Astros Win 13-3 In Game 2 Of the Series vs The Athletics, Cam Smith Is On Fire! Astros Keep Closing In On #2 Spot In The American League

Astros Win 13-3 In Game 2 Of the Series vs The Athletics, Cam Smith Is On Fire! Astros Keep Closing In On #2 Spot In The American League.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Ten oh one in eight chund, Good morning, and welcome
to a Wednesday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
This is Sports Talk seven eight. That is an ass
kicking right there in West Sacramento born and raised. Who

(00:22):
was I don't know Chaikowski? Yes he was actually people
forget He's right, Schakowski is from West Sacramento, California. I
didn't know who they was from there. Thirteen to three,
Matthew five nothing and by the time he got into
bed and started to talk to your girl. And it's
the Summer of George with Jason Alexander.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Uh, I feel like I'm saying this daily and I'm
not the only one saying it. Who the hell are
these people? The eleventh different starter for the Astros and
it's June eighteenth. Yeah, Now, I think the Dodgers have
had more injuries than the Astros have had, so what,
but it ain't by much. But you know, and it

(01:10):
is funny that Major League Baseball's Baseball America Baseball Prospectives
blah blah, you know, those different websites and in publications
who dig into the minor leagues and that's what the
that's their primary focus. Yes, have routinely said the Astros
had the twenty eighth, twenty ninth, or thirtieth best farm system. Yes,

(01:32):
so I would have to respectfully tell them, well, I
could say at eleven thirty, but it's not mean. But really,
shut your bomb ass up, because look at the plethora
of mids that have come to the Astros and in
their own certain ways helped out Jason Alexander. Yeah, he's
not a prospect, he's thirty two, But my point is

(01:54):
that he was in the minor league system, and your
minor league system is suposed to help you out when
the major league system is letting you down. Yes, cleaned
off waivers a month ago, so maybe you have to.
And and Alexander's not the MINISSOI the better example, But
the Colton Gordon's and the who else. I'm trying to
think of some of the guys Ryan gust and Gusto
who was supposed to start, remember the last game of

(02:15):
last year before got rained out. These are guys that
were not highly regarded. These are guys that were not
considered to be high end prospects. But all they've done
in their own certain way is helped the local nine
win games. Brandon Walter has been very good. You really,
and I've never done this in the history of the game.

(02:37):
We've never played believe or not it is this person
or real astro. And if we would have done this,
we would might have done it in twenty thirteen ish,
that's true. If we would have done this four months ago, huh,
there is no way Brandon Walter be like, who's Brandon
Brandon Walter. He was a cast member of Friends, like
a guest episode. He was a Monica love interest for
like three episodes. Yeah, three starts for him. Two of

(02:57):
them quality been very good. It is just truly. I mean,
if you're Dana Brown and you are Joe Spotty, you
know what you're doing ross right now. You went after
the game last night and you went and found the
hottest bar in West Sacramento and you had a couple
of glasses of wine. What's the hottest bar in West Sacramento.
I believe rapple Reaves at least upgraded to a realies.

(03:21):
I'm telling you, realies can get you. The ten dollars burger,
chips and soft drink deal is hard to beat. Yeah.
In fact, as you load up on the salts and
the Chips early and you wind up taking half the
burger home. You're really in a good spot. You hit,
like you said, the best bar in town and you
have a nice kianti at a Rellies. Yeah, it works
that way. So the local line took care of business. Now,

(03:42):
the Mariners did squash the Red Sox last night, So
the Astros find themselves still four and a half games
in front of the Mariners in America League West. Do
you know they are only a half game behind the
New York Yankees for the second best record in the
America League. Didn't know that? The Yankees have not scored

(04:02):
a run in twenty nine innings. They've hit their kryptonite,
the Los Angeles Angels. No one has ever said that,
with the exception of maybe when Rod Carew was playing
there in the eighties or around ten to two thousand
and twoish. Yeah, for that one year with a damn monkey.
All right, So all is good on the local front

(04:25):
of the Astros' split the series. I have them going five.
I had them going five and one during the last
six games as road trip, and so far they're want
to know, so I'm pacing nicely on that got from
Berveldoz going today, let's go. You'll have the on Deck
Show at eight o'clock. Yes, I will, and h it's
already basically done. So does that mean, well, you had
Dana Brown on at nine thirty, you'll play that today.

(04:45):
So what gotta do a recap? Yeah, I'm saying Rosses
work for the on Deck Show will be minimum. I
got it, write out an entire script. I have to
get all your great year, path to future success and
things like that Mountain matchup, starting lineups and this day
and Astro's history. Yeah, I got to come up with
a key to victory. We don't do that. I don't

(05:06):
do that. I'm gonna go with the back into the lineup.
Mat I think really needs to come through for the
back in the line up. Yesterday did fantastic. Uh huh. Also,
I would say farmer vald is avoiding giving up the
long ball in Sacramento. That'll be your key to victory
as well. And not that I've ever watched a game
on television in Sacramento until these last two, right, mm hmmm.
Does it feel like every home run that has hit

(05:26):
there are these monumental four hundred and sixty five foot
blast the ball flies out. There's no cheapies in the
building for sure. Yeah, it's I looked it up yesterday.
I can't remember the exact numbers, but in team OPS
the A's are like eighth and OPS plus, which corrects
for ballparks, they're like nineteenth. Well, my guess is helping

(05:48):
out my Also, my guess is the A's are a
really really good hitting team in Northern California, never so
much outside of Northern California. Like they're re versus Space Cowboys.
Everybody's like, oh, oh my god, they're scoring fifteen runs. Yeah,
they're in the PCL on the road in Reno. It's
funny because the player of the week from the PCL
was a guy from the Space Cowboys first baseman, and

(06:09):
he I think he think he slugged sixteen hundred and Reno.
I mean, I don't consider myself a bunch of major
league hitter, but I think I guess like a thousand Reno.
Didn get one out there, Maddie, get one out to left.
You know, it's funny, but you get bat right or
left right, throw left, bat right. Okay, That's part of
the reason why I'm probably a little more peculiar than
the average person. That's you are peculiar. Who else does that?

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Chas McCormick. There's actually quite a few players to do it.
I think it's a handful. Mike Hampton used to think
bat right handed when he was obvious he's a left
hand and thrower for the ast.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Chas McCormick bats right and throws left. It is kind
of a rarity in baseball. But I mean, I mean,
your brain's all scrambled up. But how did I how
did that happen in my life? My parents didn't force
me to throw at my right hand and throw my left.
I just naturally did brain injury. You're probably dropped. But
lefties are a little weird, I mean, generally speak. But
I'm not a true lefty. I don't lefties are weird.

(07:00):
You are, that's right. You are a lefty? Uh? You
do lefty all the way through it, all the way right? Okay? Yeah,
I kick with my right foot. Anything I anything I
swing with is right, Anything I throw with is left?
What about righting right? Eating? Hold on you right right
and you throw left? Yes? What the hell's wrong with you?

(07:23):
I would have to agree with you on those things
here you left, yah or left? He throws the left,
but you can't. What about you eat? What about you
eat a fork and left hand so you could eat
with your left hand and write an essay with your
right hand that is accurate. No shot, no shot at what?
That's crazy. They need to donate your brain to science

(07:44):
for a number of reasons. I mean, I would, I
think we should. We're putting in a jar in the
in the Houston Radio Hall of Fame. What do you
think I kick with? I don't know left? Left is right? Really,
you're like a Leo MESSI I think it's a compliment.
I think, if I'm reading the context, the greatest player
to ever walk the planet. Yeah, who's a guy in

(08:05):
Miami that sometimes plays Luis torres No, the guy for
the MLS team, that's the international player that only comes
a handful of times in places. Okay, again, I don't
I don't follow soccer. I know who he is, but
I don't really follow him. That's like saying you don't
know who Pele is, Matt, I know who Pele is.
A matter of fact, that my two favorite teams of

(08:27):
all time in the New York Cosmos and Tampa Bay rowdies. Okay,
who's your second favorite New York Cosmo? Uh? Phil Jones?
You could have just said any hispanic name and had
a shot, but that would have been stereotypical, and probably
you said Mike Jones. Phil, Phil Jones, Phil Jones. Okay,
Phil Jones. All right, there is a fire alarm going

(08:49):
off in our offices. But it's a drill, not a
real thing. It's a fire drill. But we can't We're
on the air. We can't go you want, Yeah, I don't.
I don't think people can hear it. I can hear it,
but I don't think no, I don't think the listener can't. No,
the most famous fire drill in the Matt Thomas Show
history when we come back, When we come back and
Jonathan hasn't heard this, I don't think he has. No,

(09:10):
I don't. I don't think. I don't think he has
the most famous fire drill in moment in Houston sports
radio history. What you say? I think it's number one
for me? All right, Brian Bogus, Even eleven o'clock, shit,
chill bum mess up at eleven thirty, the News at noon,
believe it or not, and so much more. We want
you to be a part of the show. Did you
stay up for all nine innings? Tell the Truth? Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven ninety All right, there

(09:33):
is a fire alarm going on, but this radio show
did not leave the building because we are committed. That's right,
Mark Shore. We are committed to quality sports talk radio
programming on seven ninety. So let's hear the alarms and
then we're going to replay the greatest fire alarm in
the history of the Matt Thomas Show. At ross. There's
a guy talking right now here. It is y'all hear that? Okay,

(09:56):
we are still doing radio greatness despite that. Yeah, oh,
greatness is relative. So Jonathan h do you remember where
you were? This is like six producers ago, maybe seven.
This is ah I was producing. Oh you were? I
was in Los Angeles. It's pre twenty nineteen. Okay, so yeah,

(10:17):
this is this is yeah twenty nineteen. This is what happened.
For those of you that are just new to the show.
First of where the hell have you been? Second of all,
we're here every damn day. Tend to too. This is
me in Los Angeles. The last time I made a
fire alarm during the show.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
I'm just telling you.

Speaker 6 (10:31):
They were the best team they ever had lost in
the divisional playoffs to probably went to Baltimore one year,
in New England to the next. Yeah, they just never
could overcome it. Thank you for the phone call. There's
an alarm that should be going off in your home,
and that's if.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
You have dirty carpets.

Speaker 6 (10:49):
This is really excuse my French, annoying AF. Seriously, fire
alarm testing is like five times, not fifty. I'm trying
to do a major market radio show here in downtown
Beverly Hills, California, and this damn Oh.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Really, Oh you got my attention?

Speaker 5 (11:11):
Yeah, five to ten more minutes, ross.

Speaker 7 (11:18):
Five to ten more minutes. Jesus, We're doing fine. There's
no fire.

Speaker 5 (11:28):
I am trying to discuss the Texans game against Tennessee.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Oh now you're putting a sweet little ginger voice on there. Hi, honey,
how are you? I'm back to the alarms here? Good lord?

Speaker 5 (11:45):
How am I supposed to create radio greatness under these conditions?

Speaker 1 (11:51):
And that was uh was in Beverly Hills and Beverly
Hills at a ridiculously posh hotel. Hmm, still one of
my favorites to this day. We don't say there anymore,
not because of the fire alarm, but just be I
don't believe it to be the case. I don't believe
it'd be the case. That was the hotel where several
members of a rocket's traveling crew were in the same

(12:12):
elevator with Justin Bieber. Really yeah, wow, Yeah, the autograph,
I wasn't there, You know what, I got terrible news
for it. I probably wouldn't known who he was. But
now I did see his roast recently on on YouTube,
and so now I know who he is. Okay, great,
you watch the whole thing. Uh no, bits and pieces, Yeah, okay, yeah,

(12:34):
I'm a rabbit hole guy when it comes to that, Gus,
that's fine, all right. Uh So let's get back to
the at hand. The astros Cam Smith. I mean, my gosh,
pretty good evening, real good evening. And I'm good. I'm
glad for him because look, uh he was the chosen
one in March. He was the quote unquote feet on

(12:55):
and you had everybody and their mother saying that guy
can't be in the minor leagues, and then he gets
the main call up and mom's in the clubhouse and
all that kind of stuff, and then he gets off
to a ridiculously sluggish start. I mean, we got we
have to call it as we see it, and it
was a disappointing start. And there were some people that said, maybe, hey,
it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if
perhaps he went down to Triple A and got some
AB's Zach Decenzo came in, took some of the playing time,

(13:19):
and you're thinking, all right, are you going to have
to platoon right field? What are you gonna do about
this situation? And then Decenzo gets hurt and then you're like,
you know what, we don't have a lot left and
so let's go with cam Smith and see what he
can do. And what he did yesterday was four hits
as the Astros took the game thirteen to three. And
I want to look up his most recent numbers. I'm
gonna do that right now. Camp. I'll tell you, I'm sorry,

(13:41):
I want to I want to build drama, okay, Bill drama,
because I'll tell you that he is the fourth youngest
player in Astro's history to have a four hit game
with two home runs, not one and again it might
be easy to hit home runs in that ballpark, but boy,
they go a long way. The other three Carlos Correa,
Joe Morgan and a rusty stob when ones younger, I
should say, of the three, one I've never seen playing.

(14:04):
Of the list, which one was that Joe Morgan? That
Joe Morgan is correct? All right, let's go here. It
is Cam Smith batting in the seventh spot, four for
five with three runs scored. He had three RBIs. He's
now opsing seven forty eight mm hmm eight and in

(14:28):
today's world, seven eight ain't bad. You'd like it to
be closer to eight hundred. That would put you in
not superstar category, but star category. But where it was
compared to, say, a month ago, it's a pretty nice ride.
We looked at league average the other day. It was
like seven to ten or something something around there. Right,
because apparently there was a big evandrilic story about the ball.

(14:50):
The balls are dejuiced to something again, yep, can we
just keep here? We go ahead? You want consistent balls.
I want to phrase this so I don't make it
down to Friday. I would like to say it. Say
it with your chess Mattie, all right, I want the balls
to all be the same. I don't want big balls.

(15:12):
I don't want small balls. They're all the same size,
matt I don't want them spinning differently. I don't want
them to have extra things inside those. We'll have more loft. Well,
it depends. And then you got Cooper Humble playing Cooper Hummel.
He's my accountant. Yeah, he's my CPA. No, no, he's

(15:34):
bad flipping homers. Did you see him bad flipping? How
about the seven eight nine in the order yesterday? Eight hits?
The twenty seven Yankees are jealous about that? Pretty good?
That was the A's and it wasn't Sacramento. But they
didn't score thirteen runs. Nope, I mean a highly impressive

(15:59):
day for the local night. Uh you had East party.
It's back at third base yesterday, as a Joe spot
was told us that was great. You at least uh
luis Ki Army playing some second base. Well, it's it.
They are putting this together. Look at this lineup and
they are. I mean even Christian Walker went yard yesterday. Well, hey,
don't say even Christian Walker. Now, you mean your big

(16:21):
money slugging first basement went went yard and after his
two hits yesterday, his ops is at six fifty three,
so work to be down that as well. But his
batting average is up to two sixteen. Uh oh, well
not two fifteen by the week you lost.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
I know, I know.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Sorry, So needless to say, it was fun to see
and hear. I listened to a lot of game. You
know what I did the last time I did tell
you that I did when I was a kid. I
put the radio on my phone and listened to it
in bed. Oh wow, So Steve Sparks and Robert Ford
helped me go to sleep loud. They were in bed
with you. You were in bed with Steve Sparks and
Robert Ford. No, they were in Sacramento. I was in
bed with my wife and one of the dogs, not both. Okay,

(16:59):
so you alternated. How does that go? No, just one
can't get up there anymore. Oh, I know, I know.
One can't get up and one is deaf. He's gonna
have to take a day off. Oh, by the way,
rip to our hamster cheeks who passed away two days ago.
You got a hamster? Yeah, okay, who named the hamster cheeks?
My daughter did. That's pretty funny rest cheeks, r PA cheeks,

(17:22):
let me table what cheeks was. Cheeks was one of
the cutest old things we ever had in our house.
But he was an angry sob. He every time we
try to pet him or touch him, he bit us.
Hamster's can be like that, but he was a grumpy
some bitch. I want a sweet level, want to be
roaming free, and you caged him up. I didn't cage
him up. We got him as a gift what I
was supposed to do. He didn't want to just sit

(17:43):
in uh wood chips covered in You're in his whole life,
we know we did. We gave him plenty of cotton
on the on the second color on the first floor,
a lot of seeds and corn on the cob, and
we gat him little will to jump run around with
and he did fine. Okay, basically he's there. He was
in prison, No, he had his he was in the
retirement community. Okay, you know where he is now. It's

(18:04):
really weird. I don't know want to know the dumpster. No,
you buried him. We're going to, but we're probably We're
afraid the dogs are gonna pick it. So we're trying
to figure out. We're gonna do go by the creek.
You got a creek around there, No, we're everywhere in
Houston's got a creek here. He's in our freezer right now.
Oh that is disgusting. No, that's a health code violation.
It's not is that. Nobody wants to know the rootted

(18:24):
hamster hair on your ice cubes. The vet put him
in this little plastic case or whatever. The vet. Yeah,
you know how a vacuum loved the cheeks. How much
we we took cheeks to the vet and the vet
put them to sleep. That's what you know. It cost
me one hundred and fifty bucks. Dang, did you just

(18:48):
say stab his neck? What's wrong with you?

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Dollars?

Speaker 1 (18:51):
If he's gonna die anyway? Well, that's what I'm saying
out your hamster. I'm a humanitarian, y'all aren't. It's a
little box of rat poison costume. See, we didn't do
it that way. Instead of you guys are uping on me.
I have never heard of somebody taking their hamster to

(19:13):
the that that get put down because we're a humanitarian
and you're welcome. Did you read cheeks his last writing?
I wasn't even there and the name of the father
and the son, Cheeks, the hamster. It's part of our family. Rossn.
But I'm I'm so glad you're so cavalier about it.

(19:35):
I see why your kids are like Ross, Yeah, exactly,
I'm sorry they Have you ever heard of a hamster
getting put down? That's all I'm saying. Yeah, don't act
like I'm the bad guy. You'd never heard of it either.
I mean, I'm wishing Cheeks the best in the great
big meadow in the sky, the great big spinning wheel
of the sky. You know, they live about between a

(19:55):
year and eighteen months. He was two years He was
too plush. Wow, yeah, so he was up for two years. Man,
that's tough. He had a great life. We get more
corn and seed than anybody else should be allowed. Oh
so great. He bit you every time you try to
touch him.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Selling.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
He wanted out of there. All right, We're done with you.
I try to give you a little bit of I
try to put a put a pet away at the
very nice, the best way I can. I mean, I'm
glad you he humanly put Cheeks down. How did you
know it was time for Cheeks to go? He unfortunately
had some cancer he had some what he had some
he had hamster cancer he had Yeah, Oh my god,

(20:30):
you all paid money for the test too. No, no, no, no,
we knew, we knew how much was chemo. We didn't
do it. We took him to the vet and the
vet said, uh, he's not going to make it. We said,
we'll put can you put him asleep? And they said yes,
one hundred and fifty dollars, So we did that. Well,
they do an mri I on him. How did they
It's pretty obvious when somebody has tumors, something that's tiny.

(20:54):
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(21:17):
City Home Network. So we've talked about the Astros dominance
and uh cheeks, the hamster may rest in peace. And
by the way, I will meet Thomas and we'll be
and when the dogs pass up, we'll be taking a
day off or at least we're usual, because that will
crush us. I'm sorry, Matt, that's this rand though. Dogs
you know, dogs are a special thing. All right. I

(21:38):
have to backtrack now. I have addictions to a variety
of things. One of them is the four year for
the four Okay, no, the four you tab because I
because I only follow a certain number of people because
most people will irritate me on Twitter. But you still
go to four you to see what's going on. I
try to stay off there. Well, think you're a better
man than I am, So I'm going to back to

(22:00):
I can apologize and said I wasn't gonna bring up
Kaitlyn Clark on this radio show. But it is crazy.
She played last night, the Fever played something called the
Connecticut Sun and she got her. She got beat up
again last night. She's getting hit with spinning back this.
She's getting pushed these screens. I mean, and I really

(22:26):
don't know the answer to this. And I don't know
if our audience is paying attention to the w NBA.
My guess is you don't pay attention to the NBA.
So for you to expect you need to expect you
to watch the WNBA. It would be something of a
little bit of a surprise. Maybe there's one person or
audience gonna help us out. Why in the hell are
they beating her up every single time she plays a game?

(22:49):
There is some sort of altercation that would be like,
now again, what do you want to make Caitlin Clark?
Is she the Lebron James of the NBA? Is she
the Michael Jordan of the nb There is there is
no doubt in my mind, Ross, because the evidence is
already there. Attendance drops, ticket prices drop, television ratings. I
mean crumble. I'll go with uh. I mean even bigger

(23:12):
than Lebron James in a way, because there are stars
somewhat comparable to Lebron James. But there's no one complicate her.
Want to know and maybe I don't know. Maybe it
is Angel Renumber two. I don't know. I don't follow
the league's Asia Wilson. I don't know Paige Buker's that
does the Cunningham girls. But I think it's more because
she's hot, right, She's hot. Okay, how about Tiger and
golf in the early two thousands, whatever comparison you want

(23:34):
to put in there. When Kitly Tiger Woods a golf
at golf, that's good. When Caitlyn Clark is not involved
in a WNBA game, no one watches, no one goes.
That's just gonna be. I don't mean to paint with
the broad brush, but that's it is what it is. Okay,
Why in the hell are they trying to beat her up?
Is it? Is she a dirty player and we don't
know about it? Is she a sneaky uh politic politician

(23:58):
on the court? Or is there just insane amounts of
jealousy with every other girl in the NBA that every
time they play a game there is some sort of
altercation and or fight. And last night another example of that. Yeah,
and I'm telling you the WNBA is fighting for relevancy.

(24:21):
You have a star who is completely relevant. If I
was the commissioner of the WNBA, I don't even know
who that is. When you go to get a conference
call and say, hey, everybody, leave her alone now. If
she's doing something, tell us. But if she's not doing
anything except just playing hard and making you look bad,

(24:41):
back off because that's not what you want for attention.
Is every time you go to the forour you tab
And that's what people do. They go to four you
tab yes, and they look around and they go, oh,
there's Caitlin Clark Gohich you getting her ass beat again.
There's another fight. It's gonna further ruin what is already
a very murky reputation with a WNBA. Catherine Ingelbert is

(25:03):
the commissioner of the w NBA. Okay, she had been
with Deloitte for thirty three years. But tell me where
I'm wrong on this. I can't tell you you're wrong. I
can tell you I don't follow the league enough. And
I mean, she definitely got a hard foul and then
she Kaitlyn Kark pushed back and then the other teammate,

(25:24):
whoever it was, came in and pushed her to the ground.
It just feels like to me that every I mean,
I'm not I'm not trying to embellish Ross on this.
I'm telling you the God's on his truth. Every time
she plays there's something extra cricular going on. Yeah, people
are making memes that the Fever need Dreamond Green on

(25:44):
the squad. It wouldn't hurt, right, and her teammates come
to the I just again, I don't think if I would.
If I went to if I went to Google AI
and said, is Kaitlyn Clark a dirty player? Will Google?
I would probably tell you some missing Okay, What if
I went to grock, same thing. What if I went
to UH chat, GP chat, GPT, what would they tell

(26:06):
and tell me help me out? Is she a dirty player?
If she is, then then she's got a back off
because she's carrying the league on her back. Literally, it
looks like she just takes forty foot threes, that's what
I see, and makes them. And again, go look at
go look at any foul on the Indiana Fever. That's
the team she plays for. Go look at their ticket

(26:26):
sales when she was out. You can get into the
building for like three dollars. She plays. Try it put
two zeros at the very end of that.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
M hm.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
So I know again, if she's the number one thing,
if she's the Michael Jordan, if she is the Tiger Woods,
then either you step up your game or you just
sit back and go. Okay, you know what, she's really
good and we're gonna do our best to try to
stop her. That's my computer talking here, you all right, No,
I'm trying to get I'm trying to get out of
my the VPN. Here you're saying these women are being

(26:59):
petty and jealous. Yes, I thought you thought you're gonna
make me say it. You said it though, yes, right,
Rossville ory Al said women are petty, and uh, I know.
I said, that's what you're telling me, and then you said, yes, okay,
well I'm saying they're being Yes, that's things like they're
being petty.

Speaker 8 (27:14):
I had a caller just I'm wanna say I and
he thinks because she's white and.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
She got hit, she got pushed to the ground by
a white You don't have to tell you don't have
to call in with that, Jonathan. She got pushed to
the ground by a white girl. I don't know. I'm
just saying no because I don't maybe getting messed up, hey,
and maybe let me tell something. Maybe I'm being naive.
I don't think nothing to do with white. I think
it's the fact that she's just the best and the
number two players significantly off the rails. Yeah, there is
of course a racial element with the with the Angel

(27:40):
Reese thing and stuff like that, but she literally she
got hit in the face by a white girl and
a white girl pushed her to the ground. Yeah, I
think she's being beat up by everybody, can but I
bet there is a racial angle to it for sure.
Can't we open our eyes though? Can you not call
in like a dumb ass with a call with a
call like that and not see the play that happened.
Of course, like I said, they're there. It's beyond my

(28:01):
expertise because I'm not a w n B expert, But literally,
she got hit in the face by a white woman
and then was pushed to the ground by a white woman.
So if you're white, hispanic, black, leave Kaitlin Clark alone.
Leave Caitlin Clark alone. By the way, shout out to

(28:21):
our friend Randy McAvoy Channel two Yes said that he
just texted me. He says the Hamster segment was one
of the greatest all time hashtag RI I P cheeks,
r I P the cheeks. You know, I'm just gonna
I'm gonna just gonna tweet that right now. I've got
a picture of tweet cheeks. So a shtually put in
there in the freezer freezer, just in the generic area.

Speaker 5 (28:45):
Where he was.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Okay, are you all gonna keep him is that. What's
all gonna do? We don't know what. Honestly, we don't
know what to do with him. I don't want to
I want to talk about this anymore. I don't want
to put but I we have two dogs will probably yeah,
the dogs and the dig them up. That's that's a
good point on Matt Matt's part. So, and I don't
want to like creamate him and build a box or anything.
I just mean, he's cheese too. What are you gonna do?
You know, the fireplace? No, I mean, he may stay

(29:09):
in the freezer. I mean, I don't know. Just go
do not do not. He made dead hamster in the freezer.
That is that is disgusting. Voodoo man, that's that's a curse. Yes, true,
that's bad juju. So it's not like baking. So to
the third cursive, Cheeks cheeks again, Cheeks was an a hole.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
He just was.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
That's what I'm saying. He was our a hole. Yeah,
he's gonna put a curse on your whole king with
a state, all right, Geo's gonna help us out with
Kitlyn Clark when we come back. By the ways, Kevin
Durant still a sonic. We gotta check on that too. Uh,
people are saying things are close. Oh, ten forty three.
That's a Matt Thomas show with Ross Sports Talk seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety

(29:48):
If you want to join our radio program today when
don't talk about checks, Kaitlyn Clark or the Astros performance
thirteen to three as they took care of the hated
Oakland A's last night Sacker just say socker Northern California
is how about that? All right? For those of you
that follow my Twitter account, Hey, I thank you for

(30:09):
that At sports empty second all I did put a
picture up of Cheeks and he rest not in a
freezer bag. No, he's got his eyes open. As a
matter of fact, we you know, honestly, and this is
the last thing I'll say about Cheeks. We really treated
him very well and he just wasn't very nice to us.
That sometimes it happens, Matt. He didn't reciprocate, no, and

(30:32):
we probablyould have let him roll around a little bit.
But we have two dogs. Oh yeah, that's true with
the dogs. Yeah, but I used to put there was
like a ball, like a rollie ball around. We cleaned
his cage, We cleaned his cage every week. He had
first class accommodations, yes, white glove service for two levels
of entertainment, one to sleep in and one to eat
and get on his wheel. Wow and uh he got

(30:54):
in the ball and he rolled around and the dogs
is this thing?

Speaker 3 (30:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Yeah, I mean again, if you're a pen of my house,
you can be treated pretty well. And the kids too,
and the wife. The wife gets treated really well, all right.
Ten fifty one on Sports Talk seven, Ony Brian Bogos
Evics going to join us in just a couple of
minutes here on the show. Let's go to ge O.
G are you one of our w NBA correspondents. I
can be go for it.

Speaker 9 (31:19):
Well okay, but but before I get to that point,
let me just say, man, this is why I love
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. You guys are the
hitting me of a box of chocolates as far as
radio shows, because you honestly never know what you're gonna get.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Man. And the cheek.

Speaker 9 (31:36):
Segment that was radio gold Man, I don't think I've
ever laughed that hard listen to a radio show.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
We're trying, We're trying. I mean, I could give you
Texas backup linebacker talk about you know, cheeks need to
get run.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
I want talk.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
I want.

Speaker 9 (31:55):
All right, man, now with the Kaylen talks stuff. Man,
So that girl she's a faller. Man, I haven't watched
does the w n b A since the comments were
around and when Kaitlyn came into the league. Man, I'm
I wouldn't say I'm a fan fan. But if it's
if it's if Kaitlyn's playing, or if Angelice is playing,

(32:16):
I'm watching like I'll.

Speaker 10 (32:17):
Legit watch it now.

Speaker 9 (32:19):
She reminds me of Reggie Miller back in the day.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
All right.

Speaker 9 (32:23):
A great player, but sneaky, trash talker and real sneaky
as far as antics and things like that, you know,
as far as getting under skin. So if you really
pay attention to to to the way she plays, man,
she she does little stuff throughout the game, and I
can tell it pisses the other girls off. And it's
kind of rubbing off on her team too, man, because

(32:44):
everybody on that Connecticut team and it's it's like they're ready, man,
and and they just they they they take after Kaitlin
and it and it's really it's really.

Speaker 10 (32:54):
Fun to watch, man. But she's sneaky.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
She's she's real.

Speaker 9 (32:57):
Sneaky with her stuff, and I think that's why you
know she gets beat up.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
I have a friend of mine who's a Rockets reporter
that I will remain nameless because I don't think he
didn't say mentioned my name. So I'm gonna give you
this comp he just said, he just texts me. Clark
has a Dylan streak in that she chirps a lot.
The physical stuff is definitely overreached, but that's where it
comes from. She's a chirper. Now, if you're a chirper
and you are the number one player in the league,

(33:22):
I can see girls getting grumpy. Doesn't mean it's the
right thing to do, but there's obviously a pattern to this.
She's chirping enough that you ad that. Plus she's the
face of the league, and it could rub a lot
of those players the wrong way. All right, So Matt right.
I mean, from my very limited observations of the Wael

(33:43):
Jordan was a huge chirper. Larry Bird was a huge chirper.
Did those guys get in the fights every single game?
A lot? Not every single game? And I don't think
it's happening every single game game that's because that's all
you're say before you tab can't remember what you're watching
every single yeah, because if there is she plays a

(34:04):
whole game and there's no fight, then you're not going
to see the You're not gonna see the video of
it for you tab. So the next time that the
Fever play a game, okay, let's see, I'll go the
for you tab right watch. Why don't you get the
w NBA sports baggage whatever it's called. I mean, I
guess I could's a ladies night. I don't know what
it's called. The ladies night is what they called it
every NBA. Okay Chaz on seven ninety good morning, Look,

(34:27):
fella's good morning. I've got two things.

Speaker 11 (34:30):
First, Uh, I was listening to y'all talk about Caitlin
Park and something that has been overlooked I've heard some
National guys talk about it is that their sexuality is
coming into play. Because I was researching at thirty eight
percent of the of the of the league is OLGBTQ,
and that's part of it. I say, equally probably race,
but also with Ross said because she was the most

(34:51):
popular player in the league and people just kind of
hat And another thing, last football season, y'all mentioned, Uh, Matt,
you brought up the subject about the three best sounds
in U sports.

Speaker 10 (35:02):
Yes, cat timon on mind?

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Are they clean?

Speaker 10 (35:06):
Uh pretty much?

Speaker 3 (35:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (35:08):
Uh yeah when as a as a when a goal,
when Google hits the cause right.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yeah, cross bar yeah?

Speaker 11 (35:14):
Uh, the f one car going to the Monaco tunnel. Okay,
I love that everything sure, and there won't be the
sound that and a corner of COVID makes it just
a backhands.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Sounds good, Thank you very much. Chas. That was a
pull from about a year ago when she hits it
way at a bounce we were talking about. Yeah, I
remember your ago. It was the last summer. That sounds
like a summary kind of thing we would discussed for sure.
We were ours. Uh A crack of a bat uh yeah,
joint of a crossbar, donk was yours?

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (35:47):
Yeah, yeah, I definitely had that. You did we do
a fantasy five on that? I don't think there was
enough to do a fantasy What did we just do? Yeah?
You had doink, which I don't remember what I had.
It might have just been like the net and like
a soccer net rattling from a goal or I can't remember.
Let me ask you this, what would you put the
t shot off of a that's pretty good in golf,
especially when the microphones are in top five? Yeah? Uh,

(36:11):
crack of the bat is good by the College World Series,
and I'm much you're watching it. They they've got every microphonel.
Everything that's hit is the ping of a of a
of a metal but just a bone crunching hit in
the NFL. Yeah, it was great. Yeah, he gets injured
and the flight comes out. Yeah, but we don't get
boxing hits anymore like that. We just a pretty cool. Yeah,
that's a good one, but it was better thirty years ago, right,

(36:34):
I think it sounds the same. Does it sound different
to you? I don't know. There's there's a lot more
dodging like you can't when Flight Mayweather hits. You know
you're not hearing that. That's because he's one of the
he's the greatest argument with the greatest defensive boxer of
all time, along with a sweet Pea per No Whitaker.
As you know, Matt, I love sweet Pea. Who doesn't.
All right, let's get to Brian Bogusic. We'll do that

(36:54):
to start the second hour of the Matt Thomas Show
with Raw seven to one three two one two five
nine zero seven one three two one two five seven.
And if you want to follow us on Twitter where
you can see a picture of cheeks, it's at Sports
empty and at Sports RV. You're gonna retweet my picture
in cheeks? No, I mean it would probably get you
some put I'm not gonna is that gonna do for me?

(37:16):
I'm not gonna lie put put on your Instagram. He
looks mean, he looks menacing. I'm telling you he was
an a hole. Yeah, but he was all right. But
may he rest? He may he rest, and he's he's
in a better spot today than he was. Exactly do
your freezer. Well, I mean he's not in pain anymore.
It's got We got that for him, and he lived
a good life. I mean, you know, he could have
stayed in the palace in of hamster cages, but we

(37:40):
got him at least the courtyard. Okay, dude, is that
is that a thing when you go you go, uh
shopping for hamster cages? Well, it was like the deluxe
model we wanted to go buy level. It's got like
a back massager. Wait, two levels, a wheel and plenty
of a cotton swab down. Then the first full so

(38:00):
he could he could just nestle in and get a
good night's rest. And then like a little water bigot
in the in the corner. Yes, that always was full
because we can't we clean his cage out in there.
But every ten days. Yeah, yeah, you you're an animal.
And then Thomas household, You're retreated very well. Sleeper, you
want to we don't we we we don't. Even when

(38:21):
we go out of town, we make sure if somebody's
at the house the whole time. We don't. We don't
put you in a cage or anything like that. It's
all good, all right. Seven one, three, two five seven
Ony Brian Bogacevic will join us eleven o two on
the Matt Thomas showed ross time for us to spend
ten quality minutes with our friend Brian and Bogusvic of
Space City Home Network. Astro's dispose of the Oakland A's.

(38:43):
But well, you gotta hit my myself every time I try.
That's I've done twice. I'm gonna bring a taser up
in here. The A's by a final score of thirteen
to three. Bogie, what were your expectations of Jason Alexander,
and I guess more importantly, did you even know who
Jason Alexander was, say, three days ago, I was.

Speaker 4 (39:00):
Quite unfamiliar with him besides his work on Steinschfeld. I
guess yes, expectations for him personally, no idea what you're
going to get, right, It's a guy who's really new
to the organization, a guy who doesn't have a ton
of big league experience, but expectations for a picture coming
up from this Astros minor league system and what that's

(39:23):
looked like. Over the course of the last two to
three years, there's been kind of a shift change in
what we've seen from guys coming up. You do start
to get a general idea of guys who really understand themselves,
know what makes them successful, know how to pitch to
their strength, willing to attack the strike zone, you know,
rely on the defense, hope the offense gives them some support.
Guys who aren't necessarily going to go out there and

(39:46):
beat themselves. So that's kind of the expectation at this point.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
I mean, it feels like Brian that everybody that has
been given at least some sort of opportunity, maybe with
exception of aj blue ball has come up and somehow,
some way can contributed. And I don't know of another
major league team at least in twenty twenty five that
has gone as deep into their minor league system to
grab guys for the spot start for the give me

(40:12):
five innings, to start a day ahead of schedule, like
GUSSA did a couple of days ago, and kept their
teams alive, especially when a team like the Astros have
not been exceptional last night, a team that's been scoring
a whole lot of runs.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
No, it's pretty remarkable. I mean, it's been essentially two
full seasons of trying to constantly backfill your rotation and
going not just six seven deep into your organization, but eight, nine,
ten deep into your organization.

Speaker 10 (40:39):
And you know, it.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
Says a lot, first and foremost about the scouting department,
not just the amateur scouting, but you're seeing guys who
they're bringing in from other organizations, so you're pro scouting
as well, and also just the development and finding traits
that you like, guys who can pitch with their fastball,
guys who attack the strikes, and then getting them there
and making them feel comfortable enough to do what they

(41:05):
were doing in the minor leagues at the big league level,
that's the biggest hurdle initially, is you know, you're all
of a sudden standing at a major league mound. Oh
my gosh, I gotta do more. I got to be nastier,
I got to throw harder. And they really seem like
they settle these guys right away and convince them that
they can just pitch their game, and it's worked for them.
So it's a lot of different things. It's clubhouse culture.

(41:27):
It's it's the communication between the coaching staff and the players,
and the players understanding what it is that makes them successful,
and it's them just kind of relentlessly going out there.
I mean, it's not like they're doing this with guys
who are top ten draft picks. These are guys out
of small schools, late rounds, scrap heaps from other organizations,
and they're getting a lot out of them, and it's

(41:47):
just it's kind of an entire organizational effort, you know,
and it really what it does. Also, it makes you
pretty dubious of these organizational minor league rankings that get
put out every year.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Brian Bogasvic with us here on Sports Talk seven to
ninety Brian, did I just looked this up? Did you
know in your career in Colorado you hit three p
forty one with a nine eighty nine. Ohps, well I
should have gotten traded there. Apparently, Yeah, you should have
spent more time in Colorado. I bring that up to
say this, What is it like when you're playing The
ball is obviously flying out there in Sacramento and they
scored a bunch of runs When you're at the plate,

(42:22):
do you just want to keep everything normal or what
is it like psychologically for you in a place where
the balls flying out like that?

Speaker 4 (42:29):
Everything everything is good? You know, when you're talking about
a place like Colorado or Arizona, you're talking about Sacramento,
Tampa now where the Raids are playing. And then you know,
there's a long list of minor league stadiums out on
the West coast where the ball really flies. There's a
lot of things that work in your favor there. First
of all, just thin air.

Speaker 12 (42:49):
The ball travels.

Speaker 4 (42:50):
You don't have to get it, you know, very much,
to get it out and over the fence. But a
lot of those parks are also big and spacious trying
to combat you know, the thin air so you have
a lot of room to find hits. You know, big
gaps outfielders have to cover a lot of ground. They're
usually playing deeper, so you can bloop hits it in
front of them. And one of the best feelings as

(43:13):
a hitter is knowing that you can easily hit a
ball out the other way. Right, if I just barrel
the ball up for me, a left handed hitter, to
left center field, it can carry over that sense I
don't have to do anymore. I don't have to try
to pull, I don't have to try to swing harder.
I don't have to try to elevate, and that keeps
everything in line. And then if you do catch one

(43:35):
out front and you pull it, it goes even further.
But to not have to try to get anything more
out of your swing or your approach or whatever, and
just keep a good hitting approach, and then add the
fact that the ball flies, add to the fact that
there's a ton of room for hits, those are just
awesome situations to hit him. It also helps when you're
facing some teams that have pretty bad team eras as well.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
The A certainly do. But camp Smith taking advantage yesterday,
do we temper our enthusiasm because it was in Sacramento,
or did you see some really good abs there.

Speaker 4 (44:10):
I temper enthusiasm based off individual games in general, good
or bad. But when you're looking at over the course
of weeks or months, there's a ton to love about
what he's doing. If you look at those two home
runs that he hit yesterday, yes they were on off
speed pitches, but where he hit that ball right out

(44:30):
in front of the plate, where he hit it in
his swing, you know, the swing working up underneath the
ball to try to get some elevation. Those are points
of contact, and you know pitches that he wasn't getting
to early on in the season. And he's really embraced
mechanical changes, he's really embraced philosophical changes. Trying to get

(44:51):
more aggressive, trying to get the bad head out front.
Those are those are mindset things, and to do it
not only at such a young age and so quickly,
but all so he was asked to make these changes
before he had ever really failed. Right Like, he's been
an awesome player his whole career. He got drafted in
the first round out of college, he tore through the
minor leagues, he made the major leagues in his first

(45:12):
spring training, why would you change? Well, the coaches came
to him and said, hey, if you're going to hit here,
you're going to have to do X, Y and Z
and to buy in before you have any real real struggle.
But I know it wasn't, you know, tearing the cover
off the ball from day one. But to kind of
preemptively make adjustments like this, it's pretty remarkable and says

(45:34):
a lot about just character and why the extras would
be willing to push him as hard as they have
this year.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
A couple more minutes here with Brian Bogosvik on Sports
Talk seven ninety Bogie, we're seeing DH for al Tuove,
We're seeing left field, we're seeing second base probably perhaps more.
And I think I brought this up to you a
couple of times. Is this the strategy they should be
going with Jose is to kind of keep not necessarily
keep him always not an alert or trying to things up.

(46:00):
But is it mainly about what the lineup is around
him that makes a decision where to put him?

Speaker 10 (46:06):
I think so.

Speaker 4 (46:06):
I think that the plan.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
It's Look, he's.

Speaker 4 (46:11):
Not kept in the dark about anything, right when when
you are a player his stature, and when you're in
an organization that is as open with communication as the
astros are, he's he's certainly kept in the loop on
any everything. So it's not that you don't have a
role and you're just floating around. It's that your role
is to float around, and it's in order to allow

(46:33):
us to maximize offensively when we feel like we need
to maxif maximize defensively when we need to play a
hot hand. You know, Mauricio Dumont is hitting as well
as he has all seasons, so we want to keep
him in the lineup, so maybe that means more left field,
just whatever it is we need. You know, he's kind
of the cog that gets moved around to facilitate all

(46:54):
those things. And number one, it takes a selfless player,
which everybody knows he is, but it also takes really
good communication and trust between player and coaches, and that
obviously exists as well. So yeah, I think that is
the plan now. If anything ever materialized where there had
to be something more concrete, I think he would be

(47:14):
open to that. I think the coaches would be open
to that. I don't think anything is off the table
at all. So yes, as of right now, I think
the plan is just day to day, matchup to matchup.
You know, you're going to be the guy that we
move around to get the most out of what we
need that day.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
And this may be premature to ask this now because
we're still six weeks away from the trade deadline, But
if you're going to four and a half gammeling in
your division, and you already have a minor league system
that has been used with current players now, and you
weren't necessarily deep at a lot of positions, and your
two or three guys that you absolutely want to keep
a hold of are non tradable. If Dana said let's

(47:50):
go of a glass of wine and a hamburger somewhere
and said, Brian, what do you think about what we
should do about the deadline right now as we speak,
and we can obviously change this conversation in a few weeks,
but what do you think they need if they're going
to take that next step from being a team the
potentially wins the American League West to a team that
could knock off the Tigers or the Yankees in the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (48:10):
Yeah, I think I think there's it's kind of too
too faceted at the trade deadline, are you thinking more
about we need help to get to the playoffs, or
you know, we need help to win the division, or
is it we need help to get us into a
position to where we can make a run out of title.
We feel like we're going to be in in the playoffs.
We need help to run the title. And if you're

(48:31):
talking about that, you're talking about going in and acquiring
high end a high end bat, high end pitcher, high
end reliever. And I don't know if you have the
willingness or the assets at this point, after you know,
ten years of buying up the deadline to go out
and do that. But if you're in a point to
where you know, the Mariners and the Rangers, they're still
kind of hanging around, and we want to kind of

(48:52):
maybe put ourselves over the top on a on a
depth basis and try to try to put ourselves in
a better situation.

Speaker 10 (49:00):
One sixty two.

Speaker 4 (49:01):
Can you add somewhere kind of in the middle, And
I think that can be done.

Speaker 10 (49:05):
Probably more easily.

Speaker 4 (49:07):
In pitching, you know, can you find somebody who slots
into the middle of the rotation and take some of
the burden off of these young guys think the I
think the answers from an offensive standpoint are in house,
Like you're not going to go out and find anybody
better than a healthy yard On or Christian Walker getting
getting right or yin are getting right right? Like those
answers are are are at home. You're not bringing anybody
to jump those guys in the batting order. But you

(49:30):
can't find somebody to go in and slot in the middle.
So if where if that's where it ends up being,
I think that would be the move. You're also not
I mean, you're not going to bring anybody to be
at the front of the rotation when you got Stromber
and Hunter up there either.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
Paul did great work as always, Thank you for the time,
my friend will do this again next week and enjoy
the rest of the series and we'll talk with you soon.

Speaker 10 (49:48):
All right, cool?

Speaker 1 (49:49):
Thanks, They got it. Brian Bogasvik with a Space City
home network with us Every Wednesday here at eleven o'clock
time is eleven fourteen Ross, What are you having fifteen
minutes coming up on the radio program? Uh yeah, ain't
nobody got time for that? And shut yo bumb ass up.
There you go and like I said, I've come to
you today with right now no complaints about my Vegas trip.

(50:12):
That's that's startling. Come up with one, I'll think, but
the car playing because I got aggressive and told people
what to do. Uh huh worked out by the winning trip.
I do have to issue a retraction. I shorted Brian
Bogasvic on his numbers in coors Field. I put against Colorado.
Which are those are the numbers? I said, But in
cors Field he hit four to twenty three with a

(50:33):
one point one eight. Ops you in a textam and apologize.
You can do it Friday eleven thirty. That's true. I'm
setting throw a dot that way seven one three two
one two five seven nine. If you want to be
with us again, we got shut yo, bumb ass up
and ain't nobody got time for that in about fifteen minutes,
not necessarily some breaking news, but interesting news in the
last half hours, so I'll goo uh Sportico is that

(50:56):
how you pronounce it? The business website, I think it's
what they call it has a story out that the
Tampa Bay Rays are going to be in advanced talks
to selling the team to a group led by Jacksonville
home builder Patrick Zeleupski. The selling price one point seven
billion dollars. The hell kind of homes is the building

(51:18):
good ones? Apparently one point billionaire one point seven billion.
I think that's comparable to what the Baltimore Oils were
sold for. Really, now what I they might then I'm
going to go to a paywall for the rest of
the story. I'm not doing that, But I guess the
question would be, does this group say, all right, Tampa,

(51:38):
you want that? Because Tampa would be the biggest market.
There's there's Jacksonville. Orlando obviously would like to get involved
in some sort There are bets a big it's a
big metropolis as well. My guess is they'll give Tampa
every opportunity build in a stadium. If they don't get a
stadium the way they want it, that they'll move the
team to Orlando or Jacksonville. The Jacksonville raise, I mean
it makes sense, okay, right, I got I have never

(52:01):
been to Jacksonville. I don't think it's support a baseball
team or not. Well, Tampa Bay can't, so they needed
they needed to move out of there for a while,
and Orlando could. I mean, there's a couple million people there.
I mean, that's easy, Francis. Tampa could support it. I
mean Tampa supports hockey, supports the Buccaneers. They just well,
they don't support the race because they're cheap y're they're
not anti race because the races don't ever spend any money. Yeah.

(52:22):
And by the way, they had the number one wild
card right now in the America League. Isn't that crazy? Yes?
And the Astros have had trouble against him so far
this year, and they got Forrest Whitley too, Yes, Astro
former phoenom. Was he ever a phenom?

Speaker 4 (52:35):
He?

Speaker 1 (52:35):
I mean, yeah, you're the best pitching prospect in baseball.
You're a phenom when you're untouchable. But he was touched
by Tommy John Surgeon and by yeah, by by Major
League Baseball, by law enforcement. I don't I don't want
to say the law got it. Did he really get

(52:56):
in trouble? Why didn' he get that drugs?

Speaker 13 (52:57):
No?

Speaker 1 (52:57):
He just it was just a drug suspension, right, he
didn't get it, don't. I don't think the drug traffickers. Y. Yeah,
he said he took the matter all because he was
on a long road trip or something like that. You
were taking a matter of all before I have not Ah, yes, yeah, man,
it's not bad. I mean I don't we know people
that have caught it at all. I've never taken adder all before. Okay,
did you get you through those long days right of
exams and paper writing and stuff. Yeah, I'm no longer

(53:21):
admitting to drug abuse on the show. That's a fair
statement in your part. Let's do somebody slipping in my
drink hashtag roofies eleven twenty two, Sports Talk seven ninety
seven one three five seven nine. If you want to
be a part of our show, we have shut your
ball mass up. I ain't nobody got time for that
coming up in about ten minutes from now. What are
you laughing about them? Nothing at all. You put me

(53:42):
in uncomfortable positions, so I get to do it early
to you as well, so you know, teach his own
uh huh. So it makes attend to shoot to show
work Biscuit on seven Hounty High.

Speaker 14 (53:49):
Biscuit, Hey, what's happening to my brothers?

Speaker 1 (53:52):
You tell us, hey before I get to.

Speaker 14 (53:53):
My CC take man and you just missing Tommy Johns
and that kind of yall? Remember one of them Terrea
Holds Finus used to be over there with the Rockets.
And I was watching the game the other night and
I seen them with a microphone with ESPN. Is because
my girl moved on ESPN already.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Who's that the girl from terror Holt No Vanessa, No, no, no,
no no. Vanessa got a chance to do some freelance
work for ESPN. She does a hoops thirty minute show
on I believe it's on YouTube hoopstream. Yeah, her, and
she was doing it with Shumper, but she was doing
with somebody else. I think Lara Stevenson or something or

(54:30):
no no, no, no, Lance was Big three. No, I can't
keep trying. Was the Shepherd sent him every time and
they had like Shams was on one time and they
had wind Horse down. They've had some other people on.
So that's just a freelance as signment for her. And
she got called into doing some ESPN radio because Lisa
Salters has an ailing mother and she got taken off
of the TV broadcast a goo.

Speaker 14 (54:51):
That's why she was so the radio guy does the
TV and then she moved radio.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
So there we go. So that's but good for him. God,
she's get this opportunity.

Speaker 14 (55:00):
Yeah, me too, man, Now getting the cc man, Man,
and you're talking to me man. I'm a w NBA fan,
and I've been a w NBA fan when they had
mine more I mean way, you know, so I'm not
new to that. So first of all, women's basketball is
way more physical than men's basketball. So some of the
stuff that's going see c ain't don't want to getting

(55:22):
clothes line and slapping the face and everything. That's just
how women play. They play a physical brand of ball.
All that being said, I think you got a few
factors race is that is the fact that you got
the race crowd that hate Kaitlin Clark, and then you
got people on the other side they're pumping up Clark.
They don't even like basketball, they just want to pump

(55:43):
up cart, you know what I mean. So that's an issue.
But to me, the bigger issue is she's You had
a call say she's like rich Miller, I would say
she's more like Kobe Bryant. She is a killer on
the floor and she will do whatever. And the antics
you're talking about is not necessarily pointing toward them. It's
just her trying to win and pumping up stuff and

(56:03):
they get mad because she hoping she can hope. This
girl got skills, man, and this and people are hating
on her because he got skills. And most of the
hate it's not even due to her. It's the people
that's backing her or the over hypeness or whatever. And
she don't have nothing to do with that. She just
trying to play. But they get mad, you know, Sue

(56:24):
Bird and Taraki and them like, well, you know, I
came along and they ain't give me a yeah. But
it's a different time. They hyping her up because this
is how it is now. Everybody's overhyped. If you do
a look shake Gilder, they talk like he's Michael Jordan's.
It's just because of the time. And so I just think, man,
but I tell you what, it's good for the w
NBA because it's creating drama.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
Well, but the problem is, here's the thing, and I
want to take your last statement for a second. It
creates drama. And certainly there are people that like the fights,
that like the altercations, but if someone like me who
doesn't want it, maybe they don't care that I don't watch.
But every time I go to my for u tab,
I see a WNBA fight going on. That to me

(57:06):
is gonna make it? What do I need to watch
this for? Because all they're gonna do is just get
is get mad at the number one player and get
and throw haymakers at her. I mean, I don't know
there's something that's gonna draw me to watching her play.

Speaker 14 (57:16):
But man, are you the target audience?

Speaker 1 (57:18):
You know, I'll tell you. I'll say this. I'm maybe
not the target audience. But if I'm the w NBA
and I need to turn a profit for the first
time in thirty years, I need everybody watching my eyes.
I'm a basketball fan, Biscuit, so they need me. They
need me regardless of my age or my ethnicity.

Speaker 14 (57:34):
They definitely need males. And that's why you see Kaitlin
also is the most She's more feminine than some of
the others that came before her, So that's why she
gets more high too. She's more feminine.

Speaker 1 (57:46):
Well, I would say, I mean, I would say that
there's probably because she is heterosexual. There's a certain group
of people that would say she's easier to root for
than someone that is HOMOSECD I get that again. I've
never worried about people sexuality and Biscuit, thank you for
the phone call. I'm just telling you that she's the
number one player. She is your Wards. Ross is the

(58:06):
Tiger Woods of that sport. Yes, and if you constantly
pick on tiger Woods, you're gonna lose because Caitlyn Clark
is keeping that league afloat right now, period of story,
Yes she is. Well, we need to get you liking
some WNB highlights on your for you tab and then
they'll show up on your four you tab. For you
just makes it for you, Matt. They see what you like,

(58:27):
what you click on, what you watch, and then they
give you more of that. So if you see more fights,
you're gonna if you keep clicking on fights, they're gonna
send you more fight fights. No, no, No, that's the difference
is that I'm not clicking on them, or you don't
even have to click it, you can just watch it.
They know how long you stay on every tweet. This
is terrible. Even when you're scrolling, they know how many
point seconds you're on every tweet. Now, I'm not watching

(58:48):
it because I like it. I'm doing it because I
wanted to talk about it on the show today, because
again that's what I see. Damn, what am I gonna do? Ross?
I don't need algorithms chasing me down. Well that's it,
it's too late. It's over conditions me. Yeah, yeah, you
already agreed to the terms of condition w So, Jonathan,
why why I am on my four you tab? Do
you like these so much?

Speaker 12 (59:07):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (59:08):
Huh? You know why. It's it's like when uh, for example,
when uh, when Jim Schlosnage went to uh went to Texas. Yeah,
I was looking at all these Aggie accounts, and so
it thought I was an Aggie fan. For like three months,
I was getting all this Aggie content in my four
you tab. I'm like, no, I was just it was

(59:28):
just shutting freud. I'm not an Aggie fan. Yeah, I
mean I appreciate technology, but also technology scares me. And
I watched like some Haliburton highlights or something, and then
they thought I was a Pacers fan for a while too.
It's just it's what a whatever you seem to like, Matt,
they give you more of. So you clearly like women

(59:49):
beating up on each other in the WNBA, so they're
giving you more. I'm also getting a lot of wood
yis or this one is. Can you believe I'm forty
six years old? Huh. Yeah, they know they got you
to a t I don't think that's very fair or nice.
All right, if you want to tell somebody to shut
their bumb ass up, it's your time right now for

(01:00:11):
the next half hour. This is where you can vent
and not feel bad about it. Seven one three two
one two five seven Natty seven one three two one
two five seven NINTI. If you ain't got time for something,
somebody's just just rambling at the office and telling you
stories that you're just losing interest in. Tell them anybody
got time for that? Seven one three two one two

(01:00:33):
five seven Nutty.

Speaker 7 (01:00:34):
Let again again, Let again tamp it here, Let me
get Tampa, dear, let me get dampier.

Speaker 15 (01:00:42):
Let me get here again.

Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
Time here, let me get.

Speaker 8 (01:00:45):
Damp it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
All right, this is our time that we can just relax.
And you know we're like free therapy. Ross. Don't you
think we don't charge you the relaxing segment at all? Well,
I mean where you start screaming at people. Yeah, but
doesn't it feel good? Yeah, it's goodthartic When that blue
hair and Lake Charles scream me on Blackjack. He tore

(01:01:09):
her a new a hole and it felt great. She
had chestnut brown hair. Now it was synthetic and from
the nineteen seventies, but it was chestnut brown. Matt, it
was a nice wig. Damn hit on a fourteen, You
dumb baby. Lucile had a very nice lift head of
hair seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven hounty to

(01:01:32):
Major League Baseball again. Last week we found out they're
investing in John Boy with a minority ownership in John
Boy Media. Uh huh, anybody got time for that? Major
League Baseball? What are you doing? Ain't nobody got time
for dead? I don't know what they're doing, just making
an angry, embarrassing act by Major League Baseball. And I
try to defend the sport as much as I can.
I just can't defend that. Yeah, and then you've got

(01:01:54):
Ocramenttal fans booing out Tuve, who HiT's a home run?
On your head? By the way, when okay, first of all,
even if you're A's fans, the Astros didn't really have
to deal with you on their way to the World
Series championship. Is West Sacramento baseball fans? I mean, I
don't even know who you people are. And then you're
lustily booing Jose Altuve, shut jobamass up shot jobamass up man,

(01:02:19):
and major League Baseball. I'll go after major League Baseball again.
How are the how are they gonna play in Sacramento
until twenty twenty eight? Till twenty seven, you know, but
until they're gonna play until the twenty twenty eight season. Yeah,
and that's when they moved to Las Vegas. You're playing
three full seasons in this little minor league ballpark where
the ball goes rocketing out there? How did they plan

(01:02:41):
this so poorly? Ain't nobody got time for that? Major
League Baseball? This is an embarrassment of the sport. Oh,
they didn't plan it ross. They want to stay in
Northern California because the Northern California TV deal was in place.
I'm guaranteeing you major League Baseball would have sent the
A's to Salt Lake City. This is a better stadium,
being market. It would have been braced it. Problem is you,

(01:03:01):
if you're going to Salt Lake City, every game would
have been nineteen to seventeen. This is gonna be like
the Detextans playing in the Katie Stadium for three years
or something. It's ridiculous. It's a nice stadium, though it
is nice for high school. It's true. A lot of
main Creek glosses there. Why are you laughing? We got
we got to observing Lakes guy so oh yeah, you

(01:03:22):
know seven Lakes wearing. He's definitely a fancy for sure. Yeah,
I mean it looks nice. Yeah, nice young shirt uprising Longhorn,
gross horns all right? Uh seven to one to three? Okay,
to the n C double A, to the Power for Commissioners,

(01:03:42):
to everybody involved in this new revenue share. I am
so confused by it that I've checked out on it.
Anybody got time to hear about how they're gonna share
revenue in sports. I'm not gonna explain it. I'm not
gonna try to figure it out because it's probably gonna
change in a couple of years when the Big ten
and the the SEC decided to create their own mega conference,
well in which they probably will need more money. Matt,

(01:04:06):
let's go, more money from the networks, more money from sponsors,
more money for the players. Let's go. And then I
got a professional. What school pays what to what sport?
I mean, one school pays sixty eight percent to the
football one pays fifty nine. Oh, I hain't it. Ain't
nobody got time for that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
People think this apparently, this salary cap system is going
to greatly limit what players have been making. It was
the Florida coach that they're gonna be making like ten
to twenty percent of what they were making under the
salary cap system because you can only allocate so much
to all sports. Correct, you gotta pin some numbers so
a particular sport, and you gotta take care of the
Olympic sports and on revs. Oh what a mess. And

(01:04:45):
it's going to keep the halves the halves terrible all right.
Uh to the bump off of fifty nine. When I'm
going into downtown at what's the Jackson Street, I said,
there's a huge bump on the road road. Ain't nobody
got tap of that. I've been going through that thing
for five years, and as I try to go around it,

(01:05:07):
I want up almost kidding in car accidents. Every time
I think you need to talk to the city of Houston.
The city of Houston, I'll say that right there. Anybody
I got time for that city Houston? Yeah, I mean
Richmond and West Timer and a Voss and all those
streets have been horrible for twenty years too. But that
but that same Jackson Street entrance off of fifty nine
has not changed. I'll take your word for it. You

(01:05:28):
don't go that way, so you don't have those issues,
all right, John? Then what's the matter with you? This week?
I've been a good guy to say this week? I
don't know. Oh nice, I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:05:37):
Uh No, I'll come back, come back to me, come back.

Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
Okay, that's fine. Yeah, don't don't. Don't make something up.
We don't force it. We don't force things on this
radio show. We do not seven one three two one
two five seven ninety Trevor, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
Hey?

Speaker 10 (01:05:51):
What's up?

Speaker 3 (01:05:51):
Uh?

Speaker 16 (01:05:52):
First off, I want to say, rest.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
In peace, cheek, thank you.

Speaker 16 (01:05:55):
Second of all, I want to say I've always listened.
Uh you know, I start with Sean Saliz and I
listen till the till the post game show or if
it's just seventh as a nightcap.

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
You know, I'm always listening, right, thank you?

Speaker 10 (01:06:07):
That is until last week.

Speaker 16 (01:06:10):
This last this past weekend, I was headed to a
wedding right and uh we finished up the Ashes game.

Speaker 10 (01:06:16):
Me and my girlfriend were headed to this wedding.

Speaker 16 (01:06:18):
We're in great moods and they mentioned Ross Villarial has
the postgame show. You know, up until last Saturday, I
thought Ross was the kindest, smartest dude I ever ever
listened to you on the radio.

Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
I could have told you that a long time ago.
That was false.

Speaker 17 (01:06:38):
Gee.

Speaker 16 (01:06:38):
My girlfriend mentioned, you know, I'm the super fan. Ross
does not follow me on Instagram. My girlfriend mentions, she's like, oh,
Ross followed me on Instagram. He will, maybe he'll start
following me. This is gonna be great, this is this

(01:07:00):
is awesome. And she mentioned, yeah, that picture of sushi
that I posted the other day.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
He hearted that, Oh no, I don't this is no,
it wasn't me. It wasn't me, Trevor. Who's your girlfriend?

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Man, I'm not about doctor radio.

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
Okay, who I'm sorry? What's your Instagram? Okay? Just un
follow me and follow me back. I'll find you.

Speaker 14 (01:07:27):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
Are you a fan of the forty nine ers?

Speaker 10 (01:07:29):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (01:07:29):
Or no?

Speaker 18 (01:07:31):
Me?

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
Yeah? No, Because there's only one person named Trevor I
follow on Instagram. I was wondering if that was you
or not?

Speaker 10 (01:07:39):
Absolutely not?

Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
Okay, Well then I mean you want us to follow
you on Instagram or.

Speaker 10 (01:07:42):
No, I'm questioning it now when I what I do wrong?

Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
Right now, I'm going to go through my likes now.
I don't remember this. It must have been an accident.
I was probably scrolling and an accident a dog. It's
it's not true. It's not true, Trevor.

Speaker 16 (01:08:07):
Friday, I expect him.

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
I'm sorry. Okay, I'm sorry. I'may to give it to
you right now. So let's get to it. Uh So
we cannot follow you or your girlfriend on Instagram? What
you're trying to say?

Speaker 10 (01:08:19):
Um, I'll call back with my answer on that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:24):
It's not an open relationship. Holing on in Dayton Uh three,
that's too long. But the ring on her get out?

Speaker 16 (01:08:34):
Oh dude, I'm putting a ring.

Speaker 1 (01:08:35):
On this one. Let me tell you some free agencies
coming around the corner for her.

Speaker 10 (01:08:39):
Oh no, man, I got this locked up.

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
Okay, very good, Thank you, Trevor, appreciate it. Look at you?
What do you slign her?

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
DM?

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
That's not true? Give it details? Yeah, let me see.
I mean, I don't know what happened. I don't know
who she is. I don't remember liking any sushi tweets
while your fingers crossed. They're not all right. Uh, let's
go to uh Brian in Paarland. Brian, what's the matter
with you? You're the matter with me, Matt. No, I

(01:09:08):
got a gooting to pick with you.

Speaker 19 (01:09:10):
If you look at the last six Stanley Cup champions,
four of them are from warm weather climbing. So I
know you're mister hockey will never work in Houston.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
No chance, no chance. I don't say that. I didn't
say that, Hockey. No, no, no, it's false, false, false.
You have been very skeptical that it would catch you.
I am skeptical, but I never would have said no chance,
no way, no how, I'm skeptical. Yes, So you know what, Brian.

Speaker 7 (01:09:35):
You shut your.

Speaker 1 (01:09:40):
Version. It's not true. Shut your massa now continue on.

Speaker 19 (01:09:43):
No, that's all I got. No, I think it won't
work here. You got Florida back to back champions. That
works in in South Florida, can work in the desert,
it can work in Dallas, it can work here.

Speaker 1 (01:09:54):
I'm telling you.

Speaker 19 (01:09:55):
I'm not saying when in it next year? But I
think you get me in HL. I know the arrows
are something different. A minor league and major league cities
are just just work different.

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
Give the NHL a chance.

Speaker 3 (01:10:07):
Here.

Speaker 19 (01:10:08):
You have enough oil money, enough corporate dollars and enough
transplants to make it work. And I'm telling you it will,
so shut you Oba myself.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
You don't think it'll work here, shuit Oba mass up
man again if you need to listen to the show.
I'm not worried about people getting in the building. But
that's only part of the equation. You need multime multime
millions of dollars ross in corporate support. And that's where
I think the big question mark will come into play. Okay, an, Well,
they're filling up eighteen thousand seats forty one times a year.

(01:10:42):
We'll see. I don't think it's gonna happen. I am skeptical, Okay,
I am, but I'm not saying no chance, no way,
I never will work. Okay, all right? Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety. Look at y'all putting
words in my mouth. Let me do that seven one
three two one seven one three two one two five
seven ninety more to shut you Obama up. And anybody
got time for that? After I tell you about the

(01:11:02):
Shell Federal Credit Union, I'm telling you this is the
favorite half hour of the week because you just can
just tell somebody off and get off your chest. Your
blood pressure goes down, your stress level goes down, all that. Yes,
I'm surprised schmish Morny is not running here and wanted
to do at tag Dark Press for keeping him on

(01:11:24):
the tarmac for six hours. Well, hopefully he's got some
pending litigation on that. I think he's busy doing radio
off or anything. He's doing a busy doing a radio
show in Columbia, South Carolina. He on time for the show. Uh,
that's true. It's got a lot of hits, A lot
of hits beyond Jackson Leander today, Moby, a lot of
Bama Lender today. I think two hits in Lafayette. He'll
be doing a Montgommery sports radio and then it'll be on. Uh,

(01:11:45):
he's on the Couter radio show on the sports leta
no idea. All right, get your job there, I'll go.
You talk raging Katan's twenty four seven. Absolutely, eat some crowdads,
get some good gumbo, some cracklings. Yeah, boot In Ryan,
what's the matter with you?

Speaker 15 (01:12:03):
Oh man?

Speaker 1 (01:12:03):
I got two of them?

Speaker 15 (01:12:04):
So the first one ross every every day, man, give
you give Matt krap for what he looks at on
Twitter and Instagram, and now the truth comes.

Speaker 1 (01:12:12):
Out here, you know what I know? Thank you very much. Yeah,
you thirsty dog.

Speaker 15 (01:12:18):
And then second I thought about this while I was
on hold, Trevor. I think that's what his name was. Congrats, bro.
You gotta dude liked her post. If you're good with her,
you trust her, you gotta let that go, man, let
that jealousy out.

Speaker 4 (01:12:31):
Of your heart.

Speaker 15 (01:12:32):
But in the meantime, shut your bum ass up, too, Doug.

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
Shit, So bum ass up, man. I'm telling you right now,
there are people in the community, Trevor that want to
see your girl. So if you want to, just let
us know. We can be the judge. And if she's
yours for life, that's good. We're good with that. But
I mean we can't look hmm. And thank you, by
the way, Ryan for outing Ross for being as big
of a lurker as everybody. I mean, I don't even

(01:12:56):
know who this person's girlfriend is. And I went through
my likes. I didn't like anything from Sushi, so wasn't me.
This woman's lying and manipulating numbskin. I don't know, I
don't know what's happening. All right, let's go the phones again.
Talk to Dana in Angleton. Dana, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
Well, I'm been a loyal listener for ten years, and
this is tongue in cheek said. I don't want to
get anybody's butt hurt or anything, but to be a
loyal listener when you take in all the content and
the advertising. Apparently I am a aged balding day drinking,
degenerate sports gambling flash divorce loser who can't keep his

(01:13:38):
trees alive or his family from getting rear ended by
eighteen wheelers. I had zero energy, been pushing rope in
the bedroom since two thousand and one.

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
God bless you.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
Yet, surprisingly enough, I can't get enough penis in you.
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he is. I'll go and like what one of those
guys that does what? Now excuse me.

Speaker 8 (01:14:59):
I didn't hear your sentence said you like those guys
that go on the Instagram explore page and then if
you see a hot girl you just like it, no
matter if you followed them or not.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
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go look at my likes. I just went and looked
at him.

Speaker 8 (01:15:14):
You could have a second account that she was talking
about I don't have a burner on Instagram.

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His burner is man you for life? Aren't your man?

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You guy?

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Or Man City?

Speaker 10 (01:15:27):
Neither one?

Speaker 1 (01:15:28):
Who's your team? I don't know? Sorry Liverpool? Is it
disgraceful arsenal? I've been talking about this for ten plus years. Again,
it's in one ear and not the other. Who's your team?
Manchester City? Okay? Man? Sit, they're up to nil right now?
All right, we'll good on wyadd or iodad wyadad ac
in the Club World Cup? Okay? Uh? Nick is with us?

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
Nick?

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What's the matter with you?

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Hey man?

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How's it going? Man? Amazing? Thank you?

Speaker 10 (01:15:55):
Listen, chalk another one up for Ross there.

Speaker 5 (01:15:58):
My wife came home last week and told me about
sports RV requesting to follow her on Instagram.

Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
That and my old lady and got tired for that.

Speaker 10 (01:16:09):
Shut your bump asks up.

Speaker 1 (01:16:10):
That's hilarious. Follow now whenever I put it, Look, I
follow back a bunch of people. Look who follow me
on Twitter? I follow back like half the people who
followed me. I'm just hitting follow back. I'm trying to
be nice. Following me on Instagram? I'm following you back. Hey, everybody,
once you'll go follow the Instagram account Thirsty RV. Oh

(01:16:30):
my god, Thirsty RV. Damn Thurst is real, Thank you, Nick.
I'm followed by seven hundred. I follow four hundred. That's
almost everybody. I just hit the follow back button. That's
nice to you. Yeah, and probably ninety percent of those
you follow back your females. That's not true. Give you
a look through my follows. I don't I don't want

(01:16:52):
to do that. What you do on your Instagram is
your own time. Oh my god, whatever dms you put
in there to get with listeners hot girlfriends, that's that's
your own business. This is hilarious. I'm under attack. It's
not attack. It's called the truth, all right, last call
for shut your bumb ass up. You want to get
in seven one three two one two five seveny has
Ross did the dub button? What are you doing on

(01:17:15):
your own show? All right? Good lord? Yeah? What's her name? Eric?

Speaker 3 (01:17:21):
Eric?

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
And basity, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 10 (01:17:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 20 (01:17:24):
I just want to tell you two to shut your
bum ass up because the other day Giorme slid on
that throwdown, so he clearly didn't know Yainer struck out,
and he still looked like a roly poly sliding across
the ground as he was being thrown out by ten
feet sh shut jo bum asses up?

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
Yeah, and did it count as a stolen base attempt? No,
so shut your bum ass up. Of course, anything for you.

Speaker 20 (01:17:51):
Hey, you you've been talking a lot about this stadium
deal with NRG and everything you know, with the Texans
looking for a new stadium. Do you think two counties
compare together in that area and supply funding and share
car or share revenue with it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
Why why would two counties get involved?

Speaker 20 (01:18:10):
I mean, because then maybe it might ease the burden.
I mean, the thing that I worry about is that
these talks will continue to sour and the Texans will
be a repeat of the Oilers and leave us and
be like the Oklahoma Texans or something.

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
Yeah, yeah, thanks Eric. I don't know that the NFL
is not letting Houston leave. That's never, never, ever, ever
going to happen. They've already done it once or not
going through it a second time, and the Texans will
get a new stadium ultimately or a refurbished energy I
shouldn't say there's no chance of that being done. I
don't want to make sure I'm very clear that there's
a chance that they could be refurbished. I think they

(01:18:42):
don't want it refurbished, but I think they may have
to settle for a refurbishment because the money's just on.
I don't think the money in Harriskony is going to
be there. They still owe a billion, I thought. I
don't know, I don't know who's owed what. But all right,
eighteen twelve overture? What would you put that among your
own time great songs? It's not one of my favorites,
but I mean it's good. Just did it fit the

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ass a little over the top? Yeah, but the show's
over the top. Yeah, I know, just saying we'll hear
that and put some astro home runs to its than
properly mixed. Ooh, you hear you? Hear that? I th shots.
I can't I can't complain you. Yeah, you two shots?
And by the way, what your girls are? You get kicked?

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He just text me what he's asking me for? Your
girl's I g account. I'm like, I don't want him to.
I'm not going to ask him unless I did it accidentally.
On air eleven fifty eight, we get the news at
noon next on seven ninety oh, Bravo, Bravo, Give me more,
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(01:19:51):
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What's up? Girl? Twelve oh six? It is the Matt
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(01:20:33):
that's that's the obligatory day of playing.

Speaker 4 (01:20:36):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:20:37):
No, well, well else when else do you hear it?

Speaker 20 (01:20:39):
Uh?

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All right?

Speaker 1 (01:20:42):
I can say, well that Let's get to the news
at dude, and here's our favorite looker, I mean sports
journalist sports RV with the news headline righty, This is
not right. This is a character assassination being carried out
right now it feels appropriate, It's not appropriate, all right, Matt? Yes,
high rights sports Harvey. Anyways, Astros win. Yes, you heard

(01:21:08):
the bombs that were going off in Sacramento thirteen to three.
The Astros beat the Sacramento A's Jason Alexander six innings pitched, well,
of course six plus he didn't get an out in
the seventh. They sent him back out there on the
seventh with eighty nine pitches but still three runs, two

(01:21:29):
of them earned, three walks, four strikeouts. How is this happening, Matt?
How are the Astros just picking up pitchers off the street,
claiming them off away? Was it the A's They're not
even goods. You would figure the organization would have a
beat on him more than anyone else, right, And he
had a quality start. They're getting quality stars from people
you didn't know who they were literally three months ago,

(01:21:51):
and in Jason Alexander's case, two weeks ago, unbelieved. Jason
Alexander walked in here right now and he says, hey, guys,
I'm Jason. I'd say, hoh man, he's ross. He's a looker,
what do you do for leving? Jason? What is the lurker?
That's when you uh, okay, Kim, move on, you said it.
You're calling me, and I'm gonna asking. I'm saying you
can't call people's names. Do you want the definition of

(01:22:13):
a lurker and what you're calling me?

Speaker 3 (01:22:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
I want to know what you're calling me. No, you
know what. You're a friend to everybody, some more than others.
Let's continue, all right. Anyways, how about Cam Smith Matt
four hits, three runs, batted in two home runs and
another extra base hit, the fourth youngest astro to do so.

(01:22:36):
The others Carlos Correa, Joe Morgan, and Rusty Stob Russy
Stob's nickname hmm, I thought that was your nickname? No, No,
do you know what his nickname is? The guass? Was
he the grand Orange? La grand Orange? Okay? How do

(01:22:56):
you get that he's got a big poof of orange
of red hair? To go to the French way to say, oh,
because he is from Lagrange, No, he's half from the Greame.
I mean, I gotta give me that. He's from Paris, Texas. No,
I was a good guess. Those are not terrible guesses. Uh,
he's not French. He just played for the Montreal Expos
with they named nicknamed him Matt. Okay, all right, p

(01:23:18):
the Expos. John, Do you know who the Montreal Expos are?
Or I have no idea you can. You don't even know.
You've never heard of the Montreal Expos until today. So
right now, right now, the Montreal Expos. Jeff Blum is
the show greatest ex ball of all time. Pedro Martinez, Oh,
Tim rains, Okay, okay, continue on? Uh well, yes, I

(01:23:42):
will continue on on the news at noon. You have
the Astros. Doesn't it feel like every third game of
every series has been a rubber game? It feels like
they and then they win two out of three the
rubber game though, Oh wait, isn't it Nope? Didn't they
lose the first game?

Speaker 10 (01:23:57):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (01:23:58):
Didn't they win?

Speaker 3 (01:23:59):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:23:59):
It's a four game are you're right? I got you.
Look at this guy. That's what we call you, mister baseball,
so we call you double Day Thomas. You're right, it's
a four game set, but it'll be from ber Valdez
versus Louis Severino nine oh five. First pitch here on
Sports Talk seven Ainey and Ross will have the on
Deck show at eight o'clock. Yes, I will. We will
probably hear a lot of Dana Brown speak. I'm gonna

(01:24:21):
this is what I generally do on Wednesdays. If it's me,
I'll do probably one clip of Bogus Sevic and then
talk about it and one clip of Dana Brown thought.
You know what that separates you from the rest of
the pregame host. Also, it's a little shorter. I did
it on Monday. Thank you, ladies. Okay, what else you got?
Aren't you doing Friday too? I am and I gotta
do a postgame. You you do a late night Friday Maddie.
And also in other news, unfortunately, the hamster Cheeks in

(01:24:46):
the Thomas household has passed. Yep, two years and then
some congratulations Cheeks in a long life. Two years is
a good hamster. It's a long life. And again, if
you want to check out a photo Cheeks, he's available
on my Twitter account at sports mto Did you cry? No,
I was relieved. Frankly, Oh why were you relieved? Because
he has humors?

Speaker 14 (01:25:07):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:25:07):
Anyways, the Yankees have lost five games in a row.
They have not scored a run in three straight games,
getting shut out by the Boston Red Sox and then
two times by the Los Angeles Angels. They're in quite
the swarm, Matthew, as they are forty two and thirty,
only a half game ahead of your Houston Astros as

(01:25:28):
the second place team in the American League. Can you
believe it? I cannot believe it. I can't believe the
Yankees would go two and a half games without scoring no,
three games twenty nine innings, and then the Astros would
be as close as they are. It is a storyline
that you and I would have never predicted if we
were doing March storylines to the upcoming baseball season. Yeah,
unbelievable stuff. The Astros continue to play the way that

(01:25:51):
they do when well, they could even get better if
it make a trade at the deadline? Will they we
had about sixte well, you know, I like to think
of Spencer Araghedy and getting him back as a deadline
I'd like to think of jord On Alvarez as a
deadline deal for the Astros. Maybe Luis Garcia and or
JP franch You never know, Christian Havevier too. Yeah, if
one of those three guys come back, that's a full roster, baby.

(01:26:14):
And lastly, out I'm interrupt your news and congratulations the
Florida Panthers for winning the Stanley Cup yesterday. Congratulations. I
don't know what the final score was, but I'm sure
it was great. It was a beat down five to
one or something. Really Yeah, that's imagine a freaking fire
miles and then they pulled the gully and then gave
up a couple of goals. That's what it is. Yeah,

(01:26:34):
all right, U up next here on the Matt Thomas J.
Old Ross, a respected NBA reporter, chimes in on the
Kevin Durant. Are they sweepstakes, Rossi, or are they just
uh sweepstakes the market sweep state. Yeah, I would not
called a sweepstakes. I called aim market. As Kevin Durant
at this point still is a member of the Phoenix Suns.
Seven one three two one two five seven nine. If

(01:26:54):
you want to ch chime in on the conversation seven
to one three two one two five ninety all right,
I'm kind of proud of ourselves. We've not gone into
a deep dive on the Kevin Durant conversation. Two hours
and twenty minutes in the show, but we're gonna need
to bring it up today because it's still a pressing
news item. If you don't warre about that audio, let's

(01:27:15):
just just talk it out. So there's everybody and their
mother is saying at this point, and again, this could
be just one person aggregating what they just saw, one
person making something up. That's could be some very viable sources.
Here's the summation that I've gotten so far. San Antonio
sounds like they're not nearly as interested today than they

(01:27:36):
wore say when the original Kevin Durant conversation came into play.
Miami is in the same situation. The Rockets remain interested,
but they're not willing to add additional pieces to a
potential trade offer that they've already given out. And number four,
it feels like to me Ross that Minnesota the Timberwolves
are the most aggressive of any team being talked about

(01:27:59):
and wanting to get Kevin Durant. But Kevin Durant has
made an underknown uncertain terms that he if he went
to Minnesota for one year, that he's not going to
sign an extension to stay with the Timberwolves, which would
then put a lot of pressure on Anthony Edwards to
try to convince Kevin Durant to stay in Minneapolis beyond
the one season. Eh, that usually does not work, by
the way. So I guess there's a number of things

(01:28:23):
in play. Why if you're the Timberwolves, would you swing
for that fence to say, we can get Kevin Durant
here in house back to back Western Conference finals. We
need one more piece, and Kevin Durant could be that piece. Yeah,
I see that. You don't want to end up high
and dry in a raptor situation where they did win
the championship with Kawhi Leonard and he still was like,

(01:28:44):
all right, see you guys, that entire team, that entire
team imploded. I mean, look at all the guys that
are past. Yeah, og An Andobi Fred Scottie Barnes probably
isn't long for Minnesota, for Toronto there, i'man long term
for family you brought up. Yeah, I mean a lot
of guys are on the league that are elsewhere. If
there's one thing that's consistent to me is that Minnesota really, really,

(01:29:07):
really really wants Kevin Durant. Yes, now, I'm not trying
to speak on behalf of the Rockets because I have
made knowing conversations about it, and I don't want to
bother them about it. But I think the Rockets would
like to have Kevin Durant. I think when your names
are being brought up again and that Kevin Durant has
said yes, I could see myself envisioning playing in Houston
be On next year. That wouldn't treat the Rockets. But
I whatever Phoenix is being offered, Phoenix is scoffing at

(01:29:32):
at this point. And now the new tide has been
at least if you're believing the aggregators, the people that
are supposedly writing, is that maybe Phoenix needs to have
a deep conversation with themselves, shut the door and say
maybe we need to downgrade what we're asking for in return.
Because I think it's very important that Kevin Durant has
traded before next week's draft. My I can almost guarantee
you that the Raptors want a top ten draft pick

(01:29:53):
in next week's draft. They've got to do some sort
of rebuild, whether it's an overhaul or just adding some
new pieces, cheaper pieces, because you've already got a lot
of money still tied up in Bradley beal. So that's
a huge albatross around their neck at this point. So
the easiest on't want to go anywhere. He's already said,
I love it here. I'm not going anywhere. So you

(01:30:13):
want to try to trade me such about mess up?
It ain't gonna happen. So you have to build with
draft picks, and you would presume you'd build with top
ten draft picks and they would be cheaper than getting
established stars. Yeah, how long does that take? So Devin
Booker is twenty eight?

Speaker 10 (01:30:27):
I think.

Speaker 1 (01:30:27):
Yeah. So there's another story out there, and I don't
want to give credit to credit now because I'm not
willing to do it. But just there's so many that
the Suns are not interested in Jalen Green, in that
if the Rockets were to send Jalen Green to Phoenix,
they would have to find a third team that would
then take Jalen Green from them. Yes, I was listening
to the Zach Low podcast. I'll have the unfortunately and

(01:30:48):
pull the audio on time. It's my bad. But he
says the same thing that they would be flipping Jalen Green.
And he was asked to pick a favorite to land
Kevin Durant, and he named the Rockets, and he also
said he doesn't think that the coaching staff and general
manager are on the same page on this, as in,
the coaching staff is more a more wanting Kevin Durant

(01:31:12):
than general than than rough Philstone. Okay, then, which makes sense,
I mean it happens. I think that's hmmm, uh, wouldn't
that be the case? Seven times out of ten coach
cardless of the player that the player the coach has,

(01:31:34):
he's the one that's creating the meal. The supplier, the
person that has to do the billing for the organizing
of the ingredients coming to the restaurant. It's probably more
cost watching over what needs to be bought. I mean,
it's terrible analogy, but you know what I'm saying. The
organizer is thinking. The general manager thinks down the road, yes,
about salary caps, thinks about flexibility, thinks about drafts, thinks

(01:31:57):
about things two to three years on the road. The
coach thinks about the or Now, I've got a chance
to be a great, good basketball team right now, I
want to be a great one, and this guy makes
us great. Udoka wants to win. Now now what whatever
one of the things that makes him great is he
doesn't accept losing and he wants to win. And if
you add right now, for Kevin Durant off this team,

(01:32:18):
I mean sorry, Jalen Green off this team and Kevin
Durant on this team, the team's better. But what is
that that? What are the implications as far as further
down the road, and if you're if you're a general manager,
whether you're a fel, somebody else says, hey, you know
what you you make this trade, it's on you. Guess
what's gonna happen. The trade will not be attached to
the coach. The trail will be attached to the general manager,
especially with depending on what you give up in return.

(01:32:39):
So I could I could see that. I mean, all
I see with email and Rafel's they are they work
very much, very well together. But there's you can't possibly
agree in everything you and I don't agree with everything
this radio station does with most of it, yes, but
not everything a lot of it. So you work through
those things. Uh, But I could see I could see

(01:33:01):
a general manager going, I don't want to give up
dre draft capital, which the Suns clearly want because I
worked my ass on to get this trade capital. Yeah,
And then maybe a player at two years from on
the road that you want to give up a draft
pick four that would be say twenty eight years old.
It's compared to Kevin Durant, who'll be thirty cents. And
it'll probably have to be multiple for it, rather than
even just with the swap of ten. It might have
to be another draft pick or two on that. When

(01:33:22):
Desmond Maine's getting four first round picks, it's gonna cost you,
I mean, not necessarily that much depending on the players
going back, but you're gonna have to get some pin
is that multiple pick? But think about that. Part of
that trade is you're sending Contavious call up Pulpe from
Orlando to Memphis. Yes, and Cole Anthony and Cole Anthony,
forget about it. This is KCP CACP got a huge

(01:33:44):
contract from Orlando, and by all accounts he underperformed that contract. Correct.
Don't you have to give them something back? If you're
going to say, well, all right, we're gonna let you
inherit this contract. Yeah, so you're given the right of
part of the tax of giving them the contrac I
would agree with that. So, and you're just banking that
the drafticks aren't going to be any good, right. The

(01:34:05):
East is wide open now. I think see I am
not a huge draft holder onto guy, but the Astro
the Rockets have been able to win games and get
better because while they have not been franchise leading guys,
there are certainly guys that you build a car around.

(01:34:27):
You build around him and Thompson You've built around him
in Opera in Shingoon, you can build around a Jabari Smith.
You've been able to use Jalen Green. I mean, these
are all parts of the equations that have got to
where they are today. They'd be in a better spot
if they somehow got the one number one pick in
any of those drafts. The stars did not align it.

(01:34:49):
Cad Cunningham, Pawa Benkero, Victor wimbin Yama. Oh and well
Zachary Resa cha was he had a good second half
of the season. He did. He contributed more than Reed
Shepherd didn't. That that's the fact. Yeah, Reid's gonna have
to have a better bounce back year next year. People
are gonna say that was not worthy other third pick,

(01:35:10):
but that's also relative. In the thing about this ross,
it was considered maybe the worst NFL NBA drafts of
all time last year. So maybe we have to temper
the expectations depending on where the number is. But Reid's
gotta be better, and there's no I don't think there's
any issue to that at all. All right, well, at
twelve twenty eight Sports Talk seven ninety it is the
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(01:35:35):
All right, time is to twelve thirty three. The Astros
are back to what eleven games? About five hundred after
the win last last night thirteen to three. The disposed
of the sacer Oakland A's. No, we didn't call him Ocremento,
so we called him old Oakramento. A's in that ballpark.
What was the announced crowd yesterday about? They had eighty

(01:35:55):
four hundred the first game? I think it was twelve.
They had a full seven The mess ahead like a
dot of dogs something like that. I didn't notice what
it was. Jeez. I mean, seriously, every home run it
feels like it's a It's like a missile that leaves
that ballpark. No cheapies whatsoever. Eighty three hundred and fifteen. God,

(01:36:16):
how embarrassed? Should be embarrassed? Embarrassed? Major League Baseball? They
don't care, don't I guess the only thing that Major
League Baseball could have said is no, you can't. They
allowed this to happen. They and then they had a
passive vote for them to play in Sacramento for a
couple of years. I think the owners all voted on this.
They're all cool with them going to Las Vegas. Now,
it's going to raise the profile of the organization. But

(01:36:36):
this just seems like it was. It was just mishandled
for years. Yeah, probably the owners of the A said, hey,
we get that TV money from Oakland if we stay
within one hundred miles of Oakland. So you don't blame us,
do you feeling right now? If you're a lifelong as fan? Discussed,
but you felt discussed in the last ten years, I
remember there. This is an organization that from nineteen I mean,

(01:37:00):
I don't know what they were like in the sixties,
but in the seventies when they had Reggie Jackson and
they had Vita Blue and they had go on to
the Bash Brothers with Jose Consenko and Carne Lanceford and
Mark McGuire and Dave Stewart and Dennis Hecker. I mean,
this is an organization that has had tremendous success, and
the only thing that ever stopped them from being routinely

(01:37:22):
successful was the fact that the owners, whomever they may be,
said we're not going to spend any money. Now, the
owners will probably come back and say, well, we're not going
to spend money because we can't make money because people
do not want to go to a dump, dumpster fire
of a coliseum in Oakland. And they tried to get
stuff passed for new stadiums and it never did numerous times,
and I think essentially Oakland said eh, no thanks, And

(01:37:44):
then they had moneyball Billy bean Era, and they wanted
to losing the Alds every year. They wanted to go
to San Jose and the Giants. He blocked him on
that and said, no, no, no, no, no, that's our territory, right,
You're not going there. So understandably so, and that's the
reason why you've gotten out of them playing in West Sacramento, California,
on to Las Vegas for thirty three thousand seat stadium,

(01:38:06):
thirty three thousand and two. You and I will be
there for the first round. Let's go. I'm ready against
the Astros, not the very first game. No, we won't
be there for the very first game. It could be pricing. Yeah,
see fresh Grenchl's fine. Let's go to Gary in spring
on seven on a Hello Gary, Hey, guys, thanks for
the call.

Speaker 10 (01:38:21):
I'm calling it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:22):
I got to ask Astros question for you.

Speaker 13 (01:38:26):
Got to abhor these West Coast games because I usually
fign all this information out before the games. But anyway,
a couple of things real quick. It sounds to me
like you guys are gonna have to lock up your
buddy's phone there on these postgame shows because he sounds
like he's getting in some trouble with some of these
women out there. The other thing I wanted to say

(01:38:49):
is I see it different than most people see it.
I see Jalen Green as the Rockets top player only
because I think his ceiling in the next couple of
year is gonna far exceed the other two that y'all
mentioned each time, so he would be the one that
I would not trade. But the question I have for
you is have you heard any recent update on Jordan

(01:39:13):
Alvarez's status about when he may be coming back data.

Speaker 1 (01:39:18):
Brown mentioned this morning that he's gripping a bat, but
that's it, and he's not swinging, not swinging, not hitting.
And I feel very confident telling you Gary that I
don't expect to see Jordan back until I don't know,
after the All Star break. I mean, that's crazy, but
that's we're only talking about four weeks away. You and
I are on the same page. Matt. When he's back,
he's back. Yeah, I don't care. I don't care if

(01:39:38):
he's gripping a bat here he's holding the bat. Honestly,
I don't on his nose. I don't care. The next
time I get an update will be the one that
I will go, oh, he's swinging the line yeah, or
in the lineup even better, Yeah, wake me up when
he's in the lineup. He's got a fractured hand. Come
back when you're healthy. It is what it is. He
hasn't played since May. The third.

Speaker 3 (01:39:58):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:39:58):
How does this? How crazy as this gang? The Astros
missed Kyle Tucker for multiple months and one division. They're
going to miss yard On Alarez for multiple months and
they're going to win the division. Christian Walker hit a
home run that he did Oh, and his batting average

(01:40:21):
is to sixteen. Now it's looking good to sixteen sixteen,
let's go. I feel very confident about the I'm Bullets
show on the Christian Walker the rest of the year.
Me too. Actually, it's gonna happen, folks. If only the
Astros could play every game in second time, I think,
I think, honestly, I'm saying, Oh, it's too late for

(01:40:41):
gut feelings post All Star Break, first two weeks post
also break, he's gonna go on a hot streak. What's up?
Why are you waiting that long? I think I should
give a little time to rest, reset mentally and physically.
What if he crushes the rest of this week in California,
that'd be great. By the way, I got a question
for you. I was thinking, you know, I always think
of songs for us to play on the show today,
and I and maybe I should know this, and you're

(01:41:03):
not even an Eagles fan. Per se is Hotel California
a reference to a certain California hotel. I think it's
very I think it was like that when they wrote
the song. But I don't guess I would have loved
to play Hotel California today with all those home runs
we had. But I'm afraid that that. I think it

(01:41:24):
was more of like a conglomerate, like like a piecing
together of things. No, no, no, like I don't think
it's a specific actual hotel. But I can go look
that up. All right, Can we play? If the Astros
win tomorrow? I had score aunch of runs, we play Hotel?
Why not California Dreaming? Why not going back to Cali
by LLL coooj or Notorious Big. I'm gonna go with
the first guy you said, California Dreaming, Bobby will Mac

(01:41:47):
version is quite nice, just letting, you know, just letting
the folks my mama's in the papas, Bobby wom he
a little more soul, I mean a little bit. Yeah. Yeah.
Who's the more popular st of the two songs?

Speaker 10 (01:41:59):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:41:59):
I would probably the Mamas and the Poppas for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:42:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:42:01):
All right, so you got this tomorrow we're gonna play, uh,
California dream in which version? Bobby Walmac you said, no,
we don't have to, And then if they went on Thursday,
we'll play. Oh you can't play because Friday we do
the open of the ten o'clock Open on Friday mm hm,
we can skip that too. Wa ain't skipping out of
you kidding me? You gotta there's got, there's got two
you You've got weeks worth just off of today's show.

(01:42:23):
I think between cheeks and somebody diving into somebody's DMS
over there on the OIG. You got plenty of space
there for the ten o'clock open, all right, seven one three, two,
one two five seven nine is zero if you want
to be a part of the show. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety. Uh what else going on?
We mentioned, uh Durani Stilla's sun. We have the Astros winning. Yes,

(01:42:45):
thank you have the audio that were I was talking about.
Oh yeah, let's bloom and play. This is Zach going
to set it up? Yeah, Zach low podcast. He's very
tuned in. He doesn't always report stuff, but he is
very clued into what's going on in the NBA. He
had a podcast I was listening to about the NBA
Finals and then at the end they talked about Kevin
Durant and he and Kirk Goldsberry choosing who they think
will end up with Kevin Durant.

Speaker 21 (01:43:07):
I'm gonna go Houston and they find a middle ground
that is palatable to the Houston front office, who I
think is less excited about the prospect of it than
the Houston coaching staff. Someone reported for I can't remember who,
and I'm sure this is true because it makes all
the sense in the world is that Phoenix has already
started back channeling. What could we get for Jalen Green

(01:43:28):
because I don't think like Jalen Green plus Booker plus Beale, like,
I just don't understand what to make of any of that.

Speaker 1 (01:43:36):
So it would be a Jalen Green part of the
package and then the Sun's flipping him. And that's why
trades take a long time. The more teams you get involved,
you have to make sure everybody's on the same page.
And Agreen and cap Space yeah yeah, yeah, aprons and
you got to match salaries, the whole thing. I mean,
I'm gonna give you the most obvious take in the world.

(01:43:58):
Will when Kevin Durant gets traded, and if hopefully it's
between ten and two, two to six, it happens a
Lotportune two and six. They don't deserve it. We'll have
the five alarms go off of the five breaking news
sound whoa okay?

Speaker 5 (01:44:10):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:44:10):
If it winds up being in Houston. We will have
a major press conference. We will carry it. Well, I
mean it's it will be at interview. He didn't like
medium now, Matt, so you gotta be nice to him. Well,
I'm gonna I got a whole year to build a relationship,
or maybe in some cases three years to your extension.
Weird talk about a long horned time. What if he
and I became bros. That's not happening. Are you sure?

(01:44:36):
Would that make you jealous? I would be extremely jealous. Well,
here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna I'm going to
if he ever joins us live on the show, I'm
going to make sure that you two because you have
been a Kevin Durant fan since you and I worked together. Yeah,
it doesn't feel fair that I would be able to
jump in and supersede your relationship. No, you would care.
You just admitted you'd be jealous. I mean I'd be jealous,

(01:44:57):
but then, I mean it's not gonna affect my day. No,
but I want to. I want to. I want your
day to be better, he said, Kevin, can you give
Roster digits? Because I always gonna do a textas in
next you're gonna say a great game, bro, what's like
gonna do He'll give me a little thumbs up? Yeah,
or an eyewink, that'd be weird. That's on Instagram at

(01:45:17):
sports Rvy, he should be. I really feel like today's
not been a good day for you on the Instagram stuff.
You are certainly trying to trying to abe I'm falling
back people that follow me at people, people that you
don't follow and and their girlfriends. That's fine at sports Harvy. Okay.
Uh oh, So if he's a rocket, this city will
will be There'll be some there'll be some uh not issues,

(01:45:41):
There'll be some trepidation, but there will still be a
lot of excitement. Oh please, I think, yeah, I'll leave
in all these people. Hell, you gotta trust the process.
You get Kevin Durant here, you're gonna get excited. You're
gonna watch the games, and there'll be enough It'll be
a lot of jail and green folks that will say
we are and I'm here. I'm presuming the jailing green
be part of the trade, probably because I mean, if
if Alpi's off the ball, and what's the next mister green,

(01:46:05):
your next step Phoenix is lovely, can Jalen at any point, go, guys,
you're the only team I know. I got this, stay
with me on this. I can. I can, as I'm saying,
if they don't, I really believe that there may be

(01:46:27):
some disappointment, but I hope think there's gonna be like
a droopy down, you know, feeling terrible about yourself if
this deal doesn't get passed, because again, it's gonna have
to be what Phoenix believes the value is, and the Rockets,
at least from everything we've read and seen has been
we believe there's a certain value in getting Kevin Durant here,
and we're not willing to come off that value at
this point. Mm hmm. So, and then the Zach Lowe

(01:46:49):
part that basically the coaching staff more bullish on Kevin
Durant than maybe rophel Stone and the Rockets Brass or
however you want to call it. Yeah, that yeah, that
I I mean, I could text all him, but they're
like Matt, They're gonna say new phone, who dis Yeah
you get an s y b a U? Yeah or
manya or none ya. Think about it, Jonathan, that's.

Speaker 10 (01:47:12):
Y b a U.

Speaker 1 (01:47:14):
He's thinking ah all right, twelve forty four on his
Sports Talk Sevenattie seven one three two one two five
seven Natti seven one three two one two five seven
twelve forty five Sports Talk Sevenatti.

Speaker 3 (01:47:34):
Wait.

Speaker 1 (01:47:34):
I just told Ross today's addition, to believe it or not,
he's all things about hamsters in honor of cheeks RP.
I kind of missed the little guy. You said, all
he did was bite you. Yeah, but it doesn't mean
we wasn't a member of our family. They put a

(01:47:55):
mask on him, isn't that crazy?

Speaker 17 (01:47:58):
A little a little hamster mass. They put a muzzle
and they put they gasped, they gassed him.

Speaker 1 (01:48:08):
Yeah, put him asleep that way? What's wrong with you
over there? It's an emotional moment of the Thomas family
and you're making fun of it. I'm sorry that. What's
wrong with both of you?

Speaker 4 (01:48:23):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:48:23):
God? Yeah? Because kim my wife called the animal hospital
of the vet clinic and said, we we have a hamster.
It's got a lot of tumors and we don't think
it's going to make it. And the receptionist said, we
don't put hamsters asleep, So she went back past the

(01:48:44):
vet and the vet. We know the vet because it
takes care of our dogs. Said, yeah, we'll do it
one hundred and fifty dollars. But it was a humane
way to put cheeks to rest. I'm sorry for your
lost Matt. This sounds very tough and harrowing for the
Thomas family. Yeah, and I'm wishing you the best going
forward in peace and love. Thank you very much. That's

(01:49:05):
the most sensitive thing you said to me all day today.
How big of that mask be? Where do you buy
a hamster put down mask? Where does one order one?
Can you get that overnighted on Amazon? If they don't

(01:49:26):
normally do it at the vet? What did they do?
It's like a piece of cloth and just put it
over his nose and face. I don't know, kobeam into
the trash can I don't know? No, No, they we
asked how it was done, and that's not exactly what
was done. Wasn't he wasn't hurt in the process. Twelve

(01:49:51):
fifty two on Sports Talk seven ninety as sure go
for another Wednesday. We have more on that kind of
top of the are we got Brian Becus. I think
you missed that conversation. We'll have to create one. Hey,
do you does a city make a huge difference in
whether or not a player wants to go there. To

(01:50:14):
an extent, I knew you were going to say that
because I always said the same thing. If you'd have
thrown a players seem to want to come to Houston,
they definitely want to go to New York. I think
the number one factor is moolah that most times, not
all times, but athletes they had two choices between two
cities of comp lifestyle, they would take the money in

(01:50:35):
the bigger city, money and marketability. I think that's a
huge reason Lebron Jams sign with the Lakers. Okay, the
reason why I bring this up is a certain ESPN
national host basically had to discuss why the Memphis Grizzlies
don't get free agents come to their place and that

(01:50:56):
they have to build the draft, and he brought up
that it's very difficult place to live because of the
high crime rate, high poverty, unemployment. But don't they have
nice neighborhoods. I will have to say that crime and
poverty in every big city, but I would say Memphis

(01:51:17):
probably is a But if there was a mid level,
they're high up on the murder rate list, They're very
high I would want and I don't want to quote
off of his numbers because he can he's only been
given stuff in it researcher. But I would have to
say that Memphis is probably top five in the NBA
in crime. Okay, Now, if you are an athlete, how

(01:51:40):
much of that comes into play? Yeah, I don't know.
There are professional cities in this country that have professionals,
that have teams, that have cities of a high crime rate.
Saint Louis has a high crime rate. In New Orleans,
New Orleans, Detroit, New York City, New York City. I mean,

(01:52:01):
it's it's not just too little cities that don't have
a bunch of sports teams. It's also big Metropolitan's not
an NBA team in the Hamptons. So John Morant came
to the fence and said, hey, Memphis is a great
place that this person isn't always talking about, and that
people will come to Memphis because people are good basketball
fans there and whatnot. Now, like in every city, there

(01:52:22):
are good parts of town and there are bad parts
of town. I you know, again, all I know is frankly,
I know Tunica, mississipp because I travel go down to
the casinos, and I know part of Arkansas which is
right at the Arkansas at the Tennessee border, and I
know downtown Memphis. I can tell you for a fact,
Ross that I am way more leery of walking downtown
Memphis streets than I am probably any other city in

(01:52:43):
the NBA, even over New York, Okay, because there has
been there's tremendous vandalism. There's been a lot of robberies,
there has been a lot of muggings and whatnot. So
I think everybody is a little more cautious in Memphis,
Tennessee than they are their places. But does that make
a difference? Professional anthete I again, to me, it's to
each his own. But if Memphis Ross was to offer

(01:53:06):
you a four year deal worth fifty million dollars, and
the Charlotte Hornets are going to offer you a four
year deal with forty one million dollars, I would probably
assume that nine times out of one hundred, the athlete
would take the bigger deal to go to Memphis based
on previous experiences. I'm just trying to find murder rate.
Second highest is New Orleans and twenty three Saint Louis's
first I don't see Memphis up here. Detroit's number three. Yeah,

(01:53:29):
so it's not like Memphis is by itself. When it
comes to trying to get rid of a stigma of
a high crime city. Indianapolis is six in what murder rate?
That is surprising. Memphis is nowhere near the top ten.
I find that hard to believe. I don't see them. No, Buffalo,
New York is sixteen. Now this is of course per capita,

(01:53:54):
and this is the list I have, is only the
top twenty four cities. Are we in the top twenty four? Well,
Houston is not Dallas? Is we knew that good to
dead along time? Dallas is fifteenth, DC Atlanta four or five.

Speaker 3 (01:54:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:54:06):
DC's had plenty of issues with the crime over the years.

Speaker 3 (01:54:11):
I just.

Speaker 1 (01:54:13):
Ross. We're talking about super millionaires that don't typically drive
themselves anywhere, that live in the nice parts of town. Hell,
in Kansas City, those guys were getting their houses robbed
all over the place. And you wouldn't think of Kansas City
being a high crime area. Did Pat mahomes house getting robbed? In?

(01:54:33):
Travis Kelsey's house robbed allmostud? I'm gonna tell people that
you shouldn't go play for the chiefs, I don't think
so bestially, the chiefs are good, and chiefs are offering
you good money. I just feel like crime is everywhere.
But I understand why Memphis has brought the way that
it was, because again, it's probably among the thirty NBA cities,
the two or three that are for me least likely

(01:54:54):
to go walk the streets in a rando night, because
I don't feel as safe as I do it other places.
Well on Los Angeles twentieth, New York twenty second, Boston
twenty fourth. Basically every NBA cities somewhere on the list bottomize,
every major metropolitan cities, and that in the list. So
all I know is, athletes, you should come to Houston.

(01:55:16):
We're nice, we're good looking for the most part. We've
got amazing food, good culture, oppressive humidity, and horrible traffic.
But that comes with the territory with big cities. Yep,
all right, twelve fifty eight, we've got an hour left
to go ross We're doing all things, hamsters, and believe
it or not, today we are and on our cheeks.
May he rest, May he rest two good years for

(01:55:37):
that young fellow. It's good, rud It was a good
run seven one three, two, one two, five, seven nine
of the Astros win a game, so do the Mariners.
We'll give you the latest update on what's happening in the
American League West and how the Astros winning ways have
gotten them closer to the top spot in the American
League seven one three, two, one two five seven nine zero.

(01:55:59):
So the Astro get a bunch of home runs, Cam
Smith with a huge day, Christian Walker goes deep, and
Jason Alexander, by the way, we have not done an
Have we done any Seinfeld pun since about ten oh
two this morning ten oh three? I don't think so.
I mean it's the lowest of hanging fruit. When it
comes to Jason Alexander being on the Houston Astros, which

(01:56:20):
member of the A team will make a Jason Alexander
pun first? Wex or Clan Clinton. Okay, I'm gonna be
listening to two o'clock to secure which one it's going
to be.

Speaker 3 (01:56:30):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:56:30):
Do we have to declare moratorium where we get a
few days of it? Ummm? I mean he just pitched yesterday.
Everybody's doing it, so how many I can't tell you
how many Castanza gifts I got yes, so let's twist.
Let's let's knock them all out so we know what
we're playing with here. Okay, we have the golf ball
in the whale in the ocean, all right, Okay, we
have this shrinkage. Yeah, okay, we have believe it or not,

(01:56:55):
George's in the home. Please leave a message of the beep.
Oh that's a great that is a great one. We
have the hand model, the summer of George, his hand model.
I forgot about that out. Oh he was he was
the Yankees traveling secretary. Yes, and we have him, didn't they?
What are we doing? What are we listing? Just trying
to think of George's things about George? Yeah, okay, George

(01:57:18):
is getting upset George like spikesy Chicken. I mean we
can go through the list. Oh do you want to
do Jason Alexander believe it or not? Or do you
want to do cheat? Which one? As I'm saying that
you could do both if you wanted to. I haven't started.
I'm gonna be honest. Okay, you could also go with
hamsters too, and on our cheeks my friends? Has anything
else with George?

Speaker 4 (01:57:36):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:57:36):
Uh them? Okay, we did he did he have the
jacket that was then yeah, because George, because Jerry had
the puffy shirt. It was the big jacket that he
wore that looked like a michel entire guy gortex. Yeah,
the gortex jacket or hamsters. I've told this story on

(01:57:56):
air before. I had a hamster's one I was a kid,
and one of them ate the other one. No way,
that's gross. Yeah. We went to we went to Kansas
City for a few days and I put a bunch
of food in there, but I guess it wasn't enough.
I was like twelve years old. Ben and alex which
one eight which I don't remember. And you went home

(01:58:18):
and saw that, yep, and it scarred you for us
name to mandible job you chess. Was all gone, Let's
get to some baseball, you asked, And it's a regret,
absolutely on regret. Shut out Ben and Alex. So we
don't even know if we're doing Jason Alexanders or we're
doing answers. I don't know. We'll figure it out. So

(01:58:42):
while the Yankees don't score any runs or went back
to sports here, the Astros do score some runs, and uh,
the Yankee should be embarrassed. Losening to the Angels at home?
Is Aaron Judge cooling off? He's not gonna hit a
four hundred anymore. That's good. He's down to three seventy two.
What a bum ops in twelve hundred? What has their

(01:59:06):
record been since they since John Boy got a minority
stake here? Oh, that's a good question, Matt, because they
got swept by Boston at home, and then I was
at Homer Boston. I didn't really matter where they got.
It was still sweep and then they lost. They've lost
the Angels game. What's the What is their record in

(01:59:28):
the last That's a better question is what's their record
in the last ten games? I'm looking up real quick.
The lost The New York Yankees have a three and
a half game lid over Toronto. They have won Wait
a minute, they won yesterday. No, this is an old.
This is an old. I hate this ESPN app. Yeah,
it's the worst. I told you. June tenth is when
the announcement came with the partnership with jam Boy. And

(01:59:53):
they've lost five in a row. June tenth, m hmm,
they've lost seven of ten. Well, they won three in
a row right after that. Their run discrepancy is only
plus ninety eight. Got a mighty they can slog they're
pretty good. That is number one in baseball, by the way,
the Asters of a plus forty seven. And for a
team that doesn't score much, that means their pitching has

(02:00:14):
been really, really good. So the American League standings right
now as we speak, Detroit has the best record at
forty seven and twenty seven. You know who doesn't like that?
Major League Baseball? I mean, tark schoopl is interesting, but
Tarks School is not gonna able to carry the ratings
of a country. Although we're looking, maybe we should be
caring about these ratings. Oklahoma's Indiana are playing a great series. No,
we don't have to care about ratings. When NHL ratings

(02:00:35):
are down, NBA final ratings are down, basically everything but
the NFL, which is college football. In college football, Yankees
are the second best record and the Astros are the
third best record, But the Astros are only a half
game behind the Yankees. New York is forty two and
thirty the Astros are forty two and thirty one. In

(02:00:57):
what world did anybody anticipate On June eighteenth of twenty
twenty five, ad the Astros will be a half game
behind the Yankees, and anything much less the standings a
lot of magic. So if the playoffs were to begin today,
which or not, we're not even at the halfway point,

(02:01:17):
the Astros would take on the Seattle Mariners in the
wild card. No, hold on, hold on, Yeah, it would
be the worst, right, yeah, Seattle Mariners. Astros are thirteen
and seven in one run games, four and oh in
extra innings? And what do they do productivity wise between

(02:01:40):
seven eight and nine? And what do they do in
innings seven eight and nine? You would say, and normally
you say the luck is gonna luck turns in one
run games and extra innings. But the Astros have a
really good back of the bullpen. They're gonna win a
lot of one run games. I don't know if you're
if your bullpen's ZRA is among the top five in
the sport, would be a good team laden games, you'd

(02:02:02):
be a good team leading after seven, you'd be a
good team in one running games. That's what the numbers do.
Bear out the results of the field. And then you
have Jason Alexander, the the Goat and all these other
astroisk pictures that don't come to mind right away. Colton Gordon, Yeah,

(02:02:24):
Brandon Walta, Ryan Gusta hated until two weeks ago. I
never hated Ryan Gusta. I'm wishing them the best. We heard,
we heard, we heard the the horror in your voice.
You're pushing all these false narratives. Mmmm. Think So is
this revenge for the sports and teakers that's been a
long time ago, long forgotten. Oh, you don't forget, all right.
So Robert Valdez will take them mound today and the

(02:02:47):
on deck will be eight o'clock. First pitch will be
at nine oh five from West Sacramento m hm. And
they're gonna play that. That team's gonna play in that
stadium for three years, crazy with eighty three hundred people.
And my guess is when we find out, when we
find out how much money each team makes, I bet
the A's will be right up there amongst the most

(02:03:07):
profitable teams in baseball. Yeah, they're gonna collect because because guarantee,
because the Rays have always been popular in terms of
making money. But they don't draw flies, or haven't drawn flies.
And they're playing it at twelve thousand seats stadium and
in Tampa right now. But they weren't drawing twelve thousand
when they were in their own place, and now they're
getting bought. See what happens there. Yeah, a Jacksonville home

(02:03:31):
owner group has decided to purchase the Tampa Bay Rays.
My thought is, you know what, we'll say this for
next Tuesday. But if this deal goes through that Jacksonville
homeowner guys and be like, look, you get one shot.
You want a ballpark, you want to keep the Rays
in Tampa. Saint Pete built us at thirty five thousand
seat stadium, put it in Tampa, and let's go. If not.

(02:03:51):
I got two other cities in Florida that would love
to have your baseball team. But it's funny, just because
you build a new stadium, it is not guarantee six
go ass the Miami Marlins. That thing down there in
South Worid is beautiful and nobody goes those games. Well,
the team's also terrible. You gotta it's gotta be a
combination of things. You need team success. Is there any
team in sports that doesn't spend money and yet does

(02:04:15):
have a huge fan base? Pirates, no, go to team payroll? No, No,
you can't. Who is the most successful team in baseball.
Forced for a team that doesn't spend a lot of money,
maybe Kansas City would be my guess. I mean, Tampa
Bay is in a wild card right now. I bet

(02:04:37):
if we did like five year rolling average as a
payroll in attendance, there is a very very strong correlation,
very strong. But Tampa is probably the outlier. Tampa is
always competitive and they don't spend any money. You know
why because they do have a good modeling system that's
been able to replenish guys a year after year after year.
But they don't spend they don't make big moves. I mean,

(02:04:59):
Randy Rose was a guy that we kind of recognized
him and raising he got sent up to Seattle. Seattle's
not really They're sixteenth in payroll. Detroit is eighteenth, Saint
Louis's nineteenth. It's funny. Saint Louis is nineteen. That's crazy.
That's the city that draws four million with their eyes closed.

(02:05:20):
That's about it. Everyone else is near the top, the Dodgers, Matts, Yankees, Phillies, Toronto, Houston.
It would be hard for me to live in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati,
Miami and be a baseball fan. You know what you
don't you do ross you lose baseball fans. You just
like the check out. Like if we went to Miami
right now and said, hey, let's go, let's go get
some friends, let's go to a Marlins game, how many

(02:05:41):
are gonna say, yeah, that sounds great. They're not doing it.
They've checked. You check out when your team doesn't spend it.
Even when they were winning World Series, which is immediately
blow the teams up. The two times they won, they
gutted the team right after that. But Pittsburgh, I mean
great baseball town. We are family buns, Clemente all, Bobby Tom,
I mean all those years and years and years great

(02:06:04):
sports town. Pirate turn afterthought, It's why I gotta be
blessed what we've got here in town. I know that
Jim Crane has knew everything you wanted to do, And
I don't want to spend the big contracts like you
want him to spend and go make these deals and
signed players. But man, we've with all the changes, this
team has still gone through in just the last two years,

(02:06:26):
four and a half game lead American League West. Credit too.
I think Danni Brown's gonna get some of this credit
Joe Spottick, Dana Browns Brown, the players, the coaches who
you guys hate and can't name. Yeah, where's uh, where's fire?
Troy Snicker guy after thirteen runs yesterday? You doing all right?

(02:06:47):
Or the other hitting coach, Alex Sindrome? Yeah, where's fire?
Alex Sindrome? The Astros the only team with two pitching
coaches and tube hitting coaches. I don't know coaches. I've
been told it's not exactly but Centro works more with
Spanish speakers, nick Er more with speakers, but they all
work with everybody. For sure. You as something to somebody,
you know, Yeah, I know for a fact that Hoseel
Twoba credited Alex Centron for his correction his swing a

(02:07:09):
few weeks ago. And it's been a lot better than
last handful of days?

Speaker 10 (02:07:12):
All right?

Speaker 1 (02:07:12):
One fifteen on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety If you want to
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With the reminder coming up at the bottom of the
ar you'll hear from Brian bogus Sevic can believe it
or not, today Jason Alexander's or cheeks, not specifically cheeks,

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the hamster. I'm gonna say, cheeks is angry. Believe it.
You know we ought to do we gotta do hamsters.
And then when the prize horse called in. This is
an idea, if we got from a listener, we should say, hey,
why are we doing cheek hamsters today? That's a good one.
And if they don't they don't know the answer, they
hang up. You hang up on them. But the first
guy who gets it right then and then the bits silver, well, yeah,

(02:08:02):
how long will it take for someone to understand why
we did hampster today? That's a good idea. Let's try.

Speaker 5 (02:08:08):
I like this.

Speaker 1 (02:08:10):
Sports Talk seven ninety The Texans apparently are going to
make a signing of a former Houston Roughneck. Damon Arnett
is a cornerback. He spent the twenty twenty five season
with the Roughnecks, and he is going to try to
make it as a Houston Texan. He will be the

(02:08:32):
Texans are going to sign under their ninety man rotation.
He recently worked out with the team, and according to
those inside the building, he is going to be given
an opportunity. He will be on an NFL roster, so
says Pro Football Talk, for the first time since twenty
twenty two. He was a twenty twenty first round pick
by the Raiders. He was released during his rookie season

(02:08:52):
after the release of a video showing him making threats
while carrying a firearm. He was signed to a future
contract by the Chiefs in twenty twenty two, but was
released after being arrested for assault.

Speaker 17 (02:09:05):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (02:09:07):
I don't know if it's two separate instances or the
one it was the same one?

Speaker 3 (02:09:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:09:11):
Is it a package deal? Was it a twofer that
I don't know. I can't make a show topic a
segment out of this because I don't know much about
him except that Dune selling. He's a great guy, but
people deserve second chances in life. Apparently he's behaved himself
as a UFL Texas a roughneck, and he'll get a
chance to make the team out of training camp. Good

(02:09:34):
for him. Wishing Damon Arnett the best. They got some good, good,
good secondary over there. It's gonna be tough to make
the squad, right, I would think so. Jimmy always used corners.
We have a Jimmy Ward up date about what is
happening with that. Last I heard he bonded out And
did you sit now? I was in Vegas when this
hat went down. Did you see when he got out

(02:09:56):
and they showed him getting into a car what he
was wearing? No, he had no shirt on? Really, so
what was it like was the j arresting? Was he
arrested with no shirt? And then no, they would put
a shirt on him. I'm sure they let him put
his clothes on. I don't know. All right, So Damon
Arnette will be in Texans training camp, hoping to resurrect

(02:10:17):
his career after a very tumultuous start two thousand. If
you're a first round pick in the NFL, Rossie, what
are you guaranteed fifteen sixteen, seventeen million dollars spending on spot? Yes,
depending on spot, and all you got to do is
behave yourself and nope, don't brandish a weapon. Well, if
he could play, he'd still be on a team, if
he was still really good, I would think, yeah, But

(02:10:37):
I mean the UFL is there for such reasons right
to rehabilitate guys and give him second chances yes, I
don't know much about him except that he's now in
Texans training camp. He was a four year, thirteen million
dollars deal, which I'm sure he did not receive all

(02:10:57):
of that because he was cut. Yeah, apparently he made
about eight million in his initial contract with the Raiders
in a brief stint with the Dolphins, so it's already
technically been with three teams since twenty twenty. Yes, okay,
we're keeping expectations low. He's from Dallas, so we're not

(02:11:20):
going to build a three hour radio show behind this,
I don't think.

Speaker 4 (02:11:22):
So.

Speaker 1 (02:11:22):
Okay, I'll just contrive, but we're not gonna do it.
Ed and Magnolia one twenty five on seven Hot and
thank you for holding in.

Speaker 3 (02:11:29):
Good afternoon, Hey, Matt, Hey Ross, what's the goodness? Listen?
I always listen to you guys. Thank you, and I
a couple of things. Number one, Hey, by the way, Ross,
remember I used to call Rodo. I'm in Magnolia now I.

Speaker 12 (02:11:48):
Was in Cyprus, okay, And and anyway, I called Rodo
once on your show. He gave me some good advice
and I won that week and I ended up.

Speaker 3 (02:11:58):
Winning the whole thing.

Speaker 10 (02:12:00):
Oh shaban, Wow, you should give him up.

Speaker 1 (02:12:03):
You should give him twenty percent.

Speaker 3 (02:12:05):
No, no, dude, that's not gonna happen. Okay. Anyway, So
I called one day prior to a game because I.

Speaker 12 (02:12:16):
Had Hurts and I had the Niners quarterback what's his name? Yeah,
and anyway, he says, listen, man, we don't have time
to put you on with Roto.

Speaker 3 (02:12:31):
What do you need to ask? I said, listen, I'm
wondering what I should do. Should I go with Roto?
I mean, should I go with Party.

Speaker 12 (02:12:37):
Or with hers? He's like, oh, man, Herts doesn't need
to win this game, man, you better go with Purty.

Speaker 3 (02:12:43):
Well the next day or two days later or whatever.
It was pretty put up six points for a quarterback
because they had that snow there. Anyway, So mcconnor McGovern
you could set your moss up.

Speaker 10 (02:12:59):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (02:13:02):
I want to tell you guys this.

Speaker 3 (02:13:03):
I also want to tell you guys that you guys
are better together, okay, because Ross when Ross is Matt,
when you're gone, Ross really tries to pick up the slack.

Speaker 1 (02:13:19):
Yeah, Matt, okay.

Speaker 12 (02:13:21):
And and when you're gone, I mean, when Ross is gone.

Speaker 3 (02:13:28):
You really don't have to pick up the slack because
you have all these other guests or whatever, and you
have the cachet. But nevertheless, I think that Ross tries
a bit harder than you do.

Speaker 10 (02:13:40):
Other than that, hold.

Speaker 1 (02:13:43):
Hold on, what do you mean, tries harder than I do?
It's easier for you, Matt, I think he's complimenting you. Yeah,
I am complimented.

Speaker 3 (02:13:51):
It's easier for you to get along with your guests.
Ross tries harder because he feels the need to do so,
which is cool, you know. Also regarding your lineup there
Saulisbury and then you guys, and then the two Adams.

Speaker 1 (02:14:07):
Yes, Adams, he said, he said, He said to Adams.

Speaker 3 (02:14:15):
Anyway, Sean Sean is a little bombasket bombastic and listen.

Speaker 12 (02:14:23):
I you know, I'm from originally from Chicago, and I
saw Sean in like eighty six I think it was.

Speaker 3 (02:14:32):
I used to go to a lot of Bears games,
and I saw Sean get his ass kicked by the
Bears defense in like eighty six or whatever it was.
I was about twenty one years ago. Sure, and he
got up and he won that damn game. And I
thought to myself, man, this dude's a badass, you know, so.

Speaker 12 (02:14:49):
Good for him.

Speaker 3 (02:14:50):
The thing is I can't listen to his show. He's
a little loud. Okay, you guys are you guys are cool?

Speaker 1 (02:14:56):
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (02:14:56):
The two what the two Adams? Those guys are dry
as toast, dude, Okay, I'm sorry they are. And Matt,
you bitching about Clinton taking all this time off? Yes, okay,
you know dude, admitted, Bro, you take more time off
than he does.

Speaker 1 (02:15:15):
Well, here's the thing, Ed, and thank you for the
complete recap of our lives and our abilities as hosts
and your fantasy team and fantasy team. Uh, I get
four weeks. I actually get five weeks off a year.
I only take four, but I get five, thank you, Matt.
And and but I I want to make sure that
we're together as much as possible. Now, So roskeets four weeks? Yes,

(02:15:38):
so that be four weeks where I'm not with him
and he's not with me at least? Do you get four?
And we get four? And I should take five. But
it's a definition, okay, And it's on the screen it
said Ed wanted to talk about the NHL. No, it
was not an iota of NHL conversation. And that phone call.
We appreciate you, Ed. He ripped on Sean. Yes, ripped

(02:15:59):
on me, on you, Yes, ripped on Adam and Adam,
Yes there was. He didn't take any shots at Gordy
or anybody else. And thanks for listening, and thank you
for listening. It complete if you wanted to. It was
almost like listening to a radio critic.

Speaker 8 (02:16:15):
Yes, up next, all right, dry his toast the guy
getting arrested. I got a call her biscuit and telling
me that he had a shirt on. He took it
off to cover his face when he was coming out.

Speaker 1 (02:16:26):
Ah, but I mean I saw him getting in the
car without a shirt on. I just thought it was weird,
all right. What was weird is that call? And thank
you ed for listening and glad you saw Sean get
his ask, but get right back up in a tight
five or eighty six when that game was Ryan Bogusviek
was a guest to the Matt Thomas showld Ross earlier today.

(02:16:46):
He's with us every Wednesday at eleven o'clock, and you
have a chance to catch some of the best of
that conversation right now as we talked about last night's
picture and the expectations of one Jason Alexander Cally. Sorry
for the Astros. They beat the Ages last night thirteen
to three.

Speaker 4 (02:17:00):
I was quite unfamiliar with him besides his work on Seinsfeld.
I guess yes, expectations for him personally, no idea what
you're going to get, right. It's a guy who's really
new to the organization, a guy who doesn't have a
ton of big league experience, but expectations for a pitcher
coming up from this Astros minor league system and what

(02:17:23):
that's looked like over the course of the last two
to three years, there's been kind of a shift change
in what we've seen from guys coming up. You do
start to get a general idea of guys who really
understand themselves, know what makes them successful, know how to
pitch to their strength, willing to attack the strike zone,
you know, rely on the defense, hope the offense gives
them some support. Guys who aren't necessarily going to go

(02:17:46):
out there and beat themselves. So that's kind of the
expectation at this point.

Speaker 1 (02:17:49):
I mean, it feels like Brian that everybody that has
been given at least some sort of opportunity, maybe with
exception of aj blue Ball, has come up and somehow,
some way can contributed and I don't know of another
major league team at least in twenty twenty five that
has gone as deep into their minor league system to
grab guys for the spot start for the give me

(02:18:12):
five innings to start a day ahead of schedule, like
Gussa did a couple of days ago, and kept their
teams alive, especially when a team like the Astros have
not been exceptional last night, a team that's been scoring
a whole lot of runs.

Speaker 4 (02:18:25):
No, it's pretty remarkable. I mean, it's been essentially two
full seasons of trying to constantly backfill your rotation and
going not just stick seven deep into your organization, but eight, nine,
ten deep into your organization. And you know, it says
a lot first and foremost about the scouting department, not

(02:18:45):
just the amateur scouting, but you're seeing guys who they're
bringing in from other organizations, so you're pro scouting as well,
and also just the development and finding traits that you like,
guys who can pitch with their fastball, guys who attack
the strikes, and then getting them there and making them
feel comfortable enough to do what they were doing in

(02:19:06):
the minor leagues at the big league level. That's The
biggest hurdle initially is you know, you're all of a
sudden standing out a major league mound. Oh my gosh,
I gotta do more. I got to be nastier, I
got to throw harder. And they really seem like they
settle these guys right away and convince them that they
can just pitch their game, and it's worked for them.
So it's a lot of different things. It's clubhouse culture.

(02:19:27):
It's it's the communication between the coaching staff and the players,
and the players understanding what it is that makes them successful.
And it's them just kind of relentlessly going out there.
I mean, it's not like they're doing this with guys
who are top ten draft picks. These are guys out
of small schools, late rounds, scrap heaps from other organizations,
and they're getting a lot out of them. And it's

(02:19:47):
just it's kind of an entire organizational effort, you know,
and it really what it does. Also, it makes you
pretty dubious of these organizational minor league rankings that get
put out every year.

Speaker 1 (02:20:00):
Brian Bogasvik with us here on Sports Talk seven to ninety. Brian,
did I just looked this up? Did you know in
your career in Colorado you hit three forty one with
a nine eighty nine.

Speaker 4 (02:20:09):
Ohps, well I should have gotten traded there apparently, Yeah,
you should have.

Speaker 1 (02:20:13):
Spent more time in Colorado. I bring that up to
say this, what is it like when you're playing The
ball is obviously flying out there in Sacramento and they
scored a bunch of runs When you're at the plate,
do you just want to keep everything normal or what
is it like psychologically for you in a place where
the balls flying out like that?

Speaker 4 (02:20:29):
Everything everything is good? You know when you're talking about
a place like Colorado or Arizona, you're talking about Sacramento,
Tampa now where the Rays are playing. And then you know,
there's a long list of minor league stadiums out on
the West coast where the ball really flies. There's a
lot of things that work in your favor there. First
of all, just thin air, the ball travels. You don't

(02:20:51):
have to get it, you know, very much, to get
it out out and over the fence. But a lot
of those parks are also big and spacious trying to
combat you know, the thin air, so you have a
lot of room to find hits. You know, big gaps.
Outfielders have to cover a lot of ground. They're usually
playing deeper, so you can bloop hits it in front
of them. And one of the best feelings as a

(02:21:13):
hitter is knowing that you can easily hit a ball
out the other way. Right, if I just barrel the
ball up for me, a left handed hitter, to left
center field, it can carry over that fence. I don't
have to do anymore. I don't have to try to pull.
I don't have to try to swing harder. I don't
have to try to elevate, and that keeps everything in line.

(02:21:34):
And then if you do catch one out front and
you pull it, it goes even further. But to not
have to try to get anything more out of your
swing or your approach or whatever, and just keep a
good hitting approach, and then add the fact that the
ball flies, add the fact that there's a ton of
room for hits, those are just awesome situations to hit him.
It also helps when you're facing some teams that have

(02:21:56):
pretty bad teams as well.

Speaker 1 (02:21:59):
The A certainly do. But cam Smith taking advantage yesterday,
do we temper our enthusiasm because it was in Sacramento,
or did you see some really good abs there.

Speaker 4 (02:22:10):
I temper enthusiasm based off individual games in general, good
or bad, But when you're looking at over the course
of weeks or months, there's a ton to love about
what he's doing. If you look at those two home
runs that he hit yesterday, yes they were on off
speed pitches, but where he hit that ball right out

(02:22:30):
in front of the plate, where he hit it in
his swing, you know, the swing working up underneath the
ball to try to get some elevation. Those are points
of contact, and you know pitches that he wasn't getting
to early on in the season. And he's really embraced
mechanical changes, he's really embraced philosophical changes, trying to get

(02:22:51):
more aggressive, trying to get the bad head out front.
Those are those are mindset things and to do it
not only at such a young age and so quickly,
but also he was asked to make these changes before
he had ever really failed. Right, Like, he's been an
awesome player his whole career. He got drafted in the
first round out of college, he tore through the minor leagues,
he made the major leagues in his first spring training.

(02:23:14):
Why would you change, Well, the coaches came to him
and said, Hey, if you're going to hit here, you're
going to have to do X, Y and Z and
to buy in before you have any real real struggle.
I know it wasn't, you know, tearing the cover off
the ball from day one, but to kind of preemptively
make adjustments like this, it's it's pretty remarkable and says

(02:23:34):
a lot about just character and why the extras would
be willing to push him as hard as they have
this year.

Speaker 1 (02:23:39):
A couple more minutes here with Brian Bogasvik on Sports
Talk seven, Hoy Bogie were seeing DH for al Tuove,
We're seeing left field, we're seeing second base probably perhaps more.
And I think I brought this up to you a
couple of times. Is this the strategy they should be
going with Jose is to kind of not necessarily keep
him always not an alert or trying to change things up?

(02:24:00):
But is it mainly about what the lineup is around
him that makes the decision a word to put him?

Speaker 10 (02:24:06):
I think so.

Speaker 4 (02:24:07):
I think that the plan. It's Look, he's not kept
in the dark about anything, right when when you are
a player his stature and when you're in an organization
that is as open with communication as the astros are.
He's he's certainly kept in the loop on any everything.
So it's not that you don't have a role and

(02:24:27):
you're just floating around. It's that your role is to
float around, and it's in order to allow us to
maximize offensively when we feel like we need to maxim
maximize defensively when we need to play a hot hand.
You know, Mauricio Dumont is hitting as well as he
has all seasons, so we want to keep him in
the lineup, So maybe that needs more left field, just

(02:24:48):
whatever it is we need. You know, he's kind of
the cog that gets moved around to facilitate all those things.
And number one, it takes a selfless player, which everybody
knows he is, but it also takes really good communication
and trust between player and coaches, and that obviously exists
as well. So yeah, I think that is the plan now.

(02:25:09):
If anything ever materialized where there had to be something
more concrete, I think he would be open to that.
I think the coaches would be open to that. I
don't think anything is off the table at all. So yes,
as of right now, I think the plan is just
day to day matchup to match up. You know you're
going to be the guy that we move around to
get the most out of what we need that day.

Speaker 1 (02:25:30):
Really fast, Ross, really really fast a segue. Remember that
previous caller that basically took shots at all of us?
Remember what he said about it by Shawn Salisbury that
he swent and saw him playing game one time. If
somebody fact check him me. I thought about fact checking him,
but I didn't have time. I'm a finished believer that.
The first time did Shawn Salisbury ever faced the Chicago

(02:25:50):
Bears nineteen ninety two, he threw one pass. He was
one for one. Okay, so win him in that game, right, Ross?
Probably not. The next time he saw the Chicago Bears
was in nineteen ninety three. He did not complete a pass.

(02:26:13):
He had one rushing attempt for minus two yards. The
next time he faced the Chicago Bears, I'm going I'm searching.
I'm searching, I'm searching nineteen ninety six, as a member
the San Diego Chargers. He did not throw a pass,
he did not rush the ball. You lie, do not

(02:26:37):
lie to us. I will out you. Thanks for listening.
Maybe he got Sean confused with somebody else. I way
the team, So yeah, with the team Believe it or Not.
The category today is about hamsters. We'll leave it at that.
Right now, I want to tell you about if you
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(02:27:20):
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I'll read you a statement about hamster. Saman's completely and
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Speaker 8 (02:27:34):
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Speaker 1 (02:27:52):
I don't want to. It's August. I believe it's August second.
I think at Tota Center. What's the movie imax of
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Speaker 8 (02:28:02):
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Speaker 1 (02:28:05):
I've been listening. I know, are you Mike on seven?
Nintie Mike? Why are we doing hamsters for believing or not? Today?
That's my boy, that's my man, Mike. Yes, Mike, I'm
so rooting for you. Here we go. The was it
genus or Jennis? Genus genus and species of the common

(02:28:29):
hamster is castor Canna Dennis? Believe it or not?

Speaker 10 (02:28:35):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (02:28:35):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (02:28:36):
Believe it?

Speaker 12 (02:28:37):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:28:38):
Dug?

Speaker 1 (02:28:38):
Come on, I don't know what it is. There's toy
that's for the bet. That's the beavers. That's the beaversverse. Okay,
Kenneth on seven, You ready to play Believe.

Speaker 3 (02:28:48):
It or Not? Yes?

Speaker 1 (02:28:51):
Good afternoon. According to the Guinness Book of Oral Records,
the largest ever hamster was a thirty seven ounce Syrian
hamster named Cheddar Believe it or Not?

Speaker 10 (02:29:00):
I'm gonna believe it.

Speaker 18 (02:29:01):
No, you shouldn't shut That's really good, that's cute. Uh
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five SEVENANTI Sam on seven Aintie,
what was your favorite part of today's ten to two
radio show?

Speaker 8 (02:29:18):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (02:29:18):
Just tuning in for Believe It or Not?

Speaker 1 (02:29:21):
While he's honest. Why are we doing hamster? Sam? Why
are we doing hamsters on Believe It or Not? Today?
Is our topic?

Speaker 3 (02:29:30):
I got the beginning of the show.

Speaker 1 (02:29:31):
Your your pour hamster, Thank you very much, Thank you
very much. Worldwide, there are twenty four different species of hamsters.
Believe it or not not? There are nikes three correct
answer three questions. Roger on seven ninety You're ready to
play Believe it or not?

Speaker 9 (02:29:49):
Believe its sorry, p cheeks.

Speaker 1 (02:29:53):
Hamster teeth never stopped growing throughout their lives, which is
known as hype cell. You don't teeth Believe it or not?

Speaker 10 (02:30:05):
Believe it?

Speaker 1 (02:30:05):
Yeah? Of course, well you got that one right. Statement
number two for the when hamsters are illegal in Hawaii
because of their high reproductive rate. Believe it or not?

Speaker 10 (02:30:15):
Believe it?

Speaker 1 (02:30:16):
Yes, this is your gradualations.

Speaker 14 (02:30:18):
You're on.

Speaker 1 (02:30:18):
You're nicely doing. Let's go to uh al on seven,
Oni Al, You're ready to play. Believe it or not?
A group of hamsters is known as a troop Believe
it or not? Not, No, it's a Horde statement number
two for the way. And scientists have said that the
hamsters are more intelligent than rats in guinea pigs, but

(02:30:40):
they're also more independent and difficult to train. Believe it
or not?

Speaker 10 (02:30:46):
Believe it?

Speaker 1 (02:30:47):
No, where do you get that from? ROSSI? It's made
it up? Okay, uh Hey seuss on seven, Nintie hay SEUs,
what was your favorite part of today's ten to two
radio show?

Speaker 10 (02:30:58):
The whole thing?

Speaker 1 (02:30:59):
Hamsters have poor eyesight. They are both near sighted and
color blind. Believe it or not?

Speaker 10 (02:31:06):
Believe it?

Speaker 1 (02:31:06):
There you go. Congratulations. He loved the whole show. Ross
all right, so did I. Mctagger is not on with
us tomorrow. John Lucas, friend of the radio show, longtime
NBA player, has done incredible work in rehabilitating people. It's
gonna have a golf tournament and we're gonna talk about
that golf tournament. We're gonna get thoughts tomorrow in the

(02:31:27):
Indiana versus Oklahoma City's game, as well among our guests.
Plus I just don't get it, and you never know.
Us We're gonna have maybe well with Kevin Durant trade
by then, you never know. Up next, it's Clinton, It's Wexler.
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