Ronel Blanco Is On His Way Back To Houston With Elbow Soreness After Game 2 vs Tampa Bay Rays, Game 3 This Afternoon
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Oh what an age town.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Good morning everyone, and welcome to a Wednesday edition of
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It is a snack size edition of the show today, as.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We have the mainstream Matt Thomas Show with Ross from
ten o'clock until eleven, and then Rossie, we get into
Astros on Deck at eleven o'clock where we will celebrate
great Jake Myers. Okay, really really awesome? Isach perettez? Yes?
And uh bad Ochret and a bad ort Okret and
(00:37):
Ort couldn't hold it down. That sounds like a bad
attorney at law firm. Thank good morning, Thank you for
calling Ochert and Ort.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I don't like I want I'd rather have some fried Ochret.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Have you been saving that for a long time? Okay, yeah,
actually this sounds more like it. We are with you
today until eleven o'clock and then we're gonna send you
to Astros coverage from eleven to eleven to four and
then at eleven forty Roberts Steve Will had the finale
from what should be a very.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Hot, humid, stinky.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Oh I meant to use that one double shower kind
of day with the Astros and Rays the rubber game
of the three game series at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida.
By the way, Astro's going for the major league record
most rubber games in a season.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Just alternate wins and losses so much. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Well, you know, their percentages are pretty good now at home,
they're really good.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
On the road, they're not so hot.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
So uh yeah, a rare off night for the local
nine when it comes to well, was not an off
night in terms of everybody. Uh has been very good.
Calib Or has been really good this year. Steven Okert
has been really good and they just had off days
and unfortunately it cost him as the two nothing lead
went to a three to two setback to the Rays.
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And that's the series game and a tide of game apiece.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But the good news.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Is is that the Seattle Mariners lost last night of
the Chicago White Sox. The Astros lose no ground to
the ms in the American League West. Oh, I like
you being positive could be. The bad news is they
failed to green some ground with a win. I choose
to have my glass half full.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Oh are you sure? Well? Not unusually in life, But
you're right about that, all right?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
If you'd like to join us, and we are only
with you for this hour in the full context of
the radio show at seven one, three, two, one two, five,
seven nine. If you want to chime in on the astros,
you want to chime in on last night's game one
of the Western Conference Finals, which saw the Oklahoma City
Thunder uh really pull away and didn't make it much
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of a game in the second half. Unfortunately, there at
least for if you're a casual NBA fan or a
DieHarder just wants to watch anything NBA related. But yeah, okay,
se is up one nothing on the Thunder. We have
some NFL news today on two notes that have not
been officially changed, but one you're going to be indifferent
to one you're not going to like. Okay, So we
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have that to get to UH, we have the passing
of a one of the most beloved television characters of
all time. Would you say on two different accounts? I
guess so that shows a bit of a blind spot
for me. I will tell you this, Uh. Cheers was
probably a top five television show year and year out
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in the nineteen eighties. I liked it, didn't love it.
Oh overrated, says Matt too.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
If it was on, I'd watch it. Now.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Remember that Thursday night, way back in the day, NBC
Thursday Night.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
They didn't call it Must See TV.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
They called it whatever they had must CTV was the
Seinfeld Friend's era, right right, right right, So I'm talking
about this is before that.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I want to say there was.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
The Cosby Show, followed by a Different World, followed by Cheers,
and I want to say the last show was Night Court.
But I might be mixing up my eighties and nineties together.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I'm not sure, and I can't look it up because
the internet's bad right now.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, we're in a secret location, by the way, we
cannot tell you where we are. But the bottom line
is this is that Cheers was at times ridiculously hilarious,
but kind of an old, familiar script. Didn't really change
a lot. You had Goofy Woodie, you had made Aim alone,
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you had adictable, Yeah, predictable would be the term. But
George went who passed away. I'm sure many of you
know by now Yesterday was norm and was.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Absolutely one of the funnies sports.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I didn't think Cliff that the Mailman was particularly intriguing
at all.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I just loved George. He is alive.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I thought they were both dead. No, he is alive.
John Ratzenberger is his name now. Shelley Wall, who played Diane,
is still alive. Obviously, Ted Danson is still alive. He
was just recently on Curve and he's been down a
bunch of TV shows. We did lose Kirsty Alley within
the last couple of years, and then we lost George went.
Now are you familiar with super fans? That's Chicago super fans,
(05:17):
of course. And I know that if you go to
Twitter today you're going to see a lot of different
videos on that.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Now, that was great.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
That to me was simple, yes, and yet one note,
one note.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
But yet you still cracked out.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yes, because what you'd wind up doing is you'd wind
up going to your buddies' houses and talking about the
Bears and talking about your favorite Dadi Indy car driver
Rick Meerce, and then you had talk about the Boss
and you and I have a very good friend of
ours that is in the Chicago area.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I have a lot of friends that have lived and
or worked in Chicago. The stereotype is very real. I
remember remember going to a Chicago sports bar in the
earth early nineteen nineties. It might have been the first
weekend that Fox even had football and the Bears were on.
So I went to a bar to see the Bears,
but the Packers and if people were going nuts, and
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I walked around sausage and I walked around, I looked around.
I'm like, my god, it's super fansy. They absolutely nailed
what a typical midwestern Chicago guy looks like. Hard condition, yes, mustache,
bear sweaters that were too tight, and their undying love
for Mike Ditka and chugging beer after beer after beer
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and eating brots.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, Chicago old style. Yeah. Perhaps a PBR for a
class if you want to feel a step up your game.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
All right, So if you'd like to talk about cheers,
I don't know if that's gonna be a huge conversation piece,
but I you know, topic a your favorite episode, your
favorite storyline.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I will say this, it is funny.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
One of the worst decisions ever made was for Shenley
Long to leave after you know, a couple of seasons,
because her career never really flourished. I mean, I would
say probably shutting along as some of her best roles
was playing Carol Brady in The Brady Bunch of Movies.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Oh yeah, those are classics. They were pretty good.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
But I mean she she she left the Top five
show thinking that she was gonna be a major star
and she turned out to be. Okay, happens. Yeah, sometimes
you swing for the fences and you miss. I mean,
like you leaving this show. You wouldn't want to do that. Yeah, Well,
make me an offer. Poughkeepsie stop all right? Seven one
three two one two five seven nine. If you want
to jump into the conversation today seven one three two
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one two five seven nine zero. And again, if you
want to follow us on Twitter, it's at Sports Empty
and ad Sports Harvy Uh. On the astro side, your
boy Jake just isn't cooling off, and I'm here for it. No,
in East sac Perettes is not cooling off.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It's the month of May. It's time for Jake Myers
to thrive. Now.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
There is somebody that is cooling off significantly. And it's
a guy that hasn't played very much and probably won't
be playing too much longer. I really, and I mentioned
this to you probably what two or three weeks ago, Ross,
and I think it's Bears repeating Chas McCormick needs a
new scenery place to play. His base running has not
been good. He's not productive of the plate. He's frankly
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not even playing that much. I think there's value in
Chas McCormick. It just probably isn't gonna be here. I
think it's in his I don't want to say it's
in his head, but I think the the writing is
on the wall. We're just playing when we have to.
You're in war hot ass Tampa. He went one for
four yesterday and again limited batting. His ops is six
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zho four and then the throw that the Rays won
the game with he was in left field. Do you
remember when Barry Bonds tried to throw at Sid Bream
in the National League Championship Series and how bad Barry
Bond's throw was when he was a member of the
Giants of the Pirates. Not really, Okay, it's one of
the legendary moments. Sid Bream was a utility player for
the Braves and he was rounding third coming home and
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Sidbream I had, remember, said Bream, I had I had
a Sid brim cards nice nice dash, nice dash. I
would not call him a sprinter. Okay, he had an
estach perede speed.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
M Oh that bad.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I mean it wasn't pretty. So the fly ball goes
to left field, McCormick makes it and the Ray runner
is running third coming home and the throw and it
wasn't even a really far hit ball to left field.
It just absolutely had no zip to it, and the
Rays walked it off and won the game last night. Chaz,
(09:33):
I do believe it has some some value, but it's
not here. Yeah, you can look at it a couple
of ways, and it's Chris Morale was the one running score.
He has some uh, some bad luck in that Jake
Myers is hitting very well, so he's earning every day time.
They want to give this Senzon opportunity. They want to
give his Zenzo a opportunity. They want to give Cam
(09:55):
Smith an opportunity. But also it's not like I just
named a Heap of All Star. So it is tough
luck in a way that Chas McCormick can't can't beat
these guys out, And you want to give the young
feenom Cam Smith as ye da Zach Deznzo's more of
an unknown quantity. But they're giving those unknown quantities those
abs because Chas McCormick is what twenty nine thirty years
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old at this point, so he he hasn't proven to
the level that he has he has earned every day time. No,
and in the throw again, it was a sackfly. He
just doesn't have a good arm. It's slightly better than
Jake Myers's. But well, the reality is nobody in this team,
I mean Cam Smith, Cam's got it, but he just
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needs to. And you know, look, whoever you put in
left field last night, I don't have enough of a
sample size to tay Zach Decenzol is gonna throw that
runner out. I can tell that Josel two is not,
and clearly Chas.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
McCormick is not going to either. So that is the case.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
All right, Uh seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
Naples are taking some phone calls, coming back in a
minute seven one three two one two five seven ninety Hi,
We're only with you till eleven o'clock. Then we go
to Astro spring spring training as well. We're playing in
the spring training Ballparker. All right, it actually feels like
it looks like spring training baseball when they're playing, it
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is absolutely incredibly hoky. Yes, and now look, nobody would
have potentially put the Rays in Tampa's in the Yankee
spring training facility. This is a hurricane situation. So it's
a little different than sack Sacramento. I feel like that
Major League Baseball failed more than anything. Yeah, you probably
mean Sacramento doesn't even want the A's. Uh, they only
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kept the The A's is an organization only stayed in
northern California because their TV deal is tied to an
NBC Sports California, which is their cable TV partner.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It's their version of a Space City Home network, so they.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Would have lost that money if they would have said,
moved to Nashville or Salt Lake City or something like that.
I'd be curious because I'm going to Vegas next month
and I'm wondering if if the stadium is progressing or
I mean, you don't hear much about it. Frankly, Now,
I know they've already started destroying the trap and it's
no longer operating, but ip, yeah, it's the first place
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I ever.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Went nineteen ninety three. You never forget your first Matt.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Oh god, I was such a terrible player. I didn't
know any rules of blackjack. I was spending. I brought
it like everybody else. Well that's what it was like. Yeah,
I've had those problems. Eight hundred dollars I took with me,
and I think I lost it within the first I
don't know, three or four hours, violently lost.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I got violently sick at the EXCaliber buffet, which was
like next to the Tropicana, and they asked, Caliber is
still going.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Oh, man, mistakes you make.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It's like it's almost like, I mean, my thirties, I
grew up a little bit. In my forties, I became
a father and a husband, and you know, I was
a gets them in thirty two. But twenty one to
twenty nine, you just go through a lot of Man,
I wish I could redo that, or man, I'm glad
I did that, or what was I thinking trying to
do that?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Figuring things out? Man, life experience it's natural.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I wasn't ready for that, but it works.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I so that is so funny. Good good pulled by you,
good pull by Cube. We're never going to have that
end on this show. This show is gonna last, hopefull
another ten to fifteen years, and we're gonna be playing
that sound bite hopefully, all right, seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
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two five seven nine zero, So we'll get obviously, lots
of astros will go exclusively astros between eleven and eleven
forty here on.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Sports Talk sevent eighty.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Last night in the NBA, we did have the Game
one of the Western Conference Finals, which to the Oklahoma
City Thunder. And seriously, if you're if you're the Minnesota Timberwolves,
you've had all this time to rest, You've had all
this opportunity to uh get your body right, because the
Oklahoma City Thunder just finished off a seven game series
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of the Denver Nuggets, and you hung around for a while,
but man, oh man, oh man, you got Shake Gilders Alexander,
who did not shoot particularly well.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
You know, they won one, fourteen to eighty eight. Oklahoma
City was down.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
By four and a half, outscored the Wolves by thirty.
Anthony Edwards was terrible last night. Nas Reed was terrible
last night.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yes, uh yeah, nas Reed, Uh yeah. It's also a
good Oklahoma City Thunder defense.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
But the big storyline nationally has been Shae Gilders, Alexander
and that and that foul hunting. He had seven free
throw attempts in the first quarter.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I think it was.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
There was a Bill Simmons tweet going viral and a
bunch that I was seeing as well, like Shay's not
even getting touched and he's just flopping and flailing and
they're calling everything. So I'll be interested to see game
two and see if the whistle changes there, tightens up
a little bit. Oh, you mean to tell me the
other one hundred and ten games that these play hasn't
give you an indication that the chan the whistle's not
gonna change. I don't know. Squeaky wheel gets the grease,
and that that wheel was squeaking. So national media, national
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NBA media. So I do a lot of stupid things,
and one of them is watching the morning TV shows
because I'm trying to get a sense of what's going
on in the world of sports. Because I was gonna
watch the Today's Show today, but they were at Universal
studios of the new theme park, and I don't care
about that kind of stuff. Okay, it was a blatant
because NBC and Universal law are the same. It was
just a yeah, no, no, no, that's ANBC Disney do that
(15:38):
NBC Universe. Yeah, it's a blatant ripoff of hey, come not,
We're not being journalists.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
We're here just to promote this ball, this park.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So I had to put on the morning shows and
Kendrick Perkins talked a lot about how people should stop
complaining about Shake Gilders Alexander and the foul calls, because
we've never complained about Michael Jordan getting the car hold on.
We never complained about Kobe Bryant getting foul calls. We
never complained about Lebron James getting foul calls. And I'm
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thinking to myself, what NBA has he watched and or played.
I don't remember, ever as a kid watching Michael Jordan
as a young adult in nineteen ninety seven when he's
playing in the NBA Finals, going oh, yes, m JM
glad you got that foul calls to go to the.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Free throw line.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I remember MJ making big shots. I remember MJ carrying
the bulls on his back. I remember Kobe Bryant putting
together a run of ten or twelve straight points.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Now, did those guys get foul calls.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Of course they did, but I don't remember going that's
a Cagy team now. The only player, to be fair
that we as a fan base, especially in Houston, talked
about if you think you can stop it, then stop it.
If not, let the man eat. And that's James Harden.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
We bemoan.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I will say this, I bemoaned people complaining about James
Harden getting the free throw line, and I would say, well,
if their fouls or fouls, if James is extraordinary and
gathering contact and gets the free throw line thirteen fourteen
times a game, good for him. The problem was is
I watched the game last night between the Thunder and
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the Wolves. It felt like to me, and not that
I got the officiating handbook in front of me, that
about every other call ross that SGA was getting there
was minimal contact or nothing that deserved a whistle, and
he was getting reputation calls, or at least in James's case,
he was getting attacked pretty good on a on a
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semi record basis. James was selling it. But I mean
we did complain about Lebron James and his free throws.
We did, as Kendrick person Perkins suffered some sort of
brain injury. I really believe he eats too much of
oatmeal in the morning. I got two words for him
because he had as much hush off. We talked about
that for years with Michael Jordan and the Jordan Rules.
Was originally the Pistons and their Jordan Rules beating up
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on Michael Jordan, but the Jordan Rules morphed into us
talking about him getting every single call and super star calls.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
We've talked about.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
This in the in the NBA for as long as
I can remember, and yeah, we're talking about with Shai
Gildas Alexander. But it's also more flopping and flailing than
anything else I remember talking.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I remember Reggie Miller in his hey day.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
He'd be flopping and flailing around, and you know, he'd
come around those curls, get up a shot, and then
he'd start kicking his arms up like he got an
electric shock. Yeah, this has been a storyline for for
basically as long as the NBA has been around. Maybe
not the nineteen sixties or something, but uh, Kendrick Perkins
Beaumont's finest.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I mean, he's carved on a nice career.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Good for him, I mean he was on commercials last
night during I mean, he's he's done quite well for himself,
and wasn't he also bragging about how he would lock
down to Nikolajokic if he was in his prime.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
They were both in their primes, he would.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Be exhausted trying to guard Nikolo jokicch for a couple
of somebody had brought up some video of like Nikola
Jokich as a rookie torching Kindred Perky. But all I'm
going to say is this, having watched the game last night,
it did aggravate me, and I can tell you it
aggravates the Rockets because that was one of the things
that I know that I Doka has told the guys
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and the guys have talked about we've got to make
sure we got to be on our best behavior because
shake gilch is Alexander lives at the free throw line.
He was two for his first thirteen, but yet he
had decent number of production wise offensively because he was
getting to the free throw line double digits. Not by
the end of the game, but like early third quarter. Yeah,
he hit seven in the first quarter. He ended up
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eleven or fourteen, So it kind of evened out a
little bit there, but still it was ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And it can get ridiculous for stretches.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
But he does it. Luka Doncic does it. Nikola Jokic
does it. We were talking about this last night. Jalen
Brunson does it. It's it's it's part of the game.
So as long as and here's my thought, and this
is overly simplic, but it's what it is. If their fouls,
good for them. But if they're just the like I
remember the Showtime Lakers. I used to watch it, Magic
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Johnson go right down the heart of the lane and
someone would tip his index finger whistle and one it
would And I love the magic as a player, but
it would drive me nuts if you're gonna get called
for a foul. I'm not asking for people to get
like an assaulted on the court. But the stuff that
last night was being called was very very chippy. Yeah,
ticky taxicay, Yeah exactly, all right? Seven one three two
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one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven nine zero.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
That's two. That's three. Oh no.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
The good news because the good news is relative.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Elvin Sampson is a new contract, four year extension through
twenty eight to twenty nine. So he's going to retire
as the coach of the University of Houston Cougar.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
That'll be his last spot.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
So anybody else wanting some little Calvin Samson, you ain't
getting it.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Get out. He's too old. Nobody wants me. I don't.
I think the University of Houston wants him.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Okay, that really isn't for the breaking new sounders.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Would you like to? Don't say Jordon Alvarez Nope, Okay, who.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Give me the sport? I have no idea. My internet's
not even working. It's the Astros three five is the Max, right?
I don't know, just say it. Renelle Blanco has elbow
and soreness, oh my god, and was set back to
Houston to be seen by team doctors.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Well, good thing. They got great pitching depth and we're
not concerned. Okay, I need.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
You to shut your bumb mass up for a second
because I'm gonna tell you why.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You can't No matter what kind of pitching depth you have,
Listen to me very careful.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
You can't have pitching depth when you've already lost Haynes
Westnsky to Tommy John a broken hand to Spencer Arraghetty
that that hurts any team's pitching depth. So I will
not buy the argument of you didn't have enough pitching
complaint of a so elbow Joe A. Spotts say has
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been sent back to Houston break examination, but they if they.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Could have signed somebody.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You're not relying on the Colton Gordon's and the eighth
and uh and the whatever else?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
What was the last night Brandon Walter who's been.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Fine and he's been sent back to him but probably
my guess is coming right back. Yeah, it's gonna be
a quick turnaround trip.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
And you can do that because you're replacing somebody's been injured.
So you couldn't do that in theory. I mean, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I mean, I I can't give you it probably is
nothing because that's false.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
No, it's probably look we we we we Uh, what
is it? What is the phrase of the Matt Thomas
phrase we deal in realities?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
It's probably Tommy John. I mean, you get set back
to get seen by the time team doctors for elbow
discomfort or or soreness.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
It's I won't do it.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
And even if it's not Tommy John, immediately it feels
like it is. Eventually, well, they're gonna see you get
a second opinion, they're gonna try to work through, They're
gonna rehab through this, and then literally like three months later,
it's somebody the the UCL gets fully ripped of Tommy
John time and the reality is this And Dana Brown
is did not make an appearance today with the previous show.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
That doesn't make sense. He's probably going, oh my god,
I mean that's what I've been doing.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
If I'm Dana Brown, I'll be like, I mean, I
love you Dan in the Morning Show, but I got
I got a fish to fry right now. There's the
time for dude. Do they need to trade for a starter?
I would say yes, they need to trade for a starter.
Chas McCormick, come on down. What kind of value does
he have? I don't know. Well, don't do that. Don't
(24:17):
you pulled an astro or Twitter moment there. We can
go get a number two starter for Chasmcormons. I know,
I know what you didn't say that.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I know. I know.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Maybe you find some guy who's repertoire you can tinker
with and and and turn him into a better picture
like what you saw with Hayden, wez'n esky like what
you did with you se Kakuchi and those kind of
guys and give up something. But man, the cupboard being
as bare as it has been, and you've already traded
away from it a couple of times and now having
to do it again.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Oh man, I'm gonna tell you I have zero positive
vibes about this.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah, because if you have soreness which can't happen, you
put ice on it on a day, you sip a
skip a start, you.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Think it's fine when you have to fly back.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
He's already in Houston right now, which means they he
left yesterday. Yeah, I don't think he's gonnap at five
am to catch the Tampa flight. So Luis Garcia is
recovering from Tommy John, Christian Xavier is recovering from Tommy John.
Hayden was a nasky at and now possibly renewe Blanco.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, that is insane. That is just ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And I will say this, and I don't know the doctors,
I don't know the trainers.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I don't blame the Astros for this. I blame baseball.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yeah, it's just been the the emphasis on spin the
emphasis on velo. How's gone up and got I mean
a couple of years ago, or maybe it was last year,
Justin Verlander had some really good quotes on all the injuries,
and he said, basically, it's a combination of things. And
then maybe it is just the nature of the game
and they that it is and pitchers and all that
type of stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
That's how pictures come up. It's it's all those things.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I got one even a simpler thought than that. The
human arm was not meant to do what major league
baseball players suppose. It's very core. That's that's problem A.
And by the way, then we get the problem BCD.
And you've been doing this since you've probably been nine
years old. Yes, your arm gives out. If you were
to do something as a good thing about it, when you
were nine years old, you probably threw faster than an
average nine year old did. You've done every If you're
(26:26):
a major league pitcher, you've done this at an exemporary
level for at least bare minimum. Even if you started
to picking. If you picked up a baseball for the
first time in high.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
School, you did this. You've been doing this for about.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Nine or ten years of throwing at baseball really hard
gripping it.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Sliders never help, curveballs don't help.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Frankly, if you want to make sure that you don't
hurt your arm, you throw change ups in fastballs.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
But that doesn't get ounce into major leagues. And then
the pitch clock question looms as well. How much no.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Doubt, no doubt, we love it because baseball games are shorter.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
We were talking about it last night at dinner.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
But you tell me, is there not a direct correlation
to the number of TJ elbow forearm soreness to where
we are? And that's what And it's honestly, if I'm
Lance my colors, I think about these things. Look, there's
enough baseball nerds that we will I'm sure there's data
on this or storage stories and break studies. But also
(27:32):
you have to have enough to sample size. If everybody's
getting Tommy John one year, and then that doesn't necessarily
mean that's a uh, statistically significant sample. We need, unfortunately
years and years to kind of figure this out because
we can't take sixty years of non pitch clock and
compare to two years of pitch clock, right, you know
what I mean? You need to zoom out, You need
(27:54):
more data and it's only been a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Could I take the previous tube off?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
You can say the ear, you could say the early
returns are not good. It feels like the early returns
are bad. I mean, and maybe it's just localize here
with Houston because it's so bad. But I feel like
it's been a bad If we had Rob Manford on
the show right now and we threw that question to him,
what would his response be, Uh, you know, we look
(28:19):
to improve the team, improve the game and all facets,
and that's something we're definitely looking into, and we need
to talk with the players about trainers.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
We're actively looking into the situation wards out.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Basically, it's too early to say anything. That's what he
would say, yes.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Or how about this?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
And forgetting about the pitch clock, how about ladies and gentlemen.
Just the number of injuries on this Tommy Johnes surgeries,
it feels like you've got high school kids getting there.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
It's like, uh, it's like Oprah handing out Honda's. Everyone's
getting it. I actually get that. I don't know if
our audience does, but I get that.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
All right, we've got one segment left.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
If you like to join us. If anybody's on the line,
we'll talk to you when we come back. Man tough,
but this is again if you're just joining us renew.
Blanco is now in Houston being seen by team doctors
for elbow soreness. The two worst words in baseball right now,
elbow soreness and elbow discomfort.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yes, and elbow discomfort.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Ten on Sports Talk seven eight ten forty nine on
the Matt Thomas Show with lost, We've got astros on deck,
coming up in a box to ten minutes from now,
and the league will be We're a l Blancos seeing
the doctors. I didn't ubered him over to the hospital.
I mean I'll do it. I mean if I can
get a little, you know, kind of get the advance.
(29:48):
He can AfD now he now we're now, does not
speak English, so it would have been a short, been
minimal conversation.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
He probabuld have said owl hurts me pain center the English.
I would imagine he knows more English than out hurts
me pain.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Out hurts me pain. That sounds like an alias. I
could use it at a hotel. Let's talk to Aggie
Doug on seven eight eighty what's a good word.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Hey, what's up, fellas, And it's awful news about Blanco
and and if it ends up being what we think
it is, I think you have to legitimately look at
trade and fromber for for what we can get at
this point. And I hate to say you need to
wave the white flag, but just you gotta see what
you can do with the guys that you got, because
(30:34):
I mean, to be fair, we're gonna be We're gonna
be really good as far as pitching for the next
five years because we're gonna have all these guys coming
back from Tommy John surgery that are gonna be on
really minimal contract at that point. So I'm not real
worried about the future. But I mean, like you were saying,
you kind of have to pull back a little bit
as far as like you all were talking about with
the pitch clock, like it just might be the year
(30:57):
that the Jordon's down. You train, you, you try to
get a Hunter Brown signed to at least a five
six year deal, and you just kind of focus on
the future because I think it's really bright as far
as you know, the pitching that we have coming. But
it's just not gonna happen this year.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I just I just don't think it well happened. Thanks Sadie.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I would disagree with about eighty percent of your phone call.
I'm not going to be optimistic. I've got four guys
on Tommy John.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
The future is bright.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
How about the future is murky at best?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, I mean if he's saying he's saying punt on
this season and trade fromber Right, here's a reality. Arrogetty
is coming back, yes, Hunter Brown is having a cy
Young esque type season Frommer's still looking like in a
one a most start one.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I mean he was another quality start a couple of
days ago. Yeah. The good thing is that the division
is still bad.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
That's the thing is if the division is bad, there's
no sport that plays a series that gives you an
opportunity to be good for a little length of time
like Major League Baseball does. Can you see a world
where you win a week division and you get into
the playoffs with Brown, Valdez, Arraghetty.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Colors as a viable playoff rotation or to be determined
on the fourth and it could be land or.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Should be blue, ball, could be cold. Gordon looked good
in his last year or who am I forgetting? I'm
forgetting somebody. Uh, well, you have Gusto Gusto, I mean yeah,
the fourth guy that you throw for three four innings
in a playoff game. And then I don't think frankly
(32:55):
that Brandon Walter is in a mix. It felt very
much like a spot start for him. But you know,
and gave you no nothing earned over five yesterday. That's
the probmise you are. You are running into a ridiculous run.
And we were kind of afraid of this, of guys
that are getting you four and five and that's really
starting to wear in the bullpen, and I thought maybe
there was a small sign of that yesterday.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, it's a bad spot. Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
By the way, I don't want anybody punting on a
season when you are two and a half games out
of first place in May?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Could could this dish is? Yeah? Could?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Could what Aggie dug say be true? Could we get
to middle of July and they're floundering or below five
hundred or worse? Right, if this is the start of
a down trend, it could happen.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Is very close.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
The possible outcomes for the Astros is that all these
guys that are the mccullar's doesn't work out, and in
a blue ball whoever, you start getting burn baby, all
these guys giving you less than six and the bullshit
gets burned out and the hitting doesn't turn, and then
all of a sudden you're ten twelve games back and
it's time to sell. Absolutely could happen now, and it
(34:10):
would be unfortunate, and a lot of it would be
because of the injuries and you know other stuff with
the bats not turning, whether it's declined from from age,
you guys like jose al to Van Christian Walker, and
we'll see what happens with jord On. But yeah, maybe
not right now what Doug is calling for, but it
could happen in two months. Absolutely, this is this could
(34:31):
be a bad tipping point for the season. I want
to overreact and say, oh the season's over, but this
very well.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
They could hold it together too.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
But Eric Getty's what a month away now has even
thrown a baseball. The cast is smaller, but it's still
a cast. And by the way, he's gonna have to
absolutely have some rehabbits.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
He's have to rehabit, he's gonna build back up, he's
got to stretch back out. Yeah, yeah, we need to
hold on again.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I don't agree with it, but we can revisit in
forty five days.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
And by the way, if you're moving making a move
for Frober Valdez, you're not doing it in my May
twenty First, you're gonna wait for the very last second
to see what you get back in return. All right,
real quick, before we get to astros on deck biscuits,
whether it's at seven ninety and ten to fifty five biscuit.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Good morning, hey, at the top of the morning.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
See my brothers, hey man, real quick man, Matt the
most famous guys my hometown. Y'all mentioned him every baseball season,
Old Tommy John. He's from my hometown. My uncle used
to play baseball.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Mentioned every baseball season. Yeah he yep.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I don't think Tommy John got enough of the whatever
the value is and using his name over and over again.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
But he's got it.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
Yeah yeah, and and quickly cheers man. That was Matt.
That was my show man. And the lineup was in
the eighties. Family ties.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Oh I forgot about family ties? Yeah, I think so. Yeah,
that's right, that's right.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Was there a different world got inserted in because they
realized whatever we know.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
I brought up a different world. I brought it up.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Yeah, yeah, but man, last night, Man and the Ross,
I don't know, you said it was eleven out of fourteen.
I think it was fourteen out of seventeen, wasn't it
on the free throw?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Maybe you're right, I go, I can go back and look.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Yeah, but man, this and the thing about it was,
if you watched the replay, he's pushing off and they
called the file on the de was a guy, and
it took the Minnesota players out of the game. I
thought the one guy was gonna go over there and
push the ref after one of the calls. They end
up reversing it or whatever, but the calls by the
refs took Minnesota smooth out the game. Them dudes was
(36:33):
like and you could look at an ant man and
was named after the at the press conference after the game,
and them guys just you know, they was totally frustrated.
They got to do. You can't Mike didn't shoot that
many free throws, and Harden shot a lot of free throws,
but not in the playoffs. So I don't know what
the nbig gonna do, but they gotta do something about
that man.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
All right, thanks Misking for the phone call, appreciate it,
but more than that, real quick on the NFL thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Toush push stays. Okay, Tush push stays. So fell off.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
He went to their Twitter account and said push on
or push on or whatever. And the NFL and the
Detroit Lions Ross to your dismay pulling off the vote
for a playoffs but not guaranteed home field advantaged. The
division winners will be guaranteed a home field game in
a playoff. And the Detroit Lions, who initiated the conversation,
(37:22):
took it off the table.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
So the Buccaneers can go eight and eight hosts a
playoff game.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Good for them, No, they camp they had to go
nine to eight or eight and nine seventeen game season
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Oh that's right, eight and nine. Then I got jutsubatics.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Good job, all right, Astros on deck in eleven seven,
eleven to fourteen by the way, for Shay Gills.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
So I was correct.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Okay, biscuit, you now just toast Now, all right, let's
get to Astros on deck with the main headline.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
After Ross tells you about center Jenning
Oh what an age town.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Good morning everyone, and welcome to a Wednesday edition of
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
It is a snack size edition of the show today, as.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
We have the mainstream Matt Thomas Show with Ross from
ten o'clock until eleven, and then Rossie, we get into
Astros on Deck at eleven o'clock where we will celebrate
great Jake Myers. Okay, really really awesome? Isach perettez? Yes?
And uh bad Ochret and a bad ort Okret and
(00:37):
Ort couldn't hold it down. That sounds like a bad
attorney at law firm. Thank good morning, Thank you for
calling Ochert and Ort.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I don't like I want I'd rather have some fried Ochret.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Have you been saving that for a long time? Okay, yeah,
actually this sounds more like it. We are with you
today until eleven o'clock and then we're gonna send you
to Astros coverage from eleven to eleven to four and
then at eleven forty Roberts Steve Will had the finale
from what should be a very.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Hot, humid, stinky.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Oh I meant to use that one double shower kind
of day with the Astros and Rays the rubber game
of the three game series at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida.
By the way, Astro's going for the major league record
most rubber games in a season.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Just alternate wins and losses so much. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Well, you know, their percentages are pretty good now at home,
they're really good.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
On the road, they're not so hot.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
So uh yeah, a rare off night for the local
nine when it comes to well, was not an off
night in terms of everybody. Uh has been very good.
Calib Or has been really good this year. Steven Okert
has been really good and they just had off days
and unfortunately it cost him as the two nothing lead
went to a three to two setback to the Rays.
(01:55):
And that's the series game and a tide of game apiece.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But the good news.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Is is that the Seattle Mariners lost last night of
the Chicago White Sox. The Astros lose no ground to
the ms in the American League West. Oh, I like
you being positive could be. The bad news is they
failed to green some ground with a win. I choose
to have my glass half full.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Oh are you sure? Well? Not unusually in life, But
you're right about that, all right?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
If you'd like to join us, and we are only
with you for this hour in the full context of
the radio show at seven one, three, two, one two, five,
seven nine. If you want to chime in on the astros,
you want to chime in on last night's game one
of the Western Conference Finals, which saw the Oklahoma City
Thunder uh really pull away and didn't make it much
(02:39):
of a game in the second half. Unfortunately, there at
least for if you're a casual NBA fan or a
DieHarder just wants to watch anything NBA related. But yeah, okay,
se is up one nothing on the Thunder. We have
some NFL news today on two notes that have not
been officially changed, but one you're going to be indifferent
to one you're not going to like. Okay, So we
(03:04):
have that to get to UH, we have the passing
of a one of the most beloved television characters of
all time. Would you say on two different accounts? I
guess so that shows a bit of a blind spot
for me. I will tell you this, Uh. Cheers was
probably a top five television show year and year out
(03:26):
in the nineteen eighties. I liked it, didn't love it.
Oh overrated, says Matt too.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
If it was on, I'd watch it. Now.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Remember that Thursday night, way back in the day, NBC
Thursday Night.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
They didn't call it Must See TV.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
They called it whatever they had must CTV was the
Seinfeld Friend's era, right right, right right, So I'm talking
about this is before that.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I want to say there was.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
The Cosby Show, followed by a Different World, followed by Cheers,
and I want to say the last show was Night Court.
But I might be mixing up my eighties and nineties together.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I'm not sure, and I can't look it up because
the internet's bad right now.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Yeah, we're in a secret location, by the way, we
cannot tell you where we are. But the bottom line
is this is that Cheers was at times ridiculously hilarious,
but kind of an old, familiar script. Didn't really change
a lot. You had Goofy Woodie, you had made Aim alone,
(04:36):
you had adictable, Yeah, predictable would be the term. But
George went who passed away. I'm sure many of you
know by now Yesterday was norm and was.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Absolutely one of the funnies sports.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
I didn't think Cliff that the Mailman was particularly intriguing
at all.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I just loved George. He is alive.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I thought they were both dead. No, he is alive.
John Ratzenberger is his name now. Shelley Wall, who played Diane,
is still alive. Obviously, Ted Danson is still alive. He
was just recently on Curve and he's been down a
bunch of TV shows. We did lose Kirsty Alley within
the last couple of years, and then we lost George went.
Now are you familiar with super fans? That's Chicago super fans,
(05:17):
of course. And I know that if you go to
Twitter today you're going to see a lot of different
videos on that.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Now, that was great.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
That to me was simple, yes, and yet one note,
one note.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
But yet you still cracked out.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yes, because what you'd wind up doing is you'd wind
up going to your buddies' houses and talking about the
Bears and talking about your favorite Dadi Indy car driver
Rick Meerce, and then you had talk about the Boss
and you and I have a very good friend of
ours that is in the Chicago area.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I have a lot of friends that have lived and
or worked in Chicago. The stereotype is very real. I
remember remember going to a Chicago sports bar in the
earth early nineteen nineties. It might have been the first
weekend that Fox even had football and the Bears were on.
So I went to a bar to see the Bears,
but the Packers and if people were going nuts, and
(06:12):
I walked around sausage and I walked around, I looked around.
I'm like, my god, it's super fansy. They absolutely nailed
what a typical midwestern Chicago guy looks like. Hard condition, yes, mustache,
bear sweaters that were too tight, and their undying love
for Mike Ditka and chugging beer after beer after beer
(06:34):
and eating brots.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, Chicago old style. Yeah. Perhaps a PBR for a
class if you want to feel a step up your game.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
All right, So if you'd like to talk about cheers,
I don't know if that's gonna be a huge conversation piece,
but I you know, topic a your favorite episode, your
favorite storyline.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I will say this, it is funny.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
One of the worst decisions ever made was for Shenley
Long to leave after you know, a couple of seasons,
because her career never really flourished. I mean, I would
say probably shutting along as some of her best roles
was playing Carol Brady in The Brady Bunch of Movies.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Oh yeah, those are classics. They were pretty good.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
But I mean she she she left the Top five
show thinking that she was gonna be a major star
and she turned out to be. Okay, happens. Yeah, sometimes
you swing for the fences and you miss. I mean,
like you leaving this show. You wouldn't want to do that. Yeah, Well,
make me an offer. Poughkeepsie stop all right? Seven one
three two one two five seven nine. If you want
to jump into the conversation today seven one three two
(07:31):
one two five seven nine zero. And again, if you
want to follow us on Twitter, it's at Sports Empty
and ad Sports Harvy Uh. On the astro side, your
boy Jake just isn't cooling off, and I'm here for it. No,
in East sac Perettes is not cooling off.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It's the month of May. It's time for Jake Myers
to thrive. Now.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
There is somebody that is cooling off significantly. And it's
a guy that hasn't played very much and probably won't
be playing too much longer. I really, and I mentioned
this to you probably what two or three weeks ago, Ross,
and I think it's Bears repeating Chas McCormick needs a
new scenery place to play. His base running has not
been good. He's not productive of the plate. He's frankly
(08:16):
not even playing that much. I think there's value in
Chas McCormick. It just probably isn't gonna be here. I
think it's in his I don't want to say it's
in his head, but I think the the writing is
on the wall. We're just playing when we have to.
You're in war hot ass Tampa. He went one for
four yesterday and again limited batting. His ops is six
(08:36):
zho four and then the throw that the Rays won
the game with he was in left field. Do you
remember when Barry Bonds tried to throw at Sid Bream
in the National League Championship Series and how bad Barry
Bond's throw was when he was a member of the
Giants of the Pirates. Not really, Okay, it's one of
the legendary moments. Sid Bream was a utility player for
the Braves and he was rounding third coming home and
(08:59):
Sidbream I had, remember, said Bream, I had I had
a Sid brim cards nice nice dash, nice dash. I
would not call him a sprinter. Okay, he had an
estach perede speed.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
M Oh that bad.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I mean it wasn't pretty. So the fly ball goes
to left field, McCormick makes it and the Ray runner
is running third coming home and the throw and it
wasn't even a really far hit ball to left field.
It just absolutely had no zip to it, and the
Rays walked it off and won the game last night. Chaz,
(09:33):
I do believe it has some some value, but it's
not here. Yeah, you can look at it a couple
of ways, and it's Chris Morale was the one running score.
He has some uh, some bad luck in that Jake
Myers is hitting very well, so he's earning every day time.
They want to give this Senzon opportunity. They want to
give his Zenzo a opportunity. They want to give Cam
(09:55):
Smith an opportunity. But also it's not like I just
named a Heap of All Star. So it is tough
luck in a way that Chas McCormick can't can't beat
these guys out, And you want to give the young
feenom Cam Smith as ye da Zach Deznzo's more of
an unknown quantity. But they're giving those unknown quantities those
abs because Chas McCormick is what twenty nine thirty years
(10:16):
old at this point, so he he hasn't proven to
the level that he has he has earned every day time. No,
and in the throw again, it was a sackfly. He
just doesn't have a good arm. It's slightly better than
Jake Myers's. But well, the reality is nobody in this team,
I mean Cam Smith, Cam's got it, but he just
(10:37):
needs to. And you know, look, whoever you put in
left field last night, I don't have enough of a
sample size to tay Zach Decenzol is gonna throw that
runner out. I can tell that Josel two is not,
and clearly Chas.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
McCormick is not going to either. So that is the case.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
All right, Uh seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
Naples are taking some phone calls, coming back in a
minute seven one three two one two five seven ninety Hi,
We're only with you till eleven o'clock. Then we go
to Astro spring spring training as well. We're playing in
the spring training Ballparker. All right, it actually feels like
it looks like spring training baseball when they're playing, it
(11:16):
is absolutely incredibly hoky. Yes, and now look, nobody would
have potentially put the Rays in Tampa's in the Yankee
spring training facility. This is a hurricane situation. So it's
a little different than sack Sacramento. I feel like that
Major League Baseball failed more than anything. Yeah, you probably
mean Sacramento doesn't even want the A's. Uh, they only
(11:40):
kept the The A's is an organization only stayed in
northern California because their TV deal is tied to an
NBC Sports California, which is their cable TV partner.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It's their version of a Space City Home network, so they.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Would have lost that money if they would have said,
moved to Nashville or Salt Lake City or something like that.
I'd be curious because I'm going to Vegas next month
and I'm wondering if if the stadium is progressing or
I mean, you don't hear much about it. Frankly, Now,
I know they've already started destroying the trap and it's
no longer operating, but ip, yeah, it's the first place
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I ever.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Went nineteen ninety three. You never forget your first Matt.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Oh god, I was such a terrible player. I didn't
know any rules of blackjack. I was spending. I brought
it like everybody else. Well that's what it was like. Yeah,
I've had those problems. Eight hundred dollars I took with me,
and I think I lost it within the first I
don't know, three or four hours, violently lost.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I got violently sick at the EXCaliber buffet, which was
like next to the Tropicana, and they asked, Caliber is
still going.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Oh, man, mistakes you make.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
It's like it's almost like, I mean, my thirties, I
grew up a little bit. In my forties, I became
a father and a husband, and you know, I was
a gets them in thirty two. But twenty one to
twenty nine, you just go through a lot of Man,
I wish I could redo that, or man, I'm glad
I did that, or what was I thinking trying to
do that?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Figuring things out? Man, life experience it's natural.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I wasn't ready for that, but it works.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I so that is so funny. Good good pulled by you,
good pull by Cube. We're never going to have that
end on this show. This show is gonna last, hopefull
another ten to fifteen years, and we're gonna be playing
that sound bite hopefully, all right, seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
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two five seven nine zero, So we'll get obviously, lots
of astros will go exclusively astros between eleven and eleven
forty here on.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Sports Talk sevent eighty.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Last night in the NBA, we did have the Game
one of the Western Conference Finals, which to the Oklahoma
City Thunder. And seriously, if you're if you're the Minnesota Timberwolves,
you've had all this time to rest, You've had all
this opportunity to uh get your body right, because the
Oklahoma City Thunder just finished off a seven game series
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of the Denver Nuggets, and you hung around for a while,
but man, oh man, oh man, you got Shake Gilders Alexander,
who did not shoot particularly well.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
You know, they won one, fourteen to eighty eight. Oklahoma
City was down.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
By four and a half, outscored the Wolves by thirty.
Anthony Edwards was terrible last night. Nas Reed was terrible
last night.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yes, uh yeah, nas Reed, Uh yeah. It's also a
good Oklahoma City Thunder defense.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
But the big storyline nationally has been Shae Gilders, Alexander
and that and that foul hunting. He had seven free
throw attempts in the first quarter.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I think it was.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
There was a Bill Simmons tweet going viral and a
bunch that I was seeing as well, like Shay's not
even getting touched and he's just flopping and flailing and
they're calling everything. So I'll be interested to see game
two and see if the whistle changes there, tightens up
a little bit. Oh, you mean to tell me the
other one hundred and ten games that these play hasn't
give you an indication that the chan the whistle's not
gonna change. I don't know. Squeaky wheel gets the grease,
and that that wheel was squeaking. So national media, national
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NBA media. So I do a lot of stupid things,
and one of them is watching the morning TV shows
because I'm trying to get a sense of what's going
on in the world of sports. Because I was gonna
watch the Today's Show today, but they were at Universal
studios of the new theme park, and I don't care
about that kind of stuff. Okay, it was a blatant
because NBC and Universal law are the same. It was
just a yeah, no, no, no, that's ANBC Disney do that
(15:38):
NBC Universe. Yeah, it's a blatant ripoff of hey, come not,
We're not being journalists.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
We're here just to promote this ball, this park.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So I had to put on the morning shows and
Kendrick Perkins talked a lot about how people should stop
complaining about Shake Gilders Alexander and the foul calls, because
we've never complained about Michael Jordan getting the car hold on.
We never complained about Kobe Bryant getting foul calls. We
never complained about Lebron James getting foul calls. And I'm
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thinking to myself, what NBA has he watched and or played.
I don't remember, ever as a kid watching Michael Jordan
as a young adult in nineteen ninety seven when he's
playing in the NBA Finals, going oh, yes, m JM
glad you got that foul calls to go to the.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Free throw line.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I remember MJ making big shots. I remember MJ carrying
the bulls on his back. I remember Kobe Bryant putting
together a run of ten or twelve straight points.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Now, did those guys get foul calls.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Of course they did, but I don't remember going that's
a Cagy team now. The only player, to be fair
that we as a fan base, especially in Houston, talked
about if you think you can stop it, then stop it.
If not, let the man eat. And that's James Harden.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
We bemoan.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I will say this, I bemoaned people complaining about James
Harden getting the free throw line, and I would say, well,
if their fouls or fouls, if James is extraordinary and
gathering contact and gets the free throw line thirteen fourteen
times a game, good for him. The problem was is
I watched the game last night between the Thunder and
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the Wolves. It felt like to me, and not that
I got the officiating handbook in front of me, that
about every other call ross that SGA was getting there
was minimal contact or nothing that deserved a whistle, and
he was getting reputation calls, or at least in James's case,
he was getting attacked pretty good on a on a
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semi record basis. James was selling it. But I mean
we did complain about Lebron James and his free throws.
We did, as Kendrick person Perkins suffered some sort of
brain injury. I really believe he eats too much of
oatmeal in the morning. I got two words for him
because he had as much hush off. We talked about
that for years with Michael Jordan and the Jordan Rules.
Was originally the Pistons and their Jordan Rules beating up
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on Michael Jordan, but the Jordan Rules morphed into us
talking about him getting every single call and super star calls.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
We've talked about.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
This in the in the NBA for as long as
I can remember, and yeah, we're talking about with Shai
Gildas Alexander. But it's also more flopping and flailing than
anything else I remember talking.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I remember Reggie Miller in his hey day.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
He'd be flopping and flailing around, and you know, he'd
come around those curls, get up a shot, and then
he'd start kicking his arms up like he got an
electric shock. Yeah, this has been a storyline for for
basically as long as the NBA has been around. Maybe
not the nineteen sixties or something, but uh, Kendrick Perkins
Beaumont's finest.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I mean, he's carved on a nice career.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Good for him, I mean he was on commercials last
night during I mean, he's he's done quite well for himself,
and wasn't he also bragging about how he would lock
down to Nikolajokic if he was in his prime.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
They were both in their primes, he would.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Be exhausted trying to guard Nikolo jokicch for a couple
of somebody had brought up some video of like Nikola
Jokich as a rookie torching Kindred Perky. But all I'm
going to say is this, having watched the game last night,
it did aggravate me, and I can tell you it
aggravates the Rockets because that was one of the things
that I know that I Doka has told the guys
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and the guys have talked about we've got to make
sure we got to be on our best behavior because
shake gilch is Alexander lives at the free throw line.
He was two for his first thirteen, but yet he
had decent number of production wise offensively because he was
getting to the free throw line double digits. Not by
the end of the game, but like early third quarter. Yeah,
he hit seven in the first quarter. He ended up
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eleven or fourteen, So it kind of evened out a
little bit there, but still it was ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And it can get ridiculous for stretches.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
But he does it. Luka Doncic does it. Nikola Jokic
does it. We were talking about this last night. Jalen
Brunson does it. It's it's it's part of the game.
So as long as and here's my thought, and this
is overly simplic, but it's what it is. If their fouls,
good for them. But if they're just the like I
remember the Showtime Lakers. I used to watch it, Magic
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Johnson go right down the heart of the lane and
someone would tip his index finger whistle and one it
would And I love the magic as a player, but
it would drive me nuts if you're gonna get called
for a foul. I'm not asking for people to get
like an assaulted on the court. But the stuff that
last night was being called was very very chippy. Yeah,
ticky taxicay, Yeah exactly, all right? Seven one three two
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one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven nine zero.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
That's two. That's three. Oh no.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
The good news because the good news is relative.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Elvin Sampson is a new contract, four year extension through
twenty eight to twenty nine. So he's going to retire
as the coach of the University of Houston Cougar.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
That'll be his last spot.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
So anybody else wanting some little Calvin Samson, you ain't
getting it.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Get out. He's too old. Nobody wants me. I don't.
I think the University of Houston wants him.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Okay, that really isn't for the breaking new sounders.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Would you like to? Don't say Jordon Alvarez Nope, Okay, who.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Give me the sport? I have no idea. My internet's
not even working. It's the Astros three five is the Max, right?
I don't know, just say it. Renelle Blanco has elbow
and soreness, oh my god, and was set back to
Houston to be seen by team doctors.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Well, good thing. They got great pitching depth and we're
not concerned. Okay, I need.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
You to shut your bumb mass up for a second
because I'm gonna tell you why.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You can't No matter what kind of pitching depth you have,
Listen to me very careful.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
You can't have pitching depth when you've already lost Haynes
Westnsky to Tommy John a broken hand to Spencer Arraghetty
that that hurts any team's pitching depth. So I will
not buy the argument of you didn't have enough pitching
complaint of a so elbow Joe A. Spotts say has
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been sent back to Houston break examination, but they if they.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Could have signed somebody.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You're not relying on the Colton Gordon's and the eighth
and uh and the whatever else?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
What was the last night Brandon Walter who's been.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Fine and he's been sent back to him but probably
my guess is coming right back. Yeah, it's gonna be
a quick turnaround trip.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
And you can do that because you're replacing somebody's been injured.
So you couldn't do that in theory. I mean, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
I mean, I I can't give you it probably is
nothing because that's false.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
No, it's probably look we we we we Uh, what
is it? What is the phrase of the Matt Thomas
phrase we deal in realities?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
It's probably Tommy John. I mean, you get set back
to get seen by the time team doctors for elbow
discomfort or or soreness.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
It's I won't do it.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
And even if it's not Tommy John, immediately it feels
like it is. Eventually, well, they're gonna see you get
a second opinion, they're gonna try to work through, They're
gonna rehab through this, and then literally like three months later,
it's somebody the the UCL gets fully ripped of Tommy
John time and the reality is this And Dana Brown
is did not make an appearance today with the previous show.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
That doesn't make sense. He's probably going, oh my god,
I mean that's what I've been doing.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
If I'm Dana Brown, I'll be like, I mean, I
love you Dan in the Morning Show, but I got
I got a fish to fry right now. There's the
time for dude. Do they need to trade for a starter?
I would say yes, they need to trade for a starter.
Chas McCormick, come on down. What kind of value does
he have? I don't know. Well, don't do that. Don't
(24:17):
you pulled an astro or Twitter moment there. We can
go get a number two starter for Chasmcormons. I know,
I know what you didn't say that.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I know. I know.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Maybe you find some guy who's repertoire you can tinker
with and and and turn him into a better picture
like what you saw with Hayden, wez'n esky like what
you did with you se Kakuchi and those kind of
guys and give up something. But man, the cupboard being
as bare as it has been, and you've already traded
away from it a couple of times and now having
to do it again.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Oh man, I'm gonna tell you I have zero positive
vibes about this.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah, because if you have soreness which can't happen, you
put ice on it on a day, you sip a
skip a start, you.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Think it's fine when you have to fly back.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
He's already in Houston right now, which means they he
left yesterday. Yeah, I don't think he's gonnap at five
am to catch the Tampa flight. So Luis Garcia is
recovering from Tommy John, Christian Xavier is recovering from Tommy John.
Hayden was a nasky at and now possibly renewe Blanco.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Yeah, that is insane. That is just ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And I will say this, and I don't know the doctors,
I don't know the trainers.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
I don't blame the Astros for this. I blame baseball.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yeah, it's just been the the emphasis on spin the
emphasis on velo. How's gone up and got I mean
a couple of years ago, or maybe it was last year,
Justin Verlander had some really good quotes on all the injuries,
and he said, basically, it's a combination of things. And
then maybe it is just the nature of the game
and they that it is and pitchers and all that
type of stuff.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
That's how pictures come up. It's it's all those things.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I got one even a simpler thought than that. The
human arm was not meant to do what major league
baseball players suppose. It's very core. That's that's problem A.
And by the way, then we get the problem BCD.
And you've been doing this since you've probably been nine
years old. Yes, your arm gives out. If you were
to do something as a good thing about it, when you
were nine years old, you probably threw faster than an
average nine year old did. You've done every If you're
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a major league pitcher, you've done this at an exemporary
level for at least bare minimum. Even if you started
to picking. If you picked up a baseball for the
first time in high.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
School, you did this. You've been doing this for about.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Nine or ten years of throwing at baseball really hard
gripping it.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Sliders never help, curveballs don't help.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Frankly, if you want to make sure that you don't
hurt your arm, you throw change ups in fastballs.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
But that doesn't get ounce into major leagues. And then
the pitch clock question looms as well. How much no.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Doubt, no doubt, we love it because baseball games are shorter.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
We were talking about it last night at dinner.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
But you tell me, is there not a direct correlation
to the number of TJ elbow forearm soreness to where
we are? And that's what And it's honestly, if I'm
Lance my colors, I think about these things. Look, there's
enough baseball nerds that we will I'm sure there's data
on this or storage stories and break studies. But also
(27:32):
you have to have enough to sample size. If everybody's
getting Tommy John one year, and then that doesn't necessarily
mean that's a uh, statistically significant sample. We need, unfortunately
years and years to kind of figure this out because
we can't take sixty years of non pitch clock and
compare to two years of pitch clock, right, you know
what I mean? You need to zoom out, You need
(27:54):
more data and it's only been a couple of years.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Could I take the previous tube off?
Speaker 2 (27:58):
You can say the ear, you could say the early
returns are not good. It feels like the early returns
are bad. I mean, and maybe it's just localize here
with Houston because it's so bad. But I feel like
it's been a bad If we had Rob Manford on
the show right now and we threw that question to him,
what would his response be, Uh, you know, we look
(28:19):
to improve the team, improve the game and all facets,
and that's something we're definitely looking into, and we need
to talk with the players about trainers.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
We're actively looking into the situation wards out.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Basically, it's too early to say anything. That's what he
would say, yes.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Or how about this?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
And forgetting about the pitch clock, how about ladies and gentlemen.
Just the number of injuries on this Tommy Johnes surgeries,
it feels like you've got high school kids getting there.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
It's like, uh, it's like Oprah handing out Honda's. Everyone's
getting it. I actually get that. I don't know if
our audience does, but I get that.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
All right, we've got one segment left.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
If you like to join us. If anybody's on the line,
we'll talk to you when we come back. Man tough,
but this is again if you're just joining us renew.
Blanco is now in Houston being seen by team doctors
for elbow soreness. The two worst words in baseball right now,
elbow soreness and elbow discomfort.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yes, and elbow discomfort.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Ten on Sports Talk seven eight ten forty nine on
the Matt Thomas Show with lost, We've got astros on deck,
coming up in a box to ten minutes from now,
and the league will be We're a l Blancos seeing
the doctors. I didn't ubered him over to the hospital.
I mean I'll do it. I mean if I can
get a little, you know, kind of get the advance.
(29:48):
He can AfD now he now we're now, does not
speak English, so it would have been a short, been
minimal conversation.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
He probabuld have said owl hurts me pain center the English.
I would imagine he knows more English than out hurts
me pain.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Out hurts me pain. That sounds like an alias. I
could use it at a hotel. Let's talk to Aggie
Doug on seven eight eighty what's a good word.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Hey, what's up, fellas, And it's awful news about Blanco
and and if it ends up being what we think
it is, I think you have to legitimately look at
trade and fromber for for what we can get at
this point. And I hate to say you need to
wave the white flag, but just you gotta see what
you can do with the guys that you got, because
(30:34):
I mean, to be fair, we're gonna be We're gonna
be really good as far as pitching for the next
five years because we're gonna have all these guys coming
back from Tommy John surgery that are gonna be on
really minimal contract at that point. So I'm not real
worried about the future. But I mean, like you were saying,
you kind of have to pull back a little bit
as far as like you all were talking about with
the pitch clock, like it just might be the year
(30:57):
that the Jordon's down. You train, you, you try to
get a Hunter Brown signed to at least a five
six year deal, and you just kind of focus on
the future because I think it's really bright as far
as you know, the pitching that we have coming. But
it's just not gonna happen this year.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I just I just don't think it well happened. Thanks Sadie.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I would disagree with about eighty percent of your phone call.
I'm not going to be optimistic. I've got four guys
on Tommy John.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
The future is bright.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
How about the future is murky at best?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, I mean if he's saying he's saying punt on
this season and trade fromber Right, here's a reality. Arrogetty
is coming back, yes, Hunter Brown is having a cy
Young esque type season Frommer's still looking like in a
one a most start one.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I mean he was another quality start a couple of
days ago. Yeah. The good thing is that the division
is still bad.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
That's the thing is if the division is bad, there's
no sport that plays a series that gives you an
opportunity to be good for a little length of time
like Major League Baseball does. Can you see a world
where you win a week division and you get into
the playoffs with Brown, Valdez, Arraghetty.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Colors as a viable playoff rotation or to be determined
on the fourth and it could be land or.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Should be blue, ball, could be cold. Gordon looked good
in his last year or who am I forgetting? I'm
forgetting somebody. Uh, well, you have Gusto Gusto, I mean yeah,
the fourth guy that you throw for three four innings
in a playoff game. And then I don't think frankly
(32:55):
that Brandon Walter is in a mix. It felt very
much like a spot start for him. But you know,
and gave you no nothing earned over five yesterday. That's
the probmise you are. You are running into a ridiculous run.
And we were kind of afraid of this, of guys
that are getting you four and five and that's really
starting to wear in the bullpen, and I thought maybe
there was a small sign of that yesterday.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Yeah, it's a bad spot. Uh.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
By the way, I don't want anybody punting on a
season when you are two and a half games out
of first place in May?
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Could could this dish is? Yeah? Could?
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Could what Aggie dug say be true? Could we get
to middle of July and they're floundering or below five
hundred or worse? Right, if this is the start of
a down trend, it could happen.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Is very close.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
The possible outcomes for the Astros is that all these
guys that are the mccullar's doesn't work out, and in
a blue ball whoever, you start getting burn baby, all
these guys giving you less than six and the bullshit
gets burned out and the hitting doesn't turn, and then
all of a sudden you're ten twelve games back and
it's time to sell. Absolutely could happen now, and it
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would be unfortunate, and a lot of it would be
because of the injuries and you know other stuff with
the bats not turning, whether it's declined from from age,
you guys like jose al to Van Christian Walker, and
we'll see what happens with jord On. But yeah, maybe
not right now what Doug is calling for, but it
could happen in two months. Absolutely, this is this could
(34:31):
be a bad tipping point for the season. I want
to overreact and say, oh the season's over, but this
very well.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
They could hold it together too.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
But Eric Getty's what a month away now has even
thrown a baseball. The cast is smaller, but it's still
a cast. And by the way, he's gonna have to
absolutely have some rehabbits.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
He's have to rehabit, he's gonna build back up, he's
got to stretch back out. Yeah, yeah, we need to
hold on again.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I don't agree with it, but we can revisit in
forty five days.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
And by the way, if you're moving making a move
for Frober Valdez, you're not doing it in my May
twenty First, you're gonna wait for the very last second
to see what you get back in return. All right,
real quick, before we get to astros on deck biscuits,
whether it's at seven ninety and ten to fifty five biscuit.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Good morning, hey, at the top of the morning.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
See my brothers, hey man, real quick man, Matt the
most famous guys my hometown. Y'all mentioned him every baseball season,
Old Tommy John. He's from my hometown. My uncle used
to play baseball.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Mentioned every baseball season. Yeah he yep.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I don't think Tommy John got enough of the whatever
the value is and using his name over and over again.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
But he's got it.
Speaker 5 (35:35):
Yeah yeah, and and quickly cheers man. That was Matt.
That was my show man. And the lineup was in
the eighties. Family ties.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Oh I forgot about family ties? Yeah, I think so. Yeah,
that's right, that's right.
Speaker 5 (35:52):
Was there a different world got inserted in because they
realized whatever we know.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
I brought up a different world. I brought it up.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Yeah, yeah, but man, last night, Man and the Ross,
I don't know, you said it was eleven out of fourteen.
I think it was fourteen out of seventeen, wasn't it
on the free throw?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Maybe you're right, I go, I can go back and look.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Yeah, but man, this and the thing about it was,
if you watched the replay, he's pushing off and they
called the file on the de was a guy, and
it took the Minnesota players out of the game. I
thought the one guy was gonna go over there and
push the ref after one of the calls. They end
up reversing it or whatever, but the calls by the
refs took Minnesota smooth out the game. Them dudes was
(36:33):
like and you could look at an ant man and
was named after the at the press conference after the game,
and them guys just you know, they was totally frustrated.
They got to do. You can't Mike didn't shoot that
many free throws, and Harden shot a lot of free throws,
but not in the playoffs. So I don't know what
the nbig gonna do, but they gotta do something about
that man.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
All right, thanks Misking for the phone call, appreciate it,
but more than that, real quick on the NFL thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Toush push stays. Okay, Tush push stays. So fell off.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
He went to their Twitter account and said push on
or push on or whatever. And the NFL and the
Detroit Lions Ross to your dismay pulling off the vote
for a playoffs but not guaranteed home field advantaged. The
division winners will be guaranteed a home field game in
a playoff. And the Detroit Lions, who initiated the conversation,
(37:22):
took it off the table.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
So the Buccaneers can go eight and eight hosts a
playoff game.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Good for them, No, they camp they had to go
nine to eight or eight and nine seventeen game season
or whatever.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Oh that's right, eight and nine. Then I got jutsubatics.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Good job, all right, Astros on deck in eleven seven,
eleven to fourteen by the way, for Shay Gills.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
So I was correct.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Okay, biscuit, you now just toast Now, all right, let's
get to Astros on deck with the main headline.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
After Ross tells you about center Jenning
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