Astros Win First Game Of The Series vs Rockies, Yordan Going to See Another Specialist.. Should We Worry?

Astros Win First Game Of The Series vs Rockies, Yordan Going to See Another Specialist.. Should We Worry?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross En oh one
at Age Town. Good morning, and welcome to a Wednesday
edition to The Matt Thomas Show with Ross This is
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
You crown.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Oh, I love those highlights and as a heterosexual man,
I do love hood hooting the blowfish. This is gonna
say that right now.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Why do you have to qualify that at all?

Speaker 1 (00:36):
I don't know. It just feels like that there's some
qualification on that. Turn it up. Let'll turn it up
our hooty and the blowfish gay icons. H. No, but
I just think that when guys say the other guy
bands are really awesome, they people are like, oh.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Look at you, how weird you are? Man, Just be yourself,
don't worry about it. You don't have to qualify Mattie. Just
say you like the HOODI and the blowfish. Let's go
I like hooting the blowfish. Yeah, there's no problem with that.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
No, say her, hurrah her. That's one of the old
times you can go, yeah, will you donate your hand
to science to give it to your honor?

Speaker 3 (01:16):
No, even though we are both left handed, Yes, most
geniuses are Jonathan.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Well, well, there's those exceptions of rule. If that is correct.
Ten to two weekdays.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
We could have played highlights from last night, and we
will do that. Certainly. We gotta have a little Rocky
Mountain high with John Denver. But okay, I mean, come on.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
What you want to make everybody depressed in the first
five minutes?

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Thanks, you did it. I don't have to. I have
to be a realist. We call ourselves real Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Okay, we can talk about it. We don't have to
do a whole thing with Darius Rucker and the boys.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Wenna play some wagon wheel latter? Can we do that? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:03):
All time pivoting right, And He's like, man, this hootie
stuff is not selling. It's time to uh, time to
swap the country. That's nice, by the way, it's you know,
it's a good late career pivot.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah. I don't want to be called a hooty anymore.
I want to be Darius Rucker. Yeah, and I want
to sing other people's cover songs and make millions of dollars.
By the way, he can put on a performance, I
can tell you that for sure. Okay.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
I was I saw him at uh Cynthia was a
couple of years back. One of the greatest showman of
all time, Darius Rutger. I don't know if I put
in that case, Well, j had is messed up. He
had a setback at the Florida Complex League literally just
got there.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, is anything good.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Ever happened at the Florida Complex League.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Well, here's the thing back, I didn't hear this what
Jonathan Jonathan Jonathan? I was I was going. I was going.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
I was like, you know, you don't have to go
over to your microphone to say this to tell everybody.
I'm just like, everybody knows who's following this ere you
went home some reason, you were watching Love Island and
everybody else is worried about jord On.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
It was a good episode. But you're right, You're right,
You're right. I took discord and everything. Though when he
said you'd on highlights, I was like, what's going on?
You know I didn't and you didn't investigate further. Wait, okay, just.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Didn't want to give you a little heads up. We're
not going to play any Diddy music today. I'm just saying,
even though he got off it like he did, what
what you know from his most serious charges of course, No,
But what'd you say, nope, not saying it. Did he
did what? Nope, not saying it. You said it? No,
I didn't. M no, I didn't erase that. I'm actually

(03:41):
tweeting that right now. No you're not. And I no, no, no, no,
no no. I don't need that. I don't need the
Diddy people on no, no, no, there's Diddy people. There's
no Diddy people. You're fine already tweeting it. Well, I
mean you tell me. I mean, what are there people
that were huge Sean Combs fans that were say most
everybody thinks the city he's a criminal and a creep

(04:03):
and a cretan, especially the baby oil excuse me, Yeah,
and Johnson and Johnson stock has gone out since he's
been arraigned. Wow. Well, okay, well this shows off to
a amazing start. It's you brought up Diddy and you
brought up Darius Rucker. I was on the sports cap,
but Jonathan didn't know the reason we're playing. You're on

(04:24):
a highlight, you know.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
I enjoyed the wild card element of Jonathan what he
does and doesn't know. But yeah, that was that was interesting.

Speaker 6 (04:37):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Okay, So I don't know if you heard Dana a
few minutes ago with Sean, and look, Dana is trying to,
you know, be as politically correct and as honest as
he can be. He's not a doctor. He's waiting to
hear words from his medical team, from the specialist Russ.
I mean, we got a deal in realities here. If
he comes back this year, it's it's a bonus.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
I I have no basis for saying that.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
I mean, I'm not a hand doctor, right. I think
normally if we were talking about a knee or something else,
I'd be with you. But I it feels like, just
from my little to no research, that hand injuries aren't
necessarily there's three months left in the season, aren't necessarily
that debilitating. Even if he had hand surgery, doesn't I know,

(05:23):
the hammetbone surgery. I was looking all this up last
night trying to figure this out. That's like eight weeks,
so I mean, I don't know what kind of hand
fracture surgery he could have that would be more than
three months. So I have to believe he could be
back this year. But I'm not a hand doctor. We
can get a hand specialist on Matt. I know, you
know a couple you and your boy bag. Well, but

(05:45):
I do not know any hand specials. Okay, but yeah,
we're not doctors, so I have no idea for me
to say I think he's out for the year. I
would be making that up. I have no medical basis
to say that. But I also have no medical basis
to say and maybe I'm just being optimist think that
he's he's going to be back this season. Yeah, I'm
going to say, with zero medical adventures in my life

(06:07):
that if Jordon Alvarez comes back before the end of
the year, it's a bonus.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
I don't I don't think that's out of out of
context to say that. I just musical big Gonsence may. Yeah,
and that's two plus months and he still doesn't feel
good and he's going to see a special I mean,
I don't. I don't think of recovery process is all.
He doesn't go to the specialists, get an injection and go, oh,
things are better now. There's a reason why they're going

(06:32):
to specials. And you know, you're right, Ross Weed you
and I don't know, but I mean we're kinda this
is he's had this hand issue before. It's two plus
months and he it's all of a sudden, he's not
going to swing differently when he comes back. I don't
know if this is something that's going to recurb.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
He's got he's got violent swings, he's got got a
good hand speed, a lot of bad speed.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah, but we'll see.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
And I will also say this, if he's not back
for the playoffs, that they're not winning the World Series.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
I'm sorry to say that.

Speaker 5 (07:07):
And Early, I just don't get it. Why didn't they
go to a specialist in the first place.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Oh, I'm sure they did.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, I mean they had him look at Look. I
know everybody wants to blame the astros and all this,
but I think they're not getting a bunch of incompetent
doctors out there. And I'm not saying that's what you said, Jonathan,
but I'm just saying, like, they have some of the
best doctors in the world, and people, I think a
lot of people are being ignorant on this and like,
why wouldn't they do this and why wouldn't they do that?

(07:33):
And we have one of the best medical centers in
the world. Yeah, they have the best doctors in the world.
Something got messed up, for sure, And maybe I'm wrong
to kind of give them the benefit of the doubt.
But the Astros are a multi billion dollar at least
in valuation operation, and I don't think and Jordan and
Alvarez is arguably their best asset. I don't think they
they there was some sort of medical malpractice here, at

(07:56):
least at this point, even though they did say they
rushed him back probably the first time.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
I would absolutely one agree with you. I again, if
you want to criticize the Astros for their lack of transparency,
I get that. If you want to get upset because
the message has been muddled, I get that. And do
I think there has been some protection from some members
of that medical staff. Absolutely, But I don't think they're incompetent.

(08:27):
I don't think there. They didn't go to Jordan Alvarez
and say take two advil and tough enough Nancy, Yeah, exactly,
rub some dirt on him. They didn't say, go get
a bottle of windeck. So he usually fixes everybody's problems. Yeah,
But no matter how forthcoming they were or not forthcoming,

(08:48):
if he ain't playing, it ain't playing. I again, he
could they could come back tomorrow and say he's playing tomorrow.
And if he doesn't. Then I you know, again, as
I've told you before, with all this going on in
the last couple of years, when I see a player play,
I'm excited. But to have Dana try to forecast it,
or Joe a spot to try to forecast it, You're
putting those guys in a spot. They just don't have

(09:08):
the answers to You want them to say, he's just back.
You want him to say all the reports are good. Well,
you know, obviously something think about this, something happened with
your don to take some swings off the team last week.
He's not going to run down to West Palm Beach
and get some more swings in against some live pitching

(09:30):
just because he wants to see what it's like in
South Florida in June. He obviously felt something that was good, right,
I mean, let's let's let's put this in perspective here.
He's not going to run down there again because he
hears that the ocean, the ocean's beautiful this time of year.
He wants to get back and playing. But when you
go to swing and you do what you do and
you are taking ten, fifteen to twenty fifty, so I

(09:53):
don't know how many he took. When you wake up,
you're in pain. If he is in pain, that means
what you thought was fixed is not fixed. It's like
when you have I mean for all of us at adults,
you know you have back pain. You take one of
the Don's pills whatever the bat you Oh, I feel great,
and two days later your back, your back fiels terrible.
That means probably something's wrong. You need to go see

(10:14):
a specialist.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, setbacks happen. It's just I don't call it like
a series of unfortunate events. It just keeps on piling
up on the Astros. Yeah, but it's yeah, it sucks.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
It absolutely one percent sucks, and it's going to hurt
the Astros as well as they're playing and as many
different heroes as they had, including Victor Kartini last night.
It's going to ultimately cost the Astros, which probably then
puts a little bit of a significant amount of pressure
probably on the front office to go to find somebody.
If you're gonna go, if you can't find, whether it's

(10:50):
a left handed bat or just a bat period, you
need someone to get in there and help. Because God
love Victor Caratini and Campsmith's been awesome. And and Jeremy Payne.
I mean, we don't to lose Jeremy Payna now for
whatever length of time.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Yeah yeah, And you've got fans blaming Jeremy up them
for Jeremy Payna. It's like he got hit by a pitch.
They held him out and then now he went to
the IL with a rib fracture. I mean yeah, standard
operating procedure and ord on and seen three hand specialists.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
That's what Dana said in about twenty minutes ago as
a matter of fact. So yeah, yeah, gang, this isn't great.

Speaker 7 (11:27):
It is what it is.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
But again, I'm not going to give you all sunshine
and rainbows on us. It's just not possible. Not when
you've been gone since May. I got some good news
for you, Matt. Will we come back? No, No, day
one yesterday, there's seven there's seventeen games above five hundred, folks,
there's seven games against them ahead of the Mariners. Shout

(11:50):
out Royals. And something I saw yesterday in the game
that I think is one of the greatest things I've
ever seen in my life. Oh no, no, that's a
professional radio teas seven one three, two, one two five,
seven ninety seven, one, three, two, one, two, five, seven,
nine eight is a Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Things already.

(12:10):
You got John Denver on the show today, and you're
not getting Didty last long Les Ross wants it. No,
I do not want Diddy. You don't want Diddy? Okay
me either, all right? Ten twenty three. It is the
Matt Thommas Show with Ross. All Right. So I teased
the greatest thing I may have seen in my entire

(12:31):
life last night. When it comes to that home run.
It wasn't the distance because look, everybody hits bombs at coursefield, right. Yes,
I'm gonna tell you this, and I've been watching baseball
for forty five years. That might have been the greatest
bat flip of all time. Oh and there are some candidates,

(12:54):
the Barry Bonds, the Ken Griffies.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
I'm gonna stick with the the jose About. I just
kind of a bat hoss.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Okay, I go look at it again. I'm telling you
I was mes marized by it.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Okay, I mean, huh, I saw it, but I didn't
I didn't give it really a second thought.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
So I will, uh you know what.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Cam Smith had a great one last week against the Cubs.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
We're getting back into some good backflips. And I love
bat flips.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
Okay, yeah, Louis vale Buena may he rest had a
bunch of great brass flips.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Great bat flips. But I was I watched the highlight
maybe fifteen times, and I just really I love that
bat flip. It was not even a flip. It was
more of a It was like a shove.

Speaker 7 (13:49):
Boy.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
He didn't The astrod needed all that as they came
back as they won the game by a run. Look,
Colorado's scrapy, but they just suck. I mean, it is
what it is.

Speaker 6 (13:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
I hopefully the Astros will be able to get a
couple more wins there and then head off the Los
Angeles for a World Series preview. Ross, what do you think?

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Yes, yes, I will go with the Cam Smith one
over the Victor Carrotini one. I'm retweeting it at sports
RV on Twitter right now, and you tell me what
you think.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Well, first of all, it was impressive too, But I
but I'm, as you would say, I am recency biased
on us. Oh here we go. I'm using I didn't
vent the term you did, but I'm using it more
than I ever did before. That's good.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
It's important to think about Matt. These cognitive biases control us.

Speaker 7 (14:33):
All.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Okay, you just put it on Twitter. You just put
it on Twitter. The cam Smith batflow, yes, okay, so
let me tell you. I'm allowed to under FCC rule
to change my mind. Absolutely, but I absolutely loved Caratini's
batflip yesterday. Let's take a look here. I'll give you time.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Once you promote my Instagram, you can still I'm still
following everyone back till I get to four hundred followed.
You know what, if you do it the next ten minutes,
I'll follow you even I'm sorry five hundred. Oh I'm
at four ninety two.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
But anybody who follows me at SPORTSRV on Instagram, I'll
follow you back in the next ten minutes. Okay, there's
a magical bat flip from Gams with against the organization
that traded him away.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
So it's that extra twist of the knife. Oh, the
flip behind the catcher. Oh damn, I don't know.

Speaker 7 (15:22):
What to do.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Now. It's pretty good, isn't it. Oh my god? Is
it good? The casual whoop? All right, now, I'm gonna
go look at Kratini they're both. It's on live radio.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
They're all great, Yeah, you can do it on live radio.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
It's fine.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
We got collars waiting patiently, but that's all right.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
I see him. Let's let's get to some people here.
Seven one three two one two five SEVENINTI seven one
three two one two five Sevenati, Luis and Katie is
first up on the Matt Thomas Joe Ross at ten
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Speaker 8 (15:51):
Good morning, Hey, good morning guys. Can you hear me?

Speaker 9 (15:54):
Well, yes, sir, yes, okay, my question is about rockets.

Speaker 6 (16:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (16:02):
I haven't heard anything any problems around the people calling.

Speaker 8 (16:05):
It's regarding the Capella okay, the hiring of Cappella.

Speaker 9 (16:09):
I think the movie is great because I think that
everybody's looking for a center, so they got a cheap contract.
So I understand very well that. However, and also the
second point is I feel that in maker really likes
the playing the two bigs. When the player if played
Adams and and Shagun, it was a great move, but
Adams couldn't really go in full time, so maybe Capella

(16:32):
can help. However, I was calling about Dante. Dante really
impressed me last year with his walking his free shooting
is better than probably a lot of the guys in
the Rockets, and I haven't heard him.

Speaker 8 (16:47):
Definitely, he's going to.

Speaker 9 (16:48):
Be in the final roster, so he's going to be
back in the in the Jilly, I was calling about
him because he really impressed me last year, and I
thought that these may have been the position.

Speaker 8 (16:59):
That he could have said. Alla, okay, I'm gonnahi about Lisa.
Guys have a good one.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
I didn't have him at Bengo card and the Falling
Dante call on July second. The same thing Kevin Durant,
Tory and Pinney Smith. Who's in the starting rotation? Where
does Tarry astros are? Seventeen games? About five hundred? Oh.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
I appreciate y'all following me on Twitter, but I was
talking about Instagram.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
I'll be following back, but thank you. Sorry.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
Yeah in Instagram, uh hunk going no, no, you don't
have one. No, you shut it down right. Two thousand
six and eighty one people, Thank you very much. I
think I've gained about two hundred.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
In the last man, you're making me upset that much.
We will get to some more in Faly Dante conversation.
Oh wow, I believe we're gonna hit that at never
fifteen on the show. No, that's all right. I don't
think that he's a future rotational player, but he could develop. Yeah,

(18:01):
there's no room for him here. I'm gonna be brutally honest.
I don't know if he's gonna be with another team
G League. It didn't cross my mind. And I'm sure
he's a small fella. Mm hmm. By the way, I
looked at the Karatini home run too. God, I don't
know what to do. They're both so good. It's great.
The Caratini was the shove the camp Smith's behind the catcher. God,

(18:30):
that you know things are good is when you're you're
breaking down bat flips with your team fifty one and
thirty four. Yes, and who told you? Who told you?

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Matt the Tigers were gonna slide.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Some two games behind the Tigers for the best wreck
in the American League. They are three in front of
the Yankees for the two seed in the American League. Yeah,
but they might be batten down the hatches for a storm.
Got what you get a hold on for dear life,
there's a there's a tropical depression up there. Yes, the

(19:06):
forecast is not good. It could improve, but it's not
good right now. The the the American map says it's
headed right for southeast Texas seven one three two one
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(19:28):
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today at one fifty. Uh. Let's Rossie, if you can

(19:48):
help us out on this one. Let's get to some
of what Dana Brown said just about an hour ago
if you missed it when it came to the news
on Jordan Alvarez, which obviously is not good. He is
going to see a specialist. The astro should report something
the next couple of days. But needless to say, the
trip to West Palm Beach was to get some swings
in and get hopefully get back on the field and
that it's not going to happenningtime soon.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yes, we'll go first go to Dana Brown on Steve
Okert and the way he's been pitching.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
What okay, I'm kidding.

Speaker 10 (20:17):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Let's see a number of questions and answers and we
have some clips for you. Of course, as you said,
Dana Brown nine thirty Wednesdays with the Sean Salisbury Show,
Dana Brown asked, was jord On one hundred percent before
this setback?

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Did you guys with the imaging? Was he one hundred
percent before he took live VP? Was he cleared one
hundred percent by the doctors?

Speaker 11 (20:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (20:42):
I mean he felt good. I mean, if anybody was
at the ballpark on Saturday and I saw him hit
the ball all over the place. He was hitting rockets,
and so, you know, we were very very optimistic, and
you know, we were, you know, so optimistic that we
got him down the Florida on Sunday and so we
were going to start their lives. And then on Tuesday morning,

(21:05):
you know, he still felt some pain and the most
important thing right now is to just get him back healthy.
You know, the team is playing well, and so you know,
it's it's been a little you know, tough to deal
with because we we meet this guy back in our lineup,
but you know, we picked him up really well. And
you know, let's try to figure out now what the

(21:27):
specialist says that he's going to see uh today, But
you know, let's.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Be hopeful, well mean, yeah, hopeful. I don't know. I've
been beaten down.

Speaker 6 (21:44):
I was, I just have.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
I mean, I'm trying to helpful, but you know that's
what I'm saying. When he shows up, and this is
very any player, When Jeremy comes back whatever whatever that
may be, Ross, I'll be happy. I can't wait. Can't
wait to see what his team does it a full
one up and and what they have been able to
do so far with the fact that they have not
been able to be a one hundred percent I can't

(22:08):
I'm done. As I told you before, I hate the
term sooner rather than later, and thankfully no one said
that today. I ain't well.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
I hope he's back quicker rather than slower.

Speaker 6 (22:22):
Better.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Instagram account is suffering.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
At sports RV following people back still.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Dana.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
We We mentioned this in the first segment, Matt asked
if this is the first time he has seen a
hand specialist.

Speaker 7 (22:34):
No, he's seen he's seemed three specialists. So, uh, we've
we've had guys on this.

Speaker 8 (22:40):
You know, this is as I.

Speaker 7 (22:41):
Mentioned, this is more of the complexity of the hand itself.
And so.

Speaker 8 (22:48):
You know, he's he's getting the best of care.

Speaker 7 (22:52):
You know, It's it's like anything else, You've got to
figure out what this problem is. And I think, you know,
we're digging deep, you know, to get to the bottom line.
And I feel like, you know, this specialist that I'm
actually looking forward to see. You know what this is
going to this diagnosis is going to be.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
So three specialists for your I al res according to
Dana Brown, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Again, I don't think they're I mean, say what you will.
And I know there have been some criticisms about their
lack of transparency, but they're not cheap. They're not They're
not going to take a guy they pay a lot
of money to who is there quote unquote franchise player,
power hit or extraordinaire, and they're not going to just say, well,
tough it out, you know, Nancy. I mean, I just

(23:44):
it doesn't make any sense right now, is every doctor
in life going to give you the results you want
or diagnosings properly? I mean they're I mean, who's the sad? Mean, Look,
we've all gone to doctors in our life and they
thought it was one thing. It wasn't it was something else.
It's true, and so just because you go to three
specials doesn't necessarily mean you're getting the right advice. So

(24:05):
that I can't speak to But they are getting multiple opinions, yes,
and well they're gonna get some more. And they're gonna
get some more. I mean four times the charms with
the kids saying that was the name of the horse
that I didn't have, d Wayne Lucas, four times.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
The truth that was actually a decent one, thank you.
Some of those were well, some were better than the others.
I'll put it down.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
I liked my bestie too. That didn't. That was the
worst one. See, I was gonna be that. I was
gonna be nice. I wasn't gonna bring that one up.
I was just gonna say some were better than others.
But you brought it up. That one was terrible. That
was terrible, And it worked.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
Okay quickly though with one more thing with Dana Brown.
Something you kind of brought up, Matt, any concern this
could be major season ending.

Speaker 7 (24:52):
No, not at all, because of how he feels and
because of what we've seen on amateur. So next move
is to see the specialist because part of this is like, uh,
you know, he wants to make sure that everything is
fine as well. He really doesn't want to feel any
soreness and so you know, sometimes getting the you know,

(25:15):
opinion of another doctor, uh, can get you over that
hump when you you know, maybe there's something that you
have to fight through or something like that. But you know,
ultimately he's dying to get back and you know, to
feel the soreness. We just want to make sure.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
I appreciate Dane's optimistic, but he can't speak to that.
But if I was in Dana spot, it's the exact
same thing. I'm not blaming him. God, I hope he's right, up,
I hope he's right.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yes, we've unfortunately over the last couple of years her
optimism from Dana Brown that did not ring out to
be true.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Well, because this way, let's say he flipped and said
and that's the reality. If he said, if the question
was asked if could this be season ending, if he
would have said, well, that's a possibility that would flip
the city out. So he's probably going, you know what,
I don't need that on my on my plate. Yeah.
I liked it.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
He was unambiguous about it. He just immediately was like, no,
came out strong. That's good, and it's kind of sued
you for a second. But then I gotta be honestly,
you know, we've heard some of these interviews and we've
played some of.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
These clips and be like, Ah, it's gonna be fine.
Everything's good.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
We're not worried about it. We'll see him in a
couple of weeks. He's out for the year. So that's
why my worry is.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Pretend you're Dana. Pretend you're being asked the question, and
this is what This is what a politician does, This
is what a boss at work. You know, how's business? Oh,
it's great, it was We're bullish, and I go, look
at the numbers were fourteen percent down. You know what
I mean, everybody's going to it's easier in life to
give you the glass half full approach. And like I said,

(27:05):
if I was in Danis shoes, I did the exact
same thing, but there's no guarantee of that. I mean again,
he's been out since early May and and right now
at this moment in time on July second, there is
nothing at this He's going to see another specialist, which
means obviously A B and C couldn't figure it out,
or A B and C are like, yeah, we know

(27:27):
what's going on, and they're trying to get you know,
a fourth opinion that seem you know, hopefully it's not surgery.
Hopefully it's not what do you call it when it's
not a hereditary it's when you have it all the time, degenerative? Yeah,
chronicle No, because you're saying he's got the arthritis Arthur Well,

(27:49):
fred Gie Sanford had Arthur writis he didn't have arthurritis.
But my point is this, even if he gets healed, now,
guess what he's going back to do. He's going back
to a in which he must use his hands to
be successful. And he swings hard, and he hits long
fly balls, and he has lots of highlights, and he's
been one of the greatest power hitters in Houston Astros

(28:09):
baseball history. It's like, uh, I mean, I mean, I
here comes. Here comes a terrible, terrifable analogy. This is
gonna be the all time worst. Okay. If a cop
is a cop, right, and he gets hurt in the
line of duty, uh huh, he gets in they want
to keep him to be a cop. He goes to
get a desk job, right, Okay, doesn't have to go

(28:32):
through the hours and the running around and physical activity.
He's working behind a desk. Well, if you want to
when Yourdan comes back, he's got to do exactly what
he was doing before, not changing careers. Be a power
hitter using his hands. H what do you think. Isn't
that the worst you've ever said? It's a bottom ten?

Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yeah, well I don't know about that either. Make a
do a Fantasy five worst?

Speaker 1 (28:59):
You know what that was mean? I'm sorry, Yeah, I'm
used to that. That's why you should not follow Ross
on Instagram at sports RV. Get my numbers up though,
I'm gonna yeah no, I'll get two more in just
right now. Thank you, everybody. Thanks everybody for following me
on Instagram at sports MT much. Appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
On that I got nine, well plus fifteen, I got
like twenty something, all right, appreciate you at Sports RV
trying to get to one thousand, and.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Remember, he's going to tell you he's gonna follow you,
and he's going to either mute you or unfollow you.
One of the two. One of the two. There, that's
not true. Ten forty five is a time. It is
the Matt Thomas Shold Ross. We got Brian Bogosivic for
more on the Astros coming up in just a few minutes.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. If
you want to chime in seven one three two one
two five seven ninety thoughts and prayers to maybe one

(29:51):
of the top three halftime entertainment things you'll ever see
at a professional sporting event, namely a basketball game. Ross,
did you hear what happened in Minneapolis yesterday? I did not.
My close personal friend Red Panda, Oh yeah, yeah I did.

(30:13):
I didn't realize. I didn't realize her unicycle yesterday, Oh no,
and crashed on the court during intermission of the WNBA Championship,
a Commissioner's Cup between the Indiana Fever and the Minnesota
Lynx m She apparently was grabbing her left wrist. After
the fall, she fell forward off the unicycle onto the

(30:34):
court and was helped off by a wheelchair.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
Can I say something, and I guess you can call
them tell me if it's mean or not. You'll probably
say yes.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Oh this is okay. So we're gonna go ahead and
assume whatever you're gonna say is rude. How rude and mean?
One to ten goes.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Now you tell me she's kind of fastball for a
few years, right, I think father time always wins.

Speaker 6 (31:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
More, she been dropping more plates and bowls. I'm in
am I run. Well. She was in Houston, excuse me
during the playoffs and she batted a thousand. That's good,
meaning she didn't drop a plate. She performed last month
in Oklahoma City at Game five of the NBA Finals

(31:31):
between the Pacers and the Thunder. I don't know how
she did there. I will have seen Red Panda in
my life, probably ten times over the years, different venues. Ross.
I'm proud to say, in the ten times that Panda
and I have hung out, I've never seen her drop
a plate ever or a teacup.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Oh really, no, that's not true. I feel like I've
seen her drop stuff in a Rockets game.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Well, I may not have been there.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Yeah, you're probably Yeah, you were drinking in the in
the back or something in the back, just the proverbial back.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
Yeah, I was looking for a halftime treat or something.
You never know. Maybe I would say Red Panda maybe
losing a little bit of fastball, but her swing, I
mean she still got pops. She saw us an ops
of above a thousand. Okay. It's like Albert Poohols when

(32:23):
he went back to the Cardinals in the final time.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
Yeah, he didn't leave it on a down note, okay,
or like Barry Bonds. I think his ops is over
a thousand in his last season.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Are close? I mean, didn't Kobe Brant got rest his
soul have a great last season for the Lakers. He
had a great He had sixty points in his last game,
but he got up fifty plus shots. M Okay, that's
maybe not the best example.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
Then, I mean it was crazy why it was one
of the most unbelievable things I've ever seen witness live
on TV.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Billy Wagner with a great last season in the Major League.
That's true.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
I'm just saying it is Red Panda, the Billy Wagner
of acrobats. There's only one show, Matt.

Speaker 1 (33:06):
It's only one show. Let me tell you there's stations
of town. Aren't give me that crossover? Yeah, Barry Bonds,
how about this last his last season, forty two years old,
one hundred and twenty six games ops of one thousand
and forty five. Yeah, that he left on a high note.

(33:27):
It's pretty good. I'm just gonna tell you there will
be no be smirching the great name of Red Panda
on this radio program. Okay, I'll stop. She's asking a question.
I feel bad. I saw that video. She felt really hot. Yeah,
that was horror, was heartbreaking.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
She's one of the great. I mean she's she's the
goat halftime act right.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
Uh there is uh oh man, this is gonna go
down on Avenue.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
Here are those guys with the roller skates and he
tosses the girl around.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
There's the dog that catches the frisbee.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Oh do you know what the guy that makes the
paintings by just splat and the pain on. That's pretty good.
Or he does it blindfolded.

Speaker 8 (34:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
There's also the I think the people from quick Switch.
I think the guy had passed away got resistle as well. Oh,
the quick Switch guy died, and there was one dude
that would that would do dance, and he had four
stick figures attached to his body.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
Oh, I know what you're talking about. But yeah, Red
pant is better than all them.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
She's the go Red Panda. Her act doesn't change, her
music doesn't change. Literally, you know, like if you like
I've seen this is a terrible cross reference, but it
is what it is. I've seen Barry man Low five
or six times in my life, and yeah, he he

(34:45):
changes things up a little bit. He still he still
sings I write the songs and copoaka Bean and all that.
But at least there's a presentation when you go see
any of your favorite groups. Dave Matthews is still running
around every year. Dame changes his act up. Red Panda.
She gives zero f's. She gives you the same thing,

(35:07):
the unicycle, the teacups, yeah, the plates, that's it. But
if it ain't broke, don't fix it. She's like the
Shaquille O'Neal of acrobats. Well, she's a cow ripkin of
halftime entertainment. She just goes on and on and well
the streaks in doubt, well, yeah, now the streak's over.
Sandy on seven ninety ten, fifty six.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
Hello Sandy, Hey, I've been listening about Alvarez's hands. Have
they said whether or not the bone is broken or
it's just soreness.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Initially it was a fracture, and with this setback they
have not said. They said he's going to see a
specialist within the next forty eight hours.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
Well, from experience, if that is a scaphoid, which is
the smallest bone in your hand, if that's broken, it
requires surgery and it's six to nine months recovery.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Oh my god, my son, Oh lord, my son.

Speaker 4 (35:59):
I'm sorry, sorry, but my son broke it, and he
was a deep snapper and we went through that route
of not doing the surgery, and as soon as he
used it again, the pain was back.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
So the bone is important.

Speaker 4 (36:16):
If it's not the scaffloid, then I'm just don't worry
about what I'm saying. But if it's the scaffoid, it's
hard to heal and you cannot do anything with that hand.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Sorry. Clearly your dog is upset with your commentary.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
You're saying, he's as sad as you're making us.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Sandy. Sandy, your dog with us, said Jack Squad. If
you'd given us some positive news now you're said the
entire city and a massive downer situation.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
Are they saying that it's I mean, if they're not
saying it's a scaffoid, then it's nothing to worry about.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
I've never heard the word scaffoid, so I can't tell you.
I can't tell you that's if it's not. Thank you, well,
I have some good news, hopefully.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
The Fernando Tatis had a scaphoid injury in twenty twenty
two and it was a three month recovery timetable for him.
Three month recovery time, as in, he's good, then he's
gonna start his process. Or three months, three months recovery
time and he's back, Jonathan fully back, stop driving rude. No,
I'm just I'm asking the white questions right now. I
know how people think about it.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Three months from today would be August Simph October second,
just in time of the playoffs, baby, just in time.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
I had that week off before the ds M.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Hopefully I see what you're thinking. I like that a lot.
Brian bogus Sevic is next second hour of The Bet
Thomas Show with Ross Well. What's away on Sports Talk
seven ninety Hell No One on Sports Talk seven, Nini,
let's plan a couple of things up before we get
to our guest. Our regular Wednesday feature with Brian Bogus seven.
Jill on Twitter says, your previous caller was one hundred

(37:57):
percent wrong. My stun broke is scapoid, eight weeks to cast.
Absolutely no surgery, so Jiell telling Sandy to shut her
bumb ass up.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
And then Anthony also is a nurse and says Scaffoyd
is in the wrist.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Oh see, you know what, we can't play doctors on TV.
We just can't on radio.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
That's when we leave up to Brian bogusn.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Wow, well don't war, we're gonna we're gonnalet. Doctor Bogosevic
get his two cents in and quickly. David Haas of
Quick Change passed away from COVID a few years back.
Sorry to hear about that. And my friend John, who
was in the sports enter himent business, says he's seen
Red Panda drop uh those tea cups at least three times. See,
I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I'm just saying I
haven't seen it on my watch. Okay, she's the goat

(38:43):
though she's the goat. Craziest thing for me was seeing
Vanilla Isi in Sacramento a game. I mean that I
might have the mighty fall when Vanilla Ice is doing
a halftime acts. He was in the way.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
Did you get in his way when he was mopping
the floors?

Speaker 1 (38:58):
No, he was singing at halftime.

Speaker 11 (38:59):
What.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Yeah, I'm not lying to you. All right, Let's not
waste Brian Bogus the next time anymore any more that
we normally knew. Yeah, He's like, do I really have
to keep doing this bogie? Good morning, your squad. It's
seventeen games above five hundred. Cam Smith and Victor Carrattini
are making our Hall of Fame bat flips. Do you

(39:21):
agree or disagree? Based on what they've done the last
week or so?

Speaker 12 (39:25):
Uh, I would call them Hall of Fame batslips. I
think I think they're good. There's definitely better more iconic
batslips out there. I mean, you can go back in time.
Ken Griffey Jr. Is probably the most iconics from what
I can think of when I was kidding, I mean,
you know what, I'm partial to remember the Kyle Tucker
reverse pivot out of the batter's box and slip it
to the dug out. I like that one.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
Nice. Are you a bunch of a bat flipper back
in the day, No, I.

Speaker 12 (39:50):
Didn't hit enough home runs to be a bat flipper
that would be frowned upon.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Yeah, probably so, all right. Well, obviously a lot of
the conversation among the Astro fan base is about your
down situation and obviously Jeremy's situation. And look, you're not
a doctor norla of the two of us, but just
when you're hearing these things, the first thing is get
well soon for both of them. And second of all,
I would think, from a purely baseball perspective, which we
bring you on for, you're thinking about how do the

(40:16):
Astros continue to play this well despite two Keith cogs.
One's been gone for a long time and one just
missed the last weekend and probably gonna miss some more time.

Speaker 8 (40:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (40:28):
I mean before our show yesterday, I was just sitting
around and I was drawing up a lineup of the
guys that are on the injury list for the Astros
right now, and it's really striking the amount of talent
both sides of the ball that are unavailable. So how
they continue to win? I don't know, they just figured
it out, and it's you know a lot of guys

(40:48):
picking up slack offensively. You know, it's Victory yesterday, it's
Cam Smith another day. It's going to be l Tuve
one day. You know, they just kind of do that.
What the pitching has done is incredible. I mean, Hunter
and Fromber, I mean you talk about what aces do.
I mean, it's it's above and beyond. It's every time
they go out there just absolutely you know, unhittable and

(41:11):
the depth that they keep showing it's crazy. But you know,
at some point you have to imagine that there's going
to be a breaking point, right at some point you
just lose too much, or the guys where they're picking
up the slack get into a funk or something. You know,
at some point the injuries have to stop piling up
and you got to start getting some guys healthy, which
you know, we don't really know when that's going to

(41:33):
be at this time.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Est sac Pardes has been leading off the last handful
of days. We asked this to Joe A. Spotta yesterday,
and he's going to continue to put him in there
for the foreseeable future. But when you were drawing up
the twenty six man rostering, even with guys being hurt.
I don't think Brian that est sach predes on the
in the leadoff spot was necessarily on anybody's Bengo card
over the course of the year.

Speaker 6 (41:55):
No.

Speaker 12 (41:56):
I mean, it's not the prototypical burner that you would
think of the top. But you know, really, what they've done,
it's gotten to a point now with so many people
being out and still trying to kind of piece together
the bottom third of a lineup on any given day.
It's not necessarily about ideal lineup construction of who's the

(42:17):
best fit at leadoff, who's going to be our prototypical
three hole hitter or cleanup hitter. It's just let's take
the guys who are swinging it well, you know whatever,
three four or five of those guys on any given day,
and let's just bunch them together at the top and
then hopefully we can play matchups at the bottom or
pick the right guys based on how we feel about
their swing right now in the bottom half and have

(42:38):
that carryover, because there is no right solution when you're.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
Down this many guys.

Speaker 12 (42:45):
There's not many people. There's just not enough guys who
fit that prototypical role of whatever spot you're looking for.
So let's just take the best guys, try to get
them the most at bat and hopefully the guys at
the bottom can put some runners on base for them,
and you know, with what the pitching staff has been doing,
let's scratch across a couple of runs and hope it's enough.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
I want to talk about the Jeremy Payne injury real quick, keV.
Have you ever had a rib situation like that? And
what's the recovery like as far as how much of
its pain management, how of it is wanting to be
one hundred percent healed, and especially for someone like Jeremy Pine,
who's not only it's about swinging the bat, but I mean,
if you're a shortstop, you've got to be diving all
around the field as well.

Speaker 12 (43:27):
Yeah, so I've not done a rib. I've been fortunate enough.
I've never had a major like core oblique type of
thing either. But that being said, i mean I've had
soreness in there in those areas, and everything you do
in baseball is affected by that area. And I'm not
just talking about swinging throwing. That's obviously rotational stuff. But

(43:48):
you know the idea of keeping your body under control
to go down and feel the ground ball, you've got
to have a lot of core strength. You know, running
back on a fly ball and trying to keep your
eyes focused on the ball up above your head requires
a lot of core strength. So everything you do that
part of your body is engaged. So if if you
don't have enough strength to do it, if you're sore

(44:09):
in there, it's going to be affected. And you know,
you don't want to hear this, but fortunately we're at
a place where you know you're only halfway through the season,
you do have a decent lead. You just give it time,
and you know there's nothing you can do with a
broken rib like that. You know, you can't tape it up,
you can't you know, compress it or whatever. You just
got to sit there and let it heal. And that

(44:30):
takes time, and you know, hopefully they can get by
for however long it is, and hopefully you know a
young guy who's in as good as shape as pain
and hopefully he's a quick dealer.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
Brian Bogasvic with us here on a Sports Talk seven ninety.
I had to apologize to you Brian. A couple of
weeks ago, I shorted your call your cores fuels numbers
for twenty three with one again three with a one
point ops.

Speaker 12 (44:56):
Ooh, hey, I don't remember who it was, but I
and imagine they must not have been throwing some very
good pictures out in Colorado those days.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
So three hits for a Christian Walker in Coursefield seems
like he likes it as well.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
Is that ever like something that entered your mind or
you know, the player's mind.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
Hey, hey, I do pretty well in this ballpark, because
it seems like it's working for Christian Walker, at least
one game in.

Speaker 12 (45:18):
I've never come across anybody that doesn't like hitting in
that ballpark. But he's also a guy, he's spent a
ton of time in that division, he knows those pictures.
He's very comfortable hitting there, so it's not surprising that
he has a comfort level. Also, what I noticed about
his hits yesterday, Number one, they were all on fastballs.
Number two, he was really doing a good job staying

(45:39):
inside of him. He wasn't trying to come around and
pull any of those pitches. And the other thing, most
importantly maybe is that where they were located. They were
middle to down in the strike zone. He wasn't trying
to get up on top of those fastballs at the
top of the zone. I mean, he said it himself
after games, talking about you know that a fastball at
the top, there's one of two ways that you can
do it. You learn how to hit it, or you

(45:59):
learn how to not swing at it. And if he's
going to make a concerted effort to lay off of
that pitch and get it down into the strike zone,
it's just an easier pitch and even high velocity, it's
just easier to drop the head of the bat on
a pitch down at your size than opposed to up
at your letters. So you know, maybe that's something that
can get him going a little bit, is getting on
those fastballs boogie.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
When you've been around players that say, oh, I love
going to this stadium and hitting or I don't like
hitting this place, were you one of those kind of
guys that said, you know what, I don't like going
to Philadelphia. I didn't enjoy playing it rigly because I
remember one of my all time favorite astros is Lance Berkman,
and talk about it at nauseam how much he hated
playing in San Francisco. And the reason why I bring

(46:42):
this up is, can some guys talk themselves out of
having productive series on the road when they are already
going having a bad feeling about the venue they're about
to play in.

Speaker 6 (46:52):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (46:52):
Absolutely.

Speaker 12 (46:53):
I mean it's the same as how you feel about
your swing on a given day, right, whether whether you're
feeling good or bad, your swings really not that far off,
and confidence a lot of times will be the tipping
point of if you're going to go out there and
feel like you're going to have a good day or
a bad day, and how comfortable you are with your settings,
whether it's you know, a backdrop at a certain place,

(47:14):
or the shadows in the afternoon at Wrigley Field, or
the cold wind blowing in in San Francisco, whatever it is.
If you go into a game with the mindset that
I don't like hitting in this place, I don't feel
comfortable here, I don't match up well against the pitchers,
whatever it is, it definitely is going to affect you.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
And it works the other.

Speaker 12 (47:32):
Way too, when you go into a place like Colorado
and most guys feel like, not only does the ball fly,
but it's a gigantic outfielder's hits everywhere, and it's just
a great place to end.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
Farlot's your run. And I brought this up with a
game with Joe, and I want to get your thoughts
on it as well. You've got some pictures that frankly,
probably a month or two ago. We're just lucky to
be on a major league roster. Now they're helping this
team put together the second best record in the American League.
They're about to get into the last half of the season.
Games will mean some more chance here for the playoffs

(48:04):
and whatnot. And is this the same situation as a
position player, meaning that it's fun to be on a
major league team, But what's it like for a young
player who just fought his way on to be good
and to stay on this team knowing that Colton Gordon,
for example, Okay, Colton, we thank you for your service,
and now we need you to go six innings when
you can. I mean, how much more pressure does a

(48:25):
young first year player or a guy that has had
a little major league experience fight through the times of
This is the most I've pitched, It's the most high
leverage games I've ever been part of. In my major
league career.

Speaker 12 (48:36):
You know, I think if a guy was good enough
to get there but not welcoming of a challenge like that,
I think a lot of those guys probably would have
been weeded out along the way. It doesn't mean everybody's
always going to be successful in those situations, but I
don't know that, you know, a guy could be competitive
enough to get through the minor leagues, especially with a

(48:58):
lot of these guys at the Asters brought up. These
are not high draft picks. These are guys who had
to produce from day one just to stay on minor
league rosters. So these guys have been fighting for their
lives for most of their professional careers. I don't think
that any of these guys would come up and not
want to be somebody who could be pitched, who could
be pushed, you know, third times through the order, up

(49:19):
to one hundred pitches go out there and face the
middle of the order again. I think they welcome those things.
And one of the things that breeds that success as
well is that you know the Astros minor league system.
If you look, you know over the past, you know
recent history, they win a lot in the minor leagues.
You know they those guys all won a championship in
Triple A last year, and that's certainly not the same

(49:41):
as doing it at the major league level, But there
are stakes. They're not guys who are just out there
pitching for their era and hoping somebody gets hurt in
the Big league so they can get called up. These
are guys who have been in situations where they're pitching
two win games, and there are things, you know, other
than run prevention that go along with being a part
of a winning team, even in a winning pitching staff.

Speaker 10 (50:01):
And I think we've.

Speaker 12 (50:02):
Already seen some of the signs that they that they're
able to handle that, and I think the more that
gets thrown on their plate, I think they'll be able
to handle it too.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Bogie, great work as always, Thank you for the visitors.
Always as always, we'll talk in next week, all right,
Thanks that stial, You got it. Brian Bogas Sivic with
us here on the Matt Thomas Shelwood Ross appreciate his perspective.
Very Wednesday with us at eleven o'clock, we got shut
your ball mass up coming up at the bottom of
the hour. That gives you an opportunity to just tell
the world you're mad at somebody, or somebody's done you wrong.

(50:32):
You want to tell them to shut their ball mass up.
We'll take those phone calls. Coming up in about fifteen minutes.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two, one two five seven ninety. We're with
you today until two o'clock. Rossood is today's edition of
Believe It or Not.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
I believe It's scafoid fracture.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
Or all things red Panda. Okay, No, see does have
a wiki? I think yeple Can you get eight quiet
out of it? I get one? You make a make
up six? You just give them the answer, all right? No, eleven, No,
I'm good, eleven fifteen, Sports Talk seven ninety Come on

(51:13):
in and join us. Seven one three two five seven
ninety eleven nineteen Thomas Show, Ross, you gotta shut your
bomb ass up. Coming up at the bottom of the hour. Ross.
We're staying at a hotel here in Dallas, and it
is a pepsi hotel, which I have zero problem with.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
What okay, like they have pepsi products. Correct how they're
saying it's like the pepsi in.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
Well that would be And I'm gonna tell you I
love pepsi. Let's go say it right now. That's fine,
It's okay. I think the I think the pepsi hate
out there is a little unwarranted. I don't hate pepsi.
I don't.

Speaker 3 (51:52):
I don't get really upset when they there. You asked
for coke and they have pepsi products. Yeah, because then
you can get doctor pepper.

Speaker 7 (51:59):
Matt.

Speaker 1 (51:59):
Of course, we were talking about that last night. My
my daughter was out of me. She goes, my dad
isn't like sweet tea or doctor pepper? I said, yep,
that's correct. Well, you don't ever drink sweet tea. No,
it's too it's too it's too sweet. You do you
have to have?

Speaker 3 (52:15):
Yeah, you're not a real text on. Jonathan's correct.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
But I like sweetener in my coffee. Isn't that weird?
I'm just a weird person.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
You you have number one. You have to have sweet tea.
We're going to uh are we going to barbecue soon?

Speaker 7 (52:28):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (52:29):
We are going to the mouth barbecue. Yes.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
Sorry, we're leaving you out. Jonathan, our previous producers paying.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
So is he really paying?

Speaker 3 (52:38):
He got the bread now, he said he was, Yeah,
I know. I told him I was like, oh, I'm
gonna pretend that I'm gonna you know what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna pull this one. Oh no, man, come on, no,
let me pay. Okay, you got it.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
By the way, my game on that is perfect. You go,
you take your left hand, uh huh, and you pretend
you're going to your wallet, but you really don't even
go quickly to dor back half. You just you just
slightly pretend like you're gonna go get the wallet off. Yeah,
we know Alligator Thomas, that's not true. By the way,
you know he has he he he asked for tickets
as much as much as ran Bore fleets. Yeah, so

(53:10):
he owes you. And he makes more than barbecue. I
have zero problem with. Yeah, he makes it more than
I do. So he's paying. I don't care. Yeah, I
just I mean, it could be the best sweet team
in the world. I just don't like the sugar in
the tea.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
At least two half an hour. You gotta do it
with Texas barbecue.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
To me, I'll do one.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
There's two two musts in my opinion, what a burger
in Texas Barbecue? I'm sorry, Mudd and Burger. No, they
spend money here right, what a burger in Texas and
Texas barbecue.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
They spend they must spend money in the on the
rod Ryan Show. Well, it's in the cluster. It's true.
It's true, all right. Uh seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven nine zero. If you want to follow us
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(53:59):
going on. I mean the Jordon stuff just yesterday it
bummed me out big time. I mean, I gotta be
honest again as I told you an hour ago. And
I know that the Astros thought that he was close
because he went down to West Palm Beach to go swing.
But ross, if he plays anymore this year, it's it's

(54:20):
it's who was the player for the Texans that it
was always hurt? Did you? Oh, Jjavion Clowney, Remember you
always say that when Jadeveon Clowney played it was like gravy. Hmmm.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
I thought you were going to say Christian Harris didn't
he wasn't he like hurt forever?

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Last year? Uh, he's still heard right now. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (54:38):
JD.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
Clowney got hurt a lot. Yep, and he still had
a pretty good career, just not a number one, number
one career, no one dash one.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
He was probably underperformed. Mm hm. And where are we
on the yord on money? That's I have not looked
at that. That's fine.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
I think he's making like twenty five million or something
like that.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
One of those guys that signed that bought arbitration years Margain.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
This is one of the best contracts in baseball, even
if I mean, you know, if he doesn't come back
at all, but still, I mean the value that you
got for what he makes for being one of the
top five hitters in baseball when he's right, it's huge.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
I'll pull it up.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
Yeah, twenty six point eight three repeating million for the
next no significant bump up. Then I'm sorry. He's only
making the twenty six point eight kicks in next year.
He's making fifteen point eight this year.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
Yeah, they're doing When you say, oh, man, that's great value,
fifteen point eight million dollars, absolutely, shoe heo. Tony's making
seventy that's a great value. Yeah, but it's all deferred,
that's true. So when Bobby Benia no longer gets his
deferred money from the Yankees, that we're gonna have happy
show heo Tony Day the Mets.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
Yeah, uh yeah, Well guess so he's gonna get paid forever.
I want to live as long as show how Tonic
continues to get paid by the Dodgers. I believe he's
gonna be paid through twenty one hundred. Let's see, they
have Mookie Betts is getting deferred money over there, who
else I can't remember. It's basically half their roster is

(56:15):
getting a bunch of deferred money.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
And the crazy thing about deferred money is everyone's like, well,
if the Dodgers can do it, why can't everybody else?
And my two reasons are very simple. One, they still
have revenue streams that other teams don't, the other twenty
nine teams don't have, And that is they get tremendous
amount of money from their television contract. They don't get
all of it, but they get more of a percentage

(56:41):
of their dollars than say that. I mean, hell, I'm
here in Arlington, Dallas. The Rangers created their own network ross.
You know, when you create something that means you hope
that people come pay for it. No one's paying for
your network. You created this network to put your games on.
Now you know, if you sell, the advertising time obviously
goes to you. But there's nobody right in advanced checking
the Rangers and number two, it takes suit to tango.

(57:04):
You know, if the player does not want to if
you want, the player wants his money. Now, that's you
can't fight that right.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
By the way, it's basically entire Dodgers roster, Mookie Bets,
Shoheyo Tani, Freddie Freeman, Blake Snell.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
All on deferred money. This must be tough.

Speaker 3 (57:26):
They got to get rid of the rule that gives
them luxury tax savings on deferred money. The AAV's gotta
be it's you gotta go by AAVY.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
Because again, if if they want to go over a threshold,
that's that's well within their right to do that. But
they're just basically circumventing the system. Yes, and if I'm
the other twenty owners in baseball, I'm like, wait a minute,
we created this such system to I mean, look, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Miami,
I mean there's already a bunch of squad They're like, man,
we can we can't compete like this, And then you're

(57:56):
gonna give them an out clause. I'll tell you who
won't want that to go away? The players, no, because
it will still it'll leave a few teams to say,
maybe we should do this and that. If I really
want to go be a Dodger, I really want to
go be a mat Or. I really want to go
be a White, a Red Sox, or Yankee. I've got
a spot to go to. Kyle Tucker has zero problem

(58:18):
with this, with this payment situation. You hear that sizzle
in the background, Matting, is it one of your hot takes?
That doesn't make any sense? That's a botchi grill fire enough.
It's fine. I mean I I make decent money. I

(58:39):
guess I can.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
Yeah, you've been crushing me in BET's the last couple
of years I have.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
It's been a good run for me. Ladies and gentlemen,
I ask of you one thing. Has somebody at the
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Has a neighbor said something? Or did you hear something
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(59:03):
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(59:25):
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Speaker 1 (59:53):
All right, here we go. Mine's easy, you guys chime
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seven one three two one two five seven and eight
Ross when you go through an UBER or a left,
you have a choice of vehicle size. Correct. Yes, it
says seats four typically for the X Yes. And when

(01:00:18):
it says XL, it typically seats six. Curb it says six.
On there doesn't say sometimes six, doesn't say maybe six,
it says six. You're right. So we've had two trips
here in Dallas on Uber that the person has picked
us up, one on an X and one on an
XL had stuff in the front seat of the vehicle,

(01:00:42):
thus not allowing four or six people in the vehicle.
Guess what we paid for that. We told him to
move his stuff, and he was off put by that
on both occasions. I say to those people that are
Uber drivers that put stuff on your front seat and
that don't, it's a massive inconvenience you to get open
that spot up for me to sit down. Anybody got

(01:01:03):
time for that? Xcel is four, xcels six, boom, shot
a lock and let's go. Ain't nobody got time for it.
I'm agree with balt on this one.

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
They made it three for a while. Uh X was
three for a while during COVID YEP, but then it
came back to four.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Ye if you can. If you can't do four, then
don't put four on the X sit. I don't think
they have an option, I know, so guess one. If
you're gonna drive, the rules are four?

Speaker 11 (01:01:33):
Is four?

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
Six?

Speaker 7 (01:01:34):
Six?

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
Did you report them?

Speaker 12 (01:01:37):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
But I don't feel like I should be the one
having to sit there and wait for them to move
their nineteen files and their fourteen books they're reading, and
their six soft drinks and their three uh differs radios?
Now still strong? Four point nine?

Speaker 12 (01:01:54):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
You making that up? No, I can send it to you.
What's your four point nine at seven?

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

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
I know when I got that one star too. It
was my my freaking friend. We had been drinking and
he was yelling at the driver was like a block
away where he's supposed to be, and then he started
the ride, and then my friends started yelling at him,
and then he ended the ride immediately, So I was
out like five bucks, and then I'm sure I got
a one star.

Speaker 1 (01:02:21):
Yeah, I'm very happy with my four point nine. I
can't but you know you can't. You can't keep everybody had.
I'm happy. We have thousands of people that love this show. Ross.
We've got a few people to hate the show, so
we can't. I can't control that. So that's one data
point people like me better, Matt four point ninety seven.
Let's go Okay, let's take a look at a note
data point on Instagram? How many followers do you have?

Speaker 11 (01:02:39):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
This is how many posts do you have? I have
a seven hundred and three post? Okay, I have seventy five. Well,
let's go then at sports at sports r me on Instagram.
He's at sports empty with two thousand siy three followers.
God bless you all interesting relevant photos. And I've had

(01:02:59):
a do you said dashboard in the last thirty days
whatever that means. So again, I'm gonna say this very
politely to all the fine uber drivers out there. It
says X four XL six. I didn't make the rules,
follow them. Ain't nobody got time for you mudding up,
muddying up the front row of your seat so I
can't get in there. Ain't nobody got time? And I'm done. Hm,

(01:03:22):
I'm sorry, Matt. I'm sorry that you had to go
through that.

Speaker 14 (01:03:26):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
I appreciate the honesty from you. Sorry, there's you'd almost
skip you, Jonathan. What's the matter? What I do? I went, okay.

Speaker 5 (01:03:41):
This is back to I don't know who's in their
building that cannot that doesn't understand the courtesy of using
the urinal in the restroom. If I'm going to use
the restroom and I want to go take a leak,
I should not be splashing in a pool of the
urine on my feet.

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
Oh how are we?

Speaker 5 (01:04:00):
How are we straight up missing the entire section and
it's all over the floor and.

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
You don't mind, you don't you just you just walk away.

Speaker 5 (01:04:09):
You just walk away and just let your hot mess
sit there and just floor for everybody to go.

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
Just you know, happy and jump into it. It's everywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
It's I think, I think we need to have a
class in like uh elementary school for guys about getting
your urine in the proper receptacle.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
Just going in the stall and plopping an egg and
doing it that way. It's okay, it's not it's not
plopping an egg, sit down and just sit there.

Speaker 5 (01:04:39):
Maybe you got some nothing there and you everything's covered nothing,
no spill, no leak, no splashback.

Speaker 1 (01:04:44):
So you're saying, sitting squad if you can't aim straight exactly,
it's like, you know what, I back you up. On this.
It's not because the bull size hasn't changed, and the
bulls aren't getting smaller. They're good, they're getting big. Give
you a little good, give room lead the rest of
my dang, I'm gonna be tracking tracking what Pete m

(01:05:08):
What did you say about an egg again? Plopping? Plopping?
An egg? Humm? I not heard that one? Oh my god,
Jahathon ever heard the one growing a tail? All right?
See what is this? Shout Joe bumass up? Man?

Speaker 13 (01:05:24):
I don't even know that is.

Speaker 6 (01:05:27):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
I never heard that. No, that's what I'm nothing. I
know people are disgusting. Let's let's let's let's let's uh,
let's get some integrity. Bag read the context clues on
that one. I suppose by what Yourn's hurt. I don't
know if you know that they're not nobody get that. No,

(01:05:51):
I don't believe you. I don't believe that for a second. Cross,
what's the matter with you?

Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
I'm gonna go with Alex and garden Oaks, who called
last night he was upset that Esac Paradis was leading off. Okay,
I asked him who he wanted to lead off. He said,
Jeremy Penia and I calmly informed him, Okay, maybe not
so calmly that Jeremy Penia is on the injured list, Alex,

(01:06:17):
and then he said, they need somebody who gets on
base to be leading off.

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
How about Mauricio dubon escoc Paradas has the second.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
Best on base percentage on the team, behind Jake Myers,
but he has double the walks. Your top two guys
and on base that are active in playing are top
two in the lineup. And then he was getting mad
that the Astros take it easy on bad teams.

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
They won the game, they won the game, he said,
they made it too close.

Speaker 3 (01:06:50):
I'm getting towards the end of my rope with Alex
and Garden Roakes. Who can shut his bomb ass up? Shit,
cho bum ass up?

Speaker 6 (01:06:57):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
What is the opposite of a leadoff guy your ninth
place hitter?

Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
Yes, okay, I think the look kind of come up
with a name, like a catchy name.

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
No, no, no, So if your guy you want to
get as many bats as possible bats first, Yes, the
person you want to get in theory the fewest at
bats would be batting in the ninth position. Correct, that
is correct. Just want to make sure all I'm adding
all that up. So Alex and garden Oaks wants Mauricio

(01:07:34):
Dubon to lead off. The manager of the team says,
with all due respect, I'm gonna put Mauricio Dubon in
the opposite I'm abat him ninth yesterday. That's what he did. Now,
he got two hits. I give him credit for that, but.

Speaker 3 (01:07:47):
He's got an on base of two eighty three. That
that's horrible.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
Yeah, the ops is six seventy seven, Is that correct?
Man in that right? Were around there in? Yeah, six
seventy six, and that's including I mean he had all
those home runs.

Speaker 3 (01:08:07):
What a couple of weeks ago before that, he was
in the five hundreds.

Speaker 1 (01:08:11):
Mmm. Not good friends, Alex and garden Oaks Sports Takes,
We got some work.

Speaker 11 (01:08:19):
To do on that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven. Nati Felipe on
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross Philippe, what's the matter
with you? Well, I had a few of them Sports
and Tea.

Speaker 15 (01:08:32):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:08:32):
Well, first one, I'm gonna start off with. Uh.

Speaker 16 (01:08:35):
There's a show that starts off right before the six am. Uh,
and it's it runs with two has beens and a
cup of gas station coffee that's been sitting out for
three days.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
The guy so suck.

Speaker 16 (01:08:47):
All they talk about is Pat Mahomes and football and
then off topics that don't even make sense.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
It's the middle of the summer, we're still.

Speaker 16 (01:08:53):
Talking about football, Like, can we get to another topic
besides football?

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
Maybe some basketball, maybe some baseball, maybe some hockey, maybe
something nothing to them? Ain't nobody got time time for that?
And number two last week.

Speaker 16 (01:09:06):
I prefer to listen to the game on the radio
right here on sports like seven N love Bob Ford,
love ste Sparks. But man, when Kevin Eschinfolter's just on
the call, his stuff sucks. Man, Just please shut your
bump ass up.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
I don't like it.

Speaker 16 (01:09:20):
I really have you two guys beautiful voices on there.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
But no, we can't pick everything, but man, that's man.

Speaker 7 (01:09:27):
The guy just sucks.

Speaker 11 (01:09:29):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
He's a great friend. So I'm not gonna We're not
gonna disgust. I mean, I'll just say it. I think
he does a really good job. Yeah, he's a really
good broadcaster. I would have to I love you, Felipe,
but I'm gonna pull respectfully disagree with you all right,
all right? What a segment is fine? Because look, I've

(01:09:51):
heard my people rip on me before. Sobby, we can't
we can't all be BLI It's true. We can't be
we can't all be sports Harvey.

Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
No, No, people don't don't like me. Alex garden Knaks
doesn't like me. There's some other guy complaining about the
way I handled the call on Twitter.

Speaker 1 (01:10:07):
People don't like me too, mad No, I don't think so.
I think. I think you're university alone. You're fuddy but
attacked me on Facebook yet today, So I feel like
I'm blessed. That's good.

Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
How's your friend Julio Rio Franco, how's he doing?

Speaker 1 (01:10:20):
I don't know. You don't must start doing. I think
I must start doing. You know how there's always these
trends on Twitter. I think I'm gonna do a weekly
people who block me Twitter and just in my life
to give you a list of people that have blocked me.
That's good hashtag content. Yeah, so that's you know, and
I can I mean there's a few that there's a
few that you might know, but most of the I
don't know who these people are, why they would block me.

(01:10:42):
I don't know. Mm hmm, not a bottom a real person.
I got you blocked on all my burners, I bet
you do, all right, you got somebody, yeah whatever. Katie's
been tweeting like a mud of the last few days. Yeah,
he and the honest right, yeah, both of them. I
love it. I think again, Twitter, even though it's toxic

(01:11:05):
and many reasons, does connect you to a to your
fan base, to people that want to relate to you,
And I think it is if as long as you
don't get get personal and nasty, it's a great way
to have connection with people.

Speaker 3 (01:11:17):
Well, Kevin Durant does sometimes get personal and nasty, but yeah, that's.

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
True, all right. Seven one three two one two five
seven nine. If you want to chime in on the
show seven to one three two one two five seven nine.
If you want to tell somebody shut their ball masses up,
or anybody got time for that, come on in and
be a part of the show at seven one three
two one two five seven nine zero before I go
back to the phone, calls on a shut your ball

(01:11:43):
mass Wednesday and ain't nobody got time for that? ROSSI
I gotta tell the New PAC twelve conference to shut
their ball masses up. Come on, they're calling them five.
I'm sorry. Fresno, Utah State, San Diego State, Washington State,
Oregon State, Texas State. Y'all are a decent football conference,

(01:12:08):
and you're probably a pretty good basketball conference when with
Gonzaga in there. Plenty of respect, but you ain't the
PAC twelve. You're like the new This is an eighties reference.
I'm sorry for this one. You're like co Cola Classic
went away and your new Coke and you said you're
better than the old Coke. No you're not. You're just

(01:12:30):
you're just a group of whatever. But you ain't a
power five. So PAC twelve conference shits show, bumb ass
up mane shits o, bum ass up man.

Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
Yeah, it's Mountain Would you say Mountain West two point zero?
It's mount West plus when half your conference is states
that aren't really states. Come on, man, and you I
think it was actually an interesting the way you you
brought it as well.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
They're not even near any airports. Oh that's a good point. Yeah,
here's the reality. If all the schools in the new
PAC twelve have an athletic budget that equals the athletic
budget at Alabama, you're not a Power five. I'm sorry,
you're just not. It's cute, but you're not. As you

(01:13:19):
said yesterday, why don't you tell us how much these
new TV deals you're game CBS. If your CBS deal
does not publicly layout how much you're making eight power
If your Game of the week is on Pluto TV,
you're not a major network. You're not a major conference.
Did you say it was three CBS games all year

(01:13:41):
or something like that, Well, a.

Speaker 3 (01:13:43):
Bunch on CBS Sports Network. Okay, yeah, they're like this.
They're like the brother in law, right, that's right before
the wrestling championships. Yeah, when you when you're on what's
the channel that does the Sunday astro major League games
at ten o'clock in the road, If you're if you're
a game of the week's on Roku, you're.

Speaker 1 (01:14:02):
Not a major network. Sorry. Yeah, a major conference. I
honestly I think there are. I think the schools in
the new PAC twelve are they're all over my for
you tab there. There must be pain to get on
these on Twitter that way, they're not on mind. You
just must be a huge Texas State enthusiast. I mean
I would do their games. I mean I'm not iyeing.
I think it's they're in funk. It's nice, but I mean,

(01:14:23):
come on, you are you are what you are? You
are Mountain West two point zero.

Speaker 3 (01:14:27):
Yeah, or you accidentally or click something and then the
algorithm thinks you love it, Like I'm getting a lot
of Super Smash Bros. Content on my four you tab
I don't play that game. I never watched that game. Yeah,
I don't know what's going on with that for you,
tab is is is a weird animal.

Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
I just got one. It's just Caitlin Clark shot gunning
a beer like a pro l mfao. Look at the man.
She can hit the she can hit the hooch a
little bit there. Good for her. When's the last time
he shot gunna beer? Matt, Well, then this is the
last five years. I would have to say, oh really, Yeah,
I mean I don't shotgun Thomas. Let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:15:07):
Yeah, I think I'm pretty sure I did it at
the LSU tailgate a few years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
A lot tell me, all right, Jonathan, are you a drinker?
Mask every No, I know you. Have you ever had
a shower beer? Shower beer, Bross explained, it's the pinnacle
of beers.

Speaker 3 (01:15:29):
It's a cold, refreshing beer and a nice hot shower,
especially after a long day or after cutting the grass
or or.

Speaker 5 (01:15:37):
Something like that. Oh you're thinking you're drinking a beer
in a shower. Yes, Oh, that's that sounds like a
good idea. I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 1 (01:15:44):
See Jonathan's on board, Maddie. Have you still never done it.
I'm been trying to bully you into get into shower
beer for like ten years. I'm gonna start eating in
the shower. I wanna start a new trend. That's bizarre
spanch dip. You're gonna be like Crampy. Wasn't he eating
on Seinfeld? He was eating in the shower and then
he got a disposal. Yeah, I'm gonna have a fat

(01:16:08):
I'm gonna have some chicken fatas in the shower.

Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
Uh, you're gonna eat a chicken fajeeded taco in the shower?

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
Correct and video it for you. It's like send it
to you, Okay, why don't you get some table side
guacamole for it? I don't like guak him me on
seven me. What's the matter with you.

Speaker 14 (01:16:27):
About ross and that you're issue? It's a little product
it's like a pad he can put down. I've done
with an organization to have that problem. So you can
put the bad down there and you're knowing it. It
cashes that overflow.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
Shis Obama's up, man, what you're talking about the extra
peat right? Himy's like, I mean, is giving us a
public service announcement. He wants to help people avoid the splash, right.

Speaker 17 (01:16:59):
And then the other problem them fools, is there somebody
at the hear or though they go to the toilet
and they do the same thing on the toilet. So
when somebody goes down the squat, they got to hold their.

Speaker 14 (01:17:11):
Pants on their knees because there's urine on on the
damp floor.

Speaker 7 (01:17:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:17:17):
So you can get a pad with a toilet io
toilet pad. Thank you, Hammy. I appreciate that. Maybe you
go on what's that name of that show that uh
oh a shark tank hmm yeah, toilet pad, toilet pad?

(01:17:39):
We we pad? Don't they have those are dogs? Yeah?
Pe pads? Yeah, I mean they have a splash pad.
When I think of a splash path, think of a
neighborhood with a bunch of the kids runn around on
the concrete with.

Speaker 5 (01:17:49):
Water what's going to clean the toilet pad? I mean,
that's what that question is. We're just gonna leave it there.

Speaker 1 (01:17:53):
I mean, if you make twenty six hours an hour,
you probably would, Daryl, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 6 (01:18:00):
All right?

Speaker 10 (01:18:00):
So mine is for mister Jake Myers of the Houston Astros.
M He he likes to uh lose his helmet every
time he takes a swing, every time he leaves at
the box, anytime he makes a fake the second, it
always seems like that helmet's coming off his head. I
think the boy needs to go ahead and put on
the old chin strap and get this over with, because

(01:18:23):
I'm tired of him losing his helmet every time this
kid moves or shave his head. That might be the
other option.

Speaker 1 (01:18:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (01:18:31):
I'm not I'm not the guy, you know, swinging the
bat and running the bases. But every single time helmet
comes off his head. Ain't nobody got hurt for that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
L Ain't nobody got time for Jake losing his hat?
You know what? We gotta ask him about that one day.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
Do you think maybe he just has an oddly shaped
head so it has to be a certain size.

Speaker 1 (01:18:51):
Well, I have an oddly shaped head. So I'm not
gonna comment on that. So I'm just gonna okay, let
him be him. His helmet does always seem really loose.
What do you think, what do you think you should
have like a chin strap where he'd be like right,
like he's riding a bike or something, or like a
softball helmet. He'd get mad, a big grill, a big

(01:19:13):
grill in a stid strap. I'm not No, We're not
putting a chin strap on Jake Myers. He does have
the loosest helmet in the biz. I mean that guy's correct.

Speaker 3 (01:19:22):
We mean, look, we have the Jake Myers fan club
love Jake Myers still hitting over three hundred and still
you know, at the number two spot in the lineup,
doing great, making making five star catches. They get downgraded
to three star.

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
But oh, don't get me started on that. Yeah, what
a disaster that is. I know, Oh that's another five
star catch. And our broadcast three days ago we carried
a five star I got down graded three What what
are you talking about? It was a great catch. Yeah,
I don't know how that works, you know, I'm right
about that. That's a question for stat cast. I don't know.
I don't understand that either. All right, Uh this could

(01:19:57):
be loaded.

Speaker 8 (01:19:58):
Bill.

Speaker 1 (01:19:58):
What's the matter with you?

Speaker 8 (01:20:01):
Oh man?

Speaker 15 (01:20:02):
I'm riding with some female coworkers friends and I would
going to lunch and they heard, well what you said?
If I eating a taco and the shells, they want
to they want to meet you.

Speaker 10 (01:20:15):
I'll a bit, they sir, that was.

Speaker 1 (01:20:19):
A good one. That is not part of the segments.

Speaker 2 (01:20:22):
That is not.

Speaker 1 (01:20:23):
Ain't nobody get time?

Speaker 7 (01:20:25):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:20:25):
No, no?

Speaker 1 (01:20:26):
That was my god? Hmm eleven? Did they call it?
Get you love this?

Speaker 7 (01:20:35):
I had?

Speaker 1 (01:20:37):
I'm a little flexed. All right, that wraps up. Uh,
Ain't nobody got time for that? And shut your mom
ass up? Maybe I should have. How about chicken fingers?
Uh no, you said tacos, Matt, chicken for hated taco.
I got the perfect segue for you, Matt. How's your

(01:20:58):
little bido? Apparently Bill's is doing just great. Oh love
you the bird?

Speaker 8 (01:21:05):
The bird?

Speaker 1 (01:21:06):
Okay, oh god, all right, that's enough. That's great, that's
enough for both of us. My daughter asked me last night,
she goes, what impersonations do you do? I said, well,
I do a Bill Cosby. She's mad. I'm like, she said,
who's that? Oh, dear, I guess she's what sixteen or whatever?
She's seventeen. These kids don't even know who Bill Cosby is.

Speaker 3 (01:21:27):
These kids today, let me tell you the complicated story
of Bill Cosby.

Speaker 1 (01:21:32):
Yeah, all right, twelve oh seven Sports Talk seven at
a time Now for the News at noon and let's
go to the Oh who are we gonna need? You're
the George Stepanopolis the Houston Sports Media. We present to you,
Rossville Riale. Thank you, Matt, appreciate you having me here.

Speaker 3 (01:21:51):
All the news at dude, all about Tommy show with Ross?

Speaker 12 (01:21:54):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
Why did we play hold my hand?

Speaker 11 (01:21:56):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:21:56):
Because there has been a setback with jord On Alvarez.
We talked about that yesterday or actually that happened after
the show yesterday, but it is on the news at
noon today but also relevant Dana Brown on the Sean
Salisbury Show earlier today. You can catch the full conversation
at sports Talk seven ninety dot com. A number of
questions asked and answered, including is this a major concern

(01:22:21):
with regards to it being a possible season ending injury?

Speaker 18 (01:22:26):
Dana Brown, No, not at all, because of how he
feels and because of what we've seen on imaging and
so now in the next move is to see the specialist,
which part of this is like, uh, you know, he
wants to make short that everything is fine as well.
He really doesn't want us feel any soreness and so

(01:22:46):
you know, sometimes getting the you know, opinion of another
doctor h can get you over that hump when you
you know, maybe there's something that you have to fight
through or something like that.

Speaker 7 (01:22:58):
But you know, ultimately he's dying to get back and
you know, to feel the soreness. H. We just want
to make sure.

Speaker 1 (01:23:08):
Rossie. I do have tremendous respect for Dana Brown. Yes,
and he's in a very difficult position because he's trying
to answer questions that he does, you know, doesn't have
the complete information on because none doctor, not a medical man.
But he doesn't know if he's a season ending or not.
I mean, he was supposed to say that, and he
did say that that was that was a no win situation.
If he would have said, yeah, it might be season ending,

(01:23:28):
then the city of Houston would have been hitting the
fire alarms have been going off.

Speaker 8 (01:23:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:23:32):
He also could have said we don't think so, or
we're waiting here back. But it's a possibility, but unlikely.
He just went straight out with the no. So can
I say I take a little solace in that you can't?

Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
I don't, Okay, I mean, I just don't. I'm gonna
be optimistic, Naddy, because again, let's go back to let's
go back to Kyle Tucker last year. It's gonna be
it's a bruise and have me back, you know, sooner
rather than later. And that's true.

Speaker 3 (01:23:58):
Later so I know the president has been set. We've
been burned.

Speaker 1 (01:24:02):
Yeah, fool me once, Shame on you. Fool me twice,
Shame on me. What if you can full the third time?
You can't get fulled again? Okay, I'm just saying, Jordan,
we welcome you back, whether it be in two weeks
or in spring training in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (01:24:19):
Well, guess what, we can't control it. Let's move on.
The Astros on the field are winning.

Speaker 1 (01:24:24):
You've got.

Speaker 3 (01:24:26):
The Astros and the Rockies. Hunter Brown versus the Rockies today.
How are we feeling, Maddie?

Speaker 1 (01:24:31):
Feeling great? Feeling good? Feeling great?

Speaker 3 (01:24:34):
Minus two is sixty five? So used to explain that again?

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
If you wanted to bet the Astros to beat the Rockies.
If you have to bet two hundred and sixty five
dollars to win one hundred. Yes, it's a lot of
money to put up. And in a fluky world of baseball,
that the Rockies can win the game, tony, mm hmm.
You're not favorites there more times, are not going to
win the series, and the Astros are going to probably
win the Serius season series again. But that doesn't mean

(01:25:01):
they can't win tonight. So what's the value on a
Rocky victory? I got off the page, so I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:25:08):
It's fine. It's right here plus two fifteen.

Speaker 1 (01:25:11):
Okay, So you spent one hundred dollars three fifteen in
return if the Rockies beat there, so guaranteed win Wednesday.
Hunter Brown gonna take down the Rockies.

Speaker 3 (01:25:21):
Matt, you heard it here first, and I'll have the
Astros on deck for you coming up at six point thirty.

Speaker 1 (01:25:26):
I mean, my guess is it's gonna be a lot
of day in a Brown conversation.

Speaker 3 (01:25:29):
So if you've heard it, a little Dana Brown maybe
here and there, something from Brian Bogosevic, of course, a
game recap and variety there. Get your Denver weather report.
Let me guess eighty four. I think it was eighty
six at game time yesterday, so you're not.

Speaker 1 (01:25:45):
Far off, man. I just I was a total guest
up my.

Speaker 3 (01:25:48):
Part probably around there. And the air is lighter, Matt.
It's it's not like the hot human air here in Houston.

Speaker 1 (01:25:55):
All right? What else we got on the news? Yes, Matt,
you mentioned this earlier.

Speaker 3 (01:25:58):
Unfortunately, the legendary acrobatic act known as Red Panda, the
woman that is her stage name, her actual name is
Rong New who rides a unicycle and throws up plates
and bowls and whatnot, unfortunately fell at the halftime of
the Indiana Fever and Minnesota Linx game at the Target

(01:26:21):
Center on Tuesday. No update immediately on her condition, although
a WNBA source this is according to the ESPN story,
said that after the game she was taken to the
hospital for evaluation.

Speaker 1 (01:26:33):
Thoughts and prayers out to Red Panda. Thoughts and prayers
is an undersident. We need her back as fast as possible. Yes,
by the way, go ahead, we have got some breaking
news from the NBA. Uh oh, how many? That's one? Okay,
you're struggling, so it's not that huge news. Oh, I'll

(01:26:54):
give it let's give it a second one. Oh, I'm aired. Nope,
nothing involving Houston teams. Okay, the New York Knicks have
themselves a basketball coach. Oh my, finally, are you serious?

(01:27:17):
Yeah no, yeah, I just saw the name. Go ahead,
Mike Brown, Mike Brown, Mike Brown. You fired Tom thibodeaw
for Mike Brown. Mike Brown. Who Now, Mike Brown is

(01:27:39):
a two time Coach of the Year, but not a
poor coach. But if you were to say, give me
the coach that get gets the Knicks over the hump,
Mike Brown isn't coming to the name right at the
top of my list.

Speaker 3 (01:27:52):
Mike Brown is like the bridge guy that you hired
that you're gonna fire in a couple of years when
you're rebuilding.

Speaker 1 (01:27:57):
To me, it's an upgrade over like a JB. Bickerstaff,
if you will.

Speaker 3 (01:28:00):
I mean, he's a good defensive coach, but he's got
huge offensive limitations and struggles to win in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (01:28:07):
That's that. That's Tom Demdona to a t. What's that
meme where the guys get the shirt for Christmas and
it's his shirt he's wearing. I'm gonna post that. Yeah,
I mean be like, you know ross uh going out
with a girl for a long time from Minnesota and
then dropping her for a girl from Iowa. I mean,

(01:28:27):
it is what it is. Feed him right in Midwest.

Speaker 12 (01:28:32):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (01:28:34):
Maybe not the greatest analogy, but you can get I've
heard worse, I guess. Yeah, I know, this is a
guy who tanks Sacramental kings.

Speaker 7 (01:28:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:28:45):
Well I was like he was trying to tank them.
That's not hard. Well yeah, Mike, Mike Brownish, I mean, okay,
I don't know if Nick fans are gonna maybe how
Spike Lee feeling about this. You can't be encouraged. It
was a mid higher He could have done worse, you know,

(01:29:07):
you know, you know what is he the Burger King
of NBA coaching?

Speaker 7 (01:29:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:29:10):
He gets you there. I mean he gets to the playoffs.
He's not bad, he's above replacement level. But yeah, I mean,
you got a chance to get in and out and
you get Burger King.

Speaker 3 (01:29:22):
I don't think he's a better coach than Tom Thibodau
at all.

Speaker 1 (01:29:25):
No, I don't even I don't think so either, And.

Speaker 3 (01:29:27):
I don't think Tims is like the greatest coach ever.
But no, I mean very volatile, Yeah, fired by the King.

Speaker 1 (01:29:33):
How many? How many teams have fired Mike Brown, Lakers, Calves,
Sacramento Calves have fired him twice and the Kings. Wow, okay,
let's call sixty six WFA and get the latest news.
This is unbelievable. This is the best fumble. No, this

(01:29:58):
is tabrible. Why couldn't you got a ninety one year
old You be Brown with the Patrick Ewing as his
top assistant.

Speaker 19 (01:30:06):
Hey, you to New York Knicks. You gotta make a
move for email Udoka. You do whatever it takes. You
fire Tom Taboudeau and you end up with Mike Brown.
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (01:30:17):
Give me a cadesh and that is the news. At
noon twelve sixteen on Sports Talk seven ninety, we just
gave you seventy five seconds of terrible WF an and
I apologize for that. We'll make it up to you,

(01:30:38):
all right, So we need to talk about this. At
twelve twenty three, how do you want to handle this?
Ross the fromber from the Yordan updates? We're gonna get
one probably in a couple days. Daniel Brown's in the
earlier today uros Sports Talk seventy. I mean you want
to completely ignore let's bury our heads in the same respect.
I don't want to say ignore, but I also don't

(01:30:59):
want to go. Oh, he gave us some optimistic news
that it should be any day now that's clearly not
the case.

Speaker 3 (01:31:04):
No, I we'll just see what they say and go
from here. Man, it's gonna be all right. Either he's
in the lineup or he's not. We'll move on. They've
they've done alright without him for two months now. Wasn't
it May second the last game he played? Uh yeah,
May second or May third or something like that. I
think he one of the injury lists officially made.

Speaker 1 (01:31:25):
The fifth sink him to mile And yes, well he's
not celebrating, or at least he's using his offhand. I'm
sure he can still cut things ross. I don't think
he's like he's putting it in a bubble wrap.

Speaker 3 (01:31:44):
Okay, Well he's going to we're going on a hand
specials number four? Is he going back to one of
the other guys?

Speaker 1 (01:31:53):
Don't? I mean, how many more do you look at?
I mean, it's let me ask you this, and I'm
again we're just trying to deduce things here. Yes, you
go to four hand specials. That must be severe. Whatever's
going on, it's not good.

Speaker 3 (01:32:05):
But yeah, they thought he was recovering.

Speaker 1 (01:32:08):
He was swinging, apparently hitting rockets all over the place
on Saturday. They're like, oh great, we'll get some live VP,
get you some good looks in. I think it was
kind of a compromise between rehab and going to a
minor league rehab assignment and being as immediately inserted in
the lineup, is what I mean. That's just me kind
of guessing. Yeah, yeah, I mean somebody when is somebody

(01:32:28):
going to say, all right, look, the other people have
misdiagnosed this and I've got their result for you, or
one of them is going to say, you want to
find an opinion you didn't want to hear, and I'm
here to tell you that you need to have something
more severe done, surgery, whatever the case might be.

Speaker 3 (01:32:44):
This is another question that's going to be medically above
both of our heads. But like when it's an actual fracture,
when it's like muscular or bone, how much wiggle room
is there in a second opinion, Right, it's a fractured
or it's not. There's this injury or there's no right, Yeah,
I feel like maybe there's more gray area when it's

(01:33:05):
something immune, no related or organ related, but or if
it's like veins and artery exactly, it feels like if
it's either his hands fractured or it ain't right. I mean,
but again, this is me dumbing perhaps dumbing it down.

Speaker 1 (01:33:18):
I don't know. I'm not an expert. And we apologize
we are dumbing this down because because what else are
we supposed to do. We're not doctors, we're sports people.
We barely know sports. We're not gonna know medicine. But
as far as I'm concerned, when he shows up, I'll
be happy. I'm optimistic, optimistic, not gonna be I'm not optimistic.

(01:33:41):
I can't lie to you. I'm not optimistic. I am
Dana Brown. Why what is giving you optimism whatsoever? What
is help me out with this? You walk me through this,
Dana Brown? Is he gonna be out for the season? No? No, yeah,
what's up? He didn't say yes? He might be going nuts?

(01:34:01):
I know, but I'm look, I have to say that.
I mean, I'm i If I'm in Dana's spot, I
said the exact same thing. Oh no, no, no, possible
chance he could say, we're looking into it. Your company
twenty five percent in profits. Any chance to layoffs, Oh no,
We'll keep everybody around.

Speaker 3 (01:34:19):
You can say it's too early to say, but we're
optimistic that that's not going to happen. There's there are
ten different ways he could have answered, uh that and
not just unequivocally said no, but of course I will
on your side. We can say that Dana Brown has
been very optimistic about injuries before that have turned out.
That is optimism, just there was no grounds for it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:38):
All right, let's go to Mike and Cyprus or twelve
twenty seven on the Matt Thomas J. Old Ross, Mike,
good afternoon, Thank you for waiting.

Speaker 6 (01:34:45):
Hey, guys, I called a couple of weeks ago on
a Friday, whenever you're on vacation, Matt and talk to
Ross about this subject, about how frustrated and what's going
on with the astros doctors. And yesterday when Adams for
talking about you know, what had happened that's going back
and forth with my friends, said well what is going

(01:35:06):
on here? So it's spent a couple of hours I
was pondering it, and this is going to go over
the heads of many people that are younger in the audience.
But Matt, you remember, uh, I think what the astros
are doing, they've probably bought a bunch of those time
life books that were selling on the Channel twenty six
late at night then how to deal with hands and
how to fix your toilet and whatever. And I've come

(01:35:27):
to the conclusion that that's what they're going off of
right now, because how idiotic is that this guy hasn't
seen the absolute best doctors that we have and one
of the greatest medical cities in the world. It just
baffles me. It's just completely vulnerable to the way situation.

Speaker 1 (01:35:42):
Hold up, Mike, Mike, Mike, hold on, how do you
not know that?

Speaker 6 (01:35:46):
How do I not know that they're using how do
you know that they're.

Speaker 1 (01:35:48):
Not they're not seeing the best specialists? Who I mean,
I've never heard one s brought up.

Speaker 6 (01:35:54):
Well, it's been going on. No, it's been going on
for a while now, man, I mean you all went
to indicate that there was multiple hands specialists. I mean
at three at this point three, yes, Okay, what the heck?
I mean, what's going on? It's a hand it was
I can't they can't diagnose a broken leg, I know,
imaging and all that stuff. But good god, it was

(01:36:14):
two months later that it took to find ovate a
broken leg on Tucker. I mean, this is crazy, and
I look, I'm happy that we're winning. I'm not complaining
about that, but this is this is our man. I mean,
he's we need him if you know, once we do
get to the playoffs and win the division, probably the
al Uh division, I mean, the best record of the ale.
But I'm optimistic. What in the heck is I just

(01:36:38):
don't see it. It's been going on for not just
this isn't a new situation, had hand issues before, I
don't know, just the.

Speaker 1 (01:36:44):
Last a second, Mike, let's do let's do this and
we deduce this. If you have a multi million dollar
player who is such a huge pivotal part of your organization,
do you, okay, in your heart of hearts, do you
really believe the Astros would have gone to the ACME
School of hand Specialist? Do you do you really really

(01:37:07):
believe that?

Speaker 17 (01:37:09):
Well?

Speaker 6 (01:37:10):
I don't, but I don't want to believe that. But
it's just not making sense that it doesn't.

Speaker 10 (01:37:14):
Well, that situation seems to be approving.

Speaker 1 (01:37:17):
Here's the thing, it's a boy who cried wolf situation
where the Astros downplayed the Kyle Tucker situation, and they
have downplayed other injuries in the past and it's come
back to hurt them to create skepticism. And Mike, I
would have to say, and I want to put words
in your mouth, but I believe you are extremely skeptical
of what you're hearing and I can't change your mind

(01:37:39):
about that. And in some regards, I don't blame you
for that. I'm just trying to be at least partly
responsible in saying that the Astros have the ability to
go get anybody they want to. This is a very
important player to them, a huge part of them going
from being just a playoff team to potentially a World
Series champion. They're not going to slow play this. They're

(01:38:03):
not going to go telling to put some uh antibiotic
equipment on the hand and say grow up and take
some adville. They're trying to figure this out. Do they
give us the details and fast they want to do?
They hide some things. There's been evidence of that in
the past. I cannot argue with that, and I would
agree with you on.

Speaker 11 (01:38:18):
That, but let me guess that was the original reason
why I called that. Friday is because I was like, man,
what is the big deal here? If he's really hard
he needs answers or something like that, what are we
going to do is to get a change the way
other teams are playing. It's I think they are over.

Speaker 6 (01:38:31):
Playing to keep everything close. Remember it's just me. Come on,
if he's hit the cut, he's out.

Speaker 1 (01:38:36):
I'd lastly that if Jordan was not feeling good. Think
about this last part, Mike. If Jordon wasn't feeling good,
do you think he would have jumped on a plane
and said, yeah, I want to go hit baseballs in Florida.

Speaker 6 (01:38:48):
For a week with you. I think he wants to
be out there.

Speaker 1 (01:38:53):
Definitely, he wants to be out there. Yeah, thanks Mike
for the phone call. And I again, I do not
disagree with your skepticism. It's warranted. The Astros have had
a problem and there, and that's why I don't know
Ross if you think this is they have been more
forthcoming with their injuries in the last two weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:39:10):
Yeah, they've been giving updates and it's been spouted out
by the the Beat reporters who follow them, it's been
in their media notes. This is they they have They
recognize the criticism they heard it as far as the
lack of updates and lack of transparency, and I can
go to literally yesterday's I was reading a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:39:29):
Of it off on the pregame.

Speaker 3 (01:39:31):
There was extensive updates on Arraghetti and Luis Garcia, Christian Javier.

Speaker 1 (01:39:36):
Jordon was on there.

Speaker 3 (01:39:37):
Unfortunately, they talked about him reporting to to Live BP
in Florida and de Zenzo's not hitting and all it's
it's updates with everything.

Speaker 1 (01:39:44):
They're being more transparent. They they heard, they heard it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:48):
The criticism.

Speaker 1 (01:39:49):
Yep, But Jordon is not jumping on a plane and
flying to South Florida because he hears Joe's Crabshack's got
a special on crabs tonight. He wants to go out
and hit the baseball. It is not Joe's Tolkravit said,
it's just Joe Stone crab, not Joe's Cramshack.

Speaker 3 (01:40:03):
Yeah, don't crack the crabs with your hands.

Speaker 1 (01:40:05):
He gored on. Yeah, all right, uh, twelve thirty two
Sports Talk seven and he went a little long here.
But I thought it was a good conversation.

Speaker 3 (01:40:11):
And again I understand a lot of folks, like the
previous caller, are You're in the same spot. Wake me
up when he's there, and that's my philosophy, wake me
up when he's parting to play. The updates are cool,
but only really a handful of people know when he's
really able to go. Jordan and the hamd Doctors, which
apparently are now four.

Speaker 1 (01:40:27):
Of them twelve thirty two, Sports Talk seven, Houy, Maybe
he's not feeling his very best Ross. You never know
these things. Maybe he needs a little extra energy boost
to get that hand feeling better. Twelve thirty seven, And
he's mad at ross with you till two o'clock today.
I'm still Mike Brown, the Newton Coats and Knicks. Wow,

(01:40:52):
it's notinally that, it's that you fired the guy that
brought you to the East finals and the East is
wide open right to where I mean, they got to
be the second favorite behind the Calves, and you fired
him for Mike Brown. So let's do this real quick.
If we go back to the phones, what coach could

(01:41:13):
you have picked up that wasn't under contract, that would
have been available, that would have been a stark improvement
over Mike.

Speaker 3 (01:41:22):
Yeah, that would be Yeah, It's it's always tough to say.
I mean, let's see, I don't know how you feel
about Taylor Jenkins.

Speaker 1 (01:41:34):
Taylor here here the candidates, Michael Malone formerly Denver, Taylor
Jenkins formerly of Memphis. Jay Wright was a thought perhaps
the former Villanova coach. Yeah, but I don't think that
was realistic. I don't think it was. If I'm just
talking about these are people that would have been a
quote unquote upgrade over what Thibodeau would have brought.

Speaker 3 (01:41:51):
I would go with Malone, What about James Barrego? Who
else did they interview?

Speaker 1 (01:41:58):
You couldn't there would be noah'stant coach in the NBA
that you would hire it and go, Wow, better than Thips.

Speaker 3 (01:42:03):
I'd have to do a further investigation because clearly the
whatever Taylor Jenkins's act was got tired with the Grizzlies.
But clearly whatever TIBs act was got tired with the Knicks.
It seems Jenkins just got sideways with John Moran, John Won.
That's just that's the classic case of player over coach.
When Sam Selga ever going to get a shot with

(01:42:24):
somebody like who is Well, no that those days are done.
Sam's not getting another job in the NBA. Is a
head coach never going to get a job. He's applied
for twenty five jobs. I mean, he just he is
zero for twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:42:37):
It's crazy. Who's the number one college coach in America?
Not the guy at Florida just wanted the championship. Be
the young guy, I mean nearly the what's the Yukon
coach's name? Again?

Speaker 3 (01:42:53):
Ly Dan Hurley, but he he he said no to
the Lakers. So yeah, but he's also an East Coast guy.
Maybe he would have said yes. So the next two
they probably as you would say, Matt kicked the tire
on that.

Speaker 1 (01:43:04):
Yeah, the reality is they just had such a small
group of people. They could have been the quote unquote
oh yeah, I'm replacing TIBs for this.

Speaker 3 (01:43:11):
That's true, but this just seems wildly underwhelming. But also,
what you're what you're laying out is the best reason
to retain tips. If there's no no doubt about it,
smashed home run higher out there, then what are we
doing unless unless Jalen Brunson or whoever, or enough of
the players said we've had it with this guy, which

(01:43:33):
is possible, Which is possible.

Speaker 1 (01:43:34):
Which would think Jalen Brunson a stone cold liar, because
the day the Knicks lost a championship to the Pacers.
Brunson was asked about it and he's like, that's my coach,
that's my guy. I love this guy. Why you even
bothered and asking me this? And then forty eight hours
later or soon thereafter, you got let go? Yes? John?
In Los Angeles at twelve forty one of the Matt
Thomas showld Ross John, Good, afternoon, Hey man, you're.

Speaker 8 (01:43:58):
Doing ac text so yes, that's the LA anyway.

Speaker 6 (01:44:05):
Hey uh, you talked.

Speaker 20 (01:44:09):
About people being angry with the astro organizational the Jordan thing,
and I find myself being angry with Geordan because it's
to me, it's looking more and more like this injury
occurred in the Winter.

Speaker 1 (01:44:23):
League, not here.

Speaker 20 (01:44:26):
How you struck the season with a broken hand in
those signs of ever getting his hand.

Speaker 1 (01:44:34):
I mean he played up until the injury, John, I
I don't know what he could have done besides just
play that for maybe he played thirty games, twenty nine games, Yeah,
maybe he played.

Speaker 20 (01:44:43):
But even but ever since yeah, ever since game one,
from the get go, everybody was noticing.

Speaker 1 (01:44:50):
People around me were noticing it. What's wrong with Geordan?

Speaker 20 (01:44:52):
Why is he slinging his game?

Speaker 7 (01:44:54):
Game?

Speaker 2 (01:44:54):
One.

Speaker 1 (01:44:54):
What were people saying he was looking like she wasn't
bastly didn't say. And then what do he hit? What
did he hit fire or states ro runs? Did that?
I don't buy that.

Speaker 3 (01:45:08):
I don't buy that. People were talking about him looking
hurt from game one. He would started off the season slow.
But do you remember that?

Speaker 7 (01:45:16):
But why why are you looking slow when you already
went to spring training?

Speaker 2 (01:45:22):
It just seems like there's no signs of him ever
getting in spring training or in the in the just
with his hand he an Now it's a pressure.

Speaker 20 (01:45:33):
That's when we're looking more and want more like that.
Now two way thin' got hit by a pits.

Speaker 1 (01:45:41):
I need you to quickly wrap up what you think
you're saying. Give me, give me a one sentence answer
of what you think is going on. That these guys
are going.

Speaker 20 (01:45:50):
To the win League and playing ball, and if they
get injured, they strapped up until the season starts so
the maples can get you over here because they can't
get fished over there.

Speaker 1 (01:46:00):
So you think he was hiding an injury or he
was playing period. I think he was hiding an injury.

Speaker 20 (01:46:05):
He got injured and in winter ball and was hiding
it when he came out when started.

Speaker 1 (01:46:11):
Okay, I don't think. I don't think you're Albatze is
playing winter Ball, not that I don't think he did. Now,
could do players hide injuries? Yes, where's my guy, lou Ross?

(01:46:31):
Players do hide injuries. Yeah, they play hurt Ross, they
play through them. That is correct. This is guilty for
any of the things.

Speaker 3 (01:46:38):
Oh they said he was playing a little bit with
the hand injury. Yes, he tried to play through it
and then then he hit the.

Speaker 1 (01:46:43):
I l yeah, because I mean, the guys do play hurt,
and they want to play, and they want to succeed.
They wanted the best they can and sometimes it can
cost you. But it wasn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:46:54):
After they won the World Series, it turned out Moldonado
had a Martine Maldona had a broken hand and a
like a sports turney or something.

Speaker 1 (01:47:00):
I mean, I've called the playoff game of Larry Jitis before.
I mean, I know what it's like playing hurt, playing hurt.
You should have set that one out probably pointing is
this I have a headache. I mean that's fine. I
mean that's just made up conspiracy theory nobody was talking
about in the beginning of the season and being hurt

(01:47:21):
no now, and he never announced he was hurt until
the very very end, but we don't know how long
that was. I'm just I'm gonna I'm just gonna give
you a general statement of players can sometimes hurt their
team by playing hurt. Doesn't certainly mean that's true or
false in this particular situation. I'm just saying there were

(01:47:43):
guys that you know, wasn't wasn't there a player we
talked about recently ross that that got itmonished by the
team because he didn't announce that he was hurt. I
don't think it was my colors because that was that
had been years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:47:59):
And Astro getting in not saying he's not really ringing
a bell for me.

Speaker 1 (01:48:05):
Uh, I want to say there was a Houston athlete
that was heard that didn't that did not tell the team,
and I was trying to play through it. Was trying
to play through it. Is it pregnant with something? I
don't know, but point being, is it happens.

Speaker 3 (01:48:24):
Yeah, And like they admitted that he played a little
bit with a hard hand and that he became too
much and then they put Hyeah.

Speaker 1 (01:48:30):
But the things we're finding out right now these He
went to go hit, He went to go play, He
was to go swing. He he thought he was good.
Ord On Alvarez, this is the thing we cannot escape.
Jordon Alvarez hit off the tee. He was hitting quote

(01:48:51):
unquote rockets at dyk In Park. This weekend. He went
to go on a plane to go to West Palm Beach, Florida,
where it's hot and it's human and it's expensive. He
went to go hit and swing because he thought it
was better. He wasn't forced, he wasn't blindfolded onto a
private plane and uh was kidnapped to go down to

(01:49:15):
Florida to hit. He wanted to do it, so I
don't want to go to conspiracy and you hear, but
I think that the player felt good. And the player said, yeah,
I'll go to Florida. He wasn't going to Florida. Go yeah,
I'll show him. I'll go down there and swing and
get into more pain because they're forcing me down here.
Nobody forced him, tun nobody had a gun to his head.

(01:49:39):
He's like, I'm not going to go to Tohua Wata
get a bunch of uh sub sandwiches. I like Houston
food much Better twelve forty six on Sports Talk seven
nine twelve fifty two. Matt and Ross with you on
Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three, two, one two
five seven at nine zero. A couple of folks are

(01:50:03):
saying the Rockets are gonna wave Jack Landell and still
looking to move Cam Wentmore in a potential trade. I
would say zero surprise on both, would you agree? Ross? Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:50:16):
Uh no, I'm sorry No, not a surprise. That's to
see you later on both.

Speaker 1 (01:50:20):
I imagine. Yeah. I My guess is whit Morris for
some second rounds and Landell's just get rid of eight
million dollars. Nice guy. Couldn't do double bigs with him though, hmmm, no,
wish him the best. By the way, a lot of

(01:50:42):
folks are like, man, why do you have all these
centers because because Steven Adams, I'm gonna play any two
games sorries. It's not. And the reality is Clint cappellate
greater than Jack Landell. Yes, especially if you do and
you can play Clint Cappell at the double with the
double big spot where you couldn't do that with Lambdell.

Speaker 3 (01:51:01):
I mean, I mean they did it a little bit,
but it's just not anyone.

Speaker 1 (01:51:06):
Jock. Jock is just not as good as Steven Adams.
Nice guy though, I mean super guy. M h call
me mate. He's like, oh yeah, what a great term
of endearment from him. I mean so far, im mate?
Was it you people got mad when you?

Speaker 3 (01:51:21):
People got mad at you when you said mate about
h Steven Adams and they're like, he's not Austra and
he's he's from New Zealand.

Speaker 1 (01:51:27):
It's like, yeah, he still says mate. Now they both
say mate.

Speaker 3 (01:51:31):
Yeah, but was that you people were getting mad at
when you were posting on Twitter or something?

Speaker 1 (01:51:34):
That was this somebody else? I don't think so. I
don't think i'd mad about that. No, people got mad
at you and they were wrong. That happens on the
internet sometimes. Oh you're telling me the people go on
Twitter giving me Rodings information?

Speaker 7 (01:51:44):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:51:47):
Yeah, Uh, Jabari called me boss. Okay, that's day. At
least he calls you something. I have not been called
my name by anybody on the current team. What about
big Dog? What's up a big dog? No, I've gotta
know That's what I said. Everybody, Yeah, what's up? Chief?

(01:52:10):
You know who? We don't Ryan Holland says, and I'm
not trying to talk out of school on this, Broski,
my guy, Okay, what's up, my guy? I like that
that works, Like I like, I will randomly tech, I'll
randomly text him NBA names and he'll go, my guy. Well,
they're all his guy. As a matter of fact, broadcast
he played everyone everybody on the planet. Let's do this.

(01:52:32):
You give me a NBA player in the last fifteen years, Ross,
and let's find out if Ryan Hollins calls him a
my guy or not. I would it would say, you
probably get a ninety eight percent hit rate. Yeah, it's
it's it's it's at least ninety percent. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:52:45):
Maybe there's some guy from Latvia who played like two games,
and then he wouldn't know that guy.

Speaker 1 (01:52:49):
No, no, we don't need that. Yeah, so lets still
let's let's let's try this. Give me give me somebody
you would, Oh, you're gonna text him? Yeah, I'm gonna
you give me the name random NBA player from the
last ten years. Mm hmmm.

Speaker 2 (01:53:02):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:53:04):
Corey Brewer feels like that's an easy one. No, it's
too easy.

Speaker 3 (01:53:07):
Yeah, I know, I'm trying to think of like kind
of like he uh, Tory bragg.

Speaker 1 (01:53:16):
Who exactly all right, what's b r A g g
g S.

Speaker 3 (01:53:24):
I'm sorry, Brags, Tory Braggs t.

Speaker 1 (01:53:26):
O r r e y t O r r A
y e.

Speaker 8 (01:53:31):
This is it.

Speaker 1 (01:53:32):
I have never heard of this. T O r r
A y e.

Speaker 3 (01:53:37):
Tory Braggs rockets a legend b r Okay, I thought
this was more. This wasn't really that recent. This is
from two thousand and five, so maybe he doesn't know him.

Speaker 1 (01:53:45):
Okay, well, im'na give you another name. I'm gonna let
you work out. Let's go to Nick on one another guy,
Nick on seven? Artie, Hi, Nick, Hey, how are you doing?
Matt Ross doing a great show. Thank you.

Speaker 21 (01:53:57):
So I'm gonna do the Brian Windhorstinger conspiracy thing for
a second, so please. We signed Durant, traded for Durant,
and I was like, okay, now we're all set. We
can sign Jabbari, we can extend, we can sign Tari.

Speaker 1 (01:54:13):
And we can roll with that group.

Speaker 21 (01:54:16):
Immediately after the Jabbari extension came down and I was like,
all right, cool, that's step one, and we haven't heard
anything about Tari yet. And then there was the Cam
Whitmore shopping around rumors? So am I crazy to think
that maybe we've already agreed to some type of sign

(01:54:36):
and trade with a team involving Tari Easton? And if not,
why did we go out and signed Finny Smith when
I feel like Tari should have gotten those minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:54:47):
Doesn't mean a Tari's not can get those minutes. I
don't think I think Tarr Easton can play more minutes
than during Finnie Smith. Is Well, isn't Tari and Jabbari?

Speaker 21 (01:54:55):
I mean they were They were the same draft class, right,
so it shouldn't Tari be extended?

Speaker 7 (01:55:00):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:55:00):
Yeah, it doesn't mean it though? Yeah? Yeah with Jabari?
Did it actually a year earlier than you're supposed to?

Speaker 2 (01:55:08):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:55:08):
Okay, so they technically have one more But isn't if
I thought that it was like if they like a player,
they generally don't wait to that last year.

Speaker 1 (01:55:16):
They'll generally just go ahead and do it. You know,
a year early. Well, you can become a restricted free
agent and then you have to match the offer of
another team. They just got ahead of the curve a
little bit. Doesn't mean the Tari won't get a deal
done either. I mean it could happen in two days.
It could happen in two weeks, could happened next season,
I don't know, but yeah, I wouldn't read too much
into that. Okay, awesome, all right, well, thank you very much,
thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:55:36):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:55:36):
The only thing I would say is, if you are
going to go for Jannis, which I don't believe they're
going to, you would then want to not one extent,
So maybe would Tari be in a conversation with with
the Bucks. I mean my guess would be yes.

Speaker 3 (01:55:50):
Yeah, if you're gonna get he's a he's a good
tradable asset.

Speaker 1 (01:55:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:55:54):
And Matt, we don't know what goes on in the
inner you know, circle of Udoka Raphaelstone conversation just about
guarantee you any conversation with Dookah's having with Ruhelstone. He's saying,
I want I want Tari Eastan on this team.

Speaker 1 (01:56:07):
I think Tarry Easton. I wouldn't say it's untouchable. No,
I wouldn't put him in the n touchable category. Good
and you're not doing that. I would put him in
a pretty high tier though. Okay. For the top of
the hour, mac in pairland on seven on a handlemac.

Speaker 22 (01:56:22):
Hey, the anti leadoff batter. I submit it's number eight,
not number nine, because usually number nine you like them
to get a little something going when the top of
the line out comes up. And if you look at
who's been hitting eighth for us lately, it's either Tamul
or Hobel or Hubble and Trammel or whatever they want

(01:56:43):
to call themselves anyways, and then can Kevin Durant play
the two?

Speaker 11 (01:56:53):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:56:55):
Okay, but now I'll say this. I'll say this, there
are a bunch of an emas offense in Lodge part
in the NBA. You're not defining spots anymore.

Speaker 10 (01:57:07):
Yeah, I agree with that.

Speaker 1 (01:57:10):
You don't have a true true two guard on this
basketball team because a men Thompson can play point, he
can play two, he can play the four. I mean,
your two guy is your catch and shoot wing, and
the Rockets don't per se have that. I mean even
Dorian Finney Smith is not bad at this point. You
can shoot the three ball. But there is not anybody
and there's not tari It's not a men. I mean,

(01:57:33):
Dylan Brooks was as close as you had to that
on this on the Rockets roster last year.

Speaker 22 (01:57:38):
Unless Shepherd steps up or whatever, so last year they
signed Sagoon, Chagoon and Green to extensions, right, And I
remember reading at that point somewhere somebody it sets them
up to make them part of a trade package. And
sure enough, so here you got Javari being signed up

(01:57:59):
for extension. Is it possible that that they're making it
convenient if they need some money to trade, that they
could do that.

Speaker 1 (01:58:08):
I'm gonna let you go on that note because I
believe you have to ross help me out with us.
I think you have to wait a certain length of
time after you sign somebody. Yes, there is a waiting
period on that five Sports Talk seven U eighty. Hey,
I was gonna try to give a little more clarification
to the previous caller about the contracts and when you
can trade them, and my head hurts. I I really

(01:58:33):
wanted to give you a nice, simple explanation. I would
suggest googling, because it's so convoluted. Again, there's some rules
that say you have to wait sixty days or some day.
There's some rules that say that players don't have to
there's some old dated things on. I mean, it would

(01:58:54):
have to it'd have to call Rafel and I don't
he's busy right now. I don't want to. I don't
want to do that to him. So I would just
say in a broad brush that Jabari Smith was signed
for an extension because the Rockets wanted to keep him
as a Houston Rocket, not to use him as part
of a trade. And Ross I still believe at the

(01:59:15):
end of the day, I think you're if Giannis just
leaves Milwaukee. I think he stays in the Eastern Conference.
I think he knows coming to the West in ain't easy. Mmmm.

Speaker 3 (01:59:25):
No, yeah, you know I want him out of the Yeah,
stay out of the West, stay in the East. Go
you and Miles Turner tearing it up.

Speaker 1 (01:59:32):
Let's go, yeah you Yeah, Miles turn you. Miles Turner
went there because he probably can't. Don't you think Miles
would have allowed a phone called to Giannis. I think so.

Speaker 3 (01:59:42):
He wouldn't have signed if he thought that he was
going to be traded. He gotta have some kind of assurances.

Speaker 1 (01:59:47):
Although you know what though, I mean, did Miles Turner
get overpaid to go to Milwaukee? And the end of
the day, does he really care Vanna's there as long
as it getting his big bag? I don't think so.
What's he making twenty five twenty six a year for
Miles Turner. That's that's reasonable. I think would would I
don't know if Indiana would have given him.

Speaker 3 (02:00:06):
That, though probably not well. I think if Indiana would have,
you would have stayed.

Speaker 1 (02:00:11):
By the way, Indiana is going to go from an
NBA Finals team to a team that may make the
play in next year. Injuries and free agency. The apron
comes for all. And the reality also is that Indiana
is not a place so you'd want to go. It's
not a huge free agent destination, underrated city. What I know,

(02:00:32):
you're sure you're like that.

Speaker 17 (02:00:33):
I was.

Speaker 3 (02:00:33):
Everybody's all mad at that w NBA player that said
that she's mad that nobody wants to go to Cleveland
and Detroit, And of course everybody from Cleveland Detroit is like, it's.

Speaker 1 (02:00:43):
A wonderful city. What's wrong with you? Everywhere? Loveland. Let
me tell you, chur it's my hometown. It sucks. Yeah,
it's it's not a sexy destination. It is what it is.

Speaker 3 (02:00:58):
Nor is Cleveland. I think it was Tris It's okay.
Tristan Thompson was defending Cleveland. I think it was Tristan
Thompson was yeah, Well, he's also trying to get Chloe
back in his life.

Speaker 1 (02:01:09):
I think he said it's a good place to find
side pieces. I think ooh, I felt personal. By the way,
real quick, before we go back to the baseball, the
Astros the Rockets, I should say, remain ooh did you
see this one from the unnamed website? Second favorite to
win the NBA Championship behind Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City is

(02:01:32):
plus two to fifty, which is two and a half
to one. The Rockets are plus eight to fifty. That's
eight and a half to one. Wow, So you're telling
me there's a chance I've taken over for Cleveland, Denver,
and New York are all nine to one. Now, if
you're honest moves that obviously changes things, correct. But if
you're honest, what to san Antonio does it make? Does

(02:01:53):
that make him a title contender tomorrow? I guess how much?
With depending on how ch don't you give up? But
if it's Wimby and you're honest, my goodness, how's anybody
in the score. Those two guys can stand right there
the paint and cover the whole three point line. Are
we ever going to convince Adam Klant that that Wemby's

(02:02:15):
a pretty good basketball player.

Speaker 3 (02:02:16):
It doesn't matter. I don't need to convince him of anything.
He's didn't hold on. Wasn't Wemby at twenty five and
ten last year?

Speaker 1 (02:02:23):
Yeah, but he had thrombosis.

Speaker 3 (02:02:25):
He got the thrombosis.

Speaker 1 (02:02:26):
That's not good. Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (02:02:27):
Twenty four point three points, twenty four to eleven and
defensive Player of the Year caliber.

Speaker 1 (02:02:32):
Yeah, I'm sorry. That's great, it's really good.

Speaker 6 (02:02:35):
What else?

Speaker 1 (02:02:36):
What else do you want me to say? Yeah? I
mean again, I think I think if you if Wemby's
were in a Rocket uniform, you love him. He can
he's wearing Spur gear. You want him to get thrombosas
every year? Well, I don't want him to get thrombosis
every year. I don't want them to be the guy.
I mean, you get some hang nails. Hang nails, Yeah,

(02:02:58):
devastating once I can't dribble the ball. Yeah, he gets funky. Yeah, amputation. Perhaps,
I don't want him to get anything amputated. Okay, whatever
will be will be. But he is already excellent.

Speaker 3 (02:03:13):
And I mean literally, watch five minutes of a game
he's on the floor and how he affects things on
the defensive end. Guys are there's whole compilations already two
years into his career of guys who don't take fast
break layups because Wimby's lurking behind.

Speaker 1 (02:03:28):
Yeah, that's right, they wait for teammates. Not only does
he block the most shots in the league, he affects
the most shots and and and gets people deters the
most shots. His impact is massive. Yep, all right, Well
to eleven on Sports Talk seven on you look, we're
not We're not Promby, We're just Weby. I don't be real.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (02:03:48):
I I know I'm on in front of a microphone
in Houston, Texas, but I'm I'm gonna be honest with
you folks.

Speaker 1 (02:03:52):
But boobs, but boo spurs boo, That's all I'm saying. Yeah,
I don't suck it Spurs. I want him to lose,
but suck at Spurs. We also have to, as one
Matthew Thomas would say, deal in realities. Yes, we got
a deal in realities. All right. We have some realities
on what's going on with Jordan Alvarez. We have some
realities that your astros beat the Rockies. Do you know

(02:04:14):
that the Royals beat the Mariners last night in Seattle?
Does see how'll ever win any home games? They every
time I look at the scoreboard, they're losing there. I
don't know. They suck. Quick show of hands. How many
of you had the Astros with a seven game lead
July second, twenty twenty five? Raise your hand, right, rockies?
I mean, excuse me. The Mariner is still the only

(02:04:35):
other team in the division above five hundred. Are we
sure that Joe Aspota can't jump over a J. Hinch
for American League Manager of the Year? Absolutely could. There
are two games back of them right now. But I'm
talking about even Let's say that the standings ended the
way they ended, where the troit was the one seed
the Astros with the two seed. You don't think Joe
couldn't get manager of the year just off of the

(02:04:56):
fact that the team is doing what it's doing with
all the injuries. That would be I mean, if the
Tigers win one hundred, I don't know. I'd have to
look at the paces. And probably the reason why Joe
wouldn't get it is because the as what are the
Astros done for a better part of eight years? Go
to playoffs every year.

Speaker 3 (02:05:11):
Yeah, but yeah, for people who are paying attention, and unfortunately,
for a lot of these awards voting people aren't paying attention. Correct,
it's been great, but I will stay consistent. A lot
of it does come down to the players. The players
have been great. The bullpen has been amazing. But of course,
and Joe's done a good job of putting them in
positions to succeed. But they've also done their jobs and.

Speaker 1 (02:05:34):
They are performing at levels that none of us thought O.
Kurt Susa King, Walter, Taylor, Scott, Gordon. No, you can't
mention Taylor Scott. No, me doesn't count. He's your buddy.
I'm wishing him the best. It's funny, you know, here's
the rule. If you're your buddy Matt Thomas show, you

(02:05:56):
probably wound up being DFA.

Speaker 3 (02:06:01):
Where is he these days? Did somebody get he elected?
Free agency?

Speaker 1 (02:06:05):
He's an American citizen. Now maybe he's uh, that's good.
Maybe he's selling flags or something. I don't know. Just
don't be certainly. We're we're we're easy loving guys. We
root for you. We have these we have these interviews
with these players. We throw softballs at him.

Speaker 3 (02:06:19):
Oh, he's with the he's on the Diamondbacks major league
or minor league roster. He's been, He's thrown six games
at the major league level.

Speaker 1 (02:06:26):
He's got a nine e RA A. He has a
nine ERA with the Diamondbacks. Yes, oh my god, I
hope you said that, paycheck. It's probably not. Yeah, he
can find something. Will Dana Brown have to find something?

(02:06:47):
What do you mean? That's that's to me? The whole
Yordance situation is that this probably says I can't wait
for him until I get the definitive word, which who
the hell knows what the definitive ward is. I can't
rely on jord On being my acquisition if I don't
know when it's coming back. That if I need a

(02:07:07):
left handed bat and my manager, my team needs a
left handed bat, I can't wait for Yordon to come back.

Speaker 3 (02:07:13):
Oh, by the way, earlier today Taylor Scott was outrighted
at Triple A by the Diamondback Oh.

Speaker 1 (02:07:23):
Hmm. Thoughts and prayers wishing him the best. Imagine playing
where's their Triple A? Probably tuson my guests Reno. That's
gonna blow up as he are.

Speaker 3 (02:07:33):
Yeah, ball flies out of Reno. Good gambling, but nine
every time the Space Cowboys playing a reno. The games
are like fifteen to twelve.

Speaker 1 (02:07:40):
Congratulations. Bryce Matthews went nine to eleven with seven home
runs in the Space Cowboys. Big one, by the way,
shout out to Bryce Matthews making now the top one
hundred prospects in minor league baseball. Yes, you're stealing my
path to future success. On today's Astros on Deck show, Matt,
are you doing back to back on decks? Yes, I am. Wow.

(02:08:03):
Late night too, seven seven forty starts times you get
off the air last night, eleven thirty. Which did you
got time to go to bed. That's a personal question, Matt.
I don't know. Probably at two. We gotta get you
to bed earlier. I'm trying. I'm working on it, trying.
I've known you for fifteen years. You never go to
bed before like that. That's not true. I got I

(02:08:26):
was good for like a week, like two weeks ago.
I don't know what happened. I must have been at
peace that week because it was eleven o'clock one time
in fifteen one week out of the last fifteen weeks.
Oh no, I was around midnight. But that's still really good. Okay,
all right, Dana did speak today to Sean. If you
missed some of that, we'll play a couple of sound
bites coming back. Jordan going to see another specialist. Details

(02:08:48):
in that shortly one fifteen on Sports Talk seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero
seven one three two one two five seven ninety we
have a chance of it with Brian bogus Sevic every weekend.
That's eleven o'clock on Wednesdays. If you missed it earlier today,
it's a damn shame that you did. But we'll have

(02:09:08):
some of the best of that conversation coming up in
about ten minutes here on Sports Talk seven. And did
you hear Dana Brown at nine thirty this morning sports RV? Yes,
I did, or at least the clips that we have
afterts after the fact. Would you like to.

Speaker 7 (02:09:28):
Sure?

Speaker 6 (02:09:28):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (02:09:29):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (02:09:30):
A lot of things going on, of course, Uh, you
know what, we haven't played this one. This is We
spent a lot of time talking about Jordon and rightfully so,
and we played the audio a couple of times. Dana
Brown doesn't think it's going to be season long for
jord On. Here's what he has to say about the
prognosis of Jeremy Pinia.

Speaker 7 (02:09:49):
Yeah, just I'm talking to Penya. He's already starting to
feel better. It's a ten day al that will go
through the ten days he is with the club, and
as long as he starts to feel better over the
next few days, he may start some baseball activity, with
hitting being the last one. And so he's already doing

(02:10:11):
some exercises and getting treatment and so, I mean the
Pina one, we feel confident that, you know, he's gonna
be fine. It's just gonna take you know, some time
and some rest, you know, for that little small fracture
to heal, and once he feels good enough that he
can go, you know, according to the doctor, there's no

(02:10:34):
chance to do any more damage. So once he feels,
you know, good enough to go, we'll start to let
him take some swings. And so I feel out very
optimistic that this won't be too long.

Speaker 1 (02:10:45):
Dana Brown's optimistic. Matthew, I'm not commenting. You're trying to
sucker me in. I never set you up. I've never
set you up once on this show. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:11:03):
All right, So this is an important one because this
has come up and a lot of people are putting
the medical staff of the astros under fire and all
that good stuff. Is this the first time yourd On
Alvarez has seen a specialist?

Speaker 7 (02:11:17):
No, he's seen He's seen three specialists. So, uh, we've
we've had guys on this. You know, this is as
I mentioned, this is more of the complexity of the
hand itself.

Speaker 6 (02:11:29):
And so.

Speaker 7 (02:11:31):
You know, he's he's getting the best of care. You know,
It's it's like anything else. You've got to figure out
what this problem is. And I think, you know, we're
digging deep, you know, to get to the bottom line.
And I feel like, you know, this specialist that I'm
actually looking forward to see, you know what this is

(02:11:53):
going to this diagnosi it's going to be.

Speaker 1 (02:11:57):
He's looking forward to it.

Speaker 10 (02:12:00):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (02:12:00):
I don't think I'm gonna like what I'm gonna hear.
It's gonna be all right, Well at some point, I
mean what you just said is not an Erronian statement.
It's going to be all right? Does that mean in
a month, two months or February twenty twenty six, it's
okay to think that it's not what we want. It's

(02:12:23):
obviously going to a severely dilute the chances of the
Astros making a really big playoff run, and they're playing
amazing baseball. When you play a good team multiple times
in a short period of time, you're gonna need as
much firepower as possible. Even if your pitching staff has
been good. In your bullpen has been amazing and the
defense has been out outstanding, and you've got some hit players,

(02:12:46):
you need some slug And the left field spot for
the Astros has not slugged anything lately. It just hasn't.
Cooper Holmes got some bombs. Yeah, Taylor Tremill not necessarily
considered a power threat among the Astros in the organization.

Speaker 3 (02:13:04):
And Joe spot is saying, we're going to see more
out too the at second with paying you down and
Dubon taking over shortstop every day.

Speaker 1 (02:13:12):
And we like Dubon, we do. I mean, look, he's
the only utility player.

Speaker 3 (02:13:16):
But he better not get hurt because I don't know
who's gonna play short then.

Speaker 1 (02:13:19):
Yeah, oh God, be up with these guys in bubble wrap.
But the reality is this, You're now going to have
to ask Dana to go get something via trade, and
I just don't know. Dana's already been literally to do
it two years in a row. Do you understand that, Yeah,
he gave up a lot. I mean he doesn't want

(02:13:40):
to he does. This is not what he likes to do.

Speaker 3 (02:13:42):
You've already got the twenty ninth best system in baseball.

Speaker 1 (02:13:46):
Yeah, but as I talked about this before, I think
a lot of that is overrated because if you don't,
if you have the twenty ninth out of thirty best
major minor league systems, I mean, you can't go to
it and help you out. The Astras have used the
minor leagu system to their advantage.

Speaker 3 (02:13:57):
Yeah, they have, but it's they don't have a bunch
of there's noting that they stock with.

Speaker 1 (02:14:00):
I mean, correct, you don't have extra guys that you
can throw in his part of the trades and go, well,
I'm missing, are are exact? We're still full of talent
up and down the list.

Speaker 3 (02:14:08):
The top systems have guys that are huge trade ships
or who are banging on the door or you know,
I mean even a couple of years away and thought
of as as top one hundred guys. Yeah and yeah,
well it's nice to have the Ryan Gustos, the Golden Gordon's,
and the who are Brandon Walter's of the world. I mean,
those guys e Ras are hovering around five. It's not
like they're coming up here and shutting everything down.

Speaker 1 (02:14:31):
And another thing is do you address pitching at all,
not knowing what the guys behind him and who are
in the injured list? I mean, what do we what
is Lance mean? Lancema Colors got bombed against Chicago not
I mean, it can't. It can't. He can't bounce back
from that because he's done that. But there's no guarantee
what we're going to get from Lance in the next
two months. The only guarantees are Hunter Brown and Farmer Valdez.

(02:14:54):
It pitched their ass off for a better part of
needs in the start of the season. Very few letdowns
between those two gents in the last eighty five games
for the Strows, thankfully. Everything else has been a huge
question part speaking question marks. What is today's edition to
believe or not? Coming up at one It'll be Mike Brown,
Mike Brown, the brand new code. Now it says the

(02:15:16):
deal has been offered. Has he accepted the offer or
is he trying to play harder player? I thought Chams
now Haines said, did cham say he was a done dealer?

Speaker 2 (02:15:23):
Or not.

Speaker 1 (02:15:27):
Let's see what Summer says they are Nicks are set
to hire Brown, expected to hire Mike Brown. Yeah, he says,
sixty minutes ago, set to hire Mike Brown, So that
would feel like that that's the case, right, And then
he followed in an hour ago he says, expected to
hire Mike Brown. So it sounds like a little minute
involved in there, right, Yeah, saying it's not done deal,

(02:15:51):
but it sounds like it's pretty close, all right. Brian
Bocacek chiming in on the Astros injury situation, chiming in
on how good they're playing, and chomming in on the
fact they have a seven game lead over the Seattle
Mariners in the American League West. That's all coming up.
Brian Bogasovic here next on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 3 (02:16:09):
Ninety Welcome back to the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
Here on Sports Talk seven ninety Ros Viria Matt Thomas
with you until two o'clock. We got believe it or not,
Mike Brown coming up right now. I wanted to bring
you some good conversation from Brian bogus Sevic joins us
Wednesdays at eleven o'clock.

Speaker 1 (02:16:30):
Always a great conversation with Bogee. So here is some
of that good stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:16:34):
Starting off talking about the injuries to Jordan Alvarez and
Jeremy Panya and how the squad just keeps on churning
out the wins.

Speaker 12 (02:16:40):
Yeah, I mean before our show yesterday, I was just
sitting around and I was drawing up a lineup of
the guys that are on the injury list for the
Astros right now. And it's really striking the amount of
talent both sides of the ball that are unavailable. So
how they continue to win, I don't know. They just
figure it out, and it's you know a lot of

(02:17:02):
guys picking up slack offensively. You know, it's Victory yesterday,
it's Cam Smith another day, it's going to be Altuve
one day. You know, they just kind of do that.
What the pitching has done is incredible. I mean, Hunter
and Fromber you talk about what aces do, I mean,
it's it's above and beyond. It's every time they go

(02:17:22):
out there just absolutely you know, unhittable and the death
that they keep showing.

Speaker 1 (02:17:27):
It's crazy.

Speaker 12 (02:17:28):
But you know, at some point you have to imagine
that there's going to be a breaking point, right at
some point, you just lose too much, or the guys
where they're picking up the slack get into a funk
or something. You know, at some point the injuries have
to stop piling up and you got to start getting
some guys healthy, which you know, we don't really know
when that's going to be at this time.

Speaker 1 (02:17:50):
East Zach Pardes has been leading off the last handful
of days. We asked this to Joe a spotty yesterday
and he's going to continue to put him in there
for the foreseeable future. But when you were drawing up
the twenty sixth man roster, even with guys being hurt,
I don't think Brian, that Eastside produce on the in
the leadoff spot was necessarily on anybody's Bengo card over
the course of the year.

Speaker 11 (02:18:10):
No.

Speaker 12 (02:18:10):
I mean, it's not the prototypical burner that you would
think of up at the top. But you know, really
what they've done, it's gotten to a point now with
so many people being out and still trying to kind
of piece together the bottom third of a lineup on
any given day, it's not necessarily about ideal lineup construction
of of who's who's the best fit at leadoff who's

(02:18:32):
who's going to be our prototypical three hole hitter or
cleanup hitter. It's just let's take the guys who are
swinging it well, you know whatever, three four or five
of those guys on any given day, and let's just
bunch them together at the top and then hopefully we
can play matchups at the bottom or pick the right
guys based on how we feel about their swing right
now in the bottom half and have that carryover, because

(02:18:54):
there is no right solution when when you're down this
many guys, not many people. There's just not enough guys
who fit that prototypical role of whatever spot you're looking for.
So let's just take the best guys, try to get
them the most that bat, and hopefully the guys at
the bottom can put some runners on base for them,
and you know, with what the pitching staff has been doing,

(02:19:16):
let's scratch across a couple of runs and hope it's enough.

Speaker 3 (02:19:19):
I want to talk about the Jeremy Payne injury real quick.
Have you ever had a rib situation like that? And
what's the recovery like as far as how much of
it's pain management and how much of it is wanting
to be one hundred percent healed, and especially for someone
like Jeremy Pine, who's not only it's about swinging the bat,
but I mean, if you're a shortstop, you've got to
be diving all around the field as well.

Speaker 12 (02:19:41):
Yeah, so I've not done a rib. I've been fortunate enough.
I've never had a major, like core oblique type of
thing either. But that being said, I mean I've had
soreness in there in those areas, and everything you do
in baseball is affected by that area. And I'm not
just talking about swinging throwing. That's obviously rotational stuff, but

(02:20:03):
you know the idea of keeping your body under control
to go down and feel the ground ball, you've got
to have a lot of core strength. You know, running
back on a fly ball and trying to keep your
eyes focused on the ball up above your head requires
a lot of core strength. So everything you do that
part of your body is engaged. So if you don't
have enough strength to do it, if you're sore in there,

(02:20:25):
it's going to be affected. And you know, you don't
want to hear this, but fortunately we're at a place
where you know you're only halfway through the season. You
do have a decent lead. You just give it time,
and you know there's nothing you can do with a
broken rib like that. You know, you can't pape it up,
you can't you know, compress it or whatever. You just
got to sit there and let it heal. And that
takes time, and you know, hopefully they can get by

(02:20:48):
for however long it is, and hopefully you know a
young guy who's in as good as shape as pain,
you know, hopefully he's a quick dealer.

Speaker 3 (02:20:56):
Brian bogas Sevic with us here on a Sports Talk
seven ninety I had to apologize to you, Brian. A
couple of weeks ago, I shorted your call your cors
Fuels numbers for twenty three with a one again for
twenty three with a one point one night ops, whoh hey.

Speaker 12 (02:21:12):
I don't remember who it was, but I can imagine
they must not have been throwing some very good pictures
out in Colorado those days.

Speaker 3 (02:21:18):
So three hits for a Christian walker in coors Field
seems like he likes it as well. Is that ever, like, uh,
something that entered your mind or or you know, the
player's mind. Hey, hey, I do pretty well in this
ballpark because it seems like it's working for Christian Walker
at least one game in.

Speaker 12 (02:21:32):
I've never come across anybody that doesn't like hitting in
that ballpark. But he's also a guy, he's spent a
ton of time in that division. He knows those pittures.
He's very comfortable hitting there, so it's not surprising that
he has a comfort level. Also, what I noticed about
his hits yesterday, Number one, they were all on fastballs.
Number two, he was really doing a good job staying

(02:21:53):
inside of him. He wasn't trying to come around and
pull any of those pitches. And the other thing, most
importantly maybe is that where they were located. They were
middle to down in the strike zone. He wasn't trying
to get up on top of those fastballs at the top.

Speaker 1 (02:22:05):
Of the zone.

Speaker 12 (02:22:06):
I Mean, he said it himself after games talking about
you know that a fastball at the top, there's one
of two ways that you can do it. You learn
how to hit it, or you learn how to not
swing at it. And if he's going to make a
concerted effort to lay off of that pitch and get
it down into the strike zone, it's just an easier pitch,
and even high velocity, it's just easier to drop the
head of the bat on a pitch down at your

(02:22:26):
size than opposed to up at your letters. So you know,
maybe that's something that can get him going a little
bit is getting on those fastballs boogie.

Speaker 1 (02:22:35):
When you've been around players that say, oh, I love
going to this stadium and hitting or I don't like
hitting this place. Were you one of those kind of
guys that said, you know what, I don't like going
to Philadelphia? I didn't enjoy playing it rigly because I
remember one of my all time favorite astros is Lansberg
them talk about it at nauseum how much he hated
playing in San Francisco. And the reason why I bring

(02:22:56):
this up is, can some guys talk themselves out of
having productive series on the road when they are already
going having a bad feeling about the venue they're about
the plan?

Speaker 10 (02:23:06):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:23:06):
Absolutely.

Speaker 12 (02:23:07):
I mean it's the same as how you feel about
your swing on a given day, right, whether whether you're
feeling good or bad, your swing's really not that far off,
and confidence a lot of times will be the tipping
point of if you're going to go out there and
feel like you're going to have a good day or
a bad day and how comfortable you are with your settings,
whether it's you know, a backdrop at a certain place,

(02:23:28):
or the shadows in the afternoon at Wrigley Field, or
the cold wind blowing in in San Francisco, whatever it is.
If you go into a game with a mindset that
I don't like hitting in this place, I don't feel
comfortable here, I don't match up well against the pitchers,
whatever it is, it definitely is going to affect you.
And it works the other way too, when you go
into a place like Colorado and most guys feel like,

(02:23:50):
not only does the ball fly, but it's a gigantic
outfielder's hits everywhere and it's just a great place to end.

Speaker 1 (02:23:57):
Carlot's your run. And I brought this up with a
game with Joe. Don't want to get your thoughts on
it as well. You've got some pitchers that, frankly, probably
a month or two ago, were just lucky to be
on a major league roster. Now they're helping this team
put together the second best record in the American League.
They're about to get into the last half of the season.
Games will mean some more chance here for the playoffs

(02:24:18):
and whatnot. And is this the same situation as a
position player, meaning that it's fun to be on a
major league team. But what's it like for a young
player who just fought his way on to be good
and to stay on this team knowing that Colton Gordon,
for example, Okay, Colton, we thank you for your service,
and now we need you to go six innings when
you can. I mean, how much more pressure does a

(02:24:40):
young first year player or a guy that has had
a little major league experience fight through the times of
This is the most I've pitched. It's the most high
leverage games I've ever been part of in my major
league career.

Speaker 12 (02:24:51):
You know, I think if a guy was good enough
to get there but not welcoming of a challenge like that,
I think a lot those guys probably would have been
weeded out along the way. It doesn't mean everybody's always
going to be successful in those situations, but I don't
know that you know, a guy could be competitive enough
to get through the minor leagues, especially with a lot

(02:25:13):
of these guys that the Astros have brought up. These
are not high draft picks. These are guys who had
to produce from day one just to stay on minor
league rosters. So these guys have been fighting for their
lives for most of their professional careers. I don't think
that any of these guys would come up and not
want to be somebody who could be pissed, who could
be pushed, you know, third time through the order, up

(02:25:33):
to one hundred pitches go out there and face the
middle of the order again, I think they welcome those
And one of the things that breeds that success as
well is that you know the Astros minor league system.
If you look, you know over the past, you know
recent history, they win a lot in the minor leagues.
You know, they those guys all won a championship in
Triple A last year. And that's certainly not the same

(02:25:55):
as doing it at the major league level, but there
are stakes. They're not guys who are out there pitching
for their era and hoping somebody gets hurt in the
big league so they can get called up. These are
guys who have been in situations where they're pitching two
wing games.

Speaker 1 (02:26:12):
All right. That again is Brian bogus Evich. You can
catch him every Wednesday at eleven o'clock live and sometimes
we get a chance to replay some of the best
of his stuff, and he always provides grand analysis here
for the show. All right, hey, I want to let
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health insurance? I would imagine so, I don't know. Do
you mean why wouldn't she Well, I mean she's got
to have something.

Speaker 3 (02:27:28):
No, she's an acrobat, she's got to have a health insurance.
Be some kind of regular, some kind of other insurance
because her career. She's losing money in her career if
she's not protecting herself.

Speaker 1 (02:27:38):
Darren Ravel says, guessing Red Panda can't get adequate insurance
for what she does, teams in the leagues should pull
together to make sure medical bills are paid and covered.
He has no idea what he's talking about, though, Darren
Revel is often off base. Okay, I mean, no, he
could be right. I'm just saying, but I mean, unless

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she's just how many of these things does she do
a year? I actually it's funny that this has come
up because I was curiously googled how much she gets
per appearance and hold on, don't can? I guess? Yes,
you can? Three thousand a game? I saw thirty five

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to one hundred to four thousand, and that's not including
lodging and travel. Okay, so she's doing how many thing
events do you think she does a year? At least fifty?

Speaker 7 (02:28:31):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:28:31):
I would say close one hundred, Yeah, okay, one fifty
times four g's. Let's even say it's three g's.

Speaker 1 (02:28:40):
It's not horrible. She's doing all right, that's not bad.
Four point fifty for working.

Speaker 3 (02:28:46):
I mean, I would imagine there's some kind of insurance
policy for her because if she she's totally out of work,
if she gets hurt.

Speaker 1 (02:28:55):
Yeah, but do you understand the greatest part of her,
her gae is it never changes. No, think about it.
It's still much Red Panda fifteen years ago, and you
watched her two weeks ago. It's the same bit. It
never changes. Mm hmm. There's no music change, there's no

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she doesn't change bikes or unicycles. She there's literally nothing
she changes. Yeah, like Barry Manilo. No, Barry changes outfits
and he changes the songs and whatnot. I mean, he's
still singing, can't smile without you, And of course I'm
singing with him, belting into the top of my lung.
That's great. That's a different issue for a different time.
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