Our Top 10 Most Impactful Houston Players, ESPY'S Talk, Brian McTaggart Joins The Show

Our Top 10 Most Impactful Houston Players, ESPY'S Talk, Brian McTaggart Joins The Show

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten oh one
at Age Town. Good morning, and welcome to a Thursday
edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We are
Sports Talk seven ninety. I am back here in Houston.
I don't want to be here. I do want to

(00:22):
let I want to live my summer's in Rhode Island.
Don't say that thirty seconds into the show. No, I
mean I want still work all the show with you. Well,
all right, I mean there, I got, I got a
little time. You be saying that if you went in January,
that is accurate. You know I could be. I would
be want to be a snowbird. To be honest with you,
you could do a summer in Rhode Island. A summer
in Rhode Island. And I'm not trying to feel like

(00:43):
your memoir. Yeah, it sounds like a song on a
crooner song that you can find on the Hot Rock
Channel tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
If you've ever said, hey, I want to go somewhere different,
you've done that. You're you are very much more of
interesting than I am, especially when it comes to national parks.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
I've been to eight now and Mountain Lions.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Uh, you could fly to Boston, do the Boston bit
for a few days, and then just get in a
car and just go up throughout New England, which would
include going actually going a little south, because Providence in
Rhode Island is south of Boston. It's just unbelievable. The
mansions in Newport make rod On make River Oaks look

(01:22):
like shacks. And I'm not being facetious on this. Some
of the biggest houses I have ever seen in my life,
thirty five forty forty five thousand square foot homes, I think.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
And this is not people of industry.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
This is nineteen forty nine money that has been passed
around from generations generation money, as they call.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Old old, old old money.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Okay, apparently Taylor's got a house up there, Swift not Mathis.
Oh see, I get confused. I know Taylor Swift has
a home up there that she only goes to one
day yere and it's over Fourth of July weekend. That's
how she owns it, and she own Airbnb that. But
that's definitely thing that's funny. I brought up to the
girls on that and they're like, Dad, that's a terrible
dad joke. That's not going to happen. We just make

(02:05):
some cash. You know how much people would spin to
stay in her place? But then yeah, who knows what
they're doing in there, correct, and how much stalkers and whatnot.
And my guess is the house is probably twenty five
thirty thousand square feet. How do the Airbnb that that's
gonna cost you? Yeah, I mean it is gonna cost you.
So all I'm saying is, if you've ever wanted to
go somewhere where it's got a complete change of pace.

(02:25):
The weather was hot yesterday, got hot in human but
typically it's eighty five sixty nine every day in that area,
and it is absolutely gorgeous. And I am so ridiculously excited.
My daughter is so pumped to go there, starting not
this year, but the year after. So if you're gonna
be if you want your home for Rhode Island, Rams Talk,
it's gonna be right here at Sports Talk seven ninety. Yes.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Great, No, I mean I won't do it a lot.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah, okay, oh boy, maybe maybe I'm sure we can
get updates on your Instagram.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Oh oh that's kind of sports for sure.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
For sure?

Speaker 3 (02:58):
All right.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Uh so, as I was flying back yesterday, you know me,
I'm anti SP's. But however, again I didn't watch it.
I told you I wasn't going to. Uh huh. I
am obsessed with Shane Gillis. I told you he's hilarious
the last two years. There is now. First of all,

(03:20):
when he was on SNL earlier this year, huh the
couple of beers things beers thing, I mean belly laughing funny.
Uh huh. There is a tweet. I'll have to find
you the entire because a lot of the clips of
found to the last ten minutes nine and a half
or nine and a half nine a half. I've watched
it three times already, I got. I watched it once

(03:42):
when I got home last night, and I watched it
two more times this morning. First of all, it is
absolutely hysterical. Secondly, it attacked everybody, yeah, woke, non woke, liberal, conservative, black, white,
I mean every lesbian, straight, everybody, Trump, Maga, maga, everybody

(04:07):
got insulted. And that's the best form of it is that. Nope,
nothing he said was was anything more than not a
message or a political slant.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
It was just I've got jokes.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
He is, so he's just got a certain something you
can't teach. He's naturally funny because I don't think that
he talks because he's not a one to ten delivery.
He's not a ten. He's an eight.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yes, but the message is just so good.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Well then like the awkward comments between jokes, he's like,
I didn't write that one. Like he's just funny. He's funny,
he is. So I got introduced to Wick. I got
introduced to him in SNL. My mental son we went
to pick me up at the airport, is like, there,
he's got a Netflix special. It's called Tires, I believe
is what it's called. It's a it's a sitcom kind
of or Netflix and he's like, you, dad, you got

(04:53):
to see this. It's hysterical. So that's my that's my
next viewing is Tires. But it was nine and a
half minute of one slam after the other. My kind
of humor is you would know it was yeah, like
ross tumor. It was ross humor. The biggest thing that
pissed me off. And I don't me use that word
very often on the show. But the espie crowd could

(05:16):
not have been more of a Debbie Downer group. I
mean they were all looking at each other to see
is it okay to laugh. I can't. I don't want
to laugh at the Shador Sanders joke, and then somebody's
gonna get and then Dion's gonna come after me. You
have to kind of like you don't want to get
caught on camera laughing at these jokes.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Like I'll give you an example.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
The Kaitlyn Clark she's gonna retire, She's gonna go fight
black women at the waffle house is just funny. It's
the Epstein joke being deleted. Funny meg. President Trump having
a January six MMA fight. The last time he had

(05:55):
one on January sixth was Mike Simals died. That's funny.
We have got to and I don't mean to get
all philosophical on you.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
We have just got to laugh at everybody's jokes.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
And that's why, and I know much of our audience
does not know this because Johnny's been gone for a
long time. Johnny Carson. Part of his staying power for
thirty years ROSSI was that he was able to make
fun of everybody and nobody took it too seriously. Nobody
wanted to cancel anybody over anything was said, and Carson
played no favorites. He took jabs at Nickson, he took

(06:28):
jabs at Rag and he took jabs at Carter, he
took jabs at I mean, the best comedians have to
understand you. If you just go along one line, you're
gonna piss a group off. If you insult everybody and
make fun of him, then we're supposed to laugh. And
I just thought the SB crowd never laughed yesterday, and
it was nine and a half millions, not a half
minutes of absolute brilliance.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah, I thought it was great.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
It was It was funny, and I think with anything,
when when lines are crossed, you allow it when it's
to me, You allow when.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
It's comedy one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Because it's just supposed to be for laughs, and that's okay.
I thought it was hilarious. Well yeah, and people are
talking about people being offended, and I actually most of
the comments, iron I have not seen many of them
are exactly even on the four U tab. Well, yeah,
that's because you're getting all the only fans models. But true,

(07:22):
maybe I actively sought out because there are people who
are like oh man, and people are gonna be offended
by these these Shane Gillis things and I was searching
Shane Gillis and I just put it in the search
tab and I'm like, I'm just kidding. There's a few
people who are like, eh, it wasn't for me or whatever,
but there's all virtually nobody. And this is on the Internet,
where you can usually find anybody with any opinion. I

(07:44):
really didn't find many people offended, so I think a
lot of people are waiting for people to be offended,
but they weren't. And for the most part, I got
the Sadr Sanders comment about the fact that why you
get his jersey retiring, Well, he went thirteen and twelve
and almost a people say it's nepotism, but it's not
because he went thirteen and twelve and almost won the
Almo Bile Genius line. Pretty funny. And I also he

(08:09):
used the Norm McDonald joke at the end, and that's
where the delivery wasn't nearly as I mean normous normally.
Oh you can get a YouTube hole of Norm jokes
with OJ just true, but all of it all right.
So I did again, didn't I didn't watch SP's don't
care who wins what itself felt like it's a little

(08:29):
self gratification no idea who won anything. I just saw
the monologue. I want to ask and like, I didn't
even watch it, but I again, the Shane Gillis monologue
just just amazingly funny. That was a chef's kiss he did, Folks,
when the show gets on, he sounded like you're eating
a port chop. Shake it bait, b frid. Oh all right,

(08:52):
so uh the radio today will feature the following a
moving a couple of things around. M Brian mctagger told
us he needed an extra half hour. He'll join at
eleven thirty this morning. We will do I just don't
get it at twelve thirty today. At ten thirty, which
is in twenty minutes from now, we are going to
debut the first ever list on this show that I
think actually makes some sense. It's our Houston Player Impact

(09:14):
Top ten. And you're saying, wow, is that well something?
I thought of it for about an hour last night
as I was on the planet, like we didn't call
this thing and you were bored? I was long ass
flight though. It's not the top ten players, okay, it's
the top ten most impactful players coming up for the
foreseeable for the next season. Astro season is currently underway Texans,

(09:38):
so the ten would be the least of the ten.
The number one most impactful player obviously be number one.
So you and I will give us our own list
ten down to one, and we'll just kind of see
how close we are. The eligible candidates are Texans, Rockets, Astros, Cougars.
You could put Dynamo and Dash in there, but I

(10:00):
could name a player in either team, So but there
may be one in that group there. You don't know,
by the way, Sorry that the Dynamo loss last night to
uh Vancouver three nothing? Oh man, three nothing? Come on, boys?
Excuse me?

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Three nil?

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Yeah, three nil? Boys, aren't how's the season going? I
have no idea. Oh they're an eleventh, they're eleventh in
the West. How many teams get in eight? I'm assuming nine? Actually?
Oh nine?

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Oh sorry, it looks like there's a play in between
eight and nine.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
M okay, all right, So our impact Top ten is
coming up at the bottom of the hour. You may
join us at seven one three two one two five
seven nine if you want to be a part of
the radio program. Seven one three two one two five
seven nine is zero. Other than that, there was really
nothing Sports Lighter going on like I thought I was
flying yesterday, So I don't know. Did I miss anything

(10:48):
in the local side of things, No, I don't think so.
Did did text a tech grab another player for six
more million dollars? I don't know. Uh. Brian Brayman has died. Yes,
former Texan. Yes, was battling camp oh Man. I forgot
about that. Yeah, unreached undrafted free agent special teams deck
for the Texans, right mm hmm. Yeah, he unfortunately passed away.
He had a rare form of cancer and it got

(11:10):
to him unfortunately. So I know JJ Wat gives some
money to his Uh. I don't know if it was
a gofunme account, but just helping out with medical bills too.
About jj Watt, JJ was a little corny as a player,
m h. But he's a really at the end of
the day's corey. He's a good dude. Yes, And I'm
not talking about giving money. I'm just talking about it

(11:31):
in general. I mean, he is active on social media.
That's fun and interesting. He comments on things. He seems playful,
he's very very photogenek and television liked him, I mean
so much to the point where he gets on the
NFL Today and becomes a star there and now he's
the number two broadcaster on CBS. I mean it's pretty good.

(11:52):
He's doing a jump. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Oh no.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
By the way, he won three Defensive Player of the Year. Oh,
by the way, he's gonna go the Pro Football Hall
of Fame at some point. Yes, I mean, I'm saying,
I mean, he's got it going on. He's obviously a
good family man. He's got a couple of kids, he
donates to charities. Wife is hot. Yeah, yeah, uh that
doesn't hurt. But yeah, I just, I just it was
a nice gesture by JJ. Didn't have to do that,

(12:14):
probably hadn't even thought I brought Brian Brayman for years,
but you know, it came through and helped out. So
that was nice for the Brayman family.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
All right.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero. Other
things to get to on the radio show today will
include Brian mctaggard, I just don't get it, and our
Houston Player Impact Top ten. That's all coming up bottom
of the hour here on Sports Talk seven ninety ten
nineteen Matt and Ross with you Sports Talk seven ninety

(12:44):
Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety All right, uh channa roll eight minutes
ago put out the probables. Dang, I was just gonna
say this, do you do it?

Speaker 3 (13:00):
No, go ahead, you got it.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
I'm gonna sip some coffee. Well, you and I are
on the same path. That's a key part of the show.
Why you let you look a little tired. Yeah, I'm
all right, Okay, good Astro probables this weekend for the
Astros against the Seattle Emeritors. Brandon Walter will get to
start on Friday. Hey, you get the reset after the

(13:25):
All Star break and you go out with your number
one number one. That's not necessarily true. Just don't listen
to Raws and that's a lie. Okay.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Brandon Walter has been good.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
I think of the lot, he's been the best right
of the the Gusto Walter and Gordon. He's the one
that's not he doesn't deliver Walks. I can tell you that.
I think he's got the lower just the short term
results of as far as lowest e ra a. I
think to keep it simple, I think that's been him.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Saturday, Lance mccullor Junior will throw.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Hey on the road, big part that's smart get him
in there. From Burvaldez Sunday. So my okay, just I'm
gonna repeat it, and then I want you to tell
me the first thing that came to your mind. We

(14:22):
talked about this was Brian Bogosvic yesterday, Brandon Walter Friday,
Lance mccullors Junior or Saturday. Rober Valdez Sunday talked about
it on Sports Sunday with Randy McAvoy as well, that
he seen the last couple starts a little tired with
the location. Brian Bogosovic said it himself with the great
analysis that he gave us that when you're getting little
fatigued and the release point gets a little more inconsistent,

(14:44):
and that's kind of what he was seeing. And so
he kind of guessed that it would be the third
game of the series for Hunter Brown, but he's not
going to pitch the series at all, so he needs
a few extra days. Not worried what's up? That is
my very first thought. Okay, uh oh, but knowing what
we know about the astros, Oh no, I'm just saying

(15:12):
if it's not crossing your mind about something more that's
wrong than your nuts. I do believe if I had
to put a bet down and in there in my
heart of hearts, knew what the Astros were thinking. Please
Father some holy spirit. It's extra time. Yeah, that this series,

(15:33):
while important, ain't the end all. This isn't late September.
It's not a must win the series. Correct that an
extra set of days off will help him regain his
mojo back, fix a couple of things, and give a
tired arm arrest. Okay, but there's going to be some

(15:53):
segment of the population and frankly, I don't necessarily completely
blame you. Yeah, I would think, okay, this, there's something
more to this. Because put it this way, if you
want to give him a couple of extra days rest,
then give him Friday and Saturday off and he can
pitch on Sunday. Right m hm, He's going to completely

(16:16):
miss the series unless you're saying, well, I've got two
I've got two aces what you do frombur and Hunter,
one A and one B one that if I don't
use one B one A is not going to work.
So he'll be ready to go locked and loaded for
Monday's game in Arizona. Now, I'll say this, if he
doesn't pitch Monday in Phoenix, then I think you're getting

(16:37):
alarm bells. Then the alarm bells go off. But I'm
not going to do that right now, that's not fair.
I will. I guess we'll come to that bridge when
we cross it. We probably we probably don't have to
get on the bridge at all. Okay, we'll just leak
at the bridge and drive right past it. Yes, I'm
not worried. I'm not worried. He's younger. He hasn't had

(17:00):
he hadn't he hasn't had seasons where he's thrown the
innings that fit fromber Valdez has he was. I mean,
at the end of the season last year, he was
still really good, right mm hmm. And his second well,
his first month the season for Hunter Brown was not good.
The second month. Yeah, I'm just saying that. The way

(17:21):
I'm saying he didn't break down at the end of
the season wasn't think his playoffs start was good, right
fromber had the bad one in Game one and then
he was good in Game two.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
The Astros offenses in show up. Yeah, Well, well to
go against trek schoobll and then a J. Hinch with
his uh uh playing matchups with a bullpen. It's tough.
I'm giving him some, you know what. You you just
gave the sound out, you give the the hand effects wizard,
hands of what do you call what was Pinocchio? He
was ah, Marionette, Marionette, you were doing Marriott.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
For the pitching staff of the Tary Tigers.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
I mean that's what it worked. He was the puppet master.
He was a puppet master. So that's where we are
on that. So no Hunter Brown until Hill. Now, don't
look at it like this Monday. Yeah, Monday, maybe I
don't care. I'mn ttil they announce something. You know, what
it is, what it is, whatever will be will be.

(18:14):
So if it's August, the future is not ours to see.
So this talk is first. You won't be worried either. Uh.
If it's August first, that might be a little bit
of it. If he hits the IL, if we hear
the words IL retroactive too, then yeah, I'm gonna get
a little worried. But out of outside of that, it
is what it is, Okay, So there you go. That's

(18:37):
that's the astronws of the day. Oh extra rest. One
of the first comments to mister Rome is somebody talking
about him getting rest and it's an interesting decision. And
then his first response, Channel Room says, October is more
important than July. And you know what, Look, we see
load management in the NBA. Yes, we don't see it

(19:01):
too much in the NFL, except for like late in
the season if everybody's out. Yeah, but why can't you
do it in the baseball season? To expect pictures these
days to get give you twenty five starts is just
not is not reasonable. The Astros have been doing the
load manager for years. And the crazy thing is Astros
fans still get mad. Why is hold they all Julie
out of the lineup? What They've been doing this for years?

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And everybody got mad at Dusty Baker when he was
doing it, and ajhnch giving guys days off, and oh
then come October, huh funny, they're all fresh and they're
going there making deep runs and people are confused. Cal
Ripkins streak is two thousand and thirty two games. Never never, ever, ever,
ever ever gonna be touched. Who has who is the
active one? I'm gonna look it up right now. Yeah,

(19:42):
that's because I want to give you a a kind.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Of a prediction.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Okay, active might trout leader, Oh jeezz, I can tell
you more who it's not than it is. Right, let's
see you're finding it. I'm letting you find it.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (20:01):
While you do that, why don't you follow you on
Instagram At sports RV, I just passed one thousand?

Speaker 4 (20:07):
How?

Speaker 1 (20:09):
I don't know, Matt. We're building up pretty good at
sports RV, just over one thousand followers. I got another
video coming your way today. Matt Olson is apparently number
with the number one, seven hundred and thirteen games. The
line of rapes all start at Madelson, right, yeah, yeah,
he was. He's very good. How old is he these days?

(20:30):
He's kind of old. Oh he's not that old, thirty one.
I looked it up. All right, I will give you this.
This is a this is an evergreen, long standing gut feeling. Okay,
we will see no one ever get beyond twelve hundred
ever again. Oh okay, yeah, I mean Matt Olsen's obviously
the best candidate.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Do you know? It doesn't say who's number two? Buy
any chance?

Speaker 1 (20:54):
So I'm going I'm going I'm going there's nobody at
this point. Calarkin is safe. Three is number forty in
the list, and that's also a nobody's played these games
and nobody's active. So nobody has more than five hundred
that's active except for matt Olsen. Yeah, I think we're done.
We're first of all, Cow's got that locked. We're never
gonna see two thousand, Louke Garrick safe. I think fifteen

(21:17):
hundred is not gonna be in Melly either. You're talking
about nine seasons, yeah, he matt Olsen has done it
basically for three and a half.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
And Jeremy Pinion wanted to be a one sixty two
guy this year, but the disabled list kind.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Of interfere with them, and then he cracked a rib.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
All right, when this radio program returns, we have a list,
and this has been this week on the show, even
even inundated you over consumed you with list. But today's
list is our Houston Player Impact Top ten. These to
me are into ross are the ten most important people

(21:53):
that have to play well for their respective teams on
the court or floor, on the quarter.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Foll field field.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
No coaches, no general managers, no trainers, no physicians. Oh,
I got after his trainers number two. I gotta they
gotta change my list. You get about that? Okay, that
list is coming up in just a moment. Each of
us have it, and we will give you an opportunity
to say, hey, that makes a lot of sense, or
hey it does not. Seven one three, two, one two
five seven ninety. First of all, I missed this show great.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
As the kids will say, episodic television.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
How many seasons was it? I want to say three.
I'm gonna have to watch it, and it's done done
and it's still though. See I wait for a show
to be done and thought of as one of the
greatest of all time. They absolutely could make a spect
because it's such an investment it is.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
But just get in there and shive what's up girl?

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Just like Shane Gillis told carl Anthony Towns, what's up girl?
You said last night? Yes? He habitual line at stepper,
I believe is the correct the phrase I will use.
All right. I was like, oh my god, because it's

(23:13):
been an internet meme for a while, Charlottine Townsend.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
And what quickly?

Speaker 1 (23:27):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (23:28):
All right?

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Back then you get it. I get it. I just
want to see how you're explained to the audience. People
on the internet like to hint that he might be homosexual. Yeah,
there wasn't any much hinting about that yesterday. Jane Gillis
did not hint. No, he did not. All right, back,
let's get that, get that succession music back going again. Yeah,

(23:48):
you please keep it the whole segment, Yeah, the whole time.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
All right.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
So we have created a list each of us have on.
You and I have not going to each other's list.
Let's be as we'll be surprised as anything. These are
the ten Houston impact people for the twenty twenty five
slash whatever happens in twenty twenty six, and I will
go from ten down to one quickly, and then rawsh
will do the same. Then we can go, hey, why
did you pick this put this guy in this spot?

Speaker 3 (24:12):
What did you do?

Speaker 1 (24:12):
And against it's all semantics. Just got a list that
we put together. The tenth most impactful person coming up
for the Houston sports scene will be Houston Cougar quarterback
Connor Wegman. Highly I didn't put any Cougars on my list.
Well you don't have to, and it's okay. Holly thought
of quarterback at Texas, A and M kind of petered out,

(24:33):
had a little bit of injury issues, the transfer, decided
to get out of there come to Houston, and Ile
money was good at nm A and M. I'm assuming
it's pretty good at Houston for him. And you know,
the Cougar's second year for Willie Fritz. All Willie Fritz
has done is when he goes to a different school,
he has a tough first year, winsday second year. So
I think for getting the Cougar's back on the map
in terms of at least being competitive in the Big twelve,

(24:55):
I think Connor Regman's got to be on that list
at my number ten position, and number nine is Alpera
and Shangun to the Houston Rockets. He was an All
Star last year. Alpi got a brand new contract. Last year.
Alpi was also not traded and for the most part
not being discussed in very many trade spots. I think
Alpi needs to take the next progression in his NBA career,

(25:16):
continue to work on his defense continued. Now he's got
a playoff game under a series under his belt, ross
and I want to see if he is ready to
help take this team further than went last year, winning
a series. Can he maintain All star status? Can he
maintain you know, being a low post threat. Can he
continue that mid range shot? And can he continue not

(25:36):
to get his coach mad at him? Okay? I like that? Okay,
and yeah, number eight Joe Mixon. Oh, okay, Joe Mixon
quickly on this I meet. Yeah. The easiest way to
protect a quarterback and not having put him in harm's
way is making sure their running back game is strong.
He was a steal of a pick last year then

(25:58):
the draft from Cincinnati. Usually father time does get the
running backs after a certain time. He had a little
bit of an offseason where he didn't work out very much.
I think he is your best I think he's your
quarterback's best friend when you're running back one. RB one
is a huge impact part of the season. So I
put Joe mix at number eight, number seven of men Thompson.

(26:20):
Men's gonna be the number two guard for this Rocket team.
He can play four or five different positions, and the
strides he made from season one to season two were astronomical,
especially on the defensive side. I think there's gonna be
more limelight sh shot on him shined on him. The
scoring was better. Can the outside shot get better in

(26:41):
season three than it was in seasons one and two?
And again he has been considered quote unquote untouchable by
any trade conversation. So I think a Men Thompson on
my list makes number seven number six is CJ. Strout
number six, number six because some of the things that
I'm asking c J. Strod to do are out of

(27:02):
his control. He needs protection and he can't control that.
He didn't have a bad season last year. I think
the downturn in his career was largely overstated. I think
he's gotten quite a bit of disrespect amount NFL circles,
and I think you should use that as approving ground
to say, you know what, I was more like the

(27:22):
first year quarterback than I was in my slight down
turnac He's a number two, So I put c J.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Stroud at number six.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
At number five, his left tackle, Cam Robinson, you're replacing
Laromie Tunsel, and everybody and everybody and your mother thinks
you're going to be a bust because you weren't very
good the last couple of years. You're you're the most
important member of that offensive line and if you can't
protect c J. Stroud's backside, Cam Robinson will be exclusively

(27:52):
related to the number of concussions that to c J.
Stroud gets in twenty twenty five. So for that Cam
Robinson in terms of Impactnumber five Houston Athlete okay, and
number four from ber Valdez. Whatever you did in the
first half, even though you got slighted for the All
Star Game, keep doing what you're doing, keep throwing every
five days. You've been there and done that. You've been

(28:13):
through Pennant races before you know what it's going to
take to get over the hump. From ber Valdez easily
to me at number four on my impact top ten.
Number three the guy who will not be pitching this weekend,
Hunter Brown. If Hunter Brown and frober Valdez do not
perform the same way in the second half of the
year like they did in the first half of the season,
the Askers are not going to win the American League West,

(28:33):
probably will not make get a wild card spot.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
With all the.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Influx and up and down of the rest of rotation
and who's healthy and who's not, and who's playing and
who's not doing good on a home and road there
have been two consistents from ber Valdez my number four
and Hunter Brown my number three impact player back half
of the year, Hunter Brown number three. Jeremy Payina comes
in at number two for me ooh reason why guess

(28:57):
what do the Astros do when they inserted him in
the leadoff spot.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
They exploded offensively.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
The team has been a different baseball team since Jose
Ael Tube was taken out of that ladoff spot and
Jeremy Panyion inserted it. And look what the team's kind
of done offensively since then, struggling, not being able to
get a consistent infield. Love Mauricio Dubon, love what he does,
but Jeremy Paynia and I love what Zach uh? What's snack? Sack?
Scott Short? Zach Short, I should say for shortstop has

(29:25):
been able to fill in now and then, But Zach
Short and Jeremy Paynon have never been the same class ever.
So for this Astro team offensively and defensively, it's Jeremy
Panion my number two spot and number one. The biggest
move in since the Chris Paul trade, maybe one of
the biggest offseason moves the Rockets have ever made, is
going to get thirty seven year old Kevin Durant, one

(29:46):
of the greatest players ever to play in the NBA.
Expectations went from a team that might win fifty games
again and might win a playoff series to Hey, you're
number two in the Western Conference behind Oklahoma City.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Why is that happening? It's Kevin Durant.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
He is my most impactful player for the rest of
twenty twenty five and twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
And there is my impact top ten.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Wow, we have a slightly different list, but none of
the some similar names, and we'll go to your list.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
We come back about the PoCA. Does that seem fair?
That's fine. Is there anybody in that list that I
have a minute that you have on yours?

Speaker 1 (30:22):
I think so? Yeah, okay, so I'll give you my
list quickly again. Yes, please do Wegman ten, Shenghu nine,
Mixing eight, Thompson seven, Strouds six, Robinson five, Valdez four
Brown three, Pain you two and Durant number one. My
number one guy's not on your list. Hmmm, that's why

(30:46):
you listen to this radio show seven one three two
one two five seven nine. All right. I was given
information about Ross's list during the break, and I have
an argument, a solid one, okay, for your list when
you are about to announce it, which is gonna be
right now here on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Yeah, perhaps I have aired in my ways and that's okay.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Oh I'm scared. Sorry, I scared me, Shiv. Okay, sorry,
will you relax? Jesus Mike Kim knows I like Shiv. Oh,
hopefully she's not listening. M m.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
There's Stone Roade Island's been in my moment.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
We'll tell you who she likes. Number ten on my list,
Astros shortstop Jeremy Panya. Wow, you have him at ten.
I have him at two.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Okay, I just think impact.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Well, I guess it's gonna be a counter argument but
later on my list. But impact on baseball can be
lesser than other sports, and we're talking about impact. But
I went with Jeremy Payne at number ten. Hopefully he
recovers soon from his rib injury. Number nine, I have
Joe Mixon. I believe you had him number eight on
your list, So we're pretty similar there. Uh, this one,

(31:57):
number eight I have lower than your and I have
a reason. That would be Cam Robinson, the left tackle
of the Houston, Texans. I think you have him in
top five, but you have other I mean, you're hoping
Blake Fisher makes a leap. You're hoping ari Anti Erseri
by the end of the season takes over and can
be an impact rookie. So Cam Robinson is important and
the offensive if I could just put like the offensive

(32:18):
line as a whole, I would put him like kind
of where you had five or four. But if it's
just Cam Robinson, everybody else can be kind of good enough. CJ.
Stroud needs to improve, so I put him eighth on
the list. Number seven. Albron Shin Gooon of course needs
to have a great season, but right ahead of him,
I put him in Thompson ahead because we saw a
leap from Alprin Shangoon to become an All Star. You're

(32:40):
hoping for that third year leap from Aman Thompson to
where he can be seventeen to eighteen point per game
score and first team All defense. We'll see about the shooting.
I'm not really expecting a whole lot from there, but
if he can be a more impactful scorer than he
has been and give you first team All NBA defense,

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I mean he's gonna be great. Number five and four.
I think where you're four and three from er Valdez
and Hunter Brown's right, not much of an explanation needed.
I mean, those are the two horses in the rotation
for the Houston Astros. Number three, I put Kevin Durant. Now,
I did not put him number one because of the

(33:20):
other two guys that have on this list and Men
Thompson and Albryching Goon. Now you're gonna need him to
score those twenty five points per game and come playoff time,
he's gonna have to have an huge impact. But I
think the Rockets team as a whole is very good,
So that's why I put him number three. It's not
all in on Durant. We've talked about this many times,
but it's as all in as you can get without
it being a like, if Kevin Durant doesn't play well

(33:44):
and doesn't and is hurt for a lot the season,
the Rockets probably aren't making a deep playoff run. Yeah,
but it's not like Kevin Durant. It could the move
could potentially ruin the franchise for four or five years,
and that's why I have him lower down on the list.
Because he he's on a really good team. Like in
the old days, it was if James Harden doesn't go
for forty, Rockets ain't win it. If Kevin Durant didn't
go for forty Rockets can still win. They've got really

(34:06):
good young players. They're a deep team. This is as
deep as the team has been in a couple of years.
So that's why I put Kevin Durant a little bit
lower than you at number three. I put CJ. Stroud
up at number two, because, yes, the offensive line is
a question, but you got to bounce back. We've talked
about Joe Burrow, We've talked about other guys who have
had offensive lines who are not among the best in.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
Football, and you got to rise above it.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
You got Nico Collins, you got a couple of draft picks,
you got Christian Kirk and we'll see what happens as
far as the offensive line.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
But he's got to be better. He knows that.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
And I think as far as the impact of the
quarterback position, I put in number two and number one.
Not on my list, not on your list, not in
the top ten. Astros aren't winning the World Series if
you're on Alvarez isn't on the team. I'm saying it,
and that's a huge impact to me. Now I don't
know what's gonna happen with his hand. I don't know

(35:01):
how long he's going to be out, but they need
him in the middle of this lineup or they are
not winning the World Series. Other things have to happen.
Of course, pitching bullpen has to be good as well,
but Jordan Alvarez has to come back. He's one of
the best hitters in baseball as far as the impact
that he can have and towards it we're talking about

(35:21):
like championship success. I put him number one. Matt. I
understand why he's in your list. I understand he's number one,
But for me, he has been so sight out of
mind that I can't give him the pressure of being
the most impactful Houston athlete if I can't get him
a healthy in uniform.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Yeah, okay, I guess.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
I guess this has saw it different like his impact
and I don't. And with him talking about it not
being a refracture, sounds like he is going to play
by the end of the season. He's got to play,
and also he has to play well because start of
the season. He wasn't very good he's been He was
on track for for like the worst season of his career.
He'd had some of the worst stretches of his career.

(36:03):
He's got to come back. He's got to be old Jordon.
He's got to be that guy that's striking fear to
all the opposing pictures or they are not winning the
World Series. We have a harsh gut feeling here on this. Okay,
my harsh gut feeling is the following phones ringing about
who's calling, who's trying to call the show? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
It's probably spam, Yeah, it could be. It's interesting put
him on.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Uh, you can't ross expect Jordon to just pick up
where he left off last year.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
I know.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
I don't think we see even the inning close to Jordan,
the real Jordon, until April of twenty twenty six. I
think when he comes back. And again, I'm not a doctor,
nor do I play one on TV or radio, but
my expectations of him are solo right now. That just
getting him the lineup and doing a little bit here
and there would be kind of nice. But I can't

(36:58):
put him to be an impact player because I don't
think that's going to happen until he has a complete
offseason where he goes and sees more hand specialists to say,
you know what, this is becoming a recurring issue. My
hands have cost me lots of playing time. What can
I do to change that? My hands don't become an
issue for the second time in my career. I mean,

(37:18):
hand issues happen.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
And.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
That's not hand issues happen, but most players don't have
to deal with this. No, but it happens. I'm sure
we can find some people who have I'm sure hands. Yeah,
but to happen a second time he had a setback,
it wasn't a second fracture. That's what Dana Brown said. Well, okay,

(37:43):
by the way, Spencer arrogatty ever gonna come back and play?
Did they put the cast on the wrong thing? I
initially had Spencer Arragheddy at the bottom of my list,
but I bumped him in Christian Walker for Jeremy Paine,
And I could also say the exact same thing about
Spencer Aragheddy. Who I mean, if he's not right around
the corner within the next two weeks, he's gonna be
needing about two weeks to get later stretched out and

(38:05):
then he's gonna be on a pitch count. I mean,
why do we supposed to think that Spencer Araghety is
all of a sudden gonna be a difference making He's
gonna be fine. I think he is, and I'm not.
It's not anti Spencer Gay. This is just the human body.
I'm pro Spencer Araghedtty. I mean, if you know I
wanted to make an impact, he's easy to root for.
You know, hit the Rams twice, Man Creek Rams twice. Yeah,

(38:26):
who are we interviewing? And he's like, oh, I know
what kind of school you went to once? You said
that Arraghetty had. Was it wes Nesky maybe yes, yeah, yeah.
He was like, well, if they got him once, we
can give forgive that, but if he got him twice
in your school's not very good athletically. I get that.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
I understand it. I just and I I think I
speak for other fans.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
I do not ever of a fan, but I if
you get anything left anything out of Araghetty, anything out
of Jordan, anything Christian Hovier, anything out of Luis Garcia
for that matter, anything, and I know the Chas McCormick
is with the is with the rookies.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Right now on rehab appearance, it's all gravy at this point.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
The only way this team is really going to rock
the boat shake up things is by doing something that
that I think that Dana Brown doesn't want to do.
In two weeks, Let's make a trade. I I I
know who my astros are. My astros are going to
win the American League West. It's gonna be a dogfight,
be more difficult than it should have been, especially with

(39:34):
Jeremy Panya and Jake Myers being You have already declared
them Aos champions I have, but anything beyond that, I
can't predict them to win a series or American leagu
Championship or go to the World Series. They would they'd
be heavy underdogs to the probably the Yankees and the Tigers.
I think this is just a gut feeling mm hm.

(39:55):
We we are definitely and rightfully so Himing and Hung.
I think every little thing gonna be all al right.
One of Arraghetty or Javier will come back. I think
Raghetty's gonna come back. I mean, it was a bone
fracture and he's going to build up and he'll be good.
I mean it's July seventeenth. I think within the next
couple of months he'll be fine, and maybe that means
the arm is fresher as well. Come playoff time and

(40:15):
Javier will see he's getting built up. You get one
of those two. Javier Arraghedtty, you're on back. PAINI is
coming back, of course, because it's just a rib issue.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
But I feel like feeling right.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Did we record you just saying this on May nineteenth, No,
because Jeremy Penia's rib was fine. Prove that it's does
July seventeenth right now. Hing Gillis just did the SBS
last night. And also a ceo was caught cheating on
his wife at the Coldplay concert. It was a ceo
and the HR girl. So last of the tale as

(40:50):
oldest time right there. So let me tell you really quick.
We got thirty seconds here. Last Sunday mile we went
to the Patriots Jillette Stadium. They have a little lighthouse
that you can run up in an elevator. It's five
bucks each person, okay, and you get an outside view
of Jalette Stadium. You get to walk around the lighthouse
and you get to see the stadum from the outside.
I mean, if if you're never gonna go to a
Patriots game, it's worth five bucks. So we went to

(41:11):
look at the field and the field was in a stadium,
was in a concert format.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
There was no turf on the field. It was all
seats were on the ground.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Yeah, and I'm like, there's a stadium event coming up
for a big concert here at Jillette Stadium. I wonder
who's playing. So I went to je Jalett Stadium dot com.
It was Coldplay. Now we can Coldplay fill up a
stadium once they were being they were playing there twice.
When do we do? I just don't get it. Doesn't
Coldplay suck. Coldplay sucks. I gotta make fun of like,

(41:42):
you know, uh Neil Sadaka and Seals and Cross and
the Boys or whatever. I mean, that's actually not that bad.
Coldplay actually sucks. Cold Play twice, Boxborough, Massachusetts. I'm sure
I just made some people mad. If you're if you're
a cold Play defender, let us hear your voice. Second
hour The Matt Thomas Show starts next. This is Matt's

(42:05):
favorite band. Welcome to our number two, The Matt's Show
with the Ross Song sucks. This group sucks go Play
as a huge fan base for sure. Well, yeah, Jule's
name two times in a row. How about with the
video of the couple is on my Twitter account now

(42:31):
branded on Twitter says you both need to shut your
ball masses up with your Coldplay take. This take is
as bad as all the Brad's. Oh I know they got, dude,
think what they got? Like five number one albums. I'll
tell you y'all Coldplay is like huge when y'all think
the way more than I think. Well, apparently, let me

(42:53):
see CEO's and hr Chiefs apparently love it. A rush
of Blood to the Head, number five album, X and
Y number one album, even beat a number one album,
Milw's Eye Loto number one album. Oh my god, I
got you all culture them. It's okay, let a jam out.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
Oh you big? Are you big?

Speaker 1 (43:08):
Cold Play guy? No? But I even have good songs.

Speaker 5 (43:10):
Though you think this is good, you put the most Okay,
this is the most overplayed version, Like you gotta get
it that Coldplay songs.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
This is push me off a bridge music. Come on, man,
you give me one more song? Okay, some hope, what's
the what's the greatest cold Play song of all time. God,
this makes me want to throw im Like, Okay, the
guy's name is yeah, I'm working. Oh, it's a group
called Astronomer, the name of the of the company they
worked for. Yes, CEO Andy Byron and hr Head. Christian

(43:39):
Cabot from Astronomer caught having an affair on the Jumbo
trying to Coldplay's Boston concert.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
I was just literally there three days ago. That's so weird.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
It's not that weird. That's I put on a different
song and this one came out. I don't even know
what this. This is horrendous. This filled up a seventy

(44:12):
thousand seats stadium two days in a row. I was
born to cut any angel on my windows. You know what,
I'm a different song. I'm oh man, god, yuck, yikes. Yeah,

(44:35):
I'm a good Coldplay fan. This is torturing, terrorist music,
all right.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Boy.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
They start there and they're gonna be They're in Nissan
Stadium in Nashville, they're gonna play two nights at hard
Rock Stadium in Miami.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
They're playing all these huge stadiums.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
They're going to England to play at Wembley five, six, seven, eight, nine,
ten days in a row. The hell ten days at Wembley. Yeah,
you know Wembley. I think it did. See it's like
fifty thousand, right, Music of the Spheres Tour two hours
and one minute of show length. Oh they're doing it
the Sphere. Yeah. No, this is what they call their tours,

(45:15):
the Music of the Sphere to Sphere, Spear Sphere Tour,
Music of the Sphere Toy. Wembley gets ninety k never mind.
They're playing at Wembley from August twenty second all the
way to September the eighth, and they're gonna be in Madison.
They were at Camp Randall Stadium. They played for Jesus.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
Man.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
Nineties music blows.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
It just does. This is more two okay, nineties and
two thousands. It all sucks. It's all equally suckage.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Their first album released in two thousand. Okay, they got
like five number one albums. They don't have that many
big hits. Viva Levita, the first one we played, which
is a horrible song, was a number one hit.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
Let's go back to the CEO for a second. Let's
go to Coldplay.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
Why don't you just slow play it and just keep
the hug going and then no one will know who
you are. They screwed up.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
They got caught up in the moment of being on
the jumbo tron and they got scared.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
Yeah, And they're both married and she's in charge of HR.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
That's like, yeah, don't you have to notify HR of
a relationship. She doesn't have to notify herself. That's like
you going out with a Dike calf Hallums are one
of our programming people here, and he's here. He loves
Cold loves cole Play's got long hair and he's in
a Coldplay cover band. He works at a barista Starbucks.

(46:42):
When he gets off the air here at nine point fifty,
Oh god, okay, what do you put? Put this on you?

Speaker 3 (46:53):
Whatever?

Speaker 1 (46:54):
This next one is? This is this is a definitive
ones on Brian mctagger by the way bottom of the
hour on seven day. Oh stop. You know what you

(47:19):
should do? You should hug your HR chief when you're
at thisisconcert. You guys, look atmosphere right now. I mean
I guess you could lay somebody down sweetly to this
the lawn with us, he said, along with the blankets.
You know, yeah, I would have to be heavily inebriated.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
This is not good.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
It's just not good. I'm sorry. It doesn't do it
for me. Whatever the lead seekers name is, I don't
like it. Sounds like he chug chugged a bottle of
nikeuill and started singing. All right, I apologize for giving
you six minutes of cold Blood. We have lost every
listener that we could possibly Yeah, I few we had

(48:00):
to begin with. We've lost the ball most of all.
If it was they were Coldplay fans, we pissed them off.
And if they hate Coldplayer, they were tuned out. So
it's frankly, it's not our fault. It's the CEO and
the HR director from Astronomer. What is this place, Astronomer,
whatever it is, it's gonna have. It's got a serious
front office up of people coming up. Hmm, some kind

(48:22):
of it's some kind of software company. Okay, well they
changed it. They change their spots all the time. Anyway,
Oh my gosh, I can't I can't unsee them holding
our uh he's holding her mid section. Imagine finding out
your wife or husband's cheating on you because they were
at the Coldplay concert and everyone in the internet knows
about it, and that song was playing. Oh I mean,

(48:44):
let me put it this way. If I matter that
they're at Coldplayer, the matter that they were cheating on you.
Stay with me on this. If my wife is cheating
on me and she's at Elton John or Paul McCartney,
I'd give her a second chance. If she's a cold Play,
or if she's an imagine Dragons, we were filing for
divorcing idiately, I think you have to take into a
consideration who oh you cheat, you're cheating with, and what

(49:06):
concert you're at. I mean, if if she's at I
don't know, the weekend, I mean I may give her
a second chance. I don't know that. What I'm saying,
I mean I would respect her musical taste, don't make it,
don't make a face hits. If she's at George Straight,
I can say, all right, mistakes happened a face because
you'd rather have her at a weekend concert. Those songs

(49:26):
are very lout and lascivious. You're saying that, you're saying
the things that have happened with my my wife and
her adulter or friend. We can make some baby making music, Yes,
can you make babies with Coldplay? I guess I mean
if you have you a very healthy twenty year marriage
with a four oh one K. Yeah, babies named Braylen

(49:47):
now she they both like now the homeboy CEO did
look like he was had gray hair. So how many
babies named Braylin have been made the cold Play or
spelled with the spell Braylen b A r A I
g h L y n N. We got to stop
making up names. We just do. Mike on seven ninety

(50:10):
at eleven ten, Mike, good morning, Hey guys, how you
doing wonderful? Thank you for asking.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
Hey listen, I love you guys.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
You guys are the best.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Listen to you pretty much every day.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
But I mean really, I mean I'm not a big
huge Coldplay fan, but do they suck? Absolutely not. Come on,
This is a classic case of whoever holds the mic
and has the platform rules the world. This this is
just ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
They look at the following.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
They have you know what they Hey, Mike, they have scoreboard.
They are filling up Gillette Stadium two days in a row.
They're filling up Wembley Stadium for ten days in a row.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
Oh, I know, I mean this is kind of this
is kind of what I feel like when you're running
off to Vegasy and Liberachi and I just don't get
this Coldplay and take I just don't.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
All right, thank you, Mike. Yeah, man, he loves Coldplay. Well,
you said Bob Dylan's wildly popular. You said he sucks.
I mean we can all think people suck. Yeah, and
you just have your two favorite midday hosts think this
band sucks. I think it's different because I haven't even
heard a song from cold Place. No I knew.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
I've heard most of those songs, oh in elevators.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
Well, put this way. I've asked you to find me
a song I like, and I can't. They have not
been able to find one. I've heard most of those
songs and advertisements for pills, and I don't know what
they do. That's what it is. It's background like yeah,
it's target music. Yeah, all right, we will stop to
be respectful for Coldplay, and they're a filling of stadiums.

(51:47):
We will stop the Coldplay slander. There number one in
the Barnes and Noble coffee shop. That's great. When I'm
getting my grande Pike plays two creams one spunda, I
happen here.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
Coldplay also wrong for this.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
We're just two people. As as the caller said, Yes,
just because we two have microphones and happen to agree
on something doesn't mean everybody agrees on it. It's only
two opinions. Yeah, but my opinion is Coldplay sucks, and
my opinion is Coldplay really sucks. Eleven eleven twelve and
Sports Talk seven houty. Brian McTaggart will join us in

(52:25):
about eighteen minutes from now seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven. Unty. I have a friend who's listening right now, Bill,
who's very cranky that we're talking about Coldplay, and I
love Bill, father figure to me.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
But Bill, I mean Jack going on in sports? I
mean to stay with me here.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
I got a CEO on an HR chief hooking up
at a Coldplay concert. It's worth a segment. A couple
of tweets are coming in on this. Oh wow, well
out's early. I made a poll on my Twitter account
at sports RV. This is what.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
Southside Ridge says.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Is it more embarrassing being caught with a woman not
your wife or being caught at a Coldplay concerts? Looks
like we've struck it We've struck some nerves. Coldplay's very divisive, brutal.
This is what Tesla bus drivers is brutal. That's the
last way anyone wants to find out their spouse likes Coldplay.
Willie V says, you pay big dollars for the most

(53:26):
visible seats in the building for Coldplay. Yeah, I mean
they're stupid. They How stupid can you be? Look, if
you're gonna have an affair, you just don't go out
to concerts. Maybe you go to a dinner in a
different part of town. Yeah, go to the Scottish and
like a normal person. Yeah, let me tell you if
you're gonna have an affair in Houston, Texas, there's plenty

(53:47):
of pi's on the way between our offices. And fifty
nine you're gonna be fine. Fifty nine and forty five
and missing out of your friends. M don't be going
to collect marry at points gonta do any good right now?
In this poll, mat we're in the minority. What is
your poll question? How did you I just put Coldplay

(54:09):
makes good music? Does not make good music? And the
survey says fifty five percent makes good mus say makes
good music.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Now I'm gonna go vote right now.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Yes, and I just voted from the seven ninety account
or didn't good vote seven ninety because it's my You
can't vote in your own poll, so it is my vote, right.
I got to get one vote in, so I just
do it from the seven ninety account. See if I
can change my various burners? Yeah, how many burners you got?
That's none of your business? Wow, this is this is all.
If the for You tab is losing its mind over this,

(54:38):
it should because it's very It's pretty hilarious. The terrible
part is you have two spouses that are not only
embarrassed because their spouses are having are having adulter relationships,
but it's being now publicly out there for everybody. Okay, uh.
Pedro says, not my jam, but respect. Talking about Coldplay,
Ethan says they make okay music, but unfortunately it all

(54:58):
sounds the same. Eric says, Oh, this is gonna offend you.
Matt Our Generation's Billy Joel few decent songs, but the
rest suck. Who said that?

Speaker 3 (55:08):
Eric? That's an automatic block.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
And then this Tesla bus driver put Nail's on a chalkboard.

Speaker 3 (55:15):
Yeah, by the way, fifty to fifty now on the
cold player.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
Oh okay, after your vote. Yeah, we're doing all right.
Brian mctagger'll be with us, coming up at about ten
minutes or now, we'll get back to sports. I swear
to god, I will say this. A former Rocket once
told me many many years ago. Not that I was
looking for his advice, because I don't cheat on my wife.
But my point is this, he said, because he was

(55:40):
talking about he's not been a this is not a
recognizable player. This is a long, long time, old time rocket.
As far as I'm gonna go with it, he said,
the key to having an adulter's relationship is you just
have to get a separate room for her, because if
that wife wants to surprise you, inta give me the
give me the I'm this player's wife. You show up

(56:02):
in your room and the girlfriends with you, it's gonna
cause some issues. Do these player wives have any delusions
about what's going on? I feel like most of them
have to really just be like if you were, it
comes with the territory, if you were to. Now I
can't speak to wives, but I have spoken to girlfriends.
What side pieces? Oh you mean okay, you mean girlfriends

(56:28):
who have not gotten married yet. Correct. Okay, the girlfriends
understand you were talking to the side pieces. No no, no,
no no no no no, no no no. The girlfriends
understand that there's thirty NBA cities and they're happen to
be in stottnob one and they got it. So you're
it's you and twenty nine others. It's I mean, it's
it's not a huge girl habiture. Might be a bigger

(56:48):
group of thirty. You might be a group of thirty five. Yeah,
the alimony's nice and these of course you go to
college towns like could go to maybe thirty ninety one range.
But it's it's a give and take.

Speaker 3 (56:59):
Yeah, and they know it. So I would just say,
you know, I talk about sports in not real world.

Speaker 1 (57:05):
Real world. Men don't live in the NBA world or
professional sports world, and real women in real life don't
live in the real real girlfriends and wives don't live
in the NBA real world. Okay, okay, well, people are
attacking you on my Twitter poll.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
Why what did I say?

Speaker 1 (57:23):
Because we talked about Billy Joel. This guy Michael says
the Beatles suck. I'll just give that a like Rondo
says Barry Manila walk so Coldplay could run absolutely awful. JM.
Most City says they are dreadful. If you think the

(57:44):
Beatles suck, you absolutely suck one hundred percent selling music.
They don't suck. They they are absolutely revolutionized music. Yes,
it's just not and the greatest rock band of all time,
pop band. They make good music, better than Barry manilosas Taylor,
A lot of people coming after you for Barry Manilo.

Speaker 3 (58:03):
Y'all can suck it on Manelo.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
He yeah, well, Manelo's not my jam either. Oh, Cole
plays Getting back Glenn on seven ninety at eleven twenty three, Glenn,
thank you for getting out of this hole we're in
right now.

Speaker 3 (58:21):
Hello Glenn, not out of it yet?

Speaker 6 (58:24):
Did he just say Cole Plays the greatest rock band
of all time?

Speaker 3 (58:28):
He didn't, did he?

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Who's he?

Speaker 6 (58:31):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (58:32):
The other co host?

Speaker 1 (58:33):
Yeah? What did you say? O?

Speaker 3 (58:34):
Their co host?

Speaker 1 (58:35):
What did you say?

Speaker 3 (58:36):
I said that the Beatles are the greatest rock band
of all time? That's me, Now forgive me.

Speaker 1 (58:41):
I got a phone call the Yes, they are the
greatest rock man of all time.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
I agree, Thank you.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
Getting onto astros.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
Getting on to astros, what do you guys think they're
going to go for free agency or after the break?
Is the is the trade deadline over yet?

Speaker 3 (58:56):
It's July thirty first. I know you guys have talked
about it, but just give me a hot spot on it.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
I can do that. Thank you Glenn for the phone call.
The hot spot is I think at the end of
the day, Dana doesn't want to make a move. I
think Dana's gonna have to make a move because if
injuries are gonna are gonna have just to put of
this team. I don't think Dana a wants to give
up what he's got. And more importantly Ross we talked
about on the show yesterday. I don't think there's gonna
be a lot of teams that are like, ooh, that
minor league system. Let's jump in there. Let's see what

(59:25):
the Astros have and what they want to keep. Like
I don't know if there's an A or double A
player that the Astros are trying to hide that other
teams wouldn't know about. I mean they You got to
realize these teams spend months and months and months scouting
minor league games. You can't hide a player. And the

(59:47):
Astros have been routinely, even with Dana running the operation,
have been twenty eighth, twenty ninth, or thirtieth in evaluation
a minor league system.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
And as I said.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
Before, I give the Astros credit because they've gone to
that monor league system. I pulled up some players that
have helped. The modeling system has helped the Astros. The
Astros gave up some prospects that helped them win games
that didn't hurt them because those players have gone on
elsewhere and weren't nearly as good as those other teams
thought they were going to be. I e.

Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
Joey, Li Braffito, Jake Bloss, Jake Bloss, Who's Tommy John right?

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
Will Wagner? I mean, you know, how's Willy Wagner doing?
And Toronto trade has not hurt. But to think that
the Astros are going to be in on I said
this before and I'll say it again. They're going to
make a move. It'll be just somebody that you're going like,
who is that? What did he do? Again? If you thought,
you say, Kakuchi wasn't much of a move, I would

(01:00:42):
expect to be a lesser move even than that. Like,
I mean, I don't even know who's again or this
is all speculation, but who would be a I mean,
I guess you could raid the Baltimore Ools, right sellers? Yeah,
who are the ultimate sellers and who are the most
important players in those sellers teams? Yeah, we've talked about

(01:01:07):
Cedric Mullins. Cedric Mullins ops is well under seven hundred, correct.
I think we've talked about Ryan O'Hearn. Ryan or hearr
we talked about just yesterday. Uh, let's see what the
old Cedric Mullins ops seven thirteen. Okay, that's not as
bad as I thought it was going to be. He's
hitting to eighteen, which means when he hits a baseball,
which isn't very often, he's hitting it for a lot

(01:01:29):
of power. Thirteen home runs solid. But if Cedric Mullins
comes here, you know the Orioles are asking for quite
a haul, right, I would think so? And are you
doing this just because Jake Myers has gone for a
couple of weeks or is Jake Myris have something more
of a serious injury that we don't know about. And
that your center filler that has helped you out so
much this year with his glove and surprisingly his bat

(01:01:52):
is it going to be around to help out year?
I thinks to Brian mctagger coming up in a minute,
what were you going to say?

Speaker 7 (01:01:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
I was gonna say the same exact same thing, and
we will want we will ask, uh, Brian McTaggart, who
is a musical expert about Coldplay?

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
About Coldplay? It's gonna throw it out there.

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
Seven one three, two one two five seven nine. Brian
McTaggart on the MLB beat is next Matt Ross with you?
It is Sports Talk seven ONTI, you're proud home of
the Astros. Astros will start a series tomorrow in Seattle,
joining us right now. A man who'll be sitting in
an economy plus in a flight to Seattle. It's Brian

(01:02:29):
mctagger tags. How was your All Star break?

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
It was good? Uh, you know, unplugged a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:02:36):
Uh, watched a little bit of the All Star derby,
none of the game, but yeah it was nice to.

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
Uh not a little bit, but yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:02:44):
Second half is coming quick.

Speaker 1 (01:02:46):
Second half is coming quick. We just had a caller
before and I know you're you're your guess is as
good as ours at this point. Do you expect the
Astros to be active in at least conversations, and what
my prediction is is it's going to be there's gonna
they're gonna make a move of some sort, but it's
gonna be somebody that's going to be spectacularly underneath.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
The radar number one, Do you agree with that? At
number two?

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
If you don't, what could the Astros give up that
could make them have a splashy trade deadline pickup?

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:03:18):
Yeah, I mean, I I think they will be active.
I mean I think, uh, they're gonna be looking at
two things. I mean, we all know left left handed bat,
which they wanted even before Alvarez, you know, seem like
he's going to be out a while. Dana Brown's been,
i guess on record saying that you know they still
want a left handed bat, there's some urgency there.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
And also starting pitching.

Speaker 4 (01:03:40):
Uh, even though they have some guys trending back, you
can never you know, have enough starting pitching. And they
feel that if they get another starter and plug him
behind Fromber and Hunter Brown, it'll give them a really
monstrous one two three in the playoffs, which you know
would put them in good position because in the playoffs
it all comes down the pitching will it be under
the radar?

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
I mean, if they get a guy like Seth Lugo
from the Royals, is that under the radar, Or you know,
Andrew Heeney from the UH from the Angels, is that
under the radar. I mean, I think they're gonna if
you're gonna get a starting pitcher, you're gonna get somebody that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:14):
I think if you know, if you're a baseball fan,
you know who it is and.

Speaker 4 (01:04:19):
What they're gonna give up. They're gonna have to give
up prospects, you know, playing and simple. But you know,
Jim Crane's not shy about giving up prospects because nine
times out of ten, you give up these prospects and
they don't really pan out. So if you look at
all the trades they've made the last ten years, I mean,
how many prospects have come back to bite you?

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
Not not too many. So they're win now mode.

Speaker 4 (01:04:39):
They think if they can, you know, shore up a
couple of things, get a couple of guys back from injury,
they got a shot to make a run of this.

Speaker 1 (01:04:44):
Do you feel like the Astros have been incredibly lucky?
I think they have when it comes to all these moves,
whether it's Zack Granky, whether it's Justin Verlander, whether it
was yuse Kakuchi. I mean, there is nobody really that
has been them in the ass in terms of, oh
my god, this guy's having a long, limpy tenure your career.
I mean, maybe you could say Josh Hater many moons ago,

(01:05:05):
but was he ever forecast to be a dominant closer.
I think the Astros have been remarkably lucky. The players
have come back and not done a whole lot since
wearing a different team's uniform.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
Yeah, I think you're right.

Speaker 4 (01:05:17):
I mean they you know, another one maybe to put
in there was you know, tasker Hernandez. You know, he
played in just a maybe even one game for the
Astros and they dealt him away and he's gone on
to have a you know, really nice career.

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
I mean that, but that was still a few years ago.
But you're right.

Speaker 4 (01:05:30):
I mean, look at the prospects they gave up last
year for Kakucci. I mean, you know, all three of
those guys are still young in their careers and could
pan out, but I don't think anyone's you know, when
they got traded, everyone was freaking out. That, you know,
they gave away three budding superstars and one of us hurt.
And you know, Will Wagner wasn't able to duplicate what
he did right off the bat, and you know low

(01:05:50):
Brafidos bounced between you know, Buffalo and Toronto. So I mean,
and like I said earlier, I mean, Crane knows that
prospects are nice, but he wants to win. And you know,
if you got to give up two or three your
top ten prospects to go out and get a pitcher
who's going to put you in really good position and
make a run at the World Series, I think they're
going to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
Brian and Tagert with us here on Sports Talk seven
ninety and just Brian, I just curious your thoughts on
just the the trade ecosystem as a whole, especial with
the with the Astros. With you have fewer sellers now
with the third wild card, the Astros don't have a
ton of resources. They do have a lot of guys
coming back from injury. So I guess I'm just asking

(01:06:30):
how aggressive will Dana be considering all of those factors
that even if you if he wants to make a
bunch of deals. It's going to be difficult for him. Yeah,
it will be difficult because you're right. I mean, there's
there's very few teams that are out of it.

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
I think other than the Nationals, Marlins, Rockies, and Pirates,
everyone else is within seven games of a postseason spot.
I mean, I guess it's up to some of these teams,
you know, what they want to do, like the you know,
the d Backs and Rais and teams like that. But
there's gonna be a lot of teams looking for those pitchers,
and a lot of teams looking for bats and left
handed bats. So yeah, but pitching specifically, it does seem

(01:07:09):
like by the end of August, they could get Javier back,
They could get perhaps Garcia back, Arraghetti, you know, he
could be riding that Nix as well. He's a guy
not coming off surgery, so maybe you feel a little
bit better about him coming back than the other guys.

Speaker 3 (01:07:24):
And I think that maybe that.

Speaker 4 (01:07:25):
Could go into Dana Brown's factory and get the trades
and you know how much he gives up and if
he feels, hey, this is too expensive, uh, you know,
maybe we'll stand pat right here and then just you know,
hopefully we get one of these guys back and it
can deepen our rotation a little bit, and maybe we'll focus.

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
On a left handed bat.

Speaker 4 (01:07:41):
So I think whoever they get, it's gonna be, you know,
a rental obviously, because you get someone with some time
remaining on their contract is gonna cost even more. But
like you said, I mean they've they've made some pretty
good trades. The last year Kakuchi trade worked out pretty
well for them. He didn't pitch in the playoffs. But
I think last year when they faced Detroit, it was
worst case scenario wildcard round. They got to stay out

(01:08:03):
of the wildcard round, get that first round by and
if they get another arm, or get one or two
of these arms back, I think they'd be in good
shape to go, you know, make a good push here
to at least the LCS.

Speaker 1 (01:08:13):
One of the arms they do have, Hunter Brown not
listed as a probable this weekend, Eyebrow raise for you
at all. Of course, we know the last couple of
starts was a little bit shaky, so just needs a
little bit of extra rest and not saying we need
to be concerned or anything, but what was your reaction
when you saw that?

Speaker 4 (01:08:32):
Yeah, a little surprising I thought for sure that Hunter
and Fromber would pitch there. I mean, I haven't had
a chance to ask anybody about it. You know that'll
happen tomorrow, but I guess would be they just need
needs a little bit more reps. You know, you're right,
his last two starts before the break giving up ten
earned runs in I'm not sure how many innings he pitched,
but you know, ten on runs and two starts not

(01:08:54):
what he wanted. Hunter said that he, you know, coming
up to start Sunday, that he thought he made, you know,
the right pitches and this one of those days. So
obviously I think it might be just a chance to
build in some rest. Yes, this is a team you really,
you know, you want to win this series. Obviously, you
don't want to get swept. So showing a lot of
faith in Brandon, Walter and mccollors off the bat and
then Frobber. So I'm guessing that Hunter would start the

(01:09:15):
first game in Arizona.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
Not sure.

Speaker 4 (01:09:17):
I don't want to, you know, make any assumptions, but yeah,
I was a little surprised. I thought for sure that
they would throw their best two pitches against Seattle, and
I can't give you a hundred percent reason why that's
not happening.

Speaker 1 (01:09:27):
Yeah, I guess it's more for an answer for tomorrow.
But dead arm can happen. Guys making twenty six starts
a year not happen anymore. I would think the red
flag would go up if he doesn't start Monday in Arizona.
That would be my guess on that. So anytime he
pitches in that Arizona series will be fine, But if
it's late in that series, that must be Man, I

(01:09:49):
need some downtime here, and that's something most encouraging thing
you want to hear when you're sitting here trying to
fight off a Seattle team that just finished off sleeping
the Detroit Tigers.

Speaker 4 (01:09:58):
Yeah, and I guess you're right. I mean, if you
still on the first rotation, waive of rotation out of
the break, then yeah, Monday in Arizona than fine. But
you know, these are all things we'll have to answer
tomorrow when we get to the ballpark and talk to
Hunter and talk to Joe and see where they're at.
But I know they keep close eyes on these guys,
and you know, maybe you buy him an extra day

(01:10:19):
here or there, and that's you know, something that can
benefit him down the stretch.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
And he thought of you going down to West Palm Beach.
There's gold be quite a few stories down there. My god,
everybody's going down there to hang out and work out,
because I would like to know some more things beyond
well things are progressing well and throwing off flat ground
and pitching to PCL players. I mean, I never would
have thought that an injured dumb would have cost Spencer
Arraghetty basically eighty percent of the season so far. Well, yeah,

(01:10:47):
you're right.

Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
I mean when he got injured, they said he would
be out six weeks, and that was early May. That
was actually in Seattle, so it's been what is that now,
four months, so I'm not sure if something else has
gone on. I mean, Hunt talking with Spencer before he
went down there, I mean he was good spirits, The
thumb felt good, it was completely healed. It was just
a matter of getting built back up. So yeah, I

(01:11:09):
mean I actually thought about going to West Palm. The
Astros play the Marlins here in a couple of weeks
or early August, and I was like, you know, I
could squeeze in a day on either side of that
series go down there, because You're right, there's tons of
guys down there, Chas McCormick's down there.

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:11:25):
They this is kind of new this year where you
start sending guys to West Palm.

Speaker 4 (01:11:30):
I mean they haven't been They've been doing that at
year's past with guys with long term injuries, especially pitchers
who were you.

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
Know, coming off Tommy John they go down there.

Speaker 4 (01:11:38):
But now they're sending you know, like Jacob Melton, Lewis
ki Ormey, there's a few others I'm not even remembering.
There's like a whole team of guys down there in
West Palm. So yeah, I might poke my head in
there and see what's going on.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
Stay tuned.

Speaker 1 (01:11:53):
Astros five games ahead of the Mariners, and we know
the slew of injuries. Just how you think the aost,
how much of your threat do you think the Mariners
will be and do you still have the Astros as
a as a strong favorite for the division.

Speaker 4 (01:12:08):
I think there'll be a big threat because they're finally
playing after their capabilities. They're hitting the ball better, they
have an MVP candidate behind the plate, they have a
better rotation than the Astros right now. So yeah, I
mean I think they're I think they're gonna make a
you know, they're gonna make this really really interesting. But
still the Astros have a five game lead, which is
pretty significant. They got a shot coming out the break

(01:12:31):
here to uh if they can win two or three,
get get back up to six. And the Astros also
have the benefit of having the second easiest schedule the
rest of the season. Only Cleveland has an easier schedule.
So I know they haven't exactly played as well it
seems like against bottom feeding teams as they have against contenders,
you know, sweeping the Phillies, taking two out of three
against the Cubs, and winning a series against the Patres

(01:12:53):
and the Tigers. But still you'd rather have You'd rather
have an easier schedule than the hardest schedule down the stretch.
So that's something that's going to benefit them as well.
And what we talked about earlier, they're going to get
healthier and as long as they don't get injuries more injuries,
there's reinforcements coming and that's gonna help them as well.
And yeah, I still think the Astros win this division.

Speaker 3 (01:13:13):
Last, and most importantly, your thoughts about coldplay. Cold play?
You know, surprisingly, I I kind of like cold Play.

Speaker 4 (01:13:23):
I could probably tell you about ten songs that I know,
and if you came to me with tickets to a concert.

Speaker 3 (01:13:30):
I'd probably go. I don't think I'll pay for it,
but yeah, they're not bad.

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
I've known you for twenty plus years. I couldn't be
more disappointed in one human being than I am. Right now,
that's a little surprising. Now, I'd rather go to a
George Strait concert. Don't get them there you go? All right,
you've rallied a little bit. Hey, same safe travels to Seattle,
and we look forward to visiting with you again in
the same spot next week. Thanks for the time as always.

Speaker 3 (01:13:55):
All right, thanks guys.

Speaker 1 (01:13:56):
Brian McTaggert cold Play efficientato. Now he wouldn't pay for
the tickets, but he would go, we're losing the poll.
Met What is the littus of fifty fifty like Coldplay?
Or say they make good music? Well fifty eight. See,
we're in the minority. I want to meet these people
I want to meet I want to meet you. I
want to see what you're like. I want to see

(01:14:17):
what you're what's your how you roll? So to speak? Well,
I mean some people have commented that they blow chunks
that they're dreadful. Yeah, the Beatles hate will not I
may not be stood for on this show. That's just
going to be not gonna happen, all right. I love
in forty five. We got the news now coming up
at about fifteen minutes. We if I just don't get it, Ross,

(01:14:38):
I think you and I agree, Coldplay, we just don't
get it. It's on my jam. Look if you like it.
If you want to go cheat on your wife at
this Coldplay concert in Foxborough, that's fine. Seriously, I don't
really talk about the CEO. What a dumb ass he is.
I mean, terrible for them to be doing it to
begin with, but really, did get out of the JumboTron.
I mean, and then if you get to the JumboTron,

(01:14:59):
just real cool and calm natural. That was the worst
thing they could have possibly done. They completely butchered it.
Eleven forty five on Sports Talk seven ninety Now. Obviously,
unfortunately I have been tied to you a lot in
my career, Matt, but this is still probably unprecedented. I
made a poll talking about Coldplay and I'm getting destroyed

(01:15:23):
and Craig rang and h Town seventy of the comments
are about you and Barry Manilo. I don't think a
Barry Manilo super fan has any right to criticize Coldplay fans.
And I don't even really like Coldplay, but come on,
uh can Candido says Coldplay equals good taste in music,
Manelo equals crap taste in music. You just have been

(01:15:48):
to a concert, literally another person, just now, what is happening?
Turn it up, Mike can smile, don't do it, don't
sing all, I won't sing. H Johnthan's face is not
he's not vibing. Now, I'm with you on this, but

(01:16:10):
this guy sucks.

Speaker 4 (01:16:11):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
I was like, this is uh and yeah, funny enough.
My brother's listening. He's like, you guys should it's a miracle.
Coldplay sucks. I mean a cold Play is good. My
brother loves Coldplay and he also this is like unprompted.
Everybody's coming after Barry Manilow. Dang, it's like your achilles heel,

(01:16:37):
even though you've got like seventeen Achilles heels with your
music tastes. I'll check the open scoreboard. What do you
want to something called Fitzpatrick minus four? Lee minus four?
Why are you talking like triumph? The insult comic dog
jess O listen minus four yeah yeah, like literally comments

(01:17:00):
about Barry Manilow. You hear it's a miracle. It makes
you get out of your seat and jam.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:17:07):
Well, first of all, you've probably got osteoporosis. You can't
get out of your seat. I was look, we saw
Peyton and I were both the two of the younger
people there, especially Peyton. Did your calcium up?

Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
All right? I'm with you, Matt cold place, But like
cold Play is believing or not?

Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
Today? At one f are they they have to be?
I would rather do the astronomer CEO the HR chief,
let me check his LinkedIn page? How's that going? How
about this one? Have you had anybody at your office
as a CEO and an HR person hooked up? Seven one,
three two five seven ninety? So if you're the chief
chief of HR and you're supposed to report relationships at work,

(01:17:49):
do you report it to yourself?

Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
Mmm?

Speaker 1 (01:17:52):
Well, here's the thing. If you're the HR chief, the
person that you report to is the CEO. You you've
got no wonder You don't report to yourself, and you
don't have to report your superior because superior has already
seen you can, probably completely naked, and you've done things.

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
Good for them.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
I'm harding for the wife. This sucks well for their
spouses for sure. Imagine finding out on the Internet that
your wife was cheating on you and she was at
cold Bloy. So somebody says on Twitter again so many
tweets about it, that apparently the I think the wife
of the CEO. They found her on Facebook and she
had already changed her last name. It's I would say,

(01:18:30):
stay out of the people's personal I mean, what, there's
no room for interpretation. You are hugging at cold play.
I mean, there's no mistake on identity, there's no AI
generation on this.

Speaker 7 (01:18:46):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
I mean, adultery is terrible, period, but it's really bad
when you're on the entire nation knows, yeah, not only
the city, the entire country now. And I don't I
don't even know what Astronomer does, but you mentioned the
software company. I'm sure it's doing. Okay, how's this docking today?
Let's make this stole go up or down. I'm gonna
leave it right there on that one. I gotta come in.

(01:19:09):
What's going up or down? At this point? Eleven fifty
five Sports Talk seven we have the news at noon
coming up, we have I just don't get it at
twelve thirty. Uh if you if you missed our list
of the Houston Impact Top ten, we'll revisit that coming
up in a one far from now. Okay, I kind
of like our list, although you and I have a
different number one. Mine your number one's on your top ten.

(01:19:29):
Because what I tell you, when I show up, they
show up. I don't have any interest in talking about
any player that isn't around. I mean I have on
a side out of Mind yarn and Alvarez of out
of Mind, Spencer Arraghetty. I mean, look, I don't know
exactly what happened, but let's let's let's recreate. I'm in

(01:19:49):
the outfield. Yes, a ball hits my thumb. Mm hmm.
A batted ball in batting practice was coming after him,
and they say, if it had hit his thumb, he
would have been okay. But he put his hands on
his head to protect his head, and it hit the
thumb against his skull basically, so it had something to uh,

(01:20:13):
it to not give. If it had leeway to give,
it wouldn't have hurt him so bad. But it went
against his skull, so it basically pressed up against it. Basically,
if we were to get an X ray of his thumb,
it's in thirty five pieces. I don't know that. I mean,
he didn't get surgery, right, I haven't heard anything about that.
I mean he basically yeah, they said six weeks. And

(01:20:36):
then if basically, let's put it this way, you went
and you got a dumbbell and you threw it on
your thumb, it would probably go in a bunch of
different threa.

Speaker 3 (01:20:44):
Yeah, probably going to a bunch of pieces. Right.

Speaker 1 (01:20:48):
Well, but I mean that was when was that? I
mean I think, yeah, I mean broken thumbs. What six weeks?
That's what Maybe that's what they said. The McTaggart said
six seven, eight weeks tops actually April seventh, that's been
three I's the worst We've had, the worst thumb in

(01:21:13):
the history of was Houston sports here in this town
the last year, the worst shin, the worst by far,
the worst shin ever, shin bruise, and the worst hand
fracture in the history of sports. So again, you can't
make an impact for me if I can't count on you.
That's why there was a certain awesome left field slash

(01:21:35):
thh didn't make my list because.

Speaker 3 (01:21:37):
Of that arrogon.

Speaker 1 (01:21:43):
He's gonna be back. He's throwing side?

Speaker 3 (01:21:46):
Is he throwing?

Speaker 1 (01:21:46):
I forgot? Is he at sides or is he at
BP or is he at Live VP? That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:21:52):
Maybe you should You and I should go do the
show down West Palm.

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
We've done it before. Yeah, let's do it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:55):
I don't want to sit that Motel six.

Speaker 1 (01:21:57):
So that was gross. And we weren't there. We were
at the we were in a decent with the ming
Hills meets. Yeah, you're racking up points. I didn't rack
up points. I got some points. I didn't rack them
up the news at noon. Yeah, I'll book a Hi guy, goy,
I got it. Ross, I'll book it. Well. I expensed
it if you want. If you don't get the points
next time, I'm all for that. I'm okay with you
getting points. My computers down seven, one, three, two five

(01:22:23):
two hours into the show. Yeah, that was quick. That's quick.

Speaker 3 (01:22:26):
Hey, I want to thank our friend play. Oh, I
don't want to think Coldplay. Is the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross.

Speaker 1 (01:22:39):
Twelve O three Sports Talk seven ninety. It is the
Matt Thomas Show. We'll we in twenty five minutes. We'll
be asking you a simple question, what don't you get?
I felt like a lot of the show today has
been about what don't you get? My four U tab
is all memes about the CEO. I know this por
not the poor CEO. It was a it's like everybody

(01:23:01):
at HR looking at the lady walking in. Oh my god,
just terrible. Let's present to you the news at dude,
oh twelve O four sports talk every day? Not be
more prepared for this every day at this time, and
I mean not sometimes every day, Jonathan, this time you
play that sounder presents the news at noon, and just

(01:23:22):
like Ross's every single day, he's prepared to give us
the news. Uh Matt, yes, sir, Well, you know what.
We'll start with the Houston Astros back in action tomorrow
against the Seattle Mariners for three games. Tomorrow will be
a nine to ten start Saturday at eight forty Sunday

(01:23:43):
three tens, so two late ones coming for the Astros
as they'll be back in action against the Seattle Mariners.
The probable pitchers name for the squad over the weekend.
Of course, you know you reset it. You start with
your race in the second half. Randon wall What I
like Brandon Walter. I like Brandon Walter too. He's been good.

Speaker 3 (01:24:04):
Don't walk anybody. Lance mccullor's junior.

Speaker 1 (01:24:07):
Last time he pitched in Seattle, didn't he Wasn't he
the starter of that eighteen inning game against George Kirby
and he had a great start. Jeorge Kuoby sick of
George Kirby, Me too, although, yeah, George Kirby lately Rombert Valdez.
So no Hunter Brown in the opening series for your
Houston Astros, Pat Thomas, your reaction, My reaction is, I'm

(01:24:31):
not worried about Hunter Brown unless he doesn't pitch Monday
against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Unless if he doesn't pitch there,
then we are in that We, the Astros, are in
serious sharp. But you know I can say we. I've
been an Astro fan all my life. Yes, we's fine.
I won't do it too often, but that's I'm a
wee guy in this particular case. All right, So you're

(01:24:55):
you're not concerned. We are now, by the way, two
weeks to the day, Matt from the trade what deadline?

Speaker 3 (01:25:02):
What time does that trade deadline end?

Speaker 1 (01:25:05):
Actually, I think I know, but I can't remember because
I don't want the atoms to get to the big
big story.

Speaker 3 (01:25:13):
When it happened during.

Speaker 1 (01:25:15):
I don't know. Now, let me look, does Zach Granky
happen said five PM? Oh, then they're gonna get it.
Then that sucks. It could happen earlier in the day.
We could get it, Matt. It could be what happened
on our show. It'll probably happen at two three. Yeah,
and then they're gonna have the whole show where they
can just talk about anything they want to, and this
thing's gonna drop out of nowhere and they'll be like, Oh,
there's our show already done.

Speaker 3 (01:25:37):
Congratulations eighteen Knock it out, jerks.

Speaker 1 (01:25:42):
I'm just kidding. I love them well. I know we
had to do gut feelings, but how are we feeling
right now? Number of big trades, number of medium trades,
number of small trades, small trade, starting Pitcher, I'll say
one medium, one small? Really, what's up? You don't write that?

Speaker 3 (01:26:00):
Nope?

Speaker 1 (01:26:00):
Okay, all right, moving along, Matt. Oh, we've got the
open chompanine ship happening at the dun Lewis Course in
Northern Ireland right now. Uh, jacob Ole. Listen, is that
a minus four leading the way?

Speaker 3 (01:26:18):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:26:19):
He is tied with Lee Howe, Tong and Matt Fitzpatrick.
Your thoughts on those three guys. Matt tied the top
of the leaderboard right now and finished for the day.
Scottie Sheffie Open three under sixty eight today. Ray McElroy
is a sour puss a two under through nine. Rory mcaway,
Ricky Fowler and the Mix tied for thirteenth at minus two.

(01:26:43):
And let's see John Rahm at a minus one. And
that's your Open Championship update. All the loose at noon. Yep,
just gotta shows you how what's not going on in
the world of sports Matt elsewhere in the news, We'll
just play Shing.

Speaker 3 (01:26:57):
Gillis over and over again.

Speaker 1 (01:26:59):
We could, you know, I didn't make any clips to
that I meant to, but I didn't get here in time.

Speaker 3 (01:27:03):
Tired.

Speaker 1 (01:27:05):
Rushie Rice sentenced to thirty days jail time, according to sources,
says ESPN four and five years probation for his role
in a multi car crash last year. Oh this is
according to Adam Schefter, even though he's out on the
byline for whatever reason, Dallas judge ruling that Rice can
serve jail time at any point during the five year

(01:27:27):
probation period, sources telling Adam Schefter, he also received his
ferred adjudication The case will be dismissed if he completes
five years of probation. Of course, if you recall last
year he was driving one hundred and nineteen miles an
hour in a Lamborghini Sport utility vehicle before the crash

(01:27:47):
in Dallas. He was facing one count of an aggravated
assault and one count of collision involving seriously serious bodily
injury and six counts of collision involving injury. And what
was the punishment ultimately thirty days jail, five years probation.
He's very lucky, extremely like one hundred and nineteen miles

(01:28:08):
an hour? When is I just don't get it. That's
in twenty minutes from now? Okay, all right, uh, I
might have gotten the best sweet today when it comes
to our friend the CEO. All right, CEO, fo show, No,
it's a mister underscore underscore level. Okay, team bonding exercise,

(01:28:32):
that's what It's a very hr type phrase, team bonding. Also, Matt,
we have Unfortunately, a diamondbackstar ktel Marte home robbed during
the All Star break burglarized during Major League Baseball All
Star Break. According to police, he lives in Scottsdale, Arizona

(01:28:55):
Department is investigating high dollar residential burglary that appeared to
happened Tuesday night. It seems like when people know you're
going to be out of town, that's when they rob
your house. With these athletes, did Joe Burrow get robbed?
Some other guys have the home? See Kelsey Travis Kelsey? Yeah,
why let me just tell you everything is getting more sophisticated,

(01:29:17):
and that includes burglaries. It seems like it would be
harder with everything on on camera, the ring cameras, and
I imagine they have some kind of security system that
maybe they're disabling. I don't know exactly how this is
going down. That's crazy. Well, I'm just gonna say that
if I was an athlete, I wouldn't tell anybody where

(01:29:38):
I was going. Either that or just you make if
you make five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty five, thirty thirty
five forty million dollars higher security live human beings. Yeah,
it's tough. It's a big expense. Really, oh please, You
can afford it, but you'd rather not have to for
an armed guard and a security system that's going to
cost you probably two hundred and fify thousand dollars a

(01:30:00):
year when you make forty million dollars a year.

Speaker 3 (01:30:02):
Suck it up, Nana.

Speaker 1 (01:30:03):
You gotta put you gotta put a lot in the mat.
Lamborghini insurance is expensive. You're not gonna make me feel
sorry for these people. Chips to say, silence rollpe. These
are expensive trips. Mattie Hey, Newport, Rhode Island. I understand
these things. Gold played at Bentley didn't pay for itself.
Those payments are high, all right? Seven one three two

(01:30:24):
one two five seven onty. That was the news at noon.
You can just call this also in other news matt
Astronomer CEO whatever the hell his name was, and hr
Chief whatever her name was, have terrible taste of music.
Have caught on the JumboTron at Coldplay. That's Andy Byron

(01:30:46):
is his name with hr Chief Kristin Cabo cab it.
Let's uh google Andy Byron net Worth. I mean, how
big of a mistake was this at the end of
the day, uh net Worth? About sixty five million dollars,

(01:31:06):
it's about to be thirty two point five. Yeah, and
weekend visits with the kids. It's spent all the free
time he wants with Kristin what's her name, who's also married,
and I'm presuming that she's also got kids.

Speaker 3 (01:31:23):
M I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:31:27):
Again, we're not making light of this because we've got
two spouses who are really pissed off and one has
already like scrubbed her name from the from the from
the Facebook world.

Speaker 3 (01:31:37):
But mm hm hmm, terrible and that's true news.

Speaker 1 (01:31:44):
It now, thank you. The Houston Texans had to have
a website and a Twitter account and they were bragging
about five of their players being named in the top
one hundred of something, which is fine, right, yes, But
I had never heard of this website until I saw
the tweet yesterday. We will discuss We'll discuss that next

(01:32:09):
twelve thirteen, Sports Talk seven ninety. I just don't get
it coming up at the bottom of the hour here
on the Matt Thomas Show at ross.

Speaker 3 (01:32:19):
Yea.

Speaker 1 (01:32:22):
You know, I'm trying to be nice because I know
when you really like something, you love it, you cherish it,
whether it be a movie or a music or a
band TV show and then someone says, yeah, that show sucks, Yeah,
that band sucks. You're like, you know what, you suck.

(01:32:46):
So I don't want people to say that to me.
But I also have to give my honest opinion. What
the hell is this crap? I mean, come on, it's
great monologue music and see you like this. This is
the song was looking for earlier, the one This was
actually fine, Like I find Viva Levita offensive, Like this

(01:33:11):
is not offensive, Okay, I mean yeah, this is like, uh,
you're breaking up with your girlfriend background music in uh
in a nineteen or twenty ten show on the CWE
so the other through that win Kara, But I just

(01:33:33):
don't think it's gonna work out. I've got bigger dreams
and staying in this small town all my life, but
I'm always gonna love you.

Speaker 3 (01:33:43):
Yeah, it's.

Speaker 1 (01:33:45):
It sounds good for that, but I'm not gonna put
this on in the car and put the windows down
in jam. It just ain't me. I'm sorry to all you,
all you h coldplay lover, which there are many of you.
It's at fifty. It's a fifty five forty five right
now on the poll at sports RV, where you can

(01:34:06):
vote if you'd like. And people are chiming in big time,
still hating on Barry Mail.

Speaker 3 (01:34:10):
Yeah, we're just taking a loss on this and we can.

Speaker 1 (01:34:12):
We can. We're not experts on everything. Of the people
are with us. Yeah, and that's generally better than how
you normally do on these poles. If I can to
pull out, it's a miracle or weekend in New England?
What is it? Crap earlier?

Speaker 3 (01:34:28):
Can't smile without you?

Speaker 1 (01:34:29):
Give me another better? It's America.

Speaker 3 (01:34:31):
Copa Cabana is the most famous, but that's just overplayed.

Speaker 1 (01:34:34):
It's a jam. Copa Cabanda is a certified jam. Here,
Matt will give me your It's a miracle. Go look,
go look. If it's America, no, well, I guess it's
It's fine. I will do it as I run through
this little Twitter thing I happen to see from the Texans. Okay,
it's going to add to the show for sure. God,
it is so the Houston Texans. We're bragging about this

(01:34:56):
list of top one hundred players that were You know,
when when the NFL puts out their top ten list,
you go, Okay, it's a pretty big deal. And maybe
if Pro Football Talk was to do it or Pro
Football Focus, the one I happened to see from maybe yesterday,
which did not include CJ. Stroud in their top one hundred,
which is really surprising to me. I was like, Okay, well,

(01:35:17):
maybe there's just a different set of eyes, okay something.
And they even quote, they even gave you the name
of the website pfs N three sixty five. What the
hell is that? Pro Football Sports network I'm discussing. I
don't know what it is, but why do I care
what PFSN has? And all they did was bag on

(01:35:44):
the text on this website for not having the Texans
player on there.

Speaker 3 (01:35:47):
I mean the most wreck.

Speaker 1 (01:35:48):
You're telling me that CJ. Strout is not a top
one hundred player. I find that almost impossible to believe. Yeah, like, no, CJ.
You okay, you know what I'm saying. Jalen Peatrie in there? Yeah,
who's better? Matt Now? I like Jalen Petrie, but I mean, no,

(01:36:11):
Will Anderson Junior Nico Collins at thirty nine is criminal.

Speaker 3 (01:36:16):
C J.

Speaker 1 (01:36:16):
Stroud snub is diabolical. I mean, we gotta we gotta
slow down on the diabolical. Well, people are misusing that. Yeah, yeah,
diabolical is like if you're uh like, uh, I don't know,
it's more plotting, or if you're gonna put together a

(01:36:38):
top one hundred list and Will Anderson and C. J.
Stroud and on that list, I completely discribe the list.

Speaker 3 (01:36:45):
Do you not?

Speaker 1 (01:36:47):
I don't see him? Okay, the the NFL list isn't
isn't done yet. Never mind, they're they're releasing the top
one hundred list the NFL does every year, as voted
on by the players. I just thought it was just
really weird that they had, Yeah, he's got to be
top one hundred. This that the Texans would brag about
a list that doesn't have their two most recond the

(01:37:09):
most recognizable defensive player and the most recognizable offensive player.
Maybe not well Anderson's most recognizable defense, but among the
most recognizable. Right got a great breakout season for the
Texans last year. I mean, I guess I would have
to see this list. J Garner Johnson the list. Johnson,
he's gonna leave the league in smack talk, but will

(01:37:30):
he be nearly as good as this? He's good. He
was traded away with a more of a cap casualty
with team. It was cap casualty, yes, but it was
also what little hippy? So what I think tired? Well,
this player is hippy, We're gonna have to trade them away.
This is at nineteen sixty six. I didn't realize fox

(01:37:50):
Horn leg general manager.

Speaker 6 (01:37:53):
Well look at this, this young C. J. Gardner Johnson
is a little lippy. We don't have to trade them
away from the Super Bowl. Check it's not an exclusive
Southern term. And fog Horn langhorn or if it is
not running in phill off the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (01:38:07):
That guy's a little lippy. He's top one hundred. Okay,
so then why would he good? Why would Egles try
to I can't. I just told you they can't pay everyone.
They have one. They have the best roster in football.
They should get rid of some mids then and keep
a top hundred player. Then they they have to get
rid of some guys. Can't keep everyone, Matt, that's the

(01:38:28):
beauty of the hard step in the NFL. My advice
of the Texans. When's the last time we had repeat
Super Bowl champ I guess the Chiefs. They go back
to back before that, it was long, it was it
was all way back to the Patriots. Yeah, Fox never
did it. Yeah, Chiefs back to back because they were

(01:38:49):
going for the three peet Yeah. I don't know. I
just if I'm the text and social media, I don't.
Why do I care what the hell p F s
N is? They don't include my quarterback? I've I've seen that. Rightly,
that'd be like they'd be like radio dot Com saying, hey,
I heard Houston does a great job and Michael Berry's

(01:39:09):
on the list. You can't have Michael You can't have
Michael Berry now on the list.

Speaker 3 (01:39:15):
Hey, Ramo, what do you think about c J. Gardner Johnson?

Speaker 1 (01:39:20):
Is he a little lippy? Ding?

Speaker 7 (01:39:25):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:39:25):
Why wouldn't c J. Stroud be in the top one hundred?
Do you think we should call CJ by his real
first and middle name. Did you watch Seane Gillis on
the SB Awards last night?

Speaker 7 (01:39:37):
Ramo?

Speaker 1 (01:39:38):
Did you find him funny? I'm trying to look at
this top hundred listen, see which quarterbacks they have. I
mean we can name that. I mean, hell, okay, put
it this way. If if they have Lamar Jackson number one,
if the executives thought that that CJ was the eleventh
best quarterback, because if you're the eleventh best quarterback in
the NFL. Is a room for you in the top
one hundred, I would think so. Right, there's a bunch

(01:40:00):
of differ positions. I'll just go by quarterback on this list.
Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Jalen Hurts,
Jaden Daniels thirty three, Baker Mayfield forty six, Jared goff
In the sixty three, Justin Herbert seventy seven. Go ahead,

(01:40:22):
Rock Purty, huh, go ahead eighty eighth. All right, this
list is in validation. Okay, PFSN, First of all, you suck.
First of all, your talent valuations even worse than Tyler
Murray ninety second. Yeah, pfs N is the coldplay of
football evaluations. Dak Prescott ninety eighth. Okay, we can argue

(01:40:43):
about C. J. Stroud being top ten. Ish. I mean,
I guess I'm open to a brock Pretty conversation. Perhaps
I'm open to a Dak Prescott conversation. Murray, No, I
know how he's horrible. No, he's very average. He's mid

(01:41:05):
yeah below, and he made the top hunter list. Houston, Texans.
If you're listening to me on the I this list
social media list did leave this one. That's a massive
l all right.

Speaker 2 (01:41:15):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:41:16):
I have a simple question for you, Ross, and I've
asked it for you for the last year and a
half or so. What don't you get? You're about to
find out.

Speaker 1 (01:41:25):
We ask you a simple opportunity of question once per
week what don't you get? And then we try to
give you an answer. My perspective as a husband and
father of three, Ross is an enterprising, middle aged person,
and uh, Jonathan as well. Jonathan's young and sexy and

(01:41:48):
thinks that as TOFA is gonna be Houston football.

Speaker 3 (01:41:50):
I mean that I believe you believe a lot of
things all day, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:41:55):
Man, I have a document and I write down stuff
to try to remember later, and I forgot about this,
but I'm looking back at I have one that is
going to attack one are the fabrics of America and
it just don't get it. M hm.

Speaker 3 (01:42:07):
That is what we call professional ratios.

Speaker 1 (01:42:09):
I'm probably gonna get crushed worse than me getting crushed
on coldplay. What you should be taking as much of
this as heat as I should be. And I don't
know why you're not. I don't know why either, but
well it's because people are Berry Manilow is the low
hanging fruit.

Speaker 3 (01:42:25):
It's a miracle. More people don't love it more than
I do.

Speaker 1 (01:42:30):
And it looks like you made it. Oh, it looks
like we made it as a jam too.

Speaker 3 (01:42:34):
That's oh you.

Speaker 1 (01:42:36):
Bomb bound Boh what a good jazz, what a good
Not only attacking the fabric of America, I'm attacking. I'm
attacking the fabric of the world when we come back,
all right, it's I just don't get its seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety Do you have something

(01:43:00):
in your life that you just don't get? No need
to worry, no need to We will just does the something.
Just see if we comprehend the things that make us
use our brands, it's time to say I just don't
get it. And now we ask you, what don't you get?

(01:43:25):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Now you
teased a tweet that's gonna a I just don't get.

Speaker 3 (01:43:35):
It's gonna anger people, it's gonna attack the world. Go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:43:43):
This is something that's been a staple and countries across
the world for centuries and I just don't get it,
especially when it's not cold. And I'm talking about hot coffee,
that's right, If it's not cold outside, why would you

(01:44:04):
prefer a hot drink that you have to wait fifteen
minutes before you can even taste it and it and
it's gonna warm you up as well when it does.
Especially here in Houston, Texas, it's one hundred and ten
degrees outside and it feels like a sauna. Why am
I enjoying a hot cup of coffee? I prefer the

(01:44:26):
cold brew, which is less acidic, which is smooth or tasting,
which has higher caffeine content as well. So if you
need the hot coffee for caffeine, you're getting more caffeine
and cold brew. So I understand I am attacking a
centuries old staple. But hot coffee when it's hot or

(01:44:47):
just when it's not cold, I don't get it. Why
do you want to order something you got to sit
there and wait ten to fifteen minutes to take a
sip of What are we doing here?

Speaker 3 (01:44:58):
You are preaching to the wrong crowd.

Speaker 1 (01:45:01):
You know me At two o'clock most days, I go
to the raw Rucks right down the street from our
office and I order a pike place with two creams
and one split. I know, and I do probably three
times a week. Explain it to me. It is a
good energy boost for mepecially my Lord. I don't like
cold drinks like coffee and hot drinks. I can drink

(01:45:25):
at eighty seven degrees, ninety four degrees or fourteen degrees.
I like the taste and so ross. I just don't
get your take because I guarantee you every day, did
I hold on? When I go at two o'clock in
the afternoon, when I go through the drive through at
raw Rucks, I'm always the fourth or fifth car, and
I always see hot coffee being served, not cold. Not
saying that people don't drink coffee, and the the frop

(01:45:48):
of macatinos and the rock of rock and renos and
all that kind of stuff that'suff works well, but don't
don't come after us.

Speaker 3 (01:45:55):
I'm not coffee drinkers.

Speaker 1 (01:45:57):
We enjoy it. I get that you, I just don't
get it. I just after as being a multi years
now into the into the colder bruise at the very
least ice coffee. I just don't need to be warmed
up at two PM. I do so, i'd say, I
just I understand I'm in the vast minority in this

(01:46:17):
all right, vast minority. I don't get it. Seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven eighty. There's something in your
life you just don't get. We are here on the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross to help you with such issues.
We are here until two o'clock. Believe it or not?
Today is what, by the way, are we doing? You
know what? Believe it or not? Believe it or not?

(01:46:40):
Believe it or not, No, we can't know. We'll we'll
do it. Like the last week of the year that
it was pretty funny. Hey, it's the slowest week of
the slowest we do the the software company that's the
astronomer CEO. Has your CEO sluck with their HR director?
Believe it or not?

Speaker 4 (01:46:55):
Call it?

Speaker 1 (01:46:56):
Tell us, uh, Jonathan, anything this week for you except
I don't don't get why you have this dumb notion
that SFA is going to be Houston and football. I
just don't get it, y'all.

Speaker 4 (01:47:05):
Hear that.

Speaker 5 (01:47:05):
It's okay. It's like I said before, Oh so yeah,
Jack is nothing to a cougar, So I go to
that point. I actually what you mean the other way?
You said a lumberjack is nothing to a cougar. A
cougar is yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm here, but I
actually came with something to that this week. I don't
And I'm having a hard time understanding when people give

(01:47:27):
an option or like they say like this and then
that and ago I chose the ladder.

Speaker 1 (01:47:32):
I have no idea. I just don't get it. I
actually don't know how you use that in a conversation.
I don't know when. Oh I picked the ladder, I don't,
I don't. There's the former in the ladder. Number one
is former. Number two is ladder l A T T
E R, not l A D D E R. But
where's that from?

Speaker 8 (01:47:48):
Like?

Speaker 1 (01:47:48):
Was that comfort?

Speaker 8 (01:47:49):
Like?

Speaker 1 (01:47:49):
I don't know English, So give me a give you
an example. I don't know. Would you rather listen to
Coldplay or Barry Man alone to the ladder? Matt would
rather listen to the ladder than the former?

Speaker 7 (01:48:00):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:48:02):
Okay, okay, okay, okay. Do you take English class at
s f A. I'll tell you in the classes was
your major? I know you're a track star, so you're
you was your major General Studies SFA. I'm telling you
I answered my question. Seriously. How many basket weaving classes
do you take at s f A Seriously? None?

Speaker 2 (01:48:24):
Maybe?

Speaker 3 (01:48:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:48:25):
Maybe the kids aren't saying former in the ladder, Maddie, No,
they are saying it the former. There are two very
fundamental words, ladder meaning previous, latter.

Speaker 5 (01:48:33):
Never I'd never even heard it from you, professor, professors
until the other day.

Speaker 1 (01:48:37):
I was looking. I was watching an interview and I
was like, she kept saying, oh, yeah, I picked the ladder.
I was like, well, I'm glad we could explain it
to you. Jonathan.

Speaker 3 (01:48:43):
We're here to edit.

Speaker 1 (01:48:44):
Should you put a would you trust being underneath a ladder?
Or is that a bad idea? Was it former or
the ladder?

Speaker 3 (01:48:53):
Shut up?

Speaker 1 (01:48:54):
What's your high school English teacher day? What what high
school did you go to for? Ban Travis?

Speaker 3 (01:48:58):
Oh, that doesn't really count. We need to get them
on the horn.

Speaker 1 (01:49:02):
The horn means this for the CEO of this company,
if you're going to have an affair out that I
would recommend it under any circumstance. I know divorce is difficult,
but at least being honest is an important part. If
you really have fall in love with somebody else. But
if you're going to have this affair, you go get
a room at the Raless Wren or at the Mumfort

(01:49:27):
meets Well. Clearly the affairs progress past that. They're in
a relationship. You're going to the colplat you're in a relationship.
Your rules about affairs are simple. You don't go on
in public with them. You pick again. My suggestion would
be a motel on fifty nine near Laura Copy anything

(01:49:49):
on business that would work, and forty on Tidwell would
work as well. Just get your room for a couple hours,
express your feelings towards each other. But you can't go
ought to have a dinner. You can't go to Coldplay concerts,
you can't share an Instagram page. You just have to
keep it private if you're gonna do it so so

(01:50:11):
that couple. I don't get why you would make it
so public by even going out in public. Just don't
get it. You think they stopped being Coldplay planned after that?

Speaker 2 (01:50:22):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:50:23):
No, really, it's not gonna hit the same though. You
can't listen to play a few months. Got feeling this?
Do you think that they both like or do you
think he liked it because it was an opportunity for
to be with her for a few hours. Maybe she's
the coldpoth a lot of like Matt. We're losing the pole, Matt.
People love Coldplay. All Right, we're gonna go the phones
here when we come back. Now, Caleb is in San Antonio. Now, Caleb,

(01:50:46):
we played a call on his show on Monday. He
was the one I think sounded like Michael Connor for
a little bit. No, I don't think it's him. He's
trolling though, but he was definitely trolling when he dropped
Houston Dash and Houston Astros in the same sentence. It's hilarious,
It's great, all right, Caleb, Brian, John, and Jason, we're
here to help you. We'll do it next as we
I just don't get it, continues on seven ninety. All right,

(01:51:12):
let's go the phones.

Speaker 3 (01:51:13):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (01:51:14):
I'm definitely afraid this is terrible. Caleb calling from Sunday's
tenth Inning show. Caleb, did you call about the Houston
Dash and Joe a spot of reference?

Speaker 3 (01:51:23):
Yes, sir, okay, that was me.

Speaker 1 (01:51:24):
All right, fire away, my friend, what don't you get hey?

Speaker 8 (01:51:27):
Well, first off, speaking of that guy at the cold Play,
the guy who was having an affair. I don't know
what's more embarrassing and getting caught with an affair or
being caught at a Coldplay concert. I mean a lot
of guys with short Kaki shorts and flip flops there.

Speaker 1 (01:51:43):
He seemed like one of them.

Speaker 8 (01:51:44):
But besides that, I just won't to let you know
I'm I'm actually Stephen F.

Speaker 1 (01:51:48):
Austin graduate.

Speaker 3 (01:51:50):
That makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:51:51):
That makes the doll So ran track at.

Speaker 8 (01:51:55):
Steve Foston, your old coach Phil phil Olsen I part
two in the Midnight Mile Relay. If anybody knows what
that is which you only run track there to understand?

Speaker 3 (01:52:08):
What do you have to run a mile to go
get your what is it?

Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:52:12):
It's I I can't expose everything, all right, that's you
gotta run track there.

Speaker 1 (01:52:16):
But uh, here's the deal.

Speaker 8 (01:52:17):
You know something that that I'm frustrated with is the
It's two things. It's the the Kevin Durant hype for
Houston and the way you guys defend joe Ahspota. You
remind me of when you have a group of guys
and that one keeps bringing the girlfriend over that nobody
likes and he's trying to force her on you, like, Hey,
she's great, guys, you just you just don't.

Speaker 3 (01:52:37):
Understand and you just almost stop calling him.

Speaker 8 (01:52:41):
Just because of her. I feel like that's you, guys.
You will defend him till the end. And I'll make
two predictions right now. The Houston Rockets and the Astros
will not make it past the first round.

Speaker 1 (01:52:53):
Uh neither neither.

Speaker 3 (01:52:54):
Team will uh double double whamm me there. Uh So
we just wanted to share.

Speaker 1 (01:52:59):
That with y'all. And that's that. I just don't get
it what you're doing here. I don't what's your doloma here?
We're here to give advice, not to get your predictions.
We don't care about you. How is John How is
Joe A Spotta holding back the Astros?

Speaker 3 (01:53:10):
How is he holding back the Astros? Yes, it's not rhetorical.
Let's go get an answer.

Speaker 8 (01:53:16):
Yes, yes, I do. Here here's I will leave it
with this. Would Lebron James want Joe A spot A
coaching him? Absolutely not. Caitlyn Clark absolutely not, No one
Ryan absolutely not right, Uh, Caleb running track at.

Speaker 1 (01:53:30):
S f A absolutely literally to listen to any of
the players in what they say and how much they
loved and respect Joe's spot.

Speaker 3 (01:53:37):
Let me just say, that's an s F A call
right there.

Speaker 1 (01:53:40):
That call is I beg you read one article, one interview.
He took the loss. I know he took the loss
like SFA is gonna take about nine of them. Lebron,
what is it? It's stupid? Well all right, well no,
I Hi, that was Matt said that. No, I'm saying
that guy Calebnesfa is stupid. I mean, I'm sure maybe

(01:54:02):
he's a small fellow, but he's not very bright. I
have a lot of friends that are stupid.

Speaker 3 (01:54:06):
That was that was.

Speaker 1 (01:54:08):
I might not be the brightest thing you ever met
in your life. I think you're you're relatively relatively smart,
but I'm no genius. I don't call me stupid. Caleb,
it seems like, I mean, he had a nice, great
but go to the Nolan Ryan wouldn't want to be coached.
That's this is a stupid He's stupid, And that's fine.
We can't all be brilliant. I mean, there's the reason

(01:54:31):
why there's SFA. Is there for a reason? Caleb in
and others? Matt Johnson, Matt's fired today? Is it all
the Barry Man a little hate you getting why being
so salty today? He wanted to hear it's a miracle
and he haven't played it yet, so I'm kind of
pissed off about that o'clock. You're playing it right at
the very beginning. God, all right, you lose every listener

(01:54:54):
we have left. Brian, what don't you get? My friend?

Speaker 3 (01:54:58):
I'll get a lot of things, but he gets me.
Is it's one hundred and ten degrees out here? Guys?
What are these teenagers doing in hoodies and they think
it okay?

Speaker 1 (01:55:08):
Is that cool?

Speaker 2 (01:55:09):
Or is that the lamest thing you've ever heard of?

Speaker 5 (01:55:11):
You?

Speaker 1 (01:55:12):
You know what, Brian, I don't get that either. Thank
you for the phone call. Excellent point. I think it's
kind of an introvert. Now I wear anti a so
a social. I wear long sleeve shirts. But it's because
of my I think everything is. We were in high school, man,
the weird kid were wore a jacket, like a big
puffy jacket to school every day because they just wanted
to be in their shells hot, That's what they said.

(01:55:33):
Now rooms and restaurants are cold typically to me, I
think it's in a kind of a shell introversion thing
and I think the way that kids come up now
with the they've been on these tablets and phones ever
since they're two years old. Yeah, it's they're social. That's
my theory. When I was in school, you know what,
when I was wearing uh Bircken stops bricking stocks and

(01:55:56):
no shorts. No wait, I got b styles right now.

Speaker 3 (01:55:58):
Hold on, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:56:00):
And I like him.

Speaker 1 (01:56:00):
Don't don't. Don't let him shore as corrective shoes and georts, Jonathan.
I was wearing coc Cola T shirts okay, and hard
rock Cafe T shirts all right, Coke Cola with a
Polo shirts, hard Rock with a T shirts Colpolo, No, yeah,
co Colo Polo. Okay. You know what, I will find
one and I'll put on Twitter and I'll ask if

(01:56:21):
you wore these when you were in high school or
junior high Let's go to uh John and Deer Park John.
What don't you get I'm still laughing at corrective shoes
and jorts. Don't listen, but I'm with pretty good. And
it'll be one hundred degrees outside for construction.

Speaker 3 (01:56:43):
Pot three in the even and these guys open up
a thermos.

Speaker 1 (01:56:46):
Use amenity is too, pull off his coffee and they're
drinking hot coffee.

Speaker 2 (01:56:51):
That's steam just rolling. Yeah, I just don't get it.

Speaker 3 (01:56:54):
I just don't get it, all right, So he's on
my side. Yeah, you guys are a minority, and unfortunately
the line, John, sorry about that.

Speaker 1 (01:57:01):
But you know what, I'll buy this to it. I'm
gonna need that guy's phone number. John, I'm gonna get
you next time you come to an event, I'll buy
you a cup of coffee I have as soon as show.

Speaker 3 (01:57:09):
Show's over with.

Speaker 1 (01:57:11):
Yeah, he's at the sight. It's one hundred degrees and
everybody's getting thermos out a good steaming cup of coffee.
How about a nice, smooth, delicious, less acidic and bitter
cold brew. Duh, I'm found with coffee. Appreciate you though,
hot cup of coffee cream, Good times, good conversation. Why

(01:57:32):
don't you have a h some boiling hot soup too?
While you're out there boiling hot vegetable soup and hot
coffee for your for your one hundred and ten degrees,
You don't want to go get a cup of French
onion after the show today? Maybe a clam chowder if
you will, I'm good, I will do you have hot
soup more in the winter, yes, or in the summer winter?

Speaker 5 (01:57:52):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:57:54):
All right? Uh Jason and Katie Jason, what don't you get?
I don't get.

Speaker 2 (01:58:02):
It's still in there?

Speaker 1 (01:58:03):
Yeah, yeah, go ahead, Yeah, I think our phones are
messed up.

Speaker 3 (01:58:05):
Go for it. Yeah, line five, get you get your
n what you need?

Speaker 1 (01:58:10):
You hear that?

Speaker 3 (01:58:11):
Oh yeah, I T this is going straight right for you.

Speaker 7 (01:58:14):
I T.

Speaker 1 (01:58:16):
We appreciate all the help and and the headway that
it has been made. You know what it t Wait,
let me try this. I'm gonna put them on the
holding back. Gonna worked on two different lines Jason. Jason gone, thanks, Uh,
we'll try to get this.

Speaker 3 (01:58:31):
We will try.

Speaker 1 (01:58:32):
It's definitely two and five is the main ones.

Speaker 3 (01:58:34):
That three it was three.

Speaker 4 (01:58:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:58:35):
We we have to send these things on a weekly basis.
It's fine, is it? It's great? It's great. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:58:41):
I T.

Speaker 1 (01:58:43):
H our friend James and Garden Oaks. James, Hello, James,
what don't you get?

Speaker 7 (01:58:49):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:58:50):
Thank you for taking my call, fell Governor. Governor Thomas.

Speaker 7 (01:58:54):
I don't like talking about my private life and everything,
because you know how we keep things private and everything,
but this one I have to tell you guys, and
you tell me what you think. Why suffered a stroke
back in March, and she's had a hard time recuperating
and I'm doing everything I can to, you know, just
make her life more comfortable day by day.

Speaker 1 (01:59:15):
And it's hard to begin with.

Speaker 7 (01:59:17):
She had to be going to rehab for a twenty
days stint straight from this hospital that she was there
for five days, and they threw away her dentures and
it cost me four thousand dollars. And they when I
inquired about it, because they gave everything to me and everything,
they were very inquisitive about how my wife's doing, how
my wife's doing, da da da da. And I didn't

(01:59:39):
realize till about a week later, Hey, my wife says,
I don't have my dentures, and I go, oh, dear,
I can't find it in any of these belongings that
I retrieved. And then when I called them back, they
act like they don't know what they're talking about. So
it's costing me four thousand dollars. And somebody told me
I should sue their pats off for it, because you know,

(02:00:00):
they're taking you for a full and I go, well,
I don't know, you know, me being a Christian.

Speaker 1 (02:00:05):
I don't want to go that route. So I'm just
lost that they never acknowledged me. And so that's my story.

Speaker 7 (02:00:12):
Guys. Sorry, sorry to give you a you know one
that kind of makes you know, makes you feel confused.

Speaker 1 (02:00:21):
Thank you very much, Alex and Gardo's hope you that
you're doing well. James Garden, excuse me.

Speaker 3 (02:00:28):
People are getting out of their cars.

Speaker 1 (02:00:31):
But the ghost nail, the client, big sales meeting, big
big nail, the HR you know now, not the HR
chief perspective, client sex figuretail okay, believer, Yeah, never down between.

(02:00:55):
Everybody knows your name. I'm really trying to be nice.
It shouldn't be in an Oh why don't you correct
me on something?

Speaker 2 (02:01:04):
Well?

Speaker 3 (02:01:04):
I do that daily.

Speaker 1 (02:01:07):
Yeah, are so cute. You have your the lead keys, Yeah,
your backspace. You're right, man, it's easier to make mistakes
and live exposition. That wouldn't change my career for the world.
But y'all need to back off and enjoy the great
Berry man Low as we continue the slowest week in sports.
You don't hear this with Wextorn Clanton. You know, well,

(02:01:31):
what do you think Jonathan is a little bit of
a regroup one for you. This guy's all to say
it sucks. Where's the course at It's America.

Speaker 3 (02:01:41):
It's a chorus who.

Speaker 1 (02:01:46):
Definitely better another one those? For sure? This is a
romantic This is stuff that CEO's use their HR chiefs.
I don't, I don't think so, all right? And making
love to cold Play. We already know that that's true,
all right? One O six on Sports Talk seven Naughty.
We had a list earlier today. It's our impact top

(02:02:06):
ten of Houston athletes. And I want to run through
my list really quick? Will you do you run yours
really quick as well?

Speaker 3 (02:02:12):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (02:02:13):
And what we decided to do on this list was
and this is the only week we do list radio.
We don't do list radio any other week of the
year except this week is the slowest week of the year.
And pops up uh is the ten athletes that we
expected to have an impact on the rest of their
year with. It's the Astros, the entire Texan season, the
entire Rocket season, and if I excuse me, I did

(02:02:35):
put one University Houston player there. So my top ten
list is very simple and it goes like this. At
number ten, Connor Wegman, the University Houston quarterback. I think
probably one of the more famous transfer portals for U
of H and a lot of the guys usually go
elsewhere it's compared to coming to Houston. So the Cougars
are getting one's compared to leaving them losing hum. I

(02:02:59):
have out brings good at nine, Joe Mixon an eight,
Amn Thompson's seven, c J. Strouded six, Cam Robinson at five.
Reason why Cam Robinson's there. He's replacing Jeremy Tunsel, and
he's a left tackle. He's, in theory, the most important
offensive lineman, and he protects the blind side. And if
the Texans offensive line is going to be anything close

(02:03:20):
to what it needs to be in terms of being average,
Cam Robinson's got to be better than what people are
thinking is going to be. I google Cam Robinson today.
Ross he is, pound for pound, expected to be the
biggest free agent bust of the twenty twenty five. They
didn't sign him to a huge deal fifteen, saying there

(02:03:42):
must be people that despise him. But Cam Robinson a
putt number five twelve million. Frobervaldez four. Oh wait, and
you give us the proper amount of the salary on there? Yeah,
Frober Valdez is four for me, Hunter Brown three, Jeremy Paine,
you two, and Kevin rant and the way the Texans
have not essentially gone all in, but there's a lot

(02:04:05):
of people believe they have gone much closer towards competing
for a championship now that Kevin Durant is Rockets. I
think there's gonna be certain expectations of that, and that's
the reason why I have Kevin Durant is my most
impactful Houston athlete for the upcoming season. I'm sorry, who
was to Jeremy Payne Payinia the Astros. The offense has
been different since he's been out, not playing shorts up
every day and not leading off of the Astros. Okay,

(02:04:28):
not that eatac Prettes has been bad. Matter of fact,
he's done much better than I thought he was going
to be as a leadoff guy. But you want east
sac Prettes helping you out more in the middle of
the order than having him at the top. And having
certainly no disrespect to Maurso Dubon, but Mariso Dubon and
Jake Myers are not your centerpiece, hard of the order
type players on your lineup. Okay, I put Pain at ten.

(02:04:51):
I've Mixing at nine. You had him at eight. I
have Cam Robinson also at eight lower because like I said,
you're hoping Urser or somebody else in the the whole
of the offensive line can be better. If I did
the whole offensive line, I would have had a little higher.
Then I had Shingoon and a men. And both of
us have a Men ahead of Shingoon the All Star,

(02:05:11):
which I mean we're obviously in agreement there, but are
Shingoons pretty important? But a Men Thompson, we feel like
has the higher ceiling. I guess, well, let me ask
you this, when it goes to Shangoon. Can the Rockets
with new Dorian Finney Smith, new Clint Cappella, new Kevin
Durant and the exact same production that Apron Shingun gave you,

(02:05:37):
is that enough to win the West? Or does Apron
have even better than he was last year? If you
get growth from a guy like a Men Thompson or
Jabari Smith Jr. And then Kevin Durant should produce more
at least when the when the games really count, he
should produce more than Jalen Green. Did I just think
the reason why Apron has got pressure on him is

(02:05:58):
because of variety reasons. One, he was never talked about
his trade possibilities, and that's a lot of faith in
a basketball team that you don't throw his name around
like through Jalen Green. Yeah, the only name we heard.
We heard him kind of mentioned in Giannis rumors, but
that was but that that just kind of died quick.
The two most prevalent names. Actually, there were four names

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that were brought about in the Rockets trade conversations. First
of all, Jalen's never went away. Reed Shepper's name was
brought up a little bit of Jabbari Smith and a
little bit of uh uh Tari Easan, but it was
primarily Jalen and what else, you know, Dylan Brooks's name
really didn't get brought up until it actually happened. Yeah,
So I want Alpi to play at at least an

(02:06:40):
All Star Calber level level like you did last year.
I want Alpi to get to seventy percent of the
free throw line. Would that be asking too much? M
He had a really hot start of the season, but
he he was over seventy five percent around December and
he just cratered. And then yeah, and there were and
then kind of fell off. I'd like to see his

(02:07:02):
defense taking on her step up most improved, but it's
he just is going to always have the physical limitations
as far as the you know, he's not very fleet
to foot.

Speaker 3 (02:07:12):
All right, continue your list.

Speaker 1 (02:07:13):
I'm trying to pull up his free throw percentage yet, man,
he ended up with his worst career free throw percentage
when he was great at the start.

Speaker 3 (02:07:19):
Of the season.

Speaker 1 (02:07:20):
Anyways, the rest of my list Hunter Brown fromer Valdez,
Hunter Brown. I had Kevin Durant three because of the
other guys we put on this list. I'm in Thompson
Alprin Shangoon, I mean Jabari that it's a good team.
I'm not putting it's obviously a huge impact player, but
I'm not putting the same impact as Kevin Durant c J. Stroud.

Speaker 3 (02:07:38):
He's got to overcome the offensive line. So I have
him number two.

Speaker 1 (02:07:40):
And then you're Don Alvarez. The Astros do not win
the World Series without Jordon Alvarez in the lineup. They
need him. He's got to come back, be healthy. This
squad needs jord On Alvarez in there. I put him
number one. That is completely fair. Can't argue that, but
I did not put him on my list because I

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don't know what I'm getting aim back. And if I'm
getting him back, what kind of pressure am I putting
on a guy that hasn't seen and at bat since May.
It's a lot. I guess. Okay, two months from now,
it would be middle September. Can he come back in
two months? Sounds like a conjecture, don't just throw up
the right conjecture. Conjecture, conjecture. I will say yes, and
then that's ten to fifteen games into the and then

(02:08:25):
get into the playoffs, and he's just your DH swing
the batman, you're a b You wrap them hands up,
let's go because here's what And I'm not trying me
Debbie down.

Speaker 3 (02:08:37):
I'm just being Robbie realistic.

Speaker 1 (02:08:39):
Oh wow, I'm gonna take that. Okay, you can. That's
pretty good, thank you. When he comes back, what's he
gonna do? Let's go swing hard. Those hands are gonna
be in the same position they were before the ailment.
Who's to say this is not going to linger like what?

Speaker 5 (02:08:55):
You know?

Speaker 1 (02:08:56):
The way I always saw you wants a back injury,
always a back injury. You gotta be very careful could
be in his case. Once a bad hand, always a
bad hand.

Speaker 3 (02:09:06):
No, I don't.

Speaker 1 (02:09:08):
Is there is there a precedent? I mean in major
league history? Can I'm sure maybe there's somebody who can
think of it. Maybe chronic broken hands Jeff Bagwell kept
getting hit on the hand. Yeah, I mean you have
chronic back feet, but hands. We would not be in
that cat But this is the second time of bad
hand issues. Fine, you promise no you can't. One fourteen
Sports Talk seven oint eight is a Matt Thomas show
with Ross seven one three two one two five seven NINTI.

(02:09:29):
We will have a visit with Brian mctagger coming up
at about fifteen minutes. Uh, not that I'm going to
watch it. I'm sure there's gonna be plenty that are
going to Did you see the twenty twenty five w
NBA All Star Rules? Explain? Well, I'm going to. Uh,

(02:09:54):
it's really bizarre and it's I would say, the always ish. Yeah,
that's why they're going to London. They're gonna do so well,
that makes sense. This is why you're getting someone's hate. Guys.

Speaker 3 (02:10:07):
Oh, is it because we hate Britain?

Speaker 1 (02:10:08):
Because y'all don't know anything about Cold. I know their music,
so I know it's hard to listen to. All Right,
you ready for this? Yes, there is a four point
shot in this WNBA. Also, it's actually fun. I believe
it's three feet from the basket. That was uncalled for.

(02:10:30):
That was terrible. That was I'm sorry. That was wrong.
I've been listening to too much Shing Gillis.

Speaker 3 (02:10:35):
That was terrible.

Speaker 1 (02:10:37):
That didn't mean that at all. I'm just teasing. The
shot clock is going from twenty four to twenty seconds.
Tell me when you like something. Okay, four point shot, ridiculous,
twenty eight feet away from the rim. Twenty second shot
clock down from twenty four. They're gonna have live play substitutions.

(02:11:00):
Teams can make hockey style substitutions with one player entering
and another exiting during live play, provided they do so
in the backcourt between the twenty eight foot mark and
the half court line, and the entering player doesn't touch
the ball on the back court. Automatic points for free throws.

(02:11:20):
In most situations, the players who would normally shoot free
throws will be awarded the maximum available points of those
attempts instead of shooting the free throws, So really the
only free throws you'll be shooting will be in the
last two minutes of the fourth quarter and in overtime.
So in the first thirty eight minutes of the game.
If you get fouled and the active shooting and the

(02:11:41):
shot does not go in, you get two points. Anyway,
they're eliminating free throw shots. Huh, that's interesting. So is
there a foul problem in the WNBA. I think they
don't want to stop the game for free throw shooting.
They think free throw were shooting is mundane. Didn't they

(02:12:03):
float out Adam Silver or somebody one shot for two points? Uh,
I'm sure it's been floated out. I would actually accept
that it would now. Also, though, it's kind of a
good time for players to get a little bit of
a rest, especially like a forty year old Lebron He's
like tiny shoes. You get two chance, you get two

(02:12:27):
chances for the two points. No, it would be one
for two and you're out of there. Just one shot
or one for three. That would be It would be
kind of funky. It would build drama. So what if
if Adam Silver came to us and said, we have
to use one of these WNBA rules, what would you
use automatic points for free throws. I would say no
on that, that's ridiculous. Live place subpetutions seems a little intriguing.

(02:12:54):
I don't think it's completely preposterous. Twenty second shot clock,
I'd be okay with that. The four point shots ridiculous.
Could you imagine adding another layer of a line to
give more points for crazy ass shots taken from long
distance down the NBA would be further than twenty eight feet.

(02:13:16):
But you get my drift on this. Yeah, I'm I
will tell you this. I might watch a little bit
of the WNBA. For the live place substitution. You have
to do it in the back court. You can't touch
the ball, and you can't go do it past mid court.
But it does give you an opportunity to step in
and change your defense right away. Yeah, or your offense

(02:13:38):
right away, depending on the situation. I mean, it's it's
not it's dumb, it's it's it's gimmicky. It's gimmicky. It's gimmick.
It's gimmicky, But I would it's not the worst thing
I've ever heard of in my life. Part of the
appeal to me of basketball is that the players have
to play both ways, offense and defense. My to me,

(02:14:01):
you could see some confusion about how many players on
the floor when something happens. You could run into a
lot of and again I don't know though spat of
hockey at also I don't know if it ever happens
in hockey, but could you run yourself into a spot
where you've got seven or eight players in the floor
by accident and something happens and you got to stop
the game, because if it happens in the NHL, probably
youth hockey got like eleven kids on the that's right
on the ice. So what this is is another example

(02:14:23):
of WNBA trying to be relevant. Did you speaking of
that real quick? So Shane Gillis last night, Yes, his
biggest burn. Well, Karl Anthony Town's got it really bad. Uh,

(02:14:44):
President Trump got it pretty bad. It's on several different occasions.
The worst was or the best was he says, I
want to introduce to you four time WNBA champion and
he mentioned some Rando's name. That was funny, and people
started clapping, and they've showed a picture of her, and
he goes, oh, just kidding. She never played in the WNBA.
That's my wife's wife. That's my that's my buddy's wife.

(02:15:04):
I knew you would clap because you guys had known
any players in horror on the WNBA. Now, I when
he said that, I was like, who is that? And
I didn't know she was. Now, of course I wasn't there.
I didn't clap, But I don't think that was that
big of a gotcha because probably most people were like,

(02:15:25):
who is that? Okay, how about this one? Uh? Joining
us in the crowd that night from the NBA champion
Oklahoma City Thunder, Sidney Malone congratulates Sidney glad to have you.
I bet you if you go into some random crowd
you could get claps.

Speaker 3 (02:15:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:15:40):
But he said four time WNBA. Yeah, I mean I thought,
did you say four time All Star? I think or
whatever it was, But it was definitely multiple times that
you would think if you were four time anything, people
would recognize who you were.

Speaker 3 (02:15:52):
I mean, I guess just again.

Speaker 1 (02:15:55):
Don't want you missed like you missed the SPS. I'm
assuming you missed nothing because we didn't watch it. But
the monologue open the show is pretty damn funny. Brian
McTaggart on The Astros Next one thirty three on Sports
Talk seven ninety. We had a chance to catch up
with Brian mctagger earlier today on the show. If you
missed it, where were you second? You get a chance

(02:16:15):
to catch his glory right now. Here's McTaggart on whether
or not he believes the Astros will be active at
all at the trade deadline.

Speaker 2 (02:16:24):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:16:24):
Yeah, I mean I think they will be active. I
mean I think, uh They're going to be looking at
two things. I mean, we all know left handed bat,
which they wanted even before Alvarez, you know, seem like
he's going to be out a while. Dana Brown's been,
i guess on record saying that you know they still
want on left handed bat.

Speaker 3 (02:16:42):
There's some urgency there.

Speaker 4 (02:16:44):
And also starting pitching, even though they have some guys
trending back, you can never you know, have enough starting pitching.
And they feel that if they get another starter and
plug him behind Fromber and Hunter Brown, it'll give them
a really monstrous one two three playoffs, which you know
would put them in good position because in the playoffs
it all comes down the pitching. Will it be under

(02:17:05):
the radar, I don't know. I mean, if they get
a guy like Seth Lugo from the Royals. Is that
under the radar, or you know, Andrew Heeney from the
from the Angels, is that under the radar. I mean,
I think they're gonna if you're gonna get a starting pitcher,
you're gonna get somebody that. I think if you know,
if you're a baseball fan, you know.

Speaker 1 (02:17:22):
Who it is and.

Speaker 4 (02:17:25):
What they're gonna give up. They're gonna have to give
up prospects, you know, playing and simple. But you know,
Jim Crane's not shy about giving up prospects because nine
times out of ten, you give up these prospects and
they don't really pan out. So if you look at
all the trades they've made the last ten years, I mean,
how many prospects have come back to bite you?

Speaker 3 (02:17:41):
Not not too many. So there win now mode.

Speaker 4 (02:17:44):
They think if they can, you know, shore up a
couple of things, get a couple of guys back from injury,
they got a shot to make a.

Speaker 1 (02:17:49):
Run of this. Do you feel like the Astros have
been incredibly lucky? I think they have when it comes
to all these moves, whether it's Zack Granky, whether it's
Justin Verlander, whether it was yuse Kakuchi. I mean there
is nobody really that has been him in the ass
in terms of, oh my god, this guy's having a long, lengthy,
ten year career. I mean, maybe you could say Josh
Hater many moons ago, but was he ever forecast to

(02:18:12):
be a dominant closer. I think the Astros have been
remarkably lucky. The players have come back and not done
a whole lot since wearing a different team's uniform.

Speaker 3 (02:18:22):
Yeah, I think you're right.

Speaker 4 (02:18:23):
I mean they you know, another one maybe to put
in there was you know, ta Oskar Hernandez. You know,
he played in just a maybe even one game for
the Astros and they dealt him away and he's gone
on to have a you know, really nice career.

Speaker 3 (02:18:33):
I mean that, but that was still a few years ago.
But you're right.

Speaker 4 (02:18:35):
I mean, look at the prospects they gave up last
year for Kakuchi. I mean, you know, all three of
those guys are still young in their careers and could
pan out. But I don't think anyone's you know, when
they got traded, everyone was freaking out that, you know,
they gave away three budding superstars and one of us hurt.
And you know, Will Wagner wasn't able to duplicate what
he did right off the bat, and you know, low

(02:18:56):
Brafidos bounced between you know, Buffalo and Toronto. So I mean,
and like I said earlier, I mean, Cray knows that
prospects are nice, but he wants to win. And you know,
if you got to give up two or three your
top ten prospects to go out and get a pitcher
who's going to put you in a really good position
to make a run at the World Series, I think
they're going to do it.

Speaker 1 (02:19:15):
Brian and Taggert with us here on Sports Talk seven
to ninety And just Brian, I just curious your thoughts
on just the the trade ecosystem as a whole, especially
with the Astros. With you have fewer sellers now with
the third wild card, the Astros don't have a ton
of resources. They do have a lot of guys coming
back from injury. So I guess I'm just asking how

(02:19:36):
aggressive will Dana be considering all of those factors that
even if if he wants to make a bunch of deals,
it's going to be difficult for him.

Speaker 4 (02:19:48):
Yeah, will be difficult because you're right, I mean, there's
very few teams that are out of it. I think
other than the Nationals, Marlins, Rockies, and Pirates, everyone else
is within seven games of a postseason spot. I mean
against it's up to some of these teams, you know,
what they want to do, like the you know, the
d Backs and Rays and teams like that. But there's
gonna be a lot of teams looking for those pitchers

(02:20:09):
and a lot of teams looking for bats and left
handed bats. So yeah, but pitching specifically, it does seem
like by the end of August, they could get Javier back,
They could get perhaps Garcia back, Arraghetti. Uh, you know,
he could be right in that Knix as well. He's
a guy not coming off surgery, so maybe you feel
a little bit better about him coming back than the
other guys. And I think that maybe that could go

(02:20:32):
into Dana Brown's factory and get the trades and you
know how much he gives up, and if he feels, hey,
this is too expensive, uh, you know, maybe we'll stand
pat right here and then just you know, hopefully we
get one of these guys back and it can deepen
our rotation a little bit and maybe we'll focus on
a left handed bat. So I think whoever they get
it's gonna be uh, you know, a rental obviously, because
he gets someone with some time remaining on their contract

(02:20:54):
is going to cost even more. But like you said,
I mean they've they've made some pretty good trades. The
last year Couldooch trade worked out pretty well for them.
He didn't pitch in the playoffs. But I think last
year when they faced Detroit, it was just worst case
scenario wildcard round. They got to stay out of the
wildcard round, get that first round by and if they
get another arm, or get one or two of these
arms back, I think they'd be in good shape to go,

(02:21:16):
you know, make a good push here to at least
the LCS. One of the arms they do have.

Speaker 1 (02:21:20):
Hunter Brown not listed as a probable this weekend, Eyebrow
raise for you at all. Of course, we know the
last couple of starts was a little bit shaky, so
just needs a little bit of extra rest and not
saying we need to be concerned or anything. But what
was your reaction when you saw that?

Speaker 4 (02:21:38):
Yeah, a little surprising. I thought for sure that Hunter
and Fromber would pitched there. I mean I haven't had
a chance to ask anybody about it. You know, that'll
happen tomorrow, but I guess would be they just need
needs a little bit more reps. You know, you're right,
his last two starts before the break giving up ten
earned runs in I'm not sure how many innings he pitched,
but you know, ten on runs and two starts not

(02:22:00):
what he wanted. Hunter said that he, you know, coming
out to start Sunday, that he thought he made, you know,
the right pitches and he's just one of those days.
So obviously I think it might be just a chance
to build in some rest. Yes, this is a team
you really, you know, you want to win this series. Obviously,
you don't want to get swept. So showing a lot
of faith in Brandon, Walter and mccollor is off the
bat and then Frobber. So I'm guessing that Hunter would

(02:22:21):
start the first game in Arizona.

Speaker 3 (02:22:22):
Not sure.

Speaker 4 (02:22:23):
I don't want to, you know, make any assumptions, but yeah,
I was a little surprised. I thought for sure that
they would throw their best two pitches against Seattle, and.

Speaker 3 (02:22:30):
I can't give you a hundred percent reason why that's
not happening.

Speaker 1 (02:22:33):
Yeah, I guess it's more for an answer for tomorrow.
But dead arm can happen. Guys making twenty six starts
a year not happening anymore. I would think the red
flag would go up if he doesn't start Monday in Arizona.
That would be my guess on that. So anytime he
pitches in that Arizona series will be fine. But if
it's late in that series, that must be Man, I

(02:22:54):
need some downtime here, and that's something most encouraging thing
you want to hear when you're sitting here trying to
fight off a Seattle team just finished off sleeping the
Detroit Tigers.

Speaker 4 (02:23:03):
Yeah, and I guess you're right. I mean, if he's
still in the first rotation waive of rotation out of
the break, then yeah, Monday in Arizona than fine. But
you know, these are all things we'll have to answer
tomorrow when we get to the ballpark and talk to
Hunter and talk to Joe and see where they're at.
But I know they keep close eyes on these guys,
and you know, maybe you buy him an extra day

(02:23:25):
here or there, and that's you know, something that can
benefit him down the stretch.

Speaker 1 (02:23:29):
And he thought of you going down to West Palm Beach.
There's gonna be quite a few stories down there. My god,
everybody's going down there to hang out and work out,
because I would like to know some more things beyond
well things are progressing well and throwing off flat ground
and pitching to PCL players. I mean, I never would
have thought that an injured dumb would have cost Spencer
Arraghetty basically eighty percent.

Speaker 3 (02:23:50):
Of the season so far. Well, yeah, you're right.

Speaker 4 (02:23:53):
I mean when he got injured, they said he would
be out six weeks, and that was early May. That
was actually in Seattle, so it's been what is that now,
four months, so I'm not sure if something else has
gone on. I mean Hunt talking with Spencer before he
went down there. I mean he was good spirits. The
thumb felt good, it was completely healed. It was just
a matter of getting built back up. So yeah, I

(02:24:15):
mean I actually thought about going to West Palm. The
Astros play the Marlins here in a couple of weeks
or early August, and I was like, you know, I
could squeeze in a day on either side of that series.
Go down there, because you're right, there's tons of guys
down there, Chas McCormick's down there now.

Speaker 3 (02:24:31):
They this is kind of new this year, where you
start sending guys to West Palm. I mean they haven't been.

Speaker 4 (02:24:36):
They've been doing that at year's past with guys with
long term injuries, especially pitchers who were you.

Speaker 3 (02:24:41):
Know, coming off Tommy John they go down there. But
now they're sending you know, like.

Speaker 4 (02:24:46):
Jacob Melton, Luis ki Ormey, there's a few others I'm
not even remembering. There's like a whole team of guys
down there in West Palm. So yeah, I might poke
my head in there and see what's going on.

Speaker 3 (02:24:57):
Stay tuned.

Speaker 1 (02:24:58):
Astros five games ahead of the Mariners, and we know
the slew of injuries. Just how you think the AO
West shapes up. How much of a threat do you
think the Mariners will be and do you still have
the Astros as a as a strong favorite for the division.

Speaker 4 (02:25:13):
I think there'll be a big threat because they're finally
playing after their capabilities. They're hitting the ball better, they
have an MVP candidate behind the plate, they have a
better rotation than the Astros right now. So yeah, I
mean I think they're I think they're gonna make a
you know, they're gonna make this really really interesting. But still,
the Astros have a five game lead, which is pretty significant.

(02:25:35):
They got a shot coming out the break here to
uh if they can win two or three get get
back up to six and and the Astros also have
the benefit of having the second easiest schedule the rest
of the season.

Speaker 3 (02:25:45):
Only Cleveland has an easier schedule.

Speaker 4 (02:25:47):
So I know they haven't exactly played as well, it
seems like against bottom feeding teams as they have against contenders,
you know, sweeping the Phillies, taking two out of three
against the Cubs, and winning a series against the Patters
and the Tigers. But still you'd rather have You'd rather
have an easier schedule than the hardest schedule down the stretch.

Speaker 3 (02:26:05):
So that's something that's going to benefit them as well.

Speaker 4 (02:26:08):
And what we talked about earlier, they're going to get
healthier and as long as they don't get injuries more injuries.

Speaker 3 (02:26:14):
There's read.

Speaker 1 (02:26:17):
All right. That is Brian McTaggart joining us here on
the radio program with us every Thursday, usually at eleven,
but he was with this eleven thirty today and we
catch some of his best stuff in the one o'clock hour,
believe it or not, coldplay. It's a low water mark
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But we are taking massive losses today. Last time I checked,

(02:26:40):
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We basically made the whole show about Cold Player. Seriously,
what is wrong with him? What else is he possibly doing? Nothing?
Running over hookers on Grand theft Auto? He does have

(02:28:04):
a massive man cave. I mean, congratulations to him, it's
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Are you kidding at all? That's all The first two

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hours was getting the clips one end. Oh no, by
the way, I'll be sending you a Robert Ford clip
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Speaker 3 (02:28:41):
We could certainly do more. Right now, we got five
minutes left to go in the show.

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first record deal was with Fierce Panda Records. Believe it
or not?

Speaker 2 (02:30:09):
Not, Man, it was.

Speaker 1 (02:30:14):
One of a thousand times you gotta know who you
signed your first record deal with. Let's talk to Chris
on seven ninty Chris, what's your favorite part of today's
ten to two radio show?

Speaker 2 (02:30:26):
Sing about it?

Speaker 3 (02:30:27):
Also do and arguing.

Speaker 1 (02:30:29):
Coldplay has seven Grammy We got a bad phone line
there writing that down. Yes, all right, we'll try this.
We're gonna get you anyway, Chris, good luck. Coldplay has
seven Grammy Awards out of thirty four nominations, while Barry
Manilow has one win out of fifteen nominations.

Speaker 3 (02:30:46):
Believe it or not not that is to believe it?

Speaker 1 (02:30:50):
Obviously the people the seventies were on drugs and couldn't
realize the value of one. Barry Manilow Brandon on seven
ninety brand You Ready to play? Believe It or Not.
Early band names for Coldplay included Starfish and Big Fat Noises.
Believe it or not? That is two early names certainly

(02:31:12):
don't know their Coldplay trivia if they love them so
Al on seven ninety Al, You're ready to play Believe
It or not? Sure Al, good luck to you.

Speaker 7 (02:31:21):
You two.

Speaker 1 (02:31:21):
Front man Bono has called Coldplay the most important band
of the twenty first century.

Speaker 3 (02:31:27):
Believe it or not, I'm gonna believe it.

Speaker 1 (02:31:31):
No, you should, because he would be that stupid to
say that. Seven one three two, one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety Roger,
You're on seven nine. You're ready to play, Believe It
or not. Five different Coldplay albums have reached number one

(02:31:51):
in the US Billboard Charts. Believe It or not, Believe it?
That's right, believe it statement number two. In twenty twenty one,
Cole Play publicly feuded with then British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson over his handling over the COVID nineteen pandemic.

Speaker 3 (02:32:12):
Believe it or not Believe it? No, ross I said
for the end of the year, that was really good.
Thank you, Gord.

Speaker 1 (02:32:19):
Did you get that from That's a good win. Somewhere
deep in the recesses of my brain, it's like that.
Cole Bruce helped you out with the cold Play Jose
on seven ninety Jose, what was your favorite part of
today's ten to two radio show.

Speaker 2 (02:32:32):
Uh the Affair, the public affair, party kidding me? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:32:35):
Are you kidding me? Jeff Bezos is a Coldplay super fan.
He has hired them from events for his company and
has been spotted at their concerts worldwide. Believe it or not? Not?
That is correct statement number two for the when Coldplay
lead singer Chris has partnered with Sennheiser and Chris Martin

(02:32:55):
and has partnered with Sennheiser and his own line of
studio headphones, microphoneans and other equipment. Believe it or not? No,
we're not giving away. If you want them, well, we'll
get Tomorrow'll be free from tomorrow. You just can win
them if you want to go. We're not gonna make
you work for it. Do you want to take it

(02:33:17):
to believe it? Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:33:18):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:33:19):
Do you not want to work for him?

Speaker 3 (02:33:20):
Not a problem?

Speaker 1 (02:33:22):
We do. We do get it all right. We wake
the strippers up at noon tomorrow. We have an on
Florida Stories tomorrow. We have got hell yeah or not?
And we have complete breakdown of Houston Seattle preview Astro Mariners.
Should we get Softy on tomorrow?

Speaker 3 (02:33:36):
A little blank talk that's fine, Let's do it.

Speaker 1 (02:33:39):
Okay, you get all mad at me for not bleep
talking him last time, so I'm gonna have to wear
bleep talk tomorrow. Bleep Talk Friday was Softy from kJ R.
We're gonna find him up next. Clinton waxlingy about sports
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