7/12 Nightcap

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Episode Transcript

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The word Tason. Now kick back, pop a top and catch up with
your Houston team rank CAPA. Thisis the Nightcap with Ross Viial Cap six

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so two in the PM here onsports Stock seven ninety. Hello and welcome
into another edition of the Nightcap program. That's three in a row, folks,
and we're gonna hit five in arow. A little spoiler alert,
not a whole lot of Astros baseballbeing played this week because it is the
All Star week, and then whenthey're in action on Friday, it'll be

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a late night Los Angeles Angels game, so that means you get more of
me. Hi, I'm Ros virReal. Noah Fouts is here as well.
He's gonna be hanging out and he'sgonna bring us some of the top
sports new sports news items of theday as we go along. And also
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more to three hundred? Are youkidding me? We've been trying to get
you to three hundred for like sixmonths. Yeah. Who, But for
the love of God, will youplease just just follow I'm gonna make seven
burner accounts and follow you with them, Noah, so that you can get
to three hundred as a follower accountexactly. I've muted Noah ages ago,
so just follow him Noah on sevenninety and then go from there by Adam,

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see you later, buddy. I'mgonna go unfollowed Noah on my way
home. Oh that's rude. We'retrying to get his count up. Noah
on seven ninety is where you canfind him. And I already gave you
the phone number. So look,we got a lot of stuff to get
to here. It's actually and Iknow, okay, just between you and
me. There are a lot oftimes where sports hosts come in get in

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front of the microphone and there ain'tjack going on, and they're like we're
jam packed. We have more sportstopics than we can even get too on
a show. We got all thisto get to and then they talk about
I don't know if they prefer Navybeans over Lima beans for two segments.
So that's not the case. I'mbeing honest with you. I'm being fourth
right. There actually are a numberof things to get to here on what

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is supposed to be the slowest dayin the sports calendar year. You have,
of course, the All Star Gamelast night. I'm not really gonna
get into that. I ask Iguess I asked you the obligatory home run
derby. How much did you engageyesterday? Noah, So I'll just give
you the quick obligatory question. Howmuch of the All Star Game did you
engage in last evening? How manyminutes of the game did you watch?

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Do you know how long the gamewas? I don't. Well, let's
just say, let's just say forarguments, saying, okay, I watched
two hours and twenty minutes. Okay, so you watched almost all of it.
Watch really except for the bottom halfof the ninth I'm proud of you,
thanks man. That's what did youWhat was your biggest takeaway from the

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All Star Game that was very lowscoring and the National League one for the
first time in like twenty thousand years. Yeah, that feels like a gross
overestimation. No, I'm going tohave to fact check you on that,
Noah. But that's fine. Okay, So you were engaged in the game.
I'm gonna be totally honest with you. I didn't watch a single pitch.
I didn't catch the highlights afterwards,and it sound like it was a
pretty good game, closely contested,not a whole lot of scoring, as

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Noah said, and it was allcool. But I'm more engaged in what
the Houston ash Shows are doing.First of all, do I even need
to go after Seattle fan again?Fine, if I have to, I'll
go after Seattle fan. What hasgotten into Seattle Mariner fan? Why are
they acting like they have been sowronged by the Houston Astros that they need
to scream and boom and act likethey're Yankee fans and Dodger fans. First

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of all, as we all know, you're educated baseball fans. The Houston
Astros, yes, they cheated intwo thousand and seventeen with the trash can
banging scheme. But there are alot of other teams doing the same thing.
The Yankees were cheating, they hadthe whole Yankee letter thing. The
Boston Red Sox. I'm sorry,no, I'm not trying to come after
your squad, but can you explainto me how they get ship They get

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punished in two thousand and seventeen forApple watches in two eighteen for well talking
about JT. Juatkins in the videoroom or whatever. They fire their manager,
rehire the guy Moki Betts was partof the team, JD Martinez as
well, and they just get offscott free like nothing ever happened. And

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it's all focusing on the Astros.If somebody could explain that to me,
But I digress. Anyways, otherteams involved in what they did, and
the players that were there in Seattle, Kyle Tucker and your On Alvarez weren't
part of the two seventeen team.The Seattle Mariners did not face the Houston
Astros in the twenty seventeen eighteen nineteenplayoffs, or whatever you want to say.

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Even if you're somebody an idiot whobuys into the whole buzzer theory,
yet Seattle fan cannot wait to standup and heartily boo the Houston Astros as
if they've done something extremely wrong tothem. You're not even really, it's
not even a rivalry. It's beenthe Astros running the American League and the

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Seattle Mariners made the playoffs for thevery first time in like twenty plus years
last year, and you got yourasses swept out? Is that what you're
booing about out? You're just You'rejust hurt, and your feelings are hurt
because the Astros swept you out,and you're Don Alvarez cranked a three run
home run to win one of theearly games, was a game one or

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two out. Again, even rememberat this point of the Alds, the
Astros did you a favor. Firstof all, they single handedly stimulate your
economy by every time they come intotown. You get forty thousand people into
your park and they want to booyou, and you get to sell hot
dogs. Aramark stock goes up everytime the Houston Astros coming to Seattle,
and you sell all these tickets,and everybody wants to get all frothy in

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an act like they, oh,we're gonna go boo the Astros and it's
let's what was that guy out onTwitter last year? Yeah, they can't,
they can't throw us all out.Let's get out there and let's make
their lives hell. And I thinkthey got swept in that series two,
Like, what what is your deal? Seattle fan? Think the Astros you

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are? You are nothing to theAstros. Yankees fans, I get it.
Astros have been knocking their ass outof the playoffs almost every year since
two thousand and fifteen. Dodgers fans, I get it, and their warped
minds, they're wrong. The HoustonAstros robbed them of a two seventeen World
Series. Seattle fan to Boo,the way that you did, the way

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that you do, I don't getit doesn't make any sense anyways. So
you have all that going on,and I'm really focused on the Houston Astros
and going forward and what's gonna happen. And that's why I'm gonna bring you
a little bit of Dana Brown.He spoke to Sean Salisbury show earlier today

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and it was some pretty good stuff. A couple of important questions. There's
a lot of stuff that you canfind the full interview with Sports Talk seven
Dot com you want to go tothe podcast page, but I want to
focus on a lot of the deadlinestuff with you guys, because it's continuing
to creep up. We're now intoJuly twelfth, and the trade deadline is
beginning to lose here it is?Is it August first or July thirty first?

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It's usually one or the other.I think it's August first. Yeah,
August first this year is the tradedeadline. We're into July twelfth.
We're starting to creep closer and closerand starting to wonder what will happen.
You did have, I would guess, is the oldest Chapman deal made by
the Rangers. That's pretty much theonly major deal that's been made at this

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point. Anything else been on anybody'sradar, doesn't feel like it, at
least right now. So what isthe priority at the deadline? A couple
of weeks ago, if you remember, Dana Brown was talking about a bat
I believe that was on an interviewhe joins the Astro's radio network every Sunday.
It was a couple of sundays ago. This morning, a bit of

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a changing of the tune for DanaBrown on the priority for the Houston Astros.
I promise it is gonna work,all right, it's my computer up.
Noah, A right, no onepriority of it's a good question.

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Um, I think they're all prettyimportant. Um, I'm only giving you
one. Yeah, if yeah,if you only give me one, I
mean I'll take a starter. Youknow, like the deadline of listeness,
there was one available and it matchedup with Is that shifted a little for
you? Do, Dan? BecauseI know you were thinking about left handed
pop. You know, we've talkedabout it over the last month or so.

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Has it shifted to a starter becausethe injuries and just how important it
is? Yeah. The part ofit is like you know, when you
look at the the starting pitching andif if one thing happens when you when
you don't get good starts, yougo home. Right, That's that's the
main thing. So um, youknow with the with the pictures that we

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had going down, Um, youknow it's it could put it in the
situation where you know, we comeup short or you know, we don't
get to that next round of theplayoffs. So a good arm would be
really really helpful. I mean,you can never go on, you can
never go wrong with a good arm. You know, a good bat you

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may go into a slump or somethinglike that, but a good arm they
usually post and if you can getthat, that would be outstanding. Well,
arms can come over and not besuccessful in trays, but that's fine
anyways. So a priority on astarting pitcher, says Dana Brown. I
guess he's subscribing to the old axiomyou can never have enough pitching, especially

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when it comes to the playoff,and especially if you look at the runs
the Ashows went on last year.They really got it done with pitching over
the balance of the season and intothe playoffs. Sure there was some safe,
shaky starting pitching, but the bullpen, which just completely lights out,
got enough offensively. All praise beto Jordan for the huge home runs in
the World Series in the Alds andthe Astros got it done. So that's

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where Dana Brown is right now.If you had to put it, oh,
you can only choose one, SeahnSalisbury putting him on the spot,
he would go with a starting pitcher. Your reaction seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one threetwo one two five seven ninety will also
get some headlines other things to getto rule changes in the NBA, rule

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changes proposed in Major League Baseball aswell. So we got a lot of
things that we are going to talkabout here on the Nightcap with You until
seven o'clock here on Sports Talk sevenninety where we will be back after this
short break. Welcome back to theNightcap program, rossby Real with you until

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seven o'clock. I think there's aghost in here. This rope cool thing
just started working all of a sudden. It wasn't working earlier. I don't
know what's going on in this play. You know that I actually explain a
lot on these studios. A lotof stuff is jacked up in here,
and maybe you don't want to hearabout this, but that's all right.
Stuff is messed up, and wellthat's just how it is in these new
studios, and it's got to be. I think we may be broadcasting from

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a former Native burial ground or somethingthat would explain what's going on here.
Anyways, phone lines are open foryou would like to get in at seven
one three, two one two fiveseven seven one three two one two five
seven ninety talking some astros as wehad Dana Brown on in the morning here
on the Sean Salisbury show mentioned Youcan catch the full interview sports Talk seven

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ninety dot com if you would liketo get check it out there. But
the money quote, I think talkingabout the priority at the deadline, it
would be a starting pitcher for theAstros, and I just feel like if
you had to choose one, whichby the way, the Astros don't,
but they do also have limited resources. So if you're gonna go all in

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on one way, I think that'ssome good insight to get from Dana Brown.
I think that's the way that Iwould go for a number of reasons.
First of all, I mean theway that Christian Javier has been pitching
lately at my confidence level is alittle shaky right now, and where he
would be come playoff time. Weknow he was great last year and great
in the playoffs and part of thethe combined no hitter against the Phillies,

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But right now he's taxed. He'spitched a lot of innings, He's young
in his career and doesn't have ahistory of, say Framber Valdez, of
pitching of these many innings, andyou're wondering how he's going to be down
the stretch of the season and comeOctober, and that's your number two guy.
We have question marks about then who'syour three right now? Hunter Brown?

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He's been shaky as of late aswell for the Houston Astros. He
is a rookie pitcher and has rackedup a ton of innings. And I
feel like something that's been a recurringtheme in the last several years when the
Astros get involved in these late playoffruns is good arms can start to get
shaky towards the end of the seasonbecause of being taxed so much, in

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use so much, and the inningsgetting racked up. It almost becomes a
war of attrition come playoff time,and you're hoping you can just kind of
hang on by a thread and makeit to the end and scratch across enough
runs to win playoff series and wingames. I mean, look at the
starting pitching in twenty twenty two,I'm sorry, twenty twenty one against the

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Atlanta Braves and the whole playoffs whereyou had, I mean, nobody could
give you a quality start outside Imean all Dance with Colors. Junior was
solid in his first start against theWhite Sox, then he got hurt,
and then it was Luis Garcia andFramberg whoever, they couldn't give you a
quality start. You were shocked.I think at one point when Zach Rinky

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gave you like four innings, youare like Dan sing in the streets.
So I would go with pitching,and that seems like that's where Dana Brown
is right now, and that alsowould be helpful if you do want to
go to a six man rotation atsome point in the second half because of
what I just mentioned about all thosepictures that you have that have not have

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do not have the track record ofpitching. I mean all these number of
innings and just being that that studguy that you can count on. There's
no Justin Verlander on this staff,who fell apart in the playoffs, by
the way, but still, youknow what I'm saying, There's no Garrett
Cole, it's Framber and then it'squestion Marks. So that's why I'm down

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to go with a starting pitcher andgo in that direction. If I'm Dana
Brown and if I am Houston Astros, and I wouldn't be shocked if they
went to a six man rotation.It's gonna be a little more more difficult,
well easier if you get Jose airkeatieback. No problems with his rehab
stints apparently. I think it's fourstarts that they're looking at. Probably gonna

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go with for Urkdi and then havehim in the mix. You feel a
little bit more confident if he comesback and he pitches well. But it's
no secret. It's not like hewas great. It's not like it's not
he was go vying for a CyYoung Award before going down with that shoulder
injury or injury earlier this year,so we shall see. I still got

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the Astros winning the American League West. I think the hitting is gonna improve.
I think the pitching will improve,and I think they will acquire some
pitching and that will help them getover the hump for this season. Seven
one three two one two five sevenninety. The phone number as I mentioned,
seven one three two one two fiveseven ninety. Let's go with Paul

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in Myerland, holding longest on thephone lines. Paul, the floor is
yours. How do you damn it? Head half? Are you? I'm
doing great? Great, hey man. We got you for a whole week
and the city of Houston is betterfor it, I tell you that.
And by the way, that wasa nice diet tribe he did on Seattle
Fan or night. I really enjoyedthat. Oh, thank you. I

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mean, it just doesn't make anysense. And that's you know what.
If there's one thing I really can'tstand in this life of mind, Paul
is when things are people are illogical. He just doesn't There's no logic to
why the Seattle fan is so butheard over the Houston Astros. But anyways,
what do you got? Yeah?I don't suff for agency will either.
Uh No. I heard the daythat Bud Adams is up for I

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don't know. I don't think it'shis first time, but he's up for
the Old Timers Committee. That's whatthey call it in baseball, the contributors
for the Hall of Fame. Yeah, does he have your vote, Paul?
You know he does. He broughtfootball to Houston, but then the
son of them, you know what, took it away from us, just
ripped it out of our hearts.But I want to know legitimately, what

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does he do? What did hedo to be in the Hall of Fame.
I mean, he didn't do anyinnovations. He made his scouts by
their own pencils, he hired hisson in a lot to be general manager
Lance herzog Water joke fired bum Phillipsafter taking us to the top three years
in a row. Seconds of thetop. I just don't understand it was

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he in there. I believe hewas one of the co founders of the
AFL. Yeah, so I meanI can Yeah, well, Lamar Hunt's
already in there, and I guesshe was his brainchild, and then Bud
Adams had to do Yeah, Imean, I would have to look more
into it, honestly, of whatthe contributions are exactly for Bud Adams to

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be enshrined in the Hall of Fame. If he did some great things that
would get him in there. ButI'm with you off the top of my
head. Outside of being one ofthe founding owners of the AFL, which
was really just I mean, Iguess it was obviously instrumental in bringing the
league to where it is today.I know that he's not going to get

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a whole lot of Hall of Fameview votes out of the city of Houston.
No, he's not, John,the plan is not on the side.
Yeah, I would imagine not.But who knows if they had a
personal relationship or or or what andthey would of course be a posthumous enshrinement
into the Hall of Pro Football Hallof Fame for Bud Adams. I didn't
even see that he was a Hewas a semi finalist. Heard early on

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the team. Okay, never heardof that? What's that? O?
Man, it's too jabber mouth.I just want to talk. Really,
it's like they host a talk show, isn't it. Yeah, it's kind
of wild. All right, thanksa lot, Paul appreciated. All Right,
So I'm pulling up an article fromthe Tennessee Titans dot Com accomplishments of

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one Bud Adams. He helped formthe AFLUH co founded the AFL before the
league's merged. He was instrumental ingetting Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon to play
in the NFL, and his aggressivesspending helped give the upstart league instant credibility.

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So he paid his players what theywere worth and he started a team.
Eh, I don't know. Hedoesn't have my vote. Sorry,
Bud, you stole the You tookthe Houston Oilers away from me. That's
my childhood team. I'm probably oneof the last people around my age of

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a dying breed that remembers Oilers football, and they were near and dear to
my heart, and then they wentaway. So Bud Adams does not have
my vote, and I'm really notseeing enough to get him in there,
if you ask me. It's notlike he was a part of any like
huge watershed moments or broker the dealor anything like that. Lamar Hunt certainly
deserving, probably some other people aswell, but also at the end of

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the day, it's not gonna ruinmy evening if Bud Adams gets into the
Hall of Fame. We'll just moveon and go about our lives. All
right. We're gonna take a breakhere, oh the Nightcap. If you
want to get in, phone linesare open for you at seven one three,
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when we come back, all thehard hitting top sports news items of the
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Don't mind me, am I onright now. My headphones are jacked
up. Hey, no, canyou hear me? Just give me a
thumbs up? Is this going overthe air? Okay? That's great?
Um? Yeah, give me whatis going on. M all right,
I think I think I'm good now, Yeah, okay, Hi, Hey,
how's it going. I'm gonna goahead and say this is maybe my
headphones spot a problem, and I'mnot gonna go ahead and say that the

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studios are haunted and still blame them. We'll go with that. Hey,
now, how's it going. It'sgoing well? Okay. What do you
got as far as all the topsports news items of the day. Yeah,
my first one of the day.Um, let's see. It seems
like Rob Manfred said this out apossible challenge system. He said, it's
as of now, the challenge systemis most likely is the most likely outcome

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for balls and strikes. Let's pullup the article. See if I can
full up as well prepared as you'veever been. Sorry, that's okay.
Yeah, we did talk about thisyesterday, and I really don't want to
get on my soapbox about it everysingle day, but it's just boggles my
mind. If I come to youand I say, hey, baseball fan,

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X, we can get every singleball strike call right in high leverage
situations and the playoffs, in evenin spring training or whatever, we can
get every ball and strike call rightshould we do it. I can't fathom
somebody saying no bad idea, shouldn'tdo it. So it feels like because

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of the old trade aditionalists and peopleloving the human element. When you say
you love the human element in ballsand strikes, you're saying you love when
people get calls wrong. So youlove when when when it's two two and
somebody gets wrung up and it shouldhave went to a full count. You
can't get enough of it. Okay, well, I think they should get

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the calls right. I don't knowwhere you come down on that, mister
fouds Uh. I see both sidesof the argument. I'm all for getting
the calls right, but I'm alsoyou know, the kind of guy that's
I'm like the old head terrible likesthe game the way it's paying. Yeah,
I like what I love when itwhen umpire gets it wrong and doesn't

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know his head from his ass andit has a terrible strikes. So yeah,
man, that's great. Then ohwow, hey, fewer arguments and
he checks in so faster games.Oh this is terrible. It can't be
too. If you go to theballpark, you can't be spending an hour
and a half there No, you'renot going to spend an hour and a

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half there. Trust me, They'renot gonna shave off a full hour from
the game from where it is rightnow. Too many sponsorships to get in.
That's why the games, I mean, if you go back into like
the nineteen twenties or whatever, thegames are like two hours and under.
That's because they introduced a little thingcalled commercial breaks, and that's when the
games started to get a little bitlonger. All right, what else you

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got, mister Fouts. Yeah,we talked about this on the A Team.
Uh looks like and I made thejoke that the New York Packers are
going to be featured on Hard Knocksthis here, but nonetheless, yes,
the New York Jets will be theteam featured on HBO's Harden. I have
some important questions about Hard Knocks featuringthe New York Jets. Are they going
to be able to get into Likewhen when Aaron Rodgers takes the whole team

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onto a retreat and they start doinghallucinogens, are they gonna be able to
film that or is that not goingto be allowed? How are you gonna
be able to film with a darknessretreat? And can we get film?
Can we get like the tape ofAaron Rodgers visiting another their universe as he's
tripping his face off is on theiowas. Yeah, when he when he
started, when he hits the ayahuasca. Can we see Aaron Rodgers doing this?

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If so, I'm all in onhard knocks jets. I think the
last one I really watched and fulland got locked into was probably when the
Texans were on it. You know, when I watched a little bit of
the in season one last year whenthey did the Arizona Cardinals and every other
episode Kyler Murray was hurt, andit's like, Cult McCoy is like,
Wow, it's time for me tostep up. You know, this is

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what I'm here for. All right? Cool? Cult, go ahead and
check it down seventy five times andhopefully the Arizona Cardinals defense can hold on.
J. J. Watt says somethinginspirational and then they lose twenty one
to seven. Yeah. Great times. So another thing I'd be interested in
is singing ev Zach Wilson. Isthat what you know? Go cooker hunting?
Oh? Yes, that's it youMaybe he can go there in Rodgers,

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although is he is he spoken for? Did he have that crazy girl?
That's well, I'm sorry, maybea little bit of a lead.
I'm sorry. That interesting young ladywho is a witch? Does it mean
dating a witch? That's the lastthing we had heard about him. Yeah,
you know what, I want tosee that too. I want to
see her like conjuring up some chickenbones and doing seances. She's not the

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last girlfriend. The last ones thedaughter of the Milwaukee Bucks owner. Okay,
Mallory Eden's daughter of Wes Edens,who's the owner of the Milwaukee Bucks.
Oh so, Blue of Earth thatwas the girl last year he had.
Her name was Blue of Earth andshe was a witch. So he's

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not with Blue of Earth anymore,I don't think so. That's disappointing.
I wanted to see her like bea medium and talk to ghosts and stuff
and conjure up a bunch of stuffwhile they're all tripping on ahuasca. That
would have been cool. That's fine. Okay, Well he's got a girlfriend,
but yeah, can we see canwe see Zach Wilson going around like

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the wine bars of New York,like where I don't know where the cougar
bars are in New York City.But I'd love to see Zach Wilson go
over there. That'd be cool.What do they do their training camp?
I guess we'll have to look attraining camp? Oh no, I can't
spell jents. Well, look thisup. Looks like they go to UH

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at the Atlanta Hell the Florham Park, New Jersey, and maybe there's some
wine bars out there. I wantto see Zach Wilson at hot yoga trying
to stretch some ladies out and takethem home. That'd be nice. I
would watch that all right. Whatelse you got? Noah? Um,
let's do this last one that yousent me? Okay, I saw this

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on Twitter or you did, andI wanted to bring it up on the
eight team. I also didn't wantto bring it up. Apparently there's yeah
UH releasing a cheeseburger. Yes,um, it's got no meat and twenty
pieces of American cheese and the breadand that's it. Would you try this?

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I would? There is a zeropoint zero percent chance. Look,
I don't know. Unfortunately, atsome point I would love to get to
Asia. Thailand has beautiful beaches.I would like to visit Japan, Korea
other places as well. It's supposedto be gorgeous over there. I haven't
made it over there yet, soI don't know a whole lot about Thailand's
culture. Are they really really,really really super into American cheese over there,

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because that's what it sounds like.It is, this burger king cheeseburger.
Apparently, Hey, it's only onehundred and nine taibot, which is
about three bucks. It's it's twobuns and twenty slices of American cheese.
So you're trying to go meatless.You're like, yeah, guys, uh,

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you know, I've been having someissues. I've been getting some acid
reflux, cholesterol levels a little high. I'm just cutting out red meat.
Oh really, what do you havefor lunch? I had? I had
a cheeseburger with twenty slices of Americancheese on it today. Okay, mustard
and catch up on that? Orwhere'd you go with? What do you
put on that? Mayonnaise, nopickles, no lettuce, dry bro cheese.

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That's I mean, that doesn't evensound like I'm trying to think of
how would you would conceive coming upwith a burger of twenty slices of cheese?
So it shouldn't it be way morethan that. If you want to
get extra cheese on a on aBurger King whopper, that's gonna run you
about fifty cents, right, Ohyou're talking about the price. Yeah,
so my math, it should beat least ten bucks. Yeah, but
you don't have to meat or thefi. That's true. I guess okay,

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sorry, minus five? Okay,I try it? You would?
Are you serious? That's disgusting?I mean maybe if somebody is gonna pay
you twenty You know, what ifyou pay me twenty bucks, I'd try
it. What if I paid youtwenty you had to finish it? What
are you more likely to eat thisor the mcrill? Oh? Let's see.

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Do I want piping hot shoe leatherdoused in disgusting barbecue sauce covered in
pickles? Or do I want toget stopped up by eating twenty slices of
cheese betwixt two Burger King buns.I guess I would go with a mic
rib. Oh no, I'd probablygo to cheeseburger at the end of the

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day. That's disgusting. That's akind of that's a spot I did not
want to be put in. Allright, Well, we're gonna take a
break here on the Nightcap program.Those you on hold, you are next.
If you want to get in aswell, you don't have to answer
Noah's question. We can talk tobaseball. We were talking about the trade
deadline. We got those rule changes. Where are you at? You want

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the challenge system, you want fullauto balls and strikes or the status quo?
We can talk about that. Wealso have some rule changes in the
NBA as well that we need toget to. All of that and more.
The final segment of the Nightcap,which is next here on Sports Socks
seven ninety. Final segment Nightcap program, Sports Talks seven ninety Ross of your

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now, but we're still kicking forsure. And speaking of some tweets,
let's see Tiffany seven to two sayingpretty sure you're building is haunted. I'm
with you. We need an exorcismor something, because every day something is
jacked up in this building. RocketsVic, thank you for listening. Waiting
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all right, Jamaica. Let's justgo ahead and do that. And
then rockets Vic also says a McRibwith extra onions hits the spot. I
don't know what spot is hitting onyou, but it doesn't hit any spot
on me. Let me just putit that way. Oh and then finally,
now I put it. I didit yesterday. The pole has been
finished two hundred and eighty nine votesin the final results. What should Baseball

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Do with Balls? And strikes,keep umpires calling it fourteen percent? What's
wrong with you people? You're likeNoah Fouts, people were terrible. Hundredth
follower Oh good, who is it? Paul h Thank you appreciated my guy.
Thirty eight percent want to challenge systemand forty seven percent people who are
right automatic balls and strikes. Donald, and the hobby area has been holding

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patiently. Thank you, Donald,Go ahead, the floor is yours.
Okay. The Rich day, thesubject came up that the Commissioner of Baseball
might want to extend the pitch clock. Yeah, that actually started with Tony
Clark, who is the executive directorof the Players Association, talking about how

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it might want to be extended oran extra disengagement timeouts, etc. When
it comes into high leverage spots,especially in the playoffs. Well, I'm
gonna say this, I'm against it. And here's why. Years ago,
Alan Ashby was doing I think itwas color common terry for the Astros for
a couple of years. And youknow, he was complaining way back then

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about how long it was taking battersto prepare to hit, and his whole
diet tribe was, you know,be a professional hitter, you know,
be prepared to hit when you getin the box, you know. Basically,
he said, it's ridiculous. AndI feel the same way now about

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Bud Adams. I'm not for himgoing to the Hall of Fame, especially
how he treated Earl Campbell when hefirst got to the oilers. What he
did to him was terrible, Promisinghim a vehicle, promising him a Lincoln,
waving keys in front of his face. Earl says. Earl asked,
Bud, what are the keys for? Budd says, it's the keys to

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your new Lincoln. Sometime later,Earl sitting at home relaxing, he gets
a phone call, not from Bud, but from Bum Phillips. The guy
didn't even have the balls to calluh Earl himself. He has, but
he has bum do it, andbum Bum Bumb has to tell Earl um

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Budd wants the money for the car, and then Earl says, where he
can come get the car. That'sthe kind of guy. That's the kind
of guy Budd was. He treatedeverybody bad, all right, everybody,
well, thank you, Donald,appreciate you getting in. I had never
heard that Earl Campbell Lincoln Lincoln story. I wasn't aware of that. I

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guess I'll have to try to lookthat up. Yeah, I'm I was
reading the case. Jim Wyatt,who was a longtime writer. He was
with the Tennessee and now with theTennessee Titans. Dot Com kind of wrote
up a little thing about the casefor Bud Adams too. It didn't really
say anything one way or the otherpush for it, just saying what outlining

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the case for Bud Adams to makeit into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Co founded the AFL. He alsohe's as I mentioned earlier, he
convinced Trophy winner Billy Cannon to playin the AFL. He was aggressive and
spending, and I guess you knowthat should be enough to get him into

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the Pro Football Hall of Fame.Was an owner for a very long time.
Maybe people in Nashville really love BudAdams because he brought the team over
there, But of course he's hatedin Houston for moving the beloved Oilers over
there to Tennessee, crushing my heartwhen I was young and back in the
day, the Oilers will always bemy team. I'll always have a spot

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in my heart for the Columbia Blue. But the Oilers are dead. And
that's why I still have never latchedon to be a complete and full on
Houston Texans fan. As far asthe first point, yeah, I mean
overall, something had to happen withthe pitch clock. Even over like twenty
years ago, games are like halfan hour longer than they were. You

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go to the seventies, they areabout an hour longer than they were,
and to my knowledge, they stillhad TV broadcasts and commercial breaks and a
lot of the games. Of coursethey were on radio, so you had
commercials there. And since then it'san hour long longer on average. So
something had to be done. Ifelt like games are faster now. Rob
Manford talked about how you look atthe median age of ticket buyers and they're

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trending younger as well. I thinkthree years younger than it was last year.
You go to the games, andI mean watching the games on TV
is where it really you went outwith the pitch clock. It's a lot
breezier. You don't have to sitthere and watch a four hour, nine
inning game, which felt like itwas happening way too routinely, and I
have to go back and look atthe numbers, but they had there was

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somebody outlining how many games went overthree hours, and I think it was
like somewhere around two thirds of thegames almost going over three hours, and
it's now like twenty percent even that. So don't quote me on those exact
numbers, but it's basically something Isay, a stark difference in last year,
the fewer games going over three hours, and you're not missing out on

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baseball, right, People say,well, you know, the advertisers probably
aren't happy with this, and ohthis whoever is not happy about this.
You're not getting as much baseball.They didn't shave off an inning, they
didn't take away twenty seven outs.You still get twenty seven nows. You
get the same amount of baseball youusually get less Guys kicking dirt off of
their cleats for twenty seconds, adjustingtheir cup for another fifteen seconds, rewrapping

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their their batting gloves for fifteen secondsto the pitcher and the batter, getting
in a staring contest till one ofthem calls time out, like as some
games has been shipping. That tobe sure, and you still do have
games have been shipped in its ownway with the pitch clock and now with
the stolen bases, scoring is upand times are down. To me,

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that sounds like a good thing overall. More warring in less time, unless
it's the downtime is what you're reallymissing. I remember an article way back
in the day from Rick Reiley whenhe used to write first Sports Illustrated,
and I think what was it calledwhat was the somebody remind me the article

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the end of Sports Illustrated Last Callor something like that, and one of
the articles he talked about getting outof stop watch, watching a playoff game
and timing how much the ball wasactually moving and it's like in a three
plus hour game, it's like fifteenminutes. Something had to be done and
it was all right. That isgoing to do it. For the Nightcap
program here on a Sports Talk sevenninety, my name is ross Vio Reale,

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and I would like to say thankyou very much for listening to the
Nightcap here on Sports Talk seven ninety. I appreciate it. If you did
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fourth in a row of five Nightcapis tomorrow at six o'clock. Oh yeah,
by the way, thanks to NeilFouts for producing doing a great job,
as he always does. I'll talkto you folks tomorrow at noon as

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part of the Matt Thomas Show.Until then, have a pleasant and most
importantly safe rest of your Wednesday evening.