on at sports MT.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
He looks like to me to be maybe a little
bit more of a pop uh Mauricio Dubon plays multiple positions,
primarily third baseman this year, but has moved around little
litle bit in his career, has won a Gold Glove. Yeah,
had a gold Glove season, and then apparently from what
I ran on the intelligence reports, had two really bad
defensive seasons. But it's bounced back this year and has

(23:11):
put control for one more year after this so ops
plus of ninety two, and explained for the audience what
an average ops averages one hundred ten percent above averages
one ten eight percent below averages ninety two.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
That's what he is, Dylan.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
See, stuff is cooled doesn't mean it doesn't can't it
can't uptick again, especially now that the Potters are adding
amazing new players. The blurb that we read from Rosenthal
in Rome that had the Korea thing also mentioned that
they're still in on Cease and Sandy Alcantra, but they
could be.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
They could be.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Outbit obviously, and they can't win any bidding wars, so
real quick we got back on the phones. Korea to
me would indicate a massive decision for the Astros in
the off season. Honestly, if es sak paritis is healthy,
you're not kicking the tires on Korea. So it's not

(24:15):
one of those what would you do then? I don't
think that's a possibility. I think the decision to bring
in Korea is because they're deathly afraid that East sac
Predes is going to take a long time recover. And
if the report from Night and Yell is accurate, we're
talking about what I say, six seven months he said
in the hopes that he's ready for the start of
spring training. I've been hoping a lot around these parts

(24:36):
of the injuries and haven't been. By the way, good
job for Jeremy painea going deep last night for the
Space Cap.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
Yes he did. Okay, he's ready, let's bring him out.

Speaker 11 (24:42):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
He'll be back tomorrow. Oh yeah, I would think so.
But and again, don't tell Ross.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Tell me this is. If it's too hot of a take,
then I'll back track off of it. Let's get the
sizzle going if they if they move for Korea, they're
going to try to try jury pain in the offseason.
Makes sense, one lead said the other. You got to
figure something out if you're keeping paradis if Paradis isn't
part of the deal, which I wouldn't think he. I
wouldn't think a team wants a dude with a hamstring
off his bone, So I don't think he's going to

(25:12):
be part of the deal. So yeah, that makes perfect sense. Okay,
boris client arbitration years left, Uh, very tradable coming off
of his best off. Yeah, because you look, first of all,
you are investing in the long term future of Korea
because he's got several years left in this current three more. Yeah,

(25:34):
and you've also got a huge financial investment from a
flat out paying him plus what's going against your salary
cats first hours after this year, right, Yeah, for Korea
before investing kicks in potentially, are you going to keep
him at short at like thirty three, thirty four years old?
Korey I'm talking about because if you do that, I'll

(25:57):
give you. Let me give you a plan. B. Do
you trade Bryce Matthew in the offseason and see if
Penia can play second base? I don't know, I don't
I can't imagine the Astros would want the last third
of Carlos Carrea's career to be at a position at shortstop.
When you already have been concerned about what Jose Al
Tube was gonna do for you defensively at second base.

(26:19):
I just don't think he's coming. I think everything all
these road these mental roadblocks are coming up with our
reasons to not trade for Carlos Kur, I would agree.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
I just think that.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Look, I do like Carlos a lot. I do think
it would be at an added boost. I do think
obviously his best years were as an astro, but that
was what three or four years ago. The numbers have declined. Yeah,
let's talk about him right now. He's got a point
one war of Baseball on Baseball Reference. Like he's he's
just okay. Ops plus we were talking about now now

(26:51):
he has yoyo.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
It's weird.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Here's his last four years in OPS plus Matt, as
we mentioned, one hundred is average, ninety four, one fifty one,
ninety two. He's got ninety two this year. He's been
very up and down, very bizarre. How many games is
he play?

Speaker 11 (27:07):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Last year he only played eighty six before that, one
thirty five and one thirty six WAMI this year ninety three,
So he's played a lot this year. He's played a
lot this year and that's a one way for good
players to uh A crew wins above replacement. He's at
point zero point one, so he's playing. He's been an
average player. Yeah, it's not because he's not been playing,
he's just not been good. I just don't. I think

(27:31):
there may be the average fan that just maybe at
the water courting going, hey, have you heard about Carlos Scraam,
maybe coming back and thinking this is twenty seventeen, Carl's Korea.
The name excites me more than what I've seen from him.
Not what I've seen, but you know what I'm saying,
but what I'm reading from what he his stats and
all that type of stuff from this year.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
He would be an.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Awesome influence in the clubhouse. He's been there and done that.
He does have stum pop left in his game. What
that's is But man, you are that's sadly because that's
an unfair statement.

Speaker 9 (28:03):
You are.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
He makes a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
I'm worried about him having chronic injury like back issues
and stuff. I don't think he's best served being I
think he's best served frankly being the future third basement
of this team. Where you don't it's not nearly as
taxing as it would be playing at second or short stop.
I think second base, I have a thought, but you
can you know I'd be shocked if he was an
astro by the end of the deadline. Let's go to
Jim on the Heights at ten forty two.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
Hello Jim, Hey.

Speaker 12 (28:32):
Guys, thanks for taking my call that you guys are
always a great show.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Love it a lot.

Speaker 12 (28:37):
But this is like Christmas Eve, right, so you know
I'm gonna go back in history on one of the greatest.

Speaker 13 (28:44):
Trades that never took place, the Robert Rory trade.

Speaker 12 (28:47):
You remember that, Matt and I want, but I want
to ask a question that I don't sincerely don't know
the answer to what players are projected to come back
in time that are injured. I'm currently injured and make
an impact. I know Pinya and I think arag Getty yep.
I just don't know what what do we got in

(29:09):
the pipeline that might help us from that injured list?

Speaker 1 (29:13):
All right, so let's do this. It's a good it's
actually a good question, and thank you Jim for the
phone call. Let's be real and if I'm forgetting somebody,
Decenzo doesn't move the needle for me. Okay, right, Brendan
Rodgers doesn't move the needle for me. Paraitis has already
done for the year. Yeah, uh, Garcia slash Javier slash France.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Arag Getty's close. No, no, he's already mentioned Eric.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
I think Arrogatty and Paina can be difference makers immediately
in the What are we gonna get card Garcia?

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Two years of.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Tommy John Javier, Tommy John Lance mccullors, the world's worse
s blister. It's only fifteen day. I l's like he's
on the sixty day. Well, come on, man, it's a
bad bluster. Who am im my forgetting that would be
impact moving players anybody?

Speaker 3 (30:08):
I think.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
I think Arragetty's the headliner as far as Jake Myers
Jake Myers Gang, I'm not holding out hope that he's
coming back. Every time the Astros give an injury report
on him, it's sa as he's rehabbing in Houston, not like, hey,
he's about to go down to Florida, go do a
do a rehab stint somewhere. None of that. That is

(30:31):
that's been not not amazingly quiet, but as expected, very quiet.
When when you have nothing good to report, you keep
it quiet, and I've heard really nothing about Jake Myers.
Docenzo's kind of an intrigue. You've got a lot of
wild cards too. Doesnzo's kind of a wild card. I
feel like mccullar's is certainly a wild card, mostly not
in a good way. But Paenia's coming back soon. If

(30:55):
you get Panya and ord on PNYA forgot about Pania
or done on Arragetty Javier, I'm saying, let's go win
a pennant. See, I'm not going to put Xavier slash
Garcia slash France in the They're gonna help me a
lot this year.

Speaker 14 (31:15):
Card.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
I feel better about Garcia because it's been two years.
But yeah, setbacks with elbows, Yes, Arraghedtty, it was a
it was a freak broken bone. There's no reason why
Arrogaty can't ramp up to being a ninety pitch pitcher
within three weeks, which I'm not worried about. Yeah, what
did he throw sixties last time out?

Speaker 3 (31:31):
I think so. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
So to answer your own question, Jim, and you kind
of said it already. The two guys, I absolutely expect
to make some sort of impact, pain and arraghetty the
rest of them, as ROSSI said, as a wild card.
And that's assuming perfect health for Hunter, Brown and Farmer Found.
You just had to just put that in there, inn't you, I.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
Said, assuming for health.

Speaker 9 (32:00):
You did.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
Brian McTaggart fifteen minutes from now on Sports Talk seven
n eighty.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
But Ian McTaggart about nine minutes from now.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
I think I've always we gotta figure out where he's
from again, I mean went in data siris what is
this close to me?

Speaker 3 (32:16):
Have confirmed that he was Scotland and Ireland, So we.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Can do to mctagger here's a Scotts, Scott's Irish and
Scotland is a lot harder of an accident to do,
so we'll stick with Hyrish.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
Scotland's a little deeper, right, Ell the guples over from your.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Throat seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven on eight
is a Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you'd like
to join us, I'd rather talk to you than Ross,
be perfectly honest with you. It's okay, Matt. You know
I had to ty to call her Martin say that
when Ross lasts. He sounds like a hyenas you are

(32:51):
they I've had a lot of people call and get
upset with my girlish laugh or why do I laugh
like a woman or a hyena should to my mess up?

Speaker 3 (32:59):
I laugh? I laugh.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
I don't care mctagger at eleven o'clock, I just don't
get it at eleven thirty. And by the way, I'm
looking at this video of the Racetrack baseball stadium. Yes,
they're gonna get eighty thousand people in there. In fifty
of them are gonna be able to see that. You're
not gonna be able to see the game. What they
did is they took the baseball dimensions. They put it
in the middle of as I thought the infield huge. Yeah,

(33:21):
so it's not nearly as cool as I thought it
was gonna be. Like I would like to be able
to see a home run hit into the grand stands.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
It looks like they cleaned up all the Natty light cans.
So that's good.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Now, what if a player trips over a skull can?
Is that gonna be a problem, Bross, It might be mad.
I don't know, right, two good lines a boy, both
of us.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
I'll except both Ryan on seven Natty Ryan, good morning.

Speaker 15 (33:47):
Morning fellas so twenty six minutes on hold waiting to
tell you this because I'll do your research for you.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 15 (33:54):
The most injured team, the most injured team in sports.
One of the sports histories would be the nineteenth seventy
two Los Angeles Lakers, whenever Elegant Baylor missed seventy three
games he had he retired in the middle of season.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Keith Harris Ericsson missed sixty seven and the playoffs.

Speaker 15 (34:10):
Glynn Robinson missed eighteen and half the playoffs, pat Riley
miss fifteen, Leroy Ella is eight, Jerry West five, Wilt
Chamberlain played with a broken finger and a wrist but
played through it and they won thirty three consecutive games
and the NBA Final.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
Do you hear that, ladies and gentlemen, This is what
Ryan did.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
Ryan said, I'm going to do research for the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross. The only recognition I'm gonna get
is just being on the show. You'll get no for that,
and uh god, bletch you for it?

Speaker 9 (34:39):
Ryan.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
How do your bosses feel about this? Ryan?

Speaker 1 (34:41):
Does yours allocation of their resources?

Speaker 3 (34:45):
I was I was at a job site. Okay, they
were doing the roof. I'm not gonna. I don't roof.
I make sure the roof is getting done. I get
all my checks, so you're all good.

Speaker 16 (34:54):
I look it up.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
All right, I'm gonna say something right now. And this
is an this is rule for all of you.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Next Friday, we're gonna be at tal Youer Brewing, and
we're going back to tell you're brewing a week from Friday.
Ryan was out there with us last time. Ryan, for
your for research. I'm gonna buy you a beer.

Speaker 15 (35:13):
I'll drink it.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
I figured you would.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
It's gonna be on the tab. That's not really buying it.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
No, No, I will buy it.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
I will make sure you see my You saw my
debit card, Matt's wallet will not why next to me
when I did? It's ridiculous, all right. I didn't have
a little mind. All right, I need have a little
personal Yeah, yours does it? They had to cut you off?

Speaker 3 (35:35):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Actually, I get this Jack hold out here, call you
alligator arms villa for nothing?

Speaker 3 (35:43):
All right?

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Eric in Bay City, hold on a second, I could
take something. No, listen, never quick. Eric requested me for
a venmo. Not a venmo for a cameo. I'm not
gonna do. I'm not gonna do a cameo for you,
so I don't. I'm not gonna take your money. You
might not because I'm just not give it to me.
He wants me to do a pep talk for him,

(36:04):
it's good, So I'm going to cameo to him. He
can call this show for free and I can do it.
So what do you want for a pep talk? And
I'm here to help you right now for free.

Speaker 16 (36:14):
Well, I'll tell you who didn't need a pep talk?
Was that double a player that hit a bomb off
of Spencer arraghetti the other night. I'm not excited to
get this guy back at all. I am, however, excited
to get Carlos Korea back today. And if we don't
bring back Carlos, I will be disappointed. I mean probably
on the roof of the house disappointed. But what I
really think we need to do is, rather than talk

(36:35):
about Dylan Cees, I would settle for Verlander. But if
we could go out and get Rich Hill, I mean,
he struck out Kyle Tucker and Matt Olsen in the
last week, he's available for the rege minimum and we
could help him set the record of playing for fifteen teams.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
So on second thought, I'm gonna do the cameo for
you after and take your money from here.

Speaker 17 (36:55):
Okay with that, Yeah, as long as I pick the script,
mat Okay.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
I have not seen the script yet.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
As long as the script is not up knocked as
it makes me look bad or sound bad, I'll do it.
But if not, I'm gonna have to reject your claim.

Speaker 11 (37:09):
It makes you to tell the truth about Ross.

Speaker 16 (37:11):
I will tell you that, and and about how bad
we need to bring back Zack and rich Hill.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
All right, that's just you know what rejected, Eric, I
love you about I'm not taking your money, so I'm
going I can I can actually reject the cameos.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
I'm gonna no, I'm not taking No.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
I'll do your cameos for like birthdays and for introduction
of your little league teams. I'm not doing it to
justify your whack ass test sports takes rich Hill last
time out for the Royals. Four innings pitched, four earned
runs given up.

Speaker 7 (37:40):
E R.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
It's quick shows me as nine before that five innings,
one run ball. Okay, it's the Cubs era of five
so far this season. I'm good, Eric, Eric, and I'm
not taking your money, all right, I will take Brian
McTaggart's money.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
Doing what you got Cook. No, we don't. We should though,
you guys throwing quarters like Michael Michael Jordan.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
You know we should throw dice. You know you guys
should throw dice on an Astros playoff series. There's a
little room in the press box, and there actually is
a nice sized room with the good back wall there.
Brian mctaggered up next ten to fifty seven on Sports
Talk Sevenatti great friend.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Of the show.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
Brian McTaggart with us here to talk trade deadline for
the next twelve to thirteen minutes. Normally it's a good
ten minutes with him going twelve or thirteen with him. Wow, overtime.
He's gonna want overtime, I know, Brian. He's gonna claim
extra money, that's for sure. He'll be in Boston tomorrow.
You're gonna be meeting a new third basement, Brian. The
question will be will you be meeting anybody else by
the time the Astros in Red Sox played tomorrow at

(38:41):
Fenway Park.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
Yeah, that's a good question.

Speaker 18 (38:45):
I think so if they can get there, and you know,
I certainly the throws a lot. I know they're they're
working on some other things here today, and I'd be
surprised if they don't get something done. Obviously they still
want to get a starting pitcher, you know, I don't
think they're done looking for offensive upgrades. So Urias trade

(39:05):
is just part of it. But this is by no
means they're a big move. I think that's that's still
to come, if they can pull it off.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
Let's go to Aria's for a second. It feels like
to me, maybe I'm wrong. Is he just in theory
perhaps better Mauricio Dubon or are they one and the
same at this point?

Speaker 18 (39:25):
Yeah, I mean it looks like they're a little interchangeable.
I mean, to me, du Bond's is more valuable because
he can play the outfield. Urius is more of an infielder.
I mean, he played almost exclusively third base this year.
So yeah, I think it just gives them somebody that
can put it third. See what else they can do,
you know, what other kind of bats they can get.
But if you know, if they're not able to pull

(39:46):
off something, at least they have somebody that can put
it third. That plays a go gole off third base,
can handle the bat a little bit. That's you know,
an upgrade over you know, Zach Short and Shay Whitcomb
and and some of the guys have been playing here
in the last couple of weeks.

Speaker 7 (40:01):
So, but.

Speaker 18 (40:03):
I guess, you know, is there a chance maybe they
moved to dupond somewhere. I know they don't want to
trade off the major league roster, but he just does
so many things. I just I just don't know if
that would be a good move for them.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
All right, let's get to another infielder been talked about.
Carlos Kreez spoke yesterday in Minneapolis. There the rumors have
not died completely, although the urious move probably slows it
down a little bit. It feels like to me, and
we were talking about this last hour, that there's been
consistencies in Jim Crane's ownership since the team has been relevant. One,

(40:37):
he's not going to give you super lengthy long contracts.
He will give you fair market value, but it will
not be for the eight to nine mega deal. And
number two is if there is a star player that
he has his ey set on and he really wants him,
he's going to tell his general manager whomever it is,
to go get it, whether it's Verlander, not once but twice,
whether it is at Grankie, whether it is going to

(40:57):
get Josh Hater in free agency. And in this particular case,
this feels Jim Crane driven. So let me ask you,
why do you think, if you were able to get
into the head of the owner of this baseball team,
why Carlinos is so appealing, especially because there's so much
money attached to the remainder of his contract.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (41:17):
I mean, first of all, I think the Twins would
have to eat a significant amount of the remainder of
their contract. I mean that team's for sale. I think
that they're obviously trying to shed some payroll here. You know,
how much of the remaining three years would they be
willing to eat? Craiane's also a businessman, and he knows
that the getting Karay and here's going to provide a boost,
It's going to provide a spark. You know, remember when

(41:39):
they both times they traded for Verlander, especially the first time,
it was like, wow, you know, Verlander's here or Verlander's back,
and you know, it provided a spark. That being said,
a lot of times these reunions don't work out very well.
You know, Corey is, you know, not the player, he
was still a good player. I think he could be
a really good third baseman. I think it would be
a popular move in the clubhouse, certainly with a guy

(41:59):
like hose altuveay and you know, if he's on board,
then everyone else is going to get on board.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
I mean, he'd be a player that could help them.

Speaker 18 (42:05):
But it's weird because I still think their biggest need
is a left handed bat, and you know you are
going to get Pretis back probably next year. Then you
have Korea arius a little bit of a log jam there.
So I see why they'd want to do it. I'm
not sure it's the best fit at this point. Willie Castro,
you know, left handed hitting infielder who you know can
move around a little bit for the twins and doesn't

(42:27):
make all that money, makes a lot more sense. So,
but Astros have probably got a lot of fires, a
lot of irons in the fire, you know, looking at
a lot of different things, and that's just one of them.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
And with the irons in the fire, and we've talked
about this farm system for the Astros, just the deals
You've been kind of seeing around baseball and kind of
relating that to what the Astros have to give up.
Where do you think that puts the Astros as far
as getting impossible bidding wars?

Speaker 18 (42:55):
Yeah, well they're probably a little bit if they're going
after you know, some of these guys and a lot
of teams or affort. I mean, we just you know,
we you know, trade went down with the Padres and
A's and uh, you know A's or send them. Padres
are sending one of the best prospects in baseball to
the as you know, probably a better prospect than the
Astros have. So that's gonna make a little bit more difficult.
But they do have prospects to get deals done. You know,

(43:20):
they don't want to trade off the major league roster,
but guys like Jacob Melton and Shaye Whitcomb and you know,
Chas McCormick could probably use a change of scenery at
this point. Not that he's not that he's going to
help you get a deal done, but he could be
part of a deal. But it's gonna come down to
prospect capital what they have to offer. You know, they
do have a lot of arms in the upper upper

(43:40):
levels of their their prospect rankings that I'm sure some
other teams will like to get their hands on.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
So, uh, that's part of it.

Speaker 18 (43:46):
It probably they're you know obviously in that this and
that tage is spot and a lot of other teams
just because they just don't have the overall the quality
of upper level prospects that a lot of other teams do,
including the Mariners, who are you know, pulled off the
Suarez right and I don't think, you know, give up
one of their their top ten prospects.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
So that was a big coup for them.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
Brian McTaggert with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
and that was gonna be my next question. How much
more urgency do you think there is from Dana Brown
with what the Mariners are doing?

Speaker 3 (44:18):
Yeah, I mean I think I think Dana had urgency anyway.

Speaker 18 (44:20):
I think you know, he knows that with all the
injuries and you know, Alvarez, I don't think you can
really count on, you know, when he's gonna come back,
if at all this year, preties looks like he's out.
There's urgency there to add a left handed bat, but
you know, the team that's behind you in the Standings
has gone out and added Josh.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
Naylor and now Suarez.

Speaker 18 (44:38):
They already have put him in a line up with
JP Crawford cal Rally, Uh, that is a pretty deep
top of the lineup.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
They already have a really good rotation.

Speaker 18 (44:49):
So they're five games behind the Astros, but right now
their rosters better and significantly better and healthier. So yeah,
that Dana is aware of that, and that's why I
think they're not done. They got to make a move
or two for a starting pitcher and another bat so.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
Help me out.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
And maybe you don't have a contact in San Diego,
but just the general baseball. So they the Padres go
to get Mason Miller, but Dylan Cease remains out there.

Speaker 18 (45:13):
Why are they moving some Cease, Well, he's a free
agent at the end of the year. They'll get something
for him. He's making fourteen million, so it's sort of
a matter of let's get something why we can, and
we will replace him with a Sears under control for
a few more years. So sort of just kicking the

(45:33):
can down the road a little bit with a starting pitcher.
But Cease is a guy that a lot of teams
are gonna want, so they're probably gonna be able to
get you know, a couple of prospects for him, and
otherwise they would lose them, you know, at the end
of the year free agency likely. So the fact they
went out and got Mason Miller, you know, a reliever,
and got JP Sears a starter, that makes Cease a
little bit more expendable now just because he is a

(45:55):
free agent. He's making a lot of money and so
they'll give him some payroll flexible ability here for the
rest of the year.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
All right, If it's not Cease and clearly they are
still looking for something in terms of pitching, does that
give you the sign one way or the other that
they're not completely sure the guys that are on the
farm and these rehab guys can come back and help.
Are they worried about using Ryan Gusto the rest of
the years maybe a back end guy. Are they worried

(46:22):
about keeping mccolors? Why would And I've always and maybe
there's this there's age old thought of in baseball, and
we had to Jim Boundine last week that back it up.
You can't have enough starting pitching. So maybe that's just
a simplistic answer. But is there a party that says
if they're kicking the tires on Dylan Ceas that maybe
they're not sure that what they have. Even when the
guys come back, and I'm including arrogating the mix, are

(46:44):
gonna be guys that can go deep into ball games
and they can help you win a September Pennant race.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
Yeah, I think there's no doubt.

Speaker 18 (46:51):
You know, Arrig Getty was a rookie last year who
had a really good second half, what made two starts
this year. Books still very much out on him. They're
still way better off with him in the rotation over
some of the other guys they have. But Lewis Garcia
hasn't pitched in two years, Javier hasn't pitched in more
than a year. JP Franz has it pitched in since
early last year when you know his shoulder was falling off.

(47:14):
So those three guys specifically, and even Harri Getty, yeah,
you don't know what you're gonna get. Dylan Seze was
a guy who makes thirty three starts every single year,
and granted the Astros get him, they're gonna need him
to make ten or eleven starts, but he's gonna do that,
and he hasn't had a great year, but I mean
he was a top five style young finisher last year,
and if you can maybe tweak him a little bit

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like they did with Kakuchi, put him.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Behind Hunter Brown and franber Valdez.

Speaker 18 (47:39):
Dylan sees those one, two three in a playoff series
that STA's up with anybody, including the Mariners, and I
think they just want a third guy who is a
horse that they know in the playoffs they can trot
out there and match up with other teams. I mean
last year they had Kakuchi and I guess he was
going to start Game three of the Wildcard series and
they never got there.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
So obviously the goal is to.

Speaker 18 (48:01):
Get the first or second seed, and so you don't
have to play in that wildcard series and they can
stack up their pitching as they want for the division series.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Twll more minutes with Brian McTaggart with us here on sevenwety.
Are Jacob Melton and Bryce Matthews untouchable in your opinion?

Speaker 3 (48:18):
I don't think Jacob Melton is.

Speaker 18 (48:19):
I would say Bryce Matthews is, just because the way
they talk about him so highly. He's also Dana Brown's
first draft pick. I think it would be hard for
Dana to let go of him at this point. I mean,
he came up and had, you know, a couple of
good games in Arizona, but overall it's been a little
overmatched at.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
Times, you know, offensively and defensively. So I.

Speaker 18 (48:43):
Guess it just depends, you know, what's your price. But
it would surprise me. I guess if they traded Bryce Matthews.
Would not surprise me if they traded Jacob Melton at
this point.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
All right, well, this interview has to go in the
natural direction trade deadline interviews go Brian Crystal Ball time.
What anything happens between now and the deadline at five PM.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
I do think they'll get a starting pitcher.

Speaker 18 (49:06):
I know, as of last night, Cease was their main
target and things were progressing maybe a little bit towards
something getting done.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
So I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with that.

Speaker 18 (49:15):
They do land Dylan Cease, and I'm a little bit
less clear on a bat. There's probably a lot of options,
but I do think they'll also also land a left
handed bat, and so you know, how big of an
impact player that will be remains to be seen, but
I think it's safe to say when we get to
Boston tomorrow, there's gonna be a handful of new faces,

(49:36):
probably including Jeremy Panya, and three or four guys who
took the flight.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
To Boston are going to be flying elsewhere.

Speaker 18 (49:42):
So it's you know what, we got about six hours
to go a little less than six hours, so it's
gonna be very interesting.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
I love this conversation. Tags.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
Great stuff is always from you and my friend safe
travels to bean Town and we'll talk.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
Again next week.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
All right, sounds good, Thanks guys, Brian mctaggett with his
MLB dot com and you'll hear from Brian tomorrow during
the ondecks with Adam and Adam.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
Wow, wonderful. Yeah, looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
So any more clarity from him in your mind or
just still the same kind of question we have we're
thinking about. I think we're mostly on the same page
with good stuff from Brian as always.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Uh, I think he kind of not necessarily backed up completely,
but he's in the same spot to get these guys.
Two of these guys, Javier in particular and Garcia, to
be really meaningful players. Ross would be probably the biggest
surprise at the sec of the last two months of
the year. The getting and back on the bump is
a nice accomplishment to be able to go help you

(50:36):
win a division when it usually probably would be probably
closer to twenty six before they really start to be
the guys that used to be.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
I think is more practical. So maybe that's the reason
why they're just And I think that.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
If the Astro's got a starting pitcher, this is this
is Lance mccullor's.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
You're in a very short leash.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
I don't know how any other way you can sell it,
because you can move Ryan Gossel back to the bullpen
and be your long guy.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
That's fine. Brandon Walter And who's the other kid? That
was Colton? Is it?

Speaker 8 (51:03):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (51:03):
Cold?

Speaker 3 (51:03):
And Colton gorg Which one is hurt? Is it Brandon Walter?

Speaker 2 (51:06):
Right?

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Brandon Walter is hurt? Yes, So there's I mean, he
was the best one. We're not waiting for him.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Put it that way.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
Although Gusto had a good start, you did Gusto Friend
of the Show eleven three, love Gusto. We we go
for the Gusto here on Sports Talk seven eighty. I
just don't get it coming up at the bottom of
the hour, ROSSI got some things you don't get daily.
I have one evolving around the sport of baseball and
what you do at a baseball game. Now, I'm not
talking about the wave either. If you want to chime in,

(51:33):
I want anything Brian had to say, let us know
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your night, Joe, Yeah, Ron Blank you.

Speaker 3 (51:56):
Gosh.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
The Dodgers superstar uh oh show how Tommy uh let's
set kicking in uh through six straight balls yesterday and
they were apparently way out of the zone. They pulled
him early out of the game, and people are like, oh,
something's wrong.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
He had a cramp.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
So a huge sigh relief for Dodger fans, all two
of them in Houston, that Shohill Tony can actually still pitch.
Oh they got him some pickle juices, all right, I guess,
all right, that's good, whatever the case would be. I
feel like I've gone backwards and forwards on this one
hundred times. I think in what are we in twenty
twenty five? Now, I bet you by the start of
the twenty twenty eight season. He is just doing one thing,

(52:38):
and I think it's gonna be his bat. You could
be right, especially if he suffers any more major injuries. Yeah,
but you paying the guys seventy million dollars to do both. Yeah,
but they're paying him seventy million dollars over like seventy
three years.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Yeah, I understand. I guess the grandkids break he deferred. Yeah,
Jeff Petzel, you should give it up to the Dodgers.
They can defer what anybody.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Everyone can do this. I don't understand why all the
teams in baseball aren't deferring all this huge money. Shut up,
shut up, Jeff USh medium wearing Hey what he just
perpetually looks like a ring bearer at a wedding. The boy,

(53:20):
he looks like he's the guy that puts his fist
out of you fist muppet, and you forget him and go,
hey what about me?

Speaker 3 (53:28):
That's rude.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
That's that's as Let's see fifteen fifteen innings pitch two
point four zero era for Shoyo Tani.

Speaker 3 (53:36):
You know what he could you know what you could
do to preserve him both ways if you want to.
It's just a bullpen guy, it's opener. Opener.

Speaker 1 (53:42):
Astro saw the opener of showy Otani and they were
it was pretty impressive.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
Or he can do both you closer.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
No, I don't think they would want to do that.
He tends to be in the bullpit, right, I mean,
how does that work?

Speaker 3 (53:59):
How do you want them up? That's what I'm saying. Yeah,
you probably couldn't do that. No, I don't think opener does.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
Let's go to the back of the phones, we g
if I just don't get it coming up at eleven
thirty here on, every starter could be an opener if
you try hard enough. Lands for Colors ellm just like
we don't need dances. I'm coming, I'm bro gonna come back.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Fingers crossed, We're still We're still on the Color's Island.
When I was a kid, I always dip our toe
in the water. I was always told you only you
only cross one set of your fingers. You know, if
you do both, it's it's actually the ver. I never
heard that, okay, that that must have a main creek thing.
What did you say, Jonathan, I'm agreeing with you, thank you.
I never heard that, okay, because you just you you
just did both one cancers out the other or just

(54:46):
or does the reverse of what you want? I never
heard that. Okay, no, they didn't say that in the
greens Point Streets. They didn't have books and bang the
greens Point Streets. How to hire a proper attorney. H
Louis and Katie. Hello, Luis, Hey guys, how you doing?

Speaker 11 (55:05):
Good morning? Good after Sorry, I wanted to assure something
that a friend of mine that who's been watching the
Orioles since uh I guess put Powell and and Mike
Wayer were playing and he sent me something about ourrias
that I was. I mean, I know it was a
good player you probably already guys talked.

Speaker 17 (55:21):
About in the show and the earlier show with Sean.

Speaker 11 (55:24):
But this is what he says. He says, you guys
are getting a great player. Excell infielder, very fortunistic and
clutch with the bats, and overall very good team players.
Never complains, always ready to play wherever and whenever they
put it. Power, oh cash, occasional power, very decent. Just

(55:46):
days ago he hit two homers in one game. Golden
glove and third base, but also plays well on second
base and first base and first base it's gonna solve
your hospital that you guys have in Houston. Besides, he
must be very happy and very multivated to play with. Yes, Okay,
let you go and then hear your comments. Maybe you
already talk about it. But it's a very good play.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
Yeah, I mean, thanks for the phone call. I don't.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
I mean the bio I read on him was three
years ago very good. Two years to the last two
years not so good. The bounce back you're a little
bit this year. But again in Jack of All Trades,
the kind of the under the radar deal we talked
about that we thought the Astros would make all along. Yeah,
I mean, Luis is making him sound like the air
apparent to Alex Bregman.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
But that's good.

Speaker 1 (56:32):
He hit two home runs in one game. He's got
eight all year, so it's not like there's a huge
power there. The ops is less than seven hundred this year,
it's six eighty eight. Yeah, he is slugging three eighty eight.
So yeah, it's not like, but good utility player, I
like to move.

Speaker 3 (56:49):
I'm with it.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
I think you're thought of upgraded Dubon or the potential
of being upgraded Dubon is good. Well, though, Bond's ops
is a round seven. H du Bond's actually having a
very good season. And when I'm just you know what
part of this is probably could Dubon off his feet.
I mean, Dubon can feel like he never could take
a day off these days. He's playing occasion the outfield.
He's been playing a lot of the infield because of
the injuries to Perettis and everywhere. Yeah, and the fact

(57:11):
that Bryce Matthews can't be playing every day at this point.
I mean, I hate to go cross sports on you,
but we got a bunch of swing tackles on his team. Hey,
come on, man, Okay, but your backup Wingsmith, Well, you
don't want to build a team of utility. But if
you but if you're hamstrung, Bill O'Brien would. But if

(57:33):
you're but if you don't want to give up, I
mean this, Did you see the name of the kid
that's going there?

Speaker 3 (57:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (57:40):
Do you want to was it Twiner or something like that?
It's something so odd. I mean, I look, I have
three children and try not to give him strange names.
I don't think I did. I think I'm three for three.
But let me look up this, guys, because I don't
want to. I don't want to mess it up.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
Let's see Twine Palmer t w iron E.

Speaker 1 (58:06):
In my life, I have never heard of a person
named Twin Twine Palmer who that feels good for that.
It's time to bring it back. You know what, I'm
gonna let you.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
Go first, Gay, Yeah, you're going first this time.

Speaker 1 (58:25):
Twin Palmer wasn't enterprising young man from Skokie, Illinois, where
he ran a dairy farm, and he had seven children
that he all had churning butter, and they said they
were the best butter churners from this side.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
Of the Mississip. They had the sweetest, most.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
Delicious butter that anyone could find. For miles that he
would trade for various meat and also sometimes moonshine from
his neighbor Leroy McCoy. Unfortunately, at one time Lero and
Twine got in a dispute, Oh how much moonshine it

(59:16):
would cost to get seventeen kilograms of butter? And after
much haranguing, they had a dispute and they challenge each
other to a duel, And unfortunately, during that duel, Twine
slipped on some butter and he fell and he was

(59:39):
shot to death by Leroy McCoy.

Speaker 3 (59:43):
May he rest.

Speaker 19 (59:45):
He was buried with a butter churner in his casket
in eighteen sixteen. And they remember him well. Twine the
butter Man.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
What was his last name, Twine the Palmer and Palma.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
May he rest all right in all eternity.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
That had a great start. But it was is yourly
that was like a happy Gilmore there. He just kept
going on and on. I'm gonna mine only two minutes.
Mine's gonna be thirty seconds. Okay, hold on, Twine Palma.
It is an enterprising young man. He stands six foot

(01:00:28):
five and little known fact about old Twyan Palma.

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
He was considered the first male jiggilow of the mid South.
He went to eight.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
He went to the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and
dropped his seed on any enterprising young gal. He also
was responsible for giving the first STDs east of the Mississippi.
Thus probably came over on the Mayflower. Thus, when you

(01:01:01):
get twined, you need penicillin. That's the phrase. I got
twined by mister Palma. And now I'm taking all these
medicines and I've lost amputation in one of my legs.
Thank you Twine Palma for giving me an STD was
in my one of my extremities. Wow, but it was
a great forty three minutes forty three.

Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
He was a love he was.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
He was a man that loved a lot of women.
That man you might have if you had the cash.
He did have STDs.

Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
He would trajector for that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
So he was the first jigglotwork. Here was this eighteen forties.
Oh no, there's jigglos before that. No, no, no, he
was in the mid South. Okay. Also, penicillin wasn't invented until.

Speaker 3 (01:01:45):
Much after that. You don't interrupt my stories.

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
Greg on seven out of Hello, Greg, Hey.

Speaker 11 (01:01:53):
Uh sho.

Speaker 20 (01:01:56):
Farm system is kind of down in the dumps, and
it's been that way for a little. It is gonna
come a time where the astros are gonna have to
start thinking about stop getting rid of a lot of
their top prospects. Or are they just constantly gonna be
in this win now, when now?

Speaker 17 (01:02:11):
When now?

Speaker 20 (01:02:12):
And possibly when the division get to wild cards and
then kind of fall out.

Speaker 17 (01:02:19):
You know, I'll hang up and listen.

Speaker 1 (01:02:21):
Well, it sounds like you're you've already up the forecast
of the season. The reality is so far this offseason,
to this training deadline, they gave up our Man, Twine
was not considered a top prospect.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
No, M.

Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
I think if the Astros are gonna win and go
far in the playoffs, it's going to be pitching, pitching,
pitching and pitching. If they get Dylan Ceese. When Brian
McTaggart said, Hunter Brown, Framberveldez, Dylan Cease, I mean that's sexy.
That's a sexy one to two three even for short
term two months exactly. Uh, you're gonna be able to

(01:02:53):
compete with anybody. And then if your fourth as any
of Arrogatty, Javier whatever, you're in a very very good spot.
And as I said, you get Arragetty Javier back or
at least maybe one of those two if you trade
for a Dylan Ceese type and Pennon Alvarez back, and
I'm feeling good. I'm feeling like they have enough to
at least go and win the American League, Pennant. So

(01:03:15):
here's your dream rotation really quick before we get to
I just don't get it, Hunter Valdez or Valdez Brown,
whatever you want to say it Cease Arraghetty and then
whoever wants the fifth spot. But in realistically, you only
need four pitchers for the postseason.

Speaker 11 (01:03:33):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
You need us to have one guy ready to go
out of the bullpen in case things go wrong. So
that means Javier, that means Garcia, that means mccullors. If
Brandon Walter comes back, Colton Gordon, you got options, Ryan Guss,
you got six guys fighting for one spot. You got options.
But in the playoffs you need elite options. Yeah. And

(01:03:56):
also it's a fact Rummer's had some bad play off
runs and he's gonna call us outfield out again. No,
I don't think he's gonna do that. He will, he'll
do it privately, privately, manly, I can't wait to do
it publicly.

Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
He's been told not to do it anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
Ladies and gentlemen, Every Thursday on this radio show, we
ask you to think about your life for a moment
and think about things you just don't get, and the
three of us try to help you with such things.

Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
We bring things to our own life we just don't get,
and we'll have it for you next. I just don't get.

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There's something in life you just don't get whether it's
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Seven one three two one two five seven ninetie seven
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(01:04:50):
just don't get it. And I've got one right off
the top here. If you have a story that you
are a thing in your life, you just don't get
the three of us, primarily me. A little bit of
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try to get things. Seven one three two one two
five seven Dotty seven one three two one two five
seven Nutty. So my son wanted some Astros National tickets

(01:05:14):
for Tuesday night. M hmm, And I said, why do
you want to go on a rando Tuesday night? And
he goes, well, I'm not working. I said, okay, that
makes sense. And number two says, I want to do
nine nine nine. And I know what nine nine nine is.
It's nine beers, Yes, nine and hot dogs one per
inning for nine innings, and it is obviously something that

(01:05:37):
is going on around the world of baseball. Minor leagues
are doing it on dollar dog nights. The Astros dollar
doll knights are on Tuesday. I got an email today,
as a matter of fact, that said, there's a survey
at based off of what Twitter tells you what teams
have the most nine nine nine fans? What the Astros
are fifth in this list? The top five of the Phillies,

(01:05:58):
nash Yankees, Dodgers, Nationals, and Astro fans. Brewers got to
be up there. A bunch of drunkards in the right sixth. Okay,
And so if you drink nine beers in an Astros game,
you're talking like sixteen ounces or what are we doing?

Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:06:13):
I would assume the small one you give the ballpark.
So nine nine dogs at a dollar each, that's nine dollars.
Yes they include tax with those?

Speaker 16 (01:06:22):
Or no?

Speaker 3 (01:06:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
Okay, So I'll say nine dogs for ten dollars. Huh,
nine small beers at what seven dollars a pop?

Speaker 21 (01:06:29):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
You were you were out of touch, mister sweet man.
I don't drink beer at the game. Yeah, it's sweet,
I do. That's true. Actually, okay, ten dollars of beer
for the smallest beer, more for a sixteen ounce beer.
It's going to run you like thirteen fourteen to fifteen bucks,
I think. So that's another one hundred dollars there. So
it's one hundred and eleven dollars to complete this feat.

(01:06:51):
And he did it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:51):
He said, I'm going to.

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
Say, I'm going to ask all of you very politely,
eleven thirty eight, why would you want to drink nine
nine beers at nine innings? Nine hot dogs over nine?
And that's a two and in these baseball games are
going shorter than they we had before. I mean it's
about two hours. And well I worked twoday, did I not?
I thought one of the games I work they're about
two they're about two thirty. Now, that's a lot of

(01:07:14):
beer in a short period of time. I say, ross,
I said, Jonathan, I just don't get it, because you're
going to get sick, you're going to gain weight, you're
probably gonna be on the pot before you know it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:27):
You're saying, you don't get why a bunch of twenty three.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
Year old dudes twenty five sadly or whatever would want
to get together at a baseball game and drink as
much beer and eat as many hot dogs as possible.

Speaker 3 (01:07:43):
You don't get that. I get I get nine beers
nine hot dogs at your house.

Speaker 1 (01:07:48):
At your house. No, that's just alcoholism. You do it
at your house, you do it at the baseball Yeah,
how are you boiling up nine dogs? Put on the grilling,
get after it, getting grilling up nine dogies. But you
get a twelve pack for like fifteen over the oven.
They come out pretty good. Just saying my my point
is this, that's a very expensive not to put on
your belt. It's just we did I did nine Inning

(01:08:14):
Challenge in two thousand and four and that was nine.
We didn't do hot dogs, but we did it was well,
me and my brother and his frat brothers.

Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
So that night got pretty sloppy.

Speaker 1 (01:08:24):
So you had nine beers and nine what No, we
did We didn't do nine nine nine. We just did
nine inning challenge. We did nine beers and you had
to drink it by the end of the inning, like
as soon as the inning ended, you had to chug
your beer. And we did shots for home runs and
that was when Carlos Belt ran in the playoffs, was
hitting like five home runs a game. Okay, so you're
saying you get it absolutely. I was like, so, well,

(01:08:49):
I guess I was nineteen then ope, sorry mom and dad.
I mean no, that was two thousand and six. I
was twenty one. I love when you're out yourself six four.
All right, all right, Jonathan, you get Do you get
the nine nine nine bit?

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
No?

Speaker 17 (01:09:05):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
I don't get it at all.

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
Like you don't get it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:07):
I come on, nine hot dogs with nine beers.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
You're not doing it. But it's not about whether you're not.
You necessarily get it. Why would people do that because
they're just broskies and they want to drink a bunch
of beer.

Speaker 3 (01:09:19):
And it's it's almost a guaranteed vomit.

Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
But the aftermath, yeah, it's exactly. That's a heartburn. Well,
that's twenty four year old's not getting heartburn. That's terrible
hangover it. That's probably a long vomit, that's probably getting
in trouble with the law and or yourself. And by
the way, you then have to uber or have a no. Thankfully,
one of the guys that went with the Cameron and
his buddies was not drinking it all that night, so
he was a DD on that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
But I mean, still, that's a lot of money to
be a bro.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Yeah, you're in your twenties, you do stupid stuff. I
totally get it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:49):
He's twenty five. You get past the stupid stuff at
twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
I'm still not past the stupid stuff, but I know
I'm forty Okay, no, okay, I I thank you for
your clarification on these things. Very easy and it's gone viral.

Speaker 6 (01:10:07):
It's cool.

Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
You can make you can make an ig story out
of it. All right, I still go in it. But
I get it. I mean I just don't get it,
but I get it from your perspective. Ross, What don't you.

Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
Get Why did the A's trade Mason Miller? He's under
control for like three more years. I understand you got
one of the best prospects in baseball, but you've got
one of the better players in baseball under control for
three years.

Speaker 3 (01:10:32):
Like, what's the point? What is the point? What's the
end game?

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
If you get these good young players and then you
just always trade them away and treat keep churning them out,
and then you're never really good. They got four of
the Padres top seventeen prospects, including the number three overall
all prospect. Now again, it doesn't matter. It's good if
you're twenty twenty eight. You're hoping that when you open
up the stateium in loss in Vegas that all four
of those players are Major leagues. Mason Miller throws one

(01:10:55):
hundred and four. He's got the potential of being one
of the best relievers in baseball. He can get you
six outs consistently as well, and you can you cannot
make sure his arm is overused because you're not winning
a whole lot. Okay, well, I guess I didn't know.
It's for their top seventeen, for the top seventeen, But man,
I just don't get what the A's are.

Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
Doing as an organization.

Speaker 14 (01:11:15):
The A's are.

Speaker 1 (01:11:16):
The A's are what the Pirates and the Marlins have
done for generations. They just yeah, sell sell, sell, sell sell,
And that's why I think maybe in the end game
that maybe the Las vegas As are gonna be what
they are in Oakland or wherever they've been. And that's
another thing I don't get. Yeah, the Pirates are selling
off key Brian Hayes like.

Speaker 4 (01:11:34):
Paul.

Speaker 3 (01:11:34):
How does Paul Skeins feel about all this. He doesn't care.

Speaker 1 (01:11:38):
He's gonna be out of there as soon as he can,
as soon as his as soon as they're gonna trade
him away for then like a one Soto for four
top ten prospects.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
Yeah, he knows it. That's why he's not buying real
estate in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 1 (01:11:49):
I wouldn't either, And then that brings me to I mean,
just the the competitive balance in baseball from the haves
and haves not.

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
It's all by the way I have knots.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
If you have a salary cap, you're gonna also have
a salary floor, and there's gonna be some team struggling
to get to that salary floor. That's why I don't
know that that's even I think if that gets dangled
or proposed by the by the owners, it's simply a
bargaining chip. It's simply to something to say you go.
It's like you make a counteroff for Matt to your
boss for a big raise that you know they're not
gonna say yes too, right, but you know you'll accept

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something lower.

Speaker 3 (01:12:21):
Yeah, that's why I think we're in massive trouble for
the twenty twenty seven seas You.

Speaker 1 (01:12:26):
Said now, did you put your name on this as
a gut feeling no baseball in twenty six I can't
say name, I can't buy my name on it, but
I want to.

Speaker 22 (01:12:33):
I know you do.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
I feel very confident about it. There's gonna be some
serious trouble, serious labor issues. In twenty twenty seven. You
brought up Salary Cap. Do you hear, by the way,
what mad Dog said on ESPN then or day? I
didn't see.

Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
I I never hear what mad Dog says on ESPN.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
So he believes that Bryce Harper should have been suspended
for going nose to nose of the Commissioner of Baseball,
for telling them to get the f out of the
club You think you should be suspended for saying what
he did as his clubhouse that's not Rob Manfred's clubhouse.
That you cannot be that disrespectful to authority.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
I mean I would get that if he was suspended.
And also we don't know the details of the situation.
Probably Bryce Harper was out of line, I mean based
track record.

Speaker 14 (01:13:15):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (01:13:15):
He's he's a bros bro, just a really rich bro.
You do the nine ninety nine. J. J. Watt did
the nine nine to nine. He did do it, except
he was doing with twelve nuts cans. Jonathan, what don't
you get? I don't understand that you can merge the
freeways on some intersections and some freeways and then the
other ones. They have this random stop light that you
have to stop at. But it always confuses people, always

(01:13:37):
backs some traff picks. Everybody's just bright checking everybody. I
don't understand that's a genuine thing. I don't understand why
that is too.

Speaker 3 (01:13:43):
That is to control the flow of traffic on the freeway.

Speaker 1 (01:13:46):
And normally they turn the red light on when it's
like a lot of so so that you don't have
people ramping up when there's a lot of traffic. Yea
to have it right here at sixten and stuff like
where it's all backed up and stuff, because six ten sucks.
It's backed up, so if you have everybody piling in
off the the purpose of the on ramp is to
gain up speed to sixty sixty five miles an hour
will of course ninety five if you're mat Thomas. So

(01:14:08):
if everybody's going twenty miles an hour and everybody on
the ramp is ramping up to sixty miles an hour.
You're gonna have some issues. So they do it to
kind of throttle, as Mad said, the flow of traffic.
So normally it's green and then in at least in
my experience, it's red. It flashes red when they're when
there's heavy traffic. Okay, I don't know how effective is

(01:14:33):
you got. I mean people like y'all just blowing like, hey, Johnathy,
got news for you.

Speaker 3 (01:14:36):
You can run through it. Don't do no, no no.
You people are what's wrong with America.

Speaker 1 (01:14:42):
This is why we have all these traffic jams.

Speaker 4 (01:14:45):
You don't follow the rules.

Speaker 1 (01:14:46):
You think you're better than everyone else, and you're the
reason this country's going to hell.

Speaker 3 (01:14:50):
It's fine. They have been California all the time. I've
never had a problem. You're gonna get take it right.
Mike and Roger up next. Sick people make me sick.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
I I totally get eleven Sports Talk seven ninety. We
got some people we need to listen to because they've
called and asked for advice on things they don't get.
Let's go to Mike on seven ninty. Mike, what don't
you get?

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
My friend?

Speaker 11 (01:15:15):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
Yes?

Speaker 9 (01:15:16):
Sir?

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
Okay, yeah, I h you're driving down the road on
any highway or even on a two lane road, and
you're going really well because everybody's over on the right
and they're letting you pass on the passing lane. What
in the heck is wrong with these people? Don't realize
that that's what makes the traffic flow.

Speaker 1 (01:15:38):
If you're gonna drive fast.

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
And pass, get in the middle lane. If you're not,
get the heck out of the way. I don't how
many times I'll come up and I'll be real nice,
I'll flash a little bit, and someone will just sit
there next to another car for another ten miles.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
What is up with that?

Speaker 3 (01:15:53):
What is up with that? Wait?

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
He's saying, just people driving slow in the fast lane? Yes, okay,
people are oblivious. I think somehow people don't know the
rules of the road. Yeah, the passing if you're if
you got the need for speaking in the far left lane,
if you're the need to be at the limit or
slightly above it, or just want to go you know,
you know a Sunday, drive far right lane.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
Let's go. I'm getting slow in the right lane granny style.
What's up? That's I'm saying? Let's go to uh Dana
in Angleton, Dana, what don't you get.

Speaker 23 (01:16:25):
Okay, I've been working in the Marble Vault area for.

Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
The last week, Yes, sir, and.

Speaker 13 (01:16:30):
I go to my motel cheapoat TV and they got
the Rangers network, and I go to a Antonio and
there the Reineers network and all of whether Texas is
the Rangers.

Speaker 23 (01:16:43):
Who makes that decision where the broadcast rights go? Because
the astros have been around longer in Texas and we're better,
and you know, they get the whole stadium. We get
Houston Corpus and FIDER.

Speaker 3 (01:16:59):
You know, I don't understand.

Speaker 1 (01:17:00):
Well, all right, I get you. The Rangers do not
have a cable channel. The Rangers have an over the
air network that are probably broadcast in those markets. Space
City you have to have. Your hotel has to have
the Space City. My guess is the hotels he's staying
at probably just don't have Space City. They had the

(01:17:21):
Astros in Austin. I lived there, but that was a
long time. Everything has changed. First of all, the Terry
Troll's rules about Major League basebar whack. But most importantly,
the Rangers TV network is over the air stuff, okay, okay?
And Direct TV but cities can can individually become I
want to be a Ranger TV Network town, so maybe
the station's on your hotel. It spends, Like even nice

(01:17:43):
hotels here in Houston, if you listen to some of
them don some of them don't have Space City, so
it just de spends on what chain you're at.

Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
Okay, most chains.

Speaker 1 (01:17:52):
Like sometimes if I've got a late Rockets game, I'll
stay at a hotel right close to here to the station.
The station the hotel I stay at, which is a
nice chain brand, does not have Space City, so I
can't watch it. But the but the Rangers are on
channel thirty nine, would they occasionally I can watch Rangers.

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
I don't want to, but I just do so. I
unfortunately tom Ow last caller, I do get it. Huh.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
I mean, I guess, let's go to uh Roger online
one Roger.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
What don't you get?

Speaker 17 (01:18:23):
Good happening, Matt Loss. What I don't get is, uh,
it's a tire vendor that doesn't spend any money with
your company. So I'm gonna just go and call them
Dismount Wire And they do have a policy that if
you get a tire from them, they will repair and
fix and do whatever media under the terms of the contract. However,
I had a freaking nail on slight, not in the

(01:18:46):
middle of the tower, but slightly on the left, not
on the side wall as they describe it, but on
the going towards the left side of the tire, but
maybe an inch off, so still the media attire. And
the guy's like, yeah, no, we're I can fix. That's
totally branding dark. You're gonna have to buy a new one.
And I'm like, what which side are you talking about?

Speaker 22 (01:19:06):
Which side of it's in the middle, but towards the left,
you know, it's going towards maybe, but it's not there.
It's just a freaky nail that I usually got repaired
right there in the neighborhood with you know, the guys
in the neighborhood. No problems, no without you know, any
but as you said, because of a liability and and
and and insurance issues, like I have to go in

(01:19:29):
there with my council present next time, I'll just don't
get it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:32):
So that's it, match, But you should get it, Roger.
They'd want your cash, why would they were? They say
they're gonna repair your tire for free, And then like
you said it's gonna be close to the sidewall and
maybe even not even that close, and they're gonna be like, nah,
we can't do that. We got to get you a
new tire. So then they sell you the tire, then
they try to sell you the warranty. Then they try
to tell you that the oh man, your windshield wipers

(01:19:53):
are done. I'm like, brother, I just got them replaced
last week. What are you talking about. Yeah, they're just
trying to make your money off you.

Speaker 3 (01:19:58):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:59):
I'm gonna be on it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:00):
So they're squeezing you.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
Miss scott Meyer has done my family very well. We've
had nothing but great service there. I have mixed results.
I get that as well. I'm just telling you that
with my we have five cars in our family and
we have had zero issues. Well, first of all, they've
overfilled my tires every time I go there. Second of all,
they gave me I got two tires and they were

(01:20:21):
supposed to put them on the rear, and they put
one on the front left and one of the back right.
I was gonna call them out a couple of weeks ago,
but they were really nice and I wasn't gonna do it.
But it kind of kind of came up organically today, so.

Speaker 3 (01:20:34):
It took care of me.

Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
But yeah, and let me tell you something, Miss mount Meyer,
if you'd like to spend money on this radio station,
I will pronounce your name of your company just fine
and talk about how great my service has been. But
until you don't get anymore from me, I mean, I'm
gonna go back. It's not overall bad, but I was
upset when they put my tires on wrong. What's better,
Miss mount Meyer or Randri Ri? You are just making

(01:20:56):
noises now. I have no idea what you're talking about. Yeah,
I can't rhyme. What about met moys? That's true, Brad,
what you said.

Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
Well, I got two things real quick.

Speaker 9 (01:21:10):
I don't get why the astros don't draft the first
basement and don't tell me because they can grab somebody
from another.

Speaker 3 (01:21:17):
Position and put them on.

Speaker 1 (01:21:19):
That's that they haven't done that. Guryel was good.

Speaker 9 (01:21:22):
I don't know how they found him, but he wasn't
like thirty four years old and had a great past history.
What they're doing is not working. They need to draft
a young guy that grew up wanting to play first base.

Speaker 21 (01:21:36):
That's I mean, I'm sorry, you can laugh about it,
but the last two I mean, and then the other
thing is, I don't get why they can charge all
this money for all these damn tolls around town, uh,
in all these areas, but then they don't fit the potholes,
they don't fix the lighting.

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
There's several places.

Speaker 9 (01:21:56):
There's lighting that needs to be addressed. And then when
it's flood they can put in a lot better ditches
and stuff to gather the water up, but they don't
do that. But they'll want to take our money for
all these new freeways that like it's all come up.
You know, they've all popped up everywhere every time I
drive somewhere that's out of town. But really, like.

Speaker 1 (01:22:18):
Katie, oh, man, I'm sorry, Brad. We got to hit
the top of the rs. I was the thrilling stuff there.
I really appreciate it. But man, we are really up
against it, Brad. It's very simple. They're taking your money.
Probably some politicians somewhere is lining their pockets with deals,
getting kickbacks from construction companies who aren't doing their jobs.
Who knows anyways that's gonna do it for I just

(01:22:40):
don't get it. We got to take a quick top
of the hour break. Our number two of the Mount
Thomas Show with Ross is in the books. Our number
three kicks off with a special introduction and then the
News at Noon coming up next here on the Mount
Thomas Show with Ross, Houston Astros take two out of
three from the Washington Nationals, winning this afternoon nine one

(01:23:04):
and Yes, the Astros can win a series at home
grants against the Nationals.

Speaker 3 (01:23:08):
But it is what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:23:11):
Been a tough two weeks for the local nine at
home three weeks if you count the All Star break.
But on the road, Ross, they're warriors and they better
be when they got nine games against the Red Sox,
the Marlins and the Yankees coming up for the next
week and a half. Will more reinforcements be coming today?

(01:23:32):
That's part of the News and Noon and we go
to the buster only of Houston Sports News, ross Ville Real,
Thank you, Matt.

Speaker 3 (01:23:43):
Yes, a lot of moves being made.

Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
With the deadline looming now it will be at five
pm local time. Please have something happen before our show
end so the guys will get the Houston bonus out
of the Astros trading Ramona Urias Yurias, I should say, uh,
he is hitting two forty eight with a six eighty

(01:24:07):
eight ops this year. She does have a gold Glove
in third base in twenty twenty two. He can play
all over the infield, some pop in the bat. He's
got eight home runs this year. I guess that's not no,
it's not nothing yet sixteen and twenty twenty two, when
he had his best year of his major league career.
Also is under team control for this year and next,

(01:24:31):
and he only costs you twin Palma the button man
from Skokate, Illinois. Matt grade the deal. Okay, you don't
really have to grade the deal, Picky. Let's let's grade
the deal October fair enough? Okay, how about it's like
a lane. It's like putting down the manaise on the
sandwich before he gets to the big meaty stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:24:51):
Follow seven. What throw it out there?

Speaker 11 (01:24:56):
What is said?

Speaker 1 (01:24:56):
You're telling about a manning? It's been kind of light week.
That's why I brought the number up. Yeah, okay, I
guess you know what the problem is that I didn't say.
I didn't say you put what never mind, I'm not
gonna say you just careful. You're just trying to get me.
I want you to be careful where you put your meat.
I just said you put in them. It's like he
is the mayonnaise to the Dylancy sandwich, the precursor Dylan

(01:25:21):
see still by the way of San Diego Padre as
we speak, he.

Speaker 3 (01:25:24):
Is, uh the the cars to opening up for sticks. Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:25:30):
Meanwhile, our friends to the Pacific Northwest A yes man trade.
Thank you, you're doing great, true professional folks, except when
he eats on air.

Speaker 2 (01:25:40):
Uh so.

Speaker 1 (01:25:41):
Josh Naylor traded by the Seattle Mariners. Are you serious
right now?

Speaker 3 (01:25:50):
I was coughing?

Speaker 1 (01:25:51):
Sorry, Okay, whatever, I'm gonna mentally move on from this now.

Speaker 4 (01:25:56):
Are you a hendy house whas is a Seattle mayor.

Speaker 3 (01:26:00):
I'm not happy about this at all.

Speaker 1 (01:26:01):
Did not cost them any of their top ten prospects.
Brian McTaggart said, softy, and our buddy at KJR, he's beside.

Speaker 3 (01:26:10):
Himself right now, right he should be.

Speaker 1 (01:26:13):
The The Mariners lineup is pretty nasty now, and we
know how good they're pitching is. And they got Anthony
Munoz in the back, not Anthony Mum, shut up, undress Munho,
excuse me all right, Undress. Munho is in the back
of the in the back of the bullpen, but just
having a great season. Speaking of a bullpen. We did

(01:26:34):
lose we American League West Brothers lost Mason Miller to
the San Diego Padres. Thank god, get him out of
this league, get him out of this division.

Speaker 3 (01:26:44):
And get him away.

Speaker 1 (01:26:45):
Mason Miller is a Padre potential lineup for the Mariners.

Speaker 3 (01:26:52):
Don't do it. Don't. Don't do the part of the order. Don't.

Speaker 1 (01:26:55):
Julio Rodriguez, col Rally Suarez, Jorge Polanko, WHOA, that's way
better than the Astros lineup is. I'm just saying it's
not even close. It's not even close.

Speaker 3 (01:27:12):
The he's gonna wear eighty four for the Astros.

Speaker 1 (01:27:14):
Just saying it's throwing out there because he wears eighty
four for the Pods. Okay, does he Yeah, good for him.
Just saying just hoping that happens. I mean, now he
need it, right, something has gonna happen. Gotta get some arms,
are gonna stop this prolific Seattle offense. There has been
talks about the Astros in on Dylan Ceas, also in
on a Sandy al and also Carlos Correa. We shall

(01:27:38):
see if anything happens from there. What's going on Texans today,
sports Service. I have no idea. I guess you can
ask WEX. No, they're off today, So okay, I knew
the answer to that. Blue Jays also landed Shane Bieber,
so they've been beating up there, cy young winner Shane Bieber. Yeah,
but he's old. Now what kind of season is he having?

(01:27:58):
Well not that he was of a couple of year
years ago. Let's see the old. Let me tell you.
Let me tell you how depressing is. You're Guardy fan,
You're Ace fan today, your Reds, your Pirates, your Marlins?
All right, why even bother going to games? You know
what's gonna ultimately happen. You're gonna underachieve, You're gonna be
at the deadline. Teams are gonna come ridge you of

(01:28:19):
your top players. It's terrible. Shane Bieber, by the way,
is not as old as I thought. He's only twenty nine.
And what's his record this year? Two and oh and
two starts? Well, it seems like a lot of no
decisions or he's late to the game. Oh wait, no,
he hasn't pitched this here? What this can't be right,
Shane Bieber, you.

Speaker 3 (01:28:36):
Wouldn't try to get ahead and started.

Speaker 1 (01:28:38):
Yet maybe I guess I should know this now you
you are the buster only of local sports.

Speaker 3 (01:28:44):
I'll give me a minute.

Speaker 1 (01:28:45):
All right, that's the.

Speaker 3 (01:28:47):
News at noon.

Speaker 1 (01:28:48):
Thank you Ross for being complete and thorough with your
investigation of Shane Bieber. Might he hadn't pitched this here? No, no,
come on, that's what Google says, Shane Biba these things
Shane Bieba after we Shane Bieba, believe.

Speaker 21 (01:29:02):
It or not?

Speaker 3 (01:29:03):
After Mark and umbele hi Shane.

Speaker 24 (01:29:05):
All right, Mark, hey us uh tried to get on
when when you had your last segment.

Speaker 1 (01:29:11):
Yeah, go ahead, Okay.

Speaker 24 (01:29:14):
It irritates a snot out of me when you're going
down the road at night and there's no lights on
the side of the road in the middle of the day.
You go down there and then the lights are burning.
What are the It's it operated by some Aggie holcum horns.

Speaker 1 (01:29:30):
Thank you Mark. More quality content like that between now
and two o'clock today. Thank you Mark for the phone call.
That was just an opportunity for him to jap in
the acts. Yeah, Shane Bieber had uh. Tommy John hasn't
pitched this year, but you're supposed to be coming back wait, wait,
you're gonna make a move like that just to go
get a guy who's had a TJ. TJ's fine. I

(01:29:53):
think he's supposed to be coming back soon.

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
You would hope it.

Speaker 1 (01:29:56):
Google Ai says June or July. But he hasn't pitched
yet and we're about to hit August, right, Okay, he
had a rehab start recently. That's why Sharp maybe that
the astros can movie Zack parades. He's only going to
be back in seven months, that's true, would be most
of the off season. What's today, July, we'll gonna got
back to Carlos Craig. We'll do that in a second.
Twelve thirteen Sports Talk seven ninety Thank you from the

(01:30:19):
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Speaker 3 (01:30:33):
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Speaker 1 (01:30:38):
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Speaker 3 (01:30:42):
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Speaker 1 (01:30:44):
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the hour, we're going to tell you about an NBA
player that just turned a future television career and a
very successful podcast into a probably going to prison.

Speaker 3 (01:31:06):
That's a teaser right there, right, I suppose so.

Speaker 1 (01:31:09):
All right, So Bob Nightyale reported this morning at ten
oh two, So the Astros trey talks the Twins for
shortstop Carlo's career all but dead. The Astros paid the
ask the Astro as the Twins to pay fifty million
of those remaining one oh two point five five zero
fifty fifty five zero fifty million of the remaining one

(01:31:32):
oh two point five and to include an outfielder.

Speaker 3 (01:31:36):
And they said, shoot you above mess up. Everybody got
time for that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:31:45):
I think in sports ownership, when you buy eighteen and
you look to make lots of money, you have to
know that you're going to eat a bad contract. I'm
going to guarantee you that it devastated the Rockets and
tell THEE for Tita they had to pay John Wall

(01:32:05):
forty million dollars. It's just sit that's that's a very
very bitter pill to swallow, right when you think and
there have been look the jose A Bray you release
by the Astros all the money. That is he done
finally with the Astros paying or is this the last
year of the payment?

Speaker 3 (01:32:22):
Uh heisa? I think he and Montero Komff books after
this year.

Speaker 1 (01:32:27):
But my point is that everybody, no team is immune
from bad contracts, certainly not the Astros. Could you imagine
the Twins cutting a check to the Astros for fifty
million dollars to pay off the rest of that contract. Now, granted,
the Twins would only have to pay half, but they

(01:32:48):
would get nothing back in return except the Astros.

Speaker 3 (01:32:52):
You would presume prospects, amazing prospects.

Speaker 1 (01:32:55):
And if the Astros don't have amazing prospects, that's why
the Twins are like, you want us to pay how much?

Speaker 3 (01:33:02):
And you're giving us this a return.

Speaker 1 (01:33:06):
That's why if you were gonna, if you were the Twins,
and you were gonna say, you want us to do this,
so what we want to return, probably.

Speaker 3 (01:33:15):
It's Jerry Paneer. It ain't happening. It's just cray. Thing's
not happening. I think all the reports that it's pretty
much debt or are accurate.

Speaker 1 (01:33:27):
But my court, let's go back, let's take two steps
back then, and while I do agree with you, there
was a conversation. There were conversations. Carlos Kraa had to
ultimately tell the Twins, yeah, I'll go to Houston. But
the Twins aren't naive to what the Astros do or
do not have. The Astros aren't naive to what Carlos's

(01:33:48):
abilities are and what he's going to do defensively.

Speaker 3 (01:33:54):
I don't even know realistically.

Speaker 1 (01:33:57):
How the conversation even got started unless Jim just said,
I like star power, I like bringing a guy back.
I think there's something left his best years were as
an astro, and if the Twins could pick up some
of the tab we feel good about it. Yeah, asking
for half, Maybe he was a little ambitious. Yeah, it
was a hey is Jim, Hey, Dana, I was reading

(01:34:20):
Carl's Correa could be available. Can you go ahead and
see what the deal is with that?

Speaker 3 (01:34:24):
Dana?

Speaker 1 (01:34:24):
Okay, all right, Jim, I'll see what I can do.
Dana calls Minnesota Twins general manager, whoever he is. Yeah,
what it's going on with Carl's Korea? Oh yeah, we
need to pay fifty million, and you need what we're
good and he wants that they want an outfielder too. Yeah,
they wanted a bunch of stuff. It's not gonna happen.
I mean it's I'm gonna be utterly shocked if this

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gets anywhere close to happening. I understand what they would
explore it. They needed in field help. They do need
infield help. They like Carlos Korea, Jim Crane likes star power,
but when you start getting down to the brass tacks
of it, it doesn't make sense. And by the way,
I guarant tea I shouldn't guarantee, because I don't know.
If everything's guaranteed, you guarantee. But I feel very confident

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that the Twins are the ones that told Bob knight
Gille what the Astros wanted as part of the deal.
It wouldn't behoove the Astros to say what they said.
It would be behoof the Twins to say that's a
reason why Carlos Gray were not moving him. Look what
the Astros want from us? And and Bob used to
work in mine Apples, so I'm sure he's got some
connections with an organization.

Speaker 3 (01:35:25):
Yeah, good for him.

Speaker 1 (01:35:26):
I got to know Bob quite well in Minneapolis. He'd
come to too you're drinking buddies, right. Uh, I think
we've had a we might have had one cocktail together. Sure, Okay,
very very nice guy. And like I said, uh, probably
batting eight fifty the last two years after batting about
six hundred for four or five years. When on his prediction,
I don't know. I'm not worried about what he's batting.

(01:35:48):
I just noticed St'll take everything he says with a
grain of salt. He's off the mute list. John Hayman
still needed. You can't. You can't take Bob off the muteless.
He's gotten too many things right lately. He's had a Yeah,
he's about he's a comeback reporter of the But again,
if you want to be come back, what it means
you obviously sucked at one point. Yes, that's why I
will never be come back broadcaster. The year I've been

(01:36:10):
able to maintain and sustain excellence, well, you got to
arrive first, that's true.

Speaker 8 (01:36:16):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:36:17):
Twelve twenty six on seveny Allen, good morning or good afternoon.
You're on the Matt Thomas showed Ross what's on your mind?

Speaker 3 (01:36:23):
Hello? They needed in fill help? Hello, Hello, how you doing?
I have a question about batting.

Speaker 1 (01:36:33):
Astro's batting.

Speaker 3 (01:36:36):
Go ahead. Uh yeah, I watched this f one movie, the.

Speaker 25 (01:36:42):
New One, and the technology around the analysis of race
car and all that jazz.

Speaker 3 (01:36:47):
Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 25 (01:36:48):
I wonder if when the Astros bats go quiet and
they just don't do anything for what, do they go
in and analyze and look at little tweaky things or
do they just let it play out and trust that
the guy's swing's gonna come back.

Speaker 1 (01:37:06):
They do have they use track Man, especially for pitching.
I don't know how much they do it for batting,
but they have bat paths and angles and stuff like
that bat speed. They have a lot of data on
what's going on with guys swings.

Speaker 3 (01:37:18):
Yeah, I'm just curious.

Speaker 5 (01:37:20):
I watched the documentary about this girl from Africa who's
trying to break the four minute mile for women, and
the analysis of her shoes and her feet and the
way her.

Speaker 3 (01:37:30):
Footage or ground.

Speaker 1 (01:37:31):
It's crazy what they do to figure out how to
get an extra second.

Speaker 3 (01:37:35):
And I just wondered, when the Astros go quiet, do
they go in and analyze like that? You know? That's
that was my question.

Speaker 1 (01:37:40):
Yeah, I don't know exactly what they do, but every
Major League Baseball team does put them in front of videos,
and I'm guess there's three D and analyzations on it
as well. Yeah, bat paths, swing paths, swing analyzation or
word by the way, analyzation sounds good, sounds kind of

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made up.

Speaker 3 (01:38:05):
Maybe that was one for one.

Speaker 1 (01:38:07):
I made up words last it's true and analyzation. I
guess that's a word. I'm gonna say it is. I'm
gonna say. I'm gonna go yes, I'm correct on that.

Speaker 3 (01:38:19):
Analyzation. Yeah, that's a word.

Speaker 1 (01:38:20):
Yes, less even says less commonly used than analysis, which
might be better.

Speaker 3 (01:38:27):
It's fine, still worked.

Speaker 1 (01:38:31):
Uh Yeah, I've never been into the hitting tent of
the Astros or the lab, but I'm sure they've got something.
For sure, they're working on stuff, even though some people
say they aren't. Zach Shorts not ops nine hundred, Fire
the hitting coaches? Where's fire the hitting coach?

Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
Guy? Nine runs? Yes, they scored nine? Yes, what you're doing? No?

Speaker 1 (01:38:52):
But they I finally score four runs in Boston this weekend.
They'll be to fire them coaches out. Okay, all right,
where's that? How's that?

Speaker 3 (01:39:00):
How's a trade?

Speaker 1 (01:39:01):
Janar Diaz guy doing he called a couple of days ago. Yeah,
I just want to hear from today another long ball
for him. That's true, but he's he's still in third
place because Josel two is hitting home hose. I got
zero problem with you hitting home runs, but let yan
Aery take the lead before you can hit your next
home runs.

Speaker 3 (01:39:17):
You're looking alive here. I know you're it feels good.

Speaker 1 (01:39:21):
I even said at the start of the season it's
gonna have to be a lot of underperformances and injuries,
and you've gotten both.

Speaker 3 (01:39:27):
And what did I tell you.

Speaker 1 (01:39:28):
I was fully accept that you're getting so lucky, not
lucky because you're lucky.

Speaker 3 (01:39:33):
Maybe I know.

Speaker 1 (01:39:34):
Shit, I knew about things about injuries.

Speaker 3 (01:39:36):
Yeah, yeah, you knew Jordan Paynya was not a stretch.

Speaker 1 (01:39:42):
Sorry, jord On Pinya and Paradis, we're all gonna get hurt.
And then Christian Walker was going to have a down
year off of the first year of a three year deal.
You knew all that.

Speaker 3 (01:39:49):
That's why you listen ten to two sports Talk.

Speaker 1 (01:39:51):
All right, an NBA player throws a poker game and
it's gonna be in trouble with the law twelve twenty
nine on Sports Talk seven NINETI it is Matt and
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Speaker 1 (01:40:44):
It may be a record for producers around these parts
I've heard, all right, and it's not because it's really frankly.

Speaker 3 (01:40:51):
It's the pay, not necessarily me or Ross.

Speaker 1 (01:40:53):
So Gilbert Arenez has a podcast, as most athletes do. Yeah,
and he's been doing some work and it was a cute.
I was trying to fix his way in mix his
way into a new broadcast deal with either NBC or ESPN. Well,
that's been dread a little bit ROSSI he was a Iran.
He was arrested yesterday and accused by the Department of

(01:41:17):
Justice of being part of a high stakes illegal gambling
ring that ran out of one of his California homes.
Gilbert Arenas is forty three years of age. Not that
it makes any difference, but just giving you for the facts.
Facing a federal indictment on account of conspiracy to operate
an illegal gambling business, one kind of operating an illegal

(01:41:40):
gambling business, and one kind of making false statements to
federal investigators. According to the Justice Department, Arenas rented out
an Encino, California mansion to host illegal poker games. If convicted,
Arenas faces up to five years in prison on each charge.
Now can you serve them? And curtly, I guess attorney's

(01:42:01):
gonna ask that if you follow Arenas on Instagram, which
I do not. As soon as he got out of
wherever he was temporarily held, he was dancing down a
flight of stairs saying, quote, can't hold me, baby, They
can't hold me. A caption posted along with a video

(01:42:23):
read this ain't got blank to do with me. Just
rent of the house wasn't a part of the festivities,
So why would you put that out there unless there
is completely, one hundred percent, without a doubt, nobody's fault
and you weren't involved. According to the Associated Press, Arenas's
attorney set out to the courthouse yesterday that he had

(01:42:45):
not had much time to speak with his client and
couldn't comment on the case. Gentlemen by the name of
Jerome Friedberg said, at this point in the case, he's
presumed innocent, right, he has the same right as any
other citizen of that presumption, and that's how he should
be treated.

Speaker 3 (01:43:02):
Did you see mentioned some of the details here?

Speaker 1 (01:43:04):
Prosecutors say the group of people that are being dieted,
including Arenas, hired chefs, valets, and armed security guards to
staff the poker games, as well as young women who
served drinks, provided massages. And I just some clarification here,
Matt and offered companionship to the players in exchange for

(01:43:26):
tips like his own speakeasy. Like what kind of companionship
are we talking about?

Speaker 9 (01:43:34):
Matt.

Speaker 1 (01:43:36):
I'm going to pause the show for three seconds, not
say a word. The three of us will not laugh,
he will not breathe. Okay, I want y'all to think
about what kind of companionship was going on at these
so called illegal poker games for three seconds, and let
you guys presume what you think one, two, three, and
what you presumed is one hundred percent accurate.

Speaker 3 (01:43:58):
I believe it.

Speaker 1 (01:43:59):
And I'm not a judge your jury, but you, but
on the court of public opinion, Okay, in your court
of public opinion, is that all this happened and that
Gilbert Arenez is in some serious trouble, I mean serious trouble.
My guess is the Just Department didn't do this on

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a whim. My guess the Justice Department probably had plenty
of time to gather their facts. My guess is the
Just Department also probably had men on the inside and
were able to watch this facility, this home and in Seno,
California on multiple occasions, just to make sure everything was right. Now,

(01:44:43):
the only question is did he organize them or was
he just a person asked these events? Now, being at
these events probably carries some sort of misdemeanor s type thing.
But hosting such events you have Ginny Gershman, a what
bec died high level of an Israeli organized crime group,

(01:45:04):
and four other associates were also indicted and arrested in
connection with the alleged illegal business. How many guys total?
Sick total? Arenas this high level Israeli organized crime guy.
Oo again, I'm on team Arenas on this. This sounds
like a superiorly cocident on four other associates. Prosecutors say

(01:45:27):
it operated from September of twenty one to July of
twenty two, so this is obviously been a while. Again,
don't you think the Justice Department would have tried to
organize everything? So they rented his house. It's possible he
didn't know about this if they rented his house and
then the and the associates were staging the poker games

(01:45:50):
like an Airbnbeta the well as Some question is was
Arenas there if he was don't know, Well, you've already
convicted him, you tell me, hmmmm.

Speaker 3 (01:46:01):
Hmmm.

Speaker 1 (01:46:04):
Pot limit Gershman and other defendants ran illegal pot limit
Omaha poker games among others, and collected a cut from
each pot contested. That's where it gets illegal as far
as poker. You and I can host a poker game
and we could play for millions of dollars. But the
second somebody takes a rake or takes money, that's when
it becomes illegal, like an anti okay, like anti slash rake,

(01:46:24):
explain that real quick. Now millions So okay, let's say
you and I are in a poker Now, I don't
know if it's millions, I could be making that up.

Speaker 3 (01:46:30):
Don't listen to me.

Speaker 1 (01:46:31):
But if it's hundreds, definitely, If it's hundreds or even
thousands of dollars. If you just read, let's say you
met and I play a poker tournament. You each put
in twenty bucks and you win first place, you get
winner take all, you get sixty bucks. If I, as
the house, take even one dollar off of that, say hey, guys,
I'm hosting the game. Just give me a little rid
of rake. I'm taking five bucks out of the pot.

(01:46:52):
Then I have raked to the pot, and then that's
when it becomes illegal. If we're all playing friends. For example,
if you play super Bowl squares and it's dollars a
square and you're trying to win in the office pool,
that's legal as long as all the money.

Speaker 3 (01:47:05):
Goes back out.

Speaker 1 (01:47:06):
This is my understanding, by the way, No, no, no,
But if the person who organizes say, hey, guys, you know,
for my troubles I'm taking twenty bucks, then it becomes illegal.

Speaker 3 (01:47:15):
That crosses the thresholder the leagal.

Speaker 1 (01:47:16):
So if you come to my house and we play,
if three of us are playing, or we have six
of us and we split the morning that we put
the put in friendly poker game, you can't go after us.
But if I'm trying to make money off your poker
game as a hosting fee or something, that's where the
illegal gamly takes place, or just a general rake. That's

(01:47:37):
that's how casinos. So let's say Matt and I play
at the casino poker table. He bets twenty dollars. I bet,
I call twenty dollars and it's a forty dollars pot
they take. Generally it's a cap up to like five bucks,
they take five dollars. That's how casinos make money. They're
making five dollars a hand plus dealer tips. All right,
So here's what the prosecutors are saying that Arenas, when

(01:47:57):
asked about this, lied to them.

Speaker 3 (01:48:00):
Here's the quote from the the defendant accusations.

Speaker 1 (01:48:08):
Arenas knew and not only provided gambling equipment at the
Gable House to be used to host an the legal
poker game. On July of twenty twenty two. Prosecutors say
he had no only rented out the gable House to
be used to host the illegal poker event, he was
collecting rent from the host for operating an illegal poker
game at the gable House.

Speaker 3 (01:48:27):
This is what the indictment says.

Speaker 1 (01:48:30):
So maybe he wasn't even at these games, but he
was just renting them and knowing what they were doing. Yeah, well,
clearly he Yeah, he provided false saatements. I mean, that's
gonna be that'd probably a small charge, i'd imagine, Well,
federal indictment.

Speaker 5 (01:48:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:48:43):
I'm not a lawyer anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:48:44):
Because I canna ask you a stupid question. Let's go
this again. Pardon my ignorance on this. What if I
do want to have I mean, what if I do
want to make a little bit of money. What if
I'm hosting this event and I'm buying the equipment and
doing I mean, I guess things are just illegal in life.
There are workarounds. For example, poker rooms here in Houston,

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rather than raking the pot, they charge you an entrance fee,
and then they charge you a seat fee. It's ten
dollars an hour. If they report that as income and
they report that. So basically, if I guess, I guess
the law would be, you can't have illegal if you
can't hold gambling activities in your home.

Speaker 3 (01:49:27):
Is what I guess is the is the number one
violation here?

Speaker 2 (01:49:30):
Hm?

Speaker 1 (01:49:31):
Right, yes, without well because of the licensing gaming and
licensing commissions are gonna want their.

Speaker 3 (01:49:36):
Cut, right they want you to be a legal poker house.

Speaker 1 (01:49:40):
Yes, and these poker houses that are around town are
going to have to report whatever they're making from you
to go give it to the government. They a lot
of them got raided. I think some of them even
got raided recently. Somebody was there. They're always getting raided.
I wouldn't let me tell you, so I wouldn't trust.
I don't know poker houses very well. I wouldn't trust them.
But they still scare me to death. Yeah, save your money.

(01:50:03):
But yeah, Kilbert Arenas. I mean now again, it doesn't
help the client tell he's hanging out with right, well,
I don't know that these guys. How did they know
each other? How did how does one get approached by
an Israeli gangster to rent your house? I don't know,
it's really gangster sounds fishy. I mean that would take

(01:50:25):
levels of me trying to find this dude. Yeah, but
we're not in the same circles Gilbert Arenas is.

Speaker 3 (01:50:31):
That's what I'm saying though. I mean, that's why I
kind of believe it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:34):
Ross.

Speaker 1 (01:50:35):
These are circles that you believe these multi millionaires hang
out with. Yeah, I mean I could believe he was
renting them their house and didn't think it was a
big deal. M So Gilbert probably is going to lose
his career over this and perhaps face jail time. I
hope he's doing okay with money. He's made over like
one hundred fifty million in his career. Yeah, that I

(01:50:55):
know it wasn't he didn't he bring the gun on
the plane?

Speaker 3 (01:50:57):
Was that the right place?

Speaker 1 (01:50:58):
It was in the club, not the clubhouse, the locker
room with Javaris Critten in that whole situation. That probably
doesn't help his character. Pick which one you want to
get shot by? I think I was that him. He
did that.

Speaker 3 (01:51:08):
He put three guns on the chair and said which
one do you want to get?

Speaker 1 (01:51:11):
And you got Marcus Morris writ in bad checks and
that was over like a bu Ray game or something
like that. Wasn't it with criten In and Arenas. Yes,
because Ray is very popular among the NBA players. I
just don't get it. They have so much money, so
then that you make you get it. They just don't care,
just like to gamble, flash money around and sometimes you
don't pay. He's saying, I don't get that they would

(01:51:31):
be involved in the legal activities. I mean, if the
guy's saying, hey, can we rent your house for and
he's charging you, he's going to pay you some kind
of crazy amount of money.

Speaker 3 (01:51:41):
I want to hear more about these women.

Speaker 17 (01:51:44):
I know you do.

Speaker 1 (01:51:44):
I want to hear more about who is playing in
these games. You can go, well, I guess if you're
in California, Oh, we'll find out. But my thought would
be there will be just really rich people and they
will not be people that will be recognizable to us.

Speaker 3 (01:51:58):
I mean, hudo Iranian game?

Speaker 2 (01:52:00):
Is that rainy?

Speaker 1 (01:52:00):
You said Israeli Israeli gangsters hang out with I'm not
answering that.

Speaker 3 (01:52:07):
Yeah, you probably shouldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:52:08):
Twelve forty five on The Mat Thomas Show at Ross
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
to one three two one two five seven ninety The
trade Deadline Clock four hours, fifteen minutes and thirty three
seconds four point fifteen thirty three. Will the Astros do
something more than getting another utility player who probably will
be playing third base with the Stros the rest of

(01:52:30):
the season. And are we scared about the Mariners getting
you Henel Suarez to give them additional pop? These are
things we'll get to between now and two o'clock. Ross
with is today's edition to Believe It or Not Poker
Houses twelve forty six on Sports Talk seven n eighty
Mark Finesand we've had him on before, right ROSSI MLB Network.

Speaker 3 (01:52:52):
I think so yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:52:55):
He put out a tweet eleven twelve minutes ago that
says the following. The Astros continue to mind I under
the starting pitching market Dylan Seas and Sandy Alcantara included,
but sources say Houston is currently more focused at upgrading
the back end of the bullpen, with some of the
top controllaber relievers potentially in play for the Astros.

Speaker 3 (01:53:13):
That sounds about right, I eat. We need a right
handed arm. Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (01:53:18):
You can't continue to throw a bray you out there
as much as you have in a look at bray
who's not workload has been less this year, but it's
been active the last handful of days and what it bends.
But they're on a hundaid budget.

Speaker 3 (01:53:28):
I get it, and I know that some people are
gonna say they don't have to be.

Speaker 1 (01:53:37):
But when the boss says we're going to keep it
at a certain level, we're going to keep it at
a certain level, especially when some guys are coming back,
they are. I think Jim would be willing to go
into the tax for for like a Dylan ceasee or
something like that, but I think anything less than that,
it's well now they took on Ureus is making three
million this year, so he's the year last is any

(01:54:04):
is any deal gonna get them over into the taxi
for a second time, but it'll be small. It's a
bigger penalty. I think you do it for Dylan sees absolutely.
I think Jim Crane would do it. I think that
Cardinals create would really make things a very not awkward.
But there'd be a lot of work done for Dana

(01:54:24):
in the off season, more than he'd probably be prepared for.
What else is he doing. He's fine, that's his job,
is his job to build the team. But you'd be
parting ways with somebody that would be very recognizable. I
don't think you can trade parade, especially with the hamstring
off the bone, might have some value. I think that

(01:54:45):
you could find something somebody would take them in just
a matter of what you're getting back.

Speaker 3 (01:54:50):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 24 (01:54:51):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:54:51):
Does a hamstring off the bone?

Speaker 1 (01:54:53):
Is that a career ender? It feels like a guy
is only like twenty six, but he wasn't fight a
foot to begin with. In terms of range, it was,
but he held his own here defensively. I don't think
anybody could possibly argue about his work defensively at third base,
especially after what we had thought we had heard in
spring training.

Speaker 3 (01:55:09):
He was good.

Speaker 1 (01:55:11):
We have great range, but anything hit to him he got,
he got quick cans, good on transfers, good accurate arm.
I mean, this team defensively is really really good.

Speaker 3 (01:55:24):
It just is.

Speaker 1 (01:55:25):
It may not be like twenty seventeen good, but it's still.
I don't know what the metrics would say, but I
would might characterize him as a top seven or eight
top defense in baseball to me, feels like in terms
of not giving a lot of games away, base running
still is an issue at times, namely our greatest aster
of all time, but that's a different issue for a
different time. You'd figure the greatest of all time could
run the bases fifteen years in.

Speaker 3 (01:55:46):
Yeah, but it's perfect.

Speaker 1 (01:55:51):
Let's see. How do you feel about DRS Matt DRS
Defensive run and saved? Oh yeah, boom, So let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:56:02):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:56:05):
They have the Astros at twenty first in DRS. The
Fielding Bible are good friends at Fielding Bible, they are
friends of ours.

Speaker 3 (01:56:11):
Cheer went up.

Speaker 1 (01:56:12):
Okay, I don't know. I look at the Astros defense
and I go man. There are very few times over
the course of the season they've given up games, and
especially if you're talking about maybe the numbers not being
as good, it's because what kind of lineup have the
Astro has been putting out there. Way they've had two
third basemen, they've had two shortstops, they've had three second basemen.

(01:56:34):
Left field's been a hot mess all season long. Now
you've had Christian Walker basically in Victor Caratini operating at
first base, but it's mostly Christian Walker. Your center field
has been two different positions. Your catcher's been reliably the
same for the most part with Yannair Diaz. I mean,
for as much as this lineup has moved up and
down to down, I still think it's been a very
good defense for this team this year. The biggest negatives

(01:56:58):
they have is actually first left pitcher and catcher. They
think Christian Walker's a negative after three straight goal gloves. Yes, Sonn,
I'm buying it. I ain't buying it. That's what the
nerds got in the way. No nerds watch the damn
game or some once in a while. The nerds there's
tracking dead on everything. Yeah, I can track something they're

(01:57:20):
not gonna I'm trusting the nerds over you. I'm not
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(01:57:41):
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Speaker 3 (01:57:43):
Very here or miss you play? Keep on the sound.
It's a little I'm Beyonce to it.

Speaker 1 (01:57:48):
The Astros are one team to watch on.

Speaker 3 (01:57:53):
Stephen Kwan alright man.

Speaker 1 (01:57:56):
Houston has had three different starting left fielders in the
last three game.

Speaker 3 (01:58:00):
Mister Morosi says.

Speaker 1 (01:58:02):
He goofed up one time really bad and we would
try to get a hold of him and he didn't
answer our phones. If where does jose l Tuva play?
If they get Stephen quan, are they gonna try to

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put him at center? Who I was gonna say? Are
you saying holds up?

Speaker 2 (01:58:31):
Now?

Speaker 14 (01:58:32):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:58:32):
Does he have a history of me? But he's at
his best? And left is that's where he's got the
three time gold glover and left? Oh, oh, the clock's over.

Speaker 1 (01:58:41):
The clock's over.

Speaker 3 (01:58:42):
That's all right. Let me give you another hot take.
You're ready for this? Oh, baby, sizzle it up.

Speaker 1 (01:58:51):
Stephen Kuan comes here. That must mean that Jordan Alvarez
is not really coming back anytime soon. That's what I
would think, because you could, you could, You could hide
al two bays a DH. Stephen Kawant has played one
game in center this year?

Speaker 3 (01:59:05):
How about his entire life? One game in center this year?

Speaker 1 (01:59:10):
I found more? Seven more? Okay, seven and twenty twenty two?

Speaker 3 (01:59:15):
It man, that's weird.

Speaker 1 (01:59:17):
Do you move him to center field just to reinvent
him in the middle of a Pennant race?

Speaker 3 (01:59:22):
I don't know if you do that.

Speaker 1 (01:59:24):
You could and if you wanted to, say seven Kwhan,
We want you to come back to centerfielder next year.

Speaker 3 (01:59:27):
No, maybe this is gonna happen.

Speaker 7 (01:59:29):
But I.

Speaker 1 (01:59:32):
Again, this is this is agent's talk. This is John
Morosi calling an agent who's calling on your client. Oh,
this team, this team, this team, this team is a
a three time Gold Glover. Ops is seven fifty eight
this year, last year, seven ninety three, great contact hitter,

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good guy to pass the baton in the lineup, under
team control for too much. Look, I want Stephen Kuan here.
I just like, are the Are the Astros gonna get
in on this? Really that'd be great. I'm gonna read
the quote again. Okay, this came thirty four minutes ago.
The Astros are one team to watch in Stephen Kuwan
Houston said three concerning starting left fielders in the last

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three games. Well, I mean, that's no breaking news on
that things aren't. Hearing names again is just fodder for us.
I understand that. But hearing these names ross make me
think that the the Cavalry ain't coming as fast as

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maybe we want them to come back.

Speaker 9 (02:00:46):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (02:00:46):
John Paul Morosi was the one that said like the
Blue Jays were in on Otani, or that he was
going to Toronto. Yes, and he wasn't bad. He wasn't
in Toronto at all and didn't want to admit that.
He goofed up.

Speaker 3 (02:01:00):
Yeah, it took him a while.

Speaker 1 (02:01:04):
Here we go. December two, twenty twenty three. John Rosey
apologizes for reporting inaccurate information about Sho Halo Tani flying
to Toronto. Yeah, okay, so let's do this. We've done
this with Korey already today, We've done this with Cease.
Let's say Kwan all of a sudden, is now Houston
Astro maybe and maybe this could be in Ross. Let's

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be honest on this. Maybe this is a little bit
of Hey, we're the Astros, we don't have much. Let's
float some names out there to at least show our audience,
our fan base that we're trying to get some people.

Speaker 2 (02:01:36):
Right.

Speaker 3 (02:01:36):
You can do that too.

Speaker 1 (02:01:38):
There's all sorts of ways to manipulate the media. Oh, man,
you know how bad it was for Morosi. He immediately
got refuted by John Hayman and Bob Nightingale. Oh if
Bob knight Gale is refeeding you, that means it's really bad.
You're getting dunked on by John Hayman and Bob Nightingale.
Things are not going your way.

Speaker 3 (02:01:55):
All right? So if Kwan comes here, who's your center fielder?

Speaker 1 (02:02:07):
And Steven Gwan? Where's L two a gonna play al two?

Speaker 21 (02:02:12):
Bay?

Speaker 1 (02:02:12):
You know it is us. Let me tell you what
L two is gonna do. T B is gonna go
back to second base? Is he gonna DH the whole time?
And you're gonna play him DH probably sixty or seventy
percent of the time? Give Bryce Matthew thirty. Well, then
that that means Yourdon's not coming back. I just don't, man,
this could happen and I can gif, I get out
on my face. That's fine, but I just don't see it.

(02:02:32):
I just don't.

Speaker 3 (02:02:35):
Doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 1 (02:02:36):
It is weird that you've got so many different names
that are being discussed that just don't make that automatic.
Oh that's a puzzle piece. It fits the Korea situation. Yeah,
you get like the Aureus deal today with Baltimore makes
perfect low end deal with a guy that tility guy
got a year of control, doesn't make a whole lot

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of money. That kind of mid level deal.

Speaker 3 (02:03:00):
Makes perfect sense.

Speaker 1 (02:03:02):
Going to get Kray and asking for the twins to
pay fifty million dollars of the contract and giving you
an outfielder and potentially setting up a situation where you
may have to move somebody that you don't want to move,
I e. Jeremy Pania, If you're gonna move Carlos Kraz
to keep him on the infield does made a lot
of sense. Gold glove lefty left fielder. If it ain't broke,

(02:03:23):
you don't fix that, you have you have to keep
him in the left field.

Speaker 2 (02:03:26):
You I.

Speaker 1 (02:03:28):
No, I'm talking about here.

Speaker 5 (02:03:34):
Too.

Speaker 1 (02:03:35):
He's been an all started the last two years. He's
under team control for two more years. You've got one
top one hundred prospect, and that dude is basically Dana
Brown's baby because it was his first DRAF pic. M hmm.

Speaker 3 (02:03:46):
Yeah, just a lot of confusion here. To me, it's
a lot of I just don't get it. But again
and an unreliable source.

Speaker 1 (02:03:55):
Well that's right, but maybe one of these drops and
then Dana will say here is what we're thinking, and
then you can go, okay, now that makes sense. But
all these dudes right now are putting stuff on their
Twitter hoping that something clicks. They're getting clicks and likes
the like they're getting us mentioning them. And my guess

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is the agent game is strong where either the team
is saying, hey, put this name out to see what
we can get, or the agent saying, hey, my client
is being talked about here, here, and here. Does it
mean it's a probability? No, Does it mean it's a possibility.
Does it mean the name was thrown up against the
wall to see if it's stuck? Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (02:04:35):
Okay, we'll see. We'll know in thunder.

Speaker 1 (02:04:38):
For if they don't make another move in the next
three hours, fifty minutes and fourteen seconds, I would not
be stunned because that would give me two things. One
the Astros don't have enough to really trade right, or
two they do believe the guys that are on the
angel lists, that are working in sugar Land, in Corporus, Scritia,
are are on the custom coming back right. But like

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I said, this is the Aureus deal and that's it
is kind of the favorite. As to what they're gonna
do now, Brian McTaggert, you'll hear in about twenty minutes,
thinks that something could happen here in the next three
forty nine seven one three two, one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety
The University Houston Ross has a survey out about what

(02:05:24):
Harris County residents want, and they want more sports and
they want more entertainment. We'll discuss the numbers next one
to twelve on Sports Talk.

Speaker 3 (02:05:33):
Seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (02:05:38):
The Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of
Houston created a little poll, a little survey. They they
took twenty three hundred people ROSSI and they ask them
questions about the sports scene in Houston. And I want
to go through these very quickly because we've got we've

(02:05:59):
got a call to get two plus. We got Brian
mctagger really quick on a few things. Some of these
are kind of duh, and some of these are own Okay.
This is according to the Hobby School of Public Affairs.
Three out of four people are enthusiastic about the World
Cup company Houston.

Speaker 3 (02:06:17):
That feels about right. Nothing crazy on that.

Speaker 1 (02:06:19):
I mean, I can't believe anyone would say, oh, that sucks,
like I don't like soccer, But I'm not like, oh,
that's a terrible idea for them to come here. It
seems like there's a win win on that one, right,
tickets are really expensive.

Speaker 3 (02:06:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:06:32):
A majority of registered voters surveyed by the University of
Houston's Hobby School of Public Affairs say they support using
public money for renovations to energy stadium. Okay, eighty one
percent of the voters have a favorable opinion of the rodeo,
seventy three percent of a favorable opinion about the Texans.
Twenty six percent say you're not using any of our

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tax money. Twenty six percent of those people also say
we will help pay between twenty one percent of the cost.
Twenty five percent say we'll pay up to twenty percent.
So it very varies about how much money public money
we're putting into this. Sixty two percent support a public

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private partnership to convert the Astrodome into an entertainment venue. God,
that'd be a tremendous waste of money. Let's see here
other findings in this. Sixty eight percent are enthusiastic about
the possibility of a theme park coming to town. Sixty

(02:07:39):
one percent, so they would visit the theme park at
least once a year. Yeah, you can say that that's right.
This is this is Are you gonna go ovates?

Speaker 3 (02:07:46):
You suck.

Speaker 1 (02:07:47):
I'm sorry, this is a terrible survey. I APOLITICIZ are
bringing this up. I mean, what a waste of time.
We have a great school. We waste our time on things.
That's definitely a way. Oh yeah, I'll think I'll go, well,
then you know what, we'll see how much of cost
it's too expensive? Forget what I said, stop sending me
releases you of h it's bad. You embarrass ourselves on

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our campus. I'm not bitter, though it seemed like you
might be.

Speaker 5 (02:08:12):
Well.

Speaker 1 (02:08:12):
Yeah, I mean it was a waste of time. I
thought it was something drinking. Okay, did you get the
same email? No, I'm seeing Yeah, the poll sixty two
percent with support Harris County money to renovate the astronaut.

Speaker 3 (02:08:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:08:25):
I don't believe it to be accurate at all. I
believe sixty two percent of us once had destroyed. I
don't know. Maybe we're in the minority. Man, people are nostalgic.
We talked about this, Well then then why is it
sat there.

Speaker 3 (02:08:38):
For thirty years? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:08:41):
I think you're I think I think it's this pole's bupkus.
I think they I think they were calling people till
they got the answer they wanted to hear. You'd be embarrassed,
Charles and Victoria one twenty. Hi, Charles, Hey, madd and
Ross love the show. Thank you listen all the time.

Speaker 7 (02:08:57):
I uh, I don't call it quite often, but I
follow you guys on X listen to the show. I'd
have to say about the whole Stephen Kwan thing, I
would think if that is the play they go for,
they probably have Ramon Urius probably at third base ninety

(02:09:18):
percent of the time, and have Jose at second and
then fit Stephen Kuan out in left field. If that's
the way they probably end up going. I mean, I
want this team to make a long run. Would love
to see them make another long run in the playoffs.
Really enjoy ass or as baseball. But I think today,

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for this trade deadline, I think they have to address
some type of pitching, whether it's starting or relief, and
then get themselves another bet, preferably another left handed bet
to help Hopefully Jrdan is you know, ninety hopefully hopefully

(02:10:00):
you know, going towards the playoffs whenever he does come back.

Speaker 3 (02:10:03):
I appreciate your optimism.

Speaker 1 (02:10:04):
Charles, that's very nice you to say that Damn, Charles,
We've been talking about this ninety for a long time.
To me, if he shows up, it's gonna be a
nice addition. But man, I'm not holding my breath. But maybe,
you know, maybe you carry the optimism for both of us.

Speaker 3 (02:10:19):
You may have to.

Speaker 7 (02:10:20):
I agree, I agree, but uh, hey, well we'll see
what happens. It's gonna be fun and we've got a
few hours left. Let's see what happens.

Speaker 6 (02:10:28):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (02:10:29):
But they I think they do need to upgrade just
a little bit here at the deadline. Uh to you know,
you know, you know, pretty much win the West and
put this to a close the last two months of
the season. But I really do feel with what Seattle did,
you know, I think us getting healthy and everything, you know,
we're gonna be able to, uh, we're gonna be able

(02:10:52):
to have a nice run towards the end of the
season and uh, you know, probably win the AL West,
try to go far in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (02:11:01):
But I think we need to upgrade just a little
bit here at the deadline.

Speaker 11 (02:11:05):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:11:05):
We'll see what happens. But uh, thank you for taking
my phone call. You guys, have a great day.

Speaker 1 (02:11:09):
Charles, never be a stranger of the show. Your kind
words are very much appreciated. Let's go to Donald at
one twenty two.

Speaker 11 (02:11:17):
Hi Donald, Hey, how you doing fellas good?

Speaker 9 (02:11:21):
How are you.

Speaker 25 (02:11:23):
Good?

Speaker 11 (02:11:24):
Listen to me. I'm not joking.

Speaker 2 (02:11:26):
Under my administration, there will be zero players on the
injured list. Okay, now let me tell you something. One
more just straight deadline. Nobody makes better deals than me.
We're going to get everybody. The AOFT is a joke
compared to the Astros dominance with my leadership, thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:11:49):
Three out of ten one point five. It took me
a minute to realize what he was doing. I thought,
Brian mctagger, Donald is bad. It's way better. Was the
worst Donald, and he was probably me. No, clans is
not bad, is solid. It's like a good six.

Speaker 3 (02:12:10):
Go ahead, let me hear it.

Speaker 1 (02:12:11):
No, I'm gonna do it.

Speaker 3 (02:12:12):
I can't even do it.

Speaker 1 (02:12:13):
I can't even talk about making the deals that we're
trying to make.

Speaker 3 (02:12:17):
It the trade deadline that was better than that last
thank you. I don't work on it. It's very difficult
voice to do. I don't think so. I think it's
no difficult. I don't want to do it. All to
embarrass myself, he said, it's not difficult.

Speaker 14 (02:12:34):
It's not difficult to be the best president of the
major that's probably better than mine. I can't believe I'm
doing this online radio show, this show, this this Rob's
foot real show, one of my favorite shows.

Speaker 3 (02:12:49):
I've been listening for the longest time. Since you're losing
the thread.

Speaker 1 (02:12:53):
See, I have no seem that's the hardest part of
doing any sort of impression is keeping it going. I've
created Okay, I'm done. Stop, I'm done. We're embarrassing, we're
embarrassing ourselves. But we're better than that guy sucked hiji.

Speaker 26 (02:13:11):
Hey, guys, for the love of God, don't ever try
to do a tru impersonation again.

Speaker 3 (02:13:15):
Please. That was it was Gill. I want to say,
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do it. It was.

Speaker 11 (02:13:23):
All right, man.

Speaker 17 (02:13:24):
Other than that, great show, great show as always.

Speaker 26 (02:13:27):
But I just want to give my two cents on
the trade deadline, man, I don't think the Astros are
gonna do much more, uh, wildly, because I think we
don't have a lot to bargain with. I'm not saying
they're not trying to make moves, but I mean there's
so much that we can do with what little that
we have. So I think I think they got the
third basement out of the Orioles just to put a

(02:13:48):
band aid off of what happened to east Ide Paratus.
And I think they're just banking on the guys coming
off the I are coming back some injury and just
plugging them in and hoping that everything goes good. So
go asstros off.

Speaker 11 (02:14:00):
Hope, I hope.

Speaker 3 (02:14:00):
I hope we can make a move.

Speaker 26 (02:14:01):
I hope we can make a nice run. But that's
my little two cents on him Man, great show.

Speaker 1 (02:14:04):
Guys, Thank you, you you You're it's always with a
nickel does my friend coming back? Brian mctaggard on what
he thinks could happen in the next three hours and
thirty five minutes. It's one twenty five. It's a Matt
Thomas show with Ross Ross. What is today's edition?

Speaker 3 (02:14:17):
I believe it or not? Hell if I know, it
could be a really good one.

Speaker 4 (02:14:20):
Oh no, oh no, no, I'm just I can't stop.

Speaker 1 (02:14:27):
Well thirty on Sports Talk seven on he Matten Ross
with you. We had a chance to catch up with
Brian McTaggart earlier today. Always a good conversation if you
missed it, well shame on you, But we give you
a chance to catch the conversation right now, will you
flat out and asked him to start the visit today.

Speaker 3 (02:14:41):
What does he expect to see.

Speaker 1 (02:14:42):
In terms of Rosster manoeuvering besides the Aureus trade with
the Astros when he sees the Red Sox and Astros
play tomorrow in Boston.

Speaker 18 (02:14:51):
Yeah, that's a good question, I think, so if they
can get there, and you know, I certainly think the
Thros a lot. I know they're They're working on some
other things here today and I'd be surprised if they
don't get something done. Obviously they still want to get
a starting pitcher. I don't think they're done looking for
offensive upgrades. So Urias trade is.

Speaker 3 (02:15:13):
Just part of it.

Speaker 1 (02:15:14):
But this is by no means they're a big move.
I think that's that's still to come, if they can
pull it off. Let's go to Aria's for a second.
It feels like to me, maybe I'm wrong. Is he
just in theory perhaps better Mauricio Dubon or are they
one and the same at this point?

Speaker 18 (02:15:33):
Yeah, I mean it looks like they're a little interchangeable.
I mean, to me, du Bond's it's more valuable because
he can play the outfield. Urius is more of an infielder.
I mean, he played almost exclusively third base this year.
So yeah, I think it just gives them somebody.

Speaker 3 (02:15:47):
They can put it third. See what else they can do,
you know, what other kind of bats they can get.

Speaker 18 (02:15:52):
But if you know, if they're not able to pull
off something, at least they have somebody that can put
it third, that plays a google off third base, can
handle the bat a little bit. That's you know, an
upgrade over you know, Zach Short and Shay Whitcomb and
and some of the guys have been playing here in
the last couple of weeks.

Speaker 5 (02:16:09):
So but.

Speaker 18 (02:16:11):
I mean, I guess, you know, is there a chance
maybe they moved to dubond somewhere. I know they don't
want to trade off the major league roster, but he
just does so many things. I just I just don't
know if that would be a good move for them.

Speaker 1 (02:16:24):
All right, let's get to another infielder been talked about.
Carlos Kreez spoke yesterday in Minneapolis. There the rumors have
not died completely, although the urious move probably slows it
down a little bit. Uh, it feels like to me,
and we were talking about this last hour, that there's
been consistencies in Jim Crane's ownership since the team has
been relevant. One, he's not going to give you super

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lengthy long contracts. He will give you fair market value,
but it will not be for the eight to nine
mega deal. And number two is if there is a
star player that he has his ey set on and
he really wants him, he's going to tell his general
manager whomever it is, to go get it, whether it's Verlander,
not once but twice, whether it is at Granky, whether
it is going to get Josh Hater in free agency.

(02:17:08):
And in this particular case, this feels Jim Crane driven.
So let me ask you, why do you think, if
you were able to get into the head of the
owner of this baseball team, why Carlinos is so appealing,
especially because there's so much money attached to the remainder
of his contract.

Speaker 18 (02:17:24):
Yeah, I mean, uh, first of all, I think the
Twins would have to eat a significant amount of the
remainder of their contract. I mean that team's for sale.
I think that they're obviously trying to shed some payroll here.
You know, how much of the remaining three years, would
they be willing to eat. Crane's also a business man,
and he knows that the getting Karay and here's going
to provide a boost.

Speaker 3 (02:17:44):
It's going to provide a spark.

Speaker 18 (02:17:46):
You know, remember when they both times they traded for Verlander,
especially the first time, it was like, wow, you know,
Verlander's here or Verlander's back, and you know it provided
a spark. That being said, a lot of times these
reunions don't work out very well. You know, Corey is,
you know, not the player. He was still a good player.
I think he could be a really good third baseman.
I think it would be a popular move in the clubhouse,

(02:18:06):
certainly with a guy like jose Al Tuby, and you know,
if he's on board, then everyone else is going to
get on board.

Speaker 3 (02:18:11):
I mean, he would be a player that could help them.

Speaker 18 (02:18:13):
But it's weird because I still think their biggest need
is a left handed bat, and you know you are
going to get Preta's back probably next year. Then you
have Korea arius a little bit of a logjam there.
So I see why they'd want to do it. I'm
not sure it's the best fit at this point. Willie Castro,
you know, left handed hitting infielder who you know can
move around a little bit for the twins and doesn't

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make all that money makes a lot more sense. So,
but Astros have probably got a lot of fires, a
lot of irons in the fire, you know, looking at
a lot of different things, and that's just one of them.

Speaker 1 (02:18:45):
And with the irons in the fire, and we've talked
about this farm system for the Astros, just the deals
you've been kind of seeing around baseball and kind of
relating that to what the Astros have to give up.
Where do you think that puts the Astros as far
as getting in poss bidding wars.

Speaker 18 (02:19:03):
Yeah, well, they're probably a little bit if they're going
after you know, some of these guys that a lot
of teams are after. I mean we just you know,
we you know, trade went down with the Padres and
A's and uh, you know A's or send them. Padres
are sending one of the best prospects in baseball to
the as you know, probably a better prospect than the
Astros have. So that's gonna make a little bit more difficult.
But they do have prospects to get deals done. You know,

(02:19:27):
they don't want to trade off the major league roster,
but guys like Jacob Melton and Shaye Whitcomb and you know,
Chas McCormick could probably use a change of scenery at
this point. Not that he's not that he's going to
help you get a deal done, but he could be
part of a deal. But it's gonna come down to
prospect capital what they have to offer. You know, they
do have a lot of arms and the upper upper

(02:19:48):
levels of their their prospect rankings that I'm sure some
other teams are allowed to get their hands on, So uh,
that's part of it. It probably they're you know, obviously
in a disc and that tage is spot and a
lot of other teams just because they just don't have
the overall the quality of upper level prospects that a
lot of other teams do, including the Mariners, who are
you know, pulled off the Suarez trade and I don't think,

(02:20:09):
you know, give up one of their their top ten prospects,
So that was a big coup for them.

Speaker 1 (02:20:14):
Brian McTaggert with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
and that was gonna be my next question. How much
more urgency do you think there is? From Dana Brown
with what the Mariners are doing.

Speaker 18 (02:20:25):
Yeah, I mean I think I think Dana had urgency anyway.
I think you know he knows that with all the
injuries and you know, Alvarez, I don't think you can
really count on, you know, when he's gonna come back,
if at all this year, preties looks like he's out.

Speaker 3 (02:20:37):
There's urgency there to add a left handed bat.

Speaker 18 (02:20:39):
But you know, the team that's behind you in the
standings has gone out and added Josh Naylor and now Suarez.
They already have put him in a line up with
JP Crawford cal Rally, Uh, that is a pretty deep
top of the lineup.

Speaker 3 (02:20:54):
They already have a really good rotation.

Speaker 18 (02:20:57):
So there are five games behind the Astros, but right
now their rosters better and significantly better and healthier. So yeah,
that Dane is aware of that, and that's why I
think they're not done. They've got to make a move
or two for a starting pitcher and another bat.

Speaker 1 (02:21:12):
So help me out, and maybe you don't have a
contact in San Diego, but just the general baseball. So
they the Padres go to get Mason Miller, but Dylan
Cees remains out there.

Speaker 3 (02:21:21):
Why are they moving some cease?

Speaker 18 (02:21:25):
Well, he's a free agent at the end of the year,
they'll get something for him. He's making fourteen million, so
it's sort of a matter of let's get something why
we can, and we will replace him with a thin
si who is under control for a few more years.
So sort of just kicking the can down the road
a little bit with a starting pitcher. But Cease is

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a guy that a lot of teams are gonna want,
so they're probably gonna be able to get, you know,
a couple of prospects for him, and otherwise they would
lose them, you know, at the end of the year
and free agency likely. So the fact they went out
and got Mason Miller, you know, a reliever and got
JP sears a starter that may Cease a little bit
more expendable now just because he is a free agent.
He's making a lot of money, and so they'll give

(02:22:06):
him some payroll flexibility here for the rest of the year.

Speaker 1 (02:22:09):
All right, If it's not Cease, and clearly they are
still looking for something in terms of pitching, does that
give you the sign one way or the other that
they're not completely sure The guys that are on the
farm and these rehab guys can come back and help.
Are they worried about using Ryan Gusto the rest of
the years, maybe a back end guy. Are they worried

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about keeping mcclors? Why would? And I've always and maybe
there's this there's age old thought of in baseball and
we had to Jim bound on last week that back
it up. You can't have enough starting pitching. So maybe
that's just a simplistic answer. But is there a party
that says, if they're kicking the tires on Dylan Cease,
that maybe they're not sure that what they have even
when the guys come back, and I'm including arrogating the mix,

(02:22:52):
are gonna be guys that can go deep into ball
games and they can help you win a September Pennant race.

Speaker 3 (02:22:57):
Yeah, I think there's no doubt.

Speaker 18 (02:22:59):
You know, Arraghetty was a rookie last year who had
a really good second half what made two.

Speaker 3 (02:23:04):
Starts this year. Books still very much out on him.

Speaker 18 (02:23:07):
They're still way better off with him in the rotation
over some of the other guys they have. But Luis
Garcia hasn't pitched in two years, Javier hasn't pitched in
more than a year. JP Franz has it pitched since
early last year when you know his shoulder was falling off.
Those three guys specifically, and even Harrogetty, Yeah, you don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:23:25):
What you're gonna get.

Speaker 18 (02:23:27):
Dylan Seese was a guy who makes thirty three starts
every single year, and granted the Astros get him, they're
gonna need him to make ten or eleven starts, but
he's gonna do that. And he hasn't had a great year,
but I mean, he was a top five style young
finisher last year. And if you can maybe tweak him
a little bit like they did with Kakuchi, put him
behind Hunter Brown and franber Valdez, Dylan sees those one,

(02:23:49):
two three in a playoff series that stats up with anybody,
including the Mariners, and I think they just want a
third guy who is a horse that they know in
the playoffs they can trot out there and match up
with other teams. I mean, last year they had Kakouchie
and I guess he was going to start Game three
of the Wildcard series and they never got there. So
obviously the goals to get the first or second seed,

(02:24:11):
and so you don't have to play in that wildcard
series and then they can stack up their pitching as
they want for the Division series.

Speaker 1 (02:24:16):
Tull More Minutes with Brian McTaggart with us here on
seven Ownty, are Jacob Melton and Bryce Matthews untouchable in
your opinion?

Speaker 3 (02:24:26):
I don't think Jacob Melton is.

Speaker 18 (02:24:27):
I would say Bryce Matthews is, just because the way
they talk about him so highly. He's also Dana Brown's
first draft pick. I think it would be hard for
Dana to let go of him at this point. I mean,
he came up and had, you know, a couple of
good games in Arizona, but overall it's been a little
overmatched at times, you know, offensively and defensively.

Speaker 1 (02:24:47):
So I.

Speaker 18 (02:24:51):
Guess it just depends, you know, what's your price. But
it would surprise me. I guess if they traded Bryce Matthews.
Would not surprise me if they traded Jacob Melton at
this point.

Speaker 1 (02:25:01):
All right, well, this interview has to go in the
natural direction trade deadline interviews go Brian Crystal Ball time.
What do you think happens between now and the deadline
at five PM?

Speaker 3 (02:25:13):
I do think they'll get a starting pitcher.

Speaker 18 (02:25:14):
I know, as of last night, cease was their main
target and things were progressing maybe a little bit towards
something getting done, So.

Speaker 3 (02:25:21):
I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with that.

Speaker 18 (02:25:23):
They do land Dylan Cease, and I'm a little bit
less clear on a bat. There's probably a lot of options,
but I do think they'll also also land a left
handed bat, and so you know how big of an
impact player that will be remains to be seen, but
I think it's safe to say when we get to
Boston tomorrow there's going to be a handful of new faces,

(02:25:44):
probably including Jeremy Panya, and three or four guys who
took the flight to Boston are going to be flying elsewhere.
So it's you know what, we got about six hours
to go a little less than six hours, so it's
gonna be very interesting.

Speaker 1 (02:25:56):
No, no, no, Brian, We've got three hours and nineteen minutes,
in twenty seconds left in the trade deadline clock.

Speaker 3 (02:26:07):
It's gonna happen during the eight team. It's gonna piss
me off. They don't deserve it. They hardly worked yesterday.

Speaker 1 (02:26:18):
They're gonna get an Astros trade that's gonna really mean something.
We got Yurius Ross. We got that at midnight last night.
We didn't even get that during our show today. You
know what, Dan, if you're listening, do something.

Speaker 3 (02:26:31):
In the next eight minutes.

Speaker 1 (02:26:35):
Give us a chance a two on it before the show,
because I don't want it to happen during the A Team.
They don't deserve it, and the aster, and you fans
don't deserve it either. You don't need fresh material for
those boys. All right, let's play Believe It or Not
is up next. It's all things about Gilbert Arenas. He's
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It is Incino House. All things about Gilbert Arenas is

(02:26:57):
up next. The trade deadline clock is still going three hours,
eighteen minutes and thirty four seconds. If you want to
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(02:27:19):
Gilbert Arenas and it's straight ahead here on Sports Talk
seven ninety. Apparently my co host just get ready for
a five k here coming up. He's been getting his
shins working out and loose. I don't know, man, don't
get old bro, I don't know what's going on. Maybe
I do need to go to the doctor. My left
leg is malfunctioning, you know how honestly what I do,

(02:27:41):
and I don't mean to pull the curtain back too much.
I get a lot of my medical stuff, my fifty
plus life stuff done during the Rockets offseason, because once
my Rocket season goes, I'm blowing and going.

Speaker 3 (02:27:52):
I have a ton to get all that stuff done.
So I'm you're like, what blowing and going?

Speaker 1 (02:27:57):
So you blow and go all Rocket season during the season,
I'm busy blowing and going.

Speaker 3 (02:28:06):
I don't see what you're trying to do.

Speaker 1 (02:28:08):
You said it, yeah, you like to blow and glow,
And then I didn't glow anything.

Speaker 3 (02:28:14):
I go places. Although Yankee's got the Pirates closer, that's great. Yeah,
he's got an era of like two.

Speaker 1 (02:28:24):
Two three hours twenty two seconds. Something will fall in
their laps and we already know it on the eighteam.
Oh yeah, god bless it sucks. Two point three seven
Era plus one fifty four seventeen saves. He's got seventeen
saves and the pirates. That's like having fifty anywhere else.
He's like the Goose, gossip shit and the Mario Rivera.

(02:28:46):
Look at him right now. We got a nasty slider. Ooh,
big bender.

Speaker 3 (02:28:51):
It's not good. Ross does like a big bender in it.
Once in a while. Yankees got one trying.

Speaker 1 (02:28:59):
To get me back because you like to blow and go.
Mmmm you said it.

Speaker 21 (02:29:03):
Not me.

Speaker 2 (02:29:05):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (02:29:05):
It says that Yankees are close to acquired. I saw
a done deal, I thought from Passing. Who knows? Maybe
maybe MLB doesn't want to give credit to the composing network.

Speaker 3 (02:29:14):
Uh, I mean, I mean I can.

Speaker 1 (02:29:17):
Doesn't MLB network shouldn't get every trade ripe since then
the league owns the channel. Right well, okay, Jeff Passon says,
finalizing a deal, So what is that? I mean that
means pretty much done deal, right See the New York
Yankees are finalizing a deal basically means it.

Speaker 3 (02:29:33):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah all right.

Speaker 1 (02:29:35):
Uh tomorrow on the radio show, we will run through
all the new astro players they have. You don't work
on Dylan Ce's Believe it or not?

Speaker 3 (02:29:44):
What do you think? Nope?

Speaker 1 (02:29:45):
Willie what's the game, Willy from the Twins, Willie Fritz. Well, no,
that's the Cougar coach Castro Willie Castro. W I L
L I.

Speaker 3 (02:29:54):
You know you can you know what you could do.

Speaker 1 (02:29:55):
All you can get this, you can have believe it
or not done before the show even starts tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (02:30:01):
A little bit little advanced prep O good, all.

Speaker 1 (02:30:04):
Right, Uh, we have non Florida stories tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (02:30:07):
We have trade reactions.

Speaker 1 (02:30:08):
We have trade reactions. We're non trade reactions.

Speaker 3 (02:30:11):
It might be time for aos.

Speaker 1 (02:30:15):
No, no, no, we're not crushing you. And I've already
said this is what they've done already already satisfies a need.

Speaker 3 (02:30:21):
I know I said that. But you were worried about
the Seattle Marriors. I know the Myroners.

Speaker 1 (02:30:26):
Yankees are making moves, Blue Jays are making moves, and
it's like everybody. It's like everybody's getting picked off the
basketball court and I'm just sitting there all alone. You
you were the last one pick, and that never happened
to me because I was tall. But then they regretted
picking me. They're like, oh man, this guy tall, but
he stinks. No, I'll get up the same. We're switching now,
I got a little hold on. I got a little

(02:30:48):
game team, Lefty hooks, Lefty hooks. I got some good
bounce passes. But his hammies aren't one hundred percent when
I was twenty. Yes, well with coffee exactly this all right,
everybody listening. You gotta have water intake before so your
your muscles can heal correctly. Ross's over here drinking caffeine,
which is the number one thing. Well, I gotta wake

(02:31:08):
up for the show. You try to host with Matt
not be on as much caffeine as possible. And we're
about the health. I'm see MAT's taking care of Yeah,
hashtag drink more water five minutes loth to get them
right now by five minutes loth.

Speaker 3 (02:31:20):
To go in the show?

Speaker 4 (02:31:20):
What should we do?

Speaker 3 (02:31:23):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (02:31:24):
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Speaker 1 (02:32:20):
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the two thousand and one NBA Draft.

Speaker 3 (02:32:26):
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Speaker 1 (02:32:31):
Hello, Yeah, yeah, thirty first bel Warriors statement number answers, Yeah,
come on now, Statement number two for the way. Gilbert
Arenas is the eighty ninth all time NBA scorer, behind
Lenny Wilkins and ahead of Rudy Gay.

Speaker 3 (02:32:46):
Believe it or Not?

Speaker 6 (02:32:50):
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Speaker 3 (02:32:51):
No, you I heard believe it first, Sorry, you're out
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Speaker 1 (02:32:55):
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Speaker 3 (02:33:04):
The What did you learn this weekend? What did you
learn this weekend? That's another show? I think. Oh that's right,
Sorry about that. Try. I want you to lose, and
lose badly. Okay, I will take great joy in that.

Speaker 1 (02:33:19):
In twenty eighteen, a Bleacher Reporter articles said the Gilbert
Ainas detailed how he always blows red lights, blows through
red lights and gets away with it by using dealer plates.

Speaker 3 (02:33:29):
Believe It or Not Not?

Speaker 1 (02:33:31):
That's a believe it by Sucker you let seven three
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you ready to play Believe It or Not? Yes, sir.
In two thousand and eight, Gilbertorinas released a hip hop
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Speaker 3 (02:33:45):
Agent zero Believe It or Not? Believe It No, Rosy
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Speaker 2 (02:33:52):
One?

Speaker 1 (02:33:53):
Javier on seven Anty Javier, what was your favorite part
of today's ten to two radio show?

Speaker 3 (02:34:00):
Gibert Arenas is thank you very much. Career.

Speaker 1 (02:34:03):
Renas is an advocate for animal rights, even posing shirtless
for Petera's ink not mink It campaign Believe it or not,
that's a believe it. He loves animal rights. Sorry, Alfred,
how old are you?

Speaker 3 (02:34:18):
Alfred? Forty one? Okay, nice to have you on the show.

Speaker 1 (02:34:22):
Gilbert Arenas has his son, Elijah, is a five star
basketball recruit currently committed to usc Believe it or not.

Speaker 3 (02:34:31):
Believe it? That's right.

Speaker 1 (02:34:32):
The reason why I asked his agent. Alfred's one a
very common name among younger people. So good for you.
State my number two for the win.

Speaker 12 (02:34:38):
Four.

Speaker 3 (02:34:39):
Oh you're the fourth. That makes a lot of sense.

Speaker 1 (02:34:41):
In twenty thirteen, Gilbert Arenas was arrested by the LAPD
for possession of illegal fireworks.

Speaker 3 (02:34:46):
Believe it or not, God day, I know this guy
got in a lot of trouble. Believe it.

Speaker 1 (02:34:51):
There you go, Alfred, Alfred the fourth. Congratulations. You know
you're going to the Big three. You know what that means.
You get to walk around and go and say yay yy.
Michael l on seven on you, Michael, You're ready to play.
Believe it or not?

Speaker 3 (02:35:05):
Believe it.

Speaker 1 (02:35:05):
During the two thousand and eleven NBA lockout, Gilbert Arenas
played eleven games for the team partially owned by Kobe
Bryant the Olympia Milano in Milan, Italy.

Speaker 3 (02:35:14):
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Speaker 1 (02:35:23):
Three hours, five minutes, twenty two seconds. The next show
is four hours. They're gonna have something dropping their lap,
Dylan Cease, Willie whatever. And you will hear Donald Trump
in personation Castro, Willie cast You.

Speaker 3 (02:35:42):
Will not hear Fad do that every day.

Speaker 1 (02:35:43):
Now you will not hear Fidel Castro impersonation.

Speaker 3 (02:35:45):
Can you do a Fidel? Yeah, I'm doing it here
it is He's dead.

Speaker 1 (02:35:51):
So I nailed it, didn't I?

Speaker 9 (02:35:52):
You did?

Speaker 3 (02:35:54):
The team is up next. Talk to you with the
Strippers tomorrow at ten a m.