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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Two lifelong Houston sports guys named Adam, raised by Earl Nolan,
multed by the magnificent roller coaster ride.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
That is Houston Sports chill Age down for the only
homegrown afternoon team is Talking Your Teams?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Adam Clinton and Adam Weckler are the A Team.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
What's up, Houston? It is a Friday edition of the
A Team. It's Sports Talk seven ninety wex Ac col
Thompson with you, taking you up until six o'clock tonight.
We will lead you into Game two of the Astros
Rays four game weekend series.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
Hopefully the Astros are there. Actually, that's not even fair.

Speaker 6 (01:06):
Three to three going into the seventh exactly, that makes
last night even worse.

Speaker 5 (01:10):
What the hell is that, Brian King? I know you've
been good all year.

Speaker 6 (01:14):
And I know the bullpits begging for it. I'm not
begging for it, begging for joining me today co hosting
for the full four hours Astro's Legend, Craig Vigio, Do
you think Brian King is gonna be perfect for an
entire season?

Speaker 5 (01:32):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:32):
You think Caleb Ort and Forrest Whitley are gonna be
awesome for an entire season? Nor do I expect this,
but I hope they don't crap the bed like that. Yeah,
it was even watching You're like, yeah, take care of this.
Maybe at lasts a week, couple appearances, everything will be
back to normal.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
For Brian King, he had a day.

Speaker 6 (01:53):
I'm a little surprised his pitch count was so low
because they kept swinging so early, because they were meatballs.
I was a little he kept him out there as
long as he did, but understandably.

Speaker 7 (02:03):
So.

Speaker 6 (02:03):
This is what we've talked about since they lost starting pitching.
It's not so much that they don't have a chance
to win the games when the non Valdez Brown starts
are made.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
They do.

Speaker 6 (02:14):
They've had a chance to win pretty much every one
of those games. They won all of Colton Gordon starts.
We'll see if they can make it four for four
this weekend. But they don't go deep into games, and
they're in the rotation two or three times a turn,
and your bullpen is going to get run into the
ground and their performances are going to be reflective of

(02:35):
that at some point. The seventh inning of yesterday's game
was that point.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
For Brian King. He'd been unbelievable.

Speaker 6 (02:42):
We're not even a full twenty four hours removed from
a conversation on this very show about Yeah, lights out
for anybody playing the Astros. When you get to the
seventh king a bray, you hater, forget it. They win
all those games. It's been awesome. End up until yesterday,
it was true. That's what happens over the course of
a very long baseball season. The same night, you give

(03:02):
up five runs in the seventh and then recover to
give up five more runs in the eighth. You head
back to the house, maybe have a cold one, and say,
man Washington is still scoring.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
In the tenth inning.

Speaker 6 (03:15):
Mariners go to extras tide, Astros go to the seventh tide.
One team loses by six and the other team loses
by ten.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
I love the fact that all of a sudden, Seattle
loves just giving up nine runs all the time.

Speaker 6 (03:30):
Yeah, they give up a seventh spot in the tenth
inning to the Nationals. Got one back in the bottom,
but they lost by six. So the Astros spot in
the standings. If we're already schedule standings scoreboard watching we are,
which we are, no change. Thirty and twenty six Astros
just a half game back of the Mariners. Heading into
a fromber Valdez start this evening over at Dyke and Park.

(03:54):
His last four starts have been sparkling. The Astros have
one to all four of them under two during them,
and he's been pretty good about pitching them deep into
the game, which is clearly something they need after yesterday.
That will be a topic over the next four hours,
your Houston Astros and what it is about their opponent.

(04:16):
It's not often we say this in baseball, we say
it in football, we say it in basketball a lot.
They do not match up well with this particular opponent.
If you don't understand, why explain that to you? As
we continue Week one of OTAs for the Texans complete
as of earlier, today was over there as the media
was invited to Wednesdays and Friday's activities.

Speaker 5 (04:37):
Today's Friday, so we were over there.

Speaker 6 (04:38):
Cole and I were both taking it in and having
a chance on this particular day to speak with each
of their three coordinator, Special Teams Coordinator Frank Ross, Matt Burke,
their DC, and new offensive coordinator Nick Cayley. Most importantly,
as I mentioned at one o'clock when I joined the
Matt Thommas Show without Ross, there was no throws. Again,

(04:59):
no throws from c J. Stroud during team drills, though
he did participate in team drills, handing the ball off
and pitching the ball and appearing to show that his
movement doesn't appear to be hindered in any way.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
But he was not throwing. We don't have a.

Speaker 6 (05:15):
Particularly good reason for why, other than what both the
coordinator today and the head coach wednesday said, and will
remind you of what they said, or tell you and
play you what Nick Cayley had to say today.

Speaker 5 (05:26):
A couple of other things from practice.

Speaker 6 (05:28):
Obviously, I'll mention some catches that were made, some passes
that were broken up, some would be sacked that certainly
took place. If you were allowed to hit the guys
in the red shirts, you are not. And some work
on the offensive line of note certainly Worthwhile we don't
have an NBA Finals matchup just yet, the Nick said,

(05:48):
not so fast, my friend. And we'll see if the
microphone ends up in the hands of Pat McAfee again,
as six will occur and Indiana will attempt for a second
time to eliminate the Knickerbockers, unable to do so last night,
losing handily by seventeen.

Speaker 5 (06:06):
Yeah, that was not competitive.

Speaker 6 (06:08):
I would if I were the pacers, I would actually
play John Cougar Mellencamp music as Pat doubles down on
his promo, cutting on the microphone there inside the arena.
I think giving him the microphone would be enough of
a show of support without also trying to say you

(06:29):
don't need to say anything. I mean, they don't need
to alienate one of their own. They can just show
that they disagree with him without being outwardly we're a
little disappointed that you don't feel like we do that
giving the microphone to someone who, in a good way
this is usually a bad word, but in a good way,
is unhinged when he has the microphone. That's why he

(06:51):
continues to get the microphone, because the people who give
it to him on game day, on his own show,
at wrestling events and before NBA games, it's what they want.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
Well, I just delivered the fact that John Mellencamp's words
were whoever directed him to do this, Nobody directed it
to that.

Speaker 6 (07:08):
Seriously, one day was enough and we're not We're seven
months to go here in twenty twenty five. Can we
make the final seven months of John Cougar Mellencamp free zone.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
Well, it's already free. He doesn't belong here. He doesn't,
he doesn't use that name anymore.

Speaker 6 (07:22):
That's why I'm using all of it, giving him his
last possible ounce of my attention.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
You know now that cool is going to play a
John Mellencamp song, bumping back for next time.

Speaker 6 (07:32):
No, I mean, we've got they've got basketball to play,
We've got sports to talk about.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
We've got phones that you can and can't use.

Speaker 6 (07:38):
We've got an eighteen draft to get to in two
and a half hours for our Friday signature segment. We've
got all sorts of things that do not need us
to talk about.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
Houses that are not large and they or may not
be pink.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
I was taking the little guy to work to he
calls it work by the way, I was taking him
to work this morning, have a briefcase.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
Well, no, but he bring his computer.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
He thinks that when he goes to his place, which
right now is just like summer camp version of schools,
and his school's out, it's been out for a week.
But he thinks when he goes to his place, he
wants to go to work like dad does, and I
keep telling the kid, Dad doesn't work. Dad talks about
sports with mister Wext. It's not a job.

Speaker 6 (08:21):
I hope he can appreciate that he goes to school,
both in real school, real school and fake summer school. Yeah,
in a place that does not require uniforms. He gets
to dress how he goes it. Does it did previously?
Well his grade school during the year it does. Yes,
So he wears a uniform colored polo and khakis.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
But there are variations of the color of the polo.
You can get away with wearing red or blue or
what I.

Speaker 6 (08:48):
Was trying to make foolishly because it's now inaccurate. Is
I hope he appreciates that Dad's work attire is whatever
I feel like this is.

Speaker 4 (08:55):
I mean today it was like, how lazy can I
possibly be for somebody whose job is somewhat on television.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
Well, it is on television the top of you. That's
what I mean. Like, I've worn this show.

Speaker 6 (09:10):
We're in the zoom era, we're in the work from
home era. Nobody knows what's going on down.

Speaker 5 (09:16):
You know what I wanted to be like Teresa Today,
we have to wear sweats.

Speaker 6 (09:19):
We have a similar camera angle, we have multiple cameras
in here. None of them feature our lower torso or
anything lower than that.

Speaker 5 (09:29):
My shoes I'm wearing are four hundred dollars.

Speaker 6 (09:31):
Well, see, we'll shave out some time to talk about that.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
I spurced it up, all right. We are not talking
about my wardrobe today. We will talk about the Astros.
We will talk about another aspect unfortunate. When it comes
to the Houston Astros.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
I don't know what to make of it. We'll get
into it because I want to give it. It's it's
just due.

Speaker 4 (09:54):
But again, when I heard the story, I immediately I'll
just say, just kind of to tease it, my first
thoughts were gambling is involved. That's just what I thought
when I first heard this story, and then I saw
similar stories to it, and I've read more and more
stories going around just sports in general, not just the
Astros in Major League Baseball. But definitely we'll do that.

(10:16):
We will catch up with our good buddy Chandler Rome
for his weekly visit. That's at the top of the
five o'clock hour. We have our Friday A team draft.
I have an idea. I'll just wait. I have an
idea on that. And again, as wex mentioned. We will
catch up with all the participants that spoke today out
at Texans t A's and the Big Twelve commissioner is

(10:42):
lecturing other college conference commissioners. This is good stuff, and
I know Cal is going to be very excited to
talk about that, but this is it's actually hilarious when
you think about the fact that this is going on
with one of the I guess, I mean, it's still
the Big Twelve, is still a big conference, but it's
not what it used to be.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
Is that a fair assessment of it.

Speaker 6 (11:04):
Yeah, it's definitely not what it used to be. No Texas,
no Oklahoma, and a whole lot of other changes. Yeah,
hey they're in.

Speaker 5 (11:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
Other than that, it's the same exact thing. So we'll
get to all that more on a Friday edition. Getting
you into a guy. I hope the rain stops. This
is ridiculous at this point. Uh here on a Friday,
final May edition of the eight team Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 8 (11:24):
The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
Sorry, wrong song on a sideline. You get a dugout,
you git a practice at the barn?

Speaker 7 (11:41):
Where did you bid? In late time?

Speaker 6 (11:50):
I have to wait until the lyrics kick CANWX see
you can get extra.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
Miserable house Town. I used to like this song too.
It is the eighteen sports talk to seven. I told you,
I didn't even tell him to do that, He just
did it.

Speaker 5 (12:03):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
So last night watching and this is admittedly one of
those games where and you and I we went we
had a little lunchy lunch and that's not normal for
my routine. So I was already feeling meh after that.
And then we hosted four hours of radio and then
I ate again. Even though you and I had this
conversation right after the show. It's like, man, she wants

(12:27):
to go meet in town to go to dinner, and
you said, very calmly, you don't have to eat, and
I'm like, yeah, but I'm going to. We all know
I'm going to, especially when it's at that place which
I will not name on the air until they start
sponsoring the show. But after that, I went home and
because I was just so like, it's that food coma
and I was sitting in a nice comfortable chair and

(12:50):
the baseball game was on, and here come the Astros's.
It was one nothing for the longest and they come
roaring back. Looks like it's going to be a fantastic comeback,
and they you know, they get they get to the
Rays starter, they make a game of it, and then
the bullpen just.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
Starts absolutely getting hammered.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
And it was like it became a joke at one point,
like even Todd and Blummer were just like beside themselves.

Speaker 6 (13:16):
You mean, because they anticipated a position player pitching, which happened.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
Which was awesome, and he was good, Actually he was great,
you don't think so.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
He threw fifty six smile an hour junk and the
Rays did the right thing. They they hit it. Who
do you strike out?

Speaker 6 (13:34):
They didn't get hit. They hit it, they made contact.
They didn't get hit, Yes he did. They did not
give up hits the.

Speaker 5 (13:39):
Semantics show, and therefore they didn't get they didn't hit him.
They didn't get hit.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
So that was easily the best part of the night
after a very very very long seventh inning and change.

Speaker 5 (13:53):
I mean, there was still damage to be done after that.
There was only eight three after seven.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
But you know, you're right, like it's not usually they
don't match up well against a team in baseball.

Speaker 5 (14:03):
It just didn't really necessarily always feel like that.

Speaker 6 (14:05):
Have you didn't know this one of the worst teams
in baseball at holding runners on and throwing runners out.
Who'd like to steal literally take them from you. It's
the Houston Astros there, twenty ninth and if you were
not aware of the team that likes to steal ninety
feet more than anybody else is among the most successful
at it, and as the most stolen basis, it's the race,
they're right there. Depending on what point in the year

(14:26):
you're looking at one or two and attempted steals per game,
they are number one. And in addition to that, while
it didn't necessarily cost them at any particular juncture in
the game, and it didn't necessarily impact the overall outcome
of the game, they were giving out ninety feet like
it was I.

Speaker 5 (14:43):
Don't know, especially Chandler Simpson.

Speaker 6 (14:46):
That's just one instant, as one run from one player
was crawling to the wrong base, or throwing late, or
not having it cut off, or just simply not doing
what you're supposed to do. But yes, the base stealing,
it is a bad matchup, and you can do one
thing to help yourselves prevent it. Don't give them the
first ninety throw strikes, make them hit it don't put

(15:09):
them on base. You walk a guy to lead off
the inning, and he rounds the bases all on his own,
while the batter who was at the plate when he
got to first is still there. Steal second, steal third,
and then on that bad throw run home, giving away
ninety feet to a team like that, They've been doing
it for five game or four games. Tonight will be
number five. They're one in three against the Rays. And

(15:31):
even though some of that losing was partially due to
the ballpark you were in, but your offense played in
the same ballpark, so their pop flies went out of
the park more often then your pop flies. But they
take advantage of what you do badly, and because they're
so good at it, if they get on base, they
are running and running and running, and it is almost
their entire lineup doing it. Played pretty good defense, did

(15:54):
the Rays last night? A couple of bad luck liners
from the Astros, because it was not for a lack
of hitting. You let Shane bos go through the lineup
once and then you got to him pretty much the
rest of the way. You had traffic throughout the rest
of the evening. At some point, it was kind of
silly because now you're down five and then ten, so
it really didn't matter what kind of traffic you had

(16:15):
at that point. And that was the point in the
game where Joe Spota, I think smartly started to get
at bat for somebody else here or there and move
some other guys into the field when applicable. They need
to find a way to get some more runs, quite honestly,
because it's very hard for this team to keep the
rays down and from ber Valdez is going to have
to do one thing a little bit better than he

(16:35):
normally does. He needs to stay away from the inning
where he doesn't throw strikes. I don't know which inning
it will be at, usually his one inning, and then
he can either work his way out of trouble by
inducing a double play ball or getting a few strikeouts.
He's got twenty seven over his last twenty eight innings
over his last four starts, but specifically against this team,
even though he's throwing from the left side, which can
give you a little bit better ability to hold guys

(16:58):
at first, they don't have a pitcher on in their
rotation that does a particularly good job. You hate to
put it all on Victor and Jiner to not throw
guys out.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
But that's who gets the stat it's not on them.

Speaker 6 (17:12):
A yiner made an unbelievable throw on one of the
stolen bases last night. Basically couldn't make it any better,
but the guy had such a good jump it didn't
even matter. So the little things that are done well
by the rays've been on display four times, and in
three of those four games they've beaten the Astros partially
because of it.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
Yeah, that is death by a thousand paper cuts, maybe,
I guess is the best way to look at that.
I'm excited that Fromber's on the bump tonight because I
think that's a good thing. But the things that we're
talking about right now, this very portion of this very
segment of this very show, they're still going to be
there tonight unless, you know, if Fromber puts somebody on base,

(17:50):
If Fromber puts that guy on base, he's he's probably
the worst guy to have on the bump when guys
are on the base pass stealing.

Speaker 5 (17:59):
I mean to say that he's a double play machine.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
No, I'm just from that standpoint, But I'm just talking about,
you know, trying to gun guys, and really it goes
back to Yiner or whoever's catching, I just don't think that.
Like the other night, cal Rawley threw an absolute bullet
to second base. I just don't feel like any of
the Astros catchers are. That's not their forte. Let's put

(18:23):
it that way. It's not their fault. No, you can't
throw a guy out when he has the jumps that
they have. I was just just mentioning Yer made an
absolutely beautiful throw with a great pop time and plenty
of velocity on it, and it was right where it
had to be. All Jeremy Pagne had to do was
hold his glove in place. The guy slid right into
the tack, but he's already on the base. Yeah, there's
nothing Yinter can do.

Speaker 6 (18:41):
And when you're mentioning another catcher against the Astros, you
have to add that other factor into it. The Astros.
It's Friday. I'm in a good mood, so I won't
use the words suck. The Astros are not good at
stealing bases. They're a bad base stealing team. They're a
bad base running teamunds bad base running. I think they
take a lot of extra bases. They go you know,

(19:02):
first to third very well. I think they take the
proper chances, but you know, for the speed that some
of their players have. Jake Myers is one of the
guys at the top of the list. Chas is similarly well.
Penya is usually safe. He's kind of the outlier. That's
what he did last night. He stole third on the pitcher.
There's nothing the ketcher could do about it. He knew
he was going to be safe, and he basically outran
the throw which had no chance to get him. But Myers,

(19:26):
the plays at second base are either way too close
or he's just flat out out. They do not get
good jumps. I don't know if there's blame to be given,
but for a team that should be doing some of
these things a little bit better, and there's plenty of
players now on this particular team as opposed to last year.
The other part of part of what you lost well,
Kyle Tucker's thirty thirty. Kyle Tucker can turn a walk

(19:47):
or a single into a double rather easily. The replacement
to players, obviously, Cam is his literal replacement.

Speaker 5 (19:54):
He doesn't steal bases.

Speaker 6 (19:55):
Yet at all, and your corner infielders hopefully won't attend
to steal bases either. With Christian Walker and Estoch Predis,
they're not as fast a team as they once were.
So you know, you add all of these things together
and you see why even getting to thirty and twenty
six there's some struggles behind it. They can't go out
there and say, well, we didn't do a lot of

(20:16):
things right today, so what we won twelve to six.
They don't have a lot of those games this year.
I don't even think they've had one or two of them.
In years past they were regular occurrences.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
Yeah, No, it was a frustrating night, especially when, again,
like I said, when you battle back the way they
did late, it's not even the mean it was in
the They had just accomplished that right before that inning,
and I think that made it somehow worse in my head.

Speaker 5 (20:40):
I know, it's not good when it happens even early
in the game.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
It's not good if it happens even later than that.
But the way it went last night, that was the
most baseball game ever baseball baseball.

Speaker 6 (20:50):
It's just it's difficult to expect your bullpen to just
keep putting zeros up. They put zero's up long enough
to tie the game al two Bays homer in the sixth,
then tie the game, and then you still needed more
bullpen arms to succeed.

Speaker 5 (21:04):
And that's where you get into trouble.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
How many different guys are all gonna have their good stuff,
so to speak, any given night, you went to six guys.
Last night, Sus unfortunately did give up one run, but
Gusto again, he only got you eleven outs. O Kurt
very Okurty yesterday, ten pitches, seven strikes, two K's shortest
inning of the night. Go back to the dugout and
call it a day. And then the next three relievers said,

(21:28):
we're definitely calling it a day.

Speaker 5 (21:30):
This one is over. Yeah, I just it was.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
It was a bitter pill to swallow after the way
the the events had turned just before that.

Speaker 5 (21:40):
But that's how five homers and seven games from AL two.
Is that all right?

Speaker 6 (21:44):
I love it. I think the slump is well, it
is over. I'm not even thinking anymore. It's definitely over.

Speaker 9 (21:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (21:49):
This was the home run.

Speaker 6 (21:50):
I don't know if what you guys would call vintage
Jose altuver Altuve homer.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
To me, it was the one he hit last night.

Speaker 6 (21:57):
Some of the balls that are, you know, inside fastball,
trying to sneak one by him, he turn on it,
put it in the Crawford boxes.

Speaker 5 (22:03):
The other pitches that are just mistakes over the heart
of the plate.

Speaker 6 (22:06):
Last night's high velocity, out of the strike zone, fastball,
top of the zone. Well to some hitters, maybe to
him that's out of the zone, it's above the zone.
It is a ball, and he just goes up there
and crushes it and knocks it out of the yard.
That to me is when I feel like he is
going very very well when he's out in getting ahead

(22:27):
of that pitch that's meant to blow by a very
good fastball hitter. But he was up to it at
his five home runs during the first seven games of
this home stand, and they're gonna need some more of
it even though it does appear, and maybe we'll hear
even more from the manager this afternoon that we're actually
probably approaching and batting forth tonight for your Houston Astros.

(22:50):
Jordon Alvarez, I'm not saying that's today. What I'm saying
it is rapidly approaching, as is two thirty, which means
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Speaker 8 (23:00):
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Speaker 5 (23:41):
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Speaker 6 (23:43):
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and can you take us with you anywhere you go
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Usually there's something somebody's negative about regarding something that happened
on the diamond on the hardwood on the field. Usually

(24:25):
we head in that direction, we always can, but sometimes
we go the celebrity route.

Speaker 5 (24:30):
Apparently that's where we're headed today.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
Well, yeah, I just I saw this story probably or
at least whispers about it, that's what I'll call them,
a few days back, just kind of floating by, and
I'm like, Okay, that's you know, that's different, that's typical
attached to this person. We're talking about, Sydney Sweeney. I mean,

(24:52):
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think I've encountered any red blooded American male who isn't
thinking she's fantastic in every way. Who Hi, Okay, why
don't you like Sydney Sweeney? I know you want it?
What's know you wanted I can hear it in your voice,
But you can't have it. That is my wet blanket,

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not to be used in this segment, but seriously, you
can't have it. He's talking about kind of a kind
of a slam dunk, kind of a ten out of
ten touchdown, one hundred out of one hundred, and you're
trying to say, no, uh huh, we can't have that.

Speaker 5 (25:27):
I got it.

Speaker 6 (25:28):
Argue with Matt Thomas about this yesterday. Well, that's about her,
that's for his show. How did you have a conversation
about somebody who's actually kind of currently an it girl
with Matt Thomas.

Speaker 5 (25:38):
Because we discussed this yesterday. I mean, she's no. Sally
Field is probably what you were met with.

Speaker 12 (25:44):
Oh my gosh, that is a brilliant dig.

Speaker 6 (25:48):
I mean, did you see her in Smoking in the Bandit? No,
Susan Sarandon from Thelma.

Speaker 5 (25:54):
And Louise, who was the uh oh?

Speaker 4 (25:57):
I once hosted a show with a guy who in
insisted that Martha Stewart had a fastball at one point.

Speaker 6 (26:03):
I cannot believe you're just now telling our listeners on
Best of X you used to co host a show
a Snoop Dogg.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
Nope, it was Sean Jones and he's still to this day.
Was like, dude, you had to see her when she
was younger. Yeah, but I see her now, So it's
weird like Sally Field. So anyway, Sidney, Yeah, so there
is a if you guys are unaware, there's three of
us here. So at least we can say as a
show we're pro Sydney. Yeah, sixty six point six percent.

Speaker 6 (26:30):
Lose some of these. Cale will lose some of these
like this one. You may lose one or two, but
no raft hotties later on, just to let we'll add
that to the list of things. Finally after two.

Speaker 5 (26:47):
Yeah, yeah, that's great, that's real great, you guys. I'm
owing to a point.

Speaker 6 (26:52):
We'll get to that. I mean, we can talk about
Sidney Sweeney all we want. Why don't we get to.

Speaker 5 (26:55):
The heart a certain lines of part of the matter.

Speaker 4 (26:59):
Male Ale Geared hygiene products. Again, don't want to give
away the name because it's a very sponsorable thing, and
I'm taking.

Speaker 6 (27:09):
Geared hygiene products. Yeah, what you wash yourself with? Men
and women, not just that. There's you know, soap, body sprays.
Are talking about soap. For those who don't know the story,
it's not there, you go, It's not just any soap.

Speaker 5 (27:29):
She has smartly, she's got a good team.

Speaker 6 (27:32):
She's partnering with this she had been partners with this team,
which is why this has come about. Awful job of
getting to the heart of the matter. It's fine, get
to it. I'm not Don Henley. This is a limited
addition soap infused with.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
Her bathwater.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
You ever heard somebody talking about a female they think
is attractive and they use a certain term.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
And bath water. Throw the baby out with the bathwam.
That's not the one. No, no, no, no, it's not scotty.
Something about drinking. There you go. All right, you're on
the right path.

Speaker 6 (28:09):
So this now just to be one good looking lady,
I would there you go. There's the saying, and this
is infused with quote droplets of her actual bathroom. I
mean there's a lot of baths that would need to
be taken in order for them to procure the amount
of water nets. Well I know, so, like I said,

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she hadn't a already had a deal with this company,
was already if you hadn't be surprised if you haven't
seen any of her commercials for it. Considering she and
the ad agency, I'll say, chose a very famous former
TV star to emulate in the spot, something about dreaming

(28:52):
and genie and that's basically the outfit she's wearing in
this particular spot.

Speaker 5 (28:57):
But it was for soap.

Speaker 6 (28:59):
Well, bathroom, soap tub. We have all of that, why
don't you get in which she described in a little
quote about what's called again no name to the company,
Sydney's Bathwater Bliss. I can only imagine what the cut
line is for Sydney's Bathwater Bliss. If you want to
attack the day with an an odor of Sydney Sweeney,

(29:22):
then please enjoy Sydney's Bathwater Bliss.

Speaker 5 (29:26):
She said.

Speaker 6 (29:27):
I think it's a really fun, full circle moment because
as Ac was mentioning, fans always joke about wanting my bathwater.
As the saying goes, I was like, this is just
because such a cool way to have a conversation with
the audience and give them what they want. Well, that's
one thing that they want, but then also hopefully encourage
them to take care of themselves in a healthy way

(29:49):
bathing with soap. Do you want me to go a
step further, Well, that's what we're here for this hour.

Speaker 13 (29:54):
Okay, look doctor Squatch Natural body Wash, Sidney body Wash.

Speaker 14 (30:07):
What's your wish? It could be anything nice, Doctor Squatch
body Wash, commend you for a natural like kitchen.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
As I mentioned, she's stunned some television spots for this product,
not this actual bathwater Bliss product.

Speaker 5 (30:33):
She even talks hot.

Speaker 6 (30:34):
Yeah, it's specifically designed for those who need to rid
themselves of medium grit.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Medium grit if you're really really dirty, then this isn't
for you.

Speaker 5 (30:46):
Or is it?

Speaker 6 (30:47):
Well, it can still be for you. You might not
know you need it twice over or three times over.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
And just to take an unofficial Paul real quick on
the way out here, I mean we all are bar
soap people. Right, Yes, you don't do body wash if
you're a man. I actually use.

Speaker 6 (31:04):
Body wash when you don't bring your own soap with
you on vacations where you stay in a hotel.

Speaker 5 (31:09):
I actually do use general Bigfoot soap.

Speaker 4 (31:13):
Are you saying you use the body wash your wife
has brought along.

Speaker 6 (31:16):
No, A lot of hotels do do not any longer
provide you with the bars of soap. Right, they provide
you with a they we'll push here and the shell
will be distributed, and it's usually so weak that you
have to use every bit of whatever is there to
provide the proper SuDS. You can probably get the hardest

(31:38):
blast of water ever known to man at a hotel
shower and it will still feel like you did not
rinse it off.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
Right, Hey, we only incorporate soft water here at this hotel,
whichever hotel it is.

Speaker 6 (31:50):
Well, since this did come from social media, we got
to go to the comments for Sydney's bathwater Bliss. Ghost
Man says, whoever buys this is a down bad loser.
I'll take ten exactly. He knows, he knows what, he knows,
his place in the world. Did she jump into a
pool to make it or fill up and empty multiple tubs?
What's the concentration of Sydney Sweeney per bar of soap?

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How high is she on the ingredients label?

Speaker 9 (32:17):
God?

Speaker 5 (32:17):
Plus, what's the percentage?

Speaker 4 (32:21):
Well, you could read a bar of soap point zero
zero one percent Sydney Sweeney's bathwater.

Speaker 5 (32:29):
Max says, let me guess it sold out, didn't it.

Speaker 6 (32:33):
I mean there's a picture of somebody who looks like
they're very, very ill and the caption is meat after
eating one thousand bars of soap for a taste of
the bliss.

Speaker 5 (32:44):
Seriously, though, if we made if we drafted a list.

Speaker 6 (32:48):
Of three, here's Cole adding priority overnight shipping to his cart.

Speaker 5 (32:54):
Doctor. How much additional is that to get there by tomorrow?

Speaker 6 (32:58):
I don't know how sarcasm font works, but I'm sure
this is meant for men.

Speaker 5 (33:02):
Won't fall for this, says a Rova. Uh, yeah, they will.

Speaker 4 (33:08):
When we were at the shoot, they had a tub
for me, and I actually got in there and took
some soap and we had a nice little bath.

Speaker 6 (33:15):
And they took the water. So it's my real bathway
kind of gloss over that part. And they took the
What do you mean they took the water?

Speaker 5 (33:23):
What do you mean you took a bath? Like in
front of these people, it's like you you took the water.
What were you doing before the bath?

Speaker 6 (33:31):
That's like after the celebrity stays at the hotel room
and the those cleaning it up or fans who got
access to it.

Speaker 5 (33:38):
Oh my god, they used this towel. Oh my god,
this is tooth brush. You left it here. So the
other night took the water.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
The other night at d and Marilyn Manson, he kept
throwing his sweat towels into the crowd in the pit
where I was.

Speaker 5 (33:51):
I did not want one.

Speaker 6 (33:52):
So how about when, oh my god, the Lakers won
twenty five rockets one thirty tough loss for the Lakers.
I happen to have seats next to the Lakers tunnel.
Here comes Kobe Bryant. Off, come his wristbands. Sweaty is
all gat about?

Speaker 15 (34:07):
Well?

Speaker 6 (34:08):
Shoes they give them to these kids after wearing them
for forty eight minutes of action or twenty whatever.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
Kobe, they were definitely forty eight. He wouldn't come out. Well,
I'm just saying he might wear more than one pair
per night. MJ used to famously wear a new pair
every single night. Well, there you have it.

Speaker 6 (34:24):
Best of X Bathwater Bliss brought to you by Sydney
Sweeney Limited.

Speaker 8 (34:31):
Edition The A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (34:46):
Back out of here on the A Team.

Speaker 6 (34:47):
As we continue to roll through the four hour party
that is a Friday edition of the program, wexsay c
Cole Thompson here with you, will conclude things and send
it out to Dykin Park for Astros Rays an hour's
worth of pregame covers beginning with the Astros on Deck show,
and then Robert Steve will take it from there. Astros
will attempt to not lose the season series to the Rays.

(35:08):
That would happen if they do not win each of
the next three games. They've lost three of the first four.
It's a seven game season series with the rest of
the American League teams outside of their division. They hit
the road for six after this ten game homestand comes
to a conclusion. They've gotten started by winning five of seven.
They've gotten five home runs from Jose Altuve, and obviously
we've been talking quite a bit about them throughout the

(35:30):
week and into this weekend with three more games to
go with the Rays, Valdez and Brown scheduled to pitch
in two of those three games Colton Gordon tomorrow, Valdez tonight,
Hunter Brown on Sunday, so still an opportunity to make
it a clean sweep of the three teams visiting won
the series against the Mariners three out of four, won
the series brief as it was against the Athletics by

(35:51):
taking both games, you know, and into each of the
final three games if you're going to take each of
those three series, and if that is to take place,
the Astros are also find themselves seven games over five
hundred as they headed back out on the road. Got
to five yesterday before the result was in, and that
is our high water mark of the season as they've
now pushed into the second third of their season. Hope

(36:12):
to get an update on where things stand after whenever
that happens today, if it's already has or will in
the future. Jard On Alvarez feaches some live pitching. Thanks
to some minor league arms, they will have him face
probably not many more days away from him returning. As
I suggested, I would guess if all goes well, he
is playing and in the lineup as soon as they

(36:32):
get out on the road and begin that West Coast trip.
We'll get into a little bit on the NBA side,
because some of the bigger picture stuff is really starting
to crystallize, both on the teams that are just now
exiting the playoffs what needs to happen for them, And
in the case of the Timberwolves, where's your level of
hurt or disappointment internally for the Wolves themselves or even

(36:54):
Anthony Edwards or overall what can they do to prevent
what happened both this year and last year. They did
not have the best player on the court in either series,
and in the NBA's postseason, oftentimes that will dictate the
winner losing to a Luca led Mavericks team losing to
an SGA led Thunder team. This year and certainly this year,

(37:15):
I don't think we could call this much of a
competitive series. Even though they had one win by forty plus,
they did not farewell in three of the other four
games to say that nicely. The other game at least
they had a chance to win. But three times in
five games they got absolutely smoked and had no answers.
We'll see if many other teams face that same issue.

(37:36):
It did happen to Memphis a little bit, and then
even more when John Morant went down. It even happened
to the Nuggets in a seven game series where they
had no answers. We're four wins away from saying the
inevitable We've been looking at for six months. This appears
to be a championship caliber team that's only just getting started.
And how does that impact the team's most in contention

(37:59):
with them? Competition with them not The East East teams
are going to put their teams together as they see fit.
It's not going to be really relevant to what the
thunder are doing. Western Conference teams may be a little
bit different. You know, is it an opportunity to go
out and say, well, we can't beat them without a
big star, or do you look at a little bit
of how they've built their team. They didn't go out

(38:19):
and add and already established star. Their two all stars
were one traded four after his first season and became
an All Star caliber player SGA. And the other was
outside of the top ten Jalen Williams draft, and he
became an All Star this year. They added veteran pieces
around that. It's almost like the way the Rockets have

(38:39):
built themselves, and I wonder if they believe they can
continue on that front, even though it's pretty obvious they
don't have an SGA caliber talent.

Speaker 4 (38:48):
Well, that's my question to you, is we get closer
and closer to the draft and the Rockets. This is
always exciting to me and funny to me at the
same time. Rockets sent out their notice today about the
draft party. It's gonna be a Toyota Center. It's going
to be June twenty fifth, and out of the draft obviously.
I just you know, like when the Texans have a

(39:11):
high draft pick, that party that they'll throw will probably
be higher attended. We've been to the last several Rockets
draft parties where they are absolutely highly attended because the
Rockets were picking at the top of the draft. They're
picking in the top ten this year technically, but it's
not their pick, but it's also not where I don't

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think fans would have been excited about it, and I
don't necessarily think that adding another young player to this
group is the top priority for this offseason. So my question,
long winded getting to it, would be when do the
Rockets make this move that we're all expecting.

Speaker 5 (39:50):
Is it Draft night? Is it post draft night?

Speaker 6 (39:54):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (39:55):
You know, like if you had to guess right now,
when would it be? Post draft? But like free agency period, it's.

Speaker 6 (40:04):
Basically the next day practically your agency open twenty three,
very very close.

Speaker 5 (40:08):
First of July. Yeah, I mean the next day.

Speaker 6 (40:10):
I'm exaggerating a bit, but it's it's right after that
that's when I think you may get an idea of
what teams are interested in. Being on the other end
of the phone with the Phoenix Suns and with the
Milwaukee Bucks, and remember the Milwaukee Bucks don't haven't apparently
not gotten a conclusive answer or even maybe even met
with Jannisana de Kompo to see where things stand between

(40:32):
the two sides, even anticipating wanting to ask out, are
they willing to agree? I mean, he could ask out
all he wants. It usually works in the NBA. I'm
having a hard time thinking of any situation where it
didn't Jimmy Butler wanted out of Minnesota and he got out.
Jimmy Butler wanted out of Miami, and he got out.
James Harden wanted out of Houston, he got out. James

(40:53):
Harden wanted out of Brooklyn, he got out. James Harden
wanted out of Philly, he got out. Are you seeing
sensing a pattern?

Speaker 5 (41:00):
Sensing a pattern?

Speaker 6 (41:00):
If you're a pretty good player and you want out,
you get out. Anthony Davis, I'm not sure what's actually
going on with another could be superstar. He certainly hasn't
played at that level yet, but he's a former number
one overall pick with immense NBA skills in a body
that definitely betrays him somewhat because he betrays it by

(41:21):
overeating and not getting in very good conditioning. But and
another off the court item for Zion Williamson came to light,
so that is worthy of discussion. The more uproar in
the NBA with top tier talent means, the more movement
how the Rockets will be involved in That will be
an ongoing conversation here on the A Team.

Speaker 8 (41:43):
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it belongs. And as we take you into a weekend
that we hope will get better than it started, because
after all, wex Thursday nights are officially the beginning of
the weekend, unless, of course, you're the Astros and you're
still stuck in hump day edition. Because that's exactly what
they were last night in the late stages of a

(42:50):
game that they had battled back to tie at three apiece,
only to watch the bullpen do it.

Speaker 5 (42:55):
Really, it hasn't most of the year, I haven't done that.

Speaker 6 (42:58):
They've never done that, right, I mean, Brian Bray is out.
A couple starts or appearances that stand out. Clearly, guys
have given up runs, but never nothing anywhere remotely close
to this, where one after the other after the other.
You know, caleble Wart ran out of trouble because he
couldn't throw strikes for us. Ridley and Brian King ran
into trouble because the strikes that they threw were getting
absolutely hammered. He actually had a run come off the

(43:20):
board when a home run was reviewed to be just
a double. Thanks for the gift, Yeah, yeah, that was
because of the way they were describing it.

Speaker 4 (43:30):
It was like just the theme of the night. Todd
was like, oh, finally the astros got a break. Now
we did say, Caesar Salas, are you finally got some
playing time? Not what he plays every day?

Speaker 5 (43:41):
Now? Well it's three days in a.

Speaker 4 (43:43):
Row, I know, right, But for the for the longest
you were like, why is he on the roster?

Speaker 5 (43:48):
And finally we know, I.

Speaker 6 (43:48):
Know why he is on the roster. But you gotta
play guys. I mean, Joe does a very good job
of that. And third catches are a little bit different
than your run of the mill, additional reserves it or
even bullpen pitchers. It is a little different because he's
a safety net. You feel so good about your roster
in front of him that you don't ever feel compelled
to put your team in harm's way by not having
an answer if you have to take your catcher out

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of the game, if you want to do something from
a pitch hitting standpoint with the designated hitter spot, or
your catcher's got to move, or because Kartini can play
multiple positions, but then don't carry him at all. And
Victor Carrottin he's earned every bit of the playing time
he's gotten. I do think you could, even on one night,
see the difference between Christian Walker playing first base and

(44:31):
pretty much anybody else that's played first base for the
Astros since Julie Gurrayl left. I'm not saying the play
was easy, but it was eventually ruled correctly as a hit,
but a play I actually think, you know, a plus
level defensive first baseman probably makes on the Aranda hard
shot back at Carotina. Was it right at him and

(44:52):
basically it just went right through him. And unfortunately that
was all part of a stretch of offense for the Rays.
But he has been really, really good offensively. You know,
Cam Smith as I don't want to call it a
breakout month because people are acting like he was awful
in April. This is his first month of you know,
baseball above double A, and he still managed to have

(45:13):
an OPS at seven hundred in his first month and
not even playing every day, which can make things difficult,
but I think a spot will handled it very well.
He played twenty games his first month, he played twenty
games a second month, twenty one tonight should he be
in the lineup, which I imagine he will be, and
he put another one hundred points on his OPS. He
put a three twenty four batting average together so far

(45:34):
this month, and last night he was back at it again.
You know, he hits rockets, whether there are grounders through
a whole opposite field or four hundred plus foot shots
that somehow don't leave the building, which happened earlier on
this homestand you can see the improvements when he's up there,
and he's essentially earned his way into being in the
lineup six out of seven games, if not more. I

(45:57):
think moving forward and barring a backslide of some you know,
when Jordon Alvarez comes back, it's somewhere else that they're
going to figure out what needs to be done.

Speaker 5 (46:05):
And we continue talking about the lineup so much.

Speaker 6 (46:08):
I really think that Joe's probably found something that will
require him to bat Jordon Alvarez fourth, putting pay you
one peretis two and al two ve three. I doubt,
very seriously Joe, even with Jordon and who he is,
I doubt he wants to mess with that, and I
don't think that he will.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
So when Christian Walker's back and Jordon's back, what do
you what's after three? In other words, you just putting
Christian Walker back in the cleanup spot.

Speaker 6 (46:35):
No, Jordon's batting cleanup? Why because he's better than Christian Walker.

Speaker 5 (46:41):
Well, yeah, but he was better than him before, and
Christian Walker was batting cleanup and Jordons was batting in
front of him.

Speaker 4 (46:48):
Yeah, but you don't want to do that now. You're
just gonna bump everybody down one spot.

Speaker 5 (46:53):
Yeah, okay, I mean you got one two three set.

Speaker 6 (46:57):
Why would you put a six hundred ops even though
his last name is Alvarez into that. You're killing it
at one, two and three. This is the best offense
you've seen all year.

Speaker 4 (47:05):
Yeah, but when Jose Altuve was slumping, you were wanting
to bat him fifth and sixth, you said, so, I heard.

Speaker 6 (47:10):
It okay, you can play along. It's all right, man
like Christian Walker bat him wherever.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
I know, And I hate that because this is what
I'm actually the most upset about. When it comes to
his finger getting hit the other night. He was just
starting to come around. Why does it feel like that
always happens?

Speaker 6 (47:30):
Luckily, I don't think it's anything of great significance. May
put him on the sidelines for maybe the remainder of
the homestand maybe we'll find out today because he was
available yesterday.

Speaker 5 (47:38):
I don't know that he was available to hit yesterday.

Speaker 6 (47:41):
Didn't need him, fell down by ten and felt like
it was good night to give him the full night off.
He had a good start to the home stand, I
think you could say. But again, I'm not sure what
part of getting back on track? How much on track
do you need to be to convince you that you're
really actually doing that? Because if you just take look
at his month of May doesn't look much different than

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his month of April. He just said, last few days,
he hit a few balls hard and a couple went
over the fence.

Speaker 5 (48:08):
See what that was the turnaround? That was it?

Speaker 4 (48:09):
We just got cut short because of the stupid the
finger injury. So we'll see, we'll see how long that takes.
You did mention in the last hour that it's it's
not a matter of if, but when.

Speaker 6 (48:22):
Of course that's always been the case. But it's impending,
let's put.

Speaker 5 (48:25):
It that way.

Speaker 6 (48:26):
The return of Jordan Alvarez that we're talking about, and
it can't come soon enough.

Speaker 5 (48:32):
I just I keep thinking about what you said.

Speaker 4 (48:35):
I hate it because I agree that it's just in
the It's going to be in the back of your
mind all season. I feel like, when when is it
going to happen again with his hands? This time it's
his hands. It was his knees. It's been an oblique
it's always something. But this has not been surgically repaired.
This has not been something that has necessarily responded to

(48:56):
an inordinate amount of time off. So are we just
just hoping for the best every time he goes out
and then is a spot, I'm gonna give him a
random off day more often than not. Like, what's the
answer to having the best version of yord On that
you can have in twenty twenty five with under the circumstances, If.

Speaker 6 (49:15):
Only we knew, honestly, that's the only response we can give.
At this point, we don't have any information about it.
They don't give us information about it. There has been
no procedure regarding it. And this is not the first
time it's happened. He's played through this before. Honestly, he
needs another day off. He needs to another couple of
days off. We don't think he's gonna need an al stint,
but ultimately he does. It's your right hand, it's your

(49:35):
left hand. It hurts when I swing. I've got inflammation.
He's taking BP today and Chandler Roome, noting that he
concluded his live BP at least a round of it.
We'll see how he feels after. Like I said, I
expect this step if nothing else. I don't think he's
going to go out there to this point and is

(49:56):
trying to get back to the field, get to live BP,
which is essentially the last thing needed to say I'm
ready to go, don't need a rehab assignment, and I
can just go back into the lineup. He's not gonna
get to this and say tomorrow, I gave it everything
I had. I swung hard, and I hit a ball
into the right field seats, and now my hand's hurt. Again,
and we're gonna have to do something. I just don't

(50:17):
think that that's what's gonna happen here. I think if
that was the case, they would already have known that
he can't get to this point. He can't get to
swinging as hard as he needs to to play major
league baseball and continue playing major League base I think
they have already known that he's coming back.

Speaker 5 (50:31):
He's playing this road series. That's good to know. It's
just I don't know for how long.

Speaker 6 (50:35):
I don't know if it's if something that can go
the next hundred games without having any issue whatsoever. I
don't have any way to know that because we don't
know what's taking place. We have concrete information on I
believe one astro's injury. That's Spencer Araghetty, because he broke
his finger, then it heals, then he's fine. That's all

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there is to it. He has no remaining issues. And
it's even more clear because he didn't have to wait
for the surgery to take place and recover from that.

Speaker 5 (51:04):
There wasn't one.

Speaker 6 (51:05):
He just wrapped it up, casted it, waited for it
to heal, It's healed, cast us off. He's thrown to
Baseball go through his rehab work as long as because
of the layoff, he doesn't have any issues for you know,
getting back up into pitching at a major league level
and getting up to forty sixty eighty pitches any you know,
you could that could happen during spring training, which essentially
you have to go through again, but it's not related

(51:26):
to some ongoing issue. His ongoing issue. Was Yeah, it's
however long it takes to heal. It's like Jabari Smith
Junr broke his finger. Right when it's healed, he's ready
to go. And was that is a shepherd as well?

Speaker 4 (51:38):
Clear cut or cut and dry, I should say timetable.
I guess I just wish that some of these injuries
with the biggest name players on the squad weren't necessarily
always so gray area.

Speaker 6 (51:51):
Yeah, the gray areas with the pitchers is one thing.
The gray area with Kyle and jord On to me
is very very different. It shouldn't necessarily be that way.
You know, Lance France, Xavier Luis Garcia who's back throwing
off the mound, and any of the pictures I could
suggest setbacks with rehab with these very significant shoulder or

(52:14):
elbow surgeries. I wouldn't say I come to expect it,
and I don't only mean for the astros.

Speaker 5 (52:19):
It happens all over the league.

Speaker 6 (52:21):
But Kyle Tucker's situation last year, in Jordan's ongoing multiple
year's worth of hand issues, that's totally different. I don't
it seems like it could be publicly informationally dealt with
in a very very different way. I still wish I
could just get a straight answer about the timeline of
Kyle Tucker last year, even now, since it's a year
later and he doesn't play here anymore, I just wish

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I would have known what was actually going on. Every
once in a while with an NBA player and a
stress fracture, you don't see it.

Speaker 5 (52:52):
Initially, they go off.

Speaker 6 (52:53):
And they say this is what it is, and we
think it's gonna take this amount of time, which is
not very long, and then they realize, well, it's more
than that. The second he went out there to try
to test it, it still hurt, and it hurts so
badly that we better take a look again. Well we
didn't look like this before, or we didn't realize what
this was before. Even with however many opinions, and we

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can say goodbye to the season. I think that's kind
of what happened with Kyle. I don't think it was
initially seen, but I don't think it was dealt with
publicly informationally the way it should have been dealt with,
as we all know by now.

Speaker 5 (53:24):
For the UH Chicago Cub outfielder.

Speaker 11 (53:29):
The aed on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
Was today the first day that we've heard from Nick
Cayley since his intro pressor. Yes, right, that's who I
was most excited to hear from. I know we have
lots of Demico Ryan sound and we'll hear from him.
But isn't this Isn't this the guy that everybody wanted
to hear from. He's the guy that's gonna fix it
all man, doctor feel good for the offensive line of

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the Texans.

Speaker 5 (54:03):
I mean he and the offensive line coach. Right, No,
it's a tandem, but like there's no pressure.

Speaker 12 (54:08):
Right.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
This is if you are of the opinion and I've
seen and I've texted with people that I trust their
opinion a lot. For example, if you think that it's
not necessarily the talent, although it was a little bit,
but you think primarily this situation could be fixed by
improving the coaching and the scheme, along with the right

(54:32):
mix of whatever you already have on the roster and
what you brought in. Then if you're Nick Kyley, I
hate it for you, but that's why you're That's how
you're gonna earn your paycheck. I mean, that's how most
coaches do. But there's way more pressure on.

Speaker 6 (54:47):
This guy, yeah, because of when he comes in. There's
no only so much pressure on Bobby Slowch in his
first year as a new play caller, coming up the
ranks as a younger coach, because he and his quarterback
hadn't played before. He and his team were coming off
of a and awful season. Awful season, an awful era

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of Texans football, the worst era of Texans football. Nick
Cayley is coming off arguably the best era of Texans football.
He's joining this team at a time where the pressure
should be great. No matter how they the unit, the
wide receivers, tight ends, offense, offensive anything. This team is
ready to win more than ten games, more than one
playoff game, more than just a division crown where you're

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the fourth best out of four among the division winners
in the AFC, so one hundred percent, the pressure is on.
It's been on since he walked in the door. It's
on as they go through OTAs, and it'll be on
all throughout the season. His literal pressure on why he's
here the doctor feel good is figure out a way
on any given game day to not have whatever's not

(55:53):
going right on your offensive line derail the entire day,
don't have the entire week saying, man, we're have to
sit down Saturday night and make sure CJ's on board
because we went and practiced this, that and the other Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, and it's not gonna work. These guys
are not gonna be able to handle this. We've not
done a good job preparing and we don't have enough
you know, I guess talent there to do this on

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this particular matchup. So in game we're gonna have to
figure out what works and we're gonna have to make
adjustments on the fly. And again, you probably don't know
that Saturday night. You probably don't know that untill Sunday
at twelve twenty after you've seen their defense twice or
three times or four times. So that's to me, and
I've said it before, I think that's the main reason
they moved on from Bobby Slok. He did not have
a bad playbook. I don't think he was a bad

(56:37):
play caller. I definitely think some things could have been
different in that regard. But sure, the reason he's not
here to me is they couldn't figure things out for
three hours ten times last year. Game starts, this isn't working,
game ends, didn't make adjustments. They could not figure out
why they kept having problems on any given game plan

(56:58):
that they sent out there, and it's just kept happening
over and over and over again, and oftentimes they were
the same problems. So not only were they unable to say, well,
what are it that the Colts are doing to us
or the Packers are doing to us? Well, the every
team that has film is doing to us because they're
watching you not make adjustments to it.

Speaker 5 (57:15):
And talent is absolutely a part of it.

Speaker 6 (57:18):
You can't look at what they put on the field
last year and who's not here and not realize quite
clearly talent was a problem.

Speaker 5 (57:28):
Worse, maybe the talent that's there this.

Speaker 6 (57:30):
Year, which might make you double take if you think
talent was a problem, and you do, because three of
your five starters aren't here, anymore. You traded two of
them away and you cut the other. But did you
upgrade is a part of the equation and that will
remain to be seen and clearly that's why the team
believes it's only in a relative term and perception of

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did you upgrade? Well, if your performance is upgraded, I
don't care about Cam Robinson's clearly not as good as
larming Ton, So that's clear as day. Ursery is not
going to play as well as Laramie Tunzel.

Speaker 5 (58:01):
He just can't. There's no way.

Speaker 6 (58:03):
But can the line function better this year and give
the offense a chance, give Nick Cayley's play calling an
opportunity to manifest a little bit on any given day
and cauld CJ actually take control of the offense like
he really did not have a chance to.

Speaker 5 (58:17):
Do last year.

Speaker 6 (58:19):
That was one comment we'll have for you later about
CJ and Nick Keyley working together and what they're already
trying to do so they can do something they did
not do clearly not together, but CJ did not do
last year. Well, let's get to the most important matter, unfortunately,
which is CJ. Stroud's ability or lack of throwing. He's

(58:40):
not throwing the football at practice. He is at practice,
he's participating at practice, but if a eleven on eleven
or team drill requires a pass to be thrown, he's
not out there doing it. And when the wide receivers
are running their drills, they have two quarterbacks out there.
He's on the field, he's wearing his red jersey. He
even had his helmet today and ran some running plays,
but he's not participating in those throws either. We don't

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really have much of a reason to answer or much
of an answer to that question, which was obviously posed
to both the head coach and the offensive coordinator posed
to the head coach Wednesday when Demiico Ryan spoke, His
answer to what is the plan or what is going
on with CJ.

Speaker 16 (59:17):
Stroud was this, For all the guys you see here, guys,
there would be guys on different schedules, different routines, so
you'll see some guys out some guys won't be out there,
some guys will be. Some guys would be on different snapcount,
different pitch count. So there's nothing going on right now
within there.

Speaker 15 (59:34):
Guys.

Speaker 5 (59:35):
Everybody's just on their own schedule.

Speaker 6 (59:37):
His pitch count is zero. He's at a pitch lim
of zero. He went zero for zero today, just like
he went on Wednesday. And that question was specific to CJ.
If you heard Dimiko's answer, there was no reference to
CJ at all, but more a generic answer to I
could have asked him, what's what's going on with Dalton Schultz.
I didn't see him. I didn't see Brevin Jordan out
of here. I didn't see Henry to Atoe out of here.

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I didn't see CJ. Gardner Johnson out there. But it
wasn't He could have given literally the exact same answer
because none of those players have participated in the two
practices that the media has seen. Some of those players
are obviously there because we've seen them, but doesn't mean
that they were participating, And others aren't there because we've
seen them on social media, like CJ.

Speaker 5 (01:00:19):
Gardner Johnson.

Speaker 6 (01:00:20):
Similar question now, after a second day of seeing CJ
participate but not throw, was asked of Nick Kyley and
where things are and is there any concern with you
regarding your new quarterback CJ Strout.

Speaker 12 (01:00:33):
He's locked in every step of the way, no concerns whatsoever.
I know Demiko has already hit on this. Everybody's got
a specific routine relative to their own routine, specific to
whatever you know through, whether it's football, whether it's athletic training,
et cetera. And he's doing a great job, and he's
out here.

Speaker 5 (01:00:49):
And he's working. He did the right thing.

Speaker 6 (01:00:52):
And I was commenting to somebody beforehand, Nick Cayley's going
to be available, Demiko Ryans is not and has already
been available. There's clearly a question that is going to
be asked of you, and you want one voice the
answer to what's wrong with CJ. If anything is wrong
with CJ, it shouldn't come from the offensive coordinator, shouldn't
come for the quarterback coach. It shouldn't come from anybody

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other than two people, maybe three if you count Nick Casario.
It should come from CJ. Or it should come from
the head coach. And the answer Nick Kayley gave was
very indicative of that, even reference to Miko already addressed
this or already commented on this, But he did sneak
in a I'm not concerned at all, which is at

(01:01:34):
least I guess.

Speaker 5 (01:01:35):
Somewhat soothing.

Speaker 6 (01:01:37):
It's no bathtime bliss soothing, but it seems pretty soothing.

Speaker 5 (01:01:41):
To hear bathtime bliss. Yeah, whatever it is that Sydney's peddling.

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
If Sidney Sweeney told you that the Texans offensive line
was going to be okay this year, would you believe
her more than Nick Kayley?

Speaker 6 (01:01:52):
I would continue having dinner whether sure, I'd probably get
her another drink.

Speaker 5 (01:01:54):
Wait, when did you guys sit down for dinner?

Speaker 6 (01:01:57):
I miss what you'd be talking to me. I'm not
like hitting on her. Oh she's covering the Texans. Now,
she's covering them?

Speaker 5 (01:02:03):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (01:02:03):
Do you think anybody, anybody outside of coal would see
what was going on on the field if she was there?

Speaker 5 (01:02:09):
I don't. I mean I would come on, I.

Speaker 6 (01:02:13):
Barely even talk to anybody out there as I faked
like I have to watch every single snap.

Speaker 5 (01:02:17):
Well that's that's a defense mechanism that you use. Hey,
what's going on? Wex I. But also, nobody looks like
her out there. Nobody.

Speaker 4 (01:02:27):
Sorry, it's the most attractive person you could have found
out there.

Speaker 5 (01:02:30):
Whoever they are, does not look like that. Yeah, but
there's at least one or two people out there that
sounds like her.

Speaker 4 (01:02:36):
Sounds like her, Yeah, so I've got to close my
eyes and oh my gosh.

Speaker 6 (01:02:41):
Everybody that's out there, though, is desirable to somebody. That's
what this world is all about.

Speaker 5 (01:02:46):
I don't agree with that. A lot of people find
there is someone for everyone.

Speaker 6 (01:02:50):
There's probably more than someone for everyone. This is a
matter did you did your paths cross and when?

Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
And if they don't, then you keep looking.

Speaker 6 (01:02:59):
And those people at they got a cross paths with
somebody else that was right for you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:04):
Sometimes you have more than one person you think who's
right for you. And at the time, Wow, I was
gonna say, you have to find out the hard way to.

Speaker 5 (01:03:11):
Get I don't think so. You don't think you're exclusive.
I guess why what do you have in mind? This
is unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (01:03:20):
This guy, this guy over here, all right, well, we
will have plenty more from texans Ota is not just
Nick Kyley, But I do think that.

Speaker 5 (01:03:31):
He's not.

Speaker 4 (01:03:33):
He's not public Enemy number one. But whatever the equivalent
that is, as far as scrutiny and attention and tell otherwise,
note like, we're not gonna is.

Speaker 5 (01:03:43):
Not public enemy number one? No good? Why would he be?

Speaker 4 (01:03:46):
Well, but I'm saying the equivalent of that. I said,
he's not public.

Speaker 5 (01:03:50):
I know, like, why did you even get to that?

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
Because when your public enemy number one, everything else is
blocked out. Everybody concentrates and fixates on you. But I
think that's what's gonna happen in any ways, because we're
all like, hey man, got cg over here. You probably
want to keep him up right so we can be
the best version of himself.

Speaker 6 (01:04:07):
We'll see about when people believe it's time to blame
the new offensive coordinator could be sooner than you think.

Speaker 8 (01:04:14):
That's the threshold. The eighteen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (01:04:23):
A little after three thirty. It is Friday.

Speaker 6 (01:04:25):
I hope you're headed to the weekend in a good
mood and joining us to do so. Seven one three,
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and we'll get you up until six o'clock and into

(01:04:47):
the Astros on Deck show. As we move forward, getting
a little bit closer to football season. Today marked one
hundred days until the Texans open up their season, and
every other team that's opening on that same day of
the seventh of September. Days between now and then, we'll
probably have clarity on CJ. Stroud a little bit earlier
than that. The college football season will be upon us,

(01:05:09):
and we just got through playing a postseason that won't
be like this upcoming postseason with how things are put
together and where teams are allowed to be ranked and seeded,
and obviously where they play, and everything that goes along
with it. And some of the game times announced yesterday,
including your Longhorns several games, Cougars four of their games,

(01:05:30):
three of them with game times, one with just a
network attached, and the thoughts of additional expansion continue to
be discussed as many of the conferences have recently or
currently gotten together to talk about their futures. And when
it's a future of football, then it's a future postseason
not that many years ago. For some they played out

(01:05:53):
the season, they sent teams to their bowl games, which
were already known long before the season. You won the conference,
you're going to the Rose Bowl. You won your conference,
you're going to be the opponent in the Rose Bowl.
And on down the line for all the other bowl games.
You could be ranked third, they could be ranked eighth.
The number one team could play playing the number five team,
the number two team could be playing the number ten team.

(01:06:15):
It really wasn't much rhyme or reason to it, because
you just went where your conference affiliated bowl game would be,
and the matchups had tradition behind it, and the same
two conferences played more often than not in some literally
every single time, every single year, and there was a
lot to it. And then the games would be played
and we'd say, I wonder who the voters are going

(01:06:36):
to tell us who the best team in the country is,
because there was no postseason. The UPI and the AP
and the voters pretty much agreed, not always, but pretty
much agreed, and you could have an undefeated team over
here that they just didn't play very much football against
anybody would care about. So you played your bowl game
and you're not the best team in the country. Trying
to move away from that, we've obviously gone to the BCS,

(01:06:58):
to the playoff system. Four teams to twelve teams. We're
gonna see sixteen teams, and the format of it is
obviously a major major talking point as they continue to
make the regular season a huge money maker and bigger
than ever means a little bit less than ever and
the fans behind it from a rivalry standpoint in this

(01:07:20):
game because of that opponent needs that much to me
and our conference that we're in, which we're no longer in.
It's just it's night and day to what it once was,
doesn't I'm not trying to spin it better or worse.
It's just definitely night and day. We lamented the possibility
if it happened for two teams, You've got to win
enough games to qualify for the playoffs. Oftentimes that means

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you want enough times to qualify for your conference title game,
which is game number thirteen and then fourteen, and then
fifteen and then sixteen, and with a sixteen team playoff,
there won't be every team that's playing more games, but
there will be some teams playing that number of games
on a somewhat regular basis. You remember Steve Sarkisian talking
this past offseason, from the end of last year to

(01:08:03):
the end of this year. The number of games played
in an extremely short period of time is just unheard
of for college football. And now the college commissioners of
each of these conferences they're not equals and they know it.
The big twelve and the SEC and the ACC and
you name it. Clearly there are tiers, but there's even

(01:08:26):
tiers within the tiers, and that's why they're yelling at
each other once again.

Speaker 4 (01:08:30):
Yeah, Well, the fact that, well, first of all, the
lecture as I put it, that brett Or Mark was
giving all the conferences.

Speaker 5 (01:08:41):
I mean, you agree, col doesn't that at least the quote.

Speaker 6 (01:08:44):
Conference commissioner from not the SEC and not the Big ten.

Speaker 5 (01:08:49):
Well, of course he's going to talk like that. He's
little brother.

Speaker 7 (01:08:52):
I'm going to hold brett Or Mark's hand when I
tell him, you don't want what you're preaching.

Speaker 6 (01:08:57):
What we do want, though, I think Cole would agree,
is more talking from Brett Yormark. He has Hell, how
long has he been the Big twelve commissioner. I think
he's going on your four at this point.

Speaker 5 (01:09:07):
Pretty new.

Speaker 6 (01:09:08):
And almost everywheion, yes, almost every time he's had reason
to talk. And this is a really good reason to talk,
standing up for your conference. You know, when Texas and
Oklahoma left, he was standing up for his conference. Then
it almost always provides us with well, definitely radio fodder.
And I do think he's appreciated what the conference is

(01:09:29):
currently and I think he's out of hand in making
it what he is, and I think it's it's great
to see him when we're watching the final four. He's
right there with the Sampson family as they're going through
this tournament run and into the final four. He's been
a I'm not I don't think he's been a bad
commissioner at all, but he's I would say, opened his
mouth so much. It's it's so many other people like, well,

(01:09:52):
we're we're going to remember that and what he said
about Texas and you know what life's going to be like.
Heck Texas when people were telling him, wait till you
get to the SEC more talk please, because we always
get to revisit it when it's high in the face stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:10:06):
Well, and the fact that he has managed to fit
as many of those types of instances in that short
amount of time is impressive all on its own.

Speaker 6 (01:10:14):
Because he's unwilling to just sit back. And I again,
I think that too can be appreciated.

Speaker 4 (01:10:20):
No, I think he's he feels like and I think
others feel like he's fighting for his rights to party
so to speak. He's piece and boy in it. Yeah,
So I mean that's what he's supposed to do. Actually,
if he wasn't, he probably wouldn't have that spot for
very long. Sure, but let's counteract it.

Speaker 7 (01:10:34):
He's doing what is necessary for his conference, the Big Twelve,
a conference that I consider in the world of college
football as somebody that eats, lives, and breeds this sport,
the most fun conference that exists. Jim, I mean, Tony
Pettiti and Greg Sankie are doing the exact same thing,
with more money, with more distribution, with more advertisers, with

(01:10:56):
more revenue, with better games, with better matchups, with better teams,
with better recruiting numbers, with better transfer portal numbers.

Speaker 5 (01:11:04):
With everything better.

Speaker 7 (01:11:05):
And yet you're sitting over here trying to scream about them.

Speaker 5 (01:11:08):
You're not doing what's best for college football. Pray your mark.
You're doing the exact same thing, and you're looking out
for your conference.

Speaker 7 (01:11:15):
What you're trying to do is make everyone else appreciate you,
when honestly you're just lucky to be at the table
to begin with.

Speaker 6 (01:11:21):
So back to not something totally specific to this discussion,
what he's actually yelling about, Like, isn't the SEC gonna
ultimately make more overall money if they went to a
nine game regular season formula, because I would assume that
allows them to increase their television revenue by saying, well,
we're giving you another whole set of games, or week

(01:11:43):
of games, or two weeks of games. However, they set
up the schedule, which even in the regular season are
huge money contracts for them, and then they're ultimately still
gonna get the desired number of teams in the playoffs.

Speaker 7 (01:11:55):
Right, but you have to get through that new contract
agreement because currently the contract has eight coference games.

Speaker 6 (01:12:01):
So what's what's Brett yelling about? Well, go ahead, Cole,
I'll let you actually handle it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:05):
Well, he The quote that it jumps out is I
think there's roll momentum for five and eleven.

Speaker 5 (01:12:11):
Certainly the the.

Speaker 4 (01:12:13):
Public is voting yes for it, which I think is
critically important. Yes, the Big ten, the SEC are leading
the discussions. This is my favorite part.

Speaker 6 (01:12:20):
But with leading those discussions comes great responsibility, uh, to
do what's right for college football and not kind of
comic book refer.

Speaker 5 (01:12:28):
It really sounds like that.

Speaker 6 (01:12:29):
I think it was Superman with great power, you know,
comes great spider Man. Okay, but didn't didn't Superman's dad
tell him that Marlon Brando, didn't he tell him that
same thing before he gave him the crystal and he
turned into Superman.

Speaker 5 (01:12:42):
He flew out of the crystal fortress of solitude.

Speaker 7 (01:12:45):
I have I have issues with Prett, you're re Mark,
and we don't have time to get through them.

Speaker 5 (01:12:48):
We really don't have time. Let's go to break.

Speaker 8 (01:12:52):
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Speaker 4 (01:13:03):
So ultimately, are we just are we just wanting him
to basically worry more about his conference, Brett, you or
Mark than worry about everybody else in this new format.
Because if that's the case, I mean, you want him
to sit back, but he can't do that. If he's

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not gonna have enough of his teams represented it in
the new format.

Speaker 6 (01:13:30):
He could say whatever he wants. He can fight for
wherever he wants. The bottom line is they're gonna get
what the other bigger, badder conferences say they get. It's
just I mean, it's unfortunate, and you're essentially run by football.
They're extremely well represented across the board everywhere else, especially
in basketball, but it doesn't really matter and obviously that's
not what this discussion is even about how many teams

(01:13:54):
should have been there this year how many teams should
be there next year or the year after, even in
a sixteen team format versus this year's twelve. I mean,
I watch enough football, and I think most of our
listeners who are enthralled with this conversation, do you can
recognize that it's okay to acknowledge the third or fourth

(01:14:14):
or fifth best team in the SEC where they playing
elsewhere against a different schedule, it seems pretty reasonable that
they would win a lot of football games, you know,
Penn State and Michigan maybe one of the last two years,
definitely Ohio State and gives you at least three Oregon Again,
if you're unaware, they are situated at conference right there
nowhere near the coast that they play on. These are

(01:14:37):
very very good Big ten teams. Well yeah, the Big
ten and the SEC are what we would call the
big boys right now in the Oregon UCLA USC additions
are one of the big reasons why Oregon much much,
much more specifically than those two others who aren't nearly
at their level right now. But a two or four

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four two two model, a five to eleven model, it's
gonna be five six seven, minimum of six SEC and
a maximum of three or four tops. If you want
to guarantee those four spots, I mean you're never getting there.
Which teams from the Big twelve had to be in?
I don't even know which one, oh I would put

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at the top of the list, because they had four
teams that were all the same and clearly all four
of them were borderline second tier elite teams.

Speaker 7 (01:15:27):
So let's look at it from the model that Lane
Kiffing came out with and said sixteen best teams. If
somehow Clemson doesn't beat SMU, well, then BYU probably gets
in at ten and two after six other SEC teams
are in, and then you also have the factor in
there was another team, Illinois that went nine to three

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and played a tougher strength to schedule and was ranked
right next to where BYU.

Speaker 5 (01:15:55):
Was, so they could have jumped ahead of them.

Speaker 7 (01:15:57):
So ultimately, if not for finding a way to pull
off an upset in Charlotte, the ACC and the Big
Twelve were always getting one team in unless a bunch
of other things had to happen, and they weren't happening
because the SEC strength to schedule, resume rankings, and also
probably the biggest one knock who's there oh, revenue and

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viewership and ratings, which are going to play a major
factor in all this conversation. They resign in that conference,
get over it.

Speaker 6 (01:16:30):
Brett, Well, yeah, the only way that's I think the
only way that changes is if the SEC and Big
ten teams, and I don't think they would ever do this,
would agree to a lot more non conference games against
the ACC and the Big twelve where those top level
teams I'm talking about and they went out and beat
them because they're not going to see that on a

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weekend and week out basis within their own conference. Talking
about the ACC or the Big Twelve. You know, b
YU can go out and have a better season than
last year when they were you know, a two loss
team in the conference like Colorado, like Arizona State, all
the teams in the four way tie.

Speaker 5 (01:17:06):
Well, that's fine, but that's.

Speaker 6 (01:17:08):
Against each other unless there are other games that put
you in a different stratosphere. And that's why I don't see.
There's no game, nothing to gain. There's all you can
do is lose. Whether even if you win the game,
there's nothing to win. If you're a Big Ten team
and you're an SEC team, a top level team, there's
no way to there's no reason to accept it. So
I think they're just kind of going in circles constantly.

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They're gonna get two teams in or less. One year,
they'll get three, one year they'll get one, and the
SEC and the Big Ten will continue to dominate the
slots and most likely dominate the championships.

Speaker 7 (01:17:44):
Here, Brett, let me make this clear for you. We're
all fastest. So you were on the same page, buddy.
In twenty thirty one, the SEC and college football will
now have a new playoff format because that's when the
ruling comes out. In that same year, Clemson, Duke, North
carol and a few other schools Florida State, Miami, they
can all get out of their current grant of rights

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media deal with the ACC, so we get twenty thirty one.
You don't want to play nice with Tony Patiti and
Greg Sanki. Hmm, who are your most profitable teams in
the Big twelve?

Speaker 9 (01:18:17):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:18:17):
Uh, Baylor, TCU, Oklahoma State, Colorado. Oh, look at that,
we got a Utah right out there. We're gonna add
you to our new super conference that we're paying alongside
with the Big Ten. You have fun, because if you
don't want to play our way. Now, we're gonna change
the rules and you can have your own college football
playoff that nobody's gonna watch because we have the television

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rights with both CBS and ESPN.

Speaker 5 (01:18:40):
Continue to do what you're doing, you're talking about a
third super conference.

Speaker 7 (01:18:43):
I'm talking about one major super super league, one major
one that's gonna have sixty eight teams in twenty thirty one.
Because that's what we're aiming towards. If the ACC and
the Big Twelve don't want to play.

Speaker 5 (01:18:53):
Nice sixty eight teams.

Speaker 7 (01:18:55):
I would say probably about sixty's better than a basketball team.

Speaker 5 (01:18:58):
Is that different than what we're doing now?

Speaker 7 (01:18:59):
Because of what you would do is that would be
two conferences thirty two. One would be the AFC, one
would be the NFC. They would then get each sixteams
represented for their own college football playoff.

Speaker 6 (01:19:10):
Right, So the same teams that would be getting in
now are going to be getting in then, right.

Speaker 7 (01:19:14):
But what you're doing is you're getting rid of teams
from the Big Twelve and you're getting rid of teams
in the ACC to create your own super league that
is now going to give you all of the revenue,
all the profitable teams, all of the marketing teams, and
then everyone else just literally becomes the Mountain West or
Conference USA because it's the Big ten, Big twelve teams.
Your marks teams are going to be a part of this. No, yeah,

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but they're being bought out and they're joining this new
conference in twenty thirty one when the college football Playoff
has to go up for a new contract.

Speaker 6 (01:19:44):
Rights, Right, so the teams that he's quote unquote representing
will be just fine, will make out totally normal. They're
gonna there just won't be a conference anymore.

Speaker 7 (01:19:54):
WEX They're gonna leave the Big twelve and join with
the new future super league.

Speaker 5 (01:20:00):
They're not going to be a part of.

Speaker 6 (01:20:01):
Brett your Marxian rights, but each individual university will be like, great,
this is awesome. There just won't be a Big twelve
and he won't have a job. He'll just go find
a new job, right exactly, working underneath Greg saying your
ton of p tit. This is obviously where we're headed.
The SEC has gotten so large that the only way
to expand is to turn themselves into the entity that

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runs it all, which is essentially what's going to happen
the football should hopefully remain week in and week out entertaining,
you know, the things that we like about it. Now,
that's the only thing they have to be even a
little bit concerned about. And I think we're already seeing
even as rivalries fall by the wayside. Maybe they come back,
like Texas, Texas A and M, maybe they don't. I

(01:20:44):
just think TV is dick the same thing that happened
in the NBA. As we talked about inside the NBA
on TNT. There's too much money for Adam Silver to say, nah, no,
we got to protect this. There's too much money for
these conference commissioners and ultimately college football to say, no,
we got to keep these rivalries round.

Speaker 9 (01:21:00):
There.

Speaker 6 (01:21:00):
They're the life blow. There's keeping the fan. What's keeping
the fans around is secondary. The money that the TV
networks are throwing at them, that's primary.

Speaker 5 (01:21:10):
So they're just gonna keep taking.

Speaker 4 (01:21:11):
It all right, four o'clock hour coming up next, we're
gonna get back to the Texans conversation. You'll hear from
both Tamiko Ryans and Nick Cayley. Also, our A team
draft is a half hour away.

Speaker 8 (01:21:25):
The A team on Sports Talk seven ninety two. Lifelong
Houston sports guys named Adam Talking Your Team's Adam Clinton
and Adam Wexler are the eighteen.

Speaker 6 (01:21:45):
Eighty four o'clock hour underway here on the final May
edition of the A Team.

Speaker 4 (01:21:54):
It's Sports Talk seven ninety Space City Home Network. Wex
ac col Thompson discussing a lot of college football over
the last couple of segments. We will transition back into
the pro side of things as we catch up with
the Texans at their OTAs, But before we do that,
I want to give out an alert. Our draft this

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week is at the bottom of the hour. It will
be breakfast foods. But there is a format, as per usual,
because that's a very wide ranging topic. So you will
have to have a beverage, an entree, and then what
is considered a side.

Speaker 5 (01:22:33):
That's it. Well, you pick three things. It's kind of
a light eat. Well, if you want to draft five
things and a five course meal, go ahead. Well, okay,
all right, I'll probably win. Then I'm not gonna win
this one.

Speaker 9 (01:22:46):
Why, oh, because you don't like breakfast foods. I eat
breakfast foods. When I was thinking, okay, what are the sides?
Because now I gotta look at stonuts count as a side.
Is it bacon is sausage?

Speaker 5 (01:22:56):
I mean, what's what's technically Could eggs be technically aside?
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:22:59):
You can those eggs Additionally, one two eggs on the sides, yep.

Speaker 5 (01:23:03):
Absolutely, one hundred different ways. Yep.

Speaker 6 (01:23:06):
Almost all of your breakfast foods are also sides. We
did omelet, but I could get eggs on the side.
The meal that it came with includes bacon or sausage,
meat of choice, because that's the side.

Speaker 5 (01:23:21):
But it could come with your meal. Well, here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (01:23:25):
You if if one of us drafts eggs of some sort.

Speaker 5 (01:23:29):
I'm drafting breakfast buffet, you can't do that. This is
why you have left over so the night before.

Speaker 6 (01:23:36):
This is why I do for parameters because all the
time for breakfast, you.

Speaker 5 (01:23:41):
Too are a nightmare.

Speaker 6 (01:23:42):
If I don't put in those parameters, then it's way
too willing nilly like you guys are doing right now.
Water omelet with no cheese or any fixings, just eggs,
and my side will be toast with no butter. You're
trying to lose, is what you're saying. I hope you
draft that. We're see what happens. Can I get can

(01:24:02):
I get a water. No, no, no, I don't want
any ice with that. I'll take uh no, let's just
make omelets too much for you. Just scramble three eggs
for me. I'm not very hungry, and I'll take some.

Speaker 5 (01:24:15):
Just bread.

Speaker 6 (01:24:17):
Just slice a piece of toast, don't even toast it.
Just hand me a slice of bread. I'll cut it.
I'll cut it myself. He's missing something.

Speaker 5 (01:24:26):
I'm only allowed to draft three items. Those are three.
I know he has his water. Where's his blanket?

Speaker 6 (01:24:32):
I mean lukewarm water, poorly cooked scrambled eggs they're probably
still running. And white bread, not even wheat. You know
any poppy seeds involved in whatever you're I'm just looking
for a vote, just one, like zero point one.

Speaker 5 (01:24:50):
Get it all. Nobody's voting for that. Forgot.

Speaker 6 (01:24:54):
We don't have Yeah, we don't have a You can't
vote for yourself, not the NBA.

Speaker 5 (01:24:57):
So you have you have rescued yourself from getting zero percent?

Speaker 6 (01:25:01):
All right, sweet good luck you guys. Back to his
Food's twenty seven minutes out the eighteen Friday draft.

Speaker 5 (01:25:08):
Get ready? All right?

Speaker 4 (01:25:10):
So we heard from Nick Cayley a little bit earlier,
and we can hear more from him now. But I'm
interested in because you said something earlier about Demiko when
he's not available to speak, because it's going to be
all Nick Kyley, because it's going to be all on
him as things do or don't go well with the

(01:25:31):
offensive line and the offense in general. How many times
do you anticipate that actually happening, Because to me, even
if he is the guy that I just said, he
could be not public Enemy Umber number one, but the
guy who's under the most scrutiny because of who he's
taking over for and what he's tasked with doing. Especially
since the defense probably just got better this offseason, if

(01:25:53):
that's possible, and they were really good last year. Even
if the Texans had done nothing to their defense, don't
you think it would have been better because all these
young guys contributed last year are just going to take
that next step.

Speaker 6 (01:26:04):
And that's kind of presumptuous, and it's not about them
maybe individually doing this better or that better. Their team
still was not good in certain areas, like really bad
in certain areas, and that was why they gave up
so many points. They're bad in the red zone, they're
bad in the goal to gost situation. They can't be
that bad and expect to advance against teams that have

(01:26:24):
equal to or more talent. That's where the improvement has
to come. They also did a tremendous job in disrupting
offenses and thus creating takeaways. It doesn't always work out
even when you are disrupted, but it did for them.
They need those, especially against the Chargers. Well, look at
the game afterwards. We're months away from it, and the

(01:26:47):
Texans were on the plus side to the nth degree, right,
they didn't look how long it took them to take
control of the game.

Speaker 5 (01:26:54):
M Like, they're kicking field goals early.

Speaker 4 (01:26:57):
This is why I'm that's almost like the saving grace, Like, okay,
if we get out there, And by the way, we
didn't answer the threshold question. How many games does Nick
Cayley and company get on that side of the ball
before they start getting severe heat?

Speaker 5 (01:27:11):
Like what if things go bad very early?

Speaker 6 (01:27:15):
I mean, I don't even know they're not. How can
they go bad If you can't keep him upright, you
can't produce on offense, So you've status quoted. He can't
make them worse. He really can't, even with less talent,
and they have less talent on the offensive line, at
least proven talent. If all their young players are very

(01:27:35):
strongly about that, to be saying them last year, how
are they going to literally, I'm being serious, but.

Speaker 5 (01:27:42):
Worse.

Speaker 4 (01:27:42):
You just got done saying they took away talent from
the offensive line, and there's no way they can be worse.

Speaker 5 (01:27:47):
Than that's individual talent.

Speaker 6 (01:27:49):
The unit can play better with less talent because your
coaching is better, because your offensive line coach is better.
And I'm not saying that is what has happened. I'm
saying that's what could happen. That's what they expect to happen.
That's what they made the change just for in order
to happen. They think they're gonna get better coaching. They
think their players are gonna understand it. We shouldn't have
ever laughed at it before, and last year should have
shown us why when offensive line say we're like one

(01:28:11):
unit out there, we all got to work together. We
all have to be on the same page. You know,
I've got to know his job, he's got to know
my job. Our communication's got to be on point. I
know I was here in twenty twenty four. I watched
the opposite of that take place. They weren't awesome in
individual talent, but they played so far below what their
actual talent was because of what I just said, wasn't

(01:28:34):
there they were on They weren't even in the same
book let alone the same page. They were reading from
two different books or five different books and five different
parts of the game. They had no idea, what are
you doing here? See those two guys. He's gonna run
around him. It's called a stunt, and that guy's gonna
run a game with him. That means you need to
go get that guy. Wait, what snap?

Speaker 5 (01:28:57):
Mess up?

Speaker 6 (01:28:57):
Sack over and over and over again. Because whatever they
were doing during the week and whatever film they were
looking at, however they're communicating with one another on how
to make sure we were ready to go on game,
it just wasn't happening. So you have you could have
all the talent in the world. They definitely did not,
and it's gonna be hard to overcome that now with again,
individual player for player, what they got out of Shack

(01:29:19):
Mason was so bad last year. I'm not saying they
downgraded the talent at his spot, and same thing with
Kenyon Green, but to a lesser degree.

Speaker 5 (01:29:25):
Because he was barely out there to begin.

Speaker 4 (01:29:27):
You're talking mostly about Laramie, Tunzel's left tackle position and Laramie.

Speaker 6 (01:29:30):
They had, of all the players on the line with
any kind of track record, they had one player in
one area playing plus football. It was Laramie as a
pass protector. He was always a plus pass protector. And no,
it wasn't counteracted by the one penalty on average per
game that cost you five yards. How about the forty

(01:29:50):
pass block reps that kept your quarterback from getting smashed.
I'll take the ladder, but yeah, they don't have that
this year. There's not a single player that you can
point to any point of his career, brief or otherwise
to say, man, this guy is a plus player when
it comes to blank.

Speaker 5 (01:30:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:30:04):
But the the counter argument to that, and I realize
by saying this that I'm ignoring the glaring omission of
him on that line is who cares how many times
he protects if another guy of the other four isn't
doing their job right, but.

Speaker 6 (01:30:17):
One has nothing to do with the other. Laramie's here,
Laramie's not here. It's not making the other guys play
do their jobs. But okay, but going back to what
you said before. If they're cohesively better as a unit
even without him on it, I don't know how that happens.

Speaker 5 (01:30:30):
I mean, I know you've changed person.

Speaker 6 (01:30:32):
Absolutely one banking on what you just said. Everybody knows
that that's terrifying. Though to me, I'm not terrified by
it at all.

Speaker 5 (01:30:40):
Need to be scared. I watched with God, what's the difference.

Speaker 6 (01:30:46):
Like, they're going to eleven players and five of them
are going to be offensive linemen. Yep, they're going to
give less protection to their quarterback this year.

Speaker 5 (01:30:55):
I hope not. I don't see.

Speaker 6 (01:30:56):
I honestly don't see there. There can be such a
doubt turn and do this be noticeable? They can play
comparably poorly. All right, do this for me, then tell
me what's going on in CJ. Stroud's heead right now.
Thank you Nick Cayley for letting me be more in charge.
That was the one thing that stood out of everything
that was said today by anybody who spoke, and it
was three coordinators today, Honestly, the four people that talked

(01:31:17):
on Wednesday, This to me was more important than anything else.
And there's not total clarity on it, so to speak,
because there are no details involved in it, but your quarterback,
you're one, two, three, ten. They need to, in my opinion,
be able to run the show their way. The coordinator,
the head coach, whoever's really in charge of the offense

(01:31:40):
needs to have enough confidence in that player. That player
has to give him the confidence to have in them
to let them run the show. Line play changes at
the line audibling into this. Two plays called here, We're
gonna see what it looks like. I'm gonna know what
I see. My line's gonna see the same thing, and
we're gonna be able to switch to this. I'm gonna

(01:32:01):
make sure that the blocking is in place. You're doing this,
you're doing that. We're all on the same page. I
have to be in charge. What will be on CJ's
plate this year that wasn't there previously.

Speaker 5 (01:32:13):
The more you can do, the better.

Speaker 6 (01:32:14):
Nick Cayley said he wants to have the ability to
be able to have control.

Speaker 5 (01:32:20):
Again.

Speaker 6 (01:32:20):
He didn't go and do detail. I'd like to tell you.
He said, it's his offense. He's gonna know everything about it.
We're basically gonna be co play callers as we prepare
for the game each week and we.

Speaker 5 (01:32:34):
Break the huddle.

Speaker 6 (01:32:35):
He's gonna have the ability to say this play is
not gonna work. We're not running it, we're audibling at.
We're moving into something that will work because I know
this offense, I know my personnel, I know what I'm
looking at.

Speaker 5 (01:32:46):
I know who should be the hot receiver.

Speaker 6 (01:32:48):
I know what's gonna work here and here we go,
and we didn't see that the first two years.

Speaker 5 (01:32:52):
Hot rout, hot route. Sorry, that's all I could think of.
What you said.

Speaker 6 (01:32:56):
I just go to the other side, Just line up
over here. Hopefully there's not a Nico's going. I don't
know what that means.

Speaker 5 (01:33:04):
Hopefully there's not an art show later on late that night,
we're closed to go around to keep it from being
that kind.

Speaker 4 (01:33:11):
That's only after the large scale dinner which they have
to put Graham Graham to bed.

Speaker 8 (01:33:18):
The eight on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 6 (01:33:26):
We work with some really nice people, and then we
work with some really pops.

Speaker 5 (01:33:34):
It is the eighteen man.

Speaker 6 (01:33:35):
Technically, I worked with Matt today too. He's nice, you
think so work with Dan today is over Texans.

Speaker 5 (01:33:40):
He's nice. Okay, so far we're batt in a thousand.
You think I'm nice. I didn't say your name exactly.
I know you do.

Speaker 6 (01:33:47):
Now we're still batting one thousand. You only need one vote.
He is, You didn't say anything?

Speaker 5 (01:33:52):
Yeah, he said you're nice. You only need one vote.
It's a two way street too. By the way, I.

Speaker 4 (01:33:57):
Totally acknowledge that loves well. Yeah, but I'm not the
one who brings the wet blanket to the table.

Speaker 5 (01:34:04):
That is true.

Speaker 4 (01:34:05):
Uh, we have our eighteen draft next segment.

Speaker 6 (01:34:09):
I hope you're ready. I'm ready call you ready. Should
have said oatmeal, but I'll save that for the draft. Unflavored,
nothing sprinkled on it either.

Speaker 5 (01:34:18):
No fruit. Macavoy's listening.

Speaker 6 (01:34:20):
He enjoyed, not even warmed up. He enjoyed my prison food.
You can take cold water and pour it on your
flakes and instantly have oatmeal. I'll put that down. Can
I get the first pick? I don't want you guys
taking that. Why why do you hate the show today?
What about the Astros lineup?

Speaker 5 (01:34:36):
Jeez? Oh you want to look at it? Christian Walker.

Speaker 6 (01:34:40):
See, he's fine, totally fine and batting the Jordon's not
back yet.

Speaker 5 (01:34:45):
I'm gonna laugh when he is back and Jordon's not batting. Cleanup?
Why would you laugh? What's that He's not going to
be batting clean up? Well, Wex just said he was.
I think he's going to the three hole. No, Wex said,
you can't do that. Wex runs the team. You want
Al too ve batting clean up? I want Al two
A batting fifth. So you want Al two B batting
behind Walker? Yes? Apparently apparently. Actually, I'm not.

Speaker 6 (01:35:09):
I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but I
know what's happening here. I'm listening close enough to understand
what's happening here. Are you guys listening close enough to
what's happening here?

Speaker 5 (01:35:19):
I'm not. I'm trying not to entertain this because that's
what they want. You're gonna entertain.

Speaker 6 (01:35:24):
I know it looks like Al two v's hitting well,
but I don't even want him in the lineup.

Speaker 7 (01:35:28):
Yer in the four hole, in the five hole, Al
two A six Hold Walker?

Speaker 5 (01:35:33):
What are you doing? Man?

Speaker 4 (01:35:35):
I have to do several more segments with him, and
you're gonna make him mad.

Speaker 5 (01:35:39):
No, it's all grumpy and cantankerous, not all good. So
what's your lineup? Then? When he comes back? Do it go?
It's so easy, it's do it. We're not that difficult.

Speaker 6 (01:35:48):
Today's lineup paying your peretis alto ve Walker al Twove
is your left fielder, Yer Hays doing the catching for
fromber Camp Smith Jake Myers, Zach Decenzo has been designated
to hit only, and Muricy Dubon, of course, being that
he's the good of the two second basemen they have,
the other being Rogers.

Speaker 5 (01:36:06):
He's batting ninth.

Speaker 6 (01:36:07):
And has continued to flourish batting ninth, almost has the
ops up to seven hundred.

Speaker 5 (01:36:12):
It's been very, very good.

Speaker 6 (01:36:13):
He made another nice play in the field at second base,
gunning down his second runner at home played here in
the last couple of games.

Speaker 5 (01:36:21):
There's your lineup today.

Speaker 6 (01:36:22):
Let's say yourd On Alvarez returns when the Astros get
set head out on the road after Sunday. After they
take the next three games from the Rays, they're thirty
three and twenty six, they win the season series. They've
got an opportunity for yet another four game winning streak,
and all that stands in front of him is Libby
Dunn's boyfriend's team and Cleveland. Nice of her to add

(01:36:49):
Paul to one of her latest tiktoks. As they like
us like Lonely Island. They mouthed the words too, I'm
on a boat while they were on a Bayne Sidney
Sweeney Go Paul Skeens is scheduled to pitch against the Astros.
If all things stay true, jord On Alvarez will bat
forth on Tuesday, June third, his first game back against Pittsburgh.

(01:37:13):
Lansome Colors will be on the mound and the Astros
will be beginning that six game trip. I actually could
be wrong in that, maybe he plays Sunday, maybe he
comes back even sooner. But I'll put him in the
fourth spot. Unchanged is one two three. Talked about it
earlier in the hour that's passed. I have not changed
my mind. You have something right now, don't mess with it.

(01:37:36):
Pania is one of the best leadoff hitters in baseball.
Since he's been moved to the leadoff spot, Perettis continues
to have what would be a career year going. He's
your most potent hitter. He continues to bat very well
right where he is now. Granted, he batted very well
pretty much anywhere else, but he gets on base still.
He's hitting for power. He's batting second because that's where

(01:37:57):
he's hitting now, and all of these home runs that
Jose Altuve has hit at dyk In Park this week,
they've come out of the three hole. His season numbers
don't look horrific anymore because of you know, seven good
days of hitting him five home runs. I'm not moving
that around for this yord On Alvarez, the twenty twenty four,

(01:38:18):
twenty three, twenty two, twenty one version. Maybe maybe because
he would have been leaving as a nine hundred and
fifty ops guy that you missed for the last thirty games,
and now he's back, Well, I want him batting as
often as possible. I'm okay with letting him force his
way into the one, two or three spots. He basically
forced his way out of the two spot. This is

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where what hey, he has been and you know, the
only way to get him more at bats is to
bat him iron the lineup. Well, that wasn't working and
he was not enjoying himself there. There wasn't success al Tuve,
you know, swinging so quickly, his initial at bats weren't
very good. The rest of the game. It doesn't really
matter because you're batting behind the bottom of the order.
He has to earn Honestly, I think that's true. He

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has to earn his way back into there, and I'm
not saying it won't happen, and I'm not averse to
seeing al Tuob continue to slide down if that's what's necessary.
But initially when he comes back he bats forth. I
would probably still bat Christian Walker and Jiner Diez. It
really doesn't matter to me who's fifth and who's sixth,
and neither one of them is in any kind of
groove right now, and just kind of an any day thing.

Speaker 5 (01:39:21):
Who do you feel like putting there today?

Speaker 6 (01:39:22):
If you really got any track record around how they
were hitting, and I think you'd have a sense for it.
But they're both having almost identically underwhelming seasons. If you
look at their season long numbers out, what do they
look alike? And it's not good in either case. And
then you finish things out with your your outfield group,
and again presuming Mauricio Dubond's out there, if he's out there,

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because now if Yourdon's back, he's your DH al two
VA's in left field, you still have second base. He
has to be there, but that means one of your
outfielders is sidelined. So Smith, Myers, and Dubon are seven
eight nine, and that's I'd probably bat Myers seventh, Smith eight,
Dubon ninth. Today Smith is ahead of Myers in the order,

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batting sixth, Meyer seventh, and again Smith, if you were
not aware, awesome month of May. Yep, awesome for any player,
let alone a player in his second major league month.

Speaker 5 (01:40:18):
And yet I'm still surprised. I'm not a surprise.

Speaker 4 (01:40:21):
It's basically a flip flop, but I just I guess
I'm giving a little bit more credit to the overall
body of work for Myers this year.

Speaker 6 (01:40:29):
Their overall body of work for the season is now
almost exactly the same.

Speaker 4 (01:40:34):
I like Walker and Diaz, only in a good way
because they're further down the lineup.

Speaker 6 (01:40:40):
Okay, that's what I would put out there again. I
hope it starts as early as the first game of
the road trip against Pittsburgh, but it starts tomorrow. That's
I don't know if I know. Joe has given an update,
but I don't know that they really know how he feels.
He had only been out of the cage for a
matter of minutes.

Speaker 5 (01:40:57):
I'm just tired of losing to the Rays, so I
don't really.

Speaker 6 (01:41:00):
Jordon can change that on his own because he can't
hold runners on. He won't be the guy throwing strikes
or walking hitters, and he certainly doesn't throw anybody out
from the catching position. Well maybe Smith than that, but
it's not like, you know, at the end of the game,
with what Camonaro did and you know, adding to that
lead the way they did. They manufacture runs and the
Astros are an awful team to stop that. They don't

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stop it at all. So it truly is a one
of a kind a bad matchup. It's not a bad
matchup against say a great offensive team. That's just that's baseball.
You hit the ball well, finding a way to win
by not being a great hitting team.

Speaker 5 (01:41:37):
That's what Tampa's doing. Tampa's over five hundred.

Speaker 6 (01:41:40):
By the way, Tampa, who never keeps their players, doesn't
have any stars, pieces their team together every offseason after
any expensive player has to be moved on from their system,
is incredible. They keep finding pitchers hitters that do enough
good things mix into how they want to play baseball.
They win games, and they keep finding ways to win

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World Series. Well, I don't think they're capable of They're
like Oakland and the Moneyball well they got there one year. Yeah,
I mean the Moneyball A's are applauded, never ending applause
for Wow, they figured it out first. They gotta go
to the analytic route, find a way to get the
data to equal wins. Awesome, you kept going to the

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playoffs and what did you do there?

Speaker 5 (01:42:22):
Nothing? Every time? Way to go.

Speaker 6 (01:42:25):
Congrats and I love what they did, and they were
ahead of the game, but what was the end? The
end game is winning much more than they all. Now,
you don't even have a roof. Well, you don't even
have a stadium. Well, you know you have a stadium.
We don't have a home. You just don't have a
roof on it, which means you don't have a stadium
at a home right now. But that'll all get taken
care of and then they'll build a new stadium. Who

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are you talking about the Rais? Oh, I'm talking about
the Moneyball Athletics. Yeah, I know, but I brought up
the Rays because I'm tired of not winning against them. Well,
it is actually more of a league wide problem. Now,
the second best team in Boston's division isn't them, It's
the Rays.

Speaker 5 (01:43:05):
And the Boston hasn't been good all year. They've been
five hundred all year. I know. That's why.

Speaker 6 (01:43:09):
I mean the rest of the Yankees Division, the unbelievably big, spending,
super talented group of five teams. So Toronto even spent
a big chunk of change this Offseials are awful too.
There's one really good team. The Rays are like most
of the teams in the Astros Division, and then the
other teams are like the Rangers and the other teams

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in the Astros Division.

Speaker 4 (01:43:31):
And then coupled with what Aaron Judge is doing this year,
it's going to be all the more spectacular when they
find a way to lose again and not win a
World Series.

Speaker 6 (01:43:37):
So it's a typical race team, basically very typical. It's
typical is the most perfect word you could have used.
All right, Our draft is next the Friday A team draft.
Breakfast Foods coming your way.

Speaker 11 (01:43:55):
Next the A team. On Sports Talk seven, I.

Speaker 4 (01:44:07):
Had been told by a member of the show's staff,
I'm gonna get Molly wopped. I'll give you one guess
as that who said that to me during the break.

Speaker 6 (01:44:15):
Sega look back at last week's eighteen Friday drafts. It
was a Memorial Day four pack, drink, food, location, game
or activity. Those were your four items to choose from.
I went with beach, barbecue, cornhole, and hard Seltzer. I
came in second, garnered twenty eight point nine percent of
the vote. AC went with Burger's, pool, strip, poker, gentleman Jack.

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He came in third with twenty point five percent.

Speaker 5 (01:44:41):
Of the vote. People are Unamerican, the.

Speaker 6 (01:44:43):
Super mathematicians out there, No, this is a butt kicking
when the two people I've already announced got less than
fifty percent of the vote. Cole, with more than fifty
percent of the vote, brought it on home and actually
participated in these items Beer on the lake while pulling
people in a tube and enjoying crawfish.

Speaker 4 (01:45:03):
Well, he drafted beer, So that's like twenty five percent
right there.

Speaker 7 (01:45:07):
And then the other twenty five percent was just the crawfish.
Probably so well done.

Speaker 6 (01:45:10):
Two weeks of the eighteen Friday draft here so far
and two wins for coal.

Speaker 5 (01:45:15):
We're both tied for second.

Speaker 6 (01:45:17):
This week we will draft breakfast foods as dictated. There
are three items to be selected by each of us.
We need a drink, we need an entree, and we
his side, I think the judges are going to be
busy deciding if this is good and that's okay and
we can let that slide.

Speaker 5 (01:45:37):
And I think the answer is going to be yes
on all fronts.

Speaker 15 (01:45:40):
Hang on our fast guys, with the first pick, and
with the second pick, with the third pick, with.

Speaker 5 (01:45:48):
The second pick, with the first pick pick Friday Draft,
did you find a speaking spell? You gotta put some
music underneath that in the future. But well done, well
spell the most evil voiced toy of all time? Right there?

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Not a speaking spell.

Speaker 6 (01:46:11):
It's not not what was used to create that open
by our production team, which is you in this case.

Speaker 5 (01:46:18):
At least you didn't sing it this time. No no singing.
I wonder if what's doing an impression of write.

Speaker 6 (01:46:25):
The words to a Friday A Team some sort of
parody song. Yeah, you want me to get to business,
all right? I got this weekend. I mean he's retired exactly.
I'm not looking to him to get it done. I
can get it done, all right. Who goes first this week?

Speaker 12 (01:46:39):
You?

Speaker 9 (01:46:40):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:46:40):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (01:46:40):
Good, well, I'm gonna start. I'll throw a curveball. I'm
gonna start with my side because in America, we.

Speaker 5 (01:46:49):
Eat bacon and that's my side.

Speaker 6 (01:46:55):
All right, Bacon's off the board. I will go second,
Cole goes third, and just rotation of this. I don't
think there's much rhyme or reason to when I'm taking
tasteless white bread, oat meal and iceless water. I think
I can take that at any point not be too
concerned that one of you might grab it first.

Speaker 5 (01:47:13):
Hm.

Speaker 6 (01:47:15):
I'm going to take a weirdo. I'm going to enjoy
this awesome breakfast. This one of a kind, best you've
ever heard of, combination of drink entree inside. I'm going
to have the kitchen whip up a very very tasty
breakfast casserole. It's going to include some rolls basically as

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the bass layer, some hash browns, some super awesome tasty
breakfast sausage, obviously, eggs, a little cheese, appropriate pepper and spices.

Speaker 5 (01:47:51):
I'm gonna bake it up for me.

Speaker 6 (01:47:53):
I'm gonna get a honk in brick or five of
that to kick off my meal.

Speaker 5 (01:47:57):
Five bricks of that. I'm trying to get full. And
then he passed out.

Speaker 6 (01:48:01):
I eat breakfast to eat breakfast, not to go about
my day.

Speaker 5 (01:48:05):
Yeah good, all right?

Speaker 7 (01:48:05):
Cool hit us with two so I get back to back.
I personally believe this is the best.

Speaker 5 (01:48:11):
I personally believe. I believe, I personally believe everywhere.

Speaker 6 (01:48:15):
Like set you as the breakfast casserole the Iraq muted exactly.

Speaker 7 (01:48:20):
Uh, this is the best of the bread of the
bread family. This is the best of the overall indulgence
of the main course meals. Give me a heap of
stack of waffles. Let me get the butter, let me
get the syrup. Make sure that it's cascading down. Let
the sogginess kind of sip on in it sinks into
the actual bread. You ain't beating waffles. And then first

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a side dish. I'm gonna play the long game.

Speaker 5 (01:48:46):
I'm gonna wait.

Speaker 7 (01:48:48):
Give me a big old glass of orange juice right
next to those waffles. Go ahead, guzzle it down, hit
your stomach, get my vitamin C, get the old as
I need for everything that is necessary for a balance
breakfast start off, hot boys, going for three and.

Speaker 6 (01:49:06):
Now good, good, good idea to go ahead and get
Oorenthal off the board before Clinton took it.

Speaker 5 (01:49:12):
Smart play, not cool. I'll knife you for that good idea.

Speaker 6 (01:49:17):
I'm not I'm not asking for any description. You have
waffles and OJ, all right, I will move on waffles
and OJ. I man, he did say he's gonna butter
the waffle, so I guess it's not too bad.

Speaker 4 (01:49:31):
You also used the term cascade when referring to the syrup.

Speaker 5 (01:49:36):
That's the proper term. That's absolutely accurate for Brimley here
for diabetes.

Speaker 6 (01:49:41):
Syrup actually cascades over your stack of pancakes a little
bit more so than your lone wolf waffle.

Speaker 5 (01:49:49):
He probably has the squares and it keeps it there.

Speaker 7 (01:49:52):
Yeah, so it soaks it on in, which is a
good thing, all good things.

Speaker 5 (01:49:57):
Speaking of syrup.

Speaker 6 (01:49:58):
Now, obviously, I went to the kitchen and Adam the
chef back there his white coat, white hat, crocs and
loosely fitting pants as all chefs wear. I'm going to
go into a different kitchen for my side, and I
hope you're going to allow the Liberties to have this
as my side item.

Speaker 5 (01:50:17):
I mean, doesn't sound like you have a choice.

Speaker 6 (01:50:20):
I am ordering at the window and hoping they will
serve me up more than one, because, like I said,
I want to be full, so I need lots of
food for breakfast.

Speaker 5 (01:50:28):
You've already had the breakfast castrole. I'm ordering him a griddle.
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 6 (01:50:33):
So I get my sauce, Thomas, I get my pancakes
with syrup already in there, yep. And they'll give you
more syrup, all right, So that's gonna be on the
side of my breakfast castrole wrapper included.

Speaker 5 (01:50:47):
Man, don't eat.

Speaker 6 (01:50:48):
The wrapper though it's got little remnants of syrup.

Speaker 5 (01:50:51):
I don't know. I don't have to eat part of that.

Speaker 6 (01:50:53):
Well, since you guys, your last two picks, better make
them good. I know, what are you gonna wash down
your bacon with? Make you thirsty?

Speaker 4 (01:51:00):
I'm taking coffee off the board because I knew you
weren't going to draft it.

Speaker 6 (01:51:04):
Here'sally, where are you guys eating? What nineteen fifties diner?
Are you guys sitting next to each other at? What
can we get for you? Offer our four item totally
boring menu. I'll take bacon, coffee on orange juice and waffles.

Speaker 7 (01:51:20):
Don't thanks, Laverne, don't hate. Did you want me to
order the frappuccino?

Speaker 5 (01:51:23):
Fine? No, I mean not. You're turning yet. Coffee is
a very wide ranging situation. Coffee's probably a winning selection.
I know.

Speaker 4 (01:51:31):
It's like drafting beer to go out to the lake
and pull people in a tube.

Speaker 6 (01:51:36):
So anyway, finish off your I mean, you're definitely not
gonna eat lunch today after your coffee and bacon.

Speaker 5 (01:51:42):
What do you ask me? This is your entre.

Speaker 4 (01:51:44):
Because while some people order mcgriddels and other people order waffles,
I'm a real man and I order French toast. And
I'm talking about, like, you know, three pieces. I'm talking
about the.

Speaker 6 (01:51:59):
Huge, huge, the three piece that will hold our sugar, butter, syrup.
Forget cascading, it's swimming, cream, sprinkles, cherry on top. Everybody
that you invited to your kid's birthday party for this meal,
they'll all be there.

Speaker 5 (01:52:13):
Everything that goes on a waffle, congratulations. Yeah, except for
it's a better bread product.

Speaker 6 (01:52:19):
The believably exciting conclusion of the Friday team draft comes
your way.

Speaker 5 (01:52:25):
Next.

Speaker 8 (01:52:27):
The A Team on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 6 (01:52:33):
Wrap things up on the Friday eight team draft here
with the final two selections of a very hearty breakfast
for some and we'll see about four others. Ac wrapped
up his trio of selections. He's going to be drinking
coffee while enjoying French toast and crunchy bacon I would assume.

Speaker 15 (01:52:53):
I mean, do.

Speaker 4 (01:52:54):
People like really have that much of a preference when
it comes to their bacon?

Speaker 5 (01:52:57):
Absolutely? I am a full crunch guy. But if it's not,
it's not terrible. It's bacon. Yeah, but I'm still sitting there.
It's kind of like pizza. How can it be bad?
Cole sitting on waffles and orange juice? One more item
to go.

Speaker 6 (01:53:13):
I'll wrap my trio of extremely well thought out matched
meal items. My breakfast cast role and multiple mcgriddles are
going to be washed down smoothly with my berry banana smoothie.

Speaker 5 (01:53:28):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 6 (01:53:29):
I think I'll be able to stand up after the
meal and head out on the rest of my day.

Speaker 5 (01:53:33):
But we'll find out. What a weird you.

Speaker 6 (01:53:36):
You might as well have drafted the prison food. I
have a smoothie, breakfast cast role and mcgriddle banana verry smoothie.

Speaker 5 (01:53:47):
What's that?

Speaker 6 (01:53:48):
Maybe you should add the fourth option and just don't
put a name to it. Maybe call it the uh
honorary selections bread, water with no ice, and oatmeal.

Speaker 5 (01:54:06):
See if that.

Speaker 6 (01:54:06):
Wins, I'll throw that in there, all right. What's your
final choice? Waffles and oj I have not depressing it's
just mismatched.

Speaker 7 (01:54:14):
I have a side, and I thought, well, if Wex
is gonna go out of his way to make sure
he gets a griddle, do I want to counteract that.

Speaker 6 (01:54:20):
But I said, you're gonna get like French fry sticks
or something, Oh.

Speaker 7 (01:54:23):
God, please, absolutely not. I want to be safe. I
want to be smart. I want to make sure that
people realize this is the best side dish that you
can ask for a lot of options left. Give me
a good, old hearty pair of hash browns. Good hash
browns is to mix on in the potatoes. Throw a
little bit Tabasco sauce on that. I'm good to go.
If I want to have a feeling risky to day,

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I'll throw a little bit of mushroom, a little bit
of hol opinio in.

Speaker 5 (01:54:47):
That doesn't have to be for everybody, but just for me.
Give me a little bit of cheese.

Speaker 6 (01:54:50):
Yeah, even though it's not gonna be specific on the
UH the voting portal, the breakfast cash role will include
both Cole's hash browns and AC's bacon, all inclusive. The
beauty of the cast role. Put that out on the
old socials. Yes, I should have drafted an omelet for
you guys to vote Cole as the winner again and

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then we can talk about it next week.

Speaker 5 (01:55:14):
Yes, you can Friday.

Speaker 4 (01:55:16):
Remember draft when we didn't attach names to the picks
so as not to employ any biases.

Speaker 5 (01:55:23):
We'll move forward with that, maybe as early as today.

Speaker 6 (01:55:26):
Well, Cole's going to be upset now, why because he's
going to feel like that's why he lost. Everyone's gonna
know it's still me. I make great picks, and that's
the thing. We're including the audio. You can listen to
our hilarious descriptions of it.

Speaker 4 (01:55:39):
Yeah, but I'm gonna go ahead and say that everybody's
too lazy to do that for this particular topic.

Speaker 5 (01:55:45):
Whatevs.

Speaker 6 (01:55:45):
There's your breakfast, enjoy it. We'll reconvene on Monday, all right,
but we won't tell the results until next week, Yes, Monday.
What do you think about this situation with Lance mccullors
junior and to a lesser extent, not because of it's
any lesser situation, but just because he doesn't play for

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the Astros like Liam Hendrix. I know Christian Yelich waiting
on this topic, but apparently Jim Crane has hired twenty
four to seven security now for Lance mccullor's family after
those death threats.

Speaker 5 (01:56:20):
Nice gesture.

Speaker 4 (01:56:21):
Yeah, absolutely, But I just it's like I said earlier,
gambling has to be involved in this. I just because
why else would you even sit down to take the time.

Speaker 5 (01:56:33):
I realize there's some like low LIFs out there.

Speaker 6 (01:56:35):
Everything among this realm of threat that we're talking about,
it has to unfortunately be taken seriously, whether it is
or it isn't. Thus security that's the investigation, that's the concern,
from the individuals involved in mccullor's family or any of
the others that you mentioned. But I can't tell you
where it's what it stems from. Because if we knew

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the answer to that and why people do some of
the things they do with all these negative things that happened,
then then we'd have it all licked. But we don't.
It's reasonable to think that. I mean, i'ven't really put
the thought into thinking. So this person said, I've got
the Astros minus one to OZH five today, but Lance

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just didn't get out of the first inning and they're
down seven runs.

Speaker 5 (01:57:22):
I don't like.

Speaker 6 (01:57:23):
That, So move on about your day, even if you
get a little bit mad about it.

Speaker 5 (01:57:27):
Like, Okay, I'm gonna.

Speaker 6 (01:57:28):
Think about the wagers that you're talking about. Unless we're
Johntay Porter level or you know, you've really this is
you know, blue chips level, right, if you're if you're
a daily you know, a daily wager. This is the
amount of money you had had to put on something
that that one day's performance is crushing you.

Speaker 5 (01:57:47):
I mean, come on, and I do get it. There
are people out there that are doing that.

Speaker 6 (01:57:52):
Not really sure how doing something to an athlete involved
in the game is going to solve that problem?

Speaker 5 (01:57:58):
Yeah, I just I don't even threatening them he's going
to solve Make you feel anybody.

Speaker 4 (01:58:03):
Something happens bad that you don't like to your sports team,
I just can't imagine. The first instinct you have is
to sit down and tweet that player about what you're
going to do to them or their family.

Speaker 5 (01:58:12):
How does that help you in any way?

Speaker 6 (01:58:15):
Well, when you're not serious, I can absolutely see fools
doing stuff like that. The problem is who's to say
if you are or not?

Speaker 5 (01:58:23):
Yeah, and that's what the investigations have to get to.

Speaker 6 (01:58:26):
And all three really ridiculous comments after every game, especially
here from the timing standpoint, the postseason the NBA. I mean,
Tyres Halliburton's great, been playing great this postseason. He did
not play great in Game five, which is one of
the big reasons why there's a Game six. You don't
think people got on social media and said very negative things.

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They might not have been quite as personal and they
might not included threats.

Speaker 5 (01:58:52):
Did they say more things to him or to Pat McAfee.

Speaker 6 (01:58:55):
Well, they would say more things to Well, they don't
care about Pat McAfee. He's not playing.

Speaker 4 (01:59:02):
Yeah, I just I've just never understood that. And by
the way, when they find out who did this, and
they probably already know at this point, like that, are
you with me that that person should be like publicly outed,
it's only fair. You're you're gonna you're gonna threaten an
athlete and his family behind a keyboard.

Speaker 6 (01:59:23):
Well, when you publicly out them, would they not then? Also,
not that it's unfair, but that's not how it works.
You're not gonna put them in jeopardy if they're like
if they're being punished and they're being put in jail
and it's public record and people are gonna find out
about it. If that's one thing, it just makes me
mad like issuing a statement saying this person did that
so they get equal justice when they're not. If they're

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being punished for it, the information is gonna be there.
I I just it makes me mistass they should be.

Speaker 4 (01:59:49):
It makes me mad that the they get to do
this under the anonymity that they did, and then you know,
when they get found out, it's I'm like, I'm sure
their name would be published if they got there.

Speaker 5 (02:00:01):
You have it. Yeah, I just I don't know. That's
it's gross.

Speaker 4 (02:00:06):
And it's, like I said, the only thing that I
could see that would make somebody do this is if
if like some sort of bet was involved and they're
losing money on his performance, and that's how they're looking
at it.

Speaker 5 (02:00:17):
Game's not over, it's baseball. Always make it.

Speaker 6 (02:00:19):
Yeah, as we saw last night, ten runs and two innings,
that's all the Astros needed to do to beat the
Reds that day.

Speaker 5 (02:00:25):
They almost did it.

Speaker 6 (02:00:26):
I hated last night so much. It's just a loss. No,
it wasn't just a loss. It was a bad loss.
Was the way they had bad loss.

Speaker 5 (02:00:33):
A game they lost, a game they never had the lead.

Speaker 6 (02:00:35):
In, like the one Nothing lost to the Rangers that
we watched over at Big City Wings where Hunter Brown
pitched a jim but he made one mistake, right. I
don't know how to answer the question. I'm going to
ask you this one worse than the other two, because
they all seem like that one was the worst. Why
because it was yesterday, I'm sure, because it is the
most recent one.

Speaker 4 (02:00:53):
Well, I'm trying to decide of those two exact examples,
which would be the worst.

Speaker 5 (02:00:57):
Like last night's game, Oh, they should have won?

Speaker 11 (02:01:00):
Why?

Speaker 5 (02:01:00):
Yeah, of course they shouldn't have won.

Speaker 6 (02:01:02):
Could they have beaten the Rangers on a day where
Hunter Brown threw a complete game?

Speaker 5 (02:01:05):
Yeah? Probably? These and other questions we'll get to with
Chandler Rome with the Athletic next.

Speaker 8 (02:01:12):
The AED on Sports Talk Steven ninety, Adam Clinton and
Adam Wexler are the eighteen A.

Speaker 6 (02:01:27):
It is time for the Friday visit with Chandler Rome
of the Athletic, the Major League Baseball beat writer for
the Astros. Some interesting stuff produced by you this week,
which I absolutely want to get to. The Astros enjoying
for the most part this long homestand with three more
games to go, including tonight, I first have to ask
you so I can ask you a second question after that,

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are you making the trip to Pittsburgh and or Cleveland.

Speaker 15 (02:01:54):
I am going to Pittsburgh. I'm not going to Cleveland.

Speaker 6 (02:01:57):
When you wake up in Pittsburgh and go to your favorite,
I have to go to this cafe for breakfast because
you're definitely gonna wake up early and get breakfast.

Speaker 5 (02:02:05):
What do you have to have for breakfast?

Speaker 15 (02:02:09):
Oh, I'm a huge breakfast guy. Pancakes are probably like
first and foremost. My bacon has to be like extra crispy,
like I want like, I can't do like, I can't
do soft, like limp bacon. I'm not a limp bacon person. Sorry, Well,

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but pancakes, honestly, any kind of pancakes I'm a huge
fan of. I like hum. I'm a big biscuit. I'm
big cards person for breakfast, So a good biscuit, a
good pancake, anything, A big big fan of those.

Speaker 5 (02:02:46):
Do you how do you feel about French toast? Just
out of curiosity?

Speaker 15 (02:02:49):
It's probably third on the list for me, behind waffle,
behind pancakes and waffles. But if it's a good French toast,
I will take.

Speaker 6 (02:02:56):
I think he answered all these questions properly. My last
question about your trip to Pittsburgh is when you get
ready to follow that game's action, first game of that
series against Pittsburgh, will you be talking about how yord
On Alvarez performed in his first game back.

Speaker 15 (02:03:13):
I think so I saw nothing today that would suggest that,
you know, he's not ready. You know, he hit a ball.
I mean, he was facing two guys that got taken
in the draft last year out of schools you've never
heard of. So it's not as if he was facing
top end pitching. By the way, the Ashers will face
Paul Skeens in Game two of that Pittsburgh series. But

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I digress. He hit a ball out, He hit a
ball into the right field seats, he made some other
good contact it. I mean, he didn't look I mean,
he wasn't hitting nukes every swing, but I don't think
anybody expected that. So I think my educated guests is
they're gonna wait and see how he wakes up tomorrow

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and if it feels good, and then, you know, like
they do have an off day Mondays, so they could,
you know, just let him let him rest these next
two days, maybe see some more live pitching, and then
activate him. Activate him for the first game Tuesday in Pittsburgh.
I've stopped trying to put a timeline on this, but
it does seem like it's pretty close, and he came
out of today relatively with no issues. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:04:18):
No, I'm glad to hear that. I'm glad to hear
that we're getting Jordan Alvarez back in this lineup, particularly
and Christian Walker because again we were talking about him earlier,
the fact that it's nothing major after being hit in
a finger. I mean, the Astros have dealt with that
specifically in recent seasons with Jose Altuve. But I thought

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he was maybe possibly turning things around right before that happened.

Speaker 11 (02:04:45):
Yeah, I think.

Speaker 15 (02:04:46):
I think I thought it was a bat for fine.
I thought, you know, he was looking pretty good before then.
He homewred in the game before that. He obviously walked
off the Mariners on that say, in that series, it
was all kind of a matter of time. I don't
and I think I've heard Brian Bogosovic say it on
this station as well, and I agree with him. Like

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nothing has ever looked like off mechanically or like he's
never looked lost, He's never looked like he was just
chasing it everything like it. I think it really has
been like a mental grind on him, just the pressure
of having a big contract, the pressure of being on
a new team. I think that's a real thing. And
I think this has been more mental for him than physical.

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And I think seeing some some contact fall getting having
some luck too, just like you know, he even said
there was that game in the Seattle series where he
got two hits. One of them was a seeing eye
single and the other one was that swinging bunt that
Brian Wu threw away, Like you you've got to you
got to take the luck when it comes, and sometimes

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that's what these guys need to turn it around. So
I never really worried about him from like a physical
like swing mechanics standpoint. It was just kind of how
large is just gonna snowball? And how is Hena be
able to compartnalize it mentally? And I think he's done
a pretty good job of it, and I think he's
nearing kind of being out of the woods on that.

Speaker 4 (02:06:06):
How happy do you think the Astros are that Chandler
Simpson was optioned to Triple A and they don't have
to see him on the base path tonight.

Speaker 7 (02:06:13):
I mean that.

Speaker 15 (02:06:13):
I mean, hey, he's got a great name. I'm gonna
I'm gonna wait, I'm gonna I'm gonna wager that he
was the fastest guy named Chandler in the ballpark last night.
But I could be wrong, but I mean, look, he's
he's must see TV. And you don't say that often
about a guy that can bear that doesn't hit home runs,
and that just I mean he gets on base and
like he can create runs so easily. You saw it

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last night, And yeah, they'll be happy not to see him.
But the other thing is, like that's how this whole
team is. Like they run wild. Simpson's obviously like the
he's like the epitome of it, but like they have
guys up and down this lineup that can run, that
can steal. You saw it last night. They sold I
believe five bases. They ran all over the Astros in

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Tampa last week too. So yeah, like they're they're relieved
in not see that guy anymore. But it's not like
they can let their guard down because they've this lineup
and that's how they play. That's how the Rais are constructed.
They bunt, they run a lot, they'll go first to
third and a second home. You know, the Astros outfield
does not have the greatest arms, and obviously Cam Smith's

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great in right field, but Jake Myers and Josel Tube
are not the arms that you want to have in
the outfield. So they'll run on them and that's how
they're built. And just because Chandler Simpson's gone, it doesn't
mean that they're going to, you know, stop doing that.

Speaker 5 (02:07:30):
What about Cam Smith?

Speaker 6 (02:07:31):
Twenty games in April, twenty games now before tonight here
in May really liked his approach in spring training, same
for April, and now the results are starting to show.
What is there anything discernible as you watch him through
those forty games? Now you see him doing anything differently
better or just a matter of more comfort, more knowledge
and more time to work on being better.

Speaker 15 (02:07:53):
I mean, he's obviously more comfortable, and not that I
ever thought he was uncomfortable. I've never thought since he
came up from day one that he has looked overwhelmed.
I never thought that he's looked overmatched, and a guy
that you look at him and say that guy has
to go back down, that guy doesn't belong here. He
has always looked like he belonged from day one. But
this was always going to be a process with you know.

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They they sat him for a couple of games in
April to make him move closer to the batter's box
and to emphasize, you know, he's got to get his
hands and his loads started quicker because how quick he
was going wasn't good enough at the big league level.
So there, what they're doing is like I think you
have to remember too, like these coaches have barely really
worked with him, Like I mean, he got traded here

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in in December, they went to spring training, like you
can only do so much in six weeks in spring
training and then boom, you're at the You're in the show.
Like the coaches are learning him too. So I think
it's been a big feeling out process. He's been excellent
in right field, but you know, there's some growing pains
every now and then. But the way he has handled
the growing pains and the way that he has kind of,

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you know, been so mature and showed professionalism, and I
just I can't get one at bat out of my head.
It was yet bad against the A's the other night
with Luis Severino in the day game, and it wasn't out.
I mean, he hit the ball like one oh eight
into the right center field gap, but it was a
nine pitch at bat with Severino with two runners on.
Severino's throwing ninety nine at his hands. He's throwing nasty

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sweepers and Cam's laying off of him. He's fouling off
ninety nine and he gets a hold of one and
it's a it's a hard luck out. But that at
bat just kind of showed you the promise that this
kid has. And then he has turned a corner to
the point where I don't think they're debating anymore about
whether he needs to go down and get any more seasoning,
whether he needs to have a break or anything.

Speaker 5 (02:09:38):
I think he's here to.

Speaker 6 (02:09:39):
Stay, certainly like what he's done, and obviously we'll wrap
up the month tonight. You mentioned this, and I think
it's pretty obvious to everybody, but it's something that's gonna
have to continue to be worked through. Their other starting pitchers,
Gusto Colton, Gordon, Lance mccullors, Walter whomever it might be,
Blue Ba. They've allowed the the Astros for the most part,

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to be in the games they've started, but they don't
provide any length, and on a regular basis, two or
three trips through the rotation, you're leaning on your bullpen
for far, far too many outs. Got a probably a
month ago before Raghetti gets back, and that only solves
part of the problem. Are there any other possibilities that
they could be thinking about doing or is this just

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we got to make it work?

Speaker 15 (02:10:24):
Yeah? I mean, and also I think you have to
factor in there. I don't think Lance mccullors is gonna
be going six innings one hundred and two pitches every
time out either, Like I mean, they loved what they
got from him, and he threw well on his last start,
but I don't think that's gonna be the norm. So,
you know, looking at Gusto last night, I think Gusto
is probably the more concerning one, just because you have
a longer like track record of what he's been doing

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up here. He's made six starts this season in the
major leagues. He has failed to finish five innings, and
four of them. I don't know if they experiment with
an opener, Maybe try an opener and see if they
get get them off to a good start. Of Gusta
can maybe be the bulk guy. I don't know if
they look to maybe Brandon Walter, aj Bluebaugh. They've got

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options down that there they could try, but I'm not sure.
You look at either of those guys and you say
they're guaranteed to get us into the sixth innings. So
this is what they have to work with. I think
they may try to be creative this next turn. I
asked you a spot of last night. You know how
tenable this was, whether Gusto would get another start, and
he said he didn't say even get another start. He

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said they're gonna keep running him out there and keep trying.
So who knows. Maybe they can, maybe they try an opener,
try something like that to maybe give it a different
look and the lesson the workload on the bullpen. But
you're right, they can't keep asking their bullpen to get
fifteen sixteen outs every night because they've been so good
and last night was such an outlier.

Speaker 5 (02:11:47):
They've been so good.

Speaker 15 (02:11:48):
But the more you keep asking them to do things
like that last night, that's the quickest way to fatigue
a bullpen. That's the quickest way to wear it down.
And the one thing about that bullpen down there and
We've talked about this. It's not a flexible group. They
don't have a ton of guys they can send down.
The two guys with options are Brian Brian King and
Bennett Susa. Benn at Susa's almost a leverage guy now

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and Brian King's your seventh anny guy. They're not getting
sent down, so it's gonna be hard to maneuver kind
of that bullpen and the way they do things. So
they're gonna be very careful in the next month or
so about how to handle the rotation.

Speaker 6 (02:12:22):
Certainly, can't let you get out of here without referencing
something you wrote earlier this week. Very obvious from the
title what it's all about, presenting the Astros all quarter
century team, the best in Houston since two thousand and
you gave a lot of the reasons for it. For
those that haven't read it, I'll ask you here. You
put the whole lineup together and you make your way
from the top to the bottom.

Speaker 5 (02:12:42):
It's very noticeable.

Speaker 6 (02:12:43):
And you referenced it at the end of it that
it did not include Jordan Alvarez.

Speaker 15 (02:12:49):
Yeah, it was tough. It was either leave Jordan Alvarez
off or leave one of Jeff Bagwell or Craig Biggiol off,
and that's a that's a no win situation for anyone. Basically,
what it boiled down to is it was a debate
whether to include Craig Biggio, who I think we all
know is the face of this franchise, is the most

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iconic person ever wearing Asher's uniform. We can say all
that and also say that from two thousand and two
thousand and seven, the years of this All quarter Century team,
he had a ninety five ops plus. He was a
boil average major league player. His prime had passed. Statistically,
he probably should not be on this team. But in

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two thousand and six he did have his three thousand
hit in this ballpark, which is perhaps the most seminal,
seismic regular season moment ever to happen in Houston's downtown ballpark.
It's hard to ignore that, and it's hard to leave
Craig Bigio off of any like commemorative Ashros team. So
because I included Craig Bigio at second base, I had

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to put josel two Van left field, I had to
put Lance Berkman at first base, and then you know,
the DH role was opened and Jeff Bagwell had a
one thirty five ops plus from two thousand and two
thousand and five. He's really really good.

Speaker 5 (02:14:05):
I could have fixed all this. You put Bigio at catcher.

Speaker 6 (02:14:08):
But if you're going to talk about the three thousandth
hit downtown in that ballpark, how can you not talk
about the massive bomb yord On hit to win a
World Series?

Speaker 15 (02:14:18):
L I know, I know at least we're having this debate.
And there's people that wanted me to put Michael Brantley
on the team just because I guess they like his nickname.
And then he changed a flat tire once, like I
yea judge he did. Leaving leaving leaving jord On off
was tough. And I guarantee you Jordon Alvarez will be

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on whatever the next quarter century team is. But yeah,
it was it was really either leave off Craig Biggio
or Jeff Bagwell or Jordon Alvarez. That's a tough assignment
and I will take all the flak that I will get.

Speaker 6 (02:14:53):
Definitely a good talk or one last thing on it, uh,
Jason Castro the catcher. Was there a bit of discussion
between Chandler and Chandler internally about Castro, Maldonado, Brian McCann,
and ultimately it was Jason that got the nod.

Speaker 15 (02:15:08):
I think Maldonado was probably the more the more one
I considered more. But I think the thing with cashtro
for two reasons. One, I wanted to give Casher some
credit for surviving the most the worst era that this
team has ever seen, just being the lone shining light
amid those dreadful seasons. And then also if you look
at the counting stats the War, I didn't want this

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to be just put everybody who had the best War
from two thousand, twenty twenty five on this team. But
also if you look at the accumulation value stats the War,
the ops, like every stat Jason Casher just lapped everyone else. Maldonado,
Brian McCann, any one of those guys just lapped them.

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So it was hard to ignore him. But but Maldonado
was definitely a consideration given how valuable he was to
those to those teams the last in seven years. It
was close. And the other, I mean, as long as
we're doing honorable mentions. Wandi Rodriguez, I am so sorry.
I hope you're listening to this. I thought about Wandi
Rodriguez very hard putting him in there. Choosing Ryan Presley

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over Brad Ledge was really tough, to be honest with you.
When I filed the story. At first I had brad
Ledge as my closer and changed it to Ryan Presley
because of his postseason prowess. And that was a hard
one too. It was a very informative exercise for me
as someone that literally got on this beat in twenty
eighteen and has seen like only the Golden era. And

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you know, when I started it, I was like, I'm
just going to write the twenty nineteen Astros lineup, and
that's what all four centuryeen and like no, like, there
were some hard decisions, like Richard Hidalgo could really hit,
like Wandi Rodriguez was good, like I mean, were there
were tough decisions. It was a fun exercise. I'm glad
I did it well.

Speaker 4 (02:16:54):
We look forward to debating it again in twenty fifty,
but for now we will settle for having you back on.

Speaker 5 (02:17:00):
Next week and we always appreciate the time. Chandler, all right,
thanks guys. Chandler roam here.

Speaker 4 (02:17:05):
Of the Athletic on the A Team Sports Talk seven
ninety plenty more coming up next.

Speaker 8 (02:17:11):
The eight on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (02:17:22):
Quick, wex, which movie comes to mind? There's one correct answer?

Speaker 5 (02:17:27):
Well, I mean, yes, there is. It's all in my head.
But shout out to Sarah Shahey. I mean, exactly what
was this?

Speaker 6 (02:17:35):
I'm trying to remember some of the best lines that
I can utter here.

Speaker 5 (02:17:39):
You can't on a sex regulated radio station.

Speaker 6 (02:17:42):
Uh, he's really good. I know, I know they said that.
I can't remember what his name was. Andrew Johnson. What
movie are you guys in the in the in the role?

Speaker 5 (02:17:56):
What movie are you thinking of? Oh? My god, that
is incorrect.

Speaker 4 (02:18:00):
That is so incorrect that I'm actually thinking about muting
your mic.

Speaker 6 (02:18:04):
Frank was a little disappointed when he looked in the
window to see what Marissa was doing when Andy was
teaching the class.

Speaker 5 (02:18:10):
Do you get it yet? No?

Speaker 6 (02:18:12):
It was movie with Luke Wilson's friend Vince Vaughn and
his friend Frank the tank Will Ferrell. I'm trying to
figure out when the movie when Marissa and her friends
were being taught.

Speaker 5 (02:18:28):
Who is Sarah Shahey? Yeah, they were over at the
house getting.

Speaker 6 (02:18:34):
Yes you don't remember that scene, and Frank Ricard happened
to stop by.

Speaker 5 (02:18:39):
Well, when he's teaching them, that's the music that's playing underneath.

Speaker 9 (02:18:44):
See.

Speaker 7 (02:18:44):
I wasn't thinking about that, and said, I was just
thinking about why is Andy Dick inside of the house?

Speaker 6 (02:18:49):
Because he was a class Yeah, they were paying him.
He's the best paying and dick for anything these days.
In a movie, in a movie a many years ago,
many many many years pretty much the only place you're
likely to see him as on a roast Blue You're
My Boy? Yes, correct, he didn't make it out of
the Yeah, thinks fat liar is not gonna get a
lot of run on on this show.

Speaker 7 (02:19:09):
Okay, probably to be fair, I will agree that is
now a much more iconic movie.

Speaker 5 (02:19:14):
I didn't realize that at first. Welcome Aboard.

Speaker 4 (02:19:18):
So you know all those times where NBA GM's have
been tempted, Let's put it that way to say, man,
look at all the talent, look at all the potential,
the ceiling, if you will, for a guy like Zion,
maybe we should pull the trigger and just try and

(02:19:39):
get him for pennies on the dollar. I think today's
news might put a dent in that.

Speaker 6 (02:19:44):
Y stories like this who can be can? Obviously it's
going to make him look bad. Initially very very very
bad at the very very very least because of it
is as bad as the chargers indicate, well, then there's
real serious. You're not playing in the NBA any or
and your life is from a freedom standpoint, it's going
to come to an end. But with the denial from

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his side, his attorney, and with the I don't know
anything about these situations we're very far removed from it
could absolutely be the other side of it, a fabrication,
a money grab, as they indicated with their own words.
But again, I don't know that one of the claims

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could be exactly what happened.

Speaker 5 (02:20:30):
And it's really really bad if that is the case.

Speaker 6 (02:20:33):
And I don't think that there's any team moving ahead
with any potential acquisition of Zion Williamson. This to a
I don't know what to compare it to, so I'll
pause on that. But charges of assault, multiple sexual assaults,

(02:20:53):
and all sorts of other assorted very bad behavior physical,
mental and otherwise from his time back at Duke all
the way through several years back to his time with
the Pelicans.

Speaker 5 (02:21:06):
I always when I see situations.

Speaker 6 (02:21:08):
Like point is what it is at this point, right
When I see situations like this. It's a twelve page
civil complaint. To be completely clear, I don't know when
the two of them went their separate ways, but for
this to go all the way back to his duke days, well, okay,

(02:21:28):
so the relationship went from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty three,
So there's the end date, if you will. Again, though,
I it's not that I don't believe her or anything
like that.

Speaker 5 (02:21:40):
I just always.

Speaker 6 (02:21:41):
Wonder, why are we well into twenty twenty five before
she's taken an illegal action.

Speaker 4 (02:21:47):
It's just a question. I'm not saying I don't believe her.
I'm not saying I don't believe you know when this happens.
I mean, you have to hear both sides yet. But
the other side of that is every time I read
one of these things, it just such specific stuff that
I just find very hard for somebody to just make
up or just out of the blue come up with.

Speaker 6 (02:22:08):
Yeah, allegations including beating, raping, strangling, pointing a loaded gun, slamming.

Speaker 5 (02:22:12):
A car door. I mean, horrible stuff.

Speaker 6 (02:22:15):
So obviously there's some answers, both from a legal standpoint
and a conversational standpoint, answers to what has taken place,
what is next in this process, and for Zion Williams
from a basketball standpoint, from where the Pelicans are, if
that's even a conversation needing to be add at this point,
I think too many teams are in a good enough

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position that they would not have considered this as a
move to make health wise clear as day untrustworthy he played.
It's not a gational thing. It's a enter of the
league in twenty nineteen. We're in twenty twenty five, twenty
six for the upcoming season. You haven't yet, you haven't

(02:22:59):
been able as a team to trust his health in
any of those seasons.

Speaker 4 (02:23:02):
He's played thirty or fewer games in three of his
five NBA seasons, and his contract becomes guaranteed on July fifteenth.
If I'm the Pelicans, I am not doing that.

Speaker 5 (02:23:10):
Well, you're being nice.

Speaker 6 (02:23:12):
In three of the five seasons he appeared in a game,
he played less than thirty games. You did not include
the season he played in zero games. Well, yeah, I
wasn't as specific. Well, he's been in the league for
six seasons, one of them was an entirely missed season,
and those three seasons you mentioned of thirty games or fewer.
The most recent season was a thirty game season. This

(02:23:35):
just completed season. And I also, unfortunately, just strictly basketball wise,
the player that he was by year two, even with
limited activity, played sixty one games that year. That's who
he was this year. He's not any better as a
twenty four year old than he was as a twenty
year old. There's no advancement being made. And maybe it's
lack of court time, and maybe it's just this is

(02:23:57):
who he is. He's a bull in a china shop,
is very difficult to stop when he gets the ball
in certain spots on the court. He's a very bad
free throw shooter. He's an underwhelming rebounder, pretty good distributor
for a player in his position, but he's not your
best player. And by no means is he trustworthy enough
to even try to get him to ascend to that player.

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And New Orleans obviously found that out year after year
after year after year after they drafted the number one. Overall,
they are just a mess of an organization. There's always
something going on with that. Injuries derailed any hopes they had.
I didn't disagree with some of the personnel moves they made.
If you put that healthy group on the floor together.
They're wanted the top eight, definitely one of the top ten,

(02:24:38):
and would have been at least a play and participant,
but they basically had no health. They finally made a
move moving on for brandon Ingram played almost no games
with You know, Jante Murray, CJ. McCollum is relatively useless
without a little help around him. They got a really
good young player and Tray Murphy, but yeah, injuries and
lacking the key player. This could be the they hoped

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he would be, but he's not on the court. He
obviously cannot be. In case you missed it, comes your
way next.

Speaker 11 (02:25:08):
The a team on Sports Talk seven ninety lots to
get to over.

Speaker 5 (02:25:17):
The course of the four hour show.

Speaker 6 (02:25:18):
Doesn't mean we already got to all of it, or
maybe we need to revisit a few of those items
we get to in case you missed it five thirty
each and every weekday afternoon, so we can get you
caught up on some things like that. One thing that
probably didn't get enough mentioned earlier at Texans practice that
we were able to see today is work with the
first offensive line unit for second round pick take Ersery

(02:25:42):
He was working at left tackle. The other four next
to him were the same four that were out there
on Wednesday, presumably Thursday.

Speaker 5 (02:25:49):
We weren't there Thursday, so I couldn't tell you.

Speaker 6 (02:25:51):
Ersery, Tomlinson, Andrews Howard and Blake Fisher. The five that
got the work at ones with the ones, and again
behind them was Davis Mills with no throws for CJ.
Stroud Erstrie also continues to get work with different units
at right tackle, but Cam Robinson and he now in
the two days that we've seen have split the first

(02:26:12):
team reps at left tackle fairly interesting. And Cole obviously
we were over there today and the offensive coordinator clearly
I had to share a few thoughts on his second
round pick at tackle.

Speaker 5 (02:26:24):
Did he not? Yeah, he was pretty excited.

Speaker 12 (02:26:26):
But he's working, you know, and it's like anything else.
There is an adaptation, but he's working. He got a
great attitude, a great way about him, just really trying
to get with Cole Zach the offensive line, the vets
and trying to refine his skills and learn the techniques
that may have been foreign to him, you know, coming
from Minnesota to hear But it's like anything else is
doing a good job.

Speaker 5 (02:26:44):
He's working hard.

Speaker 7 (02:26:45):
From any single individual question that was asked by a player,
that was the one that I took away the most.

Speaker 6 (02:26:51):
From a little detail, A little bit plus. You'll also remember,
I'm sure moving forward that you know anytime an offensive
line question gets asked of it definitely Nick Cayley, maybe
of dmko Ryans and anybody else that plays along the line.
Every once in a while you'll get a drop from
them when they mentioned the first name of the offensive
line coach, and you can mix it into the show

(02:27:12):
at your at your leisure mentioned Cole Popovich. There, that's
the back to the idea that AC has been presenting.
You know, the hot sea, you know, public enemy number one,
Like it's Nick Kyley's job to make this offense work.
It's his job to work in conjunction with Cole Popovich
to make sure he has the opportunity to make the

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offense work because Popovich's offensive line unit and blocking schemes
in general allow for it.

Speaker 5 (02:27:40):
What else we have? You think the Texas sony and
tight end.

Speaker 6 (02:27:45):
It's pretty hard to say with what we're watching, considering
your number one tight end is not practicing. I don't
think anything's wrong with Dalton Schultz. We've seen him out
on the field both of the days we were out there.
Don't think appears to be wrong. He's just not practicing
during voluntary ota that we've seen, and Brevin Jordan has
not been out there either. So it's kate'stover their seventh
round pick, Lache and others kind of making up that group.

(02:28:09):
The regular season roster is probably fairly well set if
they're carrying three and Irv Smith is here. So whether
it's Smith that makes the roster and Lache that gets
manipulated onto the practice squad, if Brevon Jordan's healthy, adult
Schultz is healthy and Kate Stover is healthy, well that's one,

(02:28:29):
two three.

Speaker 5 (02:28:29):
Can they be better? Maybe?

Speaker 6 (02:28:32):
I don't anticipate them making a play at tight end?

Speaker 5 (02:28:35):
Do you, hey see, let's try this again, yes or no? Question?
Do you think the Texas Seed have a tight end?
Do I think?

Speaker 6 (02:28:41):
I said no, I'm yes or no?

Speaker 14 (02:28:46):
No?

Speaker 6 (02:28:46):
Fine, I just think they need to use that the
position more in the offense. It's also a loaded question,
do I think they need help? That's basically asking this question, Hey,
WEX do you love their tight ends?

Speaker 5 (02:28:57):
Right?

Speaker 9 (02:28:58):
No?

Speaker 6 (02:28:58):
I don't do I think they're going to I don't
make a move for a tight end.

Speaker 5 (02:29:02):
The answer is no.

Speaker 7 (02:29:03):
Well, let's just say that they were one is available
because of a According to reports ESPN's Adam Schefter, the
Miami Dolphins have been engaged in trade talks currently with
the Pittsburgh Steelers, surrounding John who Smith Smith experience interest
to sign a new rework deal with the Miami Dolphins.
Dolphins about at the cat space. They're trying to move
him off of the books. The Texans last year got

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see how close to in person. He looked pretty good
in that one matchup for two time about Loas.

Speaker 4 (02:29:29):
Yeah, but SKay am I the only one that thinks
that we're forgetting. I'm not saying he was over the top,
but I just I saw flashes. I liked what I
saw before Brevin Jordan got hurt. Oh that you're wrong.

Speaker 6 (02:29:43):
I don't think he's terrible, And I just think that
when you have this many other weapons at other positions,
if you just employ the guy you've got, I don't
understand why he can't be a serviceable tight end. Same
GM is in place when the opportunity to sign John
new Smith, Dalton Schultz is here.

Speaker 5 (02:30:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:30:03):
Fair, Yeah, and it would have been for less money.
You know, you signed Dalton Schultz the a one year
deal and then with the group that was available in
free agency that year, which he obviously was in himself. Also,
it wasn't a very good class. I don't think people
viewed it as and so he probably got an unbelievable
deal from Houston because he would have been the best
tight end on the market. That was the perception. You had,

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lesser guys get reasonable deals. John Smith was one of them.
I think there were a couple of others and they
all performed pretty well. I think Mike Gsecki was another
in that group, one of the h boys.

Speaker 5 (02:30:38):
Hunter eighty five.

Speaker 4 (02:30:40):
Patri and your fantasy team one year and he killed
it for you, Hunter, Henry, Sorry Henry, it's Friday.

Speaker 5 (02:30:46):
Yeah. Those are their options.

Speaker 6 (02:30:47):
They played bigger money for Dalton Schultz and his production
is tailing off.

Speaker 5 (02:30:53):
Do they need help it tight end?

Speaker 6 (02:30:55):
The answers yes, Are they going to go out and
get any of the answer is no.

Speaker 5 (02:30:58):
The answer is no. The answer is no.

Speaker 7 (02:31:00):
Congratulates to the Longhorns because they're one step closer to
Omaha won the first round against Houston Christian seven to
one today in the Austin Regional. Ethan Mendoza had a
pretty good day. Kimball Schuler had two RBIs, Adrian Rodriguez
had a single. Casey Barbara had a RBI double. Ethan Walker,
Grayson Sonner and Hudson Hamilton combined for only eight hits,

(02:31:23):
a loud one run, scored six strikeouts for an Era
at two twenty two, they will play the winner of
tomorrow's matchup. If they win, they enter a single elimination
to advance to the super Regionals.

Speaker 5 (02:31:36):
In first year coach Jim Sloshnangle.

Speaker 6 (02:31:38):
Texas UTSAK State Houston Christian the four teams. Their first
game of the regional was the one you just mentioned
Longhorns on the softball side Texas OU That is the
matchup we talked about. Those results yesterday that put that
matchup on the table.

Speaker 5 (02:31:55):
Bear in a very good spot.

Speaker 6 (02:31:57):
I'm glad the game was played as scheduled, considering the
we that did quite a bit of damage to Dishfalk.

Speaker 7 (02:32:03):
Yeah, and they had to basically completely redo the entire fans.

Speaker 5 (02:32:06):
Credit to them, they got done in time.

Speaker 7 (02:32:09):
Credit to Howie Roseman for somehow always finding a way
to work out bad deals and get teams to fall
for it because they just got a new contract.

Speaker 5 (02:32:18):
Out of their hair.

Speaker 7 (02:32:19):
But the San Francisco forty nine Ers taking on former
New York Jets edge rusher Ryce Huff this trade, which
was expected to be finalized next week when the calendar
year begins in June. They will take on the full
sixteen point seventy five million dollar guarantee for twenty twenty five.
The Eagles will only take nine point five million dollars
over the next two years in his salary.

Speaker 6 (02:32:40):
It's not just that this has a terrible actual on
the field move written all over it. How did he
get them to do that with the money? Your other
option is even less because you don't get any of it,
or you get a tiny, tiny portion of what's remaining
on the goal last year. I mean, he he did
what a lot of players do. I'm a rookie. I've

(02:33:02):
got my four year deal. My last year was awesome,
and I'm gonna get a big contract out of it.

Speaker 7 (02:33:07):
If if I may. Who is the defense coordinator for
the San Francisco forty nine Ers the.

Speaker 6 (02:33:13):
Same Well, he's the same defensive coordinator he had in
his awesome twenty twenty three season as head coach in
New York. Robert sala is back in San fran as
the DC case in point. Yes, but as you indicated
from the gist of the story itself, it's great for
Bryce if things work out. It's great for Robert if
things work out. Things have already worked out for Howie

(02:33:34):
Roseman as this contract and honestly this player has been unloaded.

Speaker 5 (02:33:39):
That's the case. You missed it for Friday, May whatever
it is today, end of the month.

Speaker 11 (02:33:44):
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Speaker 9 (02:33:49):
It's done.

Speaker 11 (02:33:53):
It's gonna be May.

Speaker 5 (02:33:55):
All right, We're good.

Speaker 6 (02:33:59):
Final segment of this final week's worth of May broadcast
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Speaker 5 (02:34:04):
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Just said in our most recent segment, an extended necessary
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they could be looking for someone, and in particular, a
team that has one is apparently actively shopping this tight end.

(02:35:17):
Who was that tight end? We said, Mike makes some
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Speaker 4 (02:35:40):
Uh I brought this subject up a while back and
I got a little more than a pulse from you,
so I can't wait to see your reaction to this.

Speaker 6 (02:35:49):
Okay, Scott Hansen's back. Oh yeah, I did see that today.
I'm glad we hit on it the first time. So
what's happening with Scott Hansen? He's going to work right?

Speaker 5 (02:35:58):
Well, we didn't hit on it the first time months
and months ago. Oh my god, what are we ever
gonna do?

Speaker 6 (02:36:03):
Nobody's gonna be able to red zone the way Scott
Hanson red zoned, but now he's gonna do it. But
nobody could ants could do that the way Scott Hanson
does it, because there's only one Scott Hansen. You're right,
that's an accurate, semantically placed answer to what I said.

Speaker 5 (02:36:15):
No one would do it like him. They do it
like they do it, and we'd all be just fine. Geez.
I mean, I don't watch red Zone. It's very easy
for me. That really shows right now. There's a ton
of people to do though.

Speaker 6 (02:36:28):
I mean, if he literally said nothing, if the host
of the show said absolutely nothing, and all you did
was watch get the game broadcast audio, which you get
already and catch the bottom line info, would you be
able to manage. I'll go one further. I do want
to say one more thing. I'm sounding like I really

(02:36:49):
don't have this negative vibe for him, and he's like,
I talk about Mike Greenberg in a certain way, and
it sounds like I'm talking the same way about Scott
and I shouldn't. He's doing something that isn't easy. Doesn't
mean nobody else can do it right, but I don't
think it was easy for him in his fifth.

Speaker 4 (02:37:06):
Year of doing You hate the concept of watching all
the games at the same time.

Speaker 6 (02:37:11):
Well, no, What I'm actually getting to is something we
do talk about quite often. I can't and this says
nothing to do with Scott. But like ESPN or ABC
or FS whatever, spending the amount of money on Manning
or Romo or Tom Brady, why are you doing this?

Speaker 4 (02:37:31):
Do you think people watch it more because they're there? No,
then I don't know, and it's not It has nothing
to do with if they're good or not.

Speaker 6 (02:37:41):
But you have to admit, like in the case of
the Mannings, I'm watching the game that Greg Olsen broadcasts
because it's the best game. Now that he's no longer
broadcasting that game, I'm watching the best game with somebody
else broadcasting it because it's the best game.

Speaker 5 (02:37:58):
But would you at least they're putting it in more homes?

Speaker 4 (02:38:01):
Would you at least admit that when you watch Monday
night Football and you have the choice between the mannings or.

Speaker 6 (02:38:08):
The actual broadcast, I mean, come on, I watched the
man cast every time, because I don't think that's for
everybody though, but I watch it.

Speaker 5 (02:38:16):
Well, But but why do you watch it? Is it
because they're funnier, because you think you learn more, or
mixture of both, absolutely, mixture of both in their guest list.

Speaker 4 (02:38:23):
Matters because like to me, and I actually like Joe
and Troy fine.

Speaker 5 (02:38:28):
I think they're very very good, very good. Well, yes
they're not bad. Let's put it that they're not. They're
better than Jim and Tony. Well that's because you hate Tony.
There you go. But that's and I love Jim.

Speaker 6 (02:38:41):
Sometimes a successful booth, Jim, Sometimes a successful booth is
about not making people hate you as much as anything else.

Speaker 5 (02:38:50):
In this case, and probably Joe Buck dealt with that.

Speaker 6 (02:38:55):
People did not like him earlier in his career for
different things, by different reasons.

Speaker 4 (02:38:59):
I think there was a mob mentality when he went
on with with Arnie. Is it Arnie or Artie that
was on the ARTI lang, yeah, Arty Lang. Remember we
went out there, Yes, and he was like, I mean
the Joe Buck Show like his own personal show, the
HBO show.

Speaker 6 (02:39:17):
Did he have Okay, that's what I didn't. I couldn't
remember was he on his show?

Speaker 5 (02:39:20):
I mean, such a good topic in so little time. Crap.
I just thought, I looked at the clock. Oh well,
it'll have to wait for Monday. We don't have a
holiday this week coming.

Speaker 6 (02:39:29):
Up, not to ruin the incredible content upcoming, which will
include a visit from Brian McTaggart, part of the Astros
on Deck show he joins each and every Friday. You
got Matt Thomas at the ballpark at Dyking Park, Astros
and Rays Game five between them, Game eight of the
home stand, and we wrap up the month of May.

(02:39:51):
We'll be back with you next week two o'clock. Thanks
to all for hanging with us throughout this week and
all those to come in the future.

Speaker 5 (02:39:57):
Have a wonderful weekend.

Speaker 8 (02:40:00):
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