Nick Chubb Is Coming to Houston? Astros Win 2 Out Of 3 vs Cleveland, OKC Wins Game 2 Of NBA Finals

Nick Chubb Is Coming to Houston? Astros Win 2 Out Of 3 vs Cleveland, OKC Wins Game 2 Of NBA Finals

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ten one in h Town. Good morning, and welcome to
a Monday edition of The Battama Show with Ross Hair
on Sports Talk seven DOTI. Hope you had a happy,
relaxing weekend. Lots of different things to get to today.
Astros take two out of three, a five hour French

(00:21):
open that Ross will be giving you the complete rundown
on because truth be completely told, I didn't know about
it until I went to Twitter and went, oh my god,
this thing went to five hours, so that I turned
it on and they was last how much of it
did you catch? Wow? That's good. So who's a good point?
It's a great guy fell down on the sand. That's

(00:41):
on the uh. We hare the NBA Finals last night, HM,
and we have a nice long break in between games
two and three really to build the momentum that we
have maybe the worst programming ever on television around it
game that that espn nb A halftime pregame post game

(01:04):
is a complete and utter disaster. TNTs inside the NBA
can't say that that's program that that network fast enough. Well,
at least they slapped a couple of clip art Larry
O'Brian trophies and the cursive for a couple of quarters too.
That was so bizarre. Brought to you by move Mob TV.
Move Mob by the way, everybody hates moo moob TV

(01:24):
because all they do is jack their rates up and
you don't get a lot of sports. I know that happens.
It's happened everywhere. Yeah, mbo, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
We have mentioned the asterisk and we have a chub
and uh that is well, we have a potential Chub
in Houston. Is that a confirm chub or is it
potential chub? How long are we gonna do this? We're
gonna do this. We're gonna end this in the first segment.
We're gonna let this got two o'clock this afternoon. Are
you talking about chubb puns? Are you talking about the story? No,
the story's gonna be talked about. It's gonna be how

(01:54):
much of the chub puns? How many times? How about this?
Anytime somebody makes a chub pun, we got to put
a quarter into the are actually dollars? Probably right? But
the problem is you probably could get all the chubb
puns in and have the Friday open already locked and loaded.
Is so Jonathan's trying to get ahead of the game
a little bit. It's true, all right, And I decided

(02:15):
this weekend I'm gonna be go one Thursday and Friday,
I'm taking my son, my middle son, painting to Vegas.
I'm going to do and I'm sorry taped for you, really,
and I'm gonna tape the i'm sorries before I leave,
before I get to Vegas. So you're gonna apologize for
getting mad at people at the blackjack table before it
even happens. You don't even know that it's exactly right.
That is exactly right. And then all these poor old ladies,

(02:35):
and they're nice wigs that they've been having since nineteen
seventy six, just play cards, right, that's all I ask?

Speaker 3 (02:43):
What you know?

Speaker 1 (02:43):
What you didn't do? Why don't you go to the
casino store you buy five basic strategy cards and you
just hand them out every table you sit at, and
then you collect them back up when you leave, and
then you can just keep handing them out every time.
If I bought how much? What do you think those
cards are? Two dollars? Okay? So if I bought twenty
of them and it helped me want one hundred dollars plus? Yeah,

(03:06):
where they go Okay, yeah, in your mind, all it
does is hurt you. So yeah, you'll save yourself money. Yeah,
I will give him as a gift. Now, the mathematical
reality is it helps you as much as it hurts you. Mean,
Bernie is from uh bis Martin or the codes like
this very attractive ball man gave me a card and
he gave me all the strategies and I won money
thanks to him. I think she was from Sulfur. Well, yeah,

(03:27):
it's same difference, Bismarck, Sulfur whatever. And then today at
eleven fifty.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
I think I've brought this up to you folks many
a time, and you brought up a great question. Do
you take any medication at night to sleep or any medication?
I don't take any medication at all. I take some
medication during the day, but not at night. Seems like
you're on a six to seven. So, and I've talked
about this for the last four or five years. I

(03:57):
have the most peculiar dreams that I know of. I
don't know if anybody has weirder dreams than I do.
I had a doozy last night that woke me up
at one fifteen this morning, and it involves a member
of the iHeartRadio staff. Really m hmm, It involves one

(04:18):
of your food passions mine, yes, okay, and involves a
former owner of an NBA team m hmm, Donald Sterling.
So at eleven fifty today after to tell the truth,
which we'll do at eleven thirty this morning, Okay, I
will give you my dream, and I'm gonna need Jonathan

(04:40):
and Ross and anybody that would like to do so
to call in and try to evaluate what the hell
is going on in my mind. I also think it's
very important we decide which dream song we're using. Oh,
Dreamer Smith Aerosmith dream on, Oh, great song, let's gold
go with that one. Uh? I vote? How about sweet dreams? Oh? Arrhythmics? Oh,

(05:00):
eleven fifty today? What's the uh? Is it a Roy
Orbison song or something? Dream Dream Dream Dream? That's not
Roy Arberson? Who is it? I don't know, but it's on.
I vote for mister Salmon, bring me a dream that's
O G Yeah, I know, but it's catchy. We're gonna
figure it out. This would be a regular bit because
if you don't know me, I have these most peculiar dreams.

(05:23):
And so I was so perplexed by this dream. My
wife was awake by, ironically enough, because she could see
me tossing and turning, and I'm explaining to her and
she's like, go to bed. It's just the most bizarre thing. Again,
thankfully my When I was younger, I had erotic dreams
like rest of us nine year olds did twelve year olds.
All I have to do is dream the Everly Brothers.

(05:44):
There you go. That's yeah, that's who it is. Okay,
So what Yeah, weird dream at eleven fifty today, and
I need analysis because it is getting erotic with an
NBA owner. No, no erotic. This is a zero erotic dream.
I'm just dreaming. I'm dreaming of an erotic dream. All right,
So let's go. What do you want to go first?
I don't know. I'm I'm stunned. I'm in stunned silence.

(06:07):
I'm sure you are. I've done that to you many
good time? Uh astros? Yeah? Two? Three, am bad. They
keep meet loafing. We'll keep winning games. They keep meet
loafing six sixty seven. They're winning percentage on the trip,
as they took two auto three from the Pirates and
then two out of three from the Guardians. By the way,
I'm proud of myself on Saturday or did the on

(06:28):
deck in the tenth inning showing that mentioned a word
Indians one time? Oh that's well, yeah, okay until now,
but I meant it's But you gotta remember this is
still say San Diego Chargers from time to time. That's years.
I am still unfortunately saying we're in it. Raid Mark, Yes,
did you do that on Saturday?

Speaker 5 (06:44):
Nope?

Speaker 1 (06:45):
There on the road there, but yeah, so they got that.
Going forward about Oakland A's, I've dropped one of those.
We got four with the second Sacramento Ocramental A's next week.
I think full Sacramento anymore, but it's in Sacramento. Want it?
They don't want that. Yeah, but didn't want him and
then they don't want them back. You're gonna go with
Las Vegas A's. No, I've been I'm not gonna say

(07:06):
just the ads I've been saying just the is stupid.
I'm sorry, that's what I've been doing. It's not like
they're barn storming across the country. They have a home
and it's in Sacramento. It is funny. One of their
other sleeves has Las Vegas on it and the other
one is like a bridge. I don't know if it's
northern California or not. I don't know what it is.
But there's no bridges in Las Vegas? Is there?

Speaker 6 (07:22):
No?

Speaker 1 (07:23):
But one set the New York New York, which I'll
be it. I'm the pilon that twenty five dollars roller
coaster in a few days, all right, So let's get
to it. Astros two out of three we could do
a believe it or not? Is this an Astros picture
or not? Because these people that are throwing for the
local nine these days, I mean I just started getting
to know who Colton Gordon was. I was just getting

(07:43):
to know Forrest Whitley. Oh we gotta get to too soon.
So when you get dfa'd and if you have not heard,
designated for assignment is what Whitley was yesterday to clear
that yesterday starting pitcher that Walter Brand Walter did okay
from six quality start. I mean you can't ask six

(08:05):
six innings, two runs. I mean, come on for guy
making his first start? Yeah, sure, why not? So you
can either be traded during this DFA time it's I
think it's ten days. You can be accept the demotion
to Triple A. If you clear waivers or you can
be or you can I think you can just say
I'm out of here. You can't. He Normally you can

(08:26):
elect free agency, but not if you have less than
three years of service time, right, which is so he can't.
Taylor Scott elected free agent. He had DFA, nobody claimed him,
so he elected free agency because at service time, my
thought is that he will go on waivers and someone
will claim yeah, he can get claimed or yeah, then
he'll If not, he'll be at Triple A. Sugar Land. Yeah,

(08:47):
uh not the path the Boys not the biggest surprise.
He moved back to his condo in sugar Land, very comfortable.
They're not going to retire his number. There are they should.
By the way, I'm going to a Space Cowboys game
this week. You are, Yeah, that's great in Las Vegas
and my middle sent and I are going to see
the can I piggyback on this if you want to
leave you well, on Wednesday, I was like, you gave

(09:07):
me a little bit of bank blank stare, like you
didn't want me to know you can on So it's
eight o'clock in the morning there, Thursday four I'm supposed to.
I'm taking those days you want to Las Vegas.

Speaker 6 (09:14):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
I was gonna say it's kind of early going to
see man alone Wednesday, very Thursday, that if he makes it,
he's doing fine. He just finished the als like in
his mid eighty. He was just in Cleveland before the
Astros were there. Brian mctagger took a photo he filled
up rocket Fieldhouse or whatever the hell they call it
these days, and tell them to crank up the backing
track ten more percent. Speaking of that, I went to

(09:38):
a concert this weekend. Oh yeah, Matt. We should do
Matt's concert reviews. You're not gonna like eighty year old
octagenarians that he's seeing across the country. I will give
you my I will give you the count review for
this week. Yeah great, I can't wait. All right, So
that's that's gonna be probably in the twelve o'clock hour
we got there. We're pretty loaded up until now, and
so we gotta get a lot to get to so

(09:59):
Astros two out of three.

Speaker 7 (10:00):
Three.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Uh. Defense. I mentioned this on Saturday. Defense wins championship
in football and basketball. You don't think about defense in baseball,
but it's helping the Astros in first place. The Astros
bullpen has been now yesterday notwithstanding, but generally speaking, you're
not giving him an A plus. You're probably haven't giving

(10:22):
him an A maybe an eight minus for the year
all things considered. Yeah, I'll go B plus. No, I
would say I'm gonna go a little high. I'm grating
up on a curtain B plus being real. So you
got a great bullpen, You've got outstanding defense, and for
a team that has thrown at you one different starting
pitcher after the other, with really only two of them

(10:43):
giving you any sort of deep linked on a regular basis,
this team is two and a half games in front
of the Seattle Mariners, who have finally won yesterday over
the Halos, but they have had a horrific last week,
getting swept over the earlier this week and by Baltimore
in Seattle, and the third best record in the American League.

(11:04):
All right, So we got that to get to today,
and we also have today. Nick Chubb is apparently going
to sign a deal with the Houston Texans once if
he passes the physical. Okay, so Texans honks who think
everything they do is the greatest thing ever are like,
this is a win win deal. If it doesn't work out,

(11:26):
it's no big deal. Which in theory that's correct, and
there's really, to me no downside because from what I'm
guessing is that the Texans don't have a lot of
money to spend. You don't have a lot of money
to spend in June. You've done your heavy lifting and
free agency. So whatever Nick Chubb signs here, it's gonna
be a minimal contract, probably with some incentive. So in

(11:47):
theory that's absolutely hundred percent correct. But does that mean
that the Texans are getting ahead of the game and
grabbing Nick Chubb or are they just a little bit
nervous about what's on the depth chart right now and
they're going to get Chubb on June the ninth is
a sign that maybe something else here in camp isn't spectacular.

(12:08):
That's what I was thinking. We will discuss when we
come back. I have a sneaking suspicion there is a plan.
There's a reason for this Chubb madness. Oh okay, I
think I know what that is. Seven one three two
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(12:30):
one three two one two five seven Nini, we have
to tell the truth at eleven thirty. Today we have
your phone calls, we have uh an analyzed match dream,
we have the deep run of what's good? What's a
good tennis song for a French Open? Report? Maybe something French,
I guess, so we need something on here, something Spanish
for alcarez. No, it's a French open. Now you can

(12:52):
French when you call it?

Speaker 8 (12:53):
That?

Speaker 1 (12:54):
What I like the call? Like when you call it
the British Open? What do they call it? Roland Garros
so in if we were in Paris we went last night.
Congratulations to that dude who won the Rolling Garrels. Yes,
are you sure about that? I mean, I'm gonna trust
that you know more than I do. I think people
like it better. It's very Americanized to say the French
Open like the British Op, but I mean you could

(13:14):
say it and everybody knows you're talking about Okay, I'm
just saying, how much of the five hours did you watch?
By the way, I would say four? Good for you?
It was started at eight am. I flipped it on
in bed and then I kind of was now, were
you on watching or you have in brakfast? Were you
vacuum in the house or did you like sit and
watch them? I was in bed for the first two sets,

(13:37):
like watching for twenty, sleeping for thirty, you know. Then
when the third set started, I got when I felt
about West Coast Astros base, That's when I got up,
and then I watched from the third set on all
Right ten fourteen? Did this the Matt Thomas Joel Lossibly
ten nineteen on Sports Talk seven ninety We are the

(13:57):
only radio show in the marn't get place that will
give you Nick Chubb conversation and nobody else even bringing
it up.

Speaker 6 (14:04):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
I don't know why that is, but that's fine. Then
you do your own thing. We are your official Chub station.
Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven nineties. So the Astros did take two out
of three. All Jake Myers does is hit period. I
mean screaming line no no, no, no, no, no, no no no,
no listening to you xba door. How many hits did

(14:26):
he have yesterday? That was before anty of them were uh,
basically fisted off the handle of the bat. Probably four.
That's why again, I don't give a damn about XBA
and launch angle. Guess what I care about our man,
As me the vice president of the Jake Myers fan Club.
He got on base. That's the most important number to me.

(14:49):
He's on base. That's good. Man ain't slugging, and there's
the singles, but his on base percentage is good, his
batting average is good. And the expected June's wound of
one Jacob Myers the third is a non story. It's
looking all right. Four hits for him yesterday. Take what

(15:12):
we can get least. He's hitting contact. That's really been
one of the keys to him is is he's just
not swinging and missing as much. No, he's swinging, especially
early in counts, and it's looking good. He's doing well. Yeah.
I I mean again, as long as your expectations are realistic,
Like if you see him batting fourth or fifth, you
know that the team is offensively in a serious, serious problem.

(15:34):
Oh he was fifth yesterday, right, Okay, Well, I didn't
mean to bring it up that early. Two an No, no, yeah, yeah,
it's you know again, there's no slug on that. They've
got some other guys hurt. But honestly, I mean, I

(15:56):
don't know, and you're still winning games. That's the crazy
part is you just finished a four orangey trip. Now, granted,
Cleveland is a contender, Pittsburgh is not. But you'll take
what you can get. And if Jake Myers walks to
the ballpark every day or takes the team bus and
gets you three to four hits, you know every couple
of games, you're more than happy with it. Uh. Yeah,

(16:17):
Jake Myers did bat fifth yesterday. Lord, I meant this
kind of a joke and I didn't realize where he
was in the lineup. Well, I'm sorry. How did he
do in the fifth position? Matt His ops is seven
seventy three. That's good, which is great for him. Yeah,
his career numbers around six fifty. Your three hole hitter
is Christian Walker at six nineteen opiate. Boy, you know what,

(16:43):
we keep waiting and waiting and waiting, oh for four yesterday. Now,
he did have some heart. I think he had more
hard to hit contact than Jake Myers did, that's for sure,
and didn't strike out yesterday. Not that makes it it
was good for him stilling oh for four, but it
is that there's a lot of them, Uh is there
is the book written on Christian this year? No, Okay,

(17:09):
so right now we're reading this book and we're so
and we're disappointed how things are. We would have thrown
it in the trash if we were third way through.
So if you're if you're telling this is going to
be a fairy tale and to this Christian Walker of
twenty twenty five. Now see I didn't say that. Okay, well,
what kind of thing, what kind of ending that you're
looking for? If you don't think this book is trash,
you're throwing it away. And I'm not saying Christian's trash.

(17:30):
But he can at least get his numbers up. I
mean it's I literally would just take a hot couple
of weeks. The other a week or two ago, what
was it, jose Al Twova's numbers were in the dumps
and he pull piled up like ten hits in five
games and it did everything for him. Yeah, So if
he can at least do that at some point, I

(17:53):
think it will. It'll just bring up his season numbers
so much. And the power has been there for the
most part. He's still got what eight home run ones.
It's pretty good. But I think he was expected to
be in the twenty five range, like thirty something like
that last year, especially since you're talking about left field
being an easy spot from the home runs, eighty one
of his games are at home in theory twenty six

(18:16):
home runs he hit last year, well, he's been declined
for three years from a home run standpoint thirty six,
down to thirty three, down to twenty six, now down
to eight and sixty three games. You know, it's an
incredible thing in the category of stats don't mean everything,
So pain is having an All Star seasons eight OPS
now eight to fifty three, even with an zero for three,

(18:37):
say with three ks, perettis exciting expectations in my mind,
significantly OPS of eight or nine yesterday, even after going
oh for four. Your three hole hitter is ops's six nineteen.
Your cleanup hitter with an OPS is six fifty seven.
Those are significantly below average. Two years ago average was

(19:01):
about seven to seventy five. We dropped at the seven
fifty last year. I don't know what the average OPS
is in Major League Baseball is this year. Doesn't really matter.
If your OPS starts with a six, you're a below
average hitter, right It really it goes without saying, uh,
this year averages seven to ten. Well, that is what's
going on. Is pitching significantly better this year? You know what,
per apps? Are you getting more strikes called? Could be

(19:26):
maybe or something half of the ball. We're getting injections
at a high clip every other day. I'm looking at
Sports Center highlights and somebody's getting tossed for a ball
strike call. Everyone in the juice ball era twenty nineteen
average OPS was seven to fifty eight. Now it's seven
to ten this year. So all right, Meyers seven seventy three,
So great, that's a great ops. The rest of it.
Cam Smith, who plays a lot six ninety one below average.

(19:48):
Mauricio Dubon, who plays a lot OPS is five ninety five.
God that I mean. I didn't realize he was struggling
that hard. How do you have think about this? You
have somebody that plays what five days a week, Derry
with an OPS of under six hundred, and you know

(20:09):
what he does. He helps you win in the game.
On Friday he had two outfield assists in the first
inning alone. Ross I haven't been hearing much from the
Dubon truthers lately, Oddly enough, Well, the Dubon the gold
glove truthers are out. That's good. Is he done from
a defensive standpoint? And he had lost a step? How's
trade Dubon? So I mean a trade out?

Speaker 9 (20:30):
Two?

Speaker 1 (20:30):
They so Dubon can start every day a second fine?
But this team still Yesterday just and again, Yesterday's on
a great example because I didn't you know they got
their runs in one clip. Yeah, and it was a
getaway day lineup. Means, here's the thing. They had six
hits on Saturday, seven on Sundays, so they're not pounding
the ball here. Friends fifteenth and team ops seven two.

(20:50):
So the question is going to be we are enjoying this,
the Astros find themselves in first place? Can you continue
to go along? This storyline of pitching and defense is
going to carry you all the way to September? It has,
I mean it has? Can you can you hold on
for three more months with this? You Jordan's gonna come back,

(21:15):
al Tuove is gonna hit better, Christian Walker and you
Rannerity is are gonna hit better. Let's go. But that
could mean Jeremy Peney takes a step back. I mean,
unless he's just gonna hit unless he's just gonna challenge
for a batting title. Yeah, which is not now because thereon,
dude's hitting like almost four hundred. Because hitting us and everything,
you have lossy pitching, and you have bad bullpen, and

(21:35):
you've got lousy defense. I mean again, it takes a
little bit of everything. I'm just I don't want the
shoe to drop. I don't want the glass slipper to
fall off, you know what I'm saying. I just they're
doing it, and I don't know how and what kind
of ways. I don't know Ken, because you're not throwing.
You're you're you're not throwing. Glavin Smoltz and uh Maddox

(21:58):
every other I mean you are. You've got Froper who's
been great, Hunter Brown who really was mid over the
weekend on Saturday. Again, it's just one start. He's been
really good for the last calendar year, and then everybody
else numbers really turned it on. Yeah, so you're saying
all due credit to Joe A Spota. Oh No, I
wouldn't be saying that. No, because because so astros Twitter

(22:20):
doesn't believe that Joe Spotted deserves anything. If they're losing,
he needs to be fired. They're winning with all these injuries.
They're ninth in era, their fifteenth in ops. That's me.
That's media zero credit. Oh well, all right, you heard me.
That's fine. Just check it. The manager doesn't deserving credit.
The pitching coaches don't deserve it. Hitting coaching staff out,

(22:41):
the hitting coaches have. Jake Myer's hitting three hundred and
Paena with the best year of his career. Doesn't matter.
Nothing doesn't matter. Sorry, all right? Test checking ten twenty
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two five seven ninety Nick Chubb is a text and
we believe later today or tomorrow he passes his physical

(23:04):
in his shredded up knees, twenty twenty one is excited
about this. Should twenty twenty five be excited. We'll discuss
that after. Tell about Uptown Appliance repair. How do you
feel what client was? Sylvester Saloon there? Tell it, Tell
the truth. I think it's pretty good now that Liner's

(23:25):
not his best work, but he doesn't. I think he
does a good rocky. He's called in his rocky before.
I think has he Okay, he's got a very uh,
what would you call it? Flexible voice? Would you somebody
who does good impressions, how would you describe their voice?
Multi talented, multi, multi, multifaceted, multifast. I mean, I'm jealous.

(23:47):
He is great. His best is Jim Rome. The Jim
Ron's ten out of ten. It's one of the best
impressions of anybody doing anyone. He does Jim Rome better
than Jim Rome does Jim Rome.

Speaker 10 (23:56):
Right.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
His McConaughey's probably an eight and a half. It's good.
His Trump's probably a seven. I'm giving that a five.
I was gonna say, sorry, Clinton, he's not listening. He's asleep.
Trump's a very difficult one. I don't think so. I
think everybody tries to do it. No, it's so easy. No,
I'm not saying it's he I'm just saying that band
tries to do it. Everybody tries to do it, but

(24:19):
then they don't pull it off. Yeah, all right, So
Nick Chubb, We're going to cuss and discuss him, because
that's what we do on this show. We do a
lot of cussing and discussing. He's going to sign a
new deal, and again, my guess is we talked about
a little earlier. It's probably heavily incentivized. It's gonna be
a situation where he had a chance to choose from

(24:41):
a variety of different teams. Again, it can't be a
huge deal because we're talking about June where you're holding
out any little money you have because you may have
injuries coming up in training camp. You've got maybe even
a draft pick or two you've got to sign. So
whatever it is, it's I don't think he's breaking the bank.
But Nick Chubb has had a very successful NFL career,

(25:04):
but has also had plenty of injuries the last what
two or three seasons, right, Yes, last year he broke
his foot, which is less concerning to me than what
happened the year before, which was MCL meniscus medial capsule
whatever that is and ACL. And then when he was

(25:25):
at Georgia he had a massive injury. If you ever
seen the video of that one, Mat, I know, you
get squeamish. You don't go look at that. I'm not
going to PCL MCL, LCL dislocation of the knee. God,
and he's able to walk during all this much less
run of football in the NFL. The modern miracles of science.

(25:45):
If he'd done this in nineteen seventy two, he'd still
have a broken knee. That's true, he'd probably done. Have
you done a one leg at this point? Yeah, I
cut that thing off. You're walking around with a cane
at twenty two, So I would say, I don't know.
I just think it's too glass half full to say
you're catching lightning in a bottle. This feels more cam

(26:07):
acres to me than anything else. I agree with you.
I think he's washed, I'll say it. I mean, he's
twenty nine years old, he's got multiple injuries. He's available
here in this new shoo, yes, which could indicate a
number of things you wanted to tease out. Here's a tease.
I don't know if Joe Mixon is one hundred percent healthy. Oh, okay,

(26:28):
you're gonna go there. I was thinking you might say,
somebody's been looking at Damian Pierce on the trading block. Oh,
that's certainly a possibility too. Now, remember, didn't Joe have
a walking boot on? I think at some point in
the last month or so. If I'm not hassay, yeah,
oh no, don't hold me, don't don't hold me to that.

(26:49):
One hundred. But I'm pretty sure here's a can't body
because Joe Mixon's hurt. I could buy that. I'm not
saying that still I can't body. I'm saying that he
is a really good insurance policy because if Damian Pears
is the odd man out and h who's that draft
pick they have with a strange name Marks? What's strange

(27:10):
about Wooded Macks? But he was named after a doll
m That makes it weird. It sounds like a vaudeville
performer coming up on the next on a stage. That's
what a mocks. No, no, no, no, I mean here's is right,
A man of a ten thousand voices what he mocks? Here?
I am at the Cabriolet Club.

Speaker 4 (27:29):
Oh I don't know about that doom Doom, doom, go
ahead doom on the drums, legendary mister Woody Marks and
the doom Woody Macks.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think mine's better. That's fine. I'm trying,
you know what, Matt. That's all you can do is
you can get out of bed and you can try.
It's library chance rehearsed. Nick Chubb last year eight games,
one hundred and two carries three point three yards per carry.

(28:07):
It's never been a huge pass catcher. He had five
catches for thirty yards. This is in eight games of
lambere did and he split time in Cleveland with the
other guy who was a guy in Cleveland. He was
spunning well Jerome Ford recently and then before that. Yeah,
there was a good one two combination for them. My
memory is not great anymore on these, but I think
it was also somebody else. I think I can't keep

(28:29):
track of all these backup Cleveland. I can't think I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna pay attention to Cleveland football.
But yeah, Cream Hunt was I was thinking about. Okay,
So I just think this is partly an insurance policy.
Unless for some reason, Joe is slow out of the gates.
My expectations for this could not be lower. I could
be wrong, but I just think he's done. He's twenty

(28:49):
nine years old, he's got multiple huge, big knee injuries
coming off of a broken foot, and then even when
he was on the field last year, he wasn't good. Yeah,
I again, just remember it's like when Brendan Rodgers signed
with the Astros in February. Oh, he was we want
to go glove in Colorado, and he bad well in Denver,
and he's gonna be playing at Tiken Park. He's Brendan Rodgers.

(29:12):
He was available. He had a couple of big swings
over the weekend, and then he had a home run
on Friday. I mean, I mean, you get my dripped
on this. Yeah, you just have to. I just would.
I would hope that everybody, regardless of the sport and
might be like grabbing a guy in the NBA in
mid May or mid March. He's gonna just give you
nineteen minutes a game. No, he's done to shoot three
strip the name off in the Pro Bowl history. I'm saying,

(29:34):
you're you're getting a twenty nine year old running back
with over thirteen hundred years, a thirteen hundred career, a
career carries on his leisure, which is a lot, and
he's had multiple horrible knee injuries. He's coming off a
broken foot in a season where he played eight games
and had three point three yards per carry. I'm just
seeing you. You say, what if we did a year ago,

(29:55):
we took Nick Chubb's name out and sorted cam akers.
I could replay a show from a year ago saying, hey,
let's just let's just be cautious about it, and people,
you know what, the funniest part was people on Texans
Twitter they they're a different breed man. The optimism that
these people breed with a team that has only not
even made a championship game for their own conference. There

(30:17):
were people last year they were like, look at these
cam makers highlights. He's got a lot of juice in
those legs. They were all pre Achilles tear, like, come on, guys,
we have to be real. We have Astro's Twitter is
overly pessimistic unless it's a prospect. Texans Twitter is overly optimistic.
Rockets Twitter just wants to make sure alprinching guns numbers are.
They're constantly fighting each other factions. Yeah, team Green versus

(30:40):
Team Shinohu, this and that, and Rockets have for more
fake media. That's not true. The Rockets and Texans are
kind of tied one and two for fake media. All right, Yeah,
so just take everything with a grain of salt. But
the chob hysteria on the social streets yesterday Ross was incredible. Oh,
this is a no brainer. This is this is a

(31:02):
win win. Of course it is when you're giving him
when you're paying pennies on the dollar. Yeah, you know,
I expect the guy to come in here and give
you fourte hundred yards. Five days ago, you forgot Nick
Chubb existed. Yeah, then all of a sudden, the Texas
are inched. Oh you thought your time pro bowler. Five
days ago, you thought Nick Chubb was an adult film star,
and now he's just now he's running back for this second.
I thought that was Tyreek Hill. He wanted to be
an adult film I think they all do all right.

(31:24):
Ten forty two on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one
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NBA Finals are tied at a game of peace. Sports RV.
We'll give it. It's obligatory three minute run. Okay, I
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(31:45):
get back is radio host in this marketplace, But we're
gonna give you three minutes. Wasn't the thriller of game one,
but I watched and uh, the logos of the NBA
Finals and the trophy were on the court, and Halliburton
had twelve points in the fourth to go over sixteen
and a half for seventeen. It's great, did you I'm

(32:06):
not gonna ask, I don't want to pocket watch here
ten forty three on Sports Talk seven OUTI with a
word for quality home products of Texas every Monday and
Friday when he wants to it. Doesn't forget Gordy stopspy
at ten fifty to say hello unless there's some SEC
women's lacrosse game on it and he can't get away
from his TV to do that, or some interview's got

(32:26):
to do in Biloxi.

Speaker 7 (32:28):
I believe the only times I have been always is
when I did the morning show with Dan and it
kind of negated it.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Mmmm so basically SEC women's softball. Yeah, Texas did win it.
Congratulations they almost boy, Texas almost run rulled Tech on Friday.
I mean that had been horrible. Oh, they can take
the run rule out of the championship series. Correct. Why
do you want to watch nineteen to two? Let's get
over here? Oh yeah five. I thought it was because
they take it on base. They brought it back in

(32:55):
twenty twenty three.

Speaker 7 (32:56):
I think they're both the uh the girl for Tech
a billion dollar Nigerie Kennedy.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yeah, yeah, she's getting paid. She's doing all right, she
did well. But yeah, that's uh, that's a tough pill
of swallow. But good down Texas.

Speaker 7 (33:08):
I mean they can win all the sports that aren't
the major ones. They can win championships in that. Yeah,
that's good.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
But say you can call it now, what are you
saying women's softball is not important? Gordy? Oh so I'm
just saying.

Speaker 7 (33:18):
I saw Mac Brown tweeting out Vince Young highlights last week,
and I'm like, are we still living off that?

Speaker 10 (33:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Why not? Thousand and four is doing a breakthrough? Maybe
win one. Well, they've been to the playoff the last
couple of years than all this sec in fighting here?
What is going on with? It's all good? All right,
congratulations you're LSU Tigers are beating Murray State or something
like that. I don't know. West Virginia though the Big
twelve champ. Oh, West Virginia didn't even have shoes on it. Yeah,

(33:45):
held u of h out of it. So they were
using witt whittled wood bats.

Speaker 7 (33:51):
As we like to say, it is go maha g
e a u maha.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Well they'll be knocked out student. You know that Omaha
is happy that l s U goes baseball the major sport.
Now I can't for I can't keep track because they
drink a lot. Yes, it wasn't last year, two years ago.

Speaker 7 (34:09):
Yeah, the yellow shot challenge is gonna be I mean
it took Todd Graves from raising canes right in a
check to buy everybody yellow shots to break the record.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Who the ceo of raisin Cake? We don't mention the men.
I'll spend money with us, so that's amazing. And they're
overrated chicken tenders. I think they're fantastic, overrated. It's the sauce,
this sauce exactly. Your tenders aren't good. If it's the
sauce that makes.

Speaker 7 (34:31):
Them and lanes sauce overrated, Zaxby's overrated?

Speaker 1 (34:35):
Raising anyway? Way to go?

Speaker 9 (34:37):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Is lanes a real place? Or is that a rhyme? Okay,
I got I got confused. My mental son loves lanes
or rains. You never went to Colle station and go
to Collins station. I'd go eat chicken tenders. I had
tacos at Fuegos did still there? We went there? Yet
I'll tell you who doesn't look good on the chicken

(34:58):
tender run is uh rig Ronalds. Have you seen their nutrient?
They look they look odd shaped. I had them, I
had them, and I was disappointed.

Speaker 7 (35:05):
Did you see the commercial last night Taco Bell is
introducing chicken nuggets.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
No, they've been there for a while. And I talked
you about the nachos. I've been a Taco Bell forever.
You get nachos when you're a big nacho's guy at
tuboy So nachos. No, we talked about a Yeah, that's gross,
that's pretty sick. Do what you do, Do what you do,
all right. It was like Sam on your nachos. It's

(35:30):
like you get into in depth Nick Chubb talk, do
what you do well. It's going to another sec running
back here in town. Yes, George Willum, as I said
earlier twenty twenty one, loves this story. Twenty twenty five
needs to be kind of keep things in check a
little bit here. That's dude. People.

Speaker 7 (35:46):
Look, it's a good signing. It's a nice compliment for
Joe Mixing. Oh you uh, but it's not it's not
what he was three years ago. Had this been twenty
one or twenty two. When you're signing Nick Chubb. Yes,
that is, oh my god, go ballistic. But he's been injured,
he's been okay the last two years. Nothing to write
home about. But he's a good compliment back. If you're

(36:07):
looking for a good backup running back, Nick Chubb is
that So, Yes, don't don't be don't be not excited
about the signing, but also don't be planning the Texan.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Super Bowl parade. I'm killing either. My expectation levels are
at the floor. Yeah, you play fantasy. You know what
chum exactly twenty. I won't be guess what he's off
my draft board. Yeah, won't be taking him to me.
It feels like that this is half insurance policy, half
the yearly Mike Cassaria, let's go find somebody. I mean,

(36:38):
he's done this with offensive linemen, he's sent it with linebackers.
This is kind of the Casario's trend. He likes to
go find the late values and if it winds up
being great, it'll be great. And you want to figuring
this A sign him for a couple of years. If not,
use cam Akers and his release are sent somewhere else
in a very short period of time.

Speaker 7 (36:56):
I just I look at you spent a fourth round
put pick on wood he Mark uh from USC former
Mississippi State running back that like, Okay, you like him
a lot. He's got versatility, he can catch the ball,
but you also have Damian Pierce going into what his
final year, like, so one of these guys is gonna
be odd man out.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
You're not adding Nick Chubb with Joe Mixon. They're gonna
we're gonna trade Damian Pierce for like a seventh round. Yeah,
if that, if you get something, it'll be Damian Pearce
is not gonna be on his training camp roster. Yes,
that's that's what I would agree with. That's a good
feeling for tomorrow, by the way, so i'll write that down. Okay,
is it a good feeling if we all agree with
it and it's all right? What else going on? You

(37:34):
do the Astros post game yesterday?

Speaker 10 (37:36):
Right?

Speaker 7 (37:37):
Yeah, a little technical staff food, but we got through it. Yeah,
I kind of what happened.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
What happened Gordon?

Speaker 7 (37:42):
We had the issue with her on sip but uh anyway,
the uh, yeah it was. Look, it don't overshadow the
fact that Colton uh well, Colton Gordon pitch well. But
Brandon Walter like, both those guys did their thing this weekend,
and so I thought, yesterday, you know Ocherd has the
one bad inning, but Brandon Walter has.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Been like, this is a dude.

Speaker 7 (38:03):
Six innings, a two run ball against a good Guardians
lineup like that. That to me, like my message almost
coming out of that is pressure on Ryan Gusto coming
up this next start for him, if he doesn't get
through five clean, like five good innings, you're to the bullpen.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
He is anyway, I think he's your Seth Martinez. They're
doing We're gonna go with six man rotation like no,
they had, no they do. You got thirteen straight games
come up, you absolutely have to go to six man,
especially with my colors eating an extra day yesterday, that's easy.

Speaker 7 (38:31):
What I'm saying is after this Gusto start, you're.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
To the bullpen unless he pitches well, and then then
then Miguel Luola season. We gotta get the name properly pronounced.
That I think, so okay, you know what, I will
be in Las Vegas to see him probably pitch this weekend.
Oh the advanced if we hear we hear at seven
on he spare no expense in a van scouting Space

(38:57):
Cowboys games. Wow, that's great, stay warm out there. What
about aj Blue Ball, He's already on the forty man,
He's just a guy at this point, although they think
very highly of him.

Speaker 7 (39:08):
Yeah, they had this guy Aaron Brown, do you know
that name? He threw four and two thirds scoreless innings.
So the Space Cowboys on Saturday was he starting?

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Yeah, well, they'd be perfect for the Astra's rotation right
now going less than five.

Speaker 7 (39:19):
He's two and six though, record wise, But it was
a really good outing for him, So I don't know.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
It's just it's weird leaning on this.

Speaker 7 (39:25):
When that lineup came out yesterday and there was Noel
Tuvey and Payne is dhing, it just felt like this
is a Space Cowboys lineup with this was the Gateway
and Cam Smith and Shay Whitcomb all in there. I
did not feel well about it. Good about the Astra's chances.
Now again I'm encouraged by.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
It was the tie ball game. Middle of the game. Yeah,
Brandon Walter's six strong end Walters or Walter, but yes, yes, yeah,
that's confusing. Make sure we used to have that Aund
Walter Van's cousin the output from.

Speaker 7 (39:56):
Brandon Walter was very good, and then Camp's myth coming
through with the big two RBI hit that that was encouraging.
But yeah, it just felt like like that game was
going extra ratings its Stephen oakerd throws because they couldn't hit.
They couldn't they couldn't hit off off a biby, they
couldn't hit off of the the bullpen for for they Look,
you were lucky to win that Saturday game. I mean luckily,

(40:18):
uh hater through the clean ithon you were able to
go to the tent. Bett SUSA came in to get
the freaking like like, this isn't gonna end well, but
it it Didus.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
Is the man, and you'll be always You'll be eventually
hearing from him this year, I would imagine very soon,
very soon, like tomorrow, no Wednesday, because they usually don't
give us a player on Tuesday, have an off day
on Monday. That's true, all right, Gordy. Uh so you
did the tenth Inning Show and then once you were
down with the tenth Inning Show with your technical issues,
hate to hear about that. I don't have team to
have those, but you on and you did, and so

(40:50):
you didn't rally after that, and would you do after
the post game?

Speaker 7 (40:53):
Well, we had a three hour rain delay for L.
S U Baseball, so I had to, you know, kill
the time with something, So I started drinking Crows Box
and getting getting myself feeling pretty good at home watching
the game. But for you guys heading back out to
the ballpark, Astros back home this week with the White
Sox and Twins coming to town, make sure you guys
get out to the ballpark and a joice of Crawford
boch from Carbock Brewing berg right here in Houston, Texas,

(41:14):
pairs perfectly with Astros baseball and whatever you have in
there at the ballpark, whether it's Nacho's, the Pluckers, Wings, peanuts,
anything you're having there at the ballpark just goes better.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
With the craw from Carbock Buring.

Speaker 7 (41:25):
And of course be sure you guys tune into the
Crawford Box cast Ross and I once a week talking
all things Astros.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
New episode just dropped a couple of days ago. I listened,
it was fine.

Speaker 7 (41:33):
It's great break down, And make sure you guys grab
some of Crawford Box from Carbock Brewing while you listen
to watch the Stros.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
Thank you very much, Gordy. Coming up in one half hour,
Ross a first time ever on To Tell the Truth.
It is a how Bougie is Matt edition of To
Tell the Truth, and Ross you will not be able
to answer, our listeners will be able to answer, and Jonathan,
you'll be the answer because you know the answer. Advice. Oh,

(42:04):
I know the answer. You know the answers, so you can't.
All right, So that is today's addition. And I think
about sports. It's about how boogie I am in my life,
and that'll be part of To Tell the Truth coming
up in thirty minutes and time to analyze my dream.
It involves a former NBA owner, a current iHeartRadio host,

(42:24):
and Ross's number one food What would you call it vibe?
We'll call it that way, coming up eleven o'clock hour
seven ninety next eleven o two on Sports Talk seven
Ninetie I mentioned a Boogie edition of To Tell the
Truth coming up in one half hour. Do we have prizes, Jonathan,
extra prizes? I know we haven't. Should yeah, because you've

(42:46):
been missing a lot of days and we don't do
believe or not when you're out, Yes, and you're missing
some more coming up Thursday and Friday, but I'll be back.
I'm going to Vegas. It's fine. So I want to
reward people if they can figure out which one of
the four things is okay, and you can. You cannot
give any editorials because I know for a fact, you
know multiple ants that we see. All right, So we
got that coming up, and then we got the Sports

(43:07):
MPT Dream evaluation in fifty minutes. Uh, if you'd like
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and say hello, you may do so. At seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven Ony, we do have an
NBA Finals series that is at a game. Apiece really

(43:30):
had no drama to it. It wasn't overly exciting. If
you're a Tyrese Haliburton fan, you were disappointed. If you
loved the Shag Gilders Alexander, you were more than pleased.
To me. Uh, Oklahoma City is going to win this
thing in five still oho, Okay, I'm not backing off
of that. The reality is they will saying there's forty

(43:54):
eight minutes in a game, right, yes, sometimes he was
ninety six. How many minutes of that we're good Indiana
minutes the eight Indiana has led for well, I don't
know how much they led actually in Game one, but
after the end of the first quarter they're behind, and
they only led forer point three seconds of Game one.
So if you're the Thunder, you should be thinking in

(44:17):
your mind, we should be up to nothing. We let
that one step the way, Yes, but they're not. And
the Pacers do have home court advantage, and the Pacers
have been really good in their building. That's really good
all of this postseason. And so I don't know, Oklahoma said,

(44:37):
he just looks like they're the way better basketball team.
You're trying to compare Jalen Williams and Shake Gildess, Alexander
uh and who else? Has Dort's been hitting the three
really well from the series, comparing him against Andrew Nemhart
and who else. Halliburton's obviously the best player by far.
Miles Turner's okay, So yeah, it it's just Indiana's good

(45:01):
They're just not if you played one hundred times, I
think Indiana wins twenty five maybe twenty percent of the time,
somewhere in that range. Yeah, Indiana's good, They're just not
historically good like the Thunder. Yeah, they have a better
starting five and they have a better bench. So wex
on his Twitter account, Adam Wexley, you're meaning probably tweets
I don't know, fifteen to twenty times an hour, okay,

(45:25):
And one of his tweets, he had to interrupt his
own tweet because he was watching the postgame coverage of
the game yesterday and basically Kendrick Perkins and it is
it Bob Myers or is it Bob who's the former
general manager Myers? Former general manager Bob Maybe it is
Bob Myers of the Golden State Warriors. They're just and

(45:47):
then you have Steven A. Smith there. The three of
them are just yelling over each other over at Bob Myers,
Bob Myers, over and over. And it was and he
was like, wax is, Like I had to turn it
off to come twet can tell you how bad it was.
What does that make you get? Wax bad? You you know,
it's the whole finals, I'm gonna tell you this. I

(46:09):
got one more thing to say, but cut you on.
So the NBA. So ESPN has done a magnificent job
with College Game Day, NFL Prime Time. Their game coverage
is second to none. The camera work the announcers typically
speaking are amazing. They've had the NBA for what twenty
years or so, they can't get it right. They have
not been able to get any sort of studio show

(46:30):
or halftime or analyst. Kendrick Perkins drives me nuts. Stephen A.
Smith doesn't even know his head from his ass when
it comes to the NBA. I don't know. I can't
wait for him to run for president because if you
think he's bad on sports commentary, imagine him trying to
get into some political conversation. Well, it's gonna be a

(46:51):
complete joke. So my point is, how does a network
who does so many things so well can't find some
combination of guys that even was even close to what
the chemistry was of the NBA and TNT halftime shows. Yeah,
I don't know. And basically what you said as I was,
I wass gonna kind of say I will like the
Game three of the ESPN's coverage of the Softball World

(47:14):
Series Championship felt like a bigger deal than the NBA Finals.
You see what TN now. I didn't watch much of
the coverage, but I did see some of the post
match coverage yesterday. TNT had Andre Agassy up there, John
McEnroe's doing his thing. It looked like a real sports
with you know, like TNT uses Wayne freaking Gretzky on

(47:35):
their NHL coverage. You get the great one as compared
to ESPN giving me Steven A. Smith and Kendrick Perkins.
I mean, excuse my French, but bitch please, I mean
come on now, right, yeah, Bob Myers, I mean what
it's not good? And you know what NBC's doing next year.
They're hiring Michael Jordan a part time basis. Yeah. And

(47:57):
I'm not even talking about the pre Yeah, the pre
and post game and had time coverage is lacking. But
even just the presentation, like introing the game, like no, no,
they don't do any national anthem, no lineups, no last
night or two nights ago. I mean there's nob costas intro.

(48:18):
There's just it's just here we are. Let's get the
game on so we can run our ninety five ads
and again, yeah, we gotta shove our sponsors down your
throat for the most amount of time possible and not
have throw anything into game presentation. The Bob Costas introductions,
the Marvl Albert and that's where NBC is going to
crush it next year. They're going to crush it because

(48:38):
they know they've already said they're going to carry the
line ups. They're gonna use the dead guy's voice, which
is kind of weird, but that's ay. But they're going
to build drama because that's what sports is. Sports is drama,
not just putting a game out with nineteen sponsor tags
to it. And look, we believe sponsors make the role
go around and we appreciate our clients here, but we
still in essence perform a radio sho We don't, you know,

(49:01):
It's just it's disjointed. It's and they can't get their
broadcast teams narrowed down properly, and they can't get their
studio shows. And it may not be much to them
a lot of people, but and then in the NBA
can't get their days off right, three days off between
game one and Game two, then three more days off
between game two and Game three. I mean, give me

(49:21):
some momentum, give me something, because I am an NBA fan.
I love wow. Can Indiana fight back after being kicked
on the teeth in Game two? Oh? We'll find out
Wednesday night, eight o'clock. It's just and I know that
it's the bucks, it's the sponsorships. It's just the dollars
that make the world go around. But damn im vested.

(49:42):
I will watch, but I'm gonna forget about it on Wednesday.
I just am They do that because they want to
get two Sundays. They want Game two on Sunday, then
they want Game seven on us on another Sunday. I
mean they they space, they staying away with They're stay
away for Saturdays. That's point blank. They are. They believe

(50:03):
Saturdays is the TV black hole, so to speak. Now,
when it was on NBC, when I was doing the
Rockets PA, we played on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. I
think I'll tell me the best thing they can do
is they can play day off in between when the
teams are at home, and then give them two days
off if they're traveling to a different city. Yeah, it's

(50:24):
two full days off again. Between every game except next week. Yeah,
well Wednesday Friday thing. Oh, let me see. No, it's
two full days off every single game except for games
three and four. Yeah, and that's because they want a
potential game seven on a Sunday, so they're gonna go Wednesday, Friday, Monday, Thursday, Sunday.

(50:48):
Just stretching this thing out. It's not for rest, it's
not to recuperate, it's not for travel. It's for because
the networks have said, we don't want to be on
a Sunday night. Excuse me on Saturday night. It's definitely
network driven. But you even had Aaron Gordon talking about
how he wanted every game to have two days in between.
He feels like the product will be better. So does

(51:09):
it give it us a better product? More time for
people to heal from injuries? I don't know, my god,
it's June Fross. It's in the NBA Finals. If nobody's healthy,
I mean, nobody's healthy, you're on adrenaline, you are you
have you are on E and the gas tank. It's
who gets the finish line and wins the damn chang. Yeah,
two days in between, like going from Oklahoma City to Indiana.

(51:32):
That makes sense, but for every single game, Yeah, it
feels a little bogged down. It's a good way to
have people forget the things they are even coming on
and again, if if last night was a epic matchup,
then we'd be like we dining for more now. It's
that game was a blowout. For most of the contests,
they were up fifteen to twenty most of the game.

(51:53):
People probably checked out early games on Wednesday. It's easy
to it's easy to forget and too bad. I love
the sport and I'm disappointed that it takes this long
to play a seven game series. Remember the Remember the
playoffs started with in April seventeen something like that. We're
looking at two full months of playoffs. Then you had

(52:15):
the draft next week after that, and then before you
know it, you got Summer League and then you know
the free agency time. Oh wait, I think Kevin Durantz
gonna be traded before the draft. Yeah you said that
as a gout female. Yeah, I really, I do believe that.
I was just randomly looking at the ninety four finals.
It was every other day for the first three games,
two days off, then every other day for three more

(52:37):
games Wednesday, Friday, Sundays is what they were. They played
on those three days. Yeah, and then they got two
days off for before Game seven, which the Rockets won,
And I was there ninety to eighty four. I remember
Elijah won in Game six, tipping John Stark's shot to
my left like it was yesterday. That's good, Matt. I

(53:02):
remember I remember saying that, my guy, it was my game,
ops guy, he touched that ball because it was a batch.
I mean, the shot never I think never even hit
the rim. It was that much. It was that bad
of a shot. I mean for people in Oklahoma City,
in Indiana, they're there, they can't get enough of this,
and good for them, and we be the same spot.
We wouldn't care about the television ratings. Yeah, they've been bad.

(53:22):
Game two came in game like the eighties. Yeah, they're
like even COVID year was better, like oohs all right.
Eleven thirteen on Sports Talk seven, ninti uh Dana Brown
gives us an update on yord On Alvarez believe him
or not? Uh oh, did we get a percentage? You're
gonna find out seven one three two one two five

(53:43):
seven ninety eleven eighteen on Sports Talk seven NINTI. It's
a bougie edition up to tell the Truth coming up,
and uh, you can't play because you been part of
this bougonis so just throwing that out there. Uh and
then we've got that's dream analysis coming up at eleven fifty. Great,

(54:05):
I mean we could get me. How much more do
you want to get to Nick Chub? No, it's fine, No,
I want to I like hearing your crazy dreams. You
need to do? You get do we need to do?
We need to play the h Dana White, Dana White,
Dana Brown. I was one of those some color Dana
Brown's commentary Aboutarez Dana Black he was on. He said,
you know he does an appearance every Sunday on Astros Radio. Yes,

(54:26):
so it's only appropriate that we get the latest on
Jorn and Alvarez. I think it's ceiling a lot more.

Speaker 11 (54:33):
And so he's close to uh picking up a bat
could happen with this week. So and the goal would
be once he gets back to tickets and swings, we'll
probably do what we did before, try assimilated game instead
of sending him out to Triple A, because we really
like to have him back a.

Speaker 1 (54:50):
SAP all right, I know he was talking about the
plan for him, But don't say we're gonna do what
we did for him before. Oh you mean when you
didn't you know what was happening and he had a fracture.
Any other way to phrase it. Please know my stance
is this, and I made this stance a week ago
when we had this, when this story dropped. Okay, when
he comes back, he comes back. I'm not yes, I'm

(55:11):
not giving you guys any optimism, right, I'm not giving
you any pessimism. I'm just listening and going, Okay, sounds good,
sounds good. Yeah, I mean there is nothing that I
would take from that and going, oh better get that
Yon and Alvarez Jersey back on quick. He's ready. He's
like intimate intimate knowledge of how well he's healing now,

(55:33):
which is good. Well, it was sixty percent last week.
We didn't get a percentage. Unfortunately, my guess it wasn't
even asked because again that's that's putting data an uncomfortable spot.
And yeah, Norton, nor should it be asked. But Dana
Brown with a little bit more on the plan for
yourd on Alvarez batting practice.

Speaker 11 (55:51):
For sure, you know, off the you know, off the
live arm. You know, he's gonna have to do some
off the machine, uh, you know, so we'll get it
a share of batting practice, and then once we feel
like he's got he's getting through that well with no
pain or anything like that, then we'll set them up
with potentially you know, a live BP against the pitcher,

(56:14):
get him some at bats that way, and get him
back here in Houston.

Speaker 1 (56:20):
Get him with the live arm.

Speaker 10 (56:21):
Let's go. Well.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
Again, we provide that as a service because Dana is
nice enough to join the Astros broadcast team on Sunday
to give that. So we want to play it and
you can then take your own you know, thoughts off
of that. Again, I have been not burned, but I'm
just burned. Well, we haven't burned. We things you could say,

(56:44):
things are being said that just weren't necessarily forthcoming and
or honest. And again, Dana, is this in a really
tough spot, like you said, when he's back in the lineup,
he's back in the line Yeah, they're winning games, they're
winning series. It'll be great to get one of the
best hitters on the planet. Then we can get to
hear you know, this is like making a deadline deal
getting yord On back. But here's my problem, and not

(57:07):
that I'm a doctor. I never would have wanted to
play one on the radio. What this could flare up again?
How how are we supposed to And this is I'm
not talking about Yorda and the individual. I'm talking about
the average human being. When people have back issues, they
just you know, if it back surgeries or back gilments,
and they go through rehabilitation or they tell them just
you know, don't carry lift things. Usually backs tend to help,

(57:30):
you know, come back and hurt neck injuries. I mean, yeah,
but how are we he's going to be he has
to intimately use his hands to perform his job. Yeah,
so that they're going to let the hand fracture of
heel and hopefully we're right from there. But how do
you fracture hand? You swing very aggressively and hard. And
that's what Yorda and does for letting it's help me out,

(57:51):
give me an example. Well he's been I don't know,
have we heard of other hand fractures? How many years
has he been in there? Since nineteen he came up.
He did have hand issues one before. Yeah, it was
a it was a muscle thing. But that's also what
they said this time. Yeah, I mean we know about
the creaky knees. His knees have been fine. I mean,
he got multiple knee surgeries in twenty twenty and I

(58:13):
don't remember any knee issues since then. Well, it's because
they've done a really smart job and not letting him
to play a lot of outfield, not doing a lot
of running around, and when you need home runs, you
just try. That's what we want. No running the bases,
no stealing, none of that, no no let no no
head first lives like Carl's pain. You don't even leg
out a yeah, oh yeah. If there's anybody that's allowed

(58:34):
to loaf, it's him, Yes, ground ball deep short Nah. Well,
Kyle Tucker says me too. But God, off the top
rope Sports RV. What that was rude? You look at
all these shots you're taking, the former athletes that are
you aren't here anymore to do that shots. You I

(58:54):
was talking about his fractured leg, Matt, what are you
talking about. I'm talking about the fact that you took
an unnecessarily shot of a former Houston legend. He's not
even here, He's not a legend. Was he going to
the Astros Hall of Fame? Let's see, Yeah, they'll run
out of people, they'll put him in. Oh yeah, because
you're not going to the Cubs Hall of Fame, mayo,
the Dodgers Hall of Fame could be all right, So there,

(59:15):
Tony Sabio's still snub by the way, I know you
call him the Astro Clipper. Well that's what he is.
He's never going in the Astros Hall of Honor. Yeah,
you heard me. Why would you say that? Ever? Whatever?
That's rude because I'm sick and tired of your usabial love.

(59:36):
It's ridiculous. Sounds like, you know, you shouldn't be jealous
and hate the goat like that. Yeah, by the way,
didn't his hitting street take two months to get to
the number twenty four game hitting streak over how many days?
Seven or something? That's a testament to how good he is.
Wasn't used every day? Still came in there and getting knocks, baby,
Well how about have you so good? And then they

(59:57):
would haveut him in the lineup card every single day.
But well there's they did that like the next year.
What it is for replacement level? But that's then he
finished his career as a dime. What was a jersey?
A Rocky? Yeah, he was the Rockies, but he never
played a game for them. They he was out of
shape and sent them home from campus. Had that jersey?

Speaker 6 (01:00:13):
Still?

Speaker 7 (01:00:13):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
I do. Why don't you ever wear that? I guess
I could. I don't wear jerseys. When was the last
time you saw me wear a jersey? Of anyone? You
saw me wear a jersey? I mean we're talking about
me because you asked me. Why has it got to
turn onto you?

Speaker 7 (01:00:25):
Matt?

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
Like always? Okay, Sorry, I've never seen you wear a
jersey today? Is it any hostile?

Speaker 10 (01:00:31):
Hostile?

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
Yeah? All the weekend? On, hold on, hold on? You
talking about Tony Yusabio and then Matt's trash and Tony
Yu Sabio one of the all time astros. Great, Sorry,
ideas I have to you know, babysit, you know your
babysity exactly, he started, You do sound like a younger brother.

(01:00:52):
I am a younger brother. No one of your mom
minks raymore that's all right? Seven one three two one
two five seven diety seven one three two one two
five SEVENINTI all right, I had this to tell the truth.
Segment which I really enjoy. It's just hard to sometimes
come up with stuff. So we're gonna know a figure
out if Jonathan knows me well enough. How long you've
been working with this, Jonathan about three months now? And

(01:01:13):
give or take yeah, you when you put your two
weeks in pretty soon? Because the over under on producers
for the show ross what is about eight nine months? Stops?
It depends he's doing great? Why would you stop saying that? Well,
I mean some still to stop saying it. Okay, you
keep pushing people away, Matt, all right, So the question
is you have to decide how bougie I am. Jonathan, Okay,

(01:01:36):
I got you, and we're gonna let our audience as well.
Did you go to the Prizevaul? What do we have
on the prize vault today? We only have one prize
for Believe it or not?

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
Today We've got an extra prize, but the prize today
later today will be a pair of tickets to see
the Heart at June seventeenth at Smart Financial Center.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
And okay, so we have Heart tickets where we only
have one set or we just have one we got
one set, we only got one way wite Wait, we
just got the prize email the other day. How can
we only have one set? I mean I can take
from tomorrows. No, no, no, no, no, we gotta think
about this. All right, Well we're gonna see, We're gonna see, uh,
how well you do? That's too bad. We have zero
prize give away people. We have like some like uh

(01:02:13):
some koozies or something, or I can give a shirt. Yeah,
why don't you give them like your game warn sock.
You know they give game warn gear away. You should
give like show worn stuff. Why don't I won't give
away one of your petons that you give when you're
at Western Kentucky. Not No, those are special. All all
my times I got I have I have. He didn't
drop it. You dropped that one. Okay, I dropped that
test realized by the way. Yeah all right, so Jonathan's

(01:02:36):
we can't involve the audience we wanted to. We have
no prizes unless people just want to have self gratification.
People just don't want prizes, right, yeah, all right, So
no prizes. So Jonathan, not one prize we didn't do,
believe it or not in the last couple of days,
or something got left over. Can we steal something from
the A team. They don't know. They don't like their prizes. Right,
Jonathan's signing up all his cousins for tickets. I see him,

(01:02:58):
but hearts thinets is until that a day? How come
I all these prize learners get the last name? Allen?
All right? Up? Next? Does how weld? How do well?
Does Jonathan know me when it comes to my boogie activities?
Eleven twenty eight on Sports Talk seven pointy seven one
three two one two five seventy If you want to
join it in the conversation at seven one three two

(01:03:18):
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follow us at sports MT and at sports RV. All Right,
eleven thirty four on Sports Talk sevenine eighty.

Speaker 10 (01:03:30):
This is for you.

Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
Jonathan Ross cannot partake in this because I believe he
knows the answer to this. There are four things that
I think are uber bougie in someone's life that I'm
going to tell you about, and three of the four
are true. It is up for you, Jonathan to decide
which one of the four I am not telling the truth?
Are you okay with that? So three of the four
that you do not think is bougie? No, no, no,

(01:03:52):
it's not a question. Boogie. These are three of the
four things that I have done in my life. One
thing I have not done. Okay, okay, okay, I gotcha
all right. Number one. In two thousand and four, I
attended a live broadcast of Saturday Night Live in New
York City, and I snuck into the cast party after

(01:04:13):
party after I was with the general manager of Channel
two at the time, who was my friend that went
with me. He got us the tickets. I dropped his name,
and they invited me into the cast party after and
it was unbelievable. All the stories you hear about the
cast party are one hundred percent true. Lots of debauchery.

(01:04:34):
Two thousand and four. It was amazing. So I intended
an SNL live concert or live broadcast, dropped the general
manager's name at Channel two, and got into the after
party cast party where I think I left at four
fifteen in the morning, give or take all. Right, Now,
that's number one, Okay, okay, okay. Number two, going to local.

(01:04:56):
I have never sat in the upper deck at dyk
in Park Man it made park astros field and run
field whatever it was called. I have never watched a
sporting event a concert, anything in the upper deck at
dyk In Park. Okay, all right. Number three, I have
never in my life sat in the last roll of

(01:05:18):
an airplane, never in your life, never in my life,
not once, not once the bathroom is behind you, not me,
Never in the last row. That's like the ultimate worst.
That's the worst roll on the flight, right basically probably
that's like you barely get on the plane. You can't
put your seatback. Huh, You're first is next, next bight there.

(01:05:40):
You can't be stealing snacks from people back.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
There if the first offer you in the No, now
you should go up where and then come back.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
You gotta go to Comy plus and take it back.
It's been a lot of times I've been an airplane,
all right. Number four. I once spent the night in
a two thousand square foot suite and Los vain Veges, Okay,
And I mean this thing had everything. It had a library,

(01:06:08):
it had a full kitchen, it had multiple bedrooms and
had a living room. It had big screen TVs all
over the place. I once spent a night in a
two thousand square foot sweet in Las Vegas. The four
things again is one. I went to a live broadcast
in two thousand and four, sentate live and went to
the after party with the cast. Okay, like you're at
a front party, said his name, got in, said okay,

(01:06:30):
thanks to the Channel two general manager at the time,
Steve Wasserman. Number two, I've never sat in the upper
deck at dyk In Park. Number three. I've never sat
in the last row of an airplane. At number four,
I've spent the night in a two thousand square foot
plus suite in Las Vegas. Which one of the four
am I not telling the truth? Three of the four true?

(01:06:51):
One is a lie, one is a lie. Three are there? Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
I'm gonna say up front I believe the first story,
just because that scenes like a mad thing to do,
and it's something I've done. And you know, you get
free places when you can got no people twenty dollars
the Las Vegas one. That sounds like, Matt, you always
love five star hotels. There's no way you haven't been
in one that's that big or that expensive. Lower deck

(01:07:20):
at Diking Park.

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
I've never sat in the upper deck at Dyking Park.
You've never sat in the upper deck upper deck? Yeah,
I've never sat in the upper deck. That's where all
the sweets are now sweets. No, I'm talking about the
upper deck, Like what were they called the if you will, yeah,
nose bleeds upper deck? And what was the what was

(01:07:44):
I've spent that I never sent in the last roll
of an airplane. I'm going with three, you're going with
never sent in the last roll of an airplane. Okay,
Now we have some people that want to help you.
I got something. See if Sebastian wants to help you
with some advice on this? Which one it is? Again?
These are the four ross you can answer because you
know they answer this question. I only really remember one. Actually,

(01:08:07):
he belt on this, he belt on this. No, I
don't got no help. Uh, you've never sat in the back.
That sounds like that sounds like a lie. That that
sounds like something.

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
Humble beginnings, Matt, you had to come from somewhere Then's
know way you haven't said that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:19):
That is actually true. People do begin to humble beginnings.
You got to start. That's what I'm doubling down. That's
my answer, all right. Number one, I have spent the
night in a two thousand square foot sweet and Las Vegas.
That's one. Guess who was with me? Mike Tyson and
a Tiger. No you were where was it? Mandola beg? Oh, yeah,

(01:08:43):
but that wasn't I didn't say I paid for it. Yeah, No,
you didn't pay for any of these boogie things you
say you're doing where the music goes, give the music.
I actually forgot about that. I've we've mentioned this before.
I've never sat yet for decad I can park before.
I do know that, yeah, that one.

Speaker 10 (01:09:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:09:05):
So it comes down to did I sneak into the
cast party of SNL with Steve Wasserman, the general manager
at Channel two, or I have I never sat in
the last roll of an airplane? Well, the one thing
I have done, I have never sat in the last
row of an airplane. I'm sorry, Jonathan. I have never

(01:09:25):
been to a taping of SNL and did it certainly
didn't go to an after cast party. Wow, I thought
I fooled you, well because I mentioned the guy's name
and the season two. Yeah, he tried to go in
with all these details. He over sold it. That's actually
a key to getting a lot of believe it or
not questions? Right, I normally over sell details and stuff
I make up. I believe it or not? And I'm

(01:09:48):
just part of myself. I remember the Channel two's former
general manager was named Steve Wasson. I could have made
that up. I could have made that up, but he
really was a general manager. Is going like, yeah, I
know ya come in and Matt would have been chucked
out of that party five minutes in, so whould have
been in two thousand and fourth party. Really laid it
on thick is when you said we didn't leave till
four fifteen in the morning, Like Matt, you had been
in bed by nine point thirty.

Speaker 10 (01:10:09):
That's not true.

Speaker 1 (01:10:10):
The show ends at one am, so you know I
had have been three hours into the party. Yeah, you
would have been there with a pillow and a blanket.
So unfortunately you do not know me as boogie as
well as you think I do as you do. So
we're trying. I'm just good man. I'm glad you mixed
it up. I was gonna say it's Sport six that's

(01:10:33):
for Jonavan party that right. I didn't do anything wrong.
I just fooled you, all right, When don't we come
back staying with me for one more scon? We gotta
we gotta do this. We gonna do my dream analysis here, Okay,
so for those who just didn't catch the show earlier,
weave the song with a definitive dream song that we
could play at Medley. Uh, you know what you decide, Okay,

(01:10:58):
I only care. I had a very vivid, vivid dream
last night that woke me up. I mean why eyes
wide open at one fifty absolutely woke me up. And
it involved a iHeart Radio employee and involve your favorite
food and favorite food I think it's your favorite food

(01:11:19):
and a former NBA sports team owner. Okay, all that
coming up after Ross touch about center Jenny twelve O
five Sports Talk seven ninety. It is the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross. We do this every single day during
the middle of the week Monday I through Friday. We
gave you the top headlines the day and for that
we go to the news at noon.

Speaker 10 (01:11:41):
And with that we go to the.

Speaker 1 (01:11:46):
Steve Levy of Houston sports journalism. I guess I'll take
what I can get, Matt. Well, let's start with the
Houston Astros over the weekend taking a two out of
three against the Cleveland Guardians. But unfortunately we're unable to
get to win yesterday.

Speaker 10 (01:12:02):
One to one, and that has hit well at deep
to right back on it, as Smith, and he will
watch that one go Boat Naylor a two run homer,
his eighth of the season, and it's two nothing Guardians.

Speaker 1 (01:12:17):
That Boat nailor two run shot was all the runs
given up by Brandon Walter six innings of two run ball.
Astros were in this one late, Jack Myers leading the
charge with four hits, raising his average of three to
zero two. But Astros bats couldn't get enough, going one
for eight with runners in scoring position. They follow to

(01:12:38):
the Guardians. They're thirty six and twenty nine, however, third
best record in the American League and two and a
half games clear of the Seattle Mariners. And I got
one for you for gut feelings, I don't think I
think we're gonna be able to dodge the Yankees again.
I think the Yankees are gonna top the Tigers of
ultimately in the American League, which means guess what Astros

(01:12:58):
won the wild card will be the three seed. You're
playing some day baseball for about two weeks. Rossi We
also mentioned last week Matt that the remaining schedule strength
for the Astros in terms of opponent win percentage thirtieth
in Baseball. After this weekend against the Guardians thirtieth, it
remains they have the weakest schedule left. Seattle has the

(01:13:19):
seventeenth strongest schedule, Texas Rangers right behind them at eighteenth,
and those are probably the team's probably just Seattle, but
maybe Texas gets in there, but a much weaker schedule
than your divisional opponents remaining for the Houston Astros, put
in your name, Oh, go ahead to maybe tomorrow, man,
maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow, not today?

Speaker 4 (01:13:41):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
Well, also over the weekend with Brandon Walter being added
back to the Astros, unfortunately Forrest Whittley designated for assignment
for the Astros, his long reign as one of the
astros top prospects. And then of course we know he
had Tommy john other injury at the fifty game drug
suspension as well. What a long winding road it has

(01:14:04):
been that for Forest Whitley, gone but not forgotten. I'm
gonna see. I want to see how much you, uh,
how well you will do at this game? How much
money has Forrest Whitley been paid by the Astros organization.
His signing bonus was three million, three point one eight
or nine million or something like that, so it's a
little over three million for his signing bonus, and then

(01:14:25):
I don't know what minor league wages for I'm gonna
say three and a half million over eight years or
whatever it would be. He was making seven hundred and
forty thousand dollars this sal one hundred and sixty sixty
thousand dollars this year wall on the major league roster.
So he's I mean, he's been. Really at the end
of the day, what has he been worth to the Astros?

(01:14:47):
About five million all the scale, probably somewhere around there.
It's first round, though, one of the top pitching prospects
in baseball, the top pitching prospect in baseball at one point,
and just never panned out, just wanted to every major
league team goes through this top prospect list does not
mean everything, but he was untouchable at one point in

(01:15:07):
the Astros organization. All right, Matt elsewhere on the news
at noon and all pro coming to the Texans. Well,
it's a twenty nine year old running back who's had
multiple knee injuries. But Nick Chubb haven't heard anything about
an official signing, but supposed to pass his physical today
and will be a Houston, Texan on a one year deal,

(01:15:29):
of course, contingent on the passing of that physical. Last year,
Nick Chubb in eight games for the Cleveland Browns, he
averaged three point three yards per carry and then broke
his foot. If I set the over under on Nick
Chubb yards at six hundred and fifty under, Okay, five

(01:15:53):
hundred under, and it gets dicey four seventy five, here
we go. We doing an auction pour seventy five, seventy
five seventy five. Who says four seventy five, seventy five
seventy four, Nick Chip? Nick Chip said four seventy four
seventy Nick Chip, pull seventy seventy four seventy lionla four
fifty four fifty four fifty four fifty fifty four fifty

(01:16:15):
four fifty pill full fifty say once saying twice, would
you say under four twenty five? Who said four twenty five,
four twenty five? No, I mean this four hundred, four
hundred three seventy five three So no, no, s your
may just make me do this. On'll make you sound foolish.
I don't need to do much terrible three fifty three

(01:16:38):
fifty that's enough all right.

Speaker 3 (01:16:42):
All right, Matt.

Speaker 1 (01:16:43):
Last night in the NBA, it was Game number two
of the NBA Finals, but as is often the case
in basketball, there was more talk about stuff happening off
the floor than on the floor. Thunder get the one
twenty three to one oh seven comfortable victory over the
Indiana Pacers, but a lot of talk about the broadcast

(01:17:03):
presentation for ESPN slash ABC, including the pre halftime and
postgame shows Bad, Bad, and Bad, and also all the
criticism Game one not having a lario'brian trophy anywhere on
the court making it not feel like a finals game. Well,
they put lipstick on a pig. They had the graphics

(01:17:24):
of a Lario Barrian trophy intermixed with the Finals script writing,
but also brought to you, of course by a certain
sponsor of their Now let me ask you this. Did
they do this because they wanted to interchange things and
move things around, or do they do it because if
they put the real was it a placard or a
paint paint on the way I would be paint, it

(01:17:44):
would be a sticker. They put a real sticker of
the finals and logo on there in the real NBA
that people would slide on it. I don't know. I
have heard some say that. I haven't heard an NBA
official or Adam Silver or anybody else say that it
was too slippery of a court. I mean it feels
like when are you getting crushed? From a pr perspective,
everybody upset that the even JJ Watt is like dunking
on you, that there's no court on that. You figured

(01:18:06):
they would come out with a statement and say, yeah,
we would like to do it. It makes it feel big,
But unfortunately we got a lot of complaints about players sitting,
they're slipping on the floor. Why is the NBA and
why is ESPN not making this big? This is the
NBA Finals. This is what every June we've as basketball fans.
We lived for the pomp, the circumstance, the celebration, the theatrics,

(01:18:26):
and they're treating it like it's a regular season January game.
There's nothing special or interesting about the presentation, and sometimes
r Ross life is about presentation, and we're getting nothing
more than just a regular old game on the logo
on the court, Adam Silver saying quote, To be honest,
I hadn't thought about it all that much until I
saw it. On social media, on nostalgic as well. Also,

(01:18:48):
I think for a media driven culture, it's nice when
you're looking back or highlights and they stand out because
you want that trophy or logo or some indication a
special events. Correct, So we'll look at it so super imposed.
It did nothing for me. It was it was horrible.
It was a cheesy, Yeah, it was. It was putting. Yeah,
it's ridiculous. All right, that is the news at noon.

(01:19:09):
But we have one major story we have not discussed
yet today and we'll do that because Ross is going
to give us his French open report. Next, did you
guys find the difference? More on Chubb, More on the
Astros two out of three winning that series in Cleveland.
Off day today, the White Sox will be in for
a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday get together. But right now, know

(01:19:33):
the station, the marketplace is going to give you a
complete rundown of what happened yesterday with the five hour
plus match. We present to you Sports r v's French
Open up date. Yes, matt uh hold up, we hold up.
Oh we forgot to pick a French song. I was busy. Yeah,
we need a French song and we have play by
play apparently highlights as well from this Well, let me

(01:19:53):
see that play by play for you, Matt, real quick. Yeah,
some thrilling stuff over there at Roland Garrels. Here's some
of the highlights. What did you think of those highlightes?

(01:20:18):
A Matsio? Are you really one of the lowest hanging
fruit of a stereotype? What do you mean? I'm getting
my beret in my bag, ads, and I'm heading over
to the row on got else? How did you have
a shift? That Roal raddle was coming up here before
you know it? I thought it was a great match.
How much of it did you catch? You said the

(01:20:39):
last point? Twenty three year old Yanick a Ciner number
one in the world. Twenty two year old Carlos Alkoronic,
Now what is it? Yanick center center? The only Yaks
I know are ones that are in tennis. Yan ain't Noah,
and I'm dying. Uh what about Yanick Falconer? Nope, I

(01:21:00):
don't know. Okay, I clearly did cool yep, Okay. So
in the twenty two year old Carlos Alcarreza Spain getting
his first fifth excuse me, Grand Slam Major at the
age of twenty two already, I mean solidify. I think
that's more than Jimmy Connor's already. Let's keep track. It
was a great match, back and forth, Alcarez getting down

(01:21:23):
two sets to nil and for the first time in
his career, I believe, at least in his Grand Slam career,
coming back fighting back in a thrill of a five. Now,
I would also say this match was five plus hours
because the crowd would not shut up.

Speaker 12 (01:21:37):
It was pissing me off. Everybody's yelling God, and the
lady's like, see who play. I'm gonna see ci who play?
Like telling everybody to shut up the entire time. She
was flat about it. At least she was very polite.
But it's like they need to kick these people out.
Can someone explain this to me? This isn't I just
don't get it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
How come if people are screaming the entire five hours,
nobody wants to hear you scream, you idiots. And this
happens at major tennis events all over the world. It's
just like in golf when you hear you the man,
oh dude, all right, put yeah, put down your white
claw for five seconds and get kicked out of here.
It's ridiculous. So that's to me, I'm dead serious. One

(01:22:18):
of the reasons it was five plus hours because the
lady was calming down the crowd between every single point.
It was absurd, huge crowd by the way, right, Yeah,
I don't know how many of these it's fitted all
on gay, Yes, but it was great yanic center. Clearly
he wasn't one hundred percent of the last couple of sets.
He was kind of limping around, but man, he gutted
it out. He was battling out. There was very impressive

(01:22:38):
shot making for both of them. And that's the thing
where I got a hot take for you, Matt. Please,
top level tennis athletes, best all around athletes in the world,
hear me out. You need incredible stamina. Yes, you need
incredible speed and agility and acceleration power. You need power

(01:23:02):
and the hand eye coordination these guys have is insane.
And also think of the mental fortitude it takes to
be on the rate. There's always a game within a game.
Every tennis point is a chess match. It's mentally draining.
These guys are faking out that they're gonna hit it
one way or the other and doing different spins. They
have a different they even they toss the ball differently

(01:23:24):
to try to hide which way they're gonna hit there.
It's it's a cat and mouse game for five hours.
That's a lot. It's very impressive. To me, I got
a hot take. I don't disagree with you one iota.
Thank you. It was impressive. And like I said, I
was kind of half in, half out the first couple
of sets because I was asleep, had a few too

(01:23:45):
mini beers on Saturday. Sure, but yeah, after the when
the basically middle of the third set, I was locked
in and it was I mean it was on the
edge of your seat stuff. These guys are incredible. You
can't take long timeouts. No, you can't rely on someone else,
like on offense and defense. You can't be so dinners about.
It's you by yourself.

Speaker 6 (01:24:02):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:24:02):
Granted you are getting every bit of the dollars to
go with it. I mean, so I can get two
point nine mili wins. But even in golf, you don't
literally take a shot, take a breath, and take another shot.
You have to walk to your next shot and think
about it. You can contemplate things. You're waiting on the
guys ahead of you, right, Yeah, I totally agree. If
there's any sport that makes and earns every dollar they get,

(01:24:24):
it's a tennis player. Shout out to Coco Graph for
one of the women's championship. Yeah, Coco Golf Golf Graph, Yeah,
Steffi Graf, Steffanie grac Golf Golf g o f F
yes or a g a UF. I watched. I watched
the last like set and half of that one too,
And how was that? By these It was good. Coco
Golf was good.

Speaker 9 (01:24:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:24:45):
I I respect the hell out of tennis. I just
don't like watching. Yeah, I understand you kind of have
to get into the game within the game to really
enjoy it. Sometimes if it's on by accident, like for instance,
I'll be brittally honest with you, I would watch it
on NBC because that's where French That's what the French

(01:25:06):
Open was for the longest, longest time. I actually forgot
it was on TNT until people started tweeting about it. Yeah,
and that's when I turned it out. This is the
first year was there. Yeah, but it was. The coverage
is great. Andre Agassi's analysis is incredible. I was like
John Mcarron. Anything he does, I think I think John
macro does a great job in front of the show.
Brian Anderson called the play by play as much as

(01:25:28):
the play by play. Doesn't I do miss Jim Nance
on it? Nope, I said I miss it? He never did?

Speaker 4 (01:25:32):
He never?

Speaker 1 (01:25:33):
He never did any Did he do Wimbledon? He did tennis?

Speaker 9 (01:25:35):
Didn't he?

Speaker 10 (01:25:36):
Nope?

Speaker 1 (01:25:36):
Who am I thinking of? Uh? Well, there was a
Pat summerl did it thirty years ago? You had Chris
Fowler does it on ESPN with Wimbledon. Jim Nance did
any Grand Slam Tennis? Edenberg did it for a long time.
I'm wrong then, yeah, no, no tennis for now. Lots
of golf for Jim Nance, but not for tennis. I'm
getting somebody confused. But yeah, John mcrorote does a great job.

(01:26:01):
I think it's yeah good stuff. Matt can me it's
some more of your French accent. I think, I think,
I what do you lack of? Meess? Was?

Speaker 13 (01:26:07):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (01:26:07):
I think I underrated it. Talk about Chubb joining the
Texans and cold Nick Chubb. I can't even. I don't know.
You're putting me on the spot. It's not free flowing anymore.
How many yards per carre will he have? A fall
of the taxes. Who knows, probably under five hundred yards
or three hundred and fifty seven metels, you Poorish Americans

(01:26:33):
in your yards. Makes no sense, man, you got it.
You got anti American sentiment in the conversation with the French.
Aren't anti American?

Speaker 6 (01:26:41):
Who what.

Speaker 1 (01:26:43):
You think people? You think people are on the world
hate us?

Speaker 6 (01:26:45):
Is that what?

Speaker 1 (01:26:46):
Who loves America? Who's America's back? I'm a big America
talking about outside of here. No Canada is okay? No
want Canada? Yeah right? Russia? No, thanks, Ukraine loves us?
Keep catching him checks. Do you do a Ukrainian accent?
I don't think I'm gonna say if you do, I

(01:27:07):
would not. No, no, no, We're good. Don't even bother.
We don't need World War three right away. I'm not
gonna start it. It's already all the way. Four active
wars happening, You're pushing, the streets are burning. Everything's going great, guys.
Let's keep talking sports. That's what we're here for. So

(01:27:30):
the show so far today, bougie moments by me, horrendous dreams,
your horrendous Ukrainian accents, Tennis and Chubb. I'll get you
a UFC breakdown too from over the weekend if you want,
Oh I gotta, I have, I have time for concert breakdown,
Oh when we come back? All right, full rundown of

(01:27:51):
Sticks and Friends. There are two other bands there too. Yeah,
but wasn't it just like pieces of bands? Pieces of bands?
Exactly right? Well, I mean about that open that age.
Guys are dying off the bank. They were good. I'll
tell you they were good though.

Speaker 4 (01:28:05):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:28:05):
Twelve thirty on Sports Talk seven ninety seven to one,
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It is twelve thirty four on Sports Talk seven out
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us your forecast on what Nick Chubb will do potentially
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They're just saying, look at a two day event, get
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(01:28:48):
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(01:29:10):
All right? Now that we've got the sports headlines all
the way and remember again any of those things on
your top of mind seven one three, two one two
five seven and if you want to come in and
join the conversation seven one three two one two five
seven And a So, my middle son Peyton has got
an old soul when it comes to music, just like
I do, and he is a huge sticks fan. For me,
they're minute best, but it is what it is. I

(01:29:31):
don't know how anybody could be a huge like a
budding huge sticks fan. It's kind of crazy because a
man the lead singer is not even the lead singer
that sang all the songs like you got him in
the Beatles. That makes sense to me, Berry Man a
little less sense, but sticks sticks sticks. So we went
to see Styx Don Felder who was a member of

(01:29:53):
the Eagles for many, many years until he got sideways
with Don Henley and with Glenn Frye. And now they
don't speak. Oh they're not on speaking terms. Well with it?
Are they all alive? Glenn's past, Glenn's dead's dead? Joe
Walsh is alive but just weird as weird af and
did you hear this?

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

Speaker 1 (01:30:15):
Yeah, Okay. Now there's there's one song that Styx won't
sing anymore because they're one of their lead singers. That's
his song and they don't sing. They don't sing anymore.
That Lady I think is their best stick song and
they don't sing that anymore. I haven't sung it for
twenty years. That's a shame, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:30:31):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:30:31):
And then Kevin Cronin, who was the lead singer for
Rio Speedwagon, is out with his own band called Kevin
Cronan band. He and Rio Speedwagon people got sideways, so
he's like, screw you, I'm the guy, I'm the talent
behind it. So he came out and sang all Ario
Speakedwagon songs Okay, by the way, I have a stupid
legal question. Does he do to pay stuff to Rio Speedwagon?
It's pay stuff to everybody else a publishing right, Yeah,

(01:30:54):
maybe he owns his own songs. Who knows when you
gay whatever? Okay, So first up, it was Don Felder
who sang a lot of e songs and I love
the Eagles, so that was an amazing part of the concert.
That was a ten out of ten for me. Was
he a singer with the Eagles? M M okay? They
all had like the soft country rock stuff. No, they
had all their hit they had all different hits. I

(01:31:15):
like Ario Speedwagon, don't love them, like them, but Kevin
Cronin was good. And then Sticks came on and did
what they did, so they did. We were there for
four hours, four hours and about ninety five degree temper.
I was gonna say you recovered though. That's true because
you've never sat on the lawn at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Villie.
This is also how boogie he is now. I don't

(01:31:36):
know if Jonathan has any contacts with us, and he's
on the phone. That's okay. You have never sat in
the upper deck, yes of dyke In Park. That is correct,
and you have not once sat on the lawn at
Cynthia Woods. Mitchell Villion also accurate. You were just not
salt of the earth. Matt. You're not a man of
the people. I'll be out on that lawn. It's nice
out there. You light up with your lady. I didn't

(01:31:59):
have my lady with me. Oh, get laid up with Yeah,
I guess it wouldn't work. No, you getting laid out
and comfortable. You can lay down on the grass of
absolutely well, you need to bring a blanket. They sell
they used to sell chairs. I don't know if they
do that any No. I was very comfortable in my
very comfortable, really close seat. It was about four rows away.
It was really good. What's what the common folks are?

(01:32:21):
And you get a cloud of smoke headed your way
as well? Oh my god, I did I did mention
this on Twitter? The the what do you call it?

Speaker 2 (01:32:29):
This?

Speaker 7 (01:32:30):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:32:30):
Contact contact high was definitely in place. Secondhand smoke. Yeah,
all right, So here's who we're taking up with the
sticks slash dune Felders slash s medicinal I imagine. Okay,
So here's the bit. So Kevin Cronin has a fair
number of hits, but they're Areo Speedwagons. So what he
did is he took a whole album of Ario speed

(01:32:52):
Wagon uh huh, and he played it song to song,
the song, the song, the song, and then they played
a few more of Areo Speedwagon's most popular songs. Okay, Well,
in any album, not every one of the songs are
going to be a hit. So he plays an entire
album of about fifteen songs, only three or three then
we recognize. So we're largely bored during that. Why don't

(01:33:13):
you listen and enjoy the lyricism and musicianship, Matt No,
because it was a four hour concert. Then sticks comes out,
does the exact same thing, plays three or four of
the songs we really really know. Then they played an
entire album of songs we don't really know, and they
finally two or three songs the very end we do know.
Do you know what album they played? No, I'll go
to setlist. I'm telling you Don Felder did mostly Eagle stuff,

(01:33:36):
and he crushed because we knew the songs. Okay, and
that's my review. I mean, what do you get it
great or anything? I would give Felder an a I'd
give Coroner a B and give Sticks a B. So
overall entertaining time. My son at a great time. Renegade
is my favorite Stick song. They played at the very end.
It was outstanding. Oh they played the I guess the

(01:33:58):
grand illusion is that the album they were playing. I
don't know. I'm not a big enough Sticks fan to
tell you what they what they played, but a lot
of stuff. People were just sitting down and going, I've
never heard the song, don't don't like the song, whatever
the song. And then we had some people in front
of us, in front of us getting fights. Oh, I
need a quicker ruling on. Wait, what happened? They got
it like fist fights? No, it was how do I
put this politically correct? Two angry women were getting mad

(01:34:22):
at women another woman two rows in front of us
because the two woman four rows in front of us
would not sit down during the concert. Ah, and she's
and these two women were yelling at this other woman.
And then Cynthia Woods had come over, and so my
son is like, what do you what are you doing this?
I said, I think the rule is you can stand
if you stand if you want to. That's it's a concert.

(01:34:44):
People are typically like to stand. I tend to agree.
I said, I didn't like it, but I'm not gonna
start yelling at the PA. You can stand in it.
I feel like, yeah, I do too. I'm not a
fan of it, but I understand why people do it.
And there were sometimes where songs were very popular. We
all good, but generally speaking, you're not going to you know,

(01:35:05):
you're gonna sit down for an opera. You're gonna sit
down for a symphony. You're not. You're going to see sticks.
You're probably gonna stand up a few times. So that
was the That was the big drama of the big
night at the concert front it what was the resolution
that person get kicked out or they eventually sit down.
Everybody got warned. And then the woman four rows in
front of us did sit down and on her way
down she Rott did give it up a RockA two
women in front of me.

Speaker 10 (01:35:26):
Love it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:27):
It's gonna throw down in the Woodlands Pavilion with a
bunch of okay, I was probably in the lower third
in terms of age. What oh, yeah, Peyton was your son.
He's the youngest person there. Peyton's twenty two, so he
really younged it up, brought down the average. Yeah, but
I would say it was probably on average sixty five

(01:35:48):
sixty sixty two, sixty three. Hell, all the members of
the bands are their soldies. Oh jam packed around, let
him pash. I mean there was not a spot in
the lawn to be seen. Really, I mean, receipts a
little surprising. And Sticks hasn't had a hit since nineteen
eighty three.

Speaker 10 (01:36:04):
You know what it was?

Speaker 1 (01:36:06):
Renegade, No, mister Roboto, Okay, a little bit of a banger. Honestly,
it's not bad. He's a banger. You listen it once
in a while. Stop, it isn't bad. It's all and
I guess I recognize it. I was attractively pursuing hearing,
mister Roboto. It's not terrible. Stop. I got a secret.

(01:36:29):
I got a secrets. No, no, no, a secret secret
I got. I was Oh man, I was went to
look up Sticks and it went to the river in
Greek mythology. Sticks. So that is my official review of
that concert. Okay, overall, you said a mile because there
were too many songs. I had no idea what they were,
and even the diehard fans of of Cronin and the

(01:36:50):
diehard fans of Sticks didn't know what they were, but
they're looking to fill time four hours. It's a lot
of music. That is a lot of music, all right.
So only one number one hit for Stick, so I
think you must know because you guys look this up right,
is it? It's babe babe is correct? And they don't
sing that song there? Oh don't let it in? Was
also a top? Was this top? They got some hits?

(01:37:11):
I guess they did okay for themselves. M good for them,
and that's your Sticks review. Did they go to in
and Out after all the aways? Always a win?

Speaker 3 (01:37:26):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:37:27):
Yeah, always not bad? Good? It was bad when it
first opened. Oh really love drive throughs a hot mess,
but it's the regular going in. It's just fine, all right, Rocket,
This is a very important question. Oh double double animal stuff.
Of course, that's what I'm talking now animal style. On
the fries though, did you get well done fries? No?
Well done? The way to go make them at least

(01:37:47):
they makes them from like a two out of ten
to like a five out of like Poteta stick. Yeah,
the in and out fries are terrible, all right? Ross
what's next? Full Astros breakdown? How much leash do Ryan
Gusto have In the starting rotation and predictions for what
LANCEO Colors Union will do tomorrow on the mound. All right,
speaking of got uh mccullors, were you a little bit

(01:38:10):
of the hebgb's when you heard it in an extra day?
What do you mean heb GB's, Well, this we'll start yesterday. Yeah,
they're trying to keep everybody on a sixth day? Or
are they? It's all good? You sure? I don't know.
I'm not his doctor until further nose. How about this.
I'm not worried about your done until he's back in
the lineup. I'm not worrying about Lance until he's out
of the rotation. That's actually a pretty fair way to

(01:38:32):
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(01:38:53):
is Matt and Ross with you here on the program
with here two o'clock, believe it or not, Today one
fifty all things about Nick Chubb. All right, So when
you do sports radio, you talk about games, you interview athletes,
you interview coaches, you analyze things, you discuss things when
you can, and you feel like you get a pretty
good grasp of things when it comes to how basketball
games will be played, how a football game is delivered,

(01:39:15):
a basket baseball game is managed. Whatever. You try to
be the armchair quarterback. Right. Yes, there are some things
that will be very confusing to us, that will never
be able to shake. And I believe I've got a
topic for you that will be almost impossible for us
to legitimately discuss that will make sense to us and
our audience, But I'm going to try for anyway. Days

(01:39:39):
after a multi billion dollar legal settlement change college athletics
by allowing schools to directly pay their athletes, the most
powerful conference commissioners are bullish on their ability to enforce
nil rules in a new system. Even those specific punishments
remain unclear. So the House the NCAA settlement was approved

(01:40:05):
on Friday, Okay, Former Major League Baseball executive Brian Seely
was named CEO of a new enforcement organization called the
College Sports Commission. His job will be to lead the
teams responsible for enforcement of the new rules around revenue sharing,
third party payments to players for NIL deals, and roster limits.

(01:40:28):
One of the biggest questions is what happens when these
rules are broken. So in the category of what the
hell did I just say? Which I that's what I'm asking,
it sounds like to me dumbing it down as much
as we can that players will now be directly compensated

(01:40:50):
by the ends by the member institutions. But that has
nothing to do with nil deals. Okay, but he's overseeing
an IL deals as well, right, at least making sure
that things remain in the up and up. But the
problem is what is the up and up? Yeah, ceiling.

(01:41:10):
This team will be responsible Yeah, enforcement of new rules
and in IL. So it's both quoting Brett Yormark, Big
twelve commissioner, our schools want rules, and we're and we're
providing rules, and we will be governed by these rules.
And if you break those rules, the ramifications will be punitive. Hmmm, Well,

(01:41:32):
you can't give more money to like football player at
Alabama's not gonna make more money than a football player
at What does punitive mean money? Yeah, you can't if
you're paying an Arkansas player, You're paying the same money
maybe that a Michigan player is kidding. That's what I
think is that is on that. I think Okay, and

(01:41:54):
IL deals, there is no regulation right now for NAL deals.
There's no I have not seen a story that says
and I deals and IL deals will be capped and
NIL deals will have a salary cap. Okay, question, how
do you regulate? What is the regulation for an IL deal?
That's what I'm saying. Why what does that one regulate?
What are you regulating with that does so many rules

(01:42:15):
to it? I guess this this this College Sports Commission
is going to create some rules for the NIL Like
if Texas Tech wants to give Nigerie Kennedy a million
dollars for two years in a row, I mean, who
is to what is the investigation? What is the infraction?
I guess again, this is the category of I don't know.

(01:42:38):
I wanted to bring it up at least the conversation
to say that there was something that was really done
big over the weekend, and that was the number one
thing was you now will not have to worry about
money going through a third party when it comes to
just paying the athletes. It'll go directly from school to athletes.
Now how does that? I mean, is this still amateur athletics?

(01:43:01):
What are we talking about now? If the schools are here,
we go, this is what we needed. We need? Oh,
thank god we get the expert in here. Yeah. So
it's it's very complicated. What what went down?

Speaker 6 (01:43:14):
I named it.

Speaker 1 (01:43:15):
This is the very confusing part of the world we
have to eventually discuss.

Speaker 7 (01:43:17):
So the big thing that was approved was paying schools
can now pay players from the money they make from
TV deals called revenue share.

Speaker 1 (01:43:25):
I got that right, Okay, so one for one so
far the who's in this?

Speaker 7 (01:43:30):
All the big conferences that agreed to this, so SEC
Big twelve, you know, all the all.

Speaker 1 (01:43:35):
The big compeats. What about what's going on with the
PAC twelve? Now it's there. So it's twenty million.

Speaker 7 (01:43:42):
It's around twenty million for this upcoming academic year for
all your sports. So you got to figure most schools
are going to take about thirteen to sixteen million of
that to pay just for football.

Speaker 1 (01:43:53):
Ifrom I understand every school can do the percentages differently, correct. Yeah,
So for instance, you of age can give eighty percent
to football. And fifteen to basketball, or they could give
sixty to football and give thirty to band and intend
everybody else. And they said about three to five percent
for your other ball or sport. How you split it
up and spending on how successful. My guess is, at

(01:44:15):
you of age, you're going to give basketball more than
you would say at West Virginia. Now do the math.

Speaker 7 (01:44:21):
If you're putting thirteen million towards your football team, what's
going to be the your quarterback, what is he going
to make from that? You're not gonna pay him a million.
That's a monster chunk of what you're spending for your
whole team. So what's happening here is NIL is still
going to exist. They've hired an accounting firm, Deloitte, has
established what's going to be called the NIL Clearinghouse or

(01:44:45):
nil go they're calling it. So basically, you can still
sign NIL deals, but what they're going to do is
basically police based on fair market value what these deals are.
So take for example, let's just say Mattress mac Galley
Furniture says we want to sign the u of AH
quarterback to a three hundred thousand dollars ANIL deal. The
clearinghouses are going to say, what is he doing for you?

(01:45:05):
And you got to have it all planned out. Well,
he's going to do a social post for us a month,
he's going to do a TV commercial, he's going to
come do an autograph signing, and all that's got to
equal according to their fair market value, the three hundred
thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:45:17):
If they determines that the commission is this College Sports.

Speaker 7 (01:45:21):
Commission, the CSC College Sports Commission, the arm of that
will be the NIL clearinghouse cleared through Deloitte. They will
approve or deny that. They said, based off the deals
they looked at last year, about ninety percent of those
deals were on the up and up. But what this
is going to defunct is the collectives. They said seventy
percent of deals that were done through collectives last year

(01:45:42):
would now be denied under this new enforcement. So basically
gone to the days of the big rich billionaire Michigan
booster that bought Bryce Underwood, the big five star recruit
away from LSU.

Speaker 1 (01:45:55):
You can't do that anymore.

Speaker 7 (01:45:56):
Why because the money that he's getting has to equal
what I understand, the market value of what I understand?

Speaker 14 (01:46:04):
Why?

Speaker 10 (01:46:05):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:46:05):
Who cares? I agree.

Speaker 7 (01:46:07):
It's because the coaches in the schools all complain these
kids wan't too much money. So this is on a hand.

Speaker 1 (01:46:12):
Tommy Tuberville and Nick Saban are all like, this is
on a hand. We gotta rain this in again.

Speaker 7 (01:46:17):
They're not stopping the kids from making money, They're just
stopping the ridiculous buying seventeen year old recruit.

Speaker 1 (01:46:23):
So okay, well, getting a million dollars for a giving
a million dollars to a softball pitcher like Nigeria Kennedy
we were talking about Texas Tech. Would that be probably
deemed he got.

Speaker 7 (01:46:32):
Well, here's how it'll break down. She might sign, the
school may give her one hundred thousand out of the
pot of revenue share and the other nine hundred thousand
will come out of in anil deal. But it's gotta
be all It's gotta be stuff she can fulfill that's worth.

Speaker 10 (01:46:47):
That I see.

Speaker 1 (01:46:48):
I think that's ridiculous that some third party is going
to determine what somebody else can get and make and
possibly I mean help their families or take care or whatever,
do whatever with their own money. Giving an Olympic sport
and I are non rev a million dollars you can.
A clearinghouse would never justify it. I wouldn't imagine.

Speaker 7 (01:47:06):
So well, again, it's all on how you structured the
nil deal. And honestly they said a lot of problems
last year were from let's say Joe's car company signed it.
You know, Nico Yamaliava signed a deal with a Tennessee
car company. He was not fulfilling his end of the bargain.
In other words, they would have went through the clearinghouse
and got all this approved for his million dollars he's getting.

(01:47:27):
But he didn't show up for an autograph signing. He
didn't do this, so that company that has the chance
to sue him and say, hey, you're not living up
to your end of the bargain.

Speaker 1 (01:47:36):
So it's a very strange times, it's weird.

Speaker 7 (01:47:39):
The Charlie Baker, the head of the NCAA, said, the
whole idea of this is to give schools the power
back to get control over this where it's not the
wild wed West or some billionaires paying a kid twenty
million to come play for a school, but.

Speaker 1 (01:47:51):
That same billionaire is still paying the NAL though.

Speaker 7 (01:47:54):
Well, but it's good. It's got to be literally the
gist of what name, image and likeness was intended for.
The whole gist of that was Johnny Manziel couldn't sign
autographs when he was the A and M quarterback, Tim
Tebow couldn't sell T shirts with his name on it.

Speaker 1 (01:48:06):
You can do all that now through NIL. It just
has to be what they deem fair market value. So
you're gonna go get rich booster to go pay these
athletes through their company. Through their company, yes, the clearinghouse
is then going to say, all right, we're going to
pay rossviller Reale, the Texas quarterback, a half million dollars
a year. Here's what he has to do for it.

(01:48:28):
And the clearinghouse is going to say it's it's worth it.
And again it's only up to them to decide what
the value is on that.

Speaker 2 (01:48:35):
M h.

Speaker 1 (01:48:35):
That's ridiculous. But they say, here's what's gonna happen. I'm
going to tell you this. You're going back to under
the table stuff. Oh if if a clearinghouse tells me no,
and I want my guys, I'm going to pay.

Speaker 7 (01:48:46):
Duffel bags of cash and backdoor handschecks. This is stupid,
but I will say I mean the collectives are adapting.
They they said that they knew this was coming for
the past year. So a lot of collectives have pivoted.
They're now creating platforms where they're gonna go to student
athletes and say, hey, we want to help build your platform.

(01:49:07):
We're gonna help build your Instagram, your social following, all this,
and then in turn it's on you. We'll put you
in touch with the people who have NIL, but we
just can't facilitate those deals anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:49:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:49:18):
I started doing that around twenty twenty when I got
into college. I started helping football players and like making
universal university like people come in like they hire like
maybe a social media manager for somebody else for the school,
for the athlete to reach out and make a new name, image, likeness,
to grow it almost to grow your own brand yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:49:38):
Hmm. This is crazy. So hope the hope they gave
some clarity. Time for a break. I'm more confusing it.
I want to be on the clearinghouse committee. That's the
easiest thing. Deny everything except for you of h deals.
You want to go work for joy an accounting firm. Sure,
my god, what what is it?

Speaker 5 (01:49:58):
What if?

Speaker 1 (01:49:59):
What if a college disputes, what the accounting firm said,
what the count of first says they have they have
full power is their arbitration process? Like what if they
say no, it's not good and we say yes it is,
and then there has to be an arbitration process and
there's more lawyers. This is ridiculous, all right? What an absolute.

Speaker 7 (01:50:17):
Slus one more note it's only deals worth six hundred
dollars or more, so it is not worth six exactly.
But like if Matt Thomas just wanted to slip a
recruit six hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:50:28):
Buckshe so you can find one thousand people to get
five hundred bucks and that's five hundred thousand dollars. Yep, okay, uh,
Carly Thomas will be a freshman at the University of
Rhode Island in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 10 (01:50:40):
Be nice.

Speaker 1 (01:50:40):
So you got to promote the sports RV Instagram? Yeah
you God knows you need it? All right, Final hour
the Matt Thomas Oh look at us, we're really what
I was seven on Sports Talk Semnini. I want to
apologize for that last segment because my head now really hurts.
You know what. You know we talked about last week

(01:51:00):
how I've basically given up on trying to decipher what
the astros tells and injuries. I am going to make
a concerted effort not to learn about the nil and
the collective. Okay, because there are if you listen to
Gordy during that run, there's just ways to go around
the system. This isn't regulation. This is a clearing house

(01:51:24):
telling a particular school. Yes, we think your idea of
compensating a particular athlete is good or bad, and we're
gonna tell you yes or no. And if we tell
you no, I guess what you're gonna do. You're gonna
go find a backdoor a channel to give that kid
that money he wants. Do you think X y Z School, Texas,
Ohio State, Nebraska, Penn State and all the powerhouses the
clearinghouse says you can't give this kid seven hundred and

(01:51:47):
fifty thousand dollars. You think they're gonna go, Oh, well,
some we can't give it to you, So that gets
gonna go somewhere else? Oh hell no?

Speaker 10 (01:51:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:51:53):
And who the hell are they to say what it's
what they're worth or what they're not something. That's what
I'm saying. I mean, whatever kind of accounting in metrics
or whatever it's it's ridiculous. I mean, I am the
leader in the packup saying this thing is out of control.

(01:52:14):
I just don't have the right answer. But what I'm
hearing from Gordy and I and Gordion's very very well
versed in this, this is this is this is adding
a lot of bureaucracy to this. This is adding paperwork,
this is adding hearings, this is adding well, why did
one goy athlete get a clearance that athlete beat it.

(01:52:36):
I mean, again, no disrespect to softball because my daughter
plays in a non revenue sport. But Mike, if if
Carly Thomas gets two point four million dollars from Rhode
Island wherever she eventually, yeah, there's no way that clearing
house is going to justify it unless she's doing a
bikini shots and getting and has nine million people on
Instagram following her. Yeah, which has gotta be like nobody

(01:52:57):
can know people will pay for advertising all the time.
Or I mean if somebody went to let's say, I
don't know, Texas in the stadium and there was a
beer that wanted to pay X amount of dollars, that
doesn't have to go to a clearinghouse. If you think
they're overpaying, who cares. That's the whole point of trying
to get a name, image and likeness is basically student

(01:53:18):
in the athlete advertising, and if somebody is paying for it,
then that's that's the value. It shouldn't be somebody having
to to regulate this and say this is not the value,
this is not the number. Maybe the X amount of
dollars is not correct. Maybe they're thinking, well, if the
schools are now paying the athletes, this is our attempt
to legitimize nil is compared to just handing over a

(01:53:42):
kid money and saying you don't have to do things
for it. Well again, so well, where where it is
every school getting twenty million dollars? Is where we maybe
need GORDI back our different schools. Does Georgia have the
same budget to pay their players in their athletic department
as Vanderbilt? I believe the accurate The answer is yes.

(01:54:02):
Is up to each in an individual school to decide
how to decipher the money to split it up. That yeah,
see this is again this is in the weeds. And
you know, in theory you could spend a lot of
time looking at this. But first of all these rules
are going to change, And secondly, we're a corrupt society

(01:54:23):
and we're not there's not enough people to audit particular programs.
It's you know, it's gonna take ross. It's gonna take
some athlete being told that the clearing house said no, yeah,
underhand and money, and then someone's gonna have to catch
them and say we're gonna we caught you cheating. That
that's the next round happened. I don't know. That's a
good question. That's the next round. Is clearinghouse told me no,

(01:54:46):
I wanted that money. I want to go to that school.
School said no more, but it will take care of it.
Figure out a way to get you that money. It will.
This is stupid. This is somehow, It is very typical
the time. I guess you somehow make a bad problem worse. Well,
what they're trying to do is they're trying not to frankly,

(01:55:08):
just say all right, Tommy, you want to play for Miami,
We'll give you two million dollars. And I think they're
they're going that at the end of the day, that's
just we can't stomach that long term. Now, somebody could say, well,
why can't you why not, And that's why I guess
they're trying to add a layer of direct payment to

(01:55:30):
the athlete. So there feels like the INTABA is handling
a responsibility of at least compensating and base off of
their proceeds. You know, And people argue and talk about
how you know the NIL system just keeps the the
powers it be fat and happy, But I mean, I
think it could. It's the other way around. Anybody, if
you've got alums with the money, you can turn your
team into a perennial power, like Phil Knight did it Oregon.

(01:55:53):
What's what? What's Oregon Football's history, storied history as a
blue blood in college football? It's before Phil Night. And
we mentioned this the Texas Tech picture, Kennedy. I mean,
they weren't so Texas Tech Softball wasn't supposed to be anywhere. Hey,
they get the money and guess what, Texas Tech Softball boom,
all of a sudden, you're a power. So it does

(01:56:15):
keep some smaller schools. As long as you've got alums
with the money, you can have more skin in the game,
you can get more involved, you can get these recruits.

Speaker 14 (01:56:21):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:56:21):
The crazy part is that Texas Tech going to the
College Women's World Series is not gonna have a direct
reflection on their athletic budget and their proceeds. It's gotta
be some kind of a little bit. Ok then guess
what would I have no idea, so thinking about what
would it be? Couldn't maybe you get a few more
eyeballs in the jerseys. Maybe I know more about Texas

(01:56:42):
Tech off ball than I did before. But you're gonna
forget about a day and a half. But your crowds
an't gonna be any bigger.

Speaker 7 (01:56:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:56:48):
But also if somebody wants to spend the money on
the herd, then I don't care. Why why should I care?

Speaker 10 (01:56:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:56:52):
I just there's, man, there's just there's just no in
the non revs. There're just isn't a direct correlation to
boosting television deals, boosting apparel sales. It's a nice anecdotal thing,
but there's there's no way that you've If you spend
a million dollars on a volleyball, track and field swimming golfer,

(01:57:12):
you're ever gonna get that back. And that's okay, And
maybe that's just the way it's supposed to be. Maybe
you just have a bunch of alums that say, look,
we just love our school and we have special athletes,
and it's fun to see our softball team compete every
once in a while for a championship, and the star
player wants a million dollars, let's just make it happen.
We've maybe we just got to come down to that.
Maybe if you want to change your young lady's life

(01:57:33):
and then get some athletic success, I mean you can spend.
You can go donate ten million dollars in a library
and okay, it's got repainted walls in the library. Looks nice.
Now you're never gonna get that money back. It's philanthropy
as athletic philanthropy, that's what should call it. I like
that seven one three two one two five seven aunty.

(01:57:55):
And by the way, trying to get three hundred schools
to act and behave themselves when they have three hundred
different agendas is never going to work, especially if you
are Alabama, LSU, Florida, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Michigan. Trying to
explain the Colorado State that we're all going to play
by the same rules ain't gonna happen. Sam On seven
ninety Hello, Sam, Hey, guys.

Speaker 9 (01:58:17):
How's it going. I completely agree in general they should
not be able to say what an athlete's worth. I
do agree that someone probably needs to regulate and make
sure these athletes are doing what they're supposed to be
doing showing up on time.

Speaker 1 (01:58:33):
But there's one quick way to do this without all
the buioucracy.

Speaker 9 (01:58:36):
Limit the transfers. Okay, you get one transfer throughout your
college career, it make it count, and then you can't
play the free agent game after every year, and then
the coaches still get some control and they get some
commitment from their players. But if they just continue to
go out and to move after every single year, then
none of this matters anyway, and they can just keep
chasing money from time to time and the coaches still

(01:58:57):
aren't happy. So I mean, I still think they're missing
the ball on this one.

Speaker 1 (01:59:01):
How about this. Thanks for the phone call saying real
fast us. What if you go to the clearinghouse and
saying we want to pay Rossville Reale uh huh one
point three million dollars. Clearing house can then say to
make that one point three you need to do this.
I think they're going to do it. Do that, but
it feels a little bit more as compared to saying no,
you're who cares bleep you? Why do I have to

(01:59:21):
do what you say?

Speaker 10 (01:59:23):
Who are you?

Speaker 1 (01:59:24):
It's controlling more college students and just holding them back.
I don't understand that. Yeah, it's like privatized now. And
as far as the transfer thing, that was a whole
legal battle the NCAA basically had. It's it's like, I
don't even know if it was a Supreme Court case
or whatever, but they couldn't go in front of a
judge and say we're amateur athletes and we're but we're
holding these guys and making them hold out a year

(01:59:44):
because they get sued by people. Because if if if Matt,
you can transfer from North Texas to University of Houston,
you don't have to sit out nope. Or if I
want to go from wherever right to wherever, you don't
just don't sit out either. That's not the thing. If
there are student athletes in there, yeah, exactly. Coach doesn't
sit up when he gets transferred from school, and there's
a biot and all that type of stuff. So it's

(02:00:06):
unenforceable legally. Does your head hurt? Seven? One three two,
one two five seven ninety seven to one three two,
one two five seven nine zero. I know it. Half
throws were a day off today. Tomorrow back at action
against the Chicago White Sox, and then'll be a run
of what ROSSI Thirteen consecutive games for the Astros, back

(02:00:28):
to a six man rotation, But it feels like there's
been run as of late. And I know that Major
League Baseball tries to give you as many off days
as possible, and it's not easy to screen, you know,
squeeze one sixty two into six months. But man, they
just finished seventeen games, they've had a couple of off days,
and then they're on a thirteen game start starting tomorrow.
I have a wacky proposal for you, what if you

(02:00:49):
got would more doubleheaders but more days off be better
or worse or the same. Well, they've started the season
in late March, so they've gotten ahead of the game
more so in the last decade than they have in
the previous decade before that, where double headers always just

(02:01:16):
a function of raining days, like backing like nineteen back
when Babe and the boys were swinging the bats and
they had like scheduled double headers ten sixty eight. It's
it's cardinal baseball. Hit at this brand new Bush Stadio today.
Bob Gibson will throw Game one and Dan Shawneney will
throw Game number two. Let's play two. That's what Ernie
Banks would say, Yes, he would. If you did double headers,

(02:01:42):
you would expand your game, your expand your roster to
I could see the right thing to do with they
would be to expand the roster for twenty eight players
on those particular days. I think if you do two
double headers, that's two more off days. What's the trade off?
We'd have to ask somebody in baseball. I guess about that,

(02:02:03):
because I mean, you'd have to have pictures on schedule
two for that second game. Well that's why again I
think you have you have, at at the bare minimum,
expand your roster for two players. They do that anyway, Yeah,
well I don't. I mean, we've always talked about going
back to one fifty four. We need to stop talking
about anybody in any sport reducing games. The NBA Dave

(02:02:26):
Adam Silver, the commissioners said they're reducing schedule games. No, no, no,
should Joe bum ass up?

Speaker 6 (02:02:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:02:32):
Rob Manford would chuckle at one sixty two being reduced
makes a lot of sense, but it's subtle. It's less.
It gives you would give you at least six days off, probably,
But what if it pushes all the wild I wonder
how much would the offsetting? Could you offset it if
it pushes the if you went to one fifty four

(02:02:53):
and then made all wild Card Series five games, you
get more TV revenue from that, Theoretically, local teams wouldn't
get as much. Yeah, but the thing of the local
TVs are going much of the Rockies making in games
one fifty five to one sixty two. Anyways, teams that
aren't how much are teams that aren't making the playoffs

(02:03:14):
making anyways? Would the trade off be that you you
get Let's see right now, for example, the Tigers last
year in the ashual they got zero home games. You
get two out of the deal. And now the twelve teams,
I mean you got almost a fifty to fifty shot
of make it the playoffs these days, it wouldn't necessarily
be about the revenue in the citum would be about
the revenue they would split among the thirty teams with

(02:03:35):
a new TV deal. Yeah, but teams are losing money
on their local TV deals. I'm just thinking out loud.
I don't know no, as I'm gonna stay consistent on this.
I think we will never see less than one sixty two.
We'll never see less than eighty two. And we're going
to see eight team in the NFL, and that will
be the cutoff mark. They can't they'll never go to.
I can tell you, as this soul of Maya's soul around,
we'll never see a twenty. Never twenty, Never see a twenty.

(02:03:57):
Don't never say never with the agree well, but it's
going to be a team. By the way, there were
some NBA rumors over the weekend, again, just a few
tweets here and there from respected reporters. There's always this
buzz about the NBA expanding, about Las Vegas and probably
Seattle being the two heavy favorites. The two reports that

(02:04:18):
I saw said, don't sit on an international team being
played Mexico. Now, you could play an NBA schedule involving
one or two European teams if you wanted to. They
would have. They'd have five or six game homestands, five
or six game road trips, five or six game homesteads.
Sounds like unnecessarily unnecessary. I don't work, but I'm saying

(02:04:42):
of the sports that are around, there isn't enough interest
in world in European baseball. Yeah, I mean you basketball,
would you say the biggest global American sports? Correct? But
still if you're on if you're on a European team,
you're missing your playing. Let's say that you played seven
home games and you had a six game road trip.

(02:05:04):
There's no way you have days before you have to
leave to get acclimated to the US soil. Time jet
lags game after So you're talking about teams missing three
and four weeks every time they go. I can tell
you the NBA players are cranking when they're gone for
more than three days. So while I saw that, I
don't buy international expansion, maybe New Mexico City would be

(02:05:26):
as close as it would be. They have the G
League team there, right, I don't loatees or something like
that got you dropping in. I was I was ink.
I didn't know until I was in king Kun like
last year, and then it was on TV. I was like, what,
they got a team in Moxcot City? Yeah? We I
think these professional teams in sports and I'm sorry, we're

(02:05:48):
just we're so anxious to tap into the international dollar.
But it's because they feel like, I mean, look, you
always need more. What all these owners want more revenue
is more revenues, more revenue. What's the commissioner at Silver's job.
More money, more money, more money, more morning, more money.

Speaker 9 (02:06:04):
But he just got it.

Speaker 1 (02:06:05):
And so you're getting bigger deals, your your uh, you're
maxing out your sponsorships, you're maxing out TV deals, You're
getting Jersey sponsorships. You're doing every avenue you can domestically.
And then where you gotta go if you need more money,
more money, more money, revenues, up up, up, up up up.
You gotta go in it. You gotta expand you gotta
go international. Okay, now, what point does the fat pig

(02:06:30):
get slaughtered or whatever? I think you were done with cliches.
I'm sorry, fat pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered. That's
what it was. I was just kidding that time. But yeah,
Los Capitanas in Mexico City, they've been there for a
few nights. You can play in Mexico City, could play
Western Conference teams. You're close to the California, Mexican Texas.

(02:06:54):
I mean, yeah, it'd be it'd be a little bit
of an extra jaunt for uh. They got one Tuscano
Anderson former Timberwolve Greg Brown, the third Longhorn legend is
on the Capitanes. Oh man, you didn't know you you're
playing something on two K.

Speaker 9 (02:07:10):
You're not.

Speaker 1 (02:07:10):
That's not even real teams.

Speaker 10 (02:07:11):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (02:07:12):
Greg Brown is supposed to be like the next big thing.
His dad played dB for the Longhorns. He was like
a five star. He chose the Longhorns over the G League, ignite,
I think, and then he had a disappointing season and
now he's been knocking around in the G League. Yeah.
I guess they don't really have an exact affiliate. They

(02:07:32):
just play in Mexico City. Sorry, anyways, where are they expanding?
They're staying in the US. Mexico City could work, I
guess it could work. London paris not buying it, although,
pair what is it?

Speaker 6 (02:07:46):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (02:07:47):
Laed? And I mean to New York to London six
hours that it's a six hour time difference from all
time difference and imagine having to play in Sacramento Phoenix
support Shake your head one thirty one on Sports Talk
seven ninety Believe it or not it's all things about
Nick Chubb that'll be coming up at about fifteen minutes

(02:08:08):
from now. Or is it about the French opening winner?
I don't I haven't en forgot to ask you talking
about God. Yeah, you switched it up a little bit.

Speaker 4 (02:08:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:08:19):
Well, I already got five Nick Chubb questions, but I
got to write three more. May be able to be
three Carlos Alcarez questions. That's fine, I mean, so we
can do a weekend rap of a Grand Slam Championships
for him. By the way age of twenty two. I'm
going to ask you what could have been question? Okay,
let's remember what the Red Sox did when they fired
a certain manager of theirs, Alex Cora, Alex Korra. Then

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they brought him back, and they brought him back. Yes,
do you know who celebrated his three hundred and fiftieth
victory in one uniform? Already? Yeah? Would that be one?
A J Hinch? A J Hinch? You know what this
pisses me off? Actual three hundred and fifty went into
That's right, that's crazy. Well, is his fourth year there

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or third? Better not be his third? And fifteen wins
a year? So let me ask you this question. Go ahead, Matt.
It's his fifth year there, that makes more sense. Okay,
so that's not a it's about seventy wins a year.
But again that's only their second year. They've been really
been good. I mean, yeah, it feels like you could
add a tack on an extra hundred there because it's

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the Tigers, that's right. Where would this team have been
if they would have brought aj Bick back after a year?
I think they would have won the same one more championship.

Speaker 7 (02:09:36):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (02:09:39):
Yeah, I think about the same. I mean I looked.
I think Joe A. Spotta has grown into his role
as a very good manager. Yeah, people are talking about
they've got mediocre mats. The pitching's been okay, bullpens have
a few blow ups. And oh, by the way, they're
they're up in first place. Where's Joe Spott's credit, let's
go No, yeah, I can get that. And again, it

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is the week Division. But every year there's gonna be
a weak division. But there's third in the American League
behind what New York to Detroit and who else? That's
the Astros will be the third seed right now? The
record wise, Yeah, uh, well you got the American League's team. Yeah,
I think they're. No, I think they are. Let's see,
let me look. No, they're the third behind Tigers and Yankees.

Speaker 10 (02:10:18):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (02:10:18):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (02:10:18):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (02:10:19):
And they're only two and a half on the ass.
Shut you Obamas up Joe's body for Wednesday. Okay, I
think I do it more out of Wednesday than in Wednesday.
Probably Wednesday comes along like I can't think of anything.
What I want you to is I want you to
do it sometime in the public and someone to say
that sounds awfully familiar, I hope so it might start
a scrap like you at the Woodlands Pavilion. I didn't

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start the scrap. I just was a witness to it.
Like Charles, I will throw hands with a sweet old
lady problem, sweet old dotty at the Blackable. I'm gonna
give you all a little advance. I'm gonna be at
the Rolden bugget In in Las Vegas, Lanta this week.

Speaker 10 (02:10:56):
Oh you are?

Speaker 1 (02:10:56):
Is that where you're saying, yeah, Oh wow, them I'm
gonna do. That's a different issue that would call you
hand out, Thomas. You know what, I did not get
a deal through my friend the fertitas. I am a
member of the twenty four k club, and they offered
up some they offered Now I can say this publicly
because I did it before. They offer free rooms. Yes,

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they have variety of towers. Some are better than others. Yes,
I upgraded a tower for sixty dollars a day, so
I'm paying like seventy bucks a day. They're don't charge
resort fees right now, what which is so nice? Resort
fees are such a rip such a one of the
biggest rip offs. I'll make it back to my point
of base Yeah, sorry, it's about a Yes. How many

(02:11:40):
championships did they have without them? Oh? Well, they had
the best team in baseball in twenty nineteen with aj
Hinch and they didn't win. Some people still blaming him
on this. Does it make you think that maybe the
manager's job is a little overvalued. I feel like we've
been saying this for years. It's the players. That's why
I was Joe. I'm joking with the Joe spot of

(02:12:01):
stuff because everybody wants to hate on him when they
lose and he needs to be fired. But when they win,
what was it like thirteen out of fifteen or whatever
it is, they're the run, they go on, nobody gives
them peep out of nobody. Yeah, ridiculous. It feels like
to me that you are more a puzzle piece guy

(02:12:21):
during the course of the year, making sure lineups are
puzzled in proper to make sure the bullpen is used properly,
deciding a few things about who needs a day off
who doesn't. There's maybe a decision or two to be
made during the game, and it's about when to pull
a picture. But you don't have to make about You
don't think about double switches anymore because you have a DH. See.
Once your lineup is in place, you don't typically change
it unless somebody is just having an awful day and

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you feel like a better bat is off your bench.
It feels like managers make their money, whether it's aj
whether it's Joe, whether it's anybody else, you make it
in October because everything that has a microscope on it.
And then you really sit back and go, well, if
I was the manager, I would have done this in
this particular situation. Yeah, And I mean you're going off,
especially in twenty twenty five, you're going off of Okay,

(02:13:06):
this pocket of the lineup. Are you already know before
the game, which pocket of the lineup, which matchups the best,
which relievers are going to match up best at what
points of the game. Now you don't. You typically go
by the numbers. But as Dusty Baker brought up last
week in a Greg Rashan story, there's a book out
that says that age that Dusty didn't always agree with

(02:13:29):
baseball ops about some decisions that were made, and that
he still went with them even though they were against
the grain.

Speaker 8 (02:13:37):
I e.

Speaker 1 (02:13:38):
Using Martin Maldonado and I think Julie and I can't
remember what else. It was one other thing that he
went against the grain. It was Julie Muarantine. I can't remember.
Now it's gonna bug me. Was it a reliever? I
don't know. It doesn't matter, man, Yeah, move on. Put

(02:13:59):
pin point being is I think the only time that
we really say that manager earned his paycheck or that
manager really goofed up is when we watch games in
October or the only reason why you lose if you
lose your job in the middle of the season or
you're not doing your job. Me a batting second, that's
what it was. Okay, thank you for that's God, I
know something's gonna bug us. Uh, but you're doing basically,

(02:14:23):
you're just you're just you're just trying to read the room,
is what you're trying to do. Get get get the
hot guys in the lineup. No one to give a
guy a day off, no one to pull a pitcher.
Those are your main responsibilities. Well, yeah, I would say
also it's kind of keeping things light with the clubhouse
being what you Joe spot is great at a player's manager,
where guys want to come to the ballpark every day

(02:14:45):
day off. When I'm saying that, we're also saying, hey,
what kind of new to get back in the lines
of communication open like I'm not comfortable with this, I'm
not comfortable with that. I'm okay with the day off,
I'm not okay with the d H day whatever. Yeah, yeah,
that's that's what I think you have to do primarily
during the first five months of your job. And just again,
no one to ce you a guy out there one picture,

(02:15:06):
too long, one bat or too long, whatever the case
may be, going what you gotta go to in the bullpen.
That Stuff's talked about it at nauseum during the month
of October not so much in early June. All right, well,
leave it or not is up next? It is all
things about Nick Chubb, your favorite New Texans running back.
That's all straight ahead as a Matt Thomas Show with
Ross continues. If you'd like to play seven one three

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two one two five seven, And they were playing for
a pair of Heart tickets, and they'll be at Cynthia
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Yes, okay, Smart Financial Credit Center is going to give
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Glad we could close the show out with man Thomas's
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Real back with you. It is the Matt Thomas Show
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one three two one two five seven ninety Now I'm
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Actually got to stand up. They won't let you do it.
I won't let me do that at all.

Speaker 8 (02:16:25):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:16:25):
But you're gonna giving away an easy boy sofa a
lazy boy. Yeah, easy lazy boy. That's easy boy. M hmm.
It's just walking up. And then the ladies sadi you
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So I think the big give boy is gonna be
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listen to you on Friday. Behind a great sports commentary.

(02:16:46):
You can I can I rig this for myself. I
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Game changer. The reconner is the game change. I know, clutch.
Can I buy one from me? I can't wait through
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Get a cold beer carbock, you know, look at using

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the sponsors like that. No, you can also get a reclining.
When you're Italian brewing, you can also do that. And
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You're gonna Bena pull up with a recliner and unload
it out of the trail if you want it. If
you want to recond her that bad, we'll get you there.
So we're gonna give one away on Friday. More details
as the week goes along. You and I need to
have an executive meeting. Okay, great, how you want to

(02:17:30):
give it away, but we'll do it on Thursday and
Friday for an enticement to listen to want to give
it away to whoever says they're gonna give it to me?
So selfish? Oh yes, I am Joe. A spot of tomorrow,
gut feelings tomorrow, let's go NFL rewind and maybe intense Texans.
Chub Talk seven eighty camp coverage tomorrow. Chubb Talk seven

(02:17:54):
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That's correct, it was Agriculture and Applied Economics. Statement number
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Bulldog's all time rushing yards, only behind herschel Walker. Believe
it or not?

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Let's talk to Al on seven ninety. Al, you're ready
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That's right, Mas. Question number two for the way Nick
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it no their cousins on brothers. Come on, man, get
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what was your favorite part of today's ten to two
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(02:19:52):
his horrific twenty fifteen injury, Nick Chubb would match watch
clips of The Dark Knight Rises Batman movie for inspiration.
Believe it or not?

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That is correct. Question number two for the wind. Nick
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you shouldn't be on Borg is number one in Federate

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Feder only has one. Oh, Matt was hurt? Our winner, Matte,
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guess what if it doesn't Wanta, We'll give away two s.
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