Astros Take The Win vs Phillies In Game 1 Of The Series, Astros Overtake #2 Seed In The American League Over The Yankees

Astros Take The Win Over vs Phillies In Game 1 Of The Series, Astros Overtake #2 Seed In The American League Over The Yankees 

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Matt Thomas, Thomas, Ross VI Real.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Ten O one an Age Town. Good morning, and welcome
to a Wednesday edition of The Matt Thomas Show and Ross.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
First pitch, round ball right side. Dufondu is right, he
has it under hands. The second for what pain in
the first that's too just what the doctor ordered for
Frober Valdez and the Astros of four six three and
the side is retired. Phillies have stranded seven tonight and
after five and a half Astros nothing, Philly's.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Nothing, you.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
SIV, Where is there?

Speaker 4 (00:59):
That's I have an outsward right center field that hit
pretty well, long run for Rojas.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Look I got feel.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Opposite field hover for Cooper Hubble and of the Astros ballman, what.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Nothing euse did?

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Second home out of the season for Hubble?

Speaker 3 (01:15):
It was second home honey.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Here's the tow two swag and the best hand hold
up on the fastball away if fat is the ball game?
Cooper Hubbles home run in the eighth inning the difference
tonight as the Astros defeat the Philadelphia Phillies once to nothing.
The Astros did not have a hit until the sixth
inning they get the biggest hit of all to take

(01:48):
the first game of this three game series. Astro's victorious
in ten of their last thirteen.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
No defaming of America's newest hero, Cooper Humble. There will
be nothing bit celebratory conversation. Is your Astros knocked off
the Phillies? And again? I was telling you yesterday, Matt
Cooper Humbles, who he heating up? Turn this up?

Speaker 1 (02:24):
This song.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
In the classic category of is it Pat Benatar or
Joan Jett and the answery scene? None of the above?
Why do I do that to myself? I don't know, Matt,
because you're sexist? You ping?

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Patty Smith not familiar. This is a I know this song?

Speaker 3 (02:47):
You like this?

Speaker 1 (02:47):
I like this. I like this.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
The big rap towards what they called the Christian crescendo,
the big course of the end is really powerful. Oh okay,
keep it up. He gets you, gets you going ten
oh three? Right, Patty Smith, keeps you up. Just listen
to this. This is this is a serious mid eighties banger.
Turn up here we go? Yeah, mid eighties cheese. Oh stop,

(03:11):
here comes be ready, Cooper Humble, you are this? You

(03:37):
know why we like Kevin Jonathan here.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
I mean, it's not.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Because there's mixing skills. They're getting better, but they're still
not great. Okay, so we're taking it day by day. Yeah,
we're getting there. This is a Cooper Humble of mixing.
It's getting better.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
And you know, and he blows by some words rather quickly.
We all do.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Who does it? He's getting better at Yeah, it's getting better,
but he doesn't know songs. And unlike those kids of
your age, and I still call you a kid because
I've got a son your age. Uh, you seem to
appreciate the songs we put on the show. It's compared
to just ripping the crap. And I'm like my oldest
son does and for that, I love you for that.
You know, all surprising every time that I thought I

(04:15):
knew music until I came home. Like, dude, I don't
know nothing, man. I know we're helping each other out.
There's oceans of music. I'm discovered by all of us.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
You know who Billy.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Oshan is, no idea. Okay, let's get let's get him
some Billy Oshan before the end of the show. You know,
like Billy Oshan. Sure, Oh, good. Yeah, Billy Oshan's good
little care being queen. All right, it's eighties night during
the day on the Matttomas Show. After the show today,

(04:45):
let's go for a skate. Now, we won't go ice
skating at the Gullary because a guy with a pair
of bad legs on that ground stone. They cleaned all
that up, whipped up his bone fragments. Apparently it is
going nationally viral because all my friends are sending me
the videos. Yeah, it's funny, you know, I still feel
bad for the guy's got he had two limp legs. Yeah,

(05:09):
that's all I said. You play stupid games, you get
stupid prizes. He's still a high end person. But could
you're replace it? This what's gonna happen? But surely it
was glass and sunglasses, that's it. Yeah, he was stealing sunglasses.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
He was videoing.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Well, okay, eyes from unconfirmed like Twitter, you peak exactly
unconfirmed Twitter for you tab. But it looks like the
guy was just taking sunglasses and he was filming himself.
Is that true or is that fake news? Guys? I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
I guess I shouldn't have said so.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
He I mean, I'm assuming he did lift the glasses, correct,
I mean there would be no way he was stealing
something and was getting chased by the police. Yeah, and said, hey,
that that ice drink looks good, looks like a soft
landing spot. He thought it was pillowy. I mean, wouldn't
you want to thought it was snow. Wouldn't you want
to run to the playland at the gallery like a
landing world.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
No, you'd want to run to the exit.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Matt. Well, but I mean I guess that, as I
told you yesterday, it's hard to exit the ball. Yes,
that's true. They do that on hers two. It's like
trying to find the bathroom in a casino. They hide them,
no question. So you pop down and PLoP down on
the way. You're like, off, screw it. I'm just gonnasist,
want machine. I mean, I've I've yournad in my pants
before the casino. It didn't happen, No, I tell you,
it wasn't great. It was when Barbara, when Barbara hit

(06:16):
on that fourteen What did you say, Jonathan? You should
even talk about that, because I think you're serious.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
Matt.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
I did not arna in a casino. You're in on
the spelling bee competition. But nobody knows that already. When
Babs hit on that fourteen, you soiled yourself. No, I
wanted to punch her. I don't believe in hitting women.
But there's always exceptions a rule. Oh and it's when
at the blackjack table. The blackjacked head. There's no rules
at the blackjack table. I had to punch your wig off.
That's what I would have done. That way would have

(06:41):
been flying off. Yeah, uh, you know I should. I
should have taken the wig off of her and put
it on me and see, hey, look how stupid you
look hitting on a fourteen against the four Just let
her play her hand, Matt.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yeah, and we all lost. She lost and I lost.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
I let her play her hand and I'm I was
down one hundred bucks.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
You would have busted. And then they hit a twenty
or two one I can't remember. I think it was
a twenty. Just hurt, just hurt. Okay, let's get back
to some more positive things. Cooper, humble, Cooper, humble, Cooper,
freaking Robert skirted trouble. I mean almost all night long,
would you say, yes, got a couple of double plays,
But that's what he does.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
It's a ground ball pitcher. That's what good pictures do.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
I mean, you still get seven innings in ninety two pitches.
It's not inefficient, but four walks not ideal. That's what
nine walks in the last two games for him. Yeah,
but he reeks.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Some quality starts.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
So's it's going back a couple of years ago when
he did the exact same thing. He's like, well, he
didn't got a no decision yesterday, but I think his
last nine starts he's seven to zero.

Speaker 6 (07:39):
Low.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
I mean, I'm the era dropped yesterday.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Philly's oh for seven with owners in scoring position, Astros
oh for three. All right, what is more astonishing to
you that Cooper Humble was the hero of the game
or that Jake Myers batted cleanup?

Speaker 7 (07:57):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (07:58):
What do you mean?

Speaker 5 (07:58):
What do you mean?

Speaker 3 (07:59):
What I mean?

Speaker 1 (07:59):
He says, donishing you know exactly?

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Is over seven fifty average, over three hundred swinging a
big bat. Let me tell you so the Sultano swat
Jake Myers. What's up? If I would have told you
in March, yes, that that your friend, Jake, Jake, though
Rake Myers, Jake the Snake Myers would be hitting clean

(08:26):
up in a game I gotta be honest, Fan close
is selling good.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
I'm sure it is.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
But if I know that, Chans McCormick, we've been fighting
the Chaz chompers for three years. Suck at chess chompers.
They're they're what do you call it inactive? Yeah, which Chazz,
They're called gums.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Now they're not chomping.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
But if I'd have told you your bat and clean up,
you'd like, what is every single player hurt? I did it, seriously.
I don't know if you know what a double take take.
I did a triple take when I saw I was
like Jake Jake Myers, bat and clean up. Now it
didn't matter because somebody the lote pit yesterday and his
ranger sores was. I mean, he's just been fantastic this year.
He's got to be really mad. You know, his urn

(09:06):
run average is won in his last since June first,
two point oh eight on the season.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
I mean, look, it was a win win for me.
Two good pictures.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yes, game was moving very quickly. I was a little
doing the post game. I was waiting for the obligatory text.
I'm smelling extras. No, I would never do anything like that.
I wouldn't suggest that extra innings would be coming. That
would be rude. So somebody else has been sending me
those texts for like the last ten years. Yeah, I
must say, yeah, I must have been. He had the
wrong number saved in your phone. Now I know how

(09:40):
you're built. Okay, I'll y'all come clean. I did say
something last night, didn't you get You got close people
on Twitter like they did Ross text you.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
I'm like, no, he would not do such a thing.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
You know what. The at least I backed off when
it was late night West Coast the other week.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
You did do an extra inning game?

Speaker 3 (09:56):
I did, And I had more calls last Friday than
I had last night. Typically, i'll get peel the curtain back.
We get more calls on home games because more people
are getting in their cars listening and want it. But
and also more calls on losses because people want to complain.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
And I was thinking a Friday night game but didn't
even start till eight forty. I was like, all right,
I'm gonna be talking to myself for like ten minutes,
but I went to one o'clock in the morning. Yeah,
I was done last night ten fifteen. I mean, people
had to say what they wanted to say, good win, goodbye, goodnight.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, you're right. It's easier to complain than it is to.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
I mean, think about it. YELP reviews generally speaking, are
you suck? Yes, as compared to this place was great.
We're I'm gonna Should we create a website that's nothing
but positive reviews, then nobody would go there because everybody
have five stars, be unreliable, but.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
It would be like the best of the best.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
If you if you get onto our website, you are
really good at what you do. How about the will
force the users for every negative review they give, they
have to give at least one positive review. So if
you hate this restaurant, like, you can't have me some
old Karen on there with like fifteen negative reviews and
you've never said anything nice about anything because you just
like to complain. Yeah, you want to. You want to

(11:10):
show that you can not just dog cuss everybody you talk.
You talk about it, gonna be nice about something?

Speaker 8 (11:16):
Okay?

Speaker 9 (11:17):
I like it?

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Do you hear crackling?

Speaker 1 (11:20):
I do?

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (11:21):
I was like, I was like, do I have shampoo
in my ear? How did the how'd the I email go?

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yesterday? I have not gotten a response. You send it,
what time about one fifteen yesterday and it's ten o'clock
and they're working on Okay, all right, we have no
idea if the phones are working or not. I believe there.
I listened to Sean a little bit today, so I'm
not crazy to hear the crackling. You don't hear the crackling, okay, yeah, it's.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
It's very light.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
I mean, I imagine you can't hear on the It
adds you know what, you know where we're but we're
by a roaring fire. It sounds like somebody's opening a
word's original very quietly. By the way, I have a
bag of worders originals in the actually to my car
would I was given him a butterscotch Thomas. Let me
tell you you could rip on those all you want.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Oh they're delicious.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
You put one in your mouth. It's ecstasy. That's very easy.
Ten thirteen, My god, that's like three in this segment.
It is absolutely it's a delightful treat that anybody that
wants to rip on warthers. You can shut your bomb
ass up. Speaking of that, we'll have that eleven thirty today.
Brian Bogus even at eleven o'clock. We have the news
at noon believe it or not, today and we have

(12:28):
Ross intense NBA draft breakdown. How intense?

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Hmmm? One to ten point five?

Speaker 3 (12:37):
That feel fair? Okay? Cooper hummel and then we'll go
Cooper Hummel h Cooper flag and then we'll go on
from there. There is one cat, get the kid out
of Rutgers who won't talk to anybody. Ace Bailey, you've
heard about this guy. I have not all he will
talk to me. He won't talk to you. You won't
talk to any NBA team. You must have a spot
he wants to go. I yeah, I can't remember. He

(13:00):
said something like that. Where would it be though, Like
if you have to talk to me, if you need
to talk to me to draft me, then then you're
not really interested or something like that. It is something weird. Yeah,
these kids today, these kids today, ten to fourteen.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
It is the Matt Thomas Show with a ross.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
If you like to chime in and brag about your
astros who won again yesterday won nothing and they still
hold a four and a half game whatliver Seattle. By
the way, congratulations to the CINCINNTI Reds. They beat the
Yankees last night and eleven innings by a final score
of five to four, which means the Astros are all
by themselves in second place among American League Baseball teams
record wise seven one three two one two five seven nighty.

(13:37):
I'm gonna play Billy Ocean all day long, but I
can't think you can go that long four or four
hour show. This This is the nineteen eighty five min
It's best right here. People in eighty five love this song.
People went to this to the clubs to dance of
this song. There's a lot of cocaine snorted to this song,

(13:59):
Oh sure, in stonewashed jeans. A lot of hair spray
sprayed to this song. A lot of women wearing Mexican dresses.
What Mexican dresses? You know, those like those long dresses
they sed to the women when the eighties would wear No,
oh yeah you do with the flowers on them.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, the flowers are up to the Mexican ladies wearing them. No,
all the moms in my school were wearing that way.

Speaker 5 (14:23):
They were.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
They were a big big deal. I mean my mom
wore but she's Mexican. I don't know, yeh. That's all
I knew him was the Mexican dresses. Wasn'tmen talking about
the type people were wearing. I was just like where
they're from. Okay, Yeah, I know what I'm talking about,
right with the flowers, but I don't know their full

(14:44):
length okay. And they would twirl and dance. I don't
know the moms playing the Spanish. I don't think they
were doing that. I mean, I guess you could. I
mean when in Rome or when and wherever you are Tatos.
Yeah's gonna say, w wearing Italian dresses. I don't know why,

(15:05):
where did it go wrong? And now I'm going to
show you what I'm tech talking. No, I'm not calling
you a liar. I just didn't know that. Yeah, and
it probably was a formal name for them. I Mexican dresses,
nineteen eighties. Let's take a look here, folks. So while
you're doing this, until I get to five hundred followed

(15:26):
on Instagram, I'm following everyone back at sports RV. So
you're on Instagram, you'll eventually stop following everybody. Maybe here
we go, here's here's the sports RV on Instagram. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
I'm trying to build it up. Right there. That's That's
what I'm talking about, right there, the flowers up top
and there's a fold link.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yeah, okay, they still wear those. My wife has one, Okay,
but it's funny. I vintage Mexican dress in pink cotton. Fun.
Nineteen eighties I knew I would make fun. Nineteen eighties
fun and nineteen eighties. Eh, music was mid TV was great.
Style was as you said, a lot of hair spray,

(16:01):
get a little wacky, got progressively weirder, and there was
kind of a reset, I don't know, around maybe late nineties,
early two thousands.

Speaker 10 (16:09):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Now it's cycling back.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah. If we want to forget the nineties, we just can't.
Right and written about everything? What do you mean you're
trying to forget Saved by the Bell mm Beverly Hills
down on too and oh music of the nineties, what
was the great? Oh well, no, I mean big hip
hop revolution, Tupac, Notorious, bag jay Z hitting the scene, outcast,
don't forget.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Like who had more?

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Would be Whitney Houston had more Top Billboi one hundreds
in the Mariah Carey she had like she had like
thirteen number one hits or something like that I could
probably live with that Mariah Carey music. Mm okay until
well now do I want to look great? Awakening? She
wanted to me, Tom Matola, what an idiot? Right?

Speaker 1 (16:58):
Well, you know miss made on both sides on that.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Everybody makes mistakes. I mean, Scarlett Johanson has been doors twice.
Got she was on the Today Show today? Good gracious,
mount Rushmore just perfection right? Anyways, all right, this is
what happens when you have a non controversial, one nothing game.
Although East Sack Prati has got called on an inside
strike yesterday. That was what I also want to thank
one of our coworkers, Dan, I appreciate you. I asked

(17:24):
for a late swap. I had astros tonight. If I got,
I had something else and he is always accommodating and
always a great co worker.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Thank you, Dan Matthews. I just wanted to say that real.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Quick and hosts a Saturday show and you do great
with swaps too, mad Yeah, I'm all, I'm I'm a
respectful swapper. That's why you get the pineapple No, that's
only in Santa Plantation. Shout out to the all the
all of the are you wearing a Pineapple shirt? Today.
Don't listen. Don't listen. I'm wearing a Rocket shirt today

(17:54):
to celebrate the big Rockets. Well, no, any given day
you're wearing a free Rockets or a free Cougar shirt.
And that's okay, that feels fair. You gotta save money.
You got kids in college, I got a mortgage. I
gotta buy you a daytimer today. Yes, today, Now I'm
getting one on Amazon. I'm not even waiting for you. Okay,
I'm going to let me just say ross Is, I'm

(18:17):
very scatterbrain's. I would amaze you need a little, not
a lot of organization life, but you need a little organization.
I got a lot of faults in my life, and
I write everything down on a daytimer.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
And I may be the minority.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
A lot of people use their phones or computers or
tablets whatever, but I like to write it down, like
to see it in front of me. And I suggest
you do the same thing. I wish I was more
like that. There's a lot of ways that you are.
They don't wish I was more like, oh geez, but
that is one of I am. I can get disorganized.
So when the NBA scheduer comes out, it gives me
an opportunity to go to my favorite store of all time,

(18:48):
Office Max or Office Depot or Staples whatever, and I
like to go to Daytime or those eighteen month daytimers.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
I'm gonna buy you one of those. So can you
buy somebody's.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
It gonna be one of those giant ones you I
get your smaller clock someone over the head with. I
just want like an eight by ten, like regular size
or even smaller. If you know what I'll do. I
will video chat you when I'm at the store to
buy and said, what do you want this one? When
is this? When are you doing this?

Speaker 1 (19:11):
When the NBA schedule comes out that's late August?

Speaker 3 (19:15):
What am I gonna do till then? But you missing
appointments and go to.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Your outlook and just print a bunch of calendars.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Now I'm gonna just buy one. That's about it, all right.
So the Astros get a win one nothing and that
Philly seems really good, I mean Castanos and company. And
they just shut thankfully. Bryce Harper's hurt, not thankfully, you
know what I'm saying. Not missing him in the lineup,
too hurt for your he could Yeah, he's not seriously hurt.

(19:41):
He's gonna be back in a cot week. It's always
every year there's he's he's almost like your own. There's
gonna be something every year that's gonna derail ip. I
don't know how to look at the game. Distinguished I
a two time MVP. He's going to Hall of Fame.
Huh uh yeah. When he plays, all he does is

(20:02):
change baseball games. One hundred and forty five games last year,
but then one twenty six, ninety nine, one forty one,
fifty eight, Like what is acceptable now for for fifty
eight was the COVID season. Now that's fifty six. I mean,
can we can? We can we redesign like there's no
more there's no more cow ripkins. We know that we can.
There's not even no More's how too bag because hose
I didn't want to take days off, but now it's happening.

(20:24):
I mean we can't. These guys bodies are breaking down
because of the I mean it's just year round, it's
year round. They're they're working on their bodies and they're
they're pushing themselves to the limit. But if they here's
the here's the here's the catch twenty two on this.
If they don't work out year round, and they wait
till February first to get ready exactly. Then people say, well,

(20:45):
why did you show up to camp the way that
you look? They have a terrible month of April. No,
you have to do it now. In the nineteen seventies
when everybody was just crushing cases of beer and smoking
SIGs in the offseason, that's okay, you're not behind, but yeah,
if you don't do it now, you're gonna be behind. Yeah,
it's it's actually frankly unfair. I mean, I was looking
at the video of Kevin Durant. He's out there shooting
baskets all the time. Part of me was like, this

(21:05):
is nice that you're working out. Part of is can
you say this for October? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (21:11):
I get it, but I mean tough.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Look, we'd have some generational type baseball players. We have
Mike Trout, who all when he plays, he absolutely make difference.
It makes a difference. But there's you know, there's death taxes.
And the third guarantee is an extended stint for Mike
Trout on the injured list. It just happens. Yeah, last

(21:36):
three twenty nine games, eighty two games, one hundred, nineteen games,
thirty six and fifty three who he had played. He's
only played over eighty two games once in the last
five years on my trout right, Mike Trout, Yeah, he's
got fifty two this year. You can get over one hundred,
but they've played eighty so they've already has already missed
a quarter of the season. It's kind of sad that

(22:00):
you have these awesome players that you can't build around
because first of all, you spend a gollly amount of
money on these guys, and second well, they're missing significant
period of time. I don't know what the solution is.
I don't either. I mean, do you tell them not
to jump on a bike, or not to go in
the weight room, or not to swing a bat for
until February fifteenth?

Speaker 1 (22:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
I was reading the uh that Athletic article about the
umpires and part of that they were asking what the
what players want, and one of them said, they have
Monday's off like in the minor leagues, every Monday off.
H Yeah, because you really can't. You've already extended the
regular season more than it ever has before.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
You give those guys.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
Extended more, you probably you'd have to go back to
one fifty four like in the Babe Ruth days. But
that's probably never gonna I mean, that's four home games
for everybody who whatever harder time getting that pass the
owners or the players association, because if you're going to
be all the owners, I bet the players would do
it in pro.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Rate four less games.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
They don't want to do that. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Who's going to have a bigger issue with all that?

Speaker 3 (23:05):
All right? Ten thirty on Sports Talk seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety If you
want to jump in you're astros. I want to ask
a very simple question. How do you think they're doing it?
People always ask us. I had to call outs one
on the tenth INNEK Show, Howlly doing this? And I said, well,
it's because of bullpen. It's because starting pitching has been really,
really good, and you've had some guys that have been
black magic. You've had Jeremy Penny have his career, and

(23:28):
you've got other heroes. You got Cam Smiths adjusted well,
you've got Eastock party has that performed better, and you
also have uh Jake Myers performing at his very best.
That's right. Argue with Ray Myers, Rake Myers, So what
do you think is the number one reason why they're thirteen?
This squad is thirteen games above five hundred. I'll give

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you the number one reason when we come back after Ross.
You talk about some folks, all right, so you had
did you say you had the number one reason why
you believe the Astros are thirteen about five hundred. By
the way, this is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.
Brian Bogacevic will be with us in about twenty five minutes.
Number one are just a reason that you thought of

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the number one reason the are thirteen games above five hundred.
This is legit your bullpen, yep, Josh Hater, Brian Abre
you each have a one point seven eight era A
Brady picked up with the win Hater with twenty saves
and twenty opportunities. Yeah, other guys that have stepped up,

(24:32):
the Brian Kings, the Bennett Suses, the I mean, the
Caleb Orts, whoever, Stephen Okert, I mean everybody in that
bullpen that we we talked about it at nauseum and
spring training, like who's going to be the bullpen after
the top two guys I alluded that to. Yesterday we
were talking to Joe of Spot, I said, I remember
ross Us being back here, them playing a couple of

(24:54):
Space Cowboy games at Dykin Park and them not knowing
who their bullpen is going to be. And this is
and Taylor Scott. We relied on him, yes, and he sucked.
He sucks. So yeah, exactly, we're talking about him being
the de facto seven inning guy and you know, being
Brian King, and it's the it's the bullpen. I mean,

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credit to Dana Brown and the Astros pitching brain trust
for finding these guys.

Speaker 11 (25:24):
No.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Look, there's no ifans or bouts about it. When you
go to the eighth inning, not one hundred percent of
the time, but hm eight percent of the time, you're
gonna give me a bray. You and Josh here, you're
not scoring any runs. Exactly, you've won and there was
no wiggle room last night and it was zero zero
game when he was out there pitching, but one of
them was at least yeah. Yeah, that's how Brian a
Bray you picked up the win. And Josh Hater who

(25:47):
for you has twenty saves and what five wins? That's
that's five wins in twenty saves. He's been a factor
in twenty five of your forty six wins over half.
All right, so here is your bullpen you mentioned Bennett Susa,
Jordan Weiams is called up yesterday because Seanduby one of
the injured list. Steven Okert, Caleb Ort, Brian King, Brian Bray, You,

(26:12):
Josh Hater. I mean not a murderers robate, not a
fairly recognizable bunch except maybe a Bray you and Hater
and and a Bray who has pitched a lot. I
think the s four times in the last six days,
in the last night's game, yep. And I mean he's
been more effective at least, you know, in terms of ERA.
I'd have to look at the other number as far
as last year. But he's been great. He's been spectacular,

(26:35):
and you are second in baseball and e RA started.
In terms of relievers, I'm looking at Giants first, your second,
and to a smaller extent, I'm looking at the astros
rotation off of their website, and they list anybody that
is considered a starter in their organization, and they have Okay, Bromber, Hunter,
Colton Gordon, Ryan Gusto, Brandon Walter, and then they have

(26:56):
guys Aarraghetti I L sixty, Garcia IL sixty, Yes, mcculor's
IL fifteen, Homer IL sixty, JP France IL sixty. I mean,
I think the Dodgers are in a similar spot, but
very few teams have lost as much as they have.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
And that's not even Yeah, I was gonna say, Hoaviyers
on that list.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
I mean, this is incredible, the amount of injuries and
grabbing guys you've never heard of before that have come through.
And there's a part of you that goes, uh, you know,
when is when is what's.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Going to drop?

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Yeah? Or when is the pumpkin? When is it gonna turn?
They're gonna turn into a pumpkin? When does the clock
strike midnight?

Speaker 5 (27:36):
Right?

Speaker 3 (27:36):
And hopefully it does maybe after the last out of
the twenty twenty five World Series. Yes, because here's the thing.
Ross Offensively, they're not gonna be able to win a
World Series. No.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
Defensively they can. Pitching they can't.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
They can be if if and if and if if
Jordon comes back and some of the guys keep things
up and some of the other guys get better, they
can be like a top ten. They're not going to
be a top five offense. No, and they're not going
to be, you know, like they have been. We always
do a home run counter every day. The Astros have
been between say, fourteenth and twentieth and home run yes,
that's great.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
And the Dodgers and Yankees are one and two and
they're so far everybody else. That's fine.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
Games, but games aren't about home runs exclusively. It did
be a nice of a bunch of guys do it
for you, but they have not won games that way.

Speaker 5 (28:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
But outside of Fromber and Hunter Brown, I mean, nobody's
even got an er and or four as far as starters. Oh,
Brandon Walter does a three eighty. All right, So let's
so let's let's put the car before the horse on this.
Playoffs started tomorrow, By the way, I want y'all to
know this for and I feel like we do this
on a yearly like a public service announcement. You need
four pitchers in a playoff series, you just do in

(28:43):
a seven game? Yeah, well even in a five game. Honestly,
there's only one day off, so you you really would
be rushing somebody back.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
So let's let's skip past the wild card round.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Okay, let's go to a divisional series of five games
which you play over six days. Okay, who is your
put your order of your rotation for the baseball playoffs?
Hunter Brown from Avaladez Spencer Arraghedtty, No, it's tomorrow, so
he said. He said tomorrow. Sorry, Uh yeah, Lance mccullor's junior. Wait, nope,

(29:15):
he said, starts tomorrow. Colton Gordon, you know what, forget
about tomorrow, Let's think about October. Uh, you said, come
playoff time.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
I know, I know.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Arraghetty would to me as long as he comes back.
You mean you would think the arm would be a
good shame. Yeah, cool. Gusto has the experience, but he's
been giving up running. He has the experience because he
started the most games.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
So put it this way, if we were to get
your crystal you throw a bullpen game in there.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
I guess if you had your crystal ball Aarraghetty, Garcia,
mccullor's Javier France. Of those five, can you rely on
two of those five? Crystal ball Arraghetty, Javier over and
moving mccolors the bullpen, HM swing roll.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
No, Garcia, you asked for a gut feeling.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
I know, I know. Bullpen Astros era for starters, by
the way, is eighth for relievers, it is second in baseball.
Pretty good. Yeah. Are we gonna put a lot of
pressure on any of those five guys to do what
they used to do before they got hurt? I mean

(30:26):
we're talking about extended injuries here. Yeah, Javier's throwing BP.
We got the nice big update from the Astros yesterday.

Speaker 11 (30:33):
M hmm.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
Let's see Javier threw a twenty pitch BP. That means
he could be auguste. Since you get August in September,
you get two months under your belt. He's ready to
go for the playoffs. Everybody's throwing, right, I mean, from
what I saw yesterday, everybody's throwing.

Speaker 12 (30:49):
H Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
It doesn't sound like Arraghetty is reported to Florida to
build up to game action whatever that means. Okay, but yeah,
Luis Garcia LIVEVP, Christian Javier live BP, an'swer Colors Junior
throwing off a mount and you'd figure he wouldn't need
like a full rehab program because he's only missed a
couple of weeks. Okay, JP, France, you're good, we'll see

(31:12):
in twenty twenty seven. I see in Sugarland. Poor kids
have been working a year and a half to get back,
and you get to you send him to sugar Land
for a fear He threw a live people. Okay, I
mean he's I know, fourth place on these our fifth
place on these five. If you're relying on JP France
to help you at any point, I mean, I mean,
I like, nice, yeah, great story, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah,
huge helping.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
What was that twenty three?

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Yeah yeah, but had a subpart start of last year
and then got hurt and we haven't heard from him since.
So you got to put in perspective, all right, ten
forty three it is Matt Thomas Show with Ross. If
you'd like to jump in, come on in and say
hello to us. We'd love to have you A seven
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three two one two five seven ninty one. All right,

(31:54):
uh Ari Alexander over a Channel two, just tweet out
something interesting. He tweeted out that the Astros were in
contraent negotiations worth uh Jeremy Pinion on a five year deal, Okay,
how's that going? Not well, why not let me give

(32:18):
you the exact tweet here so I can get it on.
I have it out. Yes, the astros and SS would
be shortstop. Jeremy Pennon deep in contract extensions for a
deal were deep in contract extension discussions for a deal
exceeding one hundred and five million dollars over five years.
Multiple sources tel KPRC a year. Yes, now, depending on

(32:42):
what he can get arbitration. And you know, the first
reaction from people will be, oh, that's that's a way underpay. Yes,
but in arbitration, you're not, generally unless you're one of
the best in baseball, getting twenty million a year in arbitration.
So they're they're buying those years out and paying a
little more on the front end to save on the

(33:03):
back end. Is what it would be.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
Reading the context on this war, meaning that was prior representation.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
Yes, I'm just trying to see what the average for
or what Jeremy Paine is making in arb in his uh,
I'll tell you call while you do that.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
Yeah, you do that.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
Sorry, But the reality is it's the past tense. He's
making four million this year and arbitration. Yeah, this year,
so who knows what he would make. I think it
was around fourteen million for fromber And and Tucker in arbitration.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Who does signs these arbitration numbers?

Speaker 13 (33:46):
Is this?

Speaker 3 (33:47):
I don't know, because they keep getting bigger and bigger
and bigger. Right, it's it's the convoluted, I get it.
But point being is that what Ari's tweet says is
it says war meaning that that's no longer on the
tap will because Scott Boris said, I can get you
much better than that, Okay, Frommers making eighteen this year
in arbitration, So maybe honestly twenty is a slab in

(34:07):
the face, but it escalates as you go on in years. Yeah,
with service time. I don't know you. Like I said,
even in arbitration usually can make really really good one
and then it goes up and up and up. Yeah,
so it's past. It's thing in the past. It's not
gonna be I guess, no longer on the table. I yeah,
I can't imagine I'm giving that deal today and Scott

(34:28):
Boris gone.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
That sounds about it, right.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
The biggest arbitration contract one year deal was thirty one
million from Juan Soto O Tani with thirty million as well,
So that would be the most you could possibly make
an arbitration year if you're won Soto, which Jeremy Painey
great player is not. No, but he's gonna be more
than I mean, he will get a high, especially coming

(34:52):
off of this year, he will be He's stand to
do very well for himself. David spring on seven on eight, Dave,
good morning.

Speaker 12 (34:58):
Hey, good morning guys and the show.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Thank you.

Speaker 12 (35:00):
Yeah, listen to your conversation about you know why the
Astros are where they are now thirteen games over five hundred,
and you talk about the bullpen being great and it is,
and Penya and Myers, you know, overperforming and they are.
I don't think you give enough credit to the guy
you talked to for ten minutes every Tuesday, and that
is Joe a Spotta, you know. I mean, if they
were thirteen under five hundred right now, I don't be

(35:22):
screaming for his head. But they're thirteen over and everyone's going,
why are they so good? I can't figure it out.
I mean, the guy deserves some credit. And it's not
just X's and O's. It's about how he manages the people,
and that's that's what you got to be able to do.
And he's got a really good tone set in that clubhouse.
They're all it works, and Joe deserves credit. I don't
think he gets enough. And I just want to throw

(35:43):
that out there.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
Oh I don't know, but I don't know if you're
active on Twitter or not, but Ross routinely puts the
where I don't see the Joe Spota haters out. I mean,
we we routinely make fun of the when the Astros
win baseball games that the Joe spotter lovers don't come out.
You are maybe the first one that yeah, we appreciate that. Yeah,
but I will stay consistent. I will say it's mostly
the players. Joe does a good job, and I think

(36:05):
even when they're losing, and when they were losing last year,
Joe does a good job.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
It's about the players who have to handle it.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
So is Joe putting them in a position to succeed,
making good lineups, making good bullpen decisions, Yes, but also
the players have to go out there and perform. So
he does deserve some credit. But I think when they're losing,
he and people put all the blame on him. That's ridiculous.
And when they're winning, you can't give him most of
the credit. No, he to me, and look we know

(36:31):
him from our whisloy to visits love Joe. He does
a great job. He's he's very even keeled. Yes, and
I will say this, the best managers in any sport
coaches are the ones that are They don't get super
high these days.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Yeah yeah, and maybe they're built that way. I mean,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
You got like the Jim Lelands back in the day
who are like.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
I don't think Bill bell well, Bill Belichick was so
even keilly just in words.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Let's see. I was thinking Bill Barcell is the guy
that would kind of go crazy at a taskmaster type
doesn't really work these days, No, not not for this generation.
They're like, I'm making forty million dollars. Shut your moss up.
You know you don't even make forty million dollars. Get
screened at every day.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
I For me, I've always appreciated calmness and frankly his
defense of some player. I mean he was he tried
as long as he could to defend Jose Abray at
first base. That and he tried to reform Rafael Montaro up.
Give him some sort of role in this baseball team.
He is a players manager, and they respond to that
for sure. And I'll tell you this, Ross, I don't

(37:36):
know if you if you're not a players manager, you're
not gonna make it. Yeah, unless you already have like
five championships and.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
Be as borish as he was worked because he was
winning Super Bowl.

Speaker 8 (37:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
Respect like you can't say nothing. Yeah, Greg Popovich or whatever,
It's like, all right, yeah, you gotta do what he says.
This guy kind of knows what he's doing. He's got
five champion five six championships. Look at Debata, well not
a player coach, No, and didn't have the skins on
the wall. He gone, no, you get the leash is
super short. Yes, as a coach once told me, if
I don't take care of my star, I'm out.

Speaker 14 (38:09):
Period.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
In his story, let's go to Bobby before we talked
to Brian Bogus of a Hello Bobby.

Speaker 6 (38:15):
Hey, good morning. Uh. I think that caller had a
very valid point. I also think that for whoever is responsible,
whether it's the owner of the general manager, the manager,
that I think that all the players genuinely really get
along with each other. You see the home run last night,
and they were all so happy for that guy, knowing
the struggles he's been through. And I just think, you know,

(38:36):
it started with Big Vision and Bagwell, just that clubhouse
has always just been, you know, very positive, and I
really think that has a lot to do with their success.
I wanted to just slide over a little bit and
talk about pain In Myers. Payin is batting fifty five
points higher than his career average, and Myers is batting

(38:56):
sixty five percent, sixty five points higher than his career average,
and I think a lot of it has to do
with neither one of them are chasing pitches as much,
but also think that they're both doing a great job
of using the whole field and quickly turning the other way.
Diaz is batting forty two points lower, now two Bays
betting forty one points lower, and I think that has

(39:17):
a lot to do with the fact that they are
chasing a lot of pitches and they aren't hitting that
many balls to right field. And I heard that Diaz
was betting way about three hundred when he hits the
ball to the right side of second base, And I
think that you know they always say so and so
is coming out of his Slompy's hitting it the other way.
And I just think that some of these guys should

(39:39):
look at Myers and pain in the way they're spreading
the ball around and maybe copy what they're doing. And
I love your show and I appreciate you. Thank you
so much.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
All right, thank you for the phone call. Yeah, I
can't really argue much. I mean, Diaz is the first
hit of the game yesterday was right a second base
m It was a scene, as a kids will say,
seeing nice th is that what the kids are saying.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
No, I don't think. I don't think any kid is
saying sick.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Yeah, Diaz has had some bad luck this season, and
Al two A two and Pinion Jake Myers have had
some good luck to But also I mean you Pa,
they're also the plate appearance has been better for Jake
and Jeremy Pinion as well. I mean, it's it's all
wrapped up in the one. It's it's a there's a
lot of discussion points that we can have on them individually. Yeah,
ten fifty eight Sports Talk seven Hoey. We talked to

(40:27):
Brian Bogasvic.

Speaker 8 (40:28):
Next.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
If you're on the line. You want to hold through
that we would get the expert next. Yeah, us, no madicine.
What the hell I'm talking about? How we're talking about
because we're just guessing, throwing stones against something, right.

Speaker 5 (40:39):
All right?

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
One eleven O three Sports Talk seven ninety Your astros
win one nothing over the Phillies. We're going to spend
ten quality minutes with the man. We joints us every Wednesday.
Hear on the show space City Home Networks Brian Bogus
sevec Brian won nothing. We've seen quite a few of
those over the course of the year. How many times
have we seen and how many times are we not

(41:04):
shaking our heads over the fact that Jake Myers batting
clean up for the Local nine last night?

Speaker 8 (41:10):
Yeah, that was that was a little unexpected, shown up
at the ballpark and looking at the lineup. I think
it just kind of speaks to where the organization, where
the coaches are at with you know, some of the
guys who struggled early, right, Christian Walker, Guyaner, those guys,
they've been waiting for them to turn it around. You know,
we're going to be here in a couple of days,
and it's going to be the halfway point. You know,

(41:31):
at some point your leash has run out, and when
you're right out the lineup every day, you've just got
to take the guys that are swinging the bat the best.
And I know, you know, your four or five hitters
prototypically aren't going to be Jake Myers and camp Smith,
but they're both swinging the bat well. And you got
to get guys behind Panya Parades Altuve who are going
to potentially drive and run. Didn't happen yesterday, But you

(41:53):
know it's not it's not a terrible idea.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
It is interesting how the game worked out. Yes, say
Ranger Suarez.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
I mean, Eer is about a one this month Fromberg
gives you quality starts. You know, I don't know if
today's baseball fan wants a hundred of those kind of
one nothing games, But I was in tune with it
because I first of all, appreciate what both guys did,
and secondly, I wanted to see who was gonna flinch first,
and of all people, Cooper Hummel was the man to

(42:20):
be the hero for the Local nine last night.

Speaker 8 (42:22):
Yeah, I think you you know, if you're if you're
a true baseball fan, you really appreciate games like that
because you know everything you have to do everything well
in a tight game like that. It was obvious from
you know, the first couple of innings that that was
going to be a low scoring game. So all of
a sudden, you know, you've got to play good defense.
You know you've got to run the bases well, you
can't make a mistake pitch, you know, over the middle

(42:44):
of the plate. You've got to really tighten down when
there's runners in scoring position. And that's fun baseball to watch,
in my opinion, when both teams have to be on it.
When you're a lot of times watching a ten to
nine game, it can be a little bit sloppy and
it just all gets kind of washed away with all
the runs that are being scored. I enjoy a game
like that, but yeah, major League Baseball doesn't want to

(43:05):
do that every night.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
No, how did Farmer do it yesterday where he was
kind of a voiding disaster. They Philly's got on the
base pads a lot through some a few hard knocks
some of the walks, and that's something what nine to
nine walks for Farmer over the last couple of games,
but every single opportunity presented itself and he came through
and didn't let anybody cross the paystation for Philadelphia.

Speaker 8 (43:26):
Yeah, first of all, you know, he had really good
stuff yesterday. His command wasn't as sharp as we've seen
at times, but just the pure stuff. The movement on
the fastball, you know, the break on the curveball was
all really good. And when you have that good of stuff,
you know you can just keep going to the well
and eventually you'll be successful. But I think what was
really important yesterday was he kept a really level head.

(43:49):
You know, he had a walk. I think in each
of the first three innings. There were a couple of
errors mixed in, so like there's a lot of traffic
on the bases and sometimes, you know, as a pitcher,
you can get into the situations and you think, Okay,
I got to get nastier, I've got to go for
the strikeout here, I've got to you know, put a
little bit more on this fastball and hump up a
little bit. He just kept us cool and kept making pitches.

(44:10):
And when he does that, you know you're gonna get
ground balls, you're gonna get double plays. You're gonna get
yourself out of the inning. And I thought he did
a really nice job navigating some tough situations by keeping
his head and not trying to do more and not
making situations worse.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
Brian Bogasvik with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
and the big series with the Phillies and then the
Cubs coming to town as well, players and coaches and
everyone will always say publicly, yeah, we want to win
every game and we take them all the same. But
how much truth is that as you as a former player,
Like when when it's the Phillies and Cubs coming in town,
is there a little extra juice?

Speaker 8 (44:46):
I think so, but I think it probably it comes
more externally. You know, you get there and there's a
little bit of a buzz in the stadium, it's crowded,
the fans show up earlier. You know, there's more stimulation
from that standpoint. You know, guys know that they have
to be on top of their game. You're playing a
good team, you're playing a first place team. You're going
to see a ton of really good pitching. So guys

(45:06):
can feel that. But it's not like it's okay, now
we're going to try harder. Now we're going to you know,
really focus on our scouting reports and you know, dot
eyes and cross teas, that stuff is happening regardless, and
I just think there's a little bit extra juice just
because of the buzz that's in the stadium. But now
you know, it's it really sounds cliche to say it's

(45:27):
one of one's sixty two, but it really is, And
especially this time of the year where you've got a
bunch of games behind you, so you're kind of in
the the the drag of the season. But at the
same time, you know you're so far from the end
where you're not really scoreboard watching or anything. So so yes,
in the clubhouse, it's just one one of one's sixty two.

(45:47):
But yeah, you can you can feel a little bit
of extra juice when you know that the fans are
into it.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
Both Bryce Harper and jord On Alvarez missing from the series,
and we were talking about in the last hour Brian
about we've talked a lot about pitching injuries, but position
player injuries.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
I think it feels like are up.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
I don't know if you agree with that, but we
were just kind of thinking, is it guys just pushing
their bodies to the limit, or are we just kind
of noticing the injuries and it's always been like that.

Speaker 8 (46:15):
Probably a little bit of both. You know, we hear
a lot more of the day to day stuff regarding
you know, the twenty nine teams that aren't in our city,
so we can feel that a little bit more. But yeah,
you know where strength and conditioning has gone over the
last ten years, you're really pushing the envelope. Guys are bigger, stronger, faster,

(46:35):
they work out more, they push themselves harder, and you know,
as you push yourself towards that edge a little bit,
every once in a while it goes a little bit
too far and you get banged up and you know,
you get injured. I think also teams are more willing
to be cautious with players and guys feel a little
bit of something and you immediately say, Okay, we're not

(46:56):
going to push it. You know, we're gonna sit you
down for a couple of days, or we're going to
put you on the il for ten days and get
ahead of it, because you know, there's so much volume
throughout the course of the season that you know, and
with the length of the season, plus the expanded playoffs,
and there's just more of a pass to getting into
the playoffs, and the goal is really to be healthy

(47:18):
in that full strength at the end. So I think
teams have also figured out that, you know, weighing the
option of pushing a guy during the middle of the
season versus laying back and having him healthy at the end,
it's more valuable to do.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
That bogie with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
The Astros have been very fortunate over their history to
have great eighth and ninth inning guys. This will bray
you hater combo sub to e ra A winning games,
very very rare poor performances. I mean, Bullpen in itself

(47:50):
has been a hero all year long, but these guys
have been an outstanding one two combination that I think
that the Astros obviously said, we think we can spend
some serious money.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
On Josh and to be well worth it. Last year good,
this year phenomenal.

Speaker 8 (48:06):
Yeah, you know, you try really hard not to take
it for granted, but it feels pretty automatic, right. It
feels like once you get to those two guys that
you're going to get two zero's and the game's going
to be over and you know, the kind of stuff
that they have, the power stuff, overwhelming fastballs, overwhelming sliders.
It allows for margin of error for them, and even

(48:28):
on days when they don't have their best stuff, they're
still going to win most of the time because it's
just that good. I mean, you miss a spot with
ninety nine, it's still ninety nine and really difficult to hit.
And when you have two of those guys, you know,
you can make an argument that there are other, you know,
tandems at the back of the bullpen that are as
good as those guys are have been as good. But
I don't know that you can really make the case

(48:50):
that there's anybody that's been definitively better than those two.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
Everyone it says, all right, what do you do with
the deadline? Do you stand pat if it ain't broke,
don't fix it. At the second best record in the
American League, you got some guys coming back, and then
there's always this conversation about the Astros need another left
handed bat. Now, clearly, if Jordon comes back whatever it is,
and he picks up where not I said left off
pre injury, but the normal Jordon we're in let me

(49:17):
ask you this as we speak to you today, even
with Jordon still on the injured list, how desperate do
you believe the Astros are if they are at all
for need of a left handed bat in their everyday lineup.

Speaker 8 (49:28):
I wouldn't call it desperate, but I would say it
would definitely be useful even with your you know, assume
Jordon comes back and he's healthy, and he's Jordon, and
he's producing like crazy, and you've got that big lefty
bat right in the middle of the lineup, I think
you still need another one. You know, a lot of
times we'll see this team, you know, put out a

(49:48):
very right handed lineup against a power right handed pitcher,
particularly right handed pitchers with good sinkers, and it's really
difficult to score runs. You know, you need that balance,
not just because you get the a tune advantage of
going to the other side, but oftentimes just having the
lefties in the lineup to make the pitcher throw to
different locations, make them use different pitches, make them go

(50:10):
to their change ups more. You know, getting them off
of their spot a little bit can create mistakes. You
don't want to run out of lineup there, even with
your do on in it where there's eight other right
handed hitters, where a pitcher can just go snker down
and sinker down and in slider, I got you, and
just do the same thing over you're not you know,
you have to make them go all over the strike
zone because that creates opportunities for them to screw up.

(50:34):
That creates opportunities for them to be off with something,
and then you get the advantage. So yeah, even if
it's not an everyday type of bad, even if it's
a guy who you know can come in and pla
tune with somebody, or just be an option to give
somebody a day off and give you a matchup advantage
every once in a while. I think it would definitely
be a welcome addition.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
Talking about the bats the Astros do have, we're also
talking about batted ball luck and how it's been pretty
good for Pinion Myers, but it's been pretty bad for
guys like al tu V, Walker, you er Diaz as well.
Can you just you as a player and then now
you as as an analyst of the game, just how much,
if at all, do you do you pay attention to
those types of things you.

Speaker 8 (51:16):
Do because you kind of want to know what's going
on and you know, everybody is always looking to make
an adjustment. Everybody's looking to, you know, change something to
try to to try to get better. And you know,
if you're going out there and you're doing everything the
way that you're supposed to do it and it's just
not finding a hole, then you have to kind of

(51:38):
sit back and say, Okay, I don't need to make
change just for change's sake. You know, eventually things will
turn in my favor. So yeah, you want to be
aware aware of that. But at the same time, you know,
you don't need those numbers to know whether or not
you're executing your fax. You know, if you're swinging at
good pitches, you know, if you're making quality contact. You know, yeah,

(51:59):
the numbers might reinforce it one way or the other,
but you really have a good feel for where your
swing is at regardless of what that number says.

Speaker 3 (52:08):
Brian Gray, stuff is always thank you very much for
the time. We'll talk again next week. And what is
your TV schedule the next handful of days.

Speaker 8 (52:15):
I'm on the rest of the series and I am
off for the weekend.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
Wait a minute, you're not gonna be there for the
Kyle Tucker, Ryan Presley tribute Friday night. I will not.

Speaker 5 (52:26):
I'll have to.

Speaker 8 (52:26):
I'll have to catch a replay.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
That as nearly a dedicated as we thought you were.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
That's fine. Let the man enjoy a weekend, you know what.
You take the family off for a nice dinner and
they deserve it. All the time you spend away or I'll.

Speaker 8 (52:40):
Be sitting at swimming so all weekend.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
Oh, I see, you know what, your Dad of the Year.
Thanks Bogy for the titles. Always all right, see Brian Bogusvic.
I will say this, Uh, there were a couple of
things as a youth, young father, I should say that
I absolutely steered my kids away from swimming. Swimming was
number one, really, yes, why because they have obnoxious hours.

(53:06):
He's not lying, Yeah, five thirty six o'clock in the morning,
getting the hell no. And then the swim meets. You're
in this well, you don't want to be out there
at noon in Houston, those swim meets, those swim meets.
It's it's hot and human and the air condition you
get people get sick all the time of those things.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
Really Nope, nope, nope.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
And number two was swimming and urine uh, gymnastics I
want to know part of that for why injuries?

Speaker 1 (53:29):
No, I just didn't like it. So you steered your
daughter away she could be in limp Well now she's
too tall?

Speaker 3 (53:35):
Yeah, never one. Yeah, I steered it in the right direction.
I gotta be honest with you on this. Yeah, she's
got to be like four to eight, so I think
she's a little too tall. The all the boys played baseball.
My middle one played soccer and loved playing soccer, and
I loved watching him play soccer, So that was different.

Speaker 1 (53:51):
Peyton loved he played soccer high school.

Speaker 5 (53:52):
Yea, I did I know that?

Speaker 1 (53:53):
Yeah, yeah, he likes it.

Speaker 8 (53:54):
Cool.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
Does he watch shit?

Speaker 11 (53:55):
Is he know?

Speaker 1 (53:56):
Cameron does? But Peyton doesn't watch it.

Speaker 3 (53:59):
He played but doesn't want and then the other sudden
didn't play but watches. Yes, that's interesting. That's a that's
a cool dynamic if you think about it. I think
it is too It is too all right. Eleven sixteen
Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven niney. We've got a little breaking news on
the Rockets, and I'm frankly stunned at the number.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
Would you not be?

Speaker 5 (54:22):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Are you stunned? When we come back I'll discuss.

Speaker 3 (54:25):
Okay, I got you. We had a little bit of
breaking news here on the Matt Thomas Show at eleven
twenty two.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
ROSSI worth the second one. I'll say it one more.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
Sure helps with my microphones on the Rockets have signed
Fred van Vliet Yes to a two year new two
year deal, Yes, worth fifty million dollars.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
Fifty million dollars. Can he buy me one meal?

Speaker 3 (55:03):
Probably not. I guess it's true. You get all your
free meals from Rockets anyways, so does he? Yeah, good luck,
spare change. He's investing very bit. All this, guys is
tied up. It is a guarantee for this year. It
is a player option for next year. So what Yeah? Yeah,

(55:24):
this is surprising because his original deal was forty four
point nine million.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
So let me deduce this, and I could be completely wrong.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
If I think we got a chance to win for
a couple of years, I'll take my twenty five million
each year, right, But if I don't like what's going
on here, I'll bow out and try to go get
more money elsewhere.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
Yeah, he's I mean, he's got the leverage number one.

Speaker 5 (55:57):
They led.

Speaker 3 (55:57):
They give him the ability to opt out. But I
don't know how teams are gonna be wanting to sign
him to long term deals more than twenty five million year.
But I thought, I mean, I was just randomly throwing
a number out when we were talking about this early
in the off season. Thought it was gonna be like
three to ninety. I'm surprised it's not three years. I'm
surprised it's only fifty million dollars twenty five million dollars

(56:19):
a year.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
And this is this sounds like we're whack. I mean,
it sounds like we're clinically ill for a point guard
of his ability.

Speaker 3 (56:26):
And I know people like Lily slow and small. He
still has a very good NBA point guard. Oh god, rockets.
Twitter hates him.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
And then the seven game series and again said where
is they love?

Speaker 3 (56:35):
Played it out of his mind? It's good value. It
it's strange it is to say it's good value.

Speaker 5 (56:41):
It is.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
So someone came into our office in our studio during
the break and said, is this just a precursor to
going after another big fish in the next one to
two seasons, because you're getting Fred van Vliet under the

(57:03):
fort was he was supposed to make forty four point
nine million dollars, Yes, one year, you should shaved twenty
off of that. Yeah, you shave twenty five essentially, if
not anymore, because your that would have been a one year,
forty five million dollars. You're getting him now two for fifty. Yes,
Kevin Durant, if you believe the rumors the the Twitter streets,

(57:26):
maybe signing a deal an extension here that would be
less than what he could possibly get. Are you saving money?
And there's a grandiose plan that says I want to
the rocket are saying I want to bring this player
to town. We've got to clear as much space as possible. Now,
this will give them a larger mid level exception to

(57:46):
use on somebody. And maybe they're just doing it just
for that, yeah, or maybe give it another piece, maybe
not just a big, huge piece, or maybe they go
for the big huge piece. Who would that be? Matt?

Speaker 1 (58:04):
I practice saying that's a long name. Oh what are
you saying? Sports?

Speaker 3 (58:08):
R v uh uh uh tentokumpoo cumpo?

Speaker 8 (58:15):
How do you?

Speaker 3 (58:16):
How do you that's largely specultve on your part. I'm
just saying he's available, Well, maybe he's not available at
this point. Can can we stop with the can can
the Rockets move back to the Eastern Conference like the
good old days. They were an Eastern team way back
in the day, way back in the day. There's like
nineteen teams in the league. But that's you know, let's
shift back. You can't go back when the New Orleans

(58:36):
swap for the Celtics, when the New Orleans Jazz are
in there.

Speaker 12 (58:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:40):
Now, you know that at the end when the NBA expands,
if they go to Las Vegas and into Seattle, they'll
have to take They'll have to take one team move
in to the East. But day and it will be Houston, Houston.
Why not now the three favorite It's either to be Memphis,
New Orleans or the Timberwolves. There no, okay, fight me,
go ahead, go it should be the Rockets. Bring the

(59:00):
Rockets home. Okay. So uh, I don't want to buy
into what you just said. But there'll be a few
people that will trying to put two and two together
on that. I don't think that's gonna happen. I think
they're just gonna have more flexibility with role player My
prediction on this, and again I don't and the insight

(59:23):
would be there. They're gonna have more room to go.
Get a guy that's Oh, that's a nice pick up.
That's a guy like Ah, I'll just start Nas Reed
for example. Oh, okay, nas Reid, let's go. I think
Na's gonna come in more than a middle level. But
you know what I'm saying, I kind of a.

Speaker 5 (59:36):
Bear like that.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
Come on down trade for Derek White? Can they afford that?

Speaker 8 (59:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
I'm not a capologist? Would you play one? On the radio?
All right, ladies and gentlemen, this is our favorite half
hour of the week, right, this is where you just
lay it all out. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety. I'm gonna tell somebody to shut their
bumb mass up that you're really gonna appreciate. And this
guy called me on the tenth Inning Show last night, Rossie,

(01:00:02):
and I'm gonna tell him to shut his bomb ass
up right now. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety. If you want to tell somebody to shut
their bumb ass up, seven one three two one two
five seven aunty, if you have somebody you want to
tell a story in your life, A boss, a coworker,
your mother in law just trabbles and just talks and
talks and talks and says nothing in return. And so

(01:00:24):
I'm anybody got time for that? We'll do that too
seven one three two one two five seven. Nunty you
want to follow us on Twitter, you may do that
as well. It's at sports MPT, at sports RV, and
at Sports Talk seven Hounty. Shut you'll bum ass up
is next cat again.

Speaker 15 (01:00:41):
Again, calet again, damn heart again, care let again.

Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
Again, here again, dear let again, damp eleven thirty three,
Sports Talk seven Ounty. It's our favorite way to declanse.
Our emotions are anger and we don't do it. Uh
and Judge, we just said we got to say. And
move on to Brad who called me on the tenth
Inning Show, Brad friend of the show, friend to all

(01:01:14):
one of our favorites, not my friend, ripping the crap
out of me for ripping on Cooper Hummel. You ripped
on coopering ying, ye, jam, I said, Cooper Hummel wasn't
even my conversation piece in my life. Not that am
anti Cooper Hummel. I had no opinion of Cooper Hummel.
Did I probably throw them in a collection of guys

(01:01:35):
that nobody ever heard of the playing for the Astros. Yes,
that's been part of the charm of the Astros in
twenty twenty five. The guys that you never heard of
helping the team. I wasn't merching Cooper Hummel, I wasn't
calling him.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
A bad player. I didn't even remember bringing up Cooper Hummel.

Speaker 3 (01:01:50):
So the Brad who I defend you more than anybody else?
Shit Joe Buman something.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
Shit jobummane, Why did you even do that?

Speaker 10 (01:01:57):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
I mean yes, I was like, this is making give
me a bad give me a headache, and ten to
fifteen at night.

Speaker 5 (01:02:03):
Good.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
I should teach you not to take his calls.

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
Well again, Brad shut you know what, you didn't deserve
a double shut your bum ass up. I would never
take I've been different to Cooper Humble, but I literally
love him after last time's home run because it saved me.
If I'm doing a little like anybody who puts on
a Sugarland Space Cowboy uniform is is a future Hall
of Famer. I mean, we've been through the list, the
Brendan McCurry's, the Cooper Humbles, the Joey Loperfdo's. Will Wagner.

(01:02:27):
I think he said it was taking over in Toronto. Yeah, yeah,
shut your bamass up. I'll help you out too. You're
more than welcome. It's Willy Wagner up to these days.
Let me check this out.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
Nobody calls him Willy Wagner.

Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
That's crazy, it'd be funny.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
William, Billy is Dad and the Sun.

Speaker 3 (01:02:44):
I think he probably calls himself Will for a reason,
not to be confused with Willy Wagner. Yeah, Willy and Billy,
what's the problem? All right? Why don't you do that
next time he comes to town? Well, the Blue Jays
aren't coming back, are they know? They're done here?

Speaker 5 (01:02:56):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:02:57):
No, Yeah, they're now the Astros playing to run toe?
Was he rehab was he hurt? Was he rehabbing? And
rookie ball oop? Will Wagner hitting two fifty in Buffalo
this year? No, and twenty six at the Major League glow.
And Joey Librafito I don't have one. You should always
have Syracuse Blue Jay Baseball on your Everybody was screaming

(01:03:19):
about Joey Libraffdo being the next great thing.

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
Shut joe bomb ass up too. I'm trying to up man.

Speaker 3 (01:03:26):
WiFi is spotty here, that's Uh, let's see, he hasn't
played for the major league team since the end of
April where he was hitting. Uh, no, way, my WiFi
is messed up. That's right, well move I was that
was somebody else. Know what's the matter with you this week? No,
when you go to places and as usually the older people,

(01:03:47):
I'm sorry to call you a lot. Oh Jesus, just
here comes the ages thing again. It's because it's a
real issue if I'm if we are in any facility
and we have there's a line, okay, and people have
to stay and high another another one, right, all right.
I do not understand why I can smell your breath,

(01:04:07):
I smell your must Oh. I do not understand why
you're so close to me, and then when the lion
scoops up in front of me, you think it's time
for you to scoot ahead and get closer to me. Okay,
where did this happen? By the way, at how I'm
ball Mart? Oh ball Mark Okay, Okay, I know where
bal Mart is. Yeah, I just don't. It happens everywhere

(01:04:29):
I go. I don't understand why it's such a hassle.
This is a rush to go places we're in line
together and that time for that. So you're you do
know you want people to go to ball Bart and
have good smelling breath. No to get me at least
six feet away, Okay, I think that if you sneeze,

(01:04:50):
I might just get a German. If you're pulling up
with the stak breath, you gotta pull away smelling like
chewing and everything like. No, it's just ball Bart in
the city limits or are you outside of the city limits.
Outside of the city limits. That's gonna go without saying that, right,
I think, no, matter where you are, and it's ball
Bart and not the classies joint, would I love? I

(01:05:11):
go there all the time. Let me tell you. I
go to ball Bart and porter Ooh really, Oh it's
it's what you think it is. The girl scouts sell
meth in the front there at the tables. He used
to be McDon used to being big bottles in there. Yeah,
they got rid of those today. I have a partnership
that dissolved past tense. I guess man, that used to
be convenient on the way out and get a mcduble,

(01:05:33):
a small fry, get you twenty piece out of box
fan exactly. That's the one two punch of kid to die,
all right, anything else anything from you? Are you just
picking backing off of me?

Speaker 6 (01:05:45):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
Yeah, I'm just gonna go with that.

Speaker 7 (01:05:46):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
I also said the people who were all upset about
Joey Liperfido, I'll go with that. I'll stick with that, Bratt,
And you can always tell Brad to shut his bump
mess up. Okay, how about this WiFi though, I'm having
Wi fi issues right now. I can't even pull up
Joey Operfdo's stats. Our WiFi run by dom Cast, and
we had the phones going out yesterday and I still

(01:06:09):
have not got a reply for my t hein't nobody got.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
Time for any of this. Did you ask for a
read receipt on the email?

Speaker 11 (01:06:16):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
I put it in a trouble ticket. No, they're very busy.

Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
I think if Michael Barry has anything wrong with his stuff,
oh god, it's it's the alarms go on. That's okay.
He makes more money than us. I mean, he's more important,
and I are just as important as Michael.

Speaker 9 (01:06:30):
We're not.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
Know, We're not ask the bosses. That's so we brought
in any Martin and said who's more important? He would
say you and me together. We're combo over Michael Berry.
He would say, Michael Berry is more important.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
Yeah, you and I.

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
Let's say we're on a somehow, we're on an iHeartMedia
boat trip and you, me and Michael Berry all fall
into the into the water and they can only save No, no, no,
here's what I mean. There's two life wraps. Barry gets
both of them. That's what I was gonna say. You
still sorry, it's steal my life.

Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
That's a real, a whole move.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
Sorry, I was gonna say, you could only save two
of us. They would still just say Michael Berry to
be safe. Is that true? I'll ask anything. Oh, come
on now, all right, and that's okay. He makes a
lot of money for this company. We get a little
trickle down trickle down economics. Eric can be oh hell

(01:07:27):
oh guy, yes, yes, hey.

Speaker 7 (01:07:30):
I want to tell Dan Matthews to shut his bum
ass up because yesterday I was listening to that other
show y'all got in the morning with the Sean Salisbury there, yes, sir,
and Dan Matthews said made the comment. He made a
demand that jose Al Tuove never play second base again,
and then he started going historical on it. It said that,
just like when we got Jeff Kink because Craig Video

(01:07:51):
couldn't play second shut your bum ass up there. And
that's not why we did that. We did that because
we got an MVP level back. Craig Video was a
four time Gold Glover. You wash your mouth out with soap,
Dan Matthews, mo, thank you.

Speaker 14 (01:08:07):
Mother.

Speaker 7 (01:08:07):
Thing is this, Ain't nobody got time for that? And
that's John Singleton coming back. There wasn't even an official campaign.

Speaker 3 (01:08:13):
To bring back John.

Speaker 7 (01:08:14):
There was one to bring back Zach and we can't
do the right thing.

Speaker 3 (01:08:18):
Ain't nobody got tad who cares? He's not a minor
league deal. Like, yeah, I think John Singles is very
happy to be in sugar Lane. You get no worked
up over a minor league deal. Ain't whatey got time
for that unless you unless you have unless you're paid
your lane. Because you don't want to lose that rifle
spot in the Sugarland Space Cowboys locker room. You gonna
say Sugarland Space Cowboys Hall of Fame. That's where he

(01:08:40):
that's already, that's already, that's already locked in there. Let's
go to Mark at eleven forty seven, Mark Good evening
or good morning or whatever.

Speaker 9 (01:08:47):
This is.

Speaker 7 (01:08:48):
Hey, Hey, hey, nobody, I ain't got no time for iHeartMedia.

Speaker 3 (01:08:53):
Ain't nobody got taday.

Speaker 7 (01:08:56):
Herry I call.

Speaker 8 (01:08:57):
I called him like a month ago and won tickets
to the Space Cowboys.

Speaker 7 (01:09:02):
I've called Jonathan twice.

Speaker 8 (01:09:04):
He's a nice guy and tries to help out. I've
emailed some Marvin guy three times.

Speaker 3 (01:09:10):
I never hurry back.

Speaker 5 (01:09:12):
No tickets.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
Come on, Marvin, Marvin, you listen to show you like
us starving for tickets over here, Marvin, let's go. Come on,
we canna get to the man. Mark out man. You
help help him out, get get give him Marvin cell number.
I don't care. Marvin takes a lot of vacation. Yeah, Marvin,
don't email Marvin. He's on vacation, Marvin. Let me tell
you about Marvin. He works four days a week and
make sixteen hours pro. Yeah. Come on, he take you

(01:09:38):
get some months off. He works summer vacated. He's our
teacher schedule. Thanks for the fucking car brother, Mark. While
I think he's going on a cruise around the world.
I haven't seen him since we moved. Offices seven one three,
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven. Outy you got more of shut
yobamass up? And anybody got time that I'm going to
ask Eddie Martinez, our market manager, and no chance, no way,

(01:10:01):
no how he's gonna lie to you. He'll give us
the results next seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
And we have the news at noon coming up. We
have also uh oh, believe it or not, today is
highly googlable. I mean, well, yeah, so we talked about yesterday.
I don't have to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:20):
You're doing it, Mack can if you want me to,
am I doing it? It take about ten minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
Stop. This is an easy one seven one three two
one two five seven hounty for shut you'll bull ass up?

Speaker 5 (01:10:30):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
I just checked our market manager, our vice president, a
regional manager. Eddie Martini was not in, but our programming
guys were in, Mark Sherman and Brian Erickson, and I
pose the question to them if there were two life
rafts ross myself Barry, who would get them? In the answer,
I said that to him, I said Barry would get both.
They said, actually, it's neverouna be a possibilitycause Barry would

(01:10:51):
never let us on the boat to begin with. He'd
have to have his own price.

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
True, that's fine. I know I'm getting left.

Speaker 3 (01:10:57):
So I mean we wouldn't necessarily be in in a boat.
Pretty I'm a strong swimmer.

Speaker 12 (01:11:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
I mean he's in a chartered jet and you and
I are in ne Sessa single engine.

Speaker 9 (01:11:06):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (01:11:06):
I don't know what that is?

Speaker 11 (01:11:07):
You know?

Speaker 3 (01:11:08):
Yeah, he's a small planes. You know the ones that
you know, you're like eight thousand feet up and its
high as they go. Okay, you know those little crop
duster No, you know sing like you go to a
little private air space, you know, a little private small
airy covid to hooks and tom Ball.

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
Watch those planes take off.

Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
Meanwhile, he's in the big leared jet.

Speaker 1 (01:11:26):
That's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:11:27):
I mean he's earned it. Is that a great career,
Way more famous, brings in way more revenue and ratings
than we do. Uh yeah, what did I say that
was an accurate?

Speaker 7 (01:11:41):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:11:42):
No, no, no, no no, no, I'm just no, I'm
just going yeah, I agree with you. He's got one
hundred and forty thousand followers on Twitter. Wow, I mean
there are bots. No, I don't believe that at all.
There's no bots on Twitter? Are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (01:11:57):
I've I cleansed my bots.

Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
Everything's real. M mmm, one hundred and forty thousand.

Speaker 8 (01:12:05):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (01:12:05):
I'm gonna go look at SEMy I'm gonna send me
I've blocked and some that are his followers seven one
three two point two five seven ninety Jason and Kingwood Jason.

Speaker 1 (01:12:14):
What's the matter with you?

Speaker 8 (01:12:17):
Man?

Speaker 3 (01:12:17):
How long have you lived in Kingwood? Since twenty ten
and before that two thousand and uh like nineteen ninety
nine to two thousand and five.

Speaker 16 (01:12:26):
I've been here for two and a half years. And
what I what I do not have time for, is
losing power every other week, like every every two weeks,
we have a outage that is anywhere from four hours
to eight hours to twelve hours. There's no explanations behind it.
They don't give me any updates. I am on the

(01:12:48):
verge of selling my house because of that. I cannot
deal with it. And I don't know how you have
for so long years?

Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
Well, that's why you gotta get a generak standby generator
from Quality Home Products of Texas. My friend, man, Yeah,
wait six months with them to come in install it.
No no, No, I'm going to have lunch of them.
I'm going to have lunch of them tomorrow. As a
matter of fact, Jason, I'll take care of you. I'll
give you the old sports empty hook up. Ok.

Speaker 1 (01:13:09):
Okay, we'll how that works.

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
It should work. You don't trust me, do you? It
doesn't sound like there was a whole lot of trust.
Sounds like he was telling you to show your bum
seven one three quality. Come on now.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
Yeah, don't worry. No, I'll take care of you.

Speaker 15 (01:13:24):
You guys.

Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
If you guys want to generated that bad, I'm going
to talk to the owner tomorrow. As a matter of fact,
I got a lunch in the woodlands with them. I
hope their mind. I'm gonna go look at so many
follow how many Botsberry's got on his Twitter account?

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
Here, let's take a look.

Speaker 3 (01:13:37):
Here, My gosh, leave him alone. Seven one three. It's
not one hundred thousand. He's got more than you. Sorry, damn,
he does. He got a lot of followers. You're so weird.
I'm not weird. I'm just checking, just taking a look.
I just want to see what's going on. Oh yeah,
there's some bots in this group at B L O
O D M three ridian. Yeah, blood meridian. That sounds

(01:13:58):
like a word.

Speaker 1 (01:13:59):
Uh do just not?

Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
Oh yeah at j u r A R two five
seven seven two one three. Okay, yeah, that makes a
lot of sense. The big thing is Illsted fully loaded
with bots. Yeah, okay, man, all of them are bots
except for one thousand. You got more followers.

Speaker 17 (01:14:18):
I'm glad you.

Speaker 1 (01:14:19):
Said more popular, more famous, and way better than Michael Berry.

Speaker 3 (01:14:22):
Matt, no, I I talk show. We're mon Homan.

Speaker 11 (01:14:26):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:14:27):
What does he do that we don't do? I really
want to hear this.

Speaker 3 (01:14:32):
I think it's because he speaks politics, don't. Yeah, I
was saying his is a much more grandiose topic. But
in terms of the mechanics, we do a great show.

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
Yeah, we do do a.

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
Great show here, Matt, we just don't.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
We don't.

Speaker 3 (01:14:42):
Sports is just not as big of a group of
as politics. That's that echoes out, saying, even the number
one national show doesn't have nearly the listeners that Clay
and what's his face?

Speaker 9 (01:14:52):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:14:53):
Is it buck Sexton? Is that his name? That's what
the Yeah? He's still on their show together. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
I thought somebody said there was was there friction?

Speaker 3 (01:15:02):
I don't think so.

Speaker 5 (01:15:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
I mean friction's in Hall and Oates. Well they don't
talk to each other anymore. No, they don't. That's not friction,
that's split. That's splitsville. Uh Million and Milly don't have
the head friction. Well they're both dead, aren't they? Or
is it Millie? I think one of them is dead?
I thought both of them? Oh many, both recipes?

Speaker 5 (01:15:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:15:23):
All right, let's go, uh Gill on seven ninety. Hi, Geo,
what's the matter with you? Hey?

Speaker 5 (01:15:29):
What's up? What's up? Man?

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
What's up?

Speaker 8 (01:15:30):
Ross?

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
What's upthing?

Speaker 14 (01:15:33):
So?

Speaker 5 (01:15:33):
Can you guys hear me?

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
Get yes, sir, the phone line that you're on is working?

Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
Okay, perfect, because that's what I want to call it.
And I had a.

Speaker 18 (01:15:40):
Loyal listener from the for this show for many many
years now. And I know there's a lot of us
out there.

Speaker 11 (01:15:45):
You know.

Speaker 18 (01:15:46):
Sometimes we wait, you know, ten, fifteen, thirty even sometimes
an hour to get on, to get on with you guys, right,
And sometimes when we get on, you know, something's wrong
with the phones. You know, even sometimes when Joe Spotty
calls and you guys got I guess there's something wrong
with the phones. Now, whoever's in charge over there of
technical issues, the group of people who handle the IT

(01:16:08):
I wanted to say to them, shut your bum asses up,
and we don't have time for technical issues as far
as the phones, because we're trying to get on and
enjoy the show.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
Shut your bumb ass up, man, thank you, Jill. Ain't
nobody got time for I won't be sending that air
checked out. I I send them the blippy phones. We
we might believe you, but ain't. We'll say anything.

Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
Hopefully that listens.

Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
Joe Jay, you'll know in the next handful of days
if the IT department cares about this little sports radio
station we handle over here. Uh yeah, we'll see if.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
You hear the blips. You know they don't care.

Speaker 9 (01:16:39):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:16:39):
I got an email back.

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
They asked.

Speaker 1 (01:16:40):
They asked for the phone number, so I don't know
if they'll be calling in.

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
Okay, we'll go.

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
Thank goodness they aren't hold in.

Speaker 3 (01:16:46):
That'd be an ugly way to.

Speaker 12 (01:16:49):
Look.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
It's nothing. I think it just comes with the territory
being on web based phones. I don't know what they
can do.

Speaker 1 (01:16:55):
So the web has done a lot of amazing things
for us, right, yes, but but this is not one
of them.

Speaker 3 (01:17:00):
Correct. What is another thing that web has done well
for us? Now, I'll tell you this. I'll do hiting violence.
I do like the web because my daughter's on a
cruise right now. Yes, and she is talking to us
and video chatting through the web now in the middle
of Caribbean right now. So that that's a win for
the web. She's on a cruise, yeah, without her parents. Yes,

(01:17:21):
she's with a couple of girlfriends and their dad. So yeah,
it's they're doing their thing, okay, And so that's kind
of nice that web is working out that way. The
web has helped us out when it comes in from information.
You trust these people, I would hope. So yeah, I
sent them off. Okay, Now you got me all nervous. No,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:17:38):
I'm just worried.

Speaker 3 (01:17:39):
Don't worry about her. She's a grown girl. Hope she's okay. Yeah,
going to Hawaiian next year. Good? And you are making
nice money. I'm trying. Yeah, I'm going to Freeport. Freeport
is lovely this time of year. Why don't you go
to BA City hang out with Eric. It's been good.
Spent many Cody days with him. You know, I've never

(01:18:01):
been to Bay City before in my life?

Speaker 1 (01:18:03):
Uh, driven through or where is?

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
No, it's on the coast, isn't it not. I don't know,
like Brasses, brasss Port, Bay City. I think as far
south as gal Galveus, but I don't think I've gone.
I've been through there around the trying to get to Bolliver.
You've been a free port before. Trying to get to Boliver.
You go around if there's a lot of trafficker. Have
you been to Oliver?

Speaker 1 (01:18:25):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:18:25):
Absolutely? Nice place? Oh, forget it forgetting Fine, it's fine.
Is it a burger King of past Galveston? Is the
burger King? It might be more of the jack in
a box? Can I tell you that I got any
burger king hamburger that to day?

Speaker 12 (01:18:42):
You did?

Speaker 3 (01:18:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:18:43):
That was it?

Speaker 3 (01:18:43):
It was First of all, it was cheap. Was it
your first choice?

Speaker 1 (01:18:46):
No, got the job done and it was close.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
It was a small hamburger, just like Gavis, with cheese,
an onion ring and some barbecue sauce on it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:54):
They called a Rodeo Burgers two bucks.

Speaker 3 (01:18:56):
It wasn't bad. They got the run.

Speaker 1 (01:18:57):
I used to get the Rodeo Berger.

Speaker 3 (01:18:58):
Rodeo Bergers back in the day used to be ninety
nine Rodeo Burger can fill your belly. That would be
pulling up like crazy on the Rodeo Burger's Maddie. It's like,
you know what ross you want to You want to
go out and date Scarlett Johansson. Uh huh, but they're
not always around. For you've got a limited budget. It's convenient.
It gets the job done. Yeah, Galveston, So you are
gonna go is if you're looking for Scarlett and you

(01:19:19):
knee and exactly what do you end up with? You're
looking for turks and caicos and you end up with Galveston.
I was Scarlett. Oh, you're gonna say a different somebody else?
I want to say, a female? What's your Oh? Like
an I don't know. Most celebrities are attractive, so this
would be a tough one to come up with. Who's
a mid Oh, don't even just go to break?

Speaker 1 (01:19:36):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:19:36):
We will do some in trouble. Yeah, I was gonna say,
I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings that celebrities would care.

Speaker 1 (01:19:41):
But you know, all right?

Speaker 3 (01:19:43):
Eleven fifty eight on the Sports Talk seven Dotty the
News that Do It is up next, ask oh, you're
gonna do. We're looking for warriors, not Golden State, just
good old fashioned after warriors. We'll have it for you
to start the news at noon here on Sports Talk
seven Matt Tommy Show with Ross.

Speaker 1 (01:20:05):
Scandal.

Speaker 3 (01:20:05):
Have any other hits?

Speaker 1 (01:20:10):
She one wonder well the band is Scandal fronted by Patty.

Speaker 3 (01:20:14):
This is how I imagine the eighties. They get out
of high school. Here's driving out.

Speaker 8 (01:20:19):
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (01:20:20):
Let me tell you something, Jonathan. You are one hundred
percent right. The convertible is open. You are on the
main streets of main street in Flugerville, Texas, or Duncanville
or Madisonville. Can just be in Houston? You want to
be on main stream of the convertible?

Speaker 11 (01:20:38):
Doubt?

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
Oh hell no, you won't make it. North Maine No,
definitely out South Maine. Well, I mean North may you
got a punchers chance, but South Maye No, okay, just
asking now. I are you down Richmond Avenue in nineteen
eighty five and o K the Warrior was their only
top forty hit. Oh okay, all right, they had forty one.

(01:21:01):
They had to hit hit forty one? Really? Could you
name them?

Speaker 8 (01:21:04):
Both?

Speaker 3 (01:21:04):
Nor hands tied and beat of a heart beat of
a heart might be familiar. Nope, don't know what. I
don't know. But again, I am fifty three years old
and I did not know until about nine to fifteen
this morning that Patty Smith was the lead singer of
said group.

Speaker 1 (01:21:18):
I didn't even know the name. Again, what in doubt?
You're a song like that?

Speaker 3 (01:21:21):
You think it's either Joon Jet or Pat Benatary.

Speaker 8 (01:21:25):
Goodbye to you?

Speaker 3 (01:21:25):
Hey, play whatever this is Jonathan Goodbye to you? Scandal
this Smith? Yeah, yeah, this is a good one. Worsemith.
We will play this as a she from Ireland when
somebody leaves town. We'll play this like when a coach
gets fired. We should have played this when when Bill
O'Brien got familiar. You say, so, you'll hear the course,

(01:21:49):
you'll know what I know. I don't want to howl.

Speaker 19 (01:21:51):
Course.

Speaker 1 (01:21:51):
We can bail out of this. Okay, all right, we
gotta get to the news at noon. Let's get to
the news in Nune. Come on now, good Bye to you,
Goodbye to you.

Speaker 3 (01:22:03):
That's what it goes. Sorry, you remember I am a
thirteen time letter jacket winner in high school. Just refrain
from any comments. I'm trying to be nicer. It's not
these days. I'm gonna get you a pin, say a word.

Speaker 9 (01:22:19):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:22:20):
Let's let's get.

Speaker 1 (01:22:22):
To the news at noon. Just beat the Phillies one nothing. Yesterday.
Uh didn't have a hit until the sixth inning.

Speaker 3 (01:22:32):
Shout out yaner Diez clean up hitter Jake Myers went
over three, but he's still hitting three. Zho seven from
er Valdez, four walks, four hits but no runs given up,
only three strikeouts, but still pretty efficient. Ninety two pitches
in the seven innings.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
Pitch.

Speaker 3 (01:22:49):
I mean, that's kind of how you draw it up
if it were like a playoff series. Valdez for seven,
break you for one hater for one shutout, Astros, get
the one nothing victory and go for the series in
today against the Philadelphia Phillies. Matthew and Damn Matthews will
have the on Deck show at six o'clock. Lifesaver stepping
in form. You're gonna work on Saturday, correct? Yeah, so

(01:23:10):
I took a Saturday for him, so he gets the weekend. Yeah,
and I'll be hosting Friday show. Get some cubs on
the Kyle Tucker, Ryan Presley, Trivit Night great, and I'll
have on deck for you tomorrow, and I'll be listening
as I drive to the Woodlands. Appreciate you, Matt. All right,
it'll be Zach Wheeler versus Colton Gordon. How are we feeling?

(01:23:33):
I think Zach Wheeler has the most quality starts in baseball.
I think is significantly lower than three two point six
one man Phillies are good. Who's Christopher Sanchez with two
point eight seventy RA that's the day after. That's tomorrow
with Hunter Brown on the hill. A tough series. Then

(01:23:55):
you get the Cubs coming in town as well. Now
you said four and two I have to do a
good start, Well, I mean I got work to do. Yes,
you have a little bit of work to do. Won
the pitchers duel yesterday. Hopefully the Astros can get another
one today. Also in the news at noon, Matt your
Houston Rockets signing Fred van Vliet. He had one year
basically forty five million forty four point nine million left

(01:24:17):
on his deal. The Rockets and Van Vliet mutually agreeing
to push back the option so that they could make
the deal they made today two years fifty million dollars.
Here's what Sean Sharania had to say about the deal.

Speaker 4 (01:24:32):
Houston.

Speaker 20 (01:24:32):
Houston Rockets guard Fred van Vliet intends to sign a
new two year, fifty million dollar contract to stay with
the Rockets.

Speaker 3 (01:24:41):
He's gonna have a player option in the second.

Speaker 20 (01:24:43):
Season in twenty twenty six twenty seven, and this essentially
gives him five more million dollars than the team option
that the Rockets has. So the Rockets are declining a
forty four point nine million dollar team option for Fred
Vavliet to give this two year deal to him, and
the Rockets negotiated this deal with it with Clutch Sports
CEO Rich Paul, and they were able to land a

(01:25:05):
deal that now gives the Rockets flexibility, gives him some
comfort in having a two year deal with a player option,
and next offseason there is going to be some more
salary cap room across the league for Fred van Vlieb.

Speaker 3 (01:25:17):
Mmmm So salary cap going up, maybe he could opt
out and that you think there could be a situation
where the Rockets said, you opt out next year, we'll
take care of you. There could also be that there's
more money available in the NBA, as Seam said, next
season that maybe somebody will want to pay more than
say twenty five million dollars for his services next year.
So some flexibility and you keep Fred on both sides,

(01:25:38):
and most importantly, you dig yourself under the forty four
point nine million dollars you're so to pay them this year.

Speaker 5 (01:25:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:25:44):
I think they're under the first apron now of the
tax and maybe more money to spend on rockets broadcasting.

Speaker 1 (01:25:51):
No, I think they said they're looking to cut.

Speaker 3 (01:25:53):
Oh I hope not.

Speaker 1 (01:25:54):
I hope the word I heard was simulcast.

Speaker 3 (01:25:56):
Oh that's not. That was rude. I'm just kidding, you
know what. I'm sorry, man, that was just a joke.
But I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:26:04):
You write that down. Okay, we got a long list.

Speaker 3 (01:26:10):
And that's you do, is it? Noon? By the way,
John Hayman also literally just this last second, just tweeted
out about Jeremy Panna in long term contract talks with
the Astros.

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
That's past tense.

Speaker 3 (01:26:22):
M hmm. Here's what John Hayman, a crusty old SOB
said a few minutes ago, had been in serious long
term contract talks before his recent agent switch to Scott Boris.
As I said on MLB Network, those talks are now
on hold, at least for now. Paanya is second in
MLB War behind Aaron Judge, they were talking about a

(01:26:42):
deal from the range one hundred million now on hold,
basically confirming the reporting from Ari Alexander. When when hearing
of this, Scott Boris belly laughing still to this extent
of NonStop minutes and hours. I would love for one
day to be able to see off at a hundred
million dollars Matt. So that's obviously again deducing things here. Yes,

(01:27:06):
who would want to tell Scott Boris? I mean, who
do want to tell John Hayman and Aria Alexander such things?
I don't know, Matt. Could it be the player? Nope?
Could it be Scott Boris?

Speaker 1 (01:27:22):
I guess he could maybe because it would be Cooper Hummel.

Speaker 3 (01:27:25):
I don't think Cooper Humble's going to be whispering about
Jeremy Payne's future. I think Cooper Hummels was happy to
be on a twenty six man roster right now. Could
also be the former representation that said, you know what
we tried, well we got dog. Here's enough. It's not enough,
It's not even close enough? Is it not for even
a decent level starting shot? I think so? Did did

(01:27:48):
the audience tell us yesterday to relax about this. I
have to bring this up or was it just about
I mean, we're relaxed, Hunter Brown, Hunter Brown, we can
really chill out about correct I guess. So, yeah, this
is Jeremy going five one, get it done, five to

(01:28:10):
one on five. Excuse me, mm hmm. And this and
any negotiations you may have had with prior representation, you
can just erase that off to blacks see leader, like
delete your delete that, you know, delete this chat.

Speaker 1 (01:28:24):
So there's a new group chat as archive it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:27):
Scott Boris, Boris Corp dB, Dana Brown, JP, Jeremy Paine.
I think they're in a group chat. No, okay, but
for the sake of our show, it sounded like, okay,
a good idea. Hey, Dana meeting my new agent. You
were having trouble finding his number in the off season.
Apparently you dissed him new phone. Who is I hope not?

Speaker 12 (01:28:47):
I hope not.

Speaker 3 (01:28:49):
And this isn't gonna ruin what the astros are going
on right now. This is this has nothing to do
about this season. It won't be an issue, won't even
probably be an issue next year. But in a couple
of years it's going to definitely be an issue seven,
especially if it continues to progress the the ass seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven ninety We'll go to
San Antonio talk to our friend Caleb. We'll also get
with you at seven one three two one two five

(01:29:10):
seven nine zero. We'll get to the Rockets. And the
Texans have announced their.

Speaker 1 (01:29:15):
Training camp dates.

Speaker 3 (01:29:17):
All that between now and two o'clock plus today's edition
I Believe or Not is highly googlable twelve fifteen on
Sports Talk seven nineters twelve to twenty two Sports Talk
seven ninety It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
UH Texans real quick announcing their training camp dates. UH,
there'll be a handful of ones that are available to

(01:29:38):
the UH fan base, which is the biggest concern for y'all.

Speaker 1 (01:29:41):
Open practices will be.

Speaker 5 (01:29:44):
UH.

Speaker 3 (01:29:46):
I'm just gonna throw them out July twenty six, twenty eight,
twenty nine, thirty, August one, two and fourteen. So you tart,
I'm writing this down. Seven shots to go see your
team out there. Seven public practice. I'm bad. That's pretty great. Yeah,
make sure you hydrate. O. No, now, they'll have I
don't know if it's free water, but they'll have water
available for it. They should have free water. I think

(01:30:07):
they should cap you. You go to these stadiums and
the water bottles like eight nine dollars ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (01:30:11):
There should be a law and active no more than
two dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:30:14):
What's up? You know?

Speaker 1 (01:30:15):
I thought water right?

Speaker 3 (01:30:16):
I was went to go see a concert at Cynthy
Woulds and the water was five dollars a pop and
fairly expensive. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:30:26):
Now they also, I do believe they did have some
water fountains, but they do water stations that like the
call like U of H does it?

Speaker 3 (01:30:33):
UT does it? They have water stations for free water,
which everybody should do honestly. But whatever, it's a profit
off water. Yeah. Seriously, if you wanted to run for
office and your number one platform platform topic was I
believe no one should pay more than two dollars for

(01:30:53):
a bottle of water, you would win.

Speaker 1 (01:30:57):
Okay, all right, well let's start the campaign. Oh they're
going to dig into my past.

Speaker 3 (01:31:03):
Let's not do this. You know what, I know enough
about your past. I think you're okay, You're not any
more than any other politicians out there.

Speaker 1 (01:31:09):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (01:31:11):
You don't him cheat on your taxes. Yeah, that's true.
No felonies, no felonies, no drug arrest nothing. You didn't
say anything controversial per se in the show. The only
person you really insult is me and Major League umpires
the worst.

Speaker 1 (01:31:26):
I'm talking about the Empires. I was setting up for
that one, and't I all right?

Speaker 3 (01:31:31):
Seven one three two one two five seven OUTI Caleb
with us at twelve twenty three. Caleb, good afternoon, Good afternoon.

Speaker 21 (01:31:38):
I just wanted to see if you heard about the
information of Houston getting a professional softball team.

Speaker 3 (01:31:43):
I believe it'd be with the Astros.

Speaker 1 (01:31:48):
I had not heard the news, Matt, have you.

Speaker 3 (01:31:52):
I was thinking maybe Joe Estrada could uh, Joe Espata
could be he could coach them and tank that franchise.
You're stupid. I mean seriously, you waited twenty minutes for that.
Oh it took you all day to come up with that, Caleb, Caleb,

(01:32:15):
You're really stupid. You've got the really best chick of
Color one lens Man. They're forty six and thirty three.
That's really dumb. Spencer Arraghetty's missed the month straight. Plus
Jordan Alvarez has not played since May third, Hayden Wisnsky
and Runnel Blanco have gotten Tommy John surgery. Christian Walker

(01:32:36):
is not hitting his weight, Janer Diaz has been terrible
at the plate, and they're thirteen games above five hundred.
And that's the best you can come up with. And
we're going with he's tanking a franchise. They won the
division last year as well, by the way, And that's
the best you can come up with. That guy was

(01:33:01):
he was locked and loaded with so excited, terrific softball take.
It's gonna hilarious and thank god, I've been a cheezing
up radio professional and know this was coming from a
mile away. I didn't even let him finish the call. Oh,
I like him to keep going. Sometimes it's funny to
give him enough rope to hang themselves with. Again, if

(01:33:24):
you continue to call stupid crap, we're gonna give out
your phone number over the air, because it's not fair
that we have to take our show to listen to
your bad crap. We're gonna call you at your house. Sorry,
but I mean, even even the it's not even the joke,

(01:33:45):
it's the premise of the joke. Yeah, it's the should
I waste my time. I mean, does that guy have
a do have a job? Is it? The idea behind
the joke is that Joe Aspota is somehow bringing down
the ASTROSK. I got news for you, Joe Aspota. If
they might win the Manager of the Year award, if
they overtake the Tigers for the best record, they're three
and a half out of that, it ain't impossible, Ross

(01:34:07):
And I'm not saying it's probable.

Speaker 1 (01:34:09):
I would put it at a very very low percentage.

Speaker 3 (01:34:11):
Its odds are going up every day they keep winning. Yeah,
I mean, we do not oppose humor on the show. No,
we love it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:22):
We embrace it, we thrive on it, we look forward
to it.

Speaker 3 (01:34:25):
But Jonathan, you're right, the last week of the amateur
comedians calling this show, it's been really rough, and I
believe in you people. Well I don't believe in all
of you, but some of you had to believe in.
Hurts my heart a little bit, does it? Yeah? Because
you and I.

Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
Could do a boring ass four hour radio show.

Speaker 3 (01:34:47):
We don't talk to anybody and communicate and interact with
our listeners and get to know them, and we could
just just go nause them after topic after topic.

Speaker 1 (01:34:56):
Just listen to our voices.

Speaker 3 (01:34:57):
But we don't believe in that.

Speaker 1 (01:34:59):
But I get let that sometimes that's okay, man, we'll regroup.

Speaker 3 (01:35:02):
It's like, you know what it's like, you know what
it is.

Speaker 1 (01:35:04):
It's like I let my kids go out a half
hour past their curfew.

Speaker 3 (01:35:08):
Uh huh. But I say, you know, curfew is eleven thirty. Okay,
you can say out to minute, but don't be a
minute later. They're coming on a twelve fifteen, twelve twenty.
I'd lose faith in my children that way, not that
THENT even have. Yeah, okay, Caleb, and san Antonio is
like your child. Well, I mean he is san Antonio.
They're gonna be a little bit brained deprived to begin with. Okay,

(01:35:29):
I'll take your word for it. I got no issues
with san Antonian's. Oh I do Antonio Sanantonians? Yeah, I got.

Speaker 1 (01:35:35):
I mean there's two things in life. I hate stereout
types and Spurs.

Speaker 3 (01:35:38):
Fans because they're cowboys fans. They are really kid you know.
That is a double dip. That's what san Antonio was.
It's spur slash cowboy fan. Just imagine imagine how that
having your if you have a daughter, and your daughter says,
I've met my dream boat. He treats me nice. Uh,
he's got a good job, he's educated, he.

Speaker 1 (01:35:58):
Wants to build a family. Well that's great.

Speaker 3 (01:36:01):
Well it was just is he like sports?

Speaker 11 (01:36:02):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:36:03):
He loves sports? And then he and then he says
he's a huge Spurs and Cowboys fan. What if Carly
came home with that to me? I think you be okay?
Are you sure? Yeah? He's not. You didn't say anything.

Speaker 1 (01:36:15):
You wouldn't be asking for. You're not intimidating any boyfriends.
Oh I think I am.

Speaker 3 (01:36:18):
Maybe the brothers might.

Speaker 1 (01:36:20):
The brothers were.

Speaker 3 (01:36:21):
Definitely seven one three two one two five seven Dotti
just don't be that guy, Russell. There's a Twitter account
called Legion Hoops. Do you believe in them?

Speaker 8 (01:36:30):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:36:31):
Tell me help me out. You love aggregators? Yeah, but
I mean is it decent or not? I let me see.
I got eighty three thousand followers. I'll tell you if
I have them muted it or not. I don't, so
they must be okay, yes, so they haven't wronged me yet.
If you wrong me once, I mute you. That's It's
how it goes real quick. Before we get back on
the phones, and I think we've just got word from

(01:36:54):
our it department. Our phones are fixed, hopefully.

Speaker 1 (01:36:59):
We got no explanation. I just said it's been fun.

Speaker 3 (01:37:03):
You know what I messed up? They sent me. They
sent me a response like, hey, let us know what
phone number it is. We'll try to call it. You
protesting And I was like, oh, well, it hasn't been
happening today, but it has been happening the last couple
of weeks. Maybe they took to me saying, oh, it
didn't happen to a bom resolved. Yeah, that's exactly what
it was. Wait, they literally said, ain't nobody got time
for that? Like, I understand they're busy and this is outsourced.
We don't have local people, so they're dealing with a

(01:37:25):
lot of tickets all day. I guess I mean, just
a two minut explanation, like, hey, this is just how
it's going to be, Just something some courtesy would be cool,
just sucking, enjoying for us se me to as off
at least.

Speaker 1 (01:37:36):
So this legion hoops, says Cooper Flag.

Speaker 3 (01:37:40):
By the time he reaches thirty two years of age, okay,
he's gonna you know, he's Gonver, he'll be the number
one pick in the NBA draft. I know we will
not get another NBA draft conversation call today, and that's fine.
I'm okay with that rookie deal sixty two million dollars,
sixty to sixty two million. If he plays up to
expectations he is first contract can be a super max
contract of thirty percent okay, whatever that means, thirty percent supermax,

(01:38:03):
So his next contract could be worth three hundred and
fifty nine million dollars. That's what shake Ghos Alexander's about
to get with Oklahoma City. Yeah, a rookie extension. Yeah,
then if he continues to perform on an all level,
he can make a thirty five percent bonus supermax contract
extension that would give him five hundred nine million dollars.
So Legion Hoops added l's all together and said, if

(01:38:23):
he performs up to expectations, a one dash one h
by the time he's thirty two years of age, he
could have made he could make one billion dollars playing
in the NBA. That's without endorsements or anything else. Yeah, one, Billy,
good for him, first of all, good for him, Second

(01:38:46):
of all, Number one, get your kids on a basketball
court as fast as easy. Just raise kids to be
six foot ten and freakitionly athletic. I mean, yes, so
easy with handles, uh huh, block shots, yes, hit a
three feathery touch, a little bit of a possep defensive game. Yeah,
and at the midrange, easy peasy.

Speaker 18 (01:39:03):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:03):
And you, if you follow that that formula, your kid
is going to make one billion dollars. That's great. And
remember it's not where you're from, because you know where
he's from, don't you no idea? Maine not a basketball hotbed. Okay,
well again, I will say, if you think about how
much he's making, think about how much the owners are making.

(01:39:25):
I'm not besmirching anybody. Well I'm sorry the governor's oh
their owners, it's silly. Uh but yeah, one billion dollars
and he's eighteen, so on fourty. Think about what you've
done in your life going from sixty two million to
a combined one BILLI in fourteen years. Good for him.

(01:39:48):
I'm just curious and looked up the highest earning NBA
players of all time. You could probably guess the time.
Three one is one is easy, I think, Michael, Oh no, no, no, no, oh,
you know, I'm thinking night all reasons, all in the
last ten years. It is not inflation adjusted. You're telling
Lebron James, yes is one okay, and you're telling me

(01:40:11):
who the next couple are are and then the next two.
You can guess. I think the league right now, Yes,
and they're all time greats. Durant is two, Harden Hardness four. Oh,
I'm right around. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:40:31):
Kwi Leonard uh COUI Land's ninth. I'm gonna say, you're
gonna kick yourself.

Speaker 5 (01:40:37):
So hold on on.

Speaker 3 (01:40:39):
I told you active and all time great, active, all
time great? What conference?

Speaker 12 (01:40:45):
I know you know it?

Speaker 3 (01:40:46):
Western Conference? Yo, Kichen, Stephen Curry, Ah Paul, George Chris Paul,
Anthony Davis, Dame Lillard Kawhi Leonard Bradley Beal was the
tenth highest earning basketball player of all time all time.
And by the way, the Suns told him we want

(01:41:09):
to trade you. He said no, and they're like, well,
we may just buy you out. Wow, We're you gonna
buy out all that money? I guess, crazy, isn't it.
Let's talk to Ryan and Montgomery. Ryan, good afternoon, afternoon, gentlemen.

Speaker 14 (01:41:25):
How a y'all doing it.

Speaker 1 (01:41:26):
We're wonderful. Thank you for asking.

Speaker 14 (01:41:29):
I feel stupider having listened to Caleb.

Speaker 3 (01:41:31):
I know, how do you think we feel?

Speaker 22 (01:41:33):
I'm like I'm drooling on myself, actually hung up when
Drole hit the end button on my phone. I apologize.

Speaker 1 (01:41:39):
Let me tell you something, Ryan, hold on a second, man,
ask you how old.

Speaker 3 (01:41:42):
You are and what do you do for loving.

Speaker 22 (01:41:45):
I'm thirty three and I am a home repair project
manager for Habitat for you man.

Speaker 3 (01:41:49):
Okay, Well, first of all, that's a great it's a
great cause. Number two, I want to apologize to you, mate.
Will you please accept my heartfelt apology for wasting your
time for a minute.

Speaker 14 (01:41:59):
Absolutely, sir, I appreciate the apology.

Speaker 1 (01:42:01):
It's not needed, No, it's but it, but it really
is genuine.

Speaker 3 (01:42:05):
And I just because I try to we try to
do a radio show that involves everybody, and that does
include the nut jobs. And so he's a nut job
and nut's fine, but it is what it is. Caleb
will not be able to call the show without me
giving out his phone number, and we'll call him and
make his life help because I have called listeners before
and I live to antagonize them.

Speaker 1 (01:42:23):
So just remember we have your phone number. Ryan, The
floor is yours.

Speaker 3 (01:42:26):
Continue on, please, Oh, I just wanted to say Caleb
is a dumbass.

Speaker 22 (01:42:30):
And if we get a hockey team before a soft
if we get a softball team professional softball team before a.

Speaker 14 (01:42:35):
Hockey team, I'll want to be so unbelievably aggravated.

Speaker 3 (01:42:39):
Are you are you NHL to Houston guys that who
you are? And that one are you one of the groups,
and that in that group.

Speaker 14 (01:42:44):
I can make this story very quick. If you want
to hear it, take your time. So before I did this.

Speaker 22 (01:42:50):
I used to work for a company where we would
go to places after hurricanes for like disaster relief. Right,
So the biggest job I did is I spent like
a year in Fort Myers, Florida. But you couldn't live
there after Hurricane Ian because it was trashed. So I
lived in a Cape coral or a cape coral and
right there every it was in the heart of like

(01:43:12):
Tampa Bay Lightning fans. And so my wife came over
for Thanksgiving because I couldn't go home, and we went
to a Tampa Bay Lightning game and absolutely fell in love.
And so I'm a Tampa Bay Lightning fan, but that
allegiance can be broken if we get a team here,
and I'm all on board with that, but no, NHL.

Speaker 14 (01:43:29):
It's a wonderful game experience.

Speaker 22 (01:43:31):
And I think Houston, if we had a real team
with where we could play in a nice arena like
Toyota Center, if they want to do that or they
want to build something.

Speaker 14 (01:43:40):
New, you would put asses in seats all day long.
It would be fun. It's a great time and I
really hope it happens.

Speaker 5 (01:43:47):
Ryan.

Speaker 3 (01:43:48):
Thanks to the phone call. Safe travels, and good luck
with all with the habitat here for humanity. I lived
in Minneapolis for three years. Ross.

Speaker 1 (01:43:54):
I love going to Minnesota Wald games.

Speaker 3 (01:43:56):
How many did you go to?

Speaker 1 (01:43:57):
Five a year at least?

Speaker 3 (01:43:58):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (01:43:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:44:00):
There credential, uh some credential summer family. The kids love
the free tickets to work well, my the radio company
station I worked for. I was a minority owner of
the team. I mean it was nice, you know, begrogery
for that. I own to be graduate at all. Okay,
I just want to make sure it's free. Give me
three really enjoyed it, didn't never really learn much about it.

(01:44:21):
I still want to go to a game. I haven't
been I've been. I went to Arrow's game. I loved
Arrows games.

Speaker 7 (01:44:26):
Kid.

Speaker 3 (01:44:26):
This is follow you, NHL, the Houston fans. You know,
eyes have the weirdest dreams. Oh no, I had a
dream about a week ago. I didn't even mention it
to you. It was fortulated that I was thrown into
doing a broadcast, a hockey broadcast. They're like, I don't
and I don't remember every part of my dream, but
it was x y Z announcer is sick. We need
to do a broadcast. It was a national Game of

(01:44:46):
the week broadcast. It wasn't just like doing a local
Houston team or when it picked Jets game. It was like,
we need you to do the NHL and tn T
And I'm like, I don't know the vernacular, I don't
know the rules. But I wasn't going to turn down
a national opportunity. Okay, but I would now if it
did you the game or did you wake up and
then you got hit in the head with a pup.
I woke up. I wake up because the dogs are

(01:45:08):
always barking and yelling and stuff like that always cost
me my finishing.

Speaker 1 (01:45:11):
That's right, that's part of it.

Speaker 3 (01:45:14):
Why are we getting thunderstorms like every night. The hell's
going on here? Anybody got time for that? My water
bill says, I got plenty of time for that. That's okay.
Your grass is looking good, grasses lush. Sending cam Thomas
out there to cut the grass. Don't bring that up either,
Well you should. Well, since you poked the bear, let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:45:36):
No, No, it's okay, No time for a break.

Speaker 5 (01:45:38):
No, I want to hear it.

Speaker 3 (01:45:39):
I'm sorry. I don't want to get in trouble with
your son. No, there were two things. The wife wanted
a housekeeper every every week to clean the house, and
I didn't want to do a large yard service. So
we have a yard person and we have a housekeeper.
That's you have suns for.

Speaker 5 (01:46:00):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:46:00):
I was cutting that grass back in my day. I
got ice cut grass back in the day. Edge, not
so much edge, I'll do it. Yeah, did you trimming?
Do you ever have an edge of that had like
the little the white wire that would always come on
and wrapped up and it would then snap into forty
different pieces and screw it up. Yeah, if you weren't
winding it correctly. I wasn't wanting it correctly, so that's

(01:46:21):
why I said, I'm not going I'm not going to
add that frustration to my child's life. I haven't. Oh,
it's character building builds. Character didn't character build me. Pissed
me off. Probably reason why I'm as aggressive as I am. Okay,
just saying. Twelve forty three on Sports Talk seven ninety
Believe it or not today, Oh holy googleable. Okay, all right,

(01:46:44):
twelve forty nine on Sports Talk seveny real quick detexans
one more on the training camp.

Speaker 1 (01:46:48):
I thought was interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:46:50):
So they're going to have training camp starting here on Wednesday,
July twenty third. They will practice here for two weeks,
then they will take their practice to West Virginia for
four days. Then they'll go from there to Minnesota to
play one of their preseason games. Okay, I'm sure there

(01:47:13):
is a reason to it, but I would think that
they would if you were going to go away for
training camp, you would start your training camp away so
you guys could really bro hang and all that kind
of stuff. I'm interested as to why they would start
in Houston then go to West Virginia to go hide.
Are they going to the Green bra They're going to
the Greenbrier. Okay, maybe they got a good deal the
Green bra Maybe midweek rights are low. They got a

(01:47:39):
packaged deal. Well, I mean, I mean, I really don't know.
In there casino over there too, there is Yeah, I've
never been there. Let's go to the Greenbriar. You know
Mike d'antoni's got a house. Oh yeah, he's West Virginia's finest. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:47:52):
But I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:47:54):
I mean, I mean really serious for a second, why
would you pack everything up and go hide for four
or not hide, but you know, get away. I mean,
I guess the only number one thing I would think
of probably would be weather. But you tell me five
six seven is going to be just as hot as
July twenty three through all the way to July thirtieth.
I mean, do they truly think that their current training

(01:48:14):
facility is not up to the far around two weeks,
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (01:48:18):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:48:20):
I you know what, I just don't get it. We'll
have that tomorrow eleven thirty, but I'll be talking about
the Green Byer in the Houston, Texas training camp.

Speaker 1 (01:48:30):
I mean, kudos to whoever.

Speaker 3 (01:48:32):
I mean that's Callahana. Don't have to do that. They
can take care of the folks. They could says staying
in Houston, Texas, We'll get you guys. You know, maybe
they're trying to get their ratings up. Weren't they bad
as far as the like the anonymous NFL players poll.

Speaker 1 (01:48:48):
I didn't think there was anything that was overly bad.

Speaker 3 (01:48:50):
Can you remember? But you know, and I guess you
could probably also say, maybe you break up the monotony
of training camp by just going away for a few days,
but you're still practicing.

Speaker 1 (01:49:01):
I mean the Green Bar. I've never been in the
Green Borough, but I hear it's nice here.

Speaker 3 (01:49:04):
It's lovely. They were going there years ago and then
they stopped. Yeah, well, you're right, looks like the Texans
gotta gotta a or a B minus on everything.

Speaker 1 (01:49:15):
Yeah, I don't think there was anything that was training
room trust.

Speaker 3 (01:49:17):
If there was something that was really bad, it would
have been a three day topic on this ownership got
an A well, of course, and I had, you know,
but maybe maybe Hannah's got It's like a there's like
a state sale up there.

Speaker 1 (01:49:27):
They got you think Hannah wants to go up there.
Oh Hannah's gonna be there?

Speaker 3 (01:49:30):
Are you kidding me? She's picking she's picking up the
tap of the green bar. She will definitely be there.

Speaker 1 (01:49:37):
They gotta B minus on treatment of families.

Speaker 3 (01:49:39):
Ooh, that's how dude. B minus is what.

Speaker 1 (01:49:43):
One of the worst grade they got on anything.

Speaker 3 (01:49:45):
So basically the family team, travel, coach, ownership, weight room,
training staff, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (01:49:50):
So basically the family room sucks is what they're saying.
Maybe they don't give them good tickets. They put them
in the nosebleeds.

Speaker 3 (01:49:56):
You got the best seat that six or six hundred
can buy. You're right over there. My headsets all screwed up.
I gotta give you some you want. Those are nine
dollars ones.

Speaker 1 (01:50:05):
Have some earphones and I'll get you a daytimer.

Speaker 3 (01:50:08):
You want something like these? Yeah, I'm getting for you
right now. All right, let's do it Amazon. All right,
Mamazon is your friend. Uh No, I got a Bamazon
get care of my birthday. So I'll do it myself. Okay,
I'll send you the link. Thank you. So yeah, so
just when you when you get comfortable in your training camp,
you're gonna pack everything.

Speaker 9 (01:50:25):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:50:25):
Really, I feel bad for its equipment managers. Everything is
at their facility. It's the helmets are on the right spot,
the pads of the washing machines and then.

Speaker 1 (01:50:33):
They're gonna go to a hotel for four days.

Speaker 3 (01:50:38):
It's good for them, probably costing a pretty penny. They're
taking care of their players. Maybe that you want to
get from all the all this media that's hounding everybody.
You know, it's Texans media. Oh that Texans media. They're
they're ferocious over there. You know what, I'll be better, Hey,
hear me, nothing I do. I'm proud of you, Matt.

Speaker 1 (01:51:01):
I guess there could be some reason they're going to
the Green Bar. Don't know what it is, but I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:51:05):
Sure we'll find out. I'm sure to be sure about it.
And you know, again, kudos to them. They don't have
to do that. There's no requirement to go run away somewhere,
and the Cowboys still go to California do then now
for the first few weeks. And that's what I'm saying,
is that usually when you travel, you start at that
distance and then you come home for the last few weeks.
It's kind of weird that you would do it in
the middle of it. But teach his own. Let's talk

(01:51:26):
to Colby in Baytown at twelve fifty four. Colby, good afternoon,
and it's good to talk to you.

Speaker 9 (01:51:34):
Look, Okay, so I've been seeing a lot lately about
the Kevin Durant trade. Look, I'm honestly very excited for
Kevin Durant to come back to Houston. He's coming home
to where he went to college and all that. But
here's my thing. We have a lot of people out
there who are saying, Kevin Durant is coming to Houston,
They're going to win a championship now, or their championship

(01:51:55):
caliber kind of like that. My thing is is Kevin
Durant is just one piece to a championship. I think
that we have a lot of players on our team,
like Shingoon and Ben van Fleet who just got that deal,
who can also come in and be a supporting cast too,

(01:52:16):
And that's stuff like that is one of the biggest
things that is bothering me right now, is Kevin Durant
is not the solution to our problem. But there's there's
no problem, I would say, But he is not the
only thing to help us win the title. It's a
team effort. So I gotta say this right now, to
the national media, to ESPN, to everyone else you know, saying, oh, well,

(01:52:39):
the rocket is this and this and this, this kt
kt kt such obumass up?

Speaker 3 (01:52:44):
Okay, thanks Colby. I mean my thought is it's not
the solution to it's an enhancement to. This team did
win fifty two games last year. This team was a
number two seed. This team has got plenty of talent.
But Kobe, to be fair to the national media, in't
fair to anybody that would be talking about it, whether

(01:53:04):
it's local or national. There weren't a lot of folks
that thought that the Rockets pre Kevin Durant trade were
going to be a title contender because there was some
hesitancy about whether or not this current group could do it.
Kevin Durant puts you in that group, not just me
saying it, not just sports RV or the national folks

(01:53:25):
Las Vegas say what you want, Yeah, just skyrocket the
Rockets chances to winning the NBA Championship pre playoffs, they
were eighty to one, and I thought that was good value.
So I lit twenty bucks on fire with that. I
hope you had it on that. By the way, I
didn't know I'm talking about for this upcoming say they
lost in the first round. Oh, I thought pre playoffs

(01:53:46):
got pre playoffs they were eighty to one. Yeah, this
upcoming year right now, they are nine to one. That's
Kevin Durant. That's not Alprinschingen growing up. And that's as
you said, signing odds don't mean everything. That means certainly
not futures odds. I think points spreads mean a little
bit more than future odds. The future odds are all

(01:54:07):
off all the time, but that just gives you an idea.
You went from eighty to one to nine to one. No,
he's not the ree. I don't think Kevin Durant. If
Kevin Durant scores twenty five points a game and get
dishes out twelve rebounds and everybody else doesn't perform up

(01:54:28):
to what they did last year, this team will not
be a championship contender. I mean, Appy's got to get better,
Thompson's got to get better, and they will. And Jabbari's mean,
you still have to fix, not fix. You have to
figure out where the take who's gonna pick up the
Jalen Green production because Jaalen was productive for most of
the year. Yeah, and it'll be Kevin Durant and Jalen

(01:54:48):
Green is at better at this point in their career
is a better defender than Kevin Durant is. So you'll
have to shore it up. But you've got guys that
can do that. That's why we'll see who starts. Whether
it's Jabari or Tari or whoever, you're gonna have a defender.
And there we got a good team defense. And as
alluded to a few minutes ago, there is now a
fourteen million dollar mid level exception.

Speaker 1 (01:55:07):
Available for the Rockets. See you get some more help.

Speaker 3 (01:55:11):
Who that may be. I don't know, but it may
not be a guy that is gonna stop in your tracks,
but it's gonna be somebody I think we know. Right,
we'll see.

Speaker 1 (01:55:20):
I remain bullish on going. Wow, that's a nice pickup,
all right. I want you to be right, man.

Speaker 3 (01:55:25):
I don't think that they're gonna take the fourteen million
dollars to give to Jeff Green. I mean, you know what,
I hope not it be somebody that they know, maybe
a former teammate or maybe Ross they swing for the fences,
explain as we start the final hour of the Matt
Thomas Show at Ross Next on Sports Talk seven ninety.

(01:55:50):
All Right, it is one oh two on Sports Talk
seven ninety this is our final hour of the day.
Tomorrow way of a shorter show, we've got ten to
noon and then we've got Astros baseball at twelve a
clock will have I just don't get. At eleven thirty,
Brian mctagger will slide into the Astros on Deck, which
you'll be hosting tomorrow for a one to ten first
pitch between the Astros and Affillies to close out the

(01:56:11):
three game series. First things first tonight six o'clock for
the on Deck Show with Dan Matthews. Game two between
the Astros. Colton Gordon will throw for the local nine
today Astros eight season high thirteen games above five hundred.
I'm glad you didn't mention Zach Wheeler. Well, I wanted
to bury that, yeah, because I'm a little nervous to
be brutally honest with you.

Speaker 1 (01:56:31):
Minus one sixty for the old pills today.

Speaker 3 (01:56:34):
All right, So I tease something about if you really
want to swing for the fence, the Astros still have
a lot of draft capital between themselves, Phoenix and I
believe Brooklyn in the mix too. Yes, okay, if you
wanted to really swing for the fence, train them a

(01:56:55):
bunch of first round picks, send them a couple of players.

Speaker 6 (01:57:04):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (01:57:05):
If Milwaukee will take it. Milwaukee Bucks, the team in
control of ictent Com post contract filled them up with
Jannis Durant endless first rounders. They're gonna want to men
or Changoon minimum.

Speaker 6 (01:57:25):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:57:27):
Then I can't have the conversation. You're gonna give them
either of them? And you think you're getting Yannis at
tenth to Coompo multiple time MVP. What if I gave them?
It sounded like you're throwing names in particular. You always say, man,
it has to hurt. Okay, you're right, it has to hurt.
So if it hurts, Shingoon and four first round picks

(01:57:52):
probably gonna take more more more more to to match
a salary, even.

Speaker 1 (01:57:57):
Because Bus have nobody. Now they just traded Holiday too.

Speaker 5 (01:58:00):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (01:58:01):
Holiday was the Celtics. He was in the Bucks before that.

Speaker 3 (01:58:06):
You're telling me Shanoon and four first runners wouldn't do
it for you? Honest.

Speaker 1 (01:58:09):
If you're telling me, you're telling me I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (01:58:13):
Okay, what if I threw Whitmore and or cam read
Shepherd in the mix four first rounds? What do I
give you a fifth first round? I don't even know
is there a max is for the max because it
feels like it could be. That's why I feel nobody's
giving away more than four that I know of. We
have no more seconds than I'll think because of the
rockets game they run, they gave five of them to Phoenix.

(01:58:37):
I think here, I can't give up Tari or jib Well.
I don't want to do kind of back off this
comediation gun Jabari four first? Would you do it?

Speaker 11 (01:58:53):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:58:58):
I could four first, and no human being is better
because I know I don't know what these draft picks are.
I know who these human beings are, and I know
what their abilities are. Okay, but the reason why I
would throw you bring up Shangun is because you're talking
about big man for big man, right, I mean, I
guess I think of I think of jannest Is just

(01:59:19):
to do everything. But maybe you know he's tall, but
he's not like a back to the basket pick. No, no, no,
But maybe this is a non starter. Maybe they they
were like, we decided that alpurn is our guy. Alpern
was untouchable on a Kevin Durant trade possibility. Alpern is
not untouchable, not for Jannis certainly to me Giannis for first,

(01:59:45):
I mean no for first and Apron can't do it.
I wouldn't think they. I don't think they would take that. No,
no lottery protection whatsoever. Maybe let's see, Jannis has two
more years, two more years left on his deal plus
a player option. Okay, if you're telling me no, you're
telling me no that I mean this, I can't do.

Speaker 12 (02:00:05):
I can't.

Speaker 3 (02:00:05):
You can't squeeze that any more out of me. I
don't think they'd take amending for it first. I'll say that,
what's up? I think we value the potential of Amn
Thompson more than everybody loves him in Thompson. But is
a Men Thompson ever going to be multiple time MVP
and Defensive Player of the Year. The reason why am

(02:00:27):
men Thompson because you honest is the reason why I
am men tom Because he's only he's just starting his
third year in the NBA. Yiannis has been the lead
a decade. Yes, So if you think that men Thompson
can can grove a nice twelve to fifteen year career
in with maybe a few All Star appearances in there,
and maybe All Defensive Player team and maybe an NBA

(02:00:48):
Defensive Player of the Year, and he's progressed offensive and
now again he's not a lead, but got significantly better
in year tier than the year one. That's the kind
of guy you can build around. He's yeah, absolutely, he's
a building ball. I love him in Thompson, he's gonna
be a Defensive Player of the Year threat. If Jannis
was twenty four, I would then probably argue with you
more to it. Okay, he's thirty. And see it's easy

(02:01:11):
to get durant because you didn't give I don't think
the Rockets in their mind thought we give up a lot.
You're asking the Rockets to give up a lot, to
give up a menacepeak is a men Thompson ever going
to win Defensive Player of the Year. Yes, we can
argue that, Yes.

Speaker 11 (02:01:24):
I can.

Speaker 5 (02:01:24):
I can.

Speaker 3 (02:01:25):
Now I'm saying he's probably. I'm saying, is there is
there a viable case for it? Absence?

Speaker 5 (02:01:29):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (02:01:30):
Is he ever going to win MVP? Well, it's a
scoring I'm gonna say no.

Speaker 3 (02:01:35):
Okay, if it's since it's a scoring league, who's a
lab Did Gary Payton ever win an MVP? Yeah? I
want to say yes. In ninety six I think when
they had he had that big year. Okay, but typically
speaking your NBA gianna says, two, uh, he didn't finish
in the voting last year. He didn't qualify because what
do you need? He had sixty seven days. Yeah, it's
gonna be sixty sixty, sixty one, sixty two is the

(02:01:58):
sixty five or something?

Speaker 1 (02:02:00):
Remember, go ahead. But he played sixty seven games, but
he didn't finish any awards.

Speaker 3 (02:02:03):
He was hurt.

Speaker 1 (02:02:05):
The year before that, he was fourth and MVP, third, third, fourth,
first first.

Speaker 3 (02:02:10):
I think the youth and the excitement and the potential
for a men Timson to be an absolute dog. And
I you know, I can tell you this. I don't
think I can project him as an MVP, but I
could project him as a for All NBA first team.

Speaker 1 (02:02:25):
Maybe a little of a stretch.

Speaker 3 (02:02:27):
He's young, I'm not how about how about first second team?

Speaker 1 (02:02:30):
How about that?

Speaker 3 (02:02:31):
Could you could you see Amen Timson being All NBA
second Team? I could see that sure for sure, maybe
first even because I think, okay, if you're an if
you're all defensive play, I means you probably got a
whole lot.

Speaker 1 (02:02:39):
To your to your repertoire.

Speaker 3 (02:02:40):
I'm just asking you a question. Last three years, Giannis
has been over thirty points per game. Is a men
Thompson never gonna average over thirty points. I don't think
that it's sixty percent from the field. The man shoots
fifty percent from the floor, then shoot sixty. Okay, But
you know what I'm saying. You know, I also his
repertoire is not nearly as uh wide as Yan. But

(02:03:00):
Yanna doesn't shoot three.

Speaker 5 (02:03:01):
Here's what.

Speaker 3 (02:03:02):
Here's what Yanna's doesn't do that that makes me a
little nervous. If I'm gonna trade everything that we're talking
about again, you're you are absolutely solid in your foundation.
Shinguo doesn't shoot threes a man. A man is not
a great I mean, Yannis is not a great three
point shooting. In fact, he's regressed and doesn't even take
as many as he used to. And he doesn't shoot
free throws. Well, it's a bad free throw shooter. Sixty

(02:03:23):
nine percent in his career. Amen, Thompson got better at
free throws. Last year he was around seventy five. Right
getting there, I have to go. Look, I'm just saying
I love a man too, But we're talking about the
Greek freak here all right, you know what I mean?
You know what ross to answer your question? It's it
hurts too much. I'm pulling back. Goodbye, Okay, new phone?

(02:03:43):
Who he is? Lose my number? All right? Just just
I just want to throw it out. Would you even
make the phone call? I would think about it for sure.
Giannest is one of the five best players on the planet.
Four first round picks that can do a lot. You

(02:04:06):
have Kevin, Durant and Jan That's how good are those
picks gonna be? But we always say that, we said
that about the Brooklyn picks and then they they turned
it out to be pretty good. I'm not endorsing is.
I'm just saying, just throwing something against the walls. Eve
it sticks. Okay, let's go to uh kJ in Cyprus
at one eleven on seven one high kJ.

Speaker 5 (02:04:25):
Hey, what's going on with fellas? Has been a minute
as usual, even though I'm not counting them.

Speaker 3 (02:04:29):
Always says, yeah, where are you calling us from?

Speaker 1 (02:04:32):
He's sounding like you're a mile away from us.

Speaker 5 (02:04:35):
Uh Les, I've got to talking through the car. It's
a distant reception. It's not you guys. It's not a
technical thing. But uh am I good enough.

Speaker 3 (02:04:42):
For you got to hear me, fire away, go for it.

Speaker 5 (02:04:45):
Okay. I want to give a little bit of a
different perspective in regards to this Kevin Durant situation. Uh,
we have got to stop normalizing chasing after big name players.
And the reason why I say that the first and foremost,
if Kevin Durant comes in and win the championship. Obviously
this is a moot point, but we as a basketball phantom,

(02:05:06):
a sports fandom, have got to the point to where
we normalize getting big names to put on your team,
and we consistently see example after example that that does
not work. The last time that was successful, I want
to say it was probably when Golden State got KD.

Speaker 12 (02:05:22):
We see it.

Speaker 5 (02:05:22):
It didn't work in the Cliffers, it didn't work with Philly,
it didn't work. If it does not work when you did,
just get a bunch of alphasts, put them together and
expect everything to mess. There's something to be said about
continuity and chemistry. But that's said. I'm not at first
with them getting and getting rid of Jailing Green. And
the reason why I say that is, if you look

(02:05:43):
at Taylor greens rookie stats and his stats up into
this season, they're more or less the same. So if
you're not gonna grow as a player, you definitely can't
take a step backwards in the most potial moment. At
that minimum, we expect you to be who you've been
the entire four years of your career. So I'm not
at first with them getting rid of Jalen Greens. But
I do dislike is the fact that we as a

(02:06:06):
society have we look with that distant gratification. Let's get
this guy, Let's get that guy. Let's just get get
this guy. The recent champions are all organet teams who
added players to their teams. Added Aaron Gordon, Milwaukee had
Milwaukee hadded Brook blow Piz Boston added Johnaday and and

(02:06:27):
Derrick White and those guys. I'm just naming recent champions.

Speaker 3 (02:06:33):
Okay, so what hold on kJ real quick? But what
are the Rockets doing? They're not you're telling me they're
not adding by adding Kevin Durant. That doesn't make any sense.
They this team, this team, this team was going on.
This team grew up together. They grew up through the draft.
They grew up with Jalen Green and Jabari Smith and
a Men Thompson and Tarry Easton and they started, they

(02:06:53):
very slowly added their pieces. This is exactly what the
Rockets are doing when everybody else is doing.

Speaker 5 (02:06:59):
But you're not adding a piece, You're adding a dude
who And again this is the worst case scenario. I'm
I tell you this is a given. You're adding someone
who is not going to just stand in the corner
and shoot three. You're obstructed. You're gonna structure your team,
at least from an our business standpoint, around Tivin Durant.
So what you have, what you have a statised in
regress to the team you made the studious number two

(02:07:22):
in the West last year. That's growth. You grow as
a team. You add pieces. Kevin Durant isn't a piece.
Kevin Durant. If he doesn't buy you into what's being
done here, and looking at his injury history, he may
not even be on the roster. And the keach a
fifty moment. You're basically putting yourself in a position to
potentially start the growth of the players that you have developed,

(02:07:42):
and potentially putting yourself in a position where given offense
is teared around Kevin Durant because he's not deferent to
be quote unquote, a role player. A piece is a
role player, A guy who can add to what you have,
not more or less, lick the focus on him and
again work.

Speaker 3 (02:07:58):
Okay, so use it using your train of thought. Jalen
Green stays, the rockets were all of a sudden. We're
to go get nas red, nas Red, Jalen Green, Opron
Shingoon gives you a better chance of winning an NBA
championship than Kevin Durant does with with oprons, Shangoon and
a man Thompson, is that what you're telling me?

Speaker 5 (02:08:19):
If you're saying NOAs Red, I would say nas reed.
If which is us your scenario, I would say nas
read and maybe another competent for reimeter shooting. That is
that we're hoping that this works, but history indicates when
we see this so often, these guys had these big
name players and it doesn't work. When was the last

(02:08:40):
time you said act question?

Speaker 3 (02:08:42):
All?

Speaker 5 (02:08:42):
I don't want to say, but I don't ever have
off day under the act question and I hear your
response on the back, then when was the last time, outside.

Speaker 3 (02:08:49):
Of when KD with the God States, outside of winning
the last time it happened outside of winning happened.

Speaker 1 (02:08:54):
Go ahead, huh when.

Speaker 5 (02:08:57):
He went to an established he went to a championship
team rock Well, they.

Speaker 3 (02:09:01):
Didn't win the championship team but okay, I don't know.
The Celtics added Porzingis, Uh who, well, I don't know.
The Mavericks went to the finals, they added Kyrie Irving.

Speaker 5 (02:09:13):
Oh, good, ahead, Sorry that what you're going about.

Speaker 3 (02:09:25):
Okay, when's the last time a team won the championship
when they're leading scorer throughout the season scored only single
digits and four points in the frost.

Speaker 1 (02:09:32):
They were out in the first round. I mean, am
I crazy?

Speaker 7 (02:09:36):
Is?

Speaker 3 (02:09:36):
Are they on the cusp? And then then they just
upset the apple Cart first round, not the Simmis, not
the Western Finals, not the NBA Finals. They were out
in the first round. And the fact is it hurt
to watch Jalen not performing the playoffs. There are a
lot of people in that Rockets organization that were rooting
for Jalen Green. They gave him a new contract before

(02:09:59):
the start of the season. They drafted him in the
top five for Jalen Green. Everybody did team Jalen Green,
but he let me down. They felt like they I'm
not saying I'm not putting words in their amount, but
they probably felt like we had a lot of faith
that you could shake yourself with this and you didn't.
And he is correct to say that there is a
lack of patience. There is a win now or it's
a failure. That's just kind of the nature of the NBA.

(02:10:21):
And I get it, trying to trust the process and
all that type of stuff. And the Rockets could get
better as a team, but you're not getting better than
Golden I mean an Oklahoma City. I don't think you're
better than Denver without making this Kevin Durantle better than Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (02:10:34):
Yeah, just getting a.

Speaker 3 (02:10:35):
Year older and making a small change I don't think
gets you over the top of Oklahoma City. In Denver
and hell, we don't even know what the Lakers are
gonna be disappointed they do win a championship. You need
players that can transcend the best defenses. Nobody's stopping Prime
Michael Jordan and Lebron James or even what shake Gildos Alexander.
I mean those types of player like that. The alpha

(02:10:57):
dog Jalen Green proved to us. Now, it was his
first playoff taste, but he proved to us that he's
not transcending first round defense. It gets tougher as you go,
and I think the Rockets recognize that one's seventeen make
a one eighteen. Sports Talk seven Hine were way late,
but the content was good. That's why you deal with

(02:11:18):
Ciner radio show that you listen for good content.

Speaker 1 (02:11:20):
We gave it to you. I think good conversation. Kjit
back in a minute.

Speaker 3 (02:11:24):
We were just debating whether or not the Rockets at
are picking the draft. I believe the answer is yes.
I believe it's pick fifty nine or sixty one of
the two. It doesn't it's super late second round. I
know there was a report the Rockets would like to
maybe kick the tires on getting back a little higher
in the draft. I saw a tweet that that was
one of the ones going too. But this is why
you can't trust Twitter. I guess that that was one
of the ones going to Phoenix. But I suppose I

(02:11:46):
was misinformed or I am misinformed. Well, you're misinformed in general.
I just don't know if it's this particular case, you're
wrong or right. Yeah, I've looked at a bunch of website.
Maybe right, I may be crazy. Yeah, it looks like
they still have it. Yeah, that's fine.

Speaker 5 (02:12:00):
Lease.

Speaker 1 (02:12:01):
According to ESPN's website, is it fifty nine ers at
sixty fifty.

Speaker 3 (02:12:05):
Nine and a sixty player draft?

Speaker 8 (02:12:08):
Hmmm this?

Speaker 3 (02:12:09):
Why does this have them as the law listed as
the last team? That's what I'm saying. I'm a little confused.
You know what was on ESPN? I'm super GOODA We'll
get some more information. By the way, we'll have a
draft party tomorrow night too.

Speaker 1 (02:12:19):
Did somebody lose one as a like an infraction or
somebody somebody lost a second pick?

Speaker 3 (02:12:23):
I can't remember a question. No, we're not having a
draft party. The Rockets are ab I'm talking about tomorrow.
Nobody's having a draft tomorrow. You can go see Adam
and Adam out at the Rockets draft party tonight.

Speaker 12 (02:12:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:12:33):
I'll be there as well. I'm hosting a trip. Yeah
you are. Yeah. Do you have the questions? Yes?

Speaker 5 (02:12:38):
Really?

Speaker 8 (02:12:39):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (02:12:40):
Can I answer it?

Speaker 20 (02:12:41):
No?

Speaker 15 (02:12:42):
Come on? I want one?

Speaker 3 (02:12:43):
Did get mad at me? I don't want that?

Speaker 1 (02:12:44):
Oh they would Why would they?

Speaker 3 (02:12:46):
Why would I give away questions on the air? You
would reward our listeners. You better get authorization. I was
gonna say, you gotta go back to Craig, and I'm
asking you to do anything else, Mammie, feel sorry if
you can you yeah, can you host a couple of
trivia questions here?

Speaker 1 (02:13:01):
I can't wait, alol, So I want the questions off air.

Speaker 3 (02:13:05):
If you're going to the Tota Center tonight, you get
on the floor like at four four thirty somewhere in
that range. You can shoot basket in the court. I mean,
how many times you get to play on an NBA court?
That's great. I think the trophies will be there. Roody's
going to be there. Seebe franchise is going to be there.
Oh wow, Moochie's gonna be there. You're gonna post up
Mooshi Horse? How tall as Mooch? About six foot? Yeah,

(02:13:28):
I'm taller than him, I think by an inch.

Speaker 8 (02:13:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:13:31):
Go look at listed height less accurate back of the
day is li'sten at six to one. So he and
I are mono and mono. Yeah, I got him minus
five hundred and it came a horse and I talking
about odds, talk about points? Oh dang, you say horse
would go to horse shot behind the back granny style?

(02:13:54):
What it's the goat down in sports? Empty? Oh? Turn around?
Jumper like dream shake. Okay, wow, oh h you asked
a shake. It's more like a rattle A little slow.
I played so much basketball as a kid, didn't translate
to the court because I was fat. See somebody just

(02:14:14):
tweeted me they traded fifty nine to Phoenix. But I'm
looking at ESPN and it's on there.

Speaker 1 (02:14:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:14:18):
We're getting conflicting reports, you know, I'll, I will, I'll
check in with a source.

Speaker 5 (02:14:24):
Is that fair?

Speaker 3 (02:14:25):
Okay? Back to the kid. Do you want any more
on the kids? Look, Jalen Green hurts, but I but
the energy, the buzz, the excitement. Almost every NBA analyst,
not that everybody NBA analysts are right, but everybody that
I do trust when it comes to a basketball mine
says the Rockets did really, really well in this trade.

(02:14:45):
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It hurts. But Kevin durantzk got a lot left in
the tank. I just, first of all, I need to

(02:16:09):
need to believe it, and I certainly choose to believe it.
And other teams did too. Miami was only to make
some Pacific moves. Minnesota had the most attractive offer. Brooklyn
was involved. Golden State tried to get him three months ago.
Apparently the reason why not because he didn't like Dreamond Green,
didn't like Steve Kerr. But he wanted to be here
and San Antonio was also kicking the tires too. One

(02:16:32):
just one team, twenty five and twelve, fifty forty shooting percentage.
What's his free throw numbers? No, it's actually dipped last year,
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Bobby Mark says the following Rockets in the second round
do not have a pick tomorrow. This is Bobby Mars

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that they would be giving up the fifty ninth pick tomorrow.
Two of them in twenty six one in nineteen twenty
thirty came from Boston and one in twenty thirty two.
So there you have it, whether Bobby and March is accurate. Again,
everything is July sixth, But yeah, I mean again, I

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don't think we're gonna be sweating with them with the
Rockets do at fifty nine, even if they had the pick.
All Right, Before we get to a little bit of
what Brian Bogacivic said about the Local nine, let's talk
to a listener seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
nine zero. Let's go to Paul the Matt Thomas Show,
Paul with Ross, Paul, Good afternoon.

Speaker 21 (02:22:29):
What's up, man, Matt? This is Paul in Galason. I
called about three weeks ago. I was the one that
called you a clown over the arch Manning deal. I'm
calling back because I mentioned in that in that conversation
about the Rockets possibly uh moving up in Madrad. This
is before they got in the rent and you know,

(02:22:52):
just hear y'all talking about Sengoon and Thompson and you
really nobody's you know, untouchable. And I mentioned in that conversation, man,
I would really love to see the Rockets move up,
and they still have enough, I think to move up
to four and five and get especially if Singoon. If

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you can get rid of Sengoon and a number one pick,
is that not enough to move up to number four?

Speaker 3 (02:23:22):
What whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.
You're suggesting training Oprea Shngoon and a future first round
pick for the number four pick in this year's draft. Yes,
but I want the guy from Duke, the seven footer.

Speaker 1 (02:23:40):
He is so athletic, he is going to go He's
going number one.

Speaker 15 (02:23:47):
He's not going number one.

Speaker 3 (02:23:48):
Cooper Flag is going on. You're talking about Keppel, Conkaneple
or no, the other guy.

Speaker 1 (02:23:55):
No, he's not seven foot no metal Wood. Yeah, he
might be younger.

Speaker 15 (02:24:01):
He might be younger than Cooper five. He's only eighteen
or nineteen. You give him two years with the King
and he'll be he'll have what if a is busy Paul.

Speaker 21 (02:24:12):
Oh, come on, man, he's He's worked with every big
man they've had in the last few years.

Speaker 12 (02:24:18):
He would.

Speaker 1 (02:24:19):
You want a project over an all star.

Speaker 3 (02:24:21):
So you want an all star and the first round
pick for a guy that's going to be a two
to three year project. He's not a two to three
year project.

Speaker 21 (02:24:30):
And even if he is looking for athletic kids, he's
seven foot what's his wingspan?

Speaker 18 (02:24:36):
Seven seven?

Speaker 3 (02:24:37):
Okay, he is athletic.

Speaker 15 (02:24:39):
He is more athletic than Sengoon, and he can probably
shoot better in two years than Singun can shoot.

Speaker 4 (02:24:46):
Right now.

Speaker 14 (02:24:47):
He can't shoot outside.

Speaker 18 (02:24:48):
Of five feet.

Speaker 3 (02:24:50):
Look, okay, no, no, no, no, no, no. We gotta
cut BA because we gotta get the pros. Bryan Bogus
on the for you folks, We're going to just cleanser.

Speaker 12 (02:25:05):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (02:25:07):
I don't ever do that again. I just give you disturbing.
Here is Bogey earlier today, you're talking about the Astros
and our favorite clean up apparently is for one game yesterday.

Speaker 1 (02:25:17):
That of course was Sneaky Snake Jake Myers.

Speaker 8 (02:25:19):
Yeah, that was that was a little unexpected showing up
at the ballpark and looking at the lineup. I think
it just kind of speaks to where the organization, where
where the coaches are at with you know, some of
the guys who struggled early, right, Christian Walker, Yaner, those guys,
they've been waiting for them to turn it around. You know,
we're going to be here in a couple of days,
and it's going to be the halfway point. You know,

(02:25:40):
at some point your leash has run out, and when
you're right out the lineup every day, you've just got
to take the guys that are swinging the bat the best.
And I know, you know, your four or five hitters
prototypically aren't going to be Jake Myers and camp Smith,
but they're both swinging the bat well. And you got
to get guys behind Panya Parades Altuve who are going
to potentially drive and run. Didn't happen yesterday, but you

(02:26:01):
know it's not it's not a terrible idea.

Speaker 3 (02:26:04):
It is interesting how the game worked out yesterday, Ranger Suarez.
I mean, the era is about a one this month,
uh Fromberg gives you quality starts. You know, I don't
know if today's baseball fan wants a hundred of those
kind of one nothing games, But I was in tune
with it because I, first of all, appreciate what both
guys did, and secondly, I wanted to see who was

(02:26:24):
gonna flinch first, and of all people, Cooper Hummel was
the man to be the hero for the Local nine
last night.

Speaker 8 (02:26:31):
Yeah, I think you you know if you're if you're
a true baseball fan, you really appreciate games like that
because you know everything, you have to do everything well
in a type game like that. It was obvious from
you know, the first couple of innings that that was
going to be a low scoring game. So all of
a sudden, you know you've got to play good defense.
You know you've got to run the bases well, you
can't make a mistake pitch, you know, over the middle

(02:26:52):
of the plate. You've got to really tighten down when
there's runners in scoring position. And that's fun baseball to
watch in myion, when both teams have to be on it.
In here, a lot of times watching that ten to
nine game, it can be a little bit sloppy and
it just all gets kind of washed away with all
the runs that are being scored. I enjoy a game
like that, but yeah, Major League Baseball doesn't want to

(02:27:13):
do that every night.

Speaker 3 (02:27:14):
No, how did Farmer do it yesterday where he was
kind of a voiding disaster. They Philly's got on the
base pass a lot through some a few hard knocks
some of the walks, and that's something. What nine nine
walks for Farmer over the last couple of games, but
every single opportunity presented itself and he came through and
didn't let anybody cross the paystation for Philadelphia.

Speaker 8 (02:27:35):
Yeah, first of all, you know, he had really good
stuff yesterday. His command wasn't as sharp as we've seen
at times, but just the pure stuff to move in
on the fastball, you know, the break on the curveball
was all really good. And when you have that good
of stuff, you know you can just keep going to
the well and eventually you'll be successful. But I think
what was really important yesterday was he kept a really

(02:27:57):
level head. You know, he had a walk. I think
in each of the first three innings. There were a
couple of errors mixed in, so like there's a lot
of traffic on the bases and sometimes, you know, as
a pitcher, you can get into those situations and you think, Okay,
I got to get nastier, I've got to go for
the strikeout here, I've got to you know, put a
little bit more on this fastball and hump up a
little bit. He just kept as cool and kept making pitches,

(02:28:19):
and when he does that, you know you're gonna get
ground balls, you're gonna get double plays. You're gonna get
yourself out of the inning. And I thought he did
a really nice job navigating some tough situations by keeping
his head and not trying to do more and not
making situations worse.

Speaker 3 (02:28:34):
Brian Bogasvik with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
and the big series with the Phillies and the Cubs
coming to town as well, players and coaches and everyone
will always say publicly, yeah, we want to win every
game and we take them all the same. But how
much truth is that as you as a former player,
Like when when it's the Phillies and Cubs coming in town,
is there a little extra juice?

Speaker 8 (02:28:55):
I think so, but I think it probably it comes
more externally. You know, you get and there's a little
bit of a buzz in the stadium, it's crowded, the
fans show up earlier. You know, there's more stimulation from
that standpoint. You know, guys know that they have to
be on top of their game. You're playing a good team,
you're playing a first place team. You're gonna see a
ton of really good pitching. So guys can feel that.

(02:29:16):
But it's not like it's okay, now we're going to
try harder now we're going to you know, really focus
on our scouting reports and you know, Dot eyes and
cross teas, that stuff is happening regardless, and I just
think there's a little bit extra juice just because of
the buzz that's in the stadium. But now, you know,
it's it really sounds cliche to say it's one of

(02:29:36):
one's sixty two, but it really is. And especially this
time of the year where you've got a bunch of
games behind you, so you're kind of in the the
the drag of the season. But at the same time,
you know you're so far from the end where you're
not really scoreboard watching or anything. So so yes, in
the clubhouse, it's just one one of one's sixty two.
But yeah, you can you can feel a little bit

(02:29:58):
of extra juice when you know that the fans are
into it.

Speaker 1 (02:30:00):
That again, was Brian bogus Sevc.

Speaker 3 (02:30:01):
You can catch him every Wednesday at eleven o'clock right
here on Sports Talk seven on a friend of the
show on Twitter at be kind of sewer just said
at Sports Mt Paul must be drinking the Galveston Water
training shingoon in the future. First for the fourth pick
is quite possibly the worst day I've ever heard. That

(02:30:24):
just made me flat out chuckle on the whole story.
Annivers Round pick. By the way, some doozies today we've
had some softball guy calling in.

Speaker 5 (02:30:36):
I mean, we.

Speaker 1 (02:30:38):
Tease because we care. We want you to call the show.

Speaker 3 (02:30:40):
But remember if it's if it's really a whack job call,
we're gonna kind of call it out for it. It
is not that art takes. Our whack job takes every
once in a while. We admit that as much believe
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two one two five seven ninety. If you want to
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All right, I think I know what's gonna happen tonight
with the Rockets when they had the ten selection, which
is really Phoenix. If the player is there, oss, they're
going to draft him. They're not gonna have a uniform
for him, and they're not going to make him put

(02:31:21):
a cap on. That's good one of they just make
him put a Phoenix cap On. I guess because the
deal could fall through. NBA would say new, new new,
or maybe there's a he's got a passive physical or
some sort Yeah, deal could fall through. I guess potentially
better or not building up a lot of this stuff here,
all right? Uh? On Sports Talk seven nighty, do you

(02:31:43):
know my wife proprides herself of being a huge sports fan.
She did not know that John Tesh created round Ball Rock. Okay,
I thought most people knew that, especially after the SNL
S get I know she didn't. She's like I learned
something new every day. I am generally excited about how
NBC is gonna do this NBA coverage. I think we're
gonna be in a good spot. If you're an NBA fan,

(02:32:05):
I think you're gonna you're gonna see the big opens
with the narration and the great sound effects, and I
mean they're gonna actually give a damn about broadcasting the games.
And I think a lot of people have been turned
off by the fact that ESPN, Like people have made
fun of their halftime shows first of all because of
who's on it. But it's like thirty seconds of talk,
three minutes commercials, thirty second to talk three minutes of commercials.

Speaker 1 (02:32:27):
You gotta let some stuff breathe a little bit, don't you.

Speaker 3 (02:32:29):
Yeah, it's very shallow analysis too, of just Steven a
screaming about how they need to you know, they can't
let you come into your house. It's not real basketball
an allis. You better get go and shake out just Alexander.
It's cliches exactly, but whatever, Come on, Isaiah hunts Son,
I'm watching you. Please tell me he's running for president.

(02:32:52):
Please tell me you just want to want ESPN. Actually
that might work, That might work. I mean there's an alternimotive.
There's just this five minutes. Let it go on the show.
What should we do?

Speaker 1 (02:33:05):
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All right, we got a minute left from the show.
Astros tonight. How they're gonna do sports RV I got

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them winning this one in a higher scoring affair? What
is the over under in the go? Zach Wheeler is
throwing for the Phillies right, and Jake Myers has been
cleaning up. Hush okay, I forget what I say. This
is a stay away. It's a stay away tomorrow. We've
got I just don't get it. Shorter show with Astros
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