BRICE MATTHEWS!! Astros Take The First Game Of The Series vs Diamondbacks, Jerry Jones Hates His Players ?

BRICE MATTHEWS!! Astros Take The First Game Of The Series vs Diamondbacks, Jerry Jones Hates His Players?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lunchtimers.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Matt Thomas, Thomas, Ross Vielria is the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross ten.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
O one in ah Town. Good morning and welcome to
the Brice is right. Come on down, Ross. Your team
has got a five game lead in the American League West.
Shout out to the Milwaukee Brewers. Thank you, Milliwaukee was

(00:40):
on god right for the good Lands. Yeah, thank you.
Let me just say something, what Drew Carey's fine? I
would have been significantly better. And yes, you would have
Barker's the goat may he rest. He'd be great. Matt,

(01:02):
Thank you very much. Ross. We're off to a great start.
I don't know how they've kept you down for so long. Well,
it's because I'm not a celebrity, that's true. I mean
Martin Short is hosting the new match Game. I mean, seriously,
is he in his eighties just kicked me in the
nads period? Well?

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:19):
I mean, was Bob Barker a celebrity before he got
the job. No, but he also got the job. Well,
he hosted Truth or Consequences in this late sixties a
television This is why we turned to the experts. I mean,
he wasn't a household name in nineteen seventy two, but
it took him about two years. Then he was a
householding for forty five years after that. So he did Okay, yeah,
I'm sorry. Matt Ross if the price is right called

(01:42):
me tomorrow and said, I've been trying, Bro. They won't
pick up that you need to do the show. Yes,
I would leave all of this. They've blocked my emails text.
I'm trying to get you on there, Matt. They won't
even follow you on IG. No, they won't. That's sports RV.
Don't even do that.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
I said this before, like my mom has won prices
right and yeah, yeah, so I found out what year was.
In April nineteen ninety nine, she went on the show
and met Barbarker and all stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
But she kissed him. She got him a good hut.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
I thought it was right, good hug. She was with
him just like you are.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
He didn't sexual harass her right like he did a
lot of his Barker beauty. No, that's well, he did that,
that's true, but several lawsuits. I mean, Listen didn' kiss
all of his contestants in the mouth like Richard Dawson.
Be back in the day, passion around and passing around
a canker sores. Hey, let me tell you for a while.
When they're the sexual harassment lawsuits were in him playing,
he was worked in. He he was lord all right.

(02:36):
Ian Parkinson was the sexiest one of the Barker beauties
and he picked the right Barker beauty and the price
was right for him. Well, also the price was right
for the settlement out of court. That's true. Do you
think they do? You think they negotiated yo on the
settlement and it kept on going up. She says, he
said you I want to see your planko and she

(02:56):
said it's gonna cost you. Yeah, we could do games.
We could do prices, right references for the entire four hours.
I mean, I would love it. I think it would
lose the audience, but that's fine. I'd rather talk about
Bryce Matthews bust and loose the Bryce Matthews experience. Two strikeouts,
two home runs. Well, it's funny because that's exactly what

(03:17):
we thought he was going to be whenever he became
a major leaguer. Again, I, in my heart of hearts,
don't believe that he was supposed to be a major
leaguer this year. Everyone knows that, and Joe's body even
had talked about it and was asked. But you know,
he wasn't a finished product when he was called up.
But you got to get on the job training. If
you're in a if you're a twenty twenty five astro,

(03:37):
you've been getting a lot of on the job training. Right.
I'll say this, I think I want to hit at
Chase Field. The ball explodes there. Yeah, but the it's
the dimensions are quite deep, but they were still knocking
him out of the yard. No, Christian Walker hit won
like four hundred and thirty feet and it was a
home run in twenty eight and thirty ballparks and it

(03:58):
hit all It was a double. Soarez there has no
issues with hitting there. He had two more tanks yesterday. Yeah,
he's pretty good. He's making his astros audition. No, the
astros don't have enough. Okay, you know it's gonna take
what's it gonna take. It's gonna take Jacob Mountain, that's fine,
and it's gonna take the Uliola picture down. I don't

(04:20):
want to do that. I'm just saying I'm throwing out there, Miguel,
Miguel La what is it okay? Why are you wretching
on air? Well, because it's a different it's first of all,
the combination of letters is a toughie U L L
A y vial. Nobody says it that way. Okay, well,

(04:41):
only all of Latin America. Well, but I'm I'm in Spain.
I'm in the US of a god billions of people. Okay,
that's not nobody. But I don't call you Ross. That's okay.
We anglicize on this show and in this state. Would
you like? Would you like me? I can hear you
roll the rs villa real, Yeah, do that every day.

(05:02):
I'm not doing that. That's ridiculous. Call you Ross V. Yeah,
just call me Ross. Who cares? Like I said, when
Ross thought at one point he wanted to go out
of market, I said, I'm still trying.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
When you when you head to that shreport radio station,
call yourself ROSSI V. No, Why why should I? But
why should I change my family name? Because people can't
pronounce it correctly? They're the ones who sucks it's catchy.
I don't care. Let me tell you. If my last
name was Robinowitz, I would not go to robin Witz.
I'd go Maddie. Why not. I don't know. I just
people change their names all the time. Yeah, in like

(05:34):
the seventies and eighties, people keep their names most of
the time. Days these days they are ad dashes to him.
All right? Uh, so the local nine get a win,
the Milwaukee Brewers knock off the Seattle Mariners, and your
Astros are five mentioned. Just the other day it was oh,
I won't mention who it was, Damn Matthews, just like
it's gonna be if the Astros get swept by the Mariners.

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This season is old. Season is over. Well, they wont
to in a row. Mariners lost, and now you're five up. Yeah,
let's go. And the Dodgers are sucking right now, which
is not terrible. Who care, I don't care about the
naw shraumas. The Blue Jays are playing exceptional baseball right Yes.
Colton Gordon, by the way, good enough, good enough, so
you take he's a number five slash six starter. Good enough?

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Josh hater Oker and Bennet's Who's We're all having trouble
finding the strike zone, but they all didn't give up
a run. It got dicey towards the end, tying run
on the plate. So don't you you don't want that
late eighteen pitches, just seven strikes. You're hater, not ideal,
But no, you're you know what he's I mean, I'm
I mean this and all sincerity. He's tuckered out, he's tired,

(06:40):
he's sleepy. He had a neck pillow out there in
the mountain. His heart, his arm is a dangolar and
he wrests. He went out there with a blanket and
a neck pillow on, which I thought was odd. Yeah.
By the way, I brought a pillow with me on
my flight back from uh Rhode Island, last neck pillow
or a regular pill pillow, and I put it into
your stinky ones from home. No, no, those small mini

(07:03):
ones I got you. And my wife's like, where did
you get that from?

Speaker 6 (07:05):
It?

Speaker 1 (07:05):
And I said, well, I don't want to tell where
I got it from. But it works. Why can't you
tell your wife where you get the pillow?

Speaker 6 (07:11):
For?

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well, I got it from the rockets plane. Oh you
stole it. I didn't steal. I told him I was taking.
They said, take it, okay, one of those little okay,
so one of those little like flight pillows. Yeah, I
mean super small but I mean it absolutely worked, and
that's when you get the window. I'm not a huge
window seat guy windows, but I was on a late
night flight between Dulla's airport in here and I was like,
I gotta get the window. And I'm you see what

(07:33):
I'm saying, Team window, Team window works. You get it.
You don't just don't get it. No, I totally get
you prefer ale, but you get it aisle during the
day window at night. I just can't. I always have
to curl up my knees and elbows. The reason why
I don't I always get window not because uh, you
mean no, I I The reason I get Ale is
because I don't want to interfere with people I want.

(07:54):
If I want to go to the bathroom, I don't
have to be a jerk about it, and I feel
terrible when I have to. If I have to go
to the bathroom, sit in the window seat. That's what
I normally. I just swallow myself there right in the
spot and just clean up when I get home. That
seems like they can get you on a no flight list.
That's probably true, but that's actually not accurate either. All Right,
The radio program today will feature at eleven thirty today

(08:15):
gut feelings, U huh? At twelve thirty Joe Aspata, what now,
they've had some issues with the time zone. Half the year,
it's an hour and a half a year, it's two
hours right now, is it okay? Yes? Yeah, I think okay.
Which again, Indiana used to be that way they go,

(08:35):
they've gone strictly Eastern time. Now Phoenix stays. They stay
in the same time and they again one hour. Congress
pass something getting rid of daylight saving times. What happened,
It's been discussed, It's been discussed. Okay, whatever, Yeah, I like,
give me more times and it's whatever. Yeah, all right,

(08:57):
we got that. We got Ross's NFL rewind at one
twenty today. Great, you got three hours to prepare for it,
and usually you will have prepared until one big game,
and we believe it or not today at one fifty,
so we got a really nice full show for you.
We want you guys involved. Uh seven one three two
one two five seven nine zero. It's also, by the way,
watching a game at Chase Field, is it super dark

(09:18):
to you? Darker than most stadiums. It's almost like they said,
there's obviously lights on the field. But it didn't. It
didn't seem bright and I didn't get that vibe. But
I guess I can try to pay more attention to that.
I don't know, no game, maybe just me, Yeah, maybe
just me. It just feels like it's in Ah and
no one's ever gone man table Center style. Yeah, like

(09:38):
they turned the lights off, which I kind of like.
It adds a little U Yeah, yeah, theater. I didn't
notice that, but I'll keep an eye on it for you, Matt.
I've never been to Chase Field. I don't even know
if anyone I don't even know if anybody I know
has been the Chase. I had three people from Phoenix
called me last night on the postgame show, which makes
sense kind of because it was midnight our time, in

(09:59):
ten o'clock there time. We was they Diamondbacks fans or
Astro fans. One person who was visiting. One person one
kid who lived there. He was a young man who
lived and was from Phoenix but was an Astros fan
because his dad was an Astros. How old is he?
I don't know. Was he trying to replace? Was he
trying to replace one of us? And I didn't card

(10:21):
the kid, but he sounded like, I don't know ten
or eleven. How was the call? Was good? It was good, Okay,
I mean it's spectacular because you know those calls at midnight,
I can get a little dicey. Yeah, nothing dicey really happened.

Speaker 7 (10:32):
Well.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Eric in Bay City called and what did he have
to say? He was talking about picking up some old
Astros manager from the seventies. I mean he's going full
tro mo. Yeah, he's He's almost about to be banned
because it's it's just it's wasting our time. And sometimes
phone calls can be fun. We can have goof around

(10:53):
with them, but sometimes they just get really whacking. Huh. Unfortunate.
Eric's getting pretty close. Love you, Eric, appreciate you listening.
But you know, we got to have some sort of
decent recognition of sports takes on the show because you
and I are providing them. I think we're better than
most callers. At least I gonna say we're better than callers.

(11:14):
But I'm on the hierarchy of sports radio hosts. We're made.
I'd put us ahead against some of these shows, but
shows are we better than all of them? Which shows
will be worse then none of them? That's I like
to hear positivity, all right, Astros win. Yes, Jerry Jones
likes to insult his own players. M was those those quotes?

(11:37):
I saw? Those were real. I keep checking to see you.
I meant to vet them. Okay, yeah I don't. I
mean that is a sad part about social media today
is that the blue check mark on the old x
AT platform used to be legit. Now it's not anymore
genius move you know, I continue. There are two things
I want to spend money on that I just can't

(11:57):
pull the trigger in yet. One is verifying myself because
it doesn't really make that big of a difference, and
number two by only fans. No, I have used your
debit card for that, thank you, though. The other one
is uh, paying for the commercial free on the YouTube
because you know, I listen to YouTube going to bed
at night, h and I'm listening to one of my

(12:18):
wrestling podcasts and boom a commercial goes on. And look
if they're the thirty second commercials, I can live with,
but they're like the three and a half minute No,
it's well, you can skip those, but you're not gonna
do that when you're sleeping, Well, I wake up it's
skip go back, and so I'm thinking, can I just
get past it? But it's like it's like fifteen bucks
a month. That's yeah, kind of piles up, it does,

(12:39):
And I have nineteen and ESPN and Apple Plus and Netflix. Yeah,
at some point I've got to say, no, I can't
spend this money. I know, Matt, we all hit our limits.
Thank you very much for that. Seven one three two,
one two five seven ninety seven one three two, one
two five seven nine zero. It is the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross. We are with you today until two o'clock.
Let's celebrate price Matthew, celebrate an Astros victory, and get

(13:02):
to other things beyond the world of baseball. We've got
training camp opening up tomorrow in the National Football League, wonderful.
A lot of stories for the NFL rewind coming up
at one twenty. Yeah, but we can talk about before
one twenty, okay, because we got to miss Jerry. The
Jerry quotes are crazy. We'll talk about that and more
come out up here on seven ninety. I know we

(13:24):
got Aftros on the brain. But something we brought up
on the show yesterday that we're gonna spray up a
couple of times. So Memphis again, did we talked about
this very briefly yesterday. Memphis says, I will give you
you being the Big twelve two hundred million dollars and

(13:44):
we won't take TV money for five years. All you
gotta do is let us in. And the Big twelve
is like, no, you're not invited. I mean, what an
ego kicking the growing that would be right? Can someone
explain that to me? Why would they deny Memphis like that?

(14:06):
Because you'd have to expand it, first of all to
eighteen teams. M second, we ultimately you'd have to probably
renegotiate the television deal once you got past the five
year mark. Okay, and at what level do you say?
What does Memphis bring to the table. I mean, Memphis
doesn't bring Tennessee TV sets. That's Tennessee. They don't know, Okay,

(14:28):
they feel like a big brand. Maybe, I mean, is
it just because Perry run that I'm thinking, Oh, Memphis
has got put on probation last week, two more years.
Well that makes sense. Look, this league in every league, right,
would you agree with me? I mean, as much as
I love the basketball, the league is built on football.
Every league is built in football. What is Memphis football
going to bring to the Big twelve another seven to

(14:50):
five team? We got plenty of those. I'm meaning this.
I'm not trying to single out. No go ahead and
whatever you're gonna say, don't even preface, just bring it.
I really, I don't want to make more U of
H fans mad at me. But how they? How are they?
How is nationally if we went across the country, is
U of h really before Big twelve, especially a bigger

(15:12):
brand than Memphis? Yes, but not by much. Definitely. Okay,
Memphis had a good run when they had Final four
with John Calipari and then Derek Rose and all of
them missed like five hundred free throws and then they
lost in the Final four to Kansas. But okay, I'm
first of all Texas. I think of them on the
same like this. I'll give you, I'll give you there.

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This is an example that you may not think of. Okay,
if I am playing the University of Houston, my fans
are watching a game in Texas, my players are playing
a game in Texas. I get to go to Texas.
I get to tell them they get to go play
in Texas. Every other year that does play a factor.

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You can shake your head. I'm telling you, I'm not
in my head. I'm just asking yeah, because I mean
we looked at the valuations from the athletic and they
had them sixty eight out of sixty eight. It's again,
I'm not going to say it's significantly not in Cincinnati.
I mean Cincinnati is not in Texas, but Ohio there's
the Ohio brand, I guess big for I mean Cincinnati Bearcats. Yeah,
I mean not every not every good player from Ohio

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can go to Ohio State. M hm. So yeah, I'm
not saying it's significantly different. I'm saying there's a little
bit of a difference. Okay, Media market first and foremost. Second,
ball through the state, although mediums I think are overblown,
especially in college sports and THALUSA Alabama is the biggest
brand in football. And Third, you were losing. You lost
two Texas schools within the last ten years. If you're

(16:37):
looking to do quadrants regional rivalries, U of H makes
more sense than Memphis when you're trying to play Baylor
in Texas Tech. You mean, you can fill up a
Texas Tech Houston game a lot easier than you can
fill up a Texas Tech Memphis game. Okay, but no,
I'm not trying to your point. I promise, I'm trying
to take shots. You are the king of shots. But listen, no,

(16:59):
no than that, it's not the world shot you've had.
It's not not even a dagger. I don't know. I
just I guess I think of Memphis as a decent brand,
and I mean, clearly I'm wrong because the Big twelve
said we're all good. Here's the crazy part. Memphis has
the money. FedEx will cut them a check. FedEx loves
the University of Memphis. Yea, they have money, and they
seem like a decent enough brand. No. Again, the problem
to me is you don't get it. You don't get

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any bang for your bucking football. You don't have Tennessee
because since that state is dominated by Tennessee. Uh. And lastly,
you're every other year you're in some sort of trouble
with d NC doua A yeah, and you'd have to
expand on eighteenth team and I mean, who, look, we
get some of these leagues gotta stop expanding, especially because
somebody once put their name on there would never be

(17:41):
a twenty team conference, That's correct, Big ten is about
eighteen now, I think it's still sixteen. No, no, no, I
think it's eighteen now when you added the West Coast schools. Yeah,
oh you're right, good god, it's yeah, Like I saw
the big ten standings come out the other DAYU was
predicted to finish eighteenth. How sad is Purdue? Yeah? They

(18:04):
got a little football history too, they do. I mean,
you know, Drew Brees. Who else has been a good
Purdue football player over the years, I'm sure have been plenty. Yeah,
I can't take him any here off the top of
my head. Grease, I mean, Joe Tiller was a very
good coach for them for a long period of time.
The best Purdue football players. We're gonna feel stupid when

(18:25):
when you mentioned, oh yeah, there's there's one Rod Woodson Greasy, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. Mike Gol' stop, yeah, we feel stupid now,
Jim Everett, George Carl Loftis, Yeah, there's a lot point. Yeah,
all right, So we'll get back to the aster. But
I just thought it was fun. I just happened to
see the little crawl about Memphis wanting to offer, you know,
and I will have a gut feeling about Memphis coming

(18:46):
up at eleven. You will, yeah, I mean the entire
city Houston will be so excited to hear my Memphis prediction. Wow,
I mean I can't wait. I'm writing it down on
my calendar, all right. Seven one three two two five
seven ninety seven one three two five seven. So let
me ask you this about Bryce Matthews and we can
make this for a gut feeling as well in an
hour fromoo? Was last night and one off? Or was

(19:07):
that the you know what he got past his opening
week jitters and not the saying he's going to hit
two home runs every game? But yeah, the pop that
we knew he had. Can I see a scene either? Uh? Yeah,
I mean yeah. Growth, Growth is not linear, matt It
doesn't go in a straight line. Can be up, can
be down. So last night wasn't up. There can be

(19:28):
more downs, but I would say overall the trajectory is positive.
So basically having he's having a Christian Walker start to
his career. Christian Walker got a oh he should have
had a home run. I'll go look it up. How
many feet was that? Did you see the pregame media
scrum for Christian Walker yeah, no, just twenty deep. Wow,

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all the Phoenix TV stations were there, four hundred and
twenty seven feet double. It still feels like you and
I can hit home run out of there. No you can't.
I can't. It feels like I can hit the ball
out of the infield. I don't know. Now, I did
know you, Dribbler Thomas. I did not hit the ball
out of the infield at the Salt Lake Beast Park.
But that was in two thousand and you ripped up

(20:11):
your hands and you were like twenty years younger. Yeah.
Can we be realistic, Matt? I mean, these delusions of
granger are getting out of hand, even for you. Like
when I first started umpiring softball in Minneapolis, I would
do a fifty plus league just occasionally. There were some
good athletes. You would play in the fifty plus league.
I was no, I was thirty plus. Okay, let me

(20:32):
playing at the fifty plus league or you should. That'd
be funny. He'd be dominating. It's like, God, this guy's
hit like five home runs a game. I did play
in a little league game when I was in high school.
I was like, let me sorry, oh my shit, listen
to me. I was the umpire for this little league team,
and I was a senior, and they said, hey, do
you want to play one game with us? Like they

(20:53):
were just waiting, we're waiting for other teams. I said sure,
and I hit two straight away center field out of
the ballpark. Is this your reference? No, this is not no. No,
you played with children when you were in high school? Yeah,
it was for It was for fun. Man, you're sick.
A little lone fact about high school umpiring. I am
part of a day of high school umpiring the day
of my senior prom, and I did not wear sunscreen

(21:17):
and I burned my nose to a crisp So all
my prom pictures are with me looks like I have
a nose like Boso the color I got a I
was shaving for prom and I cut. I had a
big cut on my cheek. I cut like so neither
one of our prom photos are particularly a handsome. Or
maybe it was on my lip, I can't remember, but yeah,

(21:38):
I'm shaving, and I just I never I never cut
myself shaving never. And I kept telling my mom it's
gonna be okay, to be fine. It wasn't okay, and
it wasn't fine. It was horrific. I I looked first,
I goofy. I was not severely over weight, but I
was pretty Oh, yes, I did. Oh that was great.
What's her name? I don't want to say Rosie. You're

(22:01):
it's not too far off. The date was. If I
ever told you my prom story on the show, I think, so, okay,
you can tell it again. Well, well, we're gonna get
to Break when we come back. We can tell it now.
We can't tell prom stories on the way back, can
we gotta? We gotta talk sports? I don't know. We
got Texas training camp opening up tomorrow seven one three
two one two five seven, Naty seven one three two

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one two five seven, Nutty ten thirty and it's a
Matt Thomas Shield Ross. We got cut feelings in one
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want to be a part of the radio show today
seven one three two one two five seven ninety you
see Rich Hill's coming back to play to pitch again.
Fifty nine year old Rich Hill is about to play
for his fourteenth major league team. Seriously, he was with
the Triple A team in Omaha. He's he what is he?

(23:26):
I think he's really forty six. I'm not lying to you.
I think it's what his age is. Could you imagine
being a forty six year old in the minor leagues?
I mean, you're buying you. Oh excuse me, he's Monday.
He was forty five years, one hundred and thirty two days.
What the hell does he hate? His family is the

(23:47):
wife and kids. It's like, you guys are pissing me off.
I mean, let's see if I can get a minor league.
I get Billy Madison deal. Right, you have to go
back and get your education. Why would you want to
hang out back to school? Yeah, you know, love of
the game. I don't know. Good for him? Is he
trying to set a record? Who's the oldest Major League
ever Julio Franco. Uh, Satul Page. Yeah, it'll be his

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fourteenth different team. He does hate his family. Okay, yeah,
it looks like it is satchl Page. Wow. Last person
to appear in a game at the age of forty

(24:31):
five Ichiro Suzuki. M hmm in twenty nineteen. He's the
oldest pitcher to appear in an MLB game since Jamie
Moyer pitched in twenty twelve, and he was forty nine
years old. Oh wow. First, bull Rich Hill never threw
fast to begin with. He's got to be throwing ephis
pitches right over and over again. Tim Wakefield, may he

(24:54):
rest play the forty five Bartolo Cologne as well? Position player?
We got each your You mentioned Omar vs. Skel So.
He pitched nine times for Omaha. His earning was five
point three six Now PCL games, as we talked about yesterday,
it's inflated. Inflated, but that's you're not flating it to

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two point nine to one, right, I don't think so
what's the era plus on that, Matt? I don't know
if they do that in the minor leagues. I mean,
dang Rich Hill still trying to pitch. Good for him.
I'm rooting for him. I guess somebody who's in my

(25:36):
forties now, you know, you know what, forties didn't hit
me hard. I'm not feeling great. Random calf soorness Hamstring.
When you get to five zero, you'll be calling me
for counseling. I'm gonna be calling you. Where are you
gonna be on the beach? Okay, I don't know where
I'm gonna buy you beach. You never take vacation. I know,

(25:59):
can we get you on a each I'm going to
Hawaiian next, next All Star. You know you've been calmer
the last few months, Afras. It feels like, Yeah, it's good.
You know why, because my daughter's school is taken care of. Yes,
the Rockets are doing great, Astros are winning. You and
I are getting along better than ever, except for yesterday.
We were fighting. No, that was that was good radio.
You know that was that was a fight radio that
was completely organic. Yes, but it wasn't personal. No, you

(26:21):
came when we got past it. We didn't. Yeah, some
some stations and it was I'll be and I will
disagree with people that were saying that with semantics, I
don't think it was semantics. It was a little bit
of semantics, very minimal because I'm now we're going to
argue the argument with semantics, because I'm gonna back I'm
gonna back up in saying that if the Cougars do
not win a national championship, it will be a major disappointment. Okay,

(26:42):
And Kelvin Samson should be fired. I didn't say that.
I didn't say that Steve Sarkisi was gonna be fired.
It was implied the employee. We don't do the implication radio.
Is that word implication? And no, okay, imply radio. You
can do implying, implication, implication radio. We don't do that
here on the show. We're definitely we didpply stuff daily. Yeah,
but he's surely under our press seven five seven nine.

(27:05):
Shake your head at us, Jonathan, Yeah, Jonathan, we imply
a lot of stuff, full of it. What do you mean,
full of it? What do you why do you say
these things? Everybody that was you know what, No, you
know what. You guys are right, you guys are right.
Thank you. By the way, does anybody want to I'm
looking at the headlines. It's not a huge headline day
to be brutally honest with you. And the Astros game

(27:25):
started at eight forty, so there's not gonna be a
whole lot of folks that can really get into a
deep dive of watching Bryce Man except the highlights and
when they go to their office today. Can the NFLPA
get a new boss? Everybody's corrupt up there? What the
heck's Johnny Trotter dudees like, Uh, not only am I
not going to go for the job, I'm quitting too.
Oh my gosh. There must be serious receipts of strip

(27:49):
clubs and extra money that is being spent that was
not authorized by the Players Association to spend it. Huh.
They busted it wide open? What they did? Whatever this
whole situation is, repeat, repeat, I don't think the audience
heard now. There's nothing that you're gonna be able to

(28:09):
get from that. So no, I'm not gonna repeat it
if y'all didn't get it. He said, bust it wide open.
Just making sure whatever. It's a big Little Will fan.
I've I got a couple of Little Will songs on
my phone. Oh man, I can't think of one right now,
but okay, but you know, but yeah, uh x NFL

(28:30):
PA boss resigns role at Equity Farm Carlisle, that's the
that's the other guy that got this resigned last week.
You know what it is? We're finding out today's CEOs
are just corrupt. You like to like to sack up
with their HR bosses. Hmm. You're saying there's corruption and
people with positions of power are corrupt and spend and

(28:54):
illegal use of expense accounts. Next thing you're gonna tell
me is politicians are corrupt. No, don't get me started
up that this is shocking news. I want to know
what's what else is going to be on earth or
uncovered with this? Well, I mean my guess is and
again those don't know. The NFL Player Association boss last
week resigned and we thought it was because of a

(29:16):
variety of conflict of interest issues or maybe there were
some issues involving the collision case against the Players Association
in the NFL. No, it was because he was spending money,
thousands of dollars on draw on rides and expenses at
a strip club in Atlanta, Okayan strip clubs. Maybe he

(29:38):
was eating a lot of wings.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
Are the wings that goodness for club yession?

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Where you go I've heard. By the way, I was
never a big fan of lemon pepper until you try
the lemon pepper and it's not that bad. What do
you mean? I grew up on lemon pepper. Both my
parents cook with a lot of lemon pepper. I love it.
I wanted small doses and it was good. Okay, yeah,
it was good. So I don't know want I had

(30:03):
lemon pepper last, but Firehouse lemon pepper, Big City Wings,
Let's go, let's go. I'm hungry, all right, ten forty
on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two, one
two five seven nine zero. We brought up a Uhineo
Soarez yesterday. Yes, two more bombs, fifth homer in three games.

(30:24):
No one's talking about the Astros drabbing him, right, I
mean that's people are absolutely talking about it. And Josh Naylor,
what do you mean to play for? What have we got?
An Eastide Paradis update? Well, we're gonna We're gonna ask
at twelve thirty parade Is update. While we talked to
the Skipper on the Matt Thomas Show, will say he'll

(30:45):
be fine and we'll be back in a few days.
I don't believe it I'm going Paradus update on the
Matt Thomas Show. Paradus Update. Do they have to get
you Hanny Ooh? If you Hennio Suarez is the number
what go ahead? If he's the number one potential trade target?

(31:08):
How does a team that doesn't have prospects going to
make this happen? Unless you give me away current players.
I don't know how much international pool money can you give.
I don't think it's gonna happen. I guarantee it's not
going to happen. Guarante you hear me. Guarantee you. I

(31:30):
think you're right, But I mean I don't want to
be right. If loving you is wrong, I know you're
gonna do this, if loving Squires is wrong, I don't
want to be right. Okay, I know you're going there
because I do the exact same thing. Luther Ingram version
by the way, the original. Okay, Uh, you don't appreciate

(31:52):
Barbara Mandrel Nope, Okay, teach his own. But yeah, I
mean the astress of prospects. But do you want I mean,
at some point, Ross and I Philip, you've been sending
this for two years. At some point just losing like
Steve Sparks brought this up on the on the Sean
Show yesterday. You know the last I think he said,

(32:15):
the last six hitters the asters have given up have
all been left handed. I did not know that. And
so guess what's Sparks always information? He's he's amazing point
being is this if you give that up, what are
the askers looking for right now? Left handed bat? Yes,
at some point you would think maybe of the last

(32:35):
six one of them would have been a major Major leaguer. Well,
one of their left handed bats had some interesting comments yesterday,
and we'll hear from him or are you going to
read them? Yeah, we'll read just through an interpreter. Oh,
I don't think I want to hear it. I know
what this is. Okay, you said you don't want these.

(32:56):
We have to educate the people, Matt. If you even
if you want to bury your head in the sand,
all right, you're gonna hear the interpreter's comments, or at
least we're gonna read them, and you're gonna be like,
uh huh, this is concerning ip or ih all right, whatever,
ten forty three on Sports Talk seven ninety We can

(33:20):
only bury our next topic for only so long. So
we've done a very good job of forty nine minutes
into the show. Positivity about Bryce Matthews, the fact that
Memphis can't get a gig in the Big twelve, and
I had a red nose from my prom I got

(33:41):
every other topic out of the way. Ross, We present
to you the latest from Jordon Albarez yesterday in Arizona. Yes,
I'm gonna read Chandler Rome's transcription of yord On Alvarez,
speaking through an interpreter, said he hit soft toss at
sixty to sixty five percent effort, so that good or bad.

(34:04):
Plans to hit again today. Of his setback in Florida,
Alvarez said he woke up the day he was supposed
to face pitching and his hand was so swollen he
could not grip a bat. Okay, man is staying silent?
That's okay, you don't I don't want to stay. So
what do you want me to say? I mean, put

(34:25):
the words in my mouth if you have to. That's weird.
Where's the pain is in the hand. It's a bit
difficult to have surgery there. That's why I say I
need a little bit of rest right now. It's an
area where normally we don't get surgery in that area.

(34:46):
But I think it isn't something that I'll have to
keep dealing with. So he needs surgery but can't get surgery,
but it isn't something he'll have to keep dealing with,
he says, Okay. First and foremost, he doesn't know what

(35:12):
he's talking about. A force hand specialists can't figure it out.
I guess, I mean, and it's not his fault. He
wakes up. My guess is he wakes up every morning
with his hand feeling in different different levels of pain
and or hey, this feels good that let's go and swing,
or hey I need to take a step back. That's

(35:34):
human nature. People have elbow issues, knees, neck, back pain.
I mean, that's just like anything else. Unfortunately, his ailment
is he's a major league power hitter for a baseball
team that we all follow in love. So we're gonna
care about his hand more than we're gonna care about
the average person going well today. My knees feel great
and my back feels great. Number two, there's no pattern

(35:58):
to this, except every time they ramp him up, they
have to dial him back. And number three, it comes
back this year it's fine, Cravy if they don't. If
he doesn't, they're not winning the World Series. Sounds like
he is going to play through some pain because this

(36:18):
is not good. This is this no one ever goes.
You've missed five months and you're still not one hundred percent.
Thank you for your service from a jord On Alvarez.
If he will have to deal with the pain all year,
I wish not, but I don't know. I have to
deal with it. It will be for the rest of
the season. If I have to deal with it, it
will be for the rest of the season. I need

(36:39):
I think I need to rest it, but again, I
need to come back and play, and I think I'm
in the right direction now to come back and play.
So sounds like he's going to come back and try
to play through some pain. No he's not. He may
want to, but he's You can't what he's saying, he's
done for the year. I'm saying that if he plays
any more this year, it's gravy. I think he plays.

(37:05):
I think he plays too, but to what level I
don't know. Jan Plain since early May he's not one
hundred percent has said as much. What are we supposed
to say if he needs like two months off, what
if what if he needs like three months off? And
then it's I mean, the playoffs will be over by
the time he's fully healed ready to go. But if
he tries to play through the pain, and I don't

(37:25):
know this, but just these comments are kind of giving
me this feel that it is something he can try
to play through and then if the season ends, it ends.
But he wants to try to help and contribute to
the team. Now for that, we respect him for that. Yeah,
no one, No one's arguing that. But you're still telling me,
not you him, that he hasn't been in a game

(37:47):
since early May May, third, second, June, July, August. He
probably isn't gonna play until at least middle of August.
We're talking about three and a half months, and he's
gonna come, I'm back and play through pain. Here here,
you're ready for today's dumb ass question. Today, Yes, there

(38:09):
is somebody in this country or in this world. You
could be in Bangladesh, you could be in Czechoslovakia. Is
there even Czechoslovakia anymore?

Speaker 8 (38:17):
No?

Speaker 1 (38:17):
They broke up, all right, Slovenia, the Czech Republican Okay, Slovenia,
or maybe there's something in Japan or China. Okay, sure
it's got to be the number one to hand top handbody.
Somebody is the best at everything. Well, I don't know
how we determined that when it I don't know if

(38:39):
there is an International Olympics of hand.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
M and.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Specialists and specialists the Gold Medal hands special for instance.
I will say this, if you're a cancer patient, the
MD Anderson Cancer Center is a world renowned cancer center. Okay,
is there a world renowned hand center? Is that what
you're asking? That's what I'm asking now, if there's other ailments.
I used to live in Minneapolis and there was the

(39:05):
Mayo Clinics in Rochester, about an hour and a half
south of the Twin Cities. The Mayo Clinic is renowned
for a variety of different things. When you get super
super sick about a variety of things, you go to
the Mayo Clinic. Okay, if you have if you have
a terrible case of cancer or a good case cancer,
but if you have cancer that has been hard to
detect or hard to stop. M D Anderson is the

(39:25):
krem Dela Kreme. My point is this, you have such
a commodity in your and Alpharez that you have. You
have spent twenty five thirty million dollars. Now, maybe now
nobody loses their life over hand ailments, you would think, correct,
now people have lost their careers over it, because if

(39:46):
you can't work with your hands, it's hard to do
some things. But wouldn't you think, like doctor Strange exactly,
wouldn't you think that you would that you're not you,
but somebody in your group, your agent, the astra, somebody
would go, We're gonna fly you to Ecuador and meet

(40:11):
with doctor Suarez. Are you heny o? No, okay, not related,
and we're gonna get this figured out. Uh. I imagine
the four three or four specialists that he's seen are
among the best in the country. I would agree. I
don't think they're taking some Brosky down the van in
a van the chief at the Moner, New Mexico area.

(40:35):
I didn't find the hand guy in the Yellow Pages.
They're not They're not crossing the border in Tijuana and going, Hey,
a lot of people do that. That's true for plas surgery. Yeah,
I'm just in industry. I am befuddled and disappointed that
he still has having this issue that to me, this
sounds like and again I'm not trying to put the

(40:56):
panic button on this, okay, but he's going to have
to have some sort of procedure which is going to
ultimately probably be after the season, which will then put
next season perhaps in jeopardy of something. I think it'll
be something that he can do after the season and
then he can heal up and be ready to go.
But if he does it now, he's going to be
out for the year, so he doesn't want to do that.

(41:18):
That's my gut feeling. Could he put on bigger gloves?
I don't even know if that is solve senters. No,
I think it's about gripping and ripping the bat. I mean,
he's got exceptional handspeed and baseball is a violent game
on the hands. You're hitting one hundred miles an hour fastballs.
Do you think he was just dealt a bad set

(41:40):
of hands, because if this was the camp have been
a lot of sluggers that have had to worry about
hand injuries. Yeah, but I mean this is how long
did he miss well, I don't even remember his other
previous hand injuries, and how much time did you miss
this long? He's in his sixty or seventh seventh year.
I just I feel bad for the organization. I feel
bad for him, and I feel bad that we don't

(42:01):
get that kind of positive juju of the three months
off has paid off, that he's gonna come back if
he comes because he's had multiple setbacks. Yeah, and it
resets the clock every time. Yeah. Maybe if he just
stayed off it from the from the get go, we'd
be in a better place. And maybe, and maybe that's
on him to say stop, we have got to. We've

(42:22):
got to if you have any sort of ailment, stop
what you're doing. Maybe he's learned from that. Stop awesome help.
We'll get to a gut fillings in a one half hour.
We will get to Joe spot at twelve thirty today.
I hope. I don't know the time zone. Thinking'd be
really wacky. You don't know in that situation.

Speaker 5 (42:40):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
And we've got NFL RE one and believe it or not,
it's ten to fifty nine on Sports Talk seven, eleven
old three on Sports Talk seven, Hontye, Bryce Matthews two
home runs, five RBIs Astros beat the d Backs last
night by a score of six to three. Game two
of the series, I'll host the on Deck show seven

(43:01):
thirty with an eight to forty first pitch. Oh, you
got the easy one. Why do you say that? I
will hear Joe Aspata coming around seven forty seven. Yeah,
seven forty five. I got a long recap you do, Yeah, lengthy, lengthy,
two swings knocked in five of the six runs. Oh,
maybe it'll be seven forty. That's fine.

Speaker 5 (43:24):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
And then the first pitch at eight forty.

Speaker 6 (43:26):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
And then I'll be hosting a postgame show. And if
it's too late, Jonathan, I maybe at the Kingwood Studios.
If it goes too long, If it goes to extra innings,
I'll call you. You will not you should be asleep.
I don't want you know once in the game. You're
but you can go say once the game's over. You
mean you're gonna call me during the extra innings. Yeah,
they would be cursing me out. Let me tell you

(43:47):
what Ross does this is? Jonathan. You don't know this, uh,
because you don't return texts either. Uh. He does. When
I'm doing a tenth innings show and the game is
like four to four in the eighth, he always sends
me this phrase. Not always I smell extras. Isn't that
the rudest thing ever?

Speaker 4 (44:07):
So messed up because I imagine you think it'll be
done with the shift and you got ross taking.

Speaker 1 (44:12):
At least there's a pitch clock now, that is true.
It used to be three hour games. Every game was
three hours plus extras would be fury. Then you're getting
into four hour territory. Yeah, and it helped you other night,
even though I did, I didn't even hit the air
until what time did I hit the air one? I
don't know. I want to say about twelve forty we
did a game in Seattle. It was Saturday night. They lost.

(44:35):
It was about eleven forty five for me last night,
I took about ten calls. So, like I said, if
I will make every effort to get to the King,
which to the Houston studios tomorrow. But you know, if
it's if I'm on the AIRT one thirty two, I
won't need my rest. Whatever. Take the dogs out too,
it'd be a long night. Why are you taking them out?
Because if they're out, if I'm up plate, they're gonna
be out play too, so they don't wake you up early.

(44:56):
Correct and hey, hey, seek's still in the freezer. I
don't know. You. Oh, the air of death is in
everything you put in there. Your Gordon fish sticks have
an air of death in them. I don't know. I
think I should know, but I don't know. I would
assume that we've we've gotten rid of momented by Okay,

(45:19):
I can't guarantee that though. All right, So let's get
to Jerry Jones for a minute. Uh oh, look, we
have a goofy owner here. I mean, there's no ifans
or buds about it. But he stays out of he
stays out of the public. Uh, Hannah does the heavy
lifting when it comes to talking. And Hannah's going to
talk tomorrow on the day after and she's gonna wear

(45:39):
her son dress and everybody's gonna go, oh, you look
so cute. Can I take a photo of you? I mean,
fake media that goes out to cover Texans practice will
be like, you know, how you doing you when to
comes to high you know, stupid crap like that. But
you digress. But I digress. Jerry, Yeah, what do you do? Well?
He wasn't particularly polite about Micah Parsons. Oh dear, now,

(46:08):
what is your thoughts about Michah Parsons? He's one of
the five best pass rushers in football. Yeah, so he
takes jabs at him, and he also took jab at
his quarterback. And I'm trying to get the exact quote
you because I don't want to. I don't want to
paraphrase it here. Okay. Jerry Jones asked about Michaeh. Parsons

(46:34):
leadership is really big. I'm appreciative of Michael being here.
That's good. That's a good part. That's a good part.
Jones says, there's no disappointment that a deal is not done.
We're here with everybody under contract. That was for training camp. Okay.
But he also goes on to say basically that because
Micah gets hurt so much and that Dak Prescott gets there,

(46:57):
it hurts so much, he doesn't necessarily think they're going
to be the go to guys. Oh, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry.
Michael Parsons games played in his four seasons sixteen, seventeen, seventeen, thirteen,

(47:21):
five games in four years in the NFL, and that's
not completely uncommon, although in twenty one twenty one, was
that just sixteen games or no, was that seventeen? Yeah,
seventeen games and I think the only reason he didn't
play is because they I think the Cowboys had already

(47:43):
had their their seed wrapped up or something like that,
and that's as I see. It was the last game
of the season. That happened last year with the Texans.
Wh Remember we were worried about who's going to play
and who wasn't going to play. Yes, So really, at
the end of the day, he's missed four games in
four years. That's nothing. That's nothing. In the NFL quoting

(48:03):
him while discussing Michael wants a new contract. Of course,
just because we signed him doesn't mean we're going to
have him. He was hurt six games last year. Seriously,
it was four. So what is he trying to do?
Is he trying to win the war of words? He's

(48:24):
going to lower the price of Micah Parsons I guess,
so he is not going at about the right way.
It just doesn't make any sense while he would do that.
This is dumb by Jerry. I don't know what he's thinking.
It's funny. If there's been one theme that this show
has had for the last fifteen years, it's why does

(48:48):
Jerry Jones continue to run the organization into the ground, well,
not into the ground financially. No. No, I mean he's
the greatest sports marketer in the history of sports marketing.
He took a really good brand and made it the
most dynamic brand. He he gets more bang for his
buck for lack of success than any team in sports,

(49:09):
more so than the Cubs. More so, who else is
a major marketing with the Lakers have won championships. I
don't really count. I'm trying to think of teams that
are more so than the Knicks. I mean the Dallas
Cowboys have have helped and Jerry Jones by himself have
exploded every team's profits. Yeah, he is one of the

(49:30):
most important owners in franchise history. It was one of
the most important figures in football Pro NFL history. No
special question about are anyones that weren't commissioners? Right? And
as you said, the ratings are huge, the interest is huge,
and it's kind of like, I don't even know what
and I just don't get it. But because he knows,

(49:50):
the Dallas Cowboy brand is exceptionally large. No matter what
they do, if the Cowboys went to fifteen every year,
it would make any difference. They still w.

Speaker 4 (50:00):
His whole family's like nepotism into the boy, his son's work.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
But Stephen Jones, his son has been with him side
by side for thirty years, and wait for him, the croak.
I don't know about his daughter. I don't know about
the daughter. No, I know, Steven's been very active, and
Steven's been kind of a weight in the wings. But
Steven's like sixty now, he's been the owner and waiting
for like thirty years. Act exactly right. I. It might

(50:25):
be in the history and we don't do this until Thursday.
It might be the his the greatest. I just don't
get it because now, to his credit, he has a
lot of football people around him. He has assembled a
large football operation staff, but everything still goes through him.
He still is the one that makes the call on

(50:46):
the contract. He still is the one that makes the
call on draft day. He is still technically owner slash
general manager and has been that way since he took
over the team. Is he still making draft picks do
you think? Or is he like kind of advising or
maybe has final say uh no, he's not breaking here's no, no.

(51:07):
My guess is he's got a huge football operation staff.
They hand them the card and they say this is
the reason why, and he goes, Okay, I believe you. Yeah,
that's what I figured the last time. My guess is
that he really wanted to get involved. Was a well
dot was a well do documented Uh, he wanted Johnny
Manziel and Stephen Jones, his son pulled the card away
and said, we're not you draft him, physically ripped away
from him. Yeah, which was the right move. It was

(51:29):
the right move. By the way, Johnny Manzil trying to
get an NFL career started yet again. Oh money's drying up? Huh, yeah,
pretty much. You just go do some signings, you go
in the SS network and make a boatload of money.
Why what I mean? I think so? Yeah. I mean
if Tim Tebow can make great money in that network,
why can't Johnny Manziu stiff personality, it's not great, it's
not great. Still has he does? Does he still have

(51:52):
the same spiky buzz cut and that I don't know? Okay,
how's his hair looking? But if you're Micah Parsons and
you're sitting here trying to negotiate with a guy who
just basically said that we're not gonna We're not counting
you to play a full seventeen Yeah, and you only
miss four games last year and you've vet seventeen and
seventeen games played between that. We can say all the
goofy things that Cal says, but he doesn't get involved

(52:13):
in the football operation side to really create a bad
feelings between player in front office. He just doesn't. No,
Robert c did. Roberts C created some issues, Rick Smith
created some issues. Yeah, but really, since Cal's taken over
in Hannah and Bill O'Brien, players hated him. Well, that

(52:36):
was just a bad decision on their part. At least
we don't have an owner that is clearly that is
interfering with the progression of a football team. When Derek
Stingland needed to get signed, they signed him. When Nico
Collins got his needed his new big contract, he got signed.
When c. J. Stroud turned out to be Croud's gonna
be a seventy million dollars quarterback. And that's where calan

(52:57):
Hannah like, are you sure what I'm sure to say
this for gut feelings? Nico Collins holding out next year?
Oh really? Oh yeah, Okay, save it for like twelve months. Okay,
if you write that one down, Yeah, eleven fourteen. This
is the Matt Tamas Show A raw seven one three
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(53:17):
follow us for your Twitter, you may do that as well.
It's at Sports Empty and at Sports RV. I just
got a very interesting email and I want to read
it on there. And I just told Wayne I'm going
to and I want to get your perspective because you're
on the outside of this particular uh genre of entertainment.

Speaker 6 (53:40):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
I don't know if you know this or not. We
mentioned it very briefly on the show yesterday, the w
w E Raw was it Tota Center last night? Oh man,
it was a great one. What was a fair part
of it? When that guy oiled up guy pinned the
other oiled up guy in his underwear. You know, when
you ask stupid questions, you get stupid results. So, uh,

(54:01):
they didn't think that was thrilling. No, all right, Wayne
says to me Matt. He says, good morning, Matt. That's nice.
That was nice. Somebody good morning, Matt. Good Yeah. I
never tell you good morning. You never do. Uh, this
is completely off topic. I took my kids to see
Monday Night Raw last night, since they entered that stuff
and have begged me to do so for a while.
Never in my life if I had been surrounded by

(54:23):
been surrounded by so many foul mouthed, obnoxious low IQ
having blank blank like I did last night. F bombs,
MF bombs, a few N words, and sexual comments were
being screamed out over my kid's head all night.

Speaker 5 (54:38):
Now.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
I haven't been into wrestling since Paul Bosch at Houston Wrestling,
but I don't recall fans being absolute degenerous like they
were a Tota Center. I'll never attend another of these shows.
Nothing to do with the performers, though I thought I
found them all a bit lame. But being around the
bottom of the gene pool with their fake belts and
stupid chance isn't worth one hundreds of dollars I had

(54:59):
to pay to be there, he says, I just had
to get that out. Kids liked the Roman Reigns guy
and the Yeat guy. Otherwise they seemed uncomfortable too. From
Wayne the guy. I don't know who that is. I
don't I don't watch enough of the current some haveth
to know. I know who Roman rains is. I don't
know who the yeats now, yeah, he'll tell us who
the yeat guy. All right, First of all, Wayne, thank
you for the email, and I'm gonna give you an

(55:19):
audio response meaning the show jay Uso Uso j Uso. Yeah,
I know who that is. I just know what THET
means jay Uso. I think he screams at or something
like that. They can't come up with a better name.
They use their ten They they tend to use their
real names more than they using their gimmick names back
back in the day. That's not his name. There's no
way his name is jay Uso. Okay. Well what it

(55:41):
could be something like he's a he's from Tonga or
something like that. So Joshua Samuel Fatu. Okay, so there's
some sort of yeah connotation. Where is he from? Fan Francisco, California?
But no, he is his heritages I don't know Simon Simone. Okay. Well, Wayne,

(56:02):
I'm here to tell you the God's honest truth. They
may say they want your kids. They may say they
want you because you're spending the big money in the
raw tickets, but they want eighteen to thirty four year
olds and they know that eighteen to thirty four year

(56:23):
olds swear, yell at people, make suggestive remarks, all the
things you brought up in the email. WWE's like, yeah,
we know. If you look at any of the female wrestlers,
they barely wear any clothing. Uh huh, I mean barely

(56:45):
wear any clothing unless they're really big. So he's saying,
not a lot of Rhodes scholars at the WWE raw event.
So put a bunch of nostosterone filled eighteen to thirty
four olds that like to watch men beat each other
up allegedly and scantly clad women with fake storylines. Yeah,

(57:07):
it's true. It's all that is. What you're saying is
true to me. It's now I don't watch the current
stuff anymore. That's why I go. I go to sleep.
I listen to old stuff. You can bring back stuff
that I was a kid. But it's very, very popular.
It's a multi billion dollar operation. They merge with what
they merged with the not the UFC. What's the name

(57:30):
they merge with, like an Ultimate Fighting Group? Yeah, it
might be UFC. There's a name of a group that's
run by Tony conn I believe is the name. Yeah,
UFC is the UFC. Okay, I they're literally printing money.
Their ticket prices are astronomically high. They're selling out stadiums

(57:53):
left and right. Their merchandise sales is crazy. They're television numbers.
They're getting billions of from Netflix, hundreds of millions of
dollars from NBC. Where were they Toyota Center? Yeah, okay,
every Monday they're somewhere, and every Friday there somewhere. They
do a few house shows, which are non televised events,
and they do that. They still do house shows, very few.

(58:15):
They've cut back on that. Okay. They did a house
show down in the Valley this weekend. As a matter
of fact. Okay, so Wayne, I have terrible news for you.
It's not going to change. Those that are eighteen to
thirty four year old, primarily males, want to hear that,
and the WWE is going to provide it for them.
How big is the ring? This is saying sold out

(58:37):
for thirteen four hundred. Yeah, they take up a large
section of one inside of it because of the big
jumbo tron and the fireworks and all that kind of
stuff for the entrances. Yeah, so there's a section of
the statement, it's not like sectioned off, but you wouldn't
be able to watch anything from that area. Says it's
sold out. Yeah, Google's Google wouldn't line. No, no, I
saw a few of the highlights last night's. There wasn't

(58:59):
a seat to be found the arena laston and the
average ticket price ROSSI I'm gonna probably say, is probably
over one hundred dollars a pop. Now it might be more.
That's crazy great for them. So it's it's adult how
would you say, adult superhero fake superhero stuff, real life superheroes,
adult super adult soap operas. Yeah, adult soap operas. It's

(59:22):
adult power rangers that have again the fan base. Again,
there are probably some college graduates in the group. They're associates, associates.
There are some doctors, lawyers, Well, those are the people
the menngineers, those are the medics that oversee them and
pumping in their stairways. Mattress Mac was sitting front roll

(59:42):
last night. Okay me, he knows it's the greatest marketing
thing out there. And who's one of the greatest marketers
in Houston sports history. I'm putting Mattress Mac number one. Yeah,
to go to it and even close. Now, I did
watch Houston Wrestling or young Jim mcinveille would sell his
furniture at on Houston Wrestling on Shilo. That's where he
got his start in marketing. So good for him. I

(01:00:03):
just I hate to tell you it ain't gonna change.
And while you might not have liked it, and your
kids might have liked it. Of the thirteen thousand people
that were there, probably twelve thousand, nine or nine nine
of them thought it was the greatest thing in the world.
Maybe four or five hundred. The thought was obnoxious and
rude and degrading and root and the fans were, you know,
again hearing things that you didn't want to hear. I

(01:00:24):
mean sometimes you do have that moment though, where you're like,
you know what, I think, I'm over this, whether it's
a show you're watching or yeah. I for me, I
haven't really watched the mainstream stuff, probably on a regular basis.
I don't catch it once in a while, but probably
ten years. But you probably had a moment where you're like,
I'm not really into the snare correct. Like you know,

(01:00:46):
when I was in fourth grade and I was at
Chuck E Cheese, I was like I don't like Chucky. Now.
John Sena is retiring this year, so I've been interested
in the John Cena storyline. That's good. He can stop
dyeing his hair. I do like to see him punk.
I think he's very interesting. When the Rock shows up,
it's interesting to me. But I'm more of the old school.
What is the Rock's affiliation? He just pops up whenever
he feels like it, or when they want to pay

(01:01:06):
some partial owner of it. Oh really yes, But apparently
this is the truth. There are some behind the scenes
issues between management of WWE and Rock, and Rock owns
part of it, and so there's a little bit as
he wants to be more involved. I don't know that.
I don't know. Maybe he's I don't know. He's on
break from his latest movie with Kevin Hart for a
couple of days. It goes directly to uh Apple Apple TV.

(01:01:30):
Somehow you stay right to to to the DVD video anymore,
it's direct stream. So Wayne, I'm sorry didn't give you
a better answer. But the reality is, you create the
content that that group loves, and that group's gonna show up.
Does that make sense? I yeah, build it and they
will come. You went field A dreams on us. It's like,

(01:01:52):
but this way when you go to if we don't
have Roller Derby anymore, but if you go to putting wrestling.
I've been to some of the that I have been
to putting wrestling Thrilla in Vanilla there. I mean, they're
we're not having a deep dive on the uh Tchaikowski's
greatest works, you know what I mean? Yeah, you know
what I mean. Look, there's uh you know, there's something

(01:02:13):
for everyone. I'll just put it that way. Yeah, and
we'll put it that way and leave it right there,
all right. Gut feelings are coming up next. Ross explain
what gut feelings are. Gun feelings are something that's not
an official, on the record prediction. But you're like, you
know what, I got a bad or good gut feeling
about this, Remember my gut feeling, my Memphis gut feelings
coming up to the excitement of probably everyone has set

(01:02:35):
their calendars and they're all going to tune in. All right,
So if you any sports predictions, let us know seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five sevenity, you make a prediction,
you get it right. You call us back in a
few weeks and brag about yourself seven one three two
one two five seven ninety uppealing. Wasn't that tumm it? Yo?

Speaker 9 (01:02:56):
They got a gun feeling?

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
This is there gut feeling on the Matt Thomas Show.
All right, just like we always say with our Fred Brad,
we got Eric in Bay City on the line. I
do this to him on postgames, and his calls usually suck.
So if you would like to avoid hearing from Eric
in Base City, you need to call it your gut feelings, please,

(01:03:19):
so literally everybody gets in front of him seven one
three two one two five seven NINTI seven one three
two one two five seven nine zero seven one three
two one two five Sevenati. Your gut feelings are needed
and wanted right here every Tuesday, eleven thirty Sports Talk
seven n night before we get to this week. So
let's get to how we did last Tuesday sports Harvey,

(01:03:41):
what do you have all right? Matthew? Last week? Okay,
close my tap? How you doing?

Speaker 6 (01:03:49):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
Why are you opening up the French fries right now
on the mic? No, I'm turning my call terrible Bryce
to Matthews gets his first major league hitting Seattle you
said that that was a win. Dang, good job, congratulations,
thank you. Uh. You also said the NBA expansion would
get skipped for a while. I don't know what that

(01:04:10):
means for. How long do you want even put a
date on it? I mean you said a while? Could
be anything. I was going to say to yours. Uh yeah,
twenty thirty Okay, By the way, I'm gonna put one
for this one. You put this one deep in the doe.
The WNBA comes to Houston by twenty thirty one. This
is not a lot of not a big bonus. But
I'm gonna say the next round of expanis okay, the Rockets.

(01:04:31):
We'll have a team write that down for you now.
But I'm still getting to your old ones. Sure. You
also said, congratulations that the All Star Game was going
extra innings. That's a win. It didn't go extra innings?
So it did? No, it didn't.

Speaker 10 (01:04:46):
It did?

Speaker 1 (01:04:46):
How many innings? It got to nine? Thank you very much.
It's a win. Thank you. He's right, you know I'm right.
Extra innings means a tenth inning. No, no, nope, listen, Wexler,
We're gonna have to get you an l No, you're not.
It went beyond on the nine innings. That's extras. That's
a win. I'm taking a win. And I remember this
because Matt texted the group chat I know, and I
was like, well, they only went to nine innings, so

(01:05:08):
I don't know what you're talking about, Jonathan, that's a win.
Seven one, three, seven, What do you got? Okay? Well,
I was feeling pretty good. I said National League comfortably
beats American League when it was six nothing. I was
feeling good. Then the American League came back, but the
National League still won. I said, ABS goes smoothly and
people love it. I would say that's a win. Yeah.
And I got the long Horns on the money line.

(01:05:32):
I'm not taking the three versus Ohio State and Week
one Longhorns on the money line Week one college football.
If I if I had a lot of extra money,
I'd want you to go out of that game because
I've never been to Ohio State before. A lot of
Longhorn fans I know are not going because they heard
about how bad the Ohio State fans are and it's

(01:05:53):
very difficult to get out of the stadium, like worse
than Tech fans. My uh my father in law has
been to many games at Ohio Stadium and it takes
two to three hours to leave. People know that those
texts tech fans like to throw batteries and whatnot. What
are they throwing Ohio State hands? They really do know?
Are they? Are they T shirt wearers like they're in Texas?

(01:06:14):
What do you mean, like you wear the text shirt
but you've got no affiliation texts. You didn't graduate, you
didn't go to a bunch of classes there, You're just
Texas fan by default. You mean, are they a big
brand who has had a lot of success and people
want to support them?

Speaker 3 (01:06:26):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
Not having to school there, that's no. I said, Are
they big bandwagon fans? Yeah? Big, big, hugely successful college
football program. Has one of the fans attended or graduated
the school? Zero zero zero? Okay, So I'm asking are
there a lot of them? Saw them? Imagine? Yes? Okay,
very good. It's always a jealous little fan bases that

(01:06:48):
always T shirt fans. Yeah, people would hear your T
shirts if your program was any good. You bitch, say
John and c. You see how he's he's instant, He's
number one instigator. I didn't even say anything. Again, I
think I might turn his instigate game is he's ramping
it up, Maddie. He's trying to sew discord between us.

(01:07:09):
What I wouldn't ever got. I wouldn't do that. I
listened to the shows. I know what both of you
are doing. And I might have to wear Ohio State
shirt the Friday before the big game. I said, I
don't know if I'm going to Longhorns or Dogs. They're
gonna be on the road in the shoe. They should
lose that game, but we'll see. But as a twelve

(01:07:30):
team tournament, you'll finish eleven and one and field just great.
I don't know. You got at Georgia at Ohio State.
That could be two losses right there. Okay, you're ten
and two, still getting Anything can happen in Oklahoma, now, please?
What you're beating Oklahoma? There's always upsets there. Okay, all right?
Anything else, Joe? What Jonathan have?

Speaker 6 (01:07:49):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
I'm sorry? Uh? Jonathan had the University of Houston Cougars
losing it to the Stephen F. Austin a Lumberjacks. You
hear man, bet don't make a bet? What's our bet?
That's why Kyle Tucker, by the way, I'm not giving
you a serious point, you know, don't take advantage of

(01:08:10):
the young man like you said it not me. The
line's gonna be like thirty five Jonathan. Look, I am
not allowing I'm stepping in. I'm not allowing you to
take advantage of this poor young men. This way. We
got to think about the bet though. All right, how
about to give you ten points? Hey, you remember the
bet we made back in the day you lost and

(01:08:30):
you had to sing the Cougar fight song. What was
gonna happen if I lost? Does that? If I even
have a fight song? Yeah? Oh, you know the worries.
Let's not do that. I think it's got a corporate sponsor.
Oh okay, Dale's lumber Yard. Let's go got feelings now? Well, No,
you remember what to do? No, I was gonna have
to wear the Shasta costume. Oh yes, and I was

(01:08:51):
gonna bring it to the station. I don't know if
you can run the board though with a Shasta pause,
just a photo a difference. Get him, Get him, Jonathan,
Get him. Just because you just because you didn't make
just because you didn't mix the hotes very well ten
o'clock doesn't mean you don't know. We should have put it.

(01:09:12):
We should have used the one from the system. You
know what I should You should have consulted me on that. Yeah,
Matt's that doesn't understand. Well, that YouTube feed is like
two and a half minutes. I didn't want you to
restart it up because we had more highlight. It's easier
to just keep hitting playing the system.

Speaker 11 (01:09:25):
Yeah, okay, you know what rosstack make you ross? What
are we talking about now making our predictions? Okay, go
ahead this this week. Astros have six games left this week.

Speaker 1 (01:09:38):
Okay, five and one, well, four of them against the
A's five and one. Write it down. Okay, five and one,
there's no way five and one. The A's kind of
our pesky five and one. There's no way. You're right,
there's no way. So I'm trong willing them to five wins.

(01:10:01):
It's more of a mccallors is starting like two of those.
I am, I am, miam. He's great. You know I'm
mckellor's hill. I'm on you jumped off that hill. I'm
on the island. No, I'm still here. You're more team
gust around. Guess what say? Gut feelings, go for it?
Quality start next time out, Lance for Colors Union. What's up?

(01:10:23):
What's up? All right, here's my Memphis take the jar
waiting for the next conference. Memphis is gonna jettison. They
want a the American Memphis no University of Memphis. Yeah,
but isn't the American like the top tier or you're okay,
go ahead, Sorry, They're going to the PAC twelve. That's

(01:10:43):
what I was gonna say. I was like Americans basically
one of the top Yeah, powered Atlantic in it. Now
it's got Charlotte, it's got right terrible didn't have Texas
State in it now? Yeah, oh yeah, Florida's Memphis is
going to the PAC twelve. Makes sense. Okay, that's what
my gut feeling is on it. Okay, what else you got?
What you got? I've given you, I've given you two

(01:11:05):
I got I said Landsa. Colors is getting a quality
start and is at least one home run from Bryce
Matthews in the next week? Is that? Okay? One more?

Speaker 6 (01:11:17):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
I'll go out that. I mean on every six games
would be one yeah, yeah, it'd be like twenty something
a year. Yeah, I'll take that. Okay, Jonathan, quickly, what
do you got for yourself?

Speaker 4 (01:11:25):
All right, I'll know me, I'll go for the long
ball on these bets. So this next six games Detroit
Tigers versus the Blue Jays in the next series.

Speaker 1 (01:11:33):
Ok what I like this? Tiger's Jason No, no, no no.

Speaker 4 (01:11:37):
And so we're only down two games from the Tigers,
and we're o're one game below the Blue Jays. I
think because we have ass such an easy schedule, we're
gonna in these next six games creep up to the
top of the American League.

Speaker 1 (01:11:46):
Oh, you go for the home run on that one
top of the AL by next week or buy in
a couple of weeks or something next week.

Speaker 4 (01:11:55):
Let's say next week, I will go over the next Tuesday.
That that's quite adventuesting. That's aggressive. Let's say let's we'll
give you two weeks. How about we give you till
August first. Yeah, that's about two weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
August fifth August fifth August, if you have two tuesdays
and to make that happen. Okay, I like that. All right,
let's go to on Hell at eleven forty two on Hell,
Good morning to you do it good?

Speaker 10 (01:12:22):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:12:23):
So I gotta I got a gut till it's not
a good one. From Arizona. I'm on my way the
Astros game this.

Speaker 12 (01:12:29):
Evening, but my gut feeling is you're on Alvarez is
going to be out for the season.

Speaker 1 (01:12:36):
I hope I'm wrong. On Hell, thank you for the
phone call. I don't think you're by yourself on that.
There was nothing that I got out of that conversation
yesterday with the interpreter that you read to us about
forty five minutes ago that made me go ooh, when
he comes back, it's ferocious now coming back and not

(01:12:56):
coming back at all, or two different things, obviously, But
what kind of impact are you expecting him to do
If he's coming back and he's already minute, he's gonna
have to play through pain. That's not giving me warm
and fuzzy sports are. It's just not so there. If
you were to put a bull on the board of
possibilities with what yard on Alvarez is the rest of
the twenty twenty six five season now coming back at all,

(01:13:17):
it's gonna be one of the top three or fourth picks.
It just is hand procedure for your done either in
the offseason or whenever he calls it quits for this year.
If he keeps on dry feeling, and he's going to
Hong Kong for this. I don't care where he goes,
as long as he gets it done, is it? But
I mean, I think a slice of hand open. Well,

(01:13:39):
that's what surgery is. I don't know. No, I guess
they can do. They get technologies and they're going to
do like a buying six technologies. Put some plates in there,
put some buying bolts in there. I don't know. Man,
you're right, okay, so what are you? Okay? How about
this just real quick between the three of us, we'll
take a quick time out after this. I want you

(01:13:59):
all three. Number of home runs you're on Alvarez hits
between now in the end of the season, John, then
you go first, number of home runs he hits between
now and the end of the season regular season. The
zero number is that. Zero's a number I'm gonna.

Speaker 4 (01:14:15):
I'm gonna, I'm gonna Go'm gonna be optimistic.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
Let's go six, ROSSI No, you go zero. I think
want with the one two, we'll take a deep breath
on that. I'm taking over zero. I'm taking over zero.

(01:14:41):
You're the worst? Why am I the worst? Tell me why?
Because you're the worst. You're so much, you're such a pessimist.
Give me worse July twenty second. He's been a couple
of months. Give me where you found the optimism. Please.
He's gonna come back with a couple of weeks left,
and he's gonna hit two home runs, and he's gonna
be ready to go to the playoffs. He's not gonna
be the feared hitter that he once was, but he's
he's still so eighty percent of yourd on is better

(01:15:02):
than most anybody else that can go one. What are
you expecting him back September on Timitter?

Speaker 3 (01:15:07):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
Excuse me? What Timber third, squeez meteenth? Give me realistically?
I don't know, but you I just I'm just throwing
bleep against the wall I have. I'm gonna prove my
point improving point. Are you expect him back on July
twenty seven? No? No, what you said? Two home runs?
If he comes back September on first since two home
runs thirteenth? Oh you're joking, you're saying thirteenth, Okay, thirteenth,

(01:15:31):
September thirteenth, two home runs in eighteen games thereabouts. Oh,
he's not gonna play every day immediately? Oh? Hell, I'm
staying with zero eleven forty five on four zero I
bet you on it three two one two five seven
eleven fifty on Sports Talk seven on Real Quick, got
a couple of U. Got one tweet about our wrestling

(01:15:53):
conversation a minute ago. Are from our friend and that
is uh pay this guy six nine three one as
I forty went last night with my kid fourteen in
bro thirty two great sold out atmosphere. Yes, a lot
of degenerates, but overall worth it. Sounds like the Matt
Thomas Show. A lot of degenerates, but worth it. Right, Yes,

(01:16:13):
you just call it the generates at least the listeners.
Yeah no not yeah, you and and you, me and
me seven one three two one two five seven doty
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero
Oh we got the Norfolk versus Lee High Valley h
MLB network. Okay, why would you league? Why would you

(01:16:35):
get rid of our girl and put that on instead? Lauren?
She hotty greater than minor league baseball. I'm gonna go
minor league baseball. No, you're not actually focused, that's actually true.
Let's talk to Brian and Perland. Brian, what's in your
gut this week a couple of things.

Speaker 13 (01:16:53):
I sadly I think Esak paratus is done for at
least in the regular season. If he comes back, maybe
as a pin shitter or DH and in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (01:17:04):
I just did not like the way.

Speaker 10 (01:17:05):
He came up so quickly on that amstring. I hope
I'm wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
Again much like most people in Jordan, and.

Speaker 13 (01:17:12):
I hope I am wrong, but yeah, I just didn't
like the way that looked. And I think John Singleton
will get in to a game at some point before
the end of this road trip, if he doesn't even
maybe start at d H and last one. When Christian
Javier does come back, he will be used in a
thinking back role with somebody maybe from.

Speaker 1 (01:17:33):
A Colors or a Gordon or a Walter, just to.

Speaker 13 (01:17:35):
Cut down on some of their innings, say you don't
tax them by the end of the year. So I
think his role will be primarily as pigybacking with somebody
else for the most part.

Speaker 1 (01:17:46):
Very good, Thank you very much. It's funny. John's got
to play pretty soon here, right. You didn't bring him
up just for blanking giggles. Correct, Well, he's just didn't
say ourselves are spot what's the difference. I mean, if
shay Wickhams getting more abs, John's be like, come on
now I can hit the little harsh and Walker wants
to be up there every day? Can I tell you?

(01:18:07):
Can I make a little confession. Did you hear Brian's
first one about you suck credits? Oh? It popped in
my head, but I didn't want to say it out.
All right, I'm going to I'm going to say it.
Don't don't Okay, I won't say it, though, I'm thinking

(01:18:27):
to just say it. You get credit for when it happens.
Just say it so you get the credit. He's out
for the regular season. There it is. That's sports RV.
Follow me on Instagram at sports MT. You do follow
me on Instagram at sports MT. Don't do that. Follow

(01:18:47):
me at sports RV on Instagram. And we're over one thousand. Now,
how what do you mean? I mean, I've seen you
with too. You have your big head behind a bunch
of baseball graphics. See it's first, well the head is,
it's less than a third of the of the screen.
It's still it's still unsettling. Whatever they'll be Jelly a

(01:19:09):
lot of positive feedback. You're not my mom loves them.
She was gonna say, you get three likes, mom, sister, Hey,
last one got forty nine. Yeah, that's one I like. Yeah,
one of them got like a hundred.

Speaker 4 (01:19:21):
I want to see your face too. Make some more videos, man, Yeah,
Matt Hater, I'll make it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:25):
You know. I'll make a video tonight while I'm watching
the Astros game. Okay, good with my fresh fresh shave.
Some help uploading it? Probably, all right? Uh? Scott in
River Oaks at eleven fifty four, Scott, what's in your
gut this week?

Speaker 10 (01:19:41):
All right?

Speaker 12 (01:19:41):
What's up, fella? So with training camp starting tomorrow, time
to start thinking a little bit towards football. And I
have my my gut feeling is this the Houston Texans
defense this year will be the best unit on either
side of the ball in the history of the franchise.
You can say I'm drinking the kool aid and I
might be a little bit, but but it will be.

(01:20:04):
I mean, it's not a very high bar to climb,
so I think it'll be the best unit in the
history of the franchise.

Speaker 1 (01:20:10):
All right, So let's let's put this in the perspective. Son,
you can pay off on this if they're the best
defense ever, that would mean they'd be giving up the
fewest points ever in an NFL season. I thought he
mean franchise history, Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:20:23):
Seventeen years and Texans history.

Speaker 1 (01:20:25):
Yeah, so based on a seventeen game schedule, they're gonna
give up the fewest points per game in the history
of the team. Is that what you're saying. Maybe he
means dvoa, Matt. Maybe he means yards per play Jesus.
Maybe he means epa per play, twenty Jonathan come in
here and hit him hands or two tender.

Speaker 12 (01:20:44):
We can judge it by points per game.

Speaker 1 (01:20:46):
That's well, how you named the parameter you wasn't the
twenty twelve or twenty eleven defenses. Weren't those one of
those was number one in football? I think.

Speaker 12 (01:20:55):
Yeah, I think you. I think you're right too. And
I would say this unit on paper more talent than
Matt te you know, with both that dressers, everyone we
have in the secondary and the linebacking corps. You know,
do you get your position by position other than maybe
defensive tackle. I don't think there's a position that's not
only are they not strong at but they have depth

(01:21:16):
as well. So I'm putting my name on it with
Denico at the helm as well. Best unit in the
history of the either side of the ball either.

Speaker 1 (01:21:25):
All right, Scott you are we will look forward and
you should call us before January. But I'm just saying
you got an opportunity to call us in January to
claim your gut feeling. All right, I've done something that
we'll do that, all right, thanks deep analytical research. I
love it when you do that. Points per game best
Texans defense have ever finished is fourth and be it
twenty eleven and twenty nine eighteen. In terms of yards

(01:21:48):
they were they number one overall yards defense in twenty sixteen,
number two and twenty eleven. See. I think if you
were to say that like Scott just did, I would
want to go off the fewest points per game allowed. Yeah,
but I mean points per game? What if? What if
CD Stroud throws a bunch of picks and they get
easy points? We can see. I like stuff like yards
per play. Like I know you're gonna get mad at me.

(01:22:11):
Points can be misleading and yards can be misleading. If
you're blowing somebody out by thirty five points and then
you put in a bunch of backups and you give
up four hundred yards. You had a pretty good defensive day.
We can section off things. You have to contextualize numbers, Matt.
That's what they call me, the contextualizer. They called never mind.

(01:22:33):
I like that last but least Eric in Bay City.
What's in your gut?

Speaker 8 (01:22:38):
Well, guys, I'm so excited because y'all announced today earlier
in the show that rich Hill would be pitching tonight.
So God, that led me to call in with my
gut feeling that rich Hill's gonna put on a performance
tonight that Spencer Arraghetty will not put on all season
when he returns, and certainly.

Speaker 7 (01:22:55):
Lance mccollor's won't.

Speaker 8 (01:22:56):
Rich Hill is gonna dominate tonight quality star incoming. And
one thing I'll say on the WWE stuff, those fans
have gotten so weird, man. They go to the shows
and they sing and all that and makes the show
almost unwatchable to me.

Speaker 7 (01:23:14):
Jim Cornett has a podcast. I've suggested him as a
possible ASTROS manager before here on this show.

Speaker 1 (01:23:19):
Yes you have, yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:23:22):
What he talks about these modern fans and they found
this like niche group of people that will pay exorbitant
prices for their products. But for a lot of mainstream people,
just regular viewing fans that used to enjoy the stone
cold days and the whole COVID days, we can't. It's
hard to watch this crap.

Speaker 1 (01:23:42):
Well, unfortunately, Eric, you and I share one sentiment. I
listened to Jim Cornett before I go to sleep every night.
Isn't that terrible? All right? I guess he said nothing.
All right, there you go, and that's the gut feelings
of the week. Thank you, Matt, Thank you Eric. Jim
Cornett for Astro's manager, we'll speak to the real manager

(01:24:03):
who's got the job, and he's very He's been in
baseball all his life. Yeah, go ahead. It's compared to
Jim Cornett's has been not been in baseball one day
in his life. Sixteen players in the IL, they're five
games up. Come on, folks, bubble wrap him the manager
to welcome to the Bryce is right. I'm Matt Thomas,

(01:24:26):
and here's one of the Maddie's beauties, Rossville or Hall.
You never thought you'd never called that. Of all the
denigrating things you've said on this show, I don't know
if it gets any lower than calling me your beauty
that is weird. That's fine, beautiful ross Yeah, but I'm
not Matt's beauty. That's weird. Yeah. People, so many people

(01:24:48):
think you're handsome. I don't get it. That's I just
don't get it. I think it's more of the charming personality.
Got a dad bod hey simmer into that. You got
a lot of gray hair. Yes, it's the hair. It's
a lot, Frankly, eight the hair. And I just don't
get I would say charming personality. No, I wouldn't say that.
Women love a man who can make them laugh. And
I get him giggling, Matty, Oh, you get him giggling

(01:25:12):
all right. Again, I don't know how. I don't know why. Confused, frankly,
a little disappointed. We present to you the news crap
with the George Clooney look alike of Houston sports radio
and news. It's yeah, you know what I am doing news.

(01:25:36):
I could do the news thing like Hello, I talk
with an Anglo accent, except when I say my name
rossoviaial here on the Sports Talk seven. Well, Matt, the
Astros get to win yesterday. You heard the highlights A
couple of mighty hacks from Bryce Matthews. Both over one
hundred and eight miles an hour. Off the bat, he

(01:25:57):
did have two strikeouts. That has been some of the
Bryce Matthew's experience. But as we heard from him coming
up from TRIPAA, he holds much power in those hands
and that bats, and we saw it yesterday, two mighty hacks,
five runs batted in. Astros do not win the game
without those five RBIs sixty three victory. Colton Gordon good enough,

(01:26:23):
bullpen good despite some walks given up. Astros get the
six to three victory, and importantly, the Mariners lose to
the brew Creuse. So Astros now five games up in
the American League West, and Joe Spotta joins us in
twenty two minutes here on seven ninety. Yes, he does,
matt one of the things we may discuss with him.
We got some quotes yesterday from yord On Alvarez via

(01:26:46):
an interpreter, so via the interpreter via excuse me, Chandler
Rome talking about yord On Alvarez and what he had
to say about his injury. Quote, sixty to sixty five
percent effort he was swinging with. He plans to hit
again today, said about his setback in Florida. The day
he was supposed to face pitching, his hand was so

(01:27:07):
swollen he could not grip a bat. And here is
a couple of key items. Here says where the pain is,
it's difficult to have surgery. There also says he needs
a little bit of rest right now, but normally there
is not surgery in that area, and this also is key.
Will he have to deal with the pain all year?

(01:27:28):
He says, I wish not, but I don't know. If
I have to deal with it, it will be for
the rest of the season. I think I need to
rest it, but again, I need to come back and play,
and I think I'm in the right direction now to
come back and play. Now with Joe, he can't further
speculate on anything more than what you're not, says, I'm
just kidding. It's just gonna be to the fact of, man,

(01:27:50):
you wish you got a burst of really great news,
and you just you got a burst of news. It
just wasn't particularly great. It was. We kind of get it,
We understand, we appreciate the fact you're trying to fight
through it. But the hand swells up before seeing any
live game action. How are we supposed to guarantee that

(01:28:10):
it's not going to swallop at any point between now
and the end of the regular season. That's why, unfortunately
I put the number zero home runs arrest away for him.
And I'm sad to say that profoundly. Say you're ready
to change your mind, aren't you. I don't want to

(01:28:31):
talk about it, all right, man. Well, also this goes
ties into the Astros. Of course, their opponent, the Arizona Diamondbacks.
You Henny O Suarez, the third baseman there, hitting his
fifth home run into three games. He is listed as
a trade target. Could end up any number of places.

(01:28:52):
Will it be Houston? Probably not, but you do have
now the trade deadline two days and a week way.
It will be Thursday, the thirty first. Are you Hanningo
Suarez looking like a more and more attractive candidate as
he continues to pile up the home runs mats? Yeah,
there are they four and a half or five and
a half out of the wild card, the third wild card.

(01:29:15):
I it was four and a half going to the
last night. I don't know how everybody else did in
front of them. I'm not in on the national legal wildcard.
I should never ask questions. I don't get forty five
and a half now, so you're thinking they're out, No.
Five and a half, five five and a half plus
you have to hot three teams. Okay, so they would
be they should be sellers of the deadline. Yeah, the odds,

(01:29:36):
I would say, the odds are very low. You might
as well sell and try to get something rather than
I mean, if you break into the playoffs, are you
winning the World Series over the Dodgers and Cubs and
Padres and Phillies? Hell no, okay, so I would say
they should become sellers. Also, Matt keeping it with baseball.
Did you see what happened in the Phillies game against

(01:29:56):
the Boston Red Sox last night? I did. It's funny
when I go to ball games, I like to see
great defensive plays and games. Yes, I like to see
clutch base hits, maybe a huge home run, but sometimes
you want to see a good old fashioned catchers interference.
Ed Mundo Sosa winning the game for the Phillies on

(01:30:20):
a catcher's interference mobbed by teammates set after the game.
To be honest, this feels exactly like a home run.
The most important thing about is that we end up
winning the game, and that's what we went out to do,
a walk off, three to two victory in the tenth
inning for the Phillies on a catcher's interference. I feel

(01:30:42):
like that's has that happened to the Astros before. No,
we've seen runs score once, but not games ending. Okay,
all right, well there you go, and that's your news
at now. Man, do you think the catchers stay with
me on this open statement? They are carrying a lot
of weight, even more so than the defined position of

(01:31:02):
a catcher. They're framing more, They're trying to get out,
They're trying to there. We've seen more catchers interference calls
in the last five years and I saw probably in
the previous twenty years. I don't have the agual evidence,
but I feel like Kyle Tucker was constantly getting on
first base as an astrue with all the catcher's interference calls. True, Yeah,

(01:31:24):
I don't know. I'm gonna have to look at the
league average for catcher's interference over the last time.

Speaker 6 (01:31:27):
No, do not do that.

Speaker 1 (01:31:28):
It means you've gotten zero life, So I don't want
you doing that. Well, it just the catcher roll is
just becoming more and more important. Used to be Back
in the day. You just worried about catchers trying to
catch knuckleballs. Now they're framing looks like you're right. There's
an Athletic article from last year saying catcher's interference calls
are skyrocketing and it's putting players at risk. Yeah, and

(01:31:50):
it's very obvious. If it happens, whether you're placed wrong
or whether you're sticking that glove out and the guy's swinging,
it's it's not healthy for any of them. You can
hurt your own hand, you could hurt the batter. A
lot of bad things can happen. So I'm glad the
umpires are keeping a good eye on the catcher's interference.
All right, man, I had a couple of NFL things
to get to, but we're gonna save them for next hour.

(01:32:11):
All right. We got the NFL rewind at one twenty ross.
What is today's edition of Be Believing or Not? At
one fifty by the way, none. I know this won't
be it, but poor Malcolm Jamal Warner, I mean the
win stories you went to him, Well, it's been a day,
that's fine. Yeah, let's you know what's honor him? Okay,
such a terrible, terrible passing. Yesterday you saw more details

(01:32:32):
on this story. I mean he was caught up in
waves and they couldn't get to him every time. Yeah.
I remember when I went to Costa Rica and we
went to Kpos and one of the beaches there was
warning signs all over the place. I don't know exactly
where he was, but yeah, the tides can get pretty
bad over there. Can I give you a gut feeling.
I will never go into beach water ever again. I
will stay in pools, but I don't know I even

(01:32:55):
like put your deep dip your feet in. Uh, yeah,
I can do that. I walks on the sand, how
about that. I can call you crazy, but I'm not
between man, between the current and the sharks. Yeah, you
can have it. Flesh eating bacteria, people urinating out there,
fecal matter and Galveston. Oh stop Galveston's google it. No,

(01:33:17):
I don't want to know. I didn't do the scientific test.
It wasn't me. That was that was the story that
was in the Onion. No, it was not. Twelve fourteen
of the Matt Thomas shows run dot com bro the
top bottom of the hour, Joe a spot on seven
ninety all right, anyways, Yes, I'm going to transition to
helping you out. A friend of the show Dan Matthews'

(01:33:41):
Textaus Rossi says, I used to be a huge river tuber,
but then a water moccasin wanted to jump in my tube,
and I never said again, I'll stick with the pool.
So snake jumped in his tube. He went down the tubers,
and then Kenny and Katie sent us a tweet that

(01:34:01):
had a headline from July eighth. It says more than
half of East Coast beaches tested positive for fecal contamination.
Shocking new study reveals, how did your vacation spot do?
So there's fecal matter all over the place. You know what,
Pool's fine for me. Pools just great. Your name the pool,
We'll catch you. You do the other stuff in the pool,

(01:34:23):
we'll catch you. You know how I learned. Somebody told
me recently if you can smell, if you're in the
pool and you smell the chlorine, get out. That means
that means it's activating and it's killing something. That means
there's something bad in there. You know, I'm just gonna
take long showers. You already do that.

Speaker 9 (01:34:40):
I do.

Speaker 1 (01:34:41):
I'm the longer shower taker, you might know. Is there
anything safe to do anymore? We can't go on the beach, yeah,
sharks and we got currents. Well, just don't don't. We
can't go to the pool, Okay, go, you can go
to the beach. You just can't get in the water.
We can't, you know, two bees got water. Maccus is
jumping in people's tubes, Screws are falling off a roller coasters. Yeah,

(01:35:06):
and we got people flying from Minneapolis to mine not
in North Dakota with fighter jets interrupting them and almost
crashing mid air. And Stephen Colbert's show's got cancel because
it's losing forty million dollars. Is there no? God, it's
losing forty million dollars. Forty million dollars much does he
get paid? Crazy? See you? Yeah? I don't, you know,

(01:35:32):
I haven't watched. I can't recall the last time I
watched a second of that show. You know again, I
fall asleep to Jim Cornett, He's cheaper free, except those
dumbass ads on YouTube. They get me. You've been talking
about getting premium YouTube for you, but it's fifteen dollars.
You know, what isn't it true? That is it true
that you can get YouTube Premium and then you if

(01:35:52):
you get YouTube TV. It's two separate charges. I don't
have YouTube TV, I know, but shouldn't they package that?
I feel like it? I just I don't get Yeah,
I got nothing. Okay. Positive news. Billy Joel's documentary came out.
I have not seen that yet, but the reviews on

(01:36:13):
that are really good. What's it called Chugging Pine sal
The views expressed by Sports Harvey are not of those
of this this radio show and certainly hundreds of millions
of Americans that love and see him every year. He
had some good hits. It looks good. It was a
good show. It was a good show at a minute, mate, Yeah,

(01:36:35):
and hope he gets back on tour soon. And toy
and you tore out a divid out of the turf
and it tripped up Jake Myers. That wasn't me, although
I kind of. I was out in medium center. We
speak of that. See did you see Chas McCormick last night? Yes,
samitha grab out in center field getting over. There's only
two outs. I forgot how many outs there were. Now
the runners scored he would have scored anyway. Corbuck Carroll
is one of the fastest runners in baseball. He would

(01:36:56):
have scored anyways. But you just from a mental standpoint,
you just want to go, what the hell are you doing?
I mean, if you're going to pick one guy to
forget how many outs there are? I mean, how's the
al tuo be can get away with it? I was
gonna say him, Victor Carrottin didn't get away with it.
I'm gonna put Jazz number one. He's on the list
of people that can't get away with it. He's just

(01:37:16):
a goober. And I mean that like the nicest way possible.
He's just He's a lovable goober, old chazzy good thing.
It didn't cost him anything. It's funny. And I'm not
saying that he is not bright, because I don't know
Chas McCormick very well at all. When I was covering
the Minnesota Twins, they had his outfielder named lou Ford. Okay,
this was l E. W Ford. It wasn't even like Lewis. Yeah,

(01:37:40):
And before I got to Minnesota, he was legendary because
he got hurt in the Twins clubhouse one night for
it was an ironing incident. Now, when people have an
ironing mishap, how would what would you think would be
the problem? Uh, they used the iron while they had
the shirt on. Yeah, it was fully on. I've heard

(01:38:00):
of people doing that. Yeah, he was. He was trying
to iron his jersey while in the jersey. That's ill advised. Yeah,
so I don't know if Chaz would do that. I
would hope that the war would travel fast around the
world of common you know, sense sense that you would
not want to actually iron something with something going. Now,

(01:38:22):
I've tried to steam something with me on and that
was even dumber. And that was a dumb move by
me because it was a coat jacket. Oh okay, you
had a shirt on and then you had the coat on.
I was like, I will get burned by I was
still dumb. But I'm going to give you a little
Leeway's not that. Don't give me much. Don't give me much.

(01:38:46):
But so I admitted it to you what I did.
Thank you. I thought I would just do a couple
of quick no, just take the jacket off, put it
on a hangar, and be done in two minutes and
then avoid I avoid having hot steam hitting your skin
and or your your shirt and you're screaming at you
and your wife's like what the hell you doing? And
when you go a hot pan out of the oven
and then you do something else and you come back
and you try to pick it up because you forgot
I've done that. Yeah. Like the last dumb thing I

(01:39:08):
did to the house this week is I tried to
clean this. I was cooking some bacon, and I cleaned,
tried to clean the stove and the stove area was
still hot and I was trying to wind exit and
that was not bright. You know, it's really good, easy
and set and forget uh oven oven bacon.

Speaker 3 (01:39:22):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:39:22):
Yeah, it just takes a lot longer. Okay, not nearly
as crisp. Oh you get it right, and crispy do you?
Oh yeah, you gotta crank it up like four to
twenty five. Do you broiler or do you do? You
have no broiler? You're gonna burn it. Oh okay, So
you get a little cooking tips here on the show.
Bo I was kind of proud of my to tell
the truth yesterday about the talkies in the in the
uh in the Wendy's Burger. Why I thought it was funny.

(01:39:45):
I mean it was funny, but I didn't do. Would
you like to put snack chips on your burger? I
used to eat. I used to put cheetos on my
sandwiches when I was in school, when I was a kid.
Now I loved it, though. I have had a chili
cheeseburger with fritos on the top. I went to Fat
Seals and and they put fries and chicken tenders in
your burritos. That is I'm talking about, like snack chips. Yeah.

(01:40:06):
Do you want a bunch of Doritos on top of
your like your chicken caught on blue Doritos? And that
isn't No, I'm not cool. I'm not putting a nacho
spicy nacho cheese on a cord on blue sands. All right,
You're gonna get order a bacon mushroom Swiss burger and
I have ruffles put on top. No, some people do that.
If you're looking for a crunch, I guess get onion straws. Mmmm.

(01:40:27):
That's good, but those are like that's like a side. Okay,
all right? What about a Frida egg on a burger? Uh? Yeah,
he's too much. I mean I wouldn't I can go
without a comfortation. Somebody wants to cook me a burger
with Like my major market burger was Pastromi, a fried
egg and a burger and that was good and they

(01:40:48):
took it off. Yeah they did, because I mean, who's
eeing Pastrami in Houston, Texas? Not a big Pastramian market.
We'll probably Minorland. Why do you say that, Ross, I
don't know. I don't know. I think you know. Joe
a spot of Next twelve twenty eight on Sports Talk
seven ninety. We enjoy spending at ten quality minutes with
the I'm a go ahead and state it. Future American

(01:41:10):
League Manager of the Year, Joe a spot a skip.

Speaker 3 (01:41:12):
How are you.

Speaker 5 (01:41:14):
I'm doing well, guys.

Speaker 1 (01:41:15):
Thank you for having me. Hey, congratulations on the win.
Congratulations for Bryce Matthews. Tell me what it's like managing
a young man who probably, as you even admitted, has
some work to do, not a finished product, but comes
up takes them all to get that first major league
hit and then is certainly very impactful for you last night.

Speaker 5 (01:41:33):
Yeah, yeah, he's been you know the game he had yesterday,
begging against a really good starter in the position that
we are in, right, we are fighting through a tough
stretch of injuries, and these young players continue to come
up and step up and have games the way Bryce

(01:41:54):
just did. It just impacts you know. It brings his
energy to the club palace, into our team that we needed.
And you know, I'm not surprised about his success. We
know that he's got all the ability and the capabilities
to be a really good player. But how every game
he's starting to settle down, calm down, understand what they're
trying to do, play good baseball on both sides to
the ball has been remarkable and a great story. You

(01:42:17):
know is a Houston kid, is a kid that went
to the Astros Academy, and so the whole thing is special.
And you know, it's great to see having success and
we you know, we need to keep this going and
and and it's excited to be to be managing this,
this group of players who are so excited and wanted
to contribute.

Speaker 1 (01:42:35):
Are you committed Joe to keeping him at second base?
Obviously you're the second basement before him has been playing
a little bit of left field, obviously some DH as well,
and you've moved him to second. We're speaking obviously with Jose,
but what are your plans at least for the short
term at that second base spot.

Speaker 5 (01:42:49):
You know what I really want to I want to
really give him an opportunity. You know, it's you know
right now with our roster and how much he's changing,
and we can really predict what the future will bring,
but right now he has earned the right to continue
to get opportunities. Like I've always said, you know, any
young player, you have to keep an eye on how

(01:43:10):
he reacts and how he makes adjustments. I don't want
to throw a young player out there and not be
able to help them through struggles. So I'm constantly keeping
an eye on all these young players and trying to
put him in a position where they can feel comfortable
and after some success. But right now he's handling himself.

Speaker 1 (01:43:30):
Very very well with all the injuries and your roster adjustments.
I mean, the Sugarland, the Houston Express is unbelievable, toll
charges and everything, but you guys can handle that. Let
me ask you about trying to get guys off their feet,
whether it's Jose, whether it's Victor, whether it's Jan here
does it become even a bigger challenge because I feel

(01:43:51):
like every other series you're having to kind of create
and manipulate a new twenty six man roster.

Speaker 5 (01:43:57):
You know what, I think that it's it's challenging, but
when you get guys to like Bryce right who's performing
the way he is, allows me to give all two
a back to back d H days like I'm going
to do today with with with with Hostel too.

Speaker 1 (01:44:14):
I'm going to d H him again.

Speaker 5 (01:44:15):
Brice can get another opportunity to play second base. I
could keep Hosy off his feet on the turf. You know,
Carotine will get a blow today again. Your DS will
be back in there today against a lefty pitching. I
am really trying to get everyone involved. You know, Uh,
Tremel swinging the bat really well, so he's getting an
opportunity to you know, get you know, play more on
the field. McCormick, you know, have two hits yesterday. He

(01:44:38):
can play some center. So I'm really trying to get
everyone a breeder doing the best I can to try
it also win as many games we can. Keep it
in mind that we need to keep this guys healthy.
And you know during this next nine ten days that
we we have games. But I think you know we
are we are kind of controlling the volume of the
early work we do our VP times, kind of pushing

(01:45:00):
things back, kind of trying to keep these guys healthy
while we get the rest of the guys who uh
you know, get back to us.

Speaker 1 (01:45:07):
Joey sincerely apologize that so much of our conversation this
year has been about injuries. But that has been a
storyline of this team, and you're you're certainly well aware
of that. Uh, let's get to your very talented third
basement who looked absolutely terrible running to first base the
other day. And I know there wasn't much word yesterday.
Do you have anything more you can tell our audience
right now about what we know about Esak and in
any evaluation you have medically here in town.

Speaker 5 (01:45:30):
You know what, obviously you know the injury, uh did
not look good. It's going to be it's going to
take it. It's going to take some time for for
us to get Paradis back. You know, this handstring injury
was different from the old one.

Speaker 8 (01:45:44):
The other one.

Speaker 5 (01:45:45):
What's more, Uh, it was not as intense or as
you know, as bad as this one. So this is
going to take Paradis some time to come back, you know.
And and we are going to miss him doing doing
doing this stretch of not having him in there, and
and again we need, you know, who's going to be
the next guy up, who's going to step.

Speaker 1 (01:46:06):
Up and and and help us.

Speaker 5 (01:46:07):
And we've been doing that good guys from talking about
I feel like for a few months now.

Speaker 1 (01:46:12):
But but I feel good about our guys.

Speaker 5 (01:46:14):
Many they fight, They they understand in the precision that
we are in we're protecting our house, We're protecting what
we you know, what we love, and it's it's continue
to be the best team in the West. And as
long as we got this guy's fighting and trying to
do the best they can, that's.

Speaker 1 (01:46:31):
All I can ask for.

Speaker 5 (01:46:32):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:46:32):
One of the great things that Esach brought to the
table was the amount of pitches he was able to
take and the patience that he had. Uh, can you
just give us some thoughts on basically what is in
him that allows him to do that and how do
you kind of try to coax more out of that
out of the rest of your lineup, but while still
keeping guys within themselves.

Speaker 5 (01:46:51):
Yeah, you know, I think what Issach does really well,
Mber One, I think he has no panicating with two
strikes when you have a hitter that you.

Speaker 1 (01:46:59):
Know he either be all in one than zero for one.
It allows you to.

Speaker 5 (01:47:07):
See pitches and confidence that I can hit with two strikes,
and he's always been able to, you know, control the
strikes and he knows his strength, he knows what he's
looking that day against that particular pitcher. Right, So we have,
you know, we have some guys that are capable of
doing that. So I'm trying to stack some of those
guys up where our lineup can stretch out a little

(01:47:28):
bit more. With the see pitches, we can allow our
guys to hit with many scorn positions. I'm trying to
stack up some guys that can hit with many scorn positions,
trying to get some big hits in certain moments. You know,
it's it's it's tricky, but you know, we we're going
to continue to shuffle things around and the guys are
all in and you know, I'm going to communicate with
them my thought process and hopefully we could keep these going.

Speaker 1 (01:47:49):
Astro's manager Joe Spotto was here on Sports Talk seven
ninety and one of those guys you've had to move
a lot, Cam Smith has basically been everywhere in the lineup,
DoD Is it a situation where you want the approaches
to be the same or did you talk about possibly
seeing more pitches now with him leading off?

Speaker 5 (01:48:05):
You know what, He's being seen pitches throughout the whole
entire season. I really like he's approached and and I'm
trying to, you know, make sure that he doesn't have
to change.

Speaker 1 (01:48:17):
He's planned.

Speaker 5 (01:48:19):
He could still be the same in that lead off spot.
Just try to drive the battle right center field. He's
come up with some men in scorn position.

Speaker 1 (01:48:25):
He's got that big.

Speaker 5 (01:48:26):
Double against Rule in Seattle, got another big knock yesterday.
So I'm trying to be you know, trying to put
him in a spot where it is not overwhelmed by
by the spot. You know, he has Altuba hitd behind him,
so he's getting some good pitches to hit, you know,
and trying to you know, stack some hitters behind all
two where that we can get some get some big

(01:48:48):
hits with you know, with men's scorn position.

Speaker 1 (01:48:51):
Last three starts Joe for Hunter have been laborsome, to
say the least. What are you seeing? Is there something
that's happening? Is it Nickel and Diamond to death? Is
that the corners are not getting called strikes. What combination
of things do you see that has seen his zra
spike up a little bit the last two weeks or.

Speaker 5 (01:49:08):
So, You know what, I think his stuff has been
really good at bats have been you know, anytime you
face someone with that that's that caliber, and you hitters
get to you know, they lock it in. And and
I see hitters, you know, really making adjustments to he's
arsenal and how he's attacking a lot of foul balls,
a lot of long a bats, which is driving his

(01:49:30):
pitch counts up. He's you know, he made some quality
pitches in Seattle, and those guys were able just to
put some bawling play. And but but I don't think
it's something that we should be worried about. I think
every great picture goes through stretches where they show their
human side of them. And and I think once you know,

(01:49:51):
Hunter gets back on the mound and he gets going again,
I think he's he's gonna get on a roll here
pretty soon.

Speaker 1 (01:50:00):
One more thing about a starting pitcher, and this may
be overly simplistic, So it's if it is straighten me out,
can lance is it strike throwing that is getting him
in the most trouble right now that maybe he just
needs to be able to trust the stuff that get
her over the plate and say, yeah, there may be
some contact, but I've got good enough stuff because it
feels like they're the pitch count, especially early in games,

(01:50:20):
has really gotten in behind the eight ball, and that's it.

Speaker 5 (01:50:24):
You know, his stuff is really good. If we try
to get him to throw the ball in the box
and let let the natural movement of his pitches do
the talking. If you if you're behind the count the
one zero two, the hitter is completely in control, you know,
off the bat and they can wait out and they

(01:50:45):
can sit on pitches, and now they can control the
part of the plate that they want to handle. You
know that they want to hit the ball. So but
when you control the bat and you get ahead in
the count and now you use your sweeper and now
I can get my curve ball over my two, it
is a completely different ball game. And you know it's
not easy, you know. I Lancy's been a really good

(01:51:07):
pitcher when he's been healthy, and he's shown this for many,
many years. But we try to get him to simplify
his repertoire. How attack hitters and just get him to
be in the box more often. If he does that,
he's going to finally sell pitch in five six innings.

Speaker 1 (01:51:24):
All right, if I let your run. Colton Gordon and
Brandon Walter, I mean have been I mean huge assets
for you. They weren't even on your radars radar and
have come up and helped you out in terms of
not only giving you outs in one case, not throwing
base on balls. And the strike count has been good.
And then you needed a link last night and you

(01:51:45):
got it from one of your starting pitchers. So two
blessings for you right now for the squad, Yeah, you
know what they.

Speaker 5 (01:51:52):
When we went went in the off season, you go
and you sign players and right and you're making a
depth chart. You always signing pictures arms that you know
at some point they could come up and help you
give your starters a brether. You know, you never you
never prepared for the amount of injuries that could happen
to your rotation. But we always prepare to have some depth.

(01:52:16):
But in case something happens, we know Colton Gordon is
capable of throwin strikes in giving you four or five minutes.
When we went and got Walters can he can also
do the same. So we we we acquire these players
knowing that in case something happens, this is our second
line of defense. And these guys have been have been
solid and allow us to give time to those pitchers

(01:52:39):
who are on the sideline who are working their way back,
just to keep us in the fight. And that's all
we have.

Speaker 1 (01:52:44):
Just keep us in the fight.

Speaker 5 (01:52:45):
And then when we get the rest of the players
coming back, maybe you know, then we're in a position
to make us wrong push in August, in September, Skip.

Speaker 1 (01:52:53):
Thanks the visit has always congratulates on the win. Thank
you to Milwaukee for beating the Mariners last night. Enjoyed
that five game lead and help it say is that
way tonight against the Dbecs. Yes, sir, thank you guys.
You got Joe Spotto with us from Phoenix here on
Sports Talk seven ninty twelve forty four is our time.
If you want a two on anything that he had
to say, seven one three two one two five seven
nine zero seven one three two one two five seven

(01:53:16):
ninety Ross is the NFL rewind today at one twenty
we believe it or not today coming up at one
point fifty and we are gonna honor Malcolm Jamal Warner sadly,
it's is the truth gone too soon at fifty four
years of age. Yesterday, twelve forty four, Sports Talk seven ninety,

(01:53:38):
we have some breaking news on the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross at twelve forty nine. It's only one, but
hopefully it's more than a one. Hope, So this is
good news. I'm thinking it's not bad news. Okay, go ahead.
The Rockets have agreed on a one year contract with

(01:53:59):
Josh Kogi okay eight point six point three points per
game spent time with Charlotte Minnesota. One year contract were
three point one million dollars. Oh yes, whoa wonderful I

(01:54:20):
I mean I've called some of Kogi buckets over the
over the years. Imagine, I'm just looking for the three
point percentage. See, hey, you you moved your nose like
you smelled something bad. So I'm going to go ahead
and go on the guessing game and take context closing
the Okay, he's a thirty three percent three point shooter. Well,

(01:54:43):
you're correct, his three point percentage stinks. Twenty nine point
nine career, oh thirty three. Last year, uh, last year
three forty eight. Well I said thirty three. What did
you say? Why did you say I was correct?

Speaker 5 (01:54:56):
Then?

Speaker 6 (01:54:56):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:54:57):
Correct? It's bad? Oh okay, twenty nine point nine career. Okay,
read some numbers that make me feel good. Almost nine
points a game for Charlotte in fifteen games. Sample size small,
It's fine. Thirty four point eight percent from three is
not bad for the Rockets. It's not good for other teams,

(01:55:17):
but it's not bad for the Rockets. Okay, continue on
defensive stalwart doesn't look like it.

Speaker 3 (01:55:26):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:55:27):
He finished eighth in the Rookie of the Year voting
in twenty nineteen. All Right, so you're saying there was
a top ten selection of some sort top ten rookie
and that's all I got for you. Well, I mean,
I mean, he's just he's on a vet minimum. It's he.
I mean, this fifteen man roster, there gonna be a
lot of good guys that aren't gonna play. I mean,

(01:55:49):
I got a good thing for Jeff Green, gonna not
play a single game this year. I don't know. He's
from Lagos, Nigeria. Oh all right, Jonathan, Oh, oh, Jonathan, Jonathan, Jonathan,
you are a Houston Sports young man, right, you grew
up here. I didn't grow up I went to high
school though, but okay, grew up in the San Diego right,

(01:56:10):
all right? No, I was born in San Diego. I
grew up in the dw are all right? How we're
gonna make this a small bit here in the next
three minutes. Just ask him who is the most famous
athlete ever to come out of Legos, Nigeria, And I
will give you a hint. He played for multiple Houston teams,

(01:56:34):
multiple multiple Houston teams, multiple Houston teams. All right, I'll
narrow it down even further. He played collegiate Houston team
and a professional Houston team. That did confuse me. So
I was like, are we talking about the same guy?

Speaker 5 (01:56:50):
We are?

Speaker 1 (01:56:55):
You know what? We gotta do? What we gotta do
a segment sometime? Will Jonathan know it? Will Jonathan know? Yeah?
Will Jenny? I always like doing those? When you're out,
I'll do whoever's co hosting, will Blank know? Well, why
don't we do that tomorrow? Let's do a small segment.
You come up with five questions, nothing too different, more homework. Well,

(01:57:15):
I mean you're doing pre and posts. I'm not doing anything. Yeah, yeah,
I got it, I got all pre Tomorrow you're off
at one thirty. I'll like that post. Yeah, but you're
gonna be You're gonna be out drinking beer. You have
some egg for the Astros game and four the post
game will be at Carbock Brewing myself and Chris Cordy
for a live taping of the Crawford Box Cast. Would

(01:57:37):
people want to go out and literally see the two
of you? People have and they what do they come
away with? Kind of disappointing? No, what do you mean?
Do you find an autographs because some babies? Are you
really for office? Yeah? I'm way more of a man,
a man of the people than you. That's not true.
Like never mind, Like what say it? You can tekay,
Just I'm out there hosting pickleball charity event. Yes, out

(01:58:01):
there shaking hands at Italian Brewing. Absolutely, you're doing great, Matt.
You know what, he wants to say something. He just
you're fantastic. He wants to say something. You hear that
he wants to be rude to me. And you're doing great. Man.
I think you have your You have this wonderful, brilliant career.
I don't believe that's any of that star and you're awesome. Man. Yep,

(01:58:24):
this is you just do great the light you bring
to the people of Houston every day. Brimming with sarcasm.
That's that's fine. I can't even look I'm being serious. Okay,
thanks Ross very much. He got a nervous twitch going,
his eyes are squinting. It was like you were talking
about Josh had another company. You were just talking about

(01:58:46):
Josh Cookey three point percentage. That's not good, it's not great.
He's just look, he's on a vet minimum deal at
twenty six. He's I'm not I'm not imagining like you. Well,
Josha Cogy and I have dinner together at any point
this year, Does it count if y'all eat on the
same plane. Nope, I mean I'm talking about he says, Hey, Matt,

(01:59:08):
let's go to the same There's no chance. Will there
be a rocket this year that will take me after dinner?
Maybe Kevin Durant, that'd be a great way to, you know,
to kind of welcome himself to the team, get to
know the people, like, Hey, let's get to know you
guys a little bit. Dinner on me. M okay, yeah,
Mike D'Antoni did that when he became the coach. Did
he took us out to the dinner. It was great.

(01:59:29):
We were in Miami. We ate postin drank wine and
he immediately regretted it. No, he had a great time.
They loved us the d'antoni's. Like I said, if you
and I want to go to training camp, but uh,
West Virginia at the Green Bar. We could say at
the D'Antoni house if we wanted to. Josha Cogy season
high last year, twenty five points on a game where
he was ten to fifteen from the field and three
or four from three. I'll take it as my fourteenth

(01:59:49):
or fifteenth guy. This team rocket ross. This rocket team
is loaded. One of the summer teams sucked. There were
no of those guys gonna make the team. Yeah, Summer
team wasn't great. They went one in four. It could
have gone a lot worse. No, not a lot worse.
One game worse. I could have gone one game worse.
That's true, that's true. But I was watching Summer League

(02:00:11):
though got kind of choppy this year. I don't really
ever watch it. I mean I watched when it was
Jaien Green. There wasn't Yeah, I mean men. Thompson played
like one game in her ankle reed Shepherd played two
and they're like, we're done. You're done, all right. Final
hour of the Matt Thomas Show will feature with ross
a NFL rewind coming up in twenty five minutes. You
were and tease something, right, does she wanted to say

(02:00:32):
for the rewind, tease something and then have to take
on it. No, you did not. You said something in
the news at noon and you're gonna do it during
NFL rewind. So whatever that is, I can't wait to
see that. I remember that too. Yep. And then we
got Malcolm Jamal Warner believe it or not, today at
one fifty coming up. We're playing for Big Three tickets.
That's what we're doing here on the show. By the way,

(02:00:57):
we have a great listener of ours on Twitter himself,
retro pool pool Guy, and he's claiming that your thoughts
on chlorine it was correct, all right, It wasn't my thoughts.
I literally said, check the tape. I said, I've been told.
Who told you? A friend of mine who wins a
pool said if you can smell the chlorine, that means

(02:01:18):
it's activating. And apparently Pool Guy says that's a myth. Well,
he said that's not true, and then I googled it
and apparently it's a very common myth. So if we
smell chlorine, we're okay. Well it could be activated, but
it doesn't necessarily mean it's what I read. There was
this one time, Jonathan, I was I was a kid.
I was at a pool and a baby Ruth bar

(02:01:41):
landed in the pool accidentally, and everybody ran out of
the pool as fast as they could. They couldn't believe it.
You threw it in there. I didn't throw it in there.
I don't know who did. He's making a movie reference.
No not, you don't know that, And honestly I can't
remember what movie is. Don't listen to him, Jonathan. It
sound like a grown up the type of plot it happened.
It really did seven one three, two one two five

(02:02:04):
seven eight, Ross, would you stop telling stories? And you
won't let me Caddy Shacker fast times? I couldn't remember.
Ross daring Down is sold up one that end. He's
been doing this bit. Now, it's pretty funny, I'll give
him that. But he's been doing this bit for like
fifteen years. And see now he's got someone young and gullible. Yes, Jonathan,

(02:02:32):
for as long as you're we with this the next
six months or so, until you find another job and
more money and better benefits, I'm going to continue.

Speaker 3 (02:02:37):
To do this.

Speaker 1 (02:02:38):
You have to figure out you get me app most
of the time to I know, I do get you
mostly so precocious and full of wonderment, so believing they
do come in, mister precocious, not you seven one two,
one two, five seven out of seven one three two,
one two five seven nine zero. George is with us
on the Matt Thomas Show. Ross George, good morning, good afternoon.

(02:03:00):
Hey good, I'm doing. How you guys doing? Wonderful? All right?

Speaker 3 (02:03:05):
I caught a couple of years back talking about Hector Nars.
Now that he's back, I was trying to tell you guys,
he's the good luck charm. I mean, I know he
blew it two nights ago, but I think going forward,
this is gonna be great for us.

Speaker 1 (02:03:22):
So George, George, your take on that. George, stay in
a line with me on this. I have terrible news
for you. Are you ready? Go ahead? As soon as
any of the Healthy Astro pictures come back, they're going
to release Hector Norris. I mean, I don't think so. Okay,

(02:03:46):
I'm just telling you I told you when I went.
When you call me back, i'm gonna say I told
you so, and you're gonna say, okay, you're right as
long as I'm Yeah, Hector Norris is here strictly as
an insurance policy. If there was a twenty there's a
twenty six man roster. He's player number twenty five or
twenty six. He'll be released as soon as any of
the astro pitchers come back. All Right, you might know

(02:04:08):
more than I do, but I'm not saying I do
that in life. But in this particular case, I think
I know more, just in his case, just in this case.
Thanks George. We'll see. I ain't mad at you.

Speaker 3 (02:04:19):
I'm just saying.

Speaker 1 (02:04:20):
I'm just saying too. And I and you may be
related to Hector Nurse, and he's a great swell fella,
and he's he's a nice guy and he likes talking
to younger kids. But this is his third team this
year for a reason. He's not good. Yeah, I'm trying
to try to go. I was like, is Nick kr
Dandez still on the major league team? He is not
so I can't think of anyone that would get let

(02:04:41):
go or sent No, I don't know, he can't. Probably
had options. Uh, yeah, it's probably nearest. Yeah, it's it. Okay,
that's all I got. I'm not gonna disagree, Thank you
very much. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two two five seven

(02:05:01):
outy Gary's with us at one six on seven? Iy, Gary,
good afternoon, Good.

Speaker 6 (02:05:06):
Afternoon on the Baby Ruth that's from Beverly Hills cup too.
But Eddie Murphy has to get into that Playboy mansion
and whatever. And also you you go on Raftkings and
look up rich Hills meme. It has it in a
Pispurgh Pirates uniform. It has in the backdrops the Boston

(02:05:27):
Red Sox backdrop, and then it has Nessing. But that
he was with it's still show him being a starting
pitcher for the Red Sox.

Speaker 1 (02:05:38):
Thank you, Gary. Well math Wings needs to clear that up. Yeah,
come on, what's going on? What's wrong with you? Math Wings?
I don't know, By the way, was there a Baby
Ruth in the Beverly Hills cop too, Mocho? I don't know,
I don't remember that. I'm not saying it's not true,
but me either. I haven't seen that since like nineteen
eighty eight. God is three years old. Yeah, I'm trying

(02:06:00):
to say, think ninety eight you were three. Eighty eighty eight,
he turned Big four zero. This year we celebrated big,
didn't we. Oh it was fun and I could luck
with the water and food shortages, young kid, I know
I came with. I went a basket in the American Glory. Yeah,
I've died peacefully. It was all over my head. It's okay,

(02:06:26):
it's gonna happen to all of us. It's the Mad
Time Show with Ross attended too. Now I remember, was
there was there a scene? Now what I remember? You know,
it's funny to tell the folks you were talking about
Caddy Shack. I was talking about Caddy Shack. Okay, I
don't know about Beverly Hills Cop two. You know it's funny, Jonathan.

(02:06:52):
I went to go see Beverly Hills Cop too. Here
we go, and I went to my car to leave
the movie theater and there are a bunch of bananas
in my tail pipe. It did not turn out well,
and I a little rascals. No, I feel like I
feel like I know this one. It was a Beverly
Hills cop one. Okay, I know this. That's what ENnie

(02:07:12):
Murphy ordered a room service for the for Judge Ryan Holden.
He says, can you have a little Mayo with the sandwich?
What are my Dann Matthews?

Speaker 4 (02:07:18):
I do?

Speaker 6 (02:07:18):
What?

Speaker 1 (02:07:18):
What am I doing here? What are you? What am
I doing? Movie references on this, Dan Matthews not All
Star Week talk about Bryce Matthews instead of Matthews. Next
thing you know is I'll be in class in high
school and order a pizza and my teacher want to
beat in half of it and offer him the rest
of the class. Huh, you should be you know, we

(02:07:39):
should keep a whipping here. Look, we're doing twenty hours
a week, that's true. I mean, we can only talk
about Nick Kayley so much. Let's break it down at
the part for the Beverly Hills. When the axle goes
to the table mansion. That's Oh, that's when the baby
Routh comes into play. Okay, shout out to help me out.
Aggie dug always come through. Oh, speaking of that, I

(02:08:02):
want to bring this up really quickly. Here saw tweet yesterday.
So in the last calendar year. Texas A and M
has front loaded its L money apparently, Yeah, because the
regulation's coming, right, Yes, sixty one million dollars in NIL
money has gone to athletes at Texas A and M. Ross.

(02:08:24):
First of all, that's mind blowing. Second all, they'd better
win a championship next three years or it's a massive disappointment.
They're not predicted to win a championship. Oh, they're spending
all this in IL money and money spending a lot
of recruits. I didn't know any does not directly cort
like to that. Massively disappointed the rest of the season.
You know what, he took the L the other day
and he's not giving over it. And that's fine, that's fine.

(02:08:47):
Took you took the L. You took it. So back
to my point, So, sixty one million dollars, how many
athletes are there in the program? I mean, I don't know. Okay,
there's eighty football, twenty basketball. Yeah, you're lucky. You're talking
about women athletes. I don't know how well humans of
their getting I actually I'm glad you asked. Okay, of

(02:09:07):
the sixty one million dollars that has been has been
floated out to nil can I guess do you know? Uh? Yeah,
I actually do millions. So as a matter of fact,
I want to get sure, give you the right time day.
I guess five? That would be incorrect. You want to
keep guessing high or lower? Lower? Oh my god, lower
than five? Uh two? Two point two million? I want

(02:09:29):
to pull up the direct number, the direct stat I saw.

Speaker 5 (02:09:33):
Here.

Speaker 1 (02:09:33):
It is the Texas A and m Aggies between July
twenty fourth and July twenty fifth, have spent approximately fifty
one point four million dollars on NL payments in the
last county year. Wow, forty nine point two million have
been allocated to men's sports. Two point two million have
been allocated to women's sports two point two point two.

(02:09:56):
I sent it to my daughter and now she sent
was a sad face and crying. Why did you send
that to her? Because she's going to get twelve dollars
for NIL money at Rhode Island. No, I'm pleasuring one hundred?
Are you really? Absolutely?

Speaker 4 (02:10:07):
I mean, and she can get like the like you know, like, uh,
I don't want to I want to ride me, but
liquid Liquid IV you can get those like sponsors and.

Speaker 1 (02:10:17):
A bunch of Liquid IV folks, especially when you get
into your thirties, you can get a bunch of you
need to recover quickly. Let me tell you something. She
loves being on Instagram. I'm okay with her making money there.
That's the only side. And look, I'll accept her making
money on the rest of them. She cannot make money
on just saying you can't make money on snapchack and

(02:10:37):
you can. You she's a big snapper. Talk oh TikTok.
She likes TikTok. Yeah, she's a big TikTok. She definitely
get Yeah, that's the only ones. How many followers she
have on Instagram?

Speaker 5 (02:10:44):
Not enough.

Speaker 1 (02:10:45):
We're gonna get that out. We'll get that up there. Okay, Well,
if I'm gonna if I'm gonna spend nil money on her.
So what do you want to do for her? Ear
a hundred bucks? I want a lot of views, clicks
and producing your for this for the sports RV brand?
And what exactly is that brand? Greatness, hilarity, incisive analysis,

(02:11:08):
modesty and modesty. Right, we can have her promote the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Yeah, but so oh okay,
but you want to you want top name, you want
the top name on the list, right, you want to
be on the headline. Oh I don't have an ego
like that, okay. Seven one three two one two five

(02:11:29):
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven.
And we have the NFL rewand coming up in a
matter of moments, and believe it or not, today coming
up at one fifty, which unfortunately is about Malcolm Jamal Warner.
May he rest in peace, bring me down. I'm telling
you serious, don't no one, Well, some of you can
go to the beach, but most of you, I don't
want you to go to the beach because the the

(02:11:51):
the currents are just are terrible, plus all the shark
attacks and whatnot. I mean, my goodness, just just go
to your pool. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety one thirteen on Sports Talk seven hounty with
Ross knew it when the show began today. In three

(02:12:13):
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of production. We present to you that sports NFL ohts
RV NFL rewind. So many different things to get to
here on the NFL rewind. We'll start though with a
big article put out by ESPN of course, a lot
of teams coming into camp soon, including your Houston Texans.

(02:12:38):
This from DJ Bienemy. As every teams writer was asked
to write, what the biggest storyline coming in the camp was?
No surprise for the Texans. How all eyes will be
on the how the Texans offense meshes? CJ. Shroud pressured
on thirty eight point six percent of his dropbacks, That
is the third most in the NFL, according to an

(02:13:00):
NFL next Jen the stats, fifty two sacks, second most
in the league. Of course, we understand that Cam Robinson
is there, Trent brown Lake and Tomlinson a couple of
draft picks as well. So how will things unfold as
far as the offensive line and the offense for the Texans?
Of course, that is the number one storyline, Matt, I

(02:13:23):
ask you, what's the number two storyline for the Texans?
How much Nick Chubb can help the Texans running back
situation in general? How much does Joe Mixon have let me?
I think? I mean, linebackers are still kind of iffy, yes,
but that's not one of those things. I just stare
at the three linebackers and go ooh, that's a great play. No,

(02:13:43):
I would say, I want to know the running back
distribution and how much the running back game overall can
help the Texans help out a beleaguered offensive line or
proceed per league belagued offensive line. That's why it come
to you, Matt, for the true professional Thank you, opinions, No,
thank you, all right, man. We've been talking about this

(02:14:03):
storyline a lot in the offseason on NFL. Rewind Trey Hendrickson,
the much maligned pass rusher for the Cincinnati Bengals, as
they continue to pay everyone but him, will not report
with the rest of the team's veterans today in Cincinnati
Bengals camp. Four time Pro bowler not participated in any

(02:14:26):
team activity since the end of last season, where he
led the NFL with seventeen and a half Saxon was
named in All Pro selection. He is seeking a long
term deal as he enters the final year of his
current contract, and apparently he's taking Instagram photos of him
away from the training camp. Bengals not willing to give

(02:14:47):
him guaranteed money past the first year. Others such as
Miles Garrett, Max Crosby, TG Watt have gotten much bigger
guaranteed money and recently signed extensions Trey Hendrincksen wants the same.
I don't know exactly what the Cincinnati Bengals cap situation is,

(02:15:07):
but they can't be paying everybody. Joe Burrow's making big money.
Jamar Chase T. Higgins. I mean it's a lot. Yep.
They're just gonna try to outscore everybody like they did
last year. Yeah, and you know what, fifty four forty
seven stills a win. It's fun. Those games against me.
Take the Baltimore Ravens were bangers. I got a sneaky
hot take for you. Oh, first fantasy quarterback you should

(02:15:30):
take this year, Joseph Burrow. I said it, all right,
we'll find out when you're in the league. We got
Cole Thompson in the league. Now, yes, we got our twelve? Yes?
Now am I really going to be the twelve? Gotta
find out. Adam Clinton has agreed he has certain conditions
which I will meet. What does Jesus said? I don't
know if I want to say he wants a certain

(02:15:50):
person in the league that no longer works here. Really
do we like this person?

Speaker 5 (02:15:56):
I like him?

Speaker 1 (02:15:57):
Does he have a YouTube channel or is he still
in the media. Hey, he's got a nice mustache. Hmmm,
continue on worre you're not letting Jonathan Allen in right,
you've never played fantasy football. Yeah, we're not. We're not
gonna take your money like that. I mean I would,
I know Matt would when if Mat Matt was the
ruthless Commission, he would. But I'm not gonna allow with Jonathan.
I'm gonna protect you. I appreciate that. Or unless you

(02:16:19):
can find some sponsors, you can get liquid ived a
pony up the cash and we'll get you in the league.
All right, Sorry, moving along here on the NFL, rewind Matt.
Have you heard the latest on the Washington Commanders attempting
to get a stadium deal in Washington?

Speaker 7 (02:16:39):
D C.

Speaker 1 (02:16:40):
Mayor Muriel Bowser remains confident that the Commanders will return
to the city, but she has steered clear in recent
comments of President Donald Trump's threats to scuttle a deal
if the team does not return to its former name.
The President throwing a big curve in it matters Sunday
when he posted on social media his desire for them

(02:17:00):
to go back to their former name, the Redskins, as
a stipulation for building a new stadium on federal land.
In the district and he does control it. Congress has
leased the land to the city for the next ninety
nine years, So then he doesn't control it, does he? No,
he there's a within the last year President Biden got
controlled back at DC to that area. Okay, for the president,

(02:17:22):
for the executive for the what branches of the executive branch? Yet, yeah,
look at you, judicial. I would rather worry about I
don't know, the war, multiple wars, roads, education, precut of
gas and eggs, tax cuts. Yeah, Commander, I mean, look,
I don't I don't love the name of the commanders.

(02:17:45):
The Redskins to me seemed to fence. I don't think
he can go back and I got I'm not one
of those. I am far from the politically correct when
it comes to name kind of thing. But it felt
like that was the one that was the that towed
the line. But he's got Dimond. Hell, I guess he's
gone down that hill. Yeah, I guess. But we've been
bringing up stadium deals in this segment a lot, so

(02:18:06):
I wanted to bring that stadium deal up. We'll see
what happens with the folks over there in Washington.

Speaker 2 (02:18:12):
D C.

Speaker 1 (02:18:13):
All right, elsewhere I'm at now. Of course, also something
that we sometimes do in the NFL rewind as we
bring in college football stories. We do Steve Sarkisian, Yes,
I have done it, because you know, sometimes there's a
shortage of good NFL stories, So I just got to
college football. We call it NFL.

Speaker 9 (02:18:28):
We went Steve Sarkisian speaking in front of thousands of
high school coaches in San Antonio, encouraging them to fight
off outside interests who are getting involved with their players.

Speaker 1 (02:18:44):
During the keynote address at the Texas High School Coaches Association,
he got on his soapbox and said, quote, the game
is changing, not the game on the field, but the
game off the field. Nil revenue sharing, publicity rights, et cetera.
Agents have gotten involved. Trainers are more involved. And I'm
boring upon you not to throw your hands in the
air and just say, hey, it's out of our control.

(02:19:05):
I would do just the opposite. I would tell everybody, hey,
it's out of control. Come to our school. Will write
you a blank check. We can't do that. Agents are
new to us. I've got to deal with agents. That
is real. You're the ones that are raising your kids.
You're still the ones that they look to for guidance.

(02:19:26):
That sounds nice in theory, but trying to get predatory
agents off of the high school kids when you're talking
about money and these kids that have no idea what
to spend and what their value is, you're gonna get
and they absolutely you are. This is hypocrisy. It always is.
The SEC media day is all last week, or we
got to get regulations in place. Now you don't. You
don't want regulations. You want to sound like a regulation,

(02:19:47):
so you sound like you're a decent human being. You
want to regulations. You open up this nil can of worms.
Let it just be a free for all. And I
don't want to hear about it unless you unless somebody
seriously says we're gonna get one hundred and forty divisi
one school is all on the same page, which I
don't believe is ever gonna happen. Steve Sarkisian also making
a pitch for the high school coaches to keep their
kids in state, saying, quote, Texas A and M is

(02:20:09):
in the best hands they've been in a long time.
With Mike Oco. Is that a shot at Jimbo Fisher?
I don't know the programs in the state of Texas
right now are at an all time high level thousands
that leave the state to play college football. But I
would love that they go play for UTSA or A
and M or Houston or Tech. That I can buy,
I believe in That didn't mention Stephen F. Austin, though

(02:20:34):
I'm sorry about that. You really couldna do this.

Speaker 4 (02:20:37):
You know what's crazy is that Texas schools say that,
but they do not recruit in state. They make all
the top recruits in the Honey Sport. Get take some
different states like Georgia, LSU.

Speaker 1 (02:20:47):
Well Texas. Like the big guy recruits they just landed
were two from Georgia and one from Florida. I think exactly,
they don't recruit in state people. I don't know why
they're talking about that. They do recruit it, but theys,
the ones they want what they came across as. I
see your point. They're staying genuous. Yeah. We all we
need to do is stay in Textas. You know who's
stayed in TEXAAN all their recruits, University of Houston. You
know that. Uh, well, Fritz said you didn't have to

(02:21:10):
leave get on a plane this year. Yes, people don't
want to come from across the cud. That's ridiculous. Everybody
wants to go though tier tier one school sixty sixty eight. Sorry,
and that's your NFL rewind Matt, we have lost a
music icon. What do you think? Don't say his name?

(02:21:32):
That happened. You'll find out next oh man. And and
that's is where I gotta go with an icon on
this I his music. His music is not my cup
of tea. Hmm. We will play his most famous song.
You don't do not look in your computer or you're
on your on Twitter. And unless he's related to Malcolm
Jamal Warner, I should be good. Don't look rip to

(02:21:56):
uh Ozzy Osbourne? Your headphones well yeah they were. Yeah,
something changed back there, Jonathan. But well you're gonna blow
your ear out. Yeahn know what happened. Black Sabbath solo career.

(02:22:16):
Oh okay, I told you it was gonna blow it out.
That's why I put the download bit. I was like, yeah,
there we go. I'm have radio folks, I'm having download
this song. I like this song. It's okay, so nice.
I mean, I'm most famous work with for Ozzie would
of course be with Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath very a

(02:22:39):
revolutionary metal band, heavy metal band. Yeah, Ozzie passing with
the age of seventy six, he had battled Parkinson's and
an other variety of other illnesses. Wait a minute, he's
only seventy six. Seventy six, he looked at one hundred
and six, That's what I'm saying. But he wasn't Black
Sabbath popular in like the seventies? Yeah, they would put
him in seventy six? Sure, Okay, r ip man, what's

(02:23:07):
your favorite song besides this one? Jonathan on the Ozzy
Osbourne collection?

Speaker 4 (02:23:11):
Actually, I like one of the reason I knew him
is because of a post Malone album and he had
a future Osbourne And oh that's right.

Speaker 1 (02:23:19):
I was in love with that song. Is I still
take Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It came out junior
high school? Okay, Uh, Paranoid Black Sabbath good, iron Man, good?
First time I ever heard about Uh Ozzie was urinating
at the Almo. You gonna say, biting a bat's head off?

(02:23:41):
That's gross too, by the way, Uh bomba bass not
on Twitter says the Native American Guardians Association wants the
Redskins name and logo back not everyone in defended. I
have seen that myself. Okay, who are those people? I
don't know. It's not happening for wasting our breath. Yeah,
I again, it would be weird to hold that over

(02:24:01):
their head. Change the name. Guardians, by the way, were
like no, working with ours as well? Yeah, like yeah,
my two cents on this. I didn't think the Braves
is offensive. I didn't think the Indians were. The Redskins
logo to me was more offensive than the name itself.
I mean, but you know again, I didn't ask my
opinion Cleveland Indians with a big nosed, buck toothed Indian

(02:24:24):
as their mascot was a little I thought Chief Wah,
who was cute. I wasn't offended by Chief Wahu. All right,
back to Ozzie seventy six years of age. We'll do
that tomorrow and believed, No, no, believe in not tomorrow.
We have an Astros game in our spot at then
one thirty spot. Okay, so we can't do we can't
do half and half Too late for that unless you've

(02:24:45):
d If you're at mountain and Jamal warn already done
what you want to switch to what?

Speaker 5 (02:24:50):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:24:50):
I was just saying to Ozzy Osbourne, No, no, no, no,
I'm just saying you can do whatever you want. We're
literally doing it a through the next break. That's us.
How much do you demand of me? That says typed
you before? That's true. I've got six Malcolm Jamal Warner quests, Okay,
there you go. You can you can do two outs?
All right? All right, pazz not good enough to believe
it or not?

Speaker 3 (02:25:11):
We do it?

Speaker 1 (02:25:11):
Friday, Ryan and Montgomery on seven Auty, Hello, Ryan, Hey guys,
there are you all good?

Speaker 14 (02:25:18):
This is absolutely I don't want to It's not a surprise,
but it is. It's sad man. I remember the first song,
one of the first songs I ever learned on guitar
was iron Man.

Speaker 10 (02:25:29):
But uh that that sucks. But believe it or not,
Ozzy Osbourne snorted a line of ants.

Speaker 1 (02:25:36):
Yeah, that's a complete believe it anybody. Let me put
it this way. If you bite the head off of
a bat, you probably have storted a lot of ants, right,
I mean, it ain't kind of fits, doesn't it?

Speaker 6 (02:25:51):
It does?

Speaker 10 (02:25:51):
It does? The story is crazier. He did it as
a He did it to prove how bad ass he
was to the guy's in Monthly Crew. But anyways, that's sad.
I can't believe I had to hear it on here.
That's that's rough man. Anyways, rip to a legend. You
should definitely do believe it or not on Autie when
you get a chance.

Speaker 1 (02:26:08):
Yes, Friday, it is Ryan, We're gonna do it. Do
it tomorrow just because it's not one fifty. Actually that'd
be better you get fewer prize horse. Oh, that's true.
Let's we do it. We do it one twenty tomorrow.
You know what I'll do. No, we're not doing it
in the middle of on deck. No, on deck at
one thirty tomorrow. Was that right? Yeah? Thanks for paying attention.
I don't know it all right. Not only is this

(02:26:33):
Ross not gonna do on deck with me tomorrow, I'll
do it. Listen to me. I will you know what
when I'm watching the Astros game that I'll do believe
it or not, Ozzy Osbourne, I don't believe you. It's
a liar.

Speaker 9 (02:26:44):
Once.

Speaker 1 (02:26:44):
You should be paying attention to the game met pitch, sequencing,
defensive plays, umpiring decisions, or writing Ozzy Osborne, believe it
or not. During during the game, I'll be in my
office I'm in my recliner with their office. Yeah that's
the bathroom. What you call that, right, Well, I mean
my office. I'll have a blanket on, maybe a cup
of coffee, can stand up late. Good luck. You're gonna

(02:27:06):
take a nap after the show? Oh for sure. I'm
going to get a shave after the show today and
then after that. I was on until about twelve thirty,
So good luck. I'm you know what I've been actually
on those West Coast as eight forty starts we've been doing.
I've been taking naps right after the on deck show. Hmm.
You do have thirty minutes and then what you do
is you freeze the game. Yeah you can. And I

(02:27:28):
paused the game and I actually catch up, like catch
them on baseball really fast, you can, especially when it's
zero zero. A lot of guys scratching and spitting and
at least the pitchclock. It's a little talking about the
host of the games itself. Both all right. Uh so
there you go. Well, what a damn what a show
today we've had. We've had Ozzye, unbelievable we had. It's

(02:27:51):
not the great news on your island. To be brutally honest,
with you. So the first Black Sabbath album came out
in nineteen seventy and he was twenty two. Wow, so
I puts him at forty eight, right, he was born
in forty eight. That's good, Look at this guy. My
mom was born in forty eight. All right, don't do that. Yeah,

(02:28:11):
but my mom didn't snort ants that you know of.
I mean, I've never asked her. I guess I kind
of should. Hi, Mom, how are you ever started ants before?
You don't know when she was so in her wild
oats what she was doing. Oh wait a minute, you
think my mother, for when she was crazier back in
the sixties, was snorting ants. It was the sixties. It's

(02:28:32):
a different time. No Internet. I got a friend of mine, Jonathan,
who once snorted ashes of his dead dad. That's that
sounds like some some king with stuff. So no, his

(02:28:52):
name was Keith. He didn't you know what movie was that?
A movie? Wasn't in a movie? Sure it was Keith Richards.
Okay for the Rolling Stones? What is that with these
rockers snorting strange things in her nose? Can't you just
go with the good old fashioned cocaine. A fellow members
of the outlaws took Tupac's ashes and rolled them up
in a blunt and smoked it. Really, I can't remember

(02:29:15):
all their names. Do we have any Ray Duffie in something,
any inter reaction to what they did? What do you
mean like, do they go it was fine? Or I
imagine they get high. But well, you're taking my ashes
and you're you're very I'm not touching your ashes. You
will if I if I ask you to take my
ashes and spill them, you will not do it. Where
do you want to spread them? Part of it? Part
of it's in Vegas. I gotta go on multiple trips.

(02:29:38):
Listen to me, this is absurd. I will make sure
there's money for you to go here in your trip.
That's I knew that you were gonna say. Good. Part
of it goes over Can you bequeathed me your points? Yes?
I can't. Part of it goes over Vegas, part of
it goes over the Tote Center. Part of it goes
over the summit Lakewood Church. God, how many trips do
you want? Part of the Wood Church? Yeah, that's what

(02:29:58):
the summit was. Lock me out even if there's a flood.
And part of it goes over at the University of
Houston Campus, Good God, and part of it goes on
the McDonald's iver Workchool. Matt I will definitely do all
of these things. My mom has the exact same waist,
so I'm not even matitude. Give me the money and
I will definitely do all of these things for you. Matthew,

(02:30:24):
you would feel so guilty that you would do it,
and I wouldn't know the difference, you know, I would.
I don't know where I was. You'd be a pile
of ashes. Guess who the spirits. I'll be looking over
you the rest of your life. Bring me coming here,
all right? Black Sabbath didn't have it as many hits
as I thought, or did they? Well? We well, I'll

(02:30:49):
work so tomorrow it's Black Sabbath and uh and I
see Osborne, believe it or not. One twenty show. I
can probably used to watch that reality show back in
the day. You know, you could probably do a pretty
good Sharon Osbourne, can't you? You know it does a
good Sharon Osbourne is I don't know the the Brunetta
on Saturday Night Live. They used to be on there.

(02:31:12):
She's like Tina Fay's a good buddy on the show,
Amy Pohler, that's right, she's not brunette. No, she would
she the good blonde, I should say. And then she
called she would wear a wiket. She did a good
Ozzy Osbourne or uh Sharon Osborne? Okay? Do you watch
Sharon Osbourne on the Talk the TV show?

Speaker 5 (02:31:30):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:31:30):
Okay, me either. Nope. I don't think men were a
lot on that show. To the Goods just bashed for
two hours. All right, believe it or not? Is up next?
Ri p Malcolm Jamal warning, Now these things are happening
in three. So who's next? Oh my god, here we go.
I'm gonna go. This is too off from the three?
Oh yeah, what's his name? Died the guy from sf A. Oh,

(02:31:51):
that's true. That's three for three. We're knocked out. We
gotta knock out, all right, believe it or not. We're
playing for a big three. Will ta more about that
in a minute. My Facebook and Instagram full of my
friends are just devastated about Ozzi Asbourne. I mean, I
get it, he had some hits and obviously a legend

(02:32:14):
beyond music, but people are really bent out of shape
over this. I mean, he's he wouldn't played on the
radio a whole lot, right. I would say Black Sabbath
is one of the oh here we go, very pivotal band,

(02:32:34):
influential with a proliferation of heeav of you metal music. Absolutely,
I think people absolutely revered and you were you were
kind of on the fence about icon. I don't I
don't think there was anything on the fence to me
music because yeah, the most was Callum when I got
hired here. Yeah, not a lot of it on the
rocky yacht rock channel channel, I get it. Hey, I

(02:32:56):
don't know if Ozzie ever was on the yacht rock channel. No,
I don't think so, but Flex Sabbath was hugely influencer.
Not my cup of tea, but yeah, no, I I
have to value but I just I the people that
I'm noticing are all over this. I would never have
associated with enjoying Ozzie Asbourn. Yeah, crazy train, I mean

(02:33:17):
gotta go on the crazy train right all aboard. That's
that's a sports radio staple, right hearing that as a
bump back, mm hmm, I guess. Oh, yeah, we've played
a bunch of times. Yeah you've heard this. Yeah, it's
a classic. It was better when Little John remixed it.

(02:33:41):
Who what, No, there's no way you'd agree with that.
I'm just kidding. That was kind of the jam though
back in the day. This is actually pretty good. Yeah,
listen to this song drinking my first beer. You just
look sixteen. Yeah. Oh, I thought you were gonna say

(02:34:03):
six This song is a banger. I'm I'm download this.
You should turn this up for a second. Oh, this
is really good. A man ingested a lot in his

(02:34:25):
life and ain't strange things gone too soon? Here's the
Black Sabbath influence section of Wikipedia. Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Metallica,
Corn Guns N' Roses, Slayer and Carpenter's not in here,
Slipknot Food Fighters. I mean wildly influential. All right, there

(02:34:48):
you go, one of the most influential bands in rock history. Yes,
not good enough for Believe it or notes to go
on the show. We didn't have time. I'm doing tomorrow.
Yeh what I'm saying, So what are you whiding about?
One twenty? I'll do it because I will give him
proper respect. He died fourteen minutes ago. Well he probably
got earlier today. Body's not cold. Let's play believe it

(02:35:08):
or not. Here's how it works. You call seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety Today's edition to Believe
It or Not is all things about Malcolm Jamal Warner,
who passed away yesterday. We gave him a chance to
honor his great life. Here you get to two statements
about Oh, but the statements completely utterly accurate. You'll say this,
believe if the statements ronis full of bunk minupe, You'll

(02:35:29):
say this. Two Believe or Not's in a row. Give
you a choice of one of these three primes. Is
a Sports Talk seven onety t shirt, a pair of
tickets to see The Big Three August second at the
Tota Center for tickets to go on sale at Tota
Center dot com. Or a pair of tickets to see
Nelly Josh Rulin Eve live at the Where the Party
at Tour September the fourth of the Woodland's Pavilion. Tickets

(02:35:49):
are on sale now at ticketmaster dot com. Let's play
Believe It or Not and we'll start today with Sheldon
on seven hointy. Sheldon, you're ready to play Believe It
or Not? Sheldon? Good luck to you, my friend here
is your first question. Malcolm Jamal Warner was denied from
the Juilliard Preparatory Acting program the same day he landed

(02:36:10):
the role of Theo Huxtable. Believe It or not? Not?
That is correct? Ross made that up statement number two
for the win. In nineteen ninety one, Malcolm Jaal Jamal
Warner appeared on MTV's Rock and Jock b Ball Jam,
competing for Team Bricklayers. Believe it or Not? Yeah, not,

(02:36:30):
it's a not. The game's not yep. Believe it or not?
Not sure? That's a shame? Bill on seven hunty Bill,
what's your favorite Black Sabbath song?

Speaker 3 (02:36:42):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (02:36:43):
No more tears. In two thousand and seven, Malcolm Jamal
Warner published his memoir America's Son, with a forward written
by Bill Cosby Believe It or Not?

Speaker 2 (02:36:55):
Believe It?

Speaker 5 (02:36:56):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:36:56):
Bye? See on seven ninety Jo, You're ready to play
Believe it or Not? Believe It. From twenty fifteen to
twenty seventeen, Malcolm Jamal Warner appeared in a revival of
the PBS show Reading Rainbow with LeVar Burton's blessing Believe
It or Not? Man, I used to watch that show too,
but I'm gonna say believe it. No, you didn't watch

(02:37:18):
that version because there was no such thing. I like
Melli Ross Raymond on seven Ninetie Raymond, what was your
favorite part of today's radio show?

Speaker 3 (02:37:27):
Man.

Speaker 1 (02:37:27):
I'm just bummed out about Ozzie. I just you guys,
I understand believe it, I understand rest in peace. There
was an extensive nationwide search for the role of theo Huxtable,
and Malcolm Jamal Warner was literally the last actor tabbed
to audition. Believe it or not. Believe it, that's correct,
Statemen number two for the win. In his thirties, Malcolm
Jamal Warner pursued a pilot's license and logged over five

(02:37:49):
hundred hours of flight time. Believe it or not not,
that is correct. You win. He's not so fantastic, by
the way. I mean, you do very few things well,
but this is pretty good. Nie Joel on seven ninety
Ready to play. Believe It or not? Believe it. Malcolm
Jamal Warner turned into a serious jazz funk bass player,

(02:38:09):
even winning a Grammy in twenty fifteen. Believe it or not.

Speaker 9 (02:38:15):
Not, he is.

Speaker 1 (02:38:16):
They've talked about it all day. In the last twenty
four hours, Chuck on seven ninety Chuck, what was your
favorite part of today's radio show in two thousand and three?
Malcolm Jamal Warner one Bravo Celebrity Poker showdown, besting fellow
celebrities such as Heather Graham, believe it or not not.

(02:38:36):
First of all, Heather Graham is the smoke show. And
second of all, he did beat her. That's a shame.
These questions are excellent. Thank you. I'll tell you this
is one of your best work. For sure it is.
And Jonathan, I gotta try to match this intensity tomorrow
and believe it or not, for all things about Ozzy
Astbourne got this? You got this all right? Hey, gang,
I've got Astros on deck. Adam Clanton and Adam Waxer

(02:38:58):
do not center on that. Up next, those two handed
gentlemen will handle the next four hours of radio awesomeness
that we call it the tam on Sports Talk seven
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