Astros Are Moving On UP! Lance McCullers Goes Deep With 12ks, Could They Get To #1 In AL West?!

Astros Are Moving On UP! Lance McCullers Goes Deep With 12ks, Could They Get To #1 In AL West?!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Oh two at eight town. Good morning, and welcome.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
To a Thursday edition of The Mat Thomas Show with
Ross's hair on Sports.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Talk seven ninety. We're we're moving on at.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Dude ricking ditches belt into center field, Clark going back
on it, still drifting and it's gone.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Were times the Sento does it. His second home run of.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
The year is three to three, three three ball games,
Sterner out of the stretch. First pitch is laced up,
the metal face and panelss war though send Barrett.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Is a lot through a lot of time. Fine the
three US crew. It's weird wasting no time. Two we've
been moving up.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Oh yeah, the Astros are moving it up.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Only a half game out of first place.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Baby sing it, dude, Well not technically they do match
the number of the Seattle Mariners and number of victories.
They're thirty. The Astros have played one more game. It

(01:30):
was a loss, so Seattle yesterday drops a game. They're
thirty and twenty four. Your beloved Astros with the sweep
and grants two games, but it's still a sweep and
they are at thirty and to twenty five. Good morning,
Everyone ten oh four on Sports Talk seven ninety I'm
just gonna tell you part of the charm of having

(01:50):
Jonathan as our producer of the show. He is such
a young fellaw he has learned so little in life
because he's only like twenty two or twenty three years old.
And beyond the occasional three to four mistakes he makes
per program, we're still thinking's TOI. Oh, sorry, I didn't
even say that. One to two small mistakes and then
one major one. But that's a different issue for a
different time. It is so much fun to give you

(02:11):
songs to play or to tell you things, and you
go back and look at them and you go, man,
this is a jam that my friends and I will
say anybody from the age of seventeen to seventy seven.
That song, the Jefferson's theme song moving on Up sang
by the light Janet Dubois, who was played Walloona or

(02:32):
not Wolona, Yeah, Wallona on good Times is the greatest
theme song in television history.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Do you know that, Jonathan?

Speaker 4 (02:41):
Is this from the sixties, No, seventies and eighties.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
This I was listening the whole way in the car.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
I'm telling you, is it not a jam. It is
a one hundred percent jam. And I thought to myself,
I wanted to you know, we play the songs winning
and another one bites it does and the beat goes.
I mean, all that kind of stuff we played to
find something different today, I thought to myself, does moving
on up kind of make sense for the local nine?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
And I thought it kind of does.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
It's four games in a row now, yeah, And the
Nationals shut out the Mariners last night nine to nothing,
nine to nothing.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
So, ladies and gentlemen, as much.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
As this team is not hitting, as much as this
team is struggling with starting pitching getting deep into games,
by the way, thank you very much, Lance mccallers, with
six innings. The bullpen's been filthy, the defense has been excellent,
and the bats are starting to warm up. And your team,
your Astros, through all the tra and other Tommy John

(03:41):
Surgery announced yesterday your baseball team, Houston Texas is one
half game out of first place in the American League West.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
And if I look at the and.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
The wild card, this just shows you how whacked the
American League is this year. The Astros, the Guardians, and
the Twins are all tied with the exact same wild
card market thirty wins and twenty five lossess. Now you're saying, oh,
they're firmly in, Well, yeah, they're firmly in, but we're

(04:15):
also got basically three months left to go of the season.
And also the fact that Kansas City's a game back,
Tampa's two back, Toronto three back, tech, the Rangers are
four back, and the Red Sox are four and a
half out.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
So a long way to go.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
But sometimes we come to you as radio host and
sports fans and you think, oh, the glass is half empty.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
Today, I come to you with the cup overflowing.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
A the Jefferson's played b We got two highlights in
the theme Song's only a minute seven, Jonathan, if the
theme song could be like five minutes out of played
it over and over again with every highlight from last
night's game.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Good defense, strike at Lance mccolors.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Lance mccallor with twelve strikeouts, he couldn't move his arms
six months ago.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
That's insane.

Speaker 5 (05:08):
Wait, it's before you go, before you continue. Is this
song not a real song. It's just no, it's just
a theme song.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
It would never hit the charts, That's what Jonathan I'm
telling you there was a generation of television before you
even born that these songs became as much as part
of the show as anything else.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
As a matter of fact, today, you know what we'll
do to Jonathan. We're gonna let you learn a.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Little bit about how great television shows were when they
had awesome theme songs. Name one right now, Oh you uh,
Sanford and Son is that is instrumental. That's a show
from the seventies that has an instrumental theme. The Dallas
theme is amazing. Who else had a three company had
a great theme song. So, as a matter of fact

(05:50):
today on the radio show, I just gave you that.
I'm throwing this at you right now, and I'm sorry
I'm doing it, but that's what the show is all about, right,
basically me throwing things to you with very little advanced warning.
If you guys want to send me a tweet at
Sports Empty, don't call, but send me a tweet, give
me some let's get let's get Jonathan up to speed
with great theme songs from shows and we'll use them

(06:14):
as bumper music. So you guys, send me a tweet
at Sports Empty, and then I'll see him and I'll go, Okay,
that's a good one. So Jonathan today for you only, Okay,
we're gonna play bump music of great TV theme songs
and then me like, damn, that's a jam. All that's good.
I mean, you know the Friends, I'll be there for you.
You watch Friends, right, I watch Friends. Now that's a

(06:35):
theme song show. But that also became a hit to
be based off of the television show. Really, see, I
didn't know that at all. Like, that's why I'm here
for Jonathan. I'm here to teach you things to get
you up to speed on the last forty years of
your well you didn't even know.

Speaker 5 (06:49):
You're not forty, but the last forty years of life.
You're like my prodigy. And I'm not gonna lie to
everybody listening. I really like I've some of their actions.
They show me the songs. I'm a jamming back here.
It's actually I told you.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
I wouldn't lie to you. I wouldn't light to you.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
We're not gonna put corny songs like full House on
or leave it to Beaver. I want songs today on
this show that move I as a white man. When
I hear the the Jefferson's theme song, I don't want
to sit in this chair.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Think about it.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
When you play the play the song again. You hear
this song, everything in your life is better. You're you're
bouncing to a different beat. You feel better about life.
My drive to work wasn't nearly as bad. Mine was
clear who Mine was still horrific. But it's a different
issue for a different time. It just makes you in

(07:48):
a better mood. And the baseball team is winning. We
have one half of the NBA Finals settled, probably the
other half tonight that.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Game was Warble by the way, oh just brutal. We
have Brian.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Mctagger coming on the show today at eleven o'clock mysteriously.

Speaker 6 (08:06):
As a white man.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
There are very few songs we can dance too.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
This is what I can move to. Go ahead, fired
us a little.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Bit more moving up, dude, yo, Yeah, I'm serious. If
you're not in a better mood up to hearing this song, dude,
oh yeah, everybody's got him in here. We got some
instrumentals too.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Listen in the right now.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
I'll tell you everyone, I'm gonna do them an order.
There's some jams. I'm telling you there are some jams.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
And Jonathan it is my responsibility in my life for
the next six to eight months. You're worker with us series,
so you find something else to get you up to
speed with the great pop.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
Culture of the last forty years. All Right, Ross is
off today.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
He is off today, in demorrow, a couple of days
of R and R, so we'll look forward to having
him back on Monday. We mentioned Brian mctagger's with us
at one o'clock to at eleven o'clock today. Our friend
Cole Thompson, who you produce, is the A Team's gonna
stop by eleven thirty to one thirty today. We also
have We're gonna push I Just Don't Get It to
twelve thirty today because I figured it'd be kind of
awkward for Cold to come in and start a segment

(09:12):
already with I Just don't get It.

Speaker 4 (09:14):
So we're gonna push that to twelve thirty this afternoon.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
We had the news at noon and we have believe
it or not today all things about shake Gilgess Alexander
he is the Western Conference MVP. After last night's game
with the Minnesota Timberwolves where the thunder took their souls,
that's an understatement, I mean, is it too wrong to

(09:36):
say bitch slap.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
No, that's that. There we go.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
I mean, I don't mean to be crass, but it
is what it is.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
We have that to get to.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
We have the Astros winning a game yesterday, Lance mccullors
giving you, I mean, one hundred and two pitches sixty
nine strikes.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Wasn't it year Gus filing that he was gonna be
out by what Dune.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
I didn't say gut feeling because I'll I say this,
and I want to come back with Lance because he
deserves his flowers. But there's still a part of me
that has scared the desert, and I need y'all's help
to help me get past that. We'll discuss that as
a show progresses. And then we got to get to
Stefan Diggs. Have you seen Stefan Diggs.

Speaker 5 (10:15):
In the video You're talking about the one on the boat.
Oh yeah, So someone's gonna explain that to me.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
I was cold. I don't know the.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Answer to this, but I've been around a lot of
pro athletes, Jonathan in my life, and when in doubt,
everything that you saw is one hundred percent completely accurate.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
There is what I saw.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
There is no AI involved in any of that stuff.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety If you want to
join me via Twitter at sports MT We're gonna play
theme songs today of TV shows because again I got
a catch from my man NF to speed. I got
another great one from the nineteen seventies that is again
a good white person song that stands to ten thirteen
on seven.

Speaker 7 (10:54):
Ninety tip every lay off Time, good Time scrunted as

(11:22):
some bad.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Lucky we got.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
I still have a crush on Thelma.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
We're rating them. I think I'm putting this one over
the Jefferson's shot up. I really like that. Oh.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
I used to watch Good Times every every day. I
was a latch key kid.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
And for that, for those who don't know when you
were in the seventies, you could probably late seventies, early ladies.
My mom was a single mom and was working, so
I'd come home from school and I would shut the
door and lock it and not go go out. Yea,
And I was in the apartments in a leaf shout
out spice lane. You know you guys use spice landers,
you know what I'm talking about. And I would watch
Sanford and Son repeats, and I would have watched Good

(12:10):
Time repeats.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
I mean, damn, this show is good, all right?

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Ten twenty on Sports Talk seven ninety It is the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross Ross all the day off
and again Brian mc tagerby with us coming up into
forty minutes from now and so, uh, okay, So I
want you to keep your list, do me a favorite.
This is a good idea, Jonathan. I want you to
we play these songs, put these in the order, and
at the very end of the show, will you can
tell me where you put your favorite, like top two
or three. We're gonna try to mix a new bump song.

(12:35):
I'm putting some extra work on you. But that's all right.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
What's just the two of us hanging out, all right?

Speaker 3 (12:39):
If you'd like to be a part of the radio
program seven one three two one two five seven nine
zero seven one three two one two five seven ninety
as we take your calls today following the Astros win
and the Nationals win over the Seattle Mariners. So, uh,
what Lance mccutters is doing right now is, first of all,

(13:02):
unbelievably awesome that he's able to get back on the
mountain after all the years of injuries, the season's missed.
Then yesterday he gives you twelve k's, three runs over six,
which again is a quality start, And needless to say,
I'm not the only one. But the reality is is

(13:23):
that I think a lot of us are very surprised
by his return, first and foremost, because for a long
time there was just no thought of he was ever
going to come back because it kept being it kept
being set back after setback after setback, and then he's
back and he's throwing, you know, eighty five ninety pitches,

(13:48):
and I'm like, this is not what I expected. I
expected him to go fifty to fifty five sixty and
he'd start laboring and the bullpen would be a hot
mess because you could not rely on him to go
deep into games. And the reality is he's getting deeper
into games, his pitch count is getting higher, he's bouncing back,

(14:11):
and he's pitching every fifth day or every sixth day
or fifth day, depending on the rotation. Since his return
off the injured list, six innings yesterday, five hits, three runs,
twelve strikeouts are under the one home run, only had
one walk. His strikeouts to walk ratio was twelve, and
he pitched one hundred and two pitches. We got guys

(14:33):
in the major leagues that are fully healthy that are
not pitching to ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven pitches.
So I need y'all to help me out with something
and tell me what I have to do. Forget about
me as a talk show host. This is just me
being an Astro fan talking to y'all.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
How am I going not?

Speaker 4 (14:57):
How am I going to get over worrying about him?

Speaker 3 (15:02):
How am I going to get over the fact that
it gives me the he be gbs when he gets
to ninety or for that matter, eighty five and even
some maybe cases eighty because and I and and to
be honest, we worry about that. With all of our
pictures or any any of your favorite players. You worry

(15:23):
about injuries. It's just the thing. I mean, you worry
about Jordan's hand, You worry about you know, arm elements.
And look, obviously the Astros have been beset by plenty
of them this year. But Lance has come back and
given you these starts. Now he's still looking for his
first decision, one way or the other. But if I

(15:49):
would have given you a line score of the picture
that threw yesterday and said this particular picture went six innings,
allowed five hits, three runs, one walk, twelve rankouts, and
I said, name the astro pitcher that did that, you
probably would never have Well, you would have guessed, Lance,
because there's only a certain number guys in rotation. But

(16:09):
if I would have said a year if i'd asked
you a year ago that on March the twenty eighth,
twoenty twenty five, a pitcher is going to give you
those numbers who did it, you would have never in
a million years.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
Had said Lance mc colors. So first of all, I'm
happy for him.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Secondly, keep it going whatever he's doing in terms of
his recuperation, his rest after starts, his build up, going
into it, whatever it's going on. It's can continue to
what you do. But there's still a part of me,
and I don't know if I'll ever be able to
shake it. There's still a part of me that just

(16:54):
am worried about that one pitch or that one time
you walk off the mound and it's going back to
square one, and I've got to shake myself of that
I ask you, Houston, Texas, how do I do that?

Speaker 2 (17:11):
How do I say?

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Lance is back, He's throwing, He's getting you twelve strikeouts,
he's going longer in games. That one awful start where
he only got a one third event inning is in
the rearview mirror, and Wally doesn't have a decision. He's
keeping you in ball games.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
How to do that, except that I would give you
my own simplistic answer of well, if Joe A Spotta
trust him and throws him out there every fifth or
sixth day, and Joe Aspotta lets him throw one hundred
and two pitches and Joe A Spotta lets him go
six innings, well, not.

Speaker 5 (17:55):
Even Joe spot it probably even just like Danna Brown
and like any of them, anybody the organization.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah, then why am I freaking? Why am I wigging
out about it? So?

Speaker 3 (18:07):
I'm not asking you to walk me off the ledge?
There's no such thing as a ledge, But am I
ever going to shake the Please Lance, don't get hurt
start because I don't do that with Fromber, I don't
do that with Hunter Brown. Now, granted those guys have
not had the injury ailments that Lance does and maybe

(18:27):
if you've been gone for two and a half years,
maybe that's just par for the course when you put
anybody out there.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
I mean, for instance, I mean.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
When Jordan comes back, whenever he does come back, maybe
I'm gonna be in the same spot as said, is
that I'll hope that hand holds it holds up. Hopefully
he will not you know, that hand will not start,
will be hurt and sore, and he'll be down for
a few days. It's almost like yesterday, your case in point,

(19:00):
the Texans had a training camp, uh OTAs yesterday CJ
stritted to throw What's the first thing I thought of, Oh,
what's what happened?

Speaker 4 (19:10):
What's the matter with him? Maybe we as sports fans
are just trained that way.

Speaker 5 (19:17):
Well, I mean especially Houston thinking about just only alone
basketball and the Rockets in twenty eighteen, twenty seventeen, like
the whole city is kind of cursed in big moments
with people getting injured, lost those Yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
I know maybe, but the thing of it is John
that every city goes through that.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
Maybe I just have got to sh I need a
way to shake myself. Maybe Lancy's gonna call me or
text me and say Matt, I'm good, bro. You would
call me bro. You got me bra b r u
agent bruh, a personal tax I need a personal I
need a personal text from Lance mcculors junior.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
Matt, I got this. I'm good, Bro, I'm not good
and I'd be there for him.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
Ten twenty seven on Sports Talk seven out he seven
one three two one two five seven out If you
want to join the conversation, are y all in the
same situation as I am? Or am I just making
this up. This is a show from a seventy called

(20:18):
Rockford Files. Jim Gardner played a role of a private investigator.
I didn't watch the show, and I think it was
very good. But this theme is a great theme song.
Mike Posts put this up a little bit. Oh Jonathan,

(20:41):
you poor kid. Now there's no more tea theme songs anymore.
It's so different, Like I just yeah, everybody really took
pride in their shows.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
All right, there, there you go.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
There's a little Rockford Files for you. I got one
that's gonna be coming up. It's vocal that I think.
I don't know if it was ever hit, but damn
people saying it for a long time. So we got
that coming up today, Brian McTaggart. In one half hour,
It's Matt Thomas show of Ross Ross with the day off.
Uh Cole Thomps is gonna come by and say hello
to It's eleven thirty to one thirty, and he was
making his debut for I Just Don't Get It, which

(21:15):
we're gonna push back today to twelve thirty. All right,
seven one three two, one two five seven ninety am
I by myself and still worrying about Lance.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
I probably shouldn't, but I'm honest. I need Lance to
text me.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Matt. I got this. Brouh?

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Is it br a h or b r u Bro
would be come on bruh, Bruh's b r u h. Yeah,
but that that's that's a down like come on bruh
bra br a h?

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Is I got this right?

Speaker 6 (21:47):
You know?

Speaker 2 (21:48):
I would say you're not making sends, but I'm I'm.

Speaker 5 (21:49):
You know what I'm saying. There's I think there's a
difference in bruh and bra, but I've never seen anything
I say bra brah. If you only say it out loud,
you don't really text Bro. Okay, well you can if
you if you know my number, text me brih Ponder
in Baytown at ten thirty four and seven. Good morning, Hey,
Good morning, Matt. How you doing, good friend?

Speaker 2 (22:09):
What's up?

Speaker 8 (22:10):
Hey?

Speaker 9 (22:10):
So, look, here's how you be optimistic ab about lands
and I know that your your optimism is not your question.

Speaker 6 (22:17):
Here is is the fear of the busting another injury
or yeah, throwing that one pitch.

Speaker 9 (22:24):
But look, you gotta look at it at glass at
full and say, at least he's not Anthony Rendon. At
least he's not Albert Pools. Yeah, not Steven Strasburg. And
we've got him what is it seventeen point five? I
think for the rest of this year, next year yep.

Speaker 6 (22:38):
So, so understand that the injuries are probably gonna happen.

Speaker 9 (22:43):
And why I take this back to the Dodgers, the
World Series with the Dodgers and he threw what seventeen
something curveball straight and they couldn't hit them.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yep.

Speaker 9 (22:55):
I think the damage he's done to his arm is
for the city of Houston. It has not shocked me
that he.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
Went out there. I mean it shocks me at this
point in.

Speaker 9 (23:03):
His recovery or this quick being back, that he was
able to do that but just stuffs nasty. It's why
we've coveted him for the years that we've had him.
Uh So it doesn't shock me. I think when he
goes out there, be happy, especially right now that we've
got him in the rotation.

Speaker 6 (23:18):
I don't know how long.

Speaker 9 (23:20):
And I don't know that you can ever erase the
fear of oh God, you know, we saw that, we
saw that, the grimace on his face or something like that.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
It's almost like it's like Angel fans.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
I don't I don't know if there's any such thing
as an Angel fan, but probably Angel fan feels that
way about Mike Trout. You know, Mike Trout, all great
catch and center field. Oh here, he banged his knee
against the wall. He's out for two months.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
I mean, maybe that's just thunder Matt. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (23:43):
The Covenant one, they're locked on him for what seven
more years in that deal.

Speaker 9 (23:50):
I mean, it's it's and so you just thank God
that we've got him for what And And here's the
last thing I'll say about this, is he and I
hope he does.

Speaker 6 (23:59):
I think he absolutely loves the game.

Speaker 9 (24:02):
We've had some really good players that I don't feel
had that Houston mentality that we grew up loving with
the Bagwells and the videos and people that.

Speaker 6 (24:10):
Were team first.

Speaker 9 (24:11):
We haven't seen that in all of our star players
we've had here throughout all these championships. But I guarantee you,
if he plays again after this contract, it's with Houston,
and he'll do it on a discounted deal because he
wants to stay here and he knows what we waited for.

Speaker 6 (24:26):
And I just I just think that about his personality
and I'll hang up and listen.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
All right, Thanks for the phone call, Pinnor, appreciate it. Yeah,
So what I've decided is it's just taking every fit
to sixth day. Whatever he pitches, well, no, you don't
worry until he puts his head down and then starts
walking off the mound.

Speaker 4 (24:45):
That's when you start worrying. Because here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
Uh you know, if if you're that sports fan, if
you're that astro fan that just sat there and said, oh,
he's never going to come back, and then you're the
sports fan that says, uh, well, I'm waiting for him
to get hurt, then there's no joy in watching Lance
mccullor's throw and honestly, you need Lance mccolors. Arraghetty still

(25:15):
is probably a month away, if not even a little
bit longer. For now, Blanco has done for the season. Uh,
what's that, Hayden weiszt Nesky has done for this? I mean, man,
we to steal a bit off of our show on Wednesdays.
We ain't got time to worry about injury guys. We've
already got enough of those. So I think I've already

(25:37):
saw my own answer.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Just enjoy it for what it is. But when he
got the.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
Hundred pitches yesterday and just striking all those folks, I
was like, oh, man, don't don't go get him, Joe.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
Go get him, Go get him wreck make him feel good.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Fit thing.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
Okay, get that bullfender Atti. He saved the bacon.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
He did.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
He didn't throw stretch that bullpen out yesterday.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
Seven one, three, two, five seven out of Yggie Doug
is with us on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross eighty.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
What's a good word today?

Speaker 10 (26:12):
Man? When Lance walked back out there for the sixth
inning yesterday, I said, Joe, what the after you say?

Speaker 2 (26:18):
I'm not the only one I knew. I knew it eighty.

Speaker 10 (26:20):
I knew it. I was like, like, why are we
Like at this point, I'm like, if he gives you four,
you know, I'm good with that. But then I was like,
he hit twelve strikeouts. You know, it was like the
most unsuspecting twelve strikeout game that I've probably ever seen them.
And the dude averaged two strikeouts per inning. And I

(26:43):
mean and but I mean again, he also got hit
really hard whenever.

Speaker 6 (26:47):
They did hit the ball.

Speaker 10 (26:48):
So but like, like I was saying yesterday, I think
with the Astros pitching, I think it's gonna be something
that's gonna end up kind of being a actually actually
a plug for us. And and you know, like you said,
Arraghetty's gonna be back in a month, Uh, then you're
gonna have hopefully Garcia that'll be back in a month
and a half to two months at the beginning of August.

(27:11):
And think about this, You're gonna also have a really
good look at Gusto and also at Walker and also
at Gordon. Yeah, to see if those three guys are
something that you can use in maybe a trade bait
to get a big bat or possibly you know, maybe
even pair with with another one of our pitchers that

(27:32):
could be a free agent at the end of this
season to get a really stud pitcher, because I don't
think he's gonna resign with us. But again, as long
as he keeps giving us good farm or there's.

Speaker 6 (27:43):
No way that Ashers are ever gonna get rid of him.

Speaker 7 (27:45):
No, I don't.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
I mean, I think there's a better chance thanks to
aiding for the phone call.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Is I think the Astros would probably if if Robert
continues to pitch the way that he has and as
those these qualities start at the quality start. Yeah, I've
always been very honest with you. I pencil Fromber in
a long term contract percentage with the astering of the
asters at zero, but I'd necessarily say that it would

(28:10):
be zero if it was a short term deal. Now again,
only one person knows what Fromber wants, and that's gonna
be Fromber or maybe his ancient somebody two people.

Speaker 11 (28:22):
It is.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
It is interesting that the.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
International players tend to take deals faster than players that
are from the States here.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
I don't know why that is. I mean, it's coincident
or not.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
I mean, we can use your as a good example
that Christian Javier is an example of that.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Now.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Again, I'm not saying this. I'm not even gonna worry
about Fromber's twenty twenty six. I'm worried about to hear
it now, but I at this point I would not
move any picture knowing that so far. At this point,
we've got two pictures definitely done for the year and
one's gonna be gone for a month. I'm holding on
everybody at this point, at least somebody that's been able

(29:03):
to show me they can throw a strike. Gordon's been okay,
Gusto's been okay in spots, and in Gusto's spot, he
kind of has a good spot to hang in because
of the fact that he is a guy that can
go back and forth between the rotation and the bullpen
with relative ease. Not easy for a lot of those
pitchers to do that, and Guso at least says, look,

(29:25):
I can, I can do it now, I'll help when
I can't. So you kind of need one of those
swing type pictures. Seth Martinez one of those guys the
last couple of years. Ten forty two on Sports Talk
seven Nauty, it is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
ross Off. Today we got Brian mctager coming up at
about to twenty minutes from now. We'll get more on
the asters we come back. We do have a Western

(29:45):
Conference Finals champion Oklahoma City wins it and destroys the
Mina Sota Timberwolves. I'll say this once and I'll say
it a thousand times. If you think Houston a snake
bit by bad sports, Juju minneapples, Saint Paul's got to
speak ten forty three on seven.

Speaker 11 (30:07):
Ninety Hello, exciting him.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Doma bore.

Speaker 11 (30:30):
We're expecting.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
Jonathan.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
My Saturday nights. Were watching this show every Saturday night
as a kid. People are good looking too. Oh hell yeah,
you on the You wre on the love boat to
hook up?

Speaker 11 (30:46):
It floats back to.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
Listen to this course My goodness, gold my friends.

Speaker 12 (30:53):
Soon.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
The cruise director's name was Julie. I had a massive
crush on her. Back in the day. I'm seeing Calvin
the Captain.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
No, it was Captain Stubing. Oh, you had Gopher, you
had the you had the ship doctor. He had Isaac.
It was the cool bartender. What was the thinking about?
Is this just like it was about couples that would
go on the boat. Celebrities and they would just go
on to different places around the world when they wound
up having romance.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
I'm telling you drama, Oh, adult drama. Turn it up.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
It's oh Judy is Oh, I'm telling you. You know
what Jonathan askby during the break, He says, what happened
to good television? I said, it's really your kid's fault
y'all wanted so much.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
I mean, stay with me on this.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
Uh it's the it's the advent of reality television.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
Do you know and I don't know if you know this.
This is this is true history.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
Do you know how reality television really became super popular?
Now there's obviously shows like Survivor and uh, the Real World,
those kind of those old G schools type shows. Do
you know what you got really reality television going?

Speaker 11 (32:15):
Was the O. J.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
Simpson trial. I mean, in all seriousness like they put
they put it on for hours a day. Oh, and
I realized, wait a minute, the people are going in
droves to watch this. This is real stuff. There's nothing
we can produce. I'm being serious as a heart attack. Wow,

(32:36):
you lesson knew every day I'm are you seriously, I'm
telling you, I'm telling you go ask anybody that follows
social media, pop culture, uh, mass media. The reason why
soap operas went off, I went off the air. The
reason why shows that had character actors in it are
not nearly as popular as they were so many years ago.
First of all, the production costs. It's a lot cheaper

(32:58):
to do a reality show. And plus the reality show
you're not paying you know, like the cast of the Friends.
We're making you know, five six hundred thousand dollars an episode.
You don't have to pay in scriptwriters too, scriptwriters and
producers and directors. You're not paying that kind of money
for the real housewives of blank. Now you're paying them
something or what's the what's the show about being on

(33:21):
the boat something underworld or whatever I mean? Or like, uh,
what do you which reality I'm on a huge reality
show watcher right now, like by the time, like Love Island,
Love Island. Yeah, you're not paying Bachelor, Bachelor that you're
not paying Brody eighty thousand dollars a week to be
on Love Island.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
I'm just throwing a name out there.

Speaker 4 (33:42):
That's the reason.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
But yeah, going back to it, we lost television shows
because people like real people more so than the fake characters.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
I guess that makes sense, though, I'm just saying, all right,
ten to fifty.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
I'm just like I said, I feel like I'm a
I'm a mass media professor.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
For you know, I've learned something new right now.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm here for you,
all right. Brian me Tagger joined us in ten minutes.
Let me give it to last night again. I know
that we're not a huge NBA town right now.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
That's fine.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
We'll be a huge NBA town when the Rockets are
playing in the same spot, hopefully a year from now.
But the Minnesota Timberwolves embarrassed themselves yesterday by getting their
ass kicked by the Oklahoma City Thunder. I mean the
Wolves yesterday scored nine points in the first quarter.

Speaker 11 (34:32):
Nine.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
It was an absolute bloodbath.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
On that scoreboard last night as the Western Conference was
decided and Shae Gilders Alexander, who will be today's topic,
I believe it or not, was named the Western Conference MVP.
Do you know what I did not know and maybe
I should have. Do you know when you win the
Western Conference trophy as the best in the West, you
win the Oscar Robertson Robertson Trophy, which I did not know.

(35:01):
And then if you're the MVP of the Western Conference Finals,
you win the Magic Johnson Trophy. I didn't These are
things I didn't even know until it happened last night.
You didn't know they changed the name for I didn't
know they had trophies. I just thought they got like
a medal in a high five and an atta boy.
I didn't even realize it. But last night was one
twenty four to ninety four and the game wasn't even
that close. So and I brought this up to you

(35:24):
all before.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
I used to live in.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
Minneapolis Saint Paul for three years and really enjoyed my
time there. But you're a lot close. Even though the
weather and the culture and the type of people are
significantly different here in Texas than they are in Minneapolis
Saint Paul. In the stead of Minnesota, you're a lot
closer to the sports trials and tribulations. The Wolves have
gone to the NBA Western Conference Finals two consecutive years

(35:49):
in a row.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Is that double?

Speaker 3 (35:51):
That's double consecutive? You don't say two scud just consecutive.
We lost Dallas last year and this year they were.
They lost to Oklahoma City in five. Now that's not
a huge surprise because I think Oklahoma City was the
chalk pick going in. But the way they lost in
five games, the way they got beat badly by thirty points,
they are on the outside looking in. The Minnesota Timberwolves

(36:13):
have been around since I think the late nineteen eighties
and have never gone to the NBA Finals. That's a
franchise that is, give or take about thirty six years old,
maybe somewhere in that range, and they have never gone
to the NBA finals. Does that sound early familiar to
another franchise in this town?

Speaker 2 (36:34):
It does? Just saying too soon, it is too soon.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
The Minnesota Vikings have not gone those Super Bowl since
the late nineteen seventies super Bowl. They went to four
of them in the nineteen seventies. Guess what, Jonathan, they
lost all four of them.

Speaker 5 (36:52):
Wait, Minnesota's never won to the Super Bowl zero and
have not gone to the super Bowl since the late
nineteen seventies. So the whole state of Minnesota is the
whole state the LUs is feeling it too.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
The Vikings won. No tell me when they won. I'd
like to know, because Brett Farr was there, and he
went to Green Bay. Never won there. They lost in
New Orleans. It's crazy. I grew right across the street
from a big Minnesota Vikings guy. Well, he obviously wasn't
big enough to tell you the truth was he I
don't know. I'm just saying I'm here for the Minnesota Twins.

(37:27):
Are you ready for this? Have not won a World
Series since nineteen ninety one? Yeah, I knew this one.
This one was bad. And they don't win playoff games.
They don't go. They go fairly regularly, they just don't win.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
And guess what, every time they go to the playoffs,
they either lose to the Astros or they lose the
New York Yankees.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
You think it's they're so far away, all the traveling,
they just know nothing new that it's just bad. Minnesota.
Juju culture is room.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
It's it's so for everybody that wants to feel sorry
for ourselves, and we do feel sorry for ourselves. Minnesota, Minneapolis,
Saint Paul, the whole damn state. I got news for you.
They have a way worse than we do. Their hockey team,

(38:21):
that's the state of hockey in this country. They call
themselves a state of hockey. The wild have never gone
to the Stanley Cup Finals. They've been to the Western
Finals a couple of times. They go to the playoffs
on a semi regular basis. They don't know what it's
like to host the Stanley Cup final game. They're state school,
the University of Minnesota, their only Division one football and

(38:44):
basketball team in their state. Gophers, the Gophers their football team.
They're Texas. They're A and M seven and five, six
and six, four and eight. They have not been to
the Rose Bowl. And god knows how long. The Minnesota

(39:06):
Golden Golfer basketball team I believe went to a final
four twenty.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Five or so years ago. Probably was.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
They had a tutor writing papers for all the kids,
so they scrubbed their record from it.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
No way, Oh, how would lie to you. That's what
happened to SFA. And when they beat Duke. Yeah, but
we're used to that.

Speaker 4 (39:22):
SFA.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
They got wait, this is caught in the nineties. They
got caught. They got caught. I don't know what exactly
the year was. That's crazy. So for all of us
that bemoan everything about.

Speaker 3 (39:33):
Our state and our schools and our professional teams. Minnesota
to the Western Finals. Yesterday, game number five, down three
games to one, must win situation, They're down twenty six
to nine at the end of the first quarter.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
They're down sixty five thirty two in the hat the.

Speaker 5 (39:54):
Halftime, I saw a lot of conversations saying that this
even makes Jo Kids look a lot more as the
real MVP because they took him the seven.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
After this, I don't know SG is still the MVP
to me.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
So say, just remember, friends, when you think you got
it bad and your squad disappoints you, like the Texans
in the divisional round of the playoffs and the Astros
not counting twenty seventeen to twenty twenty two in the
Tech and the Rockets lose in playoff series or Western
Finals because Chris Paul's hurt, Just remember Minneapolis Saint Paul

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Speaker 2 (41:22):
Eleven oh one on Sports Talk seven HOI.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
This is our number two of the four hour get
together we call them at Thomas Show with Ross Ross
with the Today and Tomorrow off. Cole Thompson's gonna come
by and hang out with us for a couple hours
starting at eleven thirty.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
We had the news at noon in one hour, I
just don't get it.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
At twelve thirty in all things Shake Gilgess Alexander on
today's edition of Believe It or Not?

Speaker 2 (41:42):
Which would be headed your way at one point fifty.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Right now, ten maybe even eleven quality minutes with Brian
McTaggart MLB dot Com and the Astros Beat tag. The
Astros woke up this morning a half game out of
first place. Congratulations to the Nationals for knocking off the
Ms last night nine to nothing.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Yeah, the Astros gained a game on everybody in the
division yesterday. So a very good day. And uh yeah
they can.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Astros can actually be in first place today if if
they win and the Mariners lose tonight, they're in first place.
And uh it'll be a full blown panic in the
Seattle if it's not already.

Speaker 4 (42:17):
H I'll give you the opening of question.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
What are we seeing today in the last six games
that we didn't see in the previous twenty or twenty five.
The offense has been much better, defense remained solid, bullpen's
been really really good. I wouldn't say the starting pitching
has been anything. Well, I mean, you're getting six from
lanch Yester. That kind of helps. So I'll throw it
to you. What are we seeing now that maybe we
didn't see even two or three weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
Yeah, well, I think you hit it.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
I mean it's offense, they had what five games in
a row where they had at least eleven hits, which
they hadn't done in about six years. You know, the
series over the weekend, they were getting a lot of singles.
You know, they finally started driving the ball a little
bit here the last couple of games. But yeah, they're
just score more, getting more guys on base, hitting better
with runners in scoring position. I mean, starting pitching has

(43:05):
been good enough. You know, Hunter Brown was really good
and you know Lance giving me six. The big question, Marcus,
what are you going to get now from the two
rookies that are in your rotation now? Probably for the
at least I don't know, probably for til you get
Eric Getty back in Gusto and Gordon. But yeah, I
mean we've said all along the one area where they

(43:26):
got to pick it up his offense, and they've done that.
It's really in the month of May. I mean they
entered the month of May, I think twenty in the
twenty like twenty first maybe in batting average, not the
batting averages everything, and I think they lead the majors
in batting average in the month of May. So they've
really turned it around here from you know, top to bottom.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
I know that Jose had a goosegg yesterday, but he
has had a really really good homestand overall, what does
he think he attributes that to.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
Yeah, it's you know, starting to drive the ball more
trying to hit the ball and the more I mean,
he was his ground ball percentage rate at least about
a week ago was probably the highest of his career.
He's over over fifty percent of balls off his bat
that were and play with ground balls, which is not
not ideal.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
So he's really started to drive the ball here in
the last week.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
You know, he's worked a lot with Alex Sinchroni said
he started to come in early and just really put
in the work at the cage to you know what
he said was told us it's just he tries to
focus on one pitch instead of trying to you know,
cover the whole cover the whole batter's box or the
whole strike zone, and you know, it leads him to

(44:38):
chase a little bit. He's sort of owned honed in
on one pitch and that's helped him, you know, make
better contact and turn it around a little bit.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
You know, his numbers really this year overall have been
significantly down from years past, and it's hard for us
because you've been with him every bit of his major
league baseball career. You know, I've been here as well,
but you see him a lot more in face to
face than I do. There's a part of me that's
that would be sad if we started to see the
dramatic drop off because he has been, in my mind,
the greatest aster of them all, because I do include

(45:08):
the postseason, it's part of it. But it is kind
of nice to see him get his mojo back a
little bit, because I think there were some legitimate concerned
about what was left in Jose's tank.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Yeah, but I always thought, in the back of my mind,
I've seen him do this before, where he has these
streaks where he i mean for two or three weeks
and just you know, he swings at everything, swings out
of his shoes, out of his own and you're like,
good grief. And then you know, boy, when he gets hot,
you know, he'll have four games where he's you know,
eleven for fifteen or something like that, and then you
look up and his numbers are about what you expect.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
And I'm never going to count this guy out.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
I mean, you know, like you said, I mean, I've
covered him his his entire career, from you know, day
one when he got called up, and you know, you know,
everyone knows what he went through and all the naysayers,
people who told him he couldn't play, and look what
he's done in his career.

Speaker 11 (45:59):
Saw.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
I think at the end of the year, Josel two
B is gonna end up having some some pretty solid numbers.
He's he's never going to be twenty seventeen Josel two anymore,
but he's he's thirty five and he can still be
make some good contributions to this offense.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Last thing about him, how often do you ask him
or is it even discussed about three thousand hits because
we have lost in baseball because guys take time off
and the three hundred win numbers, it seems like it's
never gonna happen for pitchers. Does Does he venture into
that conversation very much with you or for anybody that
covers the team.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Yeah, I actually talked to him about it a couple
of times a year, just when I'm at his locker,
just talking and he you know, he knows us out there,
and you know he certainly wants it. You know, one
thing he said to me, I think it was earlier
this year is how much that the pandemic shortened season
cost him. And then the season where he I guess
it was twenty twenty, twenty two, twenty three where he

(46:52):
broke a stumb in the World Baseball Classic it cost him,
you know, fifty games, so that those two things combined
cost him about season's worth of game, which to him
is you know, one hundred, fifty hundred and sixty hits.
So he would be a lot closer if those things
had hadn't happened. But he should get his twenty fourth
hundred hit this year. It put him six hundred out,
which you know he could get and in four or

(47:13):
five years, I mean, you're still gonna have to do
one hundred and fifty hundred and sixty hits a year.
But he knows it's going to be tough.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
But I think he knows he's got a real shot
a shot at it if he can stay healthy.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
Ryan mc tagger with us here Sports Talk seven Huntrey
for his weekly visit tag, how is Christian Walker's hand
today or how did it feel or how did he
feel about it?

Speaker 2 (47:33):
After the game last night.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Yeah, we talked him after the game last night and
he said it was really sorry. He said he couldn't
grip the bat. X rays were negative, but he said,
I'm good to go. So you know, we'll have to
see when we get to the park later today how
he feels it. He said, it's just going to be
a matter of handling the inflammation, which immediately I was like,
uh oh, because we know Jordon Alvarez has had inflammation.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
For like three weeks now.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
So but if you're remember in the College World Series
a few years ago, Walker got hit by pitch in
the hand. I believe Brooke as hammet bone and played
the next day. So I fully expect Christian Walker to
be in the lineup today.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Injuries have been obviously a huge part of this year,
with the ailments to the pitching staff, in particular Renel
Blanco's announcement yesterday that he's going to have the Tommy
John Is anybody doing and we you have kind of
briefly talked about this. Are the Astros catching this at
a bad time? Obviously there's no good time for it.

(48:33):
Are we finding TJ's hitting every team? It feels like
or is this the Astra is in a situation where
they've got two guys right now already going through it,
and then get another guy in arrageda who's out with
that injured thumb.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
No, it's a it's a league wide issue.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
And I think last week I was on here, I
talked to you about the you know, the study of
MLB did last that came out last December, and basically,
I mean, guys are chasing spin and chasing velocity more
and at earlier ages is just taking tolls on the elbows.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
I mean, the Astros aren't unique in this.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
You know, I haven't gone around and looked at everyone's
eyel to see how many TJ guys, but I'm sure
each team probably has a few. The Astros right now
have six starters on the IL, four coming off or
including Blanco who hasn't had surgery yet, four that have
had TJ surgery, so you know, Garcia and Javier, you know,
they're quite a bit removed from it, but not back yet.

(49:25):
So the Astros maybe a couple more guys than most teams,
but I don't think they're unique too much of an outlier.
The Astros have also played way more games than most
teams in the last decade, and guys like Javier and
Garcia have pitched deep into the postseason for a couple
of years in a row, and I think that's got
to be a factor as well.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
I know the Astros aren't overly forthcoming with injury updates,
but it sounded like there was some news with Luis Garcia.
What do we know and what do we do interpret
off of what has been said the last to twenty
four hours or so.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
You know, he's out there at the park every day
and he's throwing some bullpins out of Dana Brown said
on your station that he thought he'd be back in
late late July, early August. So he's still got a
couple of months ago. I mean, you know, he's he's
done this a couple of times now. He's he's two
years removed almost from from Tommy John surgery, so he's
had a couple of setbacks. So he's gonna have to

(50:22):
ramp up again and do the whole process of uh,
you know, taking some live VP and then you know,
getting in some minor league games and he's you know,
he's gonna need the full gamut. Four or five starts
so that whole process is going to take him a while.
But he's done this a couple of times, and he's
had a couple of setbacks. So until I see him pitching,
you know, in a minor league, minor league game, on

(50:43):
a minor league rehabit, I don't think we can, you know,
get too excited about Garcia returning.

Speaker 3 (50:48):
Brian, I spent some time in the first hour of
the show, first of all, plotting what Lance did yesterday.
Twelve strikeouts, six inning, one hundred and two pitches, And
then I was talking to myself about, you know, does
it still make you nervous when he goes out for
that fifth inning or the pitch count gets up in
the eighty ninety now one hundred number range. It's always

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the bounce back that you think about the next morning.
How does he feel? And so far through three turns
to the rotation, he feels obviously.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
Very very good. When you watch him. I don't know
if he'll ever be all the way back.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
But as you watch him now, especially after yesterday, are
you even a little amazed that he's able to go
as deep as he is in games? The strikeout numbers
are astronomical at this point, he's still looking for a
first decision either way. But to give you six after
being gone for as long as he has, I mean,
it came in a good time for an astra rotation
that has not been able to give you a whole
lot of length the last to three or four weeks.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
Yeah, for me, it's not that so much him going
six innings and one hundred pitches. I mean, I think
it's just sort of surprising just because we haven't seen
it from him in so long. I mean, that was
his longest start since twenty twenty two. But the strikeouts
to me really just really blew me away. Twelve strikeouts
and six innings, I mean, there's a lot of quid.
I mean, he had those guys really full. I mean,

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his his his slider and curveball. We're just fantastic.

Speaker 8 (52:09):
You know.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
He's he's throwing what ninety three ninety four maybe with
the sinker, and even after the game he says, I'm
not gonna throw ninety seven ninety eight anymore. So he's
sort of figuring new ways to get guys out, and
so you get just you have to tip your hat
to him. I mean he you know, he he grinded
for for a couple of years to get back, and
for him to go out there and strike out twelve,

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to me was the biggest surprise. I mean, I think
they're gonna need him to go six innings, throw one
hundred pitches every time out. And but other than that
one start, I mean, his his results have been been
pretty good. And uh, you know, maybe there's more left.
Maybe maybe he can get seven. Maybe who knows, maybe
he can pitch pitch even deeper into a game. But uh,
he's got to be really encouraged with with what he did.

(52:52):
But yeah, I mean there's always gonna be a little
bit of hesitation as the season goes, and you know,
let's see if he can do this over the final
four months of the season.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
Are there there are certain pitches that are easier and
less laborsome for him to throw than others.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
I would say, you know, probably the fastball is the
easiest thing for him to throw or change up, just
because you're not putting you know, much much.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Pressure on your your elbow, your forearm.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
I mean, when these when these guys are coming back
and the rehab and the first one of the first
thing they do, they get on the mound and I
got on the mound and you know, I threw twenty
fastballs just because you know, it's easy for them. They've
been doing it all their life. And well you start
spinning it, you know, that's when he you know, you
have to exert a little more on your arm. So
but you know, like I said, Lance had no problem
you know, throwing that curveball a bunch of times. He

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got what ten of his eighteen whiffs on the curveball
through a bunch of lefties. So he's always had a
lot of confidence in that pitch. But the slider's been
a big pitch for him. And you know, his his
syncret can still you know, get up to ninety four.
If he can spot it, it can still be an
effective pitch for him.

Speaker 11 (53:54):
All right.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
And as far as Fromber Is concerned, do you feel
like it's going to be a day where you get
to the ballpark, you put your computer up, and you
go downstairs and all of a sudden you see Fromber's
name on the on the lineup card. I mean, where
is this ultimately going to be? Is it going to
be he wakes up and feels great, ready to go?
Is it a night in the cage the next day
is in the lineup. How is this going to ultimately

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play out? Well, we're going to see him back in
the line up on a semi regular basis, do you think.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
Yeah, I mean, I guess talking about Albarez, right, Yeah, yeah,
I mean I think. I mean, you know, Joe Spott
ha said we're close. We're close. But I think it's
really interesting that when you ask Joe spotted now he says,
we're waiting for Jordown to tell us he's ready. And
even Dana Brown said that yesterday on the Seawan Salisbury Show.
Is we're waiting for Yordown to tell us he's ready

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to go. They've put the ball in his court to
where you just need to tell us one you can play.
And so, as far as we know, he's taking VP
every day, we don't see it because he does it
in the tunnel.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
He's never not been a guy hit on the field
much anyway.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
You know, he has been out there a few times
running and throwing and he you know, he looks fine,
but it's a matter of gripping the at and hitting
off velocity and how that hand feels. So yeah, I
think there'll be one day we just say we just yeah,
like you said, we get to the park and they're like,
he's been activated off the IL, And I mean that's
anybody's guests. Could be today, could be next week, who knows.

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It's just truly is a day to day thing.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
And as awkward as this season has gone, from injuries
to a subpar play to hanging around five hundred, it's incredible.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
They're a half game out of first place. They're in there.
You have a three way tie for the walid card
and a long way to go.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
But the early thought of trying to move players and
be sellers, I don't think it's in the in the
mindset right now. The team frankly shouldn't because it feels
like the American League is wide open right now.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
Yeah, totally wide open. I mean if they were in
the National League, wud be maybe a little bit different story.
I mean that's where the you know, probably four of
the five best teams are maybe five of the best
six teams in the major leagues. But yeah, I mean
we always knew the Astros this division they were gonna
have a shot at. I mean it's not a great division.
The Mariners are showing their warts. Rangers can't hit same
old problem that they had the last couple of years.

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Very very winnable division for the Astros, So I totally
think they're gonna be buyers in some way shape and
for him at the deadline, starting pitching is gonna be
on the radar.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
They need a left handed bat too.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
I mean they they could really use a left handed
bat to put somewhere in their mix, just because they're
so right handed.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
I mean, look what happened the other day.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
They you know, when they face a lefty with their
all right handed lineup, they absolutely you know, destroyed Jpcres.
So you know, when right hander is pitched, they have
the advantage just because the Astros come only putting one
pretty much one lefty in the lineup. So but you know,
cam Smith a lot of credit to him. I mean,
he looks like he's here to stay. You know, some
other guys have turned it around a little bit, so

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they're not without their issues, but they're getting it done.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
And you got it. You know, Astros are inevitably you
hear that all the time, but here they come again.

Speaker 3 (56:51):
Thanks for the time. As always, We'll talk with you tomorrow.
You and I will be are doing the on Deck
Show from the ballpark. It'll be an amazing conversation with
the return of the Friday Tidbits to the to the
on Deck Show.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
Oh they're back. Okay, I can't wait to hear here.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
I mean, I'm gonna assume that nobody has asked you
for a tidbit during the on Deck Show before this season.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
So I'm gonna do it.

Speaker 4 (57:08):
I'm gonna do I'm gonna do something out of the box.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
All right, let me get in the lab and see
what I can get. All right, got out of here.
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (57:14):
Brian McTaggart MLB dot com On the Astros beat eleven
sixteen is our time.

Speaker 4 (57:19):
Normally eleven thirty.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
We will do uh, I just don't get it.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
We're gonna push it to twelve thirty today because our
friend Cole Thompson is gonna come hanging with us a
couple of hours and he'll join us at the bottom
of the hour. What do you want to get into.
We've got the Astros, we have the NBA Playoffs from
last night. We've got a game number five of the
Western Conference of the Eastern Finals tonight in New York.
If Indiana wins say the Eastern Champs. We also got
to get to Stefan Diggs.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
In the video.

Speaker 4 (57:44):
We'll do that next eleven seventeen on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
Just a good old.

Speaker 10 (57:51):
They have a meaning.

Speaker 3 (57:52):
No home.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Be's all You never sold me in trouble. We're the
loll sets of thing they would if you're just joining us.

Speaker 12 (58:03):
We are.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
Educating Jonathan on the great TV theme songs of.

Speaker 4 (58:11):
Good old Television. It's little Whalen Jennings here.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
It's about an old cowboy hunt.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
Oh yeah, well it's about Bow and Luke Duke Enus,
Boss Hog, Roscoe beat Cole Traine.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
And Daisy Daisy Duke Comcuder. That wasn't a huge Duke's
a Hazzard fan.

Speaker 13 (58:38):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
They're about these two guys that always they behave themselves,
but the cops always thought they were doing something wrong,
so the cops had always chase them. It was like
it was basically basically like a Southern edition of.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (58:51):
Wiley Coyote and uh in the road Runner, we the
Wiley Coty is always chasing after him and never gets them.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
This is boss Hog is always trying.

Speaker 3 (58:59):
To get and they never could get him. Roscoe couldn't
get him either. Friday nights. You know, I don't know
if you do this in your life, but Friday nights
is when I was a kid, it was we used
to order Pizza Hut from Pizza Hut Pizza back when
they have said pizza Hut restaurants now that NY like
to take up places. And then seven o'clock we would

(59:19):
watch Dukes has their Eight o'clock we watch Dallas, and
nine o'clock would watch Falcon Crest. That was my Friday
nights because I had no friends and I was overweight
and didn't have girlfriends. But that's a different nature for
a different time. You overweight, oh massively?

Speaker 2 (59:31):
Really? Oh yeah, guyst is like a twig. I wouldn't
axpect that. Yeah, I think my I think my heaviest
weight I was too sixty eight. I think that's what
it was. Are you serious? Yeah? Yeah? Puts an oh
line man, you no six one no.

Speaker 3 (59:47):
And the easiest thing is, uh, he's getting rid of
Sota's and actually going out and doing some exercising. That's
the wasn't crash diets or injections or no injections or pills.
It was just I drank a lot of coke when
I was a kid. So when when did you lose
the weight? Like when it no those ones in the
last probably last twenty years. I was heavy when I

(01:00:09):
got married to I don't I have a beautiful wife.
I don't know why what she saw in me? Maybe
economic impact maybe. I mean, I mean, I'm a good lover.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
I gave you that. I gave her that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
I mean, you know, but I wasn't the handsome most
handsome dude about that. I wouldn't I have respect that.
And I'm being like dead serious. Oh yeah, I'll show
you some photos. It's it's not pretty, all right. I
love in twenty four on Sports Talk seven. You all right,
let's get to and and Johnthan's gonna put the video up.
I don't know contextually what is going on with Stefan Diggs. Now,

(01:00:42):
you know, he signed this hilatiously big contract to go
play for the New England Patriots, and he had acl
he tore his a cl with the Texans, and the
Texans took a chance, and frankly it paid a little
bit of dividends but didn't enough because he left after
this year and the Texans gave the Buffalo Bills a
second run on draft pick, and I was a little

(01:01:03):
squeamish about the deal Ross tried to sell me on
and okay, whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:01:09):
So he leaves after a year, which I knew was
going to happen.

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
It was a one and done situation, especially after yeah
a Sports Talk seven and if you want to see
the video, So he's not at OTAs with the Patriots.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
Where is he instead? He's on a boat.

Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
Now, these are OTAs are what they call organized team activities.
They're not mandatory. But if you're a grown ass man
and you're making millions of dollars and you're a veteran leader,
especially you're playing for a new team, Jonathan, wouldn't you
think you'd want to go play for your new team
and start out on a good start by being at
these OTAs.

Speaker 5 (01:01:42):
Well, I'm kind of disgusted because he has all that
to say about Josh Allen and the Bills right right,
and now you're sitting you know, it's just not a
good look.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
It's not a good look, as simple as that. I mean,
I mean, if I.

Speaker 3 (01:01:55):
Was in situation, Okay, now you know, now the good
look is he's on a boat. Who can't appreciate a
good boat ride he's got.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
At least so.

Speaker 3 (01:02:07):
I think there's at least three women women on the
video that I've seen, and maybe more.

Speaker 4 (01:02:11):
I don't know, but there's three, and pardon my French,
they appear thirsty.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
I mean, it is what it is. I mean, it
is what it is. Yeah, you know, I've been in
a lot of college I've never seen something like this.

Speaker 4 (01:02:31):
Is like, okay, so they're they're obviously wanting to live
their best life. I've tried to be politically correct on this.

Speaker 3 (01:02:39):
And then towards the end of the video, you see
these like pink pills or or something that's pink in
a like a ziplock bag. Oh I just saw it, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
And the girls aren't nearly as thirsty for Stefan as
they are thirsty for these whatsever it's in the pink
zip block bag of the zip walk back with the

(01:03:00):
pink stuff in it, and he.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
Knows he's being recorded, of course he does.

Speaker 6 (01:03:06):
This is.

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
Maybe if he's trying to flake on the you know,
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
I mean, there could there could be vitamins, right or like,
you know, but they're not snacks.

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
Vitamins was like the seasick or like of course, it could.

Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
Be maybe all three of these, maybe all three of
them are not feeling well and need something to settle
their stomachs.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
But you need to go watch this and you tell
me what they need.

Speaker 6 (01:03:46):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
I do not hang around professional athletes a lot. In fact,
I hardly hang around them. Even when I'm on the
row of the Rockets. I don't hang out with them.
But I'm a student enough to realize what the NBA
lifestyle is for teams that come to Houston, and obviously
the Rockets that go to other places. They're young, they're rich,

(01:04:11):
they're successful, they're famous.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
You're gonna get us a certain.

Speaker 3 (01:04:17):
Group of people that want to hang out with you.
And what you do on a boat, Jonathan, is what
you want to do on a boat. If you want
to get your freak on a boat, athletes do it.
The stories I have heard about athletes and hot women
are one believable.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
But would you even take a hot woman if they're
that thirsty? Though?

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
Like you yourself, Matt, I yes, the answer is yes,
thirsty hot women. The answers yes every single time. There's
never a case I say no. If I provide I
was single, But even with all that, you do not
film yourself a during OTAs b holding a.

Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
Zip with some yet with some pink pills in it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:05):
All of sports twitters and I figure out what was
in the bag I've seen everybody's trying to figure it out.
Doesn't that's the lighter or some say it's you know,
it's a little bit of you know, uh cloud, I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
It's it's I'm going to presume it's the worst possible thing.
It could be some sort of enhancement to make the
party go even better than it already is. My point is,
if that's what you're gonna do with your life, and
that's what you're going to do with these ladies, and
that's what you're going to ingest or smoke or whatever

(01:05:36):
you have to do with these things, you tell everybody
to turn their damn phones off because not only does
it make you look bad. Whatever you've gotten that bag
probably isn't good. And number three, you just signed a
way way big contract with the New England Patriots.

Speaker 4 (01:05:58):
You got overpaid and.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
You can at b.

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
At OTAs because you're with three Hussies with with a
bag with pink stuff in it. Yes, and Mike Vrabel,
the coach is like, I'm only going to coach talk
about players that are here. Can't do that when you
just cannot do it. But I'm going to tell you
this to wrap up this segment. Whatever you think is

(01:06:23):
in that bag, whatever you think those three girls are
doing with Stefan Diggs on the boat, by the way,
is he Isn't he supposed to be hanging out with
Cardi b.

Speaker 5 (01:06:33):
That's what coach just told me. Right now, I think
I think she's there. I gotta find out a video.

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
I'm just telling you what you think is going on.
Nine to nine percent. Sure it's absolutely happening. Eleven thirty
on Sports Talk seven ninety. Another show I didn't watch.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
I thin guess.

Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
I think it was also on Friday Night's too, but
I was busy watching Dallas. This is Miami Vice theme song,
crocking and tubs main go to guys there.

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
Now, Cole, how are you?

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
I'm thirty one, okay, so you're a little bit older.
This is still outside of your frame of reference.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
All Right, I have a bonu pick with you when
you were talking about here we go, because Jonathan Good,
I'm glad you're bringing the fire early.

Speaker 4 (01:07:29):
Don't be afraid, Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Over here is in the generation that truly did kill television.
I completely agree with you that kids kill television. Yeh,
it's your fun sure fault, okay, Jonathan Jotha, Jonathan, did
you watch the show The Amazing World of Gumball? Of course? Yeah,
that's why television is ruined shows like that. I grew
up watching good TV on my on my network, Like hey,

(01:07:53):
Arnold taught you lessons, Rocket Power taught me lessons. Those
were cartoons that I could get behind. And even old
SpongeBob SquarePants was able to teach you lessons. But they
could throw in the Gumball, you throw in the laugh
house whatever. The other crappy television shows that Nick came
out with or Disney came out with your generation is

(01:08:13):
why we are so screwed as a society. But no,
I did not watch I did not watch Miami Vice.
I was too young for that one.

Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
Yeah, very much, a big hit Don Johnson and like
Superstar show.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
But I just wasn't what I was.

Speaker 4 (01:08:25):
I wasn't begging to the cop shows.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
I kind of thing, really see, because I grew up
with a New York staunch grandfather. So every Friday night,
either NYPD was being played, great show or watch that
what was it? Blue Bluntz was always on TV. NYPD
Blue was amazing. That was That was my exception. I
wasn't a big crime show guy, but that NYPD was
spat run through Miami. But like this is a cops

(01:08:50):
that's the same thing as the cop show, but it
was more uh lifestyle.

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
The guys that wore these these Florida suits that were big, bright,
uh aqua blue, they would wear a strange I mean,
they wasn't a commedy. It was just shit was a drama,
but it was just sunglasses on the whole time. It
was just it was Miami hipster crime.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
Put it that way. Literally, if you could think of
like anybody who looks out of style where it's like
a pastel color awkward exactly with a white suit afterwards,
but it was like three sizes bigger, and they would
roll up the sleeves to feel like that they were
cool because it was hot weather outside while dricking a
Cubata coffee Like that was what Miami Vice was. Basically,
that's good for somebody to know the show. I pay

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attention My dad is really big into old sixty seventy
shows and eighty shows.

Speaker 4 (01:09:35):
So you know it was playing when I was going on.

Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
The next song we play will be the greatest theme
song from a TV cop show?

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
From a cop show? Okay, because what is the greatest
TV theme song?

Speaker 3 (01:09:45):
The Jeffersons. We We're gonna play it a twelve o'clock.
It's because the astros are moving on up.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
Have you noticed that?

Speaker 6 (01:09:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:09:49):
Okay, so we're gonna play it again at twelve o'clock.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
I think Jefferson is not a bad one now personally
from a cartoon version. And this is probably why are
you in cartoons because I grew up in the nineties,
which all cartoons first cartoons.

Speaker 4 (01:10:02):
Oh it's fine, Jay, what was.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
The greatest cartoon theme song growing up?

Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
Greatest cartoon theme? I think there is a right answer
for this one. Oh see, I can give you a
different answer to that.

Speaker 5 (01:10:13):
I'm gonna be saying like victorious or something like like,
this is not a cartoon though, that's a live action Oh, Johnny,
test get.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
Out, get out. I'll produce the show too. I'll just
do everything right that you could do.

Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
Uh Sagon go super Bowl School and you'll give you
a fat Albert Bill Cosby saying about we can't really
bring up Bill Cosby much.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
I didn't ask you to do that. The Jetsons was
a cool one with Flennstones was cool. Good.

Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
Just super Friends was pretty cool. Ducktails Okay, Okay, these
are shows I don't know about. So we're moving on
to real sports, all right. By the way, you're cool, Thompson.
You are the producer of the two to six show.
Which of the two Adams piss you off more? WEX
or claim?

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
Well, I know how to handle WEX a little bit
more because I've dealt with them at Texans for the
last four ah see, so I knew what I was
getting into when I signed up to be producer. He
was a wild card. I'll still try to figure out
how to go ahead and play the strengths and what
I've planned. All right, And so your background is tough
for those that don't are familiar with you. You have
done what in your life. Let's see, I've covered college football,
which is my passion. I still cover college football on

(01:11:14):
the side good. I love the SEC, I love all
college He was a big a SEC fan as Gordians.
I'm a bigger SEC fan.

Speaker 4 (01:11:19):
Oh my god, I am I will I will Trump.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
He was arrogant about it as he is. No, because
I love college football and I want more representation. I
went to the University of Alabama. I worked for ESPN
Monday Night Football right out of school. Got fired within
a year.

Speaker 4 (01:11:33):
Fired.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
What he would you do? I got laid off? My apologies. Okay,
that big layoff in twenty sixteen with like over twenty
percent of the staff. Hello, I was all the twenty percent.

Speaker 4 (01:11:41):
That mean fired? Sounds awful, like you did something laid off?
Is this work reduction?

Speaker 3 (01:11:45):
No, it was.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
I got that phone call from Jody and I remember,
so he's like, hey, Cole, It's like, don't do the breaze,
just get just ripped the bandit off when we're doing so.

Speaker 4 (01:11:53):
You worked for Monday Night Football? Who was a broadcaster?

Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
Was that year? That was Sean mcgough's first year. Did
you like him?

Speaker 6 (01:11:58):
I did.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
I thought McDonough was great. Gruden was Gruden. You know,
basically you had a set of rules how to deal
with Grudon and what was like to deal with Cruden.
Don't talk to Greeden, don't look at gruden hand greed
and stuff, and then you could never just have a
serious I never had any conversation with Gruden. One time,
I remember we were in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was
my birthday weekend. We were out at a restaurant and
he just walks on it and I just walked up

(01:12:19):
and said, hey, mister Green, just ball.

Speaker 6 (01:12:20):
Let you know.

Speaker 2 (01:12:21):
I worked for Monday Night Football. I'm on the production
staff with being a runner, and just doesn't look at
me and goes fantas to meet you and then goes
back to eating this meal. Only words I ever heard
from John Gruden in seventeen weeks gotcha, Wow, No, it
was fun. I worked at another station up here. I
was with gal Media for four years and then I
covered the Texans also as a side hustle for Texans
bar with the USADA.

Speaker 3 (01:12:42):
So all right, and you're still doing that. I am okay, good,
I stay busy. You and Wax can go handle all
that now, you guys. It comes across to me. You
guys are Ota geeks.

Speaker 2 (01:12:51):
Oh yeah, So.

Speaker 3 (01:12:54):
I look at the big headlines. I am a big
I'll watch it on Saturday and I'll watch it on
Sunday talking about college and pro football how you create
the sausage. I don't particularly care, and I don't know.
I don't know if it's a minority of group or majority,
but it is what it is. I like to talk
about the games itself. Now I don't even do that
with baseball and basketball. I'm just I don't need the
background kind of stant sure. But with that being said,

(01:13:17):
storylines for me yesterday out of texans Ota were two things.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
And one could be minor, but one could be minor
a major. Both could be.

Speaker 3 (01:13:24):
I don't think either one of them are are shattering ones,
but they might be one. There was a constant shift
in the offensive line, right, But that's just guys just
trying things out.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
I'm okay with that. Are you even a little bit worried?
And CJ didn't throw yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:13:41):
I'm out about a point zero zero zero zero So tomorrow,
when they do get back on the field and the
media can see this.

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
I'll be at a point zero zero zero two percent
chance that he's not to be worried about. So if
he doesn't throw tomorrow, you still gonna be working out.
Give me mandatory mini camp on June tenth. Let's get
to that point.

Speaker 3 (01:13:59):
But the reason why I bring this up is because
uh Dimiko said they're on throwing programs and programs me,
I means schedule. Wouldn't you want to put together the
schedule that would say, all right, rest your arm for
this week, you got OTAs now grant just because the
media gs invited ots I mean they're not still doing workout. Sure,

(01:14:21):
I would just think for context, for context and for optics,
one of the days that the media is out there
to look at it that your quarterback is throwing.

Speaker 4 (01:14:29):
That's the only reason why I bring that up.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
The reason why I'm not concerned is CJ Stroud last
season got sacked fifty four times. Oh got lord, your
body getting crushed by two hundred and ninety pounds at
the bare minimum defensive lineman is not able to withstand that.
And so we don't know what type of ailments CJ
was dealing with throughout the offseason. But but he's hung
on a touch today exactly, you know whatever. I'd much

(01:14:53):
rather let him rest up his shoulder. But he's in
the film room with Nick Kaylee. He's reading the playbook.
He's building that relationship off the few with all the
wide receivers to win when mandatory mini campcats here and
everybody's on the practice fields and you're trying to get
a basis of which five starting offensive linemen are going
to do their best not to get him killed this year.
Which wide receivers are going to actually step on up

(01:15:13):
and be more than just another name that's on the
field opposite of Nico Collins. I much rather know that
he's ready for that moment than when you're walking around
in shorts and not even slight pads like. I much
rather know that he is one hundred percent ready at
that moment than see him do drills and seven on
seven and we all are overreacting to slot magician Christian

(01:15:35):
Kirk going for a thousand yards in practice when there's
nothing to even worry about at that point.

Speaker 4 (01:15:39):
Okay, I'm going to tell you because I am.

Speaker 3 (01:15:43):
I'm going to tell you that if he doesn't throw
tomorrow in front of the media, it's going to wake
me out a little bit. I'm just I'm just going
to tell you that, and it may be preposterous. I
may need to get a text on somebody to say, mad,
don't worry about it, which I'm all for.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
I'm okay with getting the text, I say, I'll hold
your hand and tell you it's going to be fine.

Speaker 11 (01:15:56):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
More with the Cooey's going to hang out with this,
we want you to hang out with us as well.
It's seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (01:16:05):
We have the News at noon coming up today and
also twelve thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:16:08):
I don't know if you know what I just don't
get it is, but it's I play along your life
is I just don't get it? Yeah, my life is
just a don't get it. So if you don't get something,
we'll do that for you. Twelve thirty believe it or not?
Today all things about Shay Gilgess, Alexander seven one three
two one two five seven ninety. If you want to
join the conversation Astros on the on the top conversation piece,
Sefan digs in his boat and his Hussies. Also, Uh,

(01:16:31):
the NBA Eastern Finals may be coming up to a
close tonight. We have the NBA West already decided, and
we got to get mister sec over here to discuss
how there could be an argument about NYPD blues theme chips,

(01:16:52):
other crime shows. But to me watching Jack Lauren on
the top of that building turn his head. You're saying,
what the hell did you just say? Don't worry about
I'm not gonna explain it. I have no idea good
don't even this is such a jam. This is definitely
the gonna be the top thread that you like it.

(01:17:13):
I'm going the list going here. This is the original one,
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:16):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:17:16):
I think the new version or that has since gone
used the same thing too, So they used it, but it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
Was a different model, Like I don't think it was
this exact.

Speaker 4 (01:17:25):
Version, right right, turn up a little jit.

Speaker 2 (01:17:27):
It's a good beat, dude, I agree with you. This
is the best cop version of a theme song. Yeah.
It's got that good balance, it's got that good levity,
and it makes you want to go hula dance?

Speaker 8 (01:17:40):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
Is it bad that it took me forever to realize
why it's called Hawaii five out? What did you think
it was beforehand? I thought it was just five oh,
was like a term in cop form for we have
an emergency, not five oh. It's the fiftiest state.

Speaker 3 (01:17:57):
That's fine, I'm not gonna kill you four okay, all
I don't know about either you last on you every day.

Speaker 2 (01:18:02):
I said, Jay, did you know that I'm looking to do?

Speaker 8 (01:18:05):
Like what?

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
There we go look at that teaching people right here
on Sports Talks.

Speaker 4 (01:18:08):
It's a little stereo version of it, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:18:10):
It is the Matt Tabas Show and Ross Ross with
the day off and Cole Thom's is gonna hang out
with us till one thirty today and we have the
news at now. I just don't get it at twelve
thirty and believe it or not working on all things.
Shake Gildess, Alexander Hollong. You lived in Houston all your life.

Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
I lived a little bit in San Antonio and a
little bit in Alabama when I was just graduating college.
Got you.

Speaker 3 (01:18:31):
I don't know if you know about this about our
Houston sports market, but when our local teams don't participate
in such events, right, we tend to go away from them. Sure,
I would have to say that, generally speaking, non Houston
sporting events don't write overly.

Speaker 4 (01:18:45):
Well, so you kind of just pick and choose your
spots here.

Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
But well, when you look at last night's game between
Minnesota and Oklahoma City, the heck are you watching that?

Speaker 3 (01:18:52):
I brought this up to the audience before you came
on the show today, Minneapolis, Saint Paul has it way
worse than we do.

Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
I was listening to you, and I'm so glad that
you are also a person that loves relishing in cities
that are struggling in sports. Minneapolis, far and away is
the worst city to be a fan of the major
you missed too. Also, so think about this, Okay, let
messa it because I used to live there, right, wild Ghosts,

(01:19:21):
the Vikings, Yes, I mentioned the Twins. And who do
I forget there was a basketball team that decided to
sell it sold to Los Angeles and then win a
bunch of championships after.

Speaker 4 (01:19:33):
All all the Lakers.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
Okay, And in hockey they have a championship. Oh yeah,
that went to and it's my least favorite team in
all professional sports. They're playing in the Western Conference finals
right now. Yes they Oh they should. I I have
never in my life rooted for Canada more than seeing
Connor McDavid and jay Al Skinner be able to put

(01:19:55):
up great performances against the Stylestars team.

Speaker 3 (01:19:58):
Now, if we get a hockey team here, we carry
the games you're hosting all the day.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
I am signing up. You are doing eighty postgame shows, Gordy.
If you're listening to the show right now, I'll do
it for free. That's how much I love hot No, no, no,
don't ever do thing for free ever, trust me, I heard.
I'll take you up on that. Even that's a problem.
They are free, and they're like, oh, we need at tilman,
let's get on it right now. We got the host
already lined up. Yeah, it's as I said before, I

(01:20:22):
thought it was gonna be around the corner. I don't
think we even touch hockey here to at least twenty thirty,
I will say. So, Okay, so I live in this
world of now. After seeing on Twitter hashtag h Old
of Houston for the like last, they are all over
my business. They like, Hey, push this, Hey this, do
you see this? And I appreciate them. I'm showing interest.
It's gonna take more.

Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
It's gonna take a refurbished Toyota Center in or a
new building, and it's also gonna take a deep dive
into the corporate dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:20:51):
Right, I think you can fill the arena up.

Speaker 3 (01:20:53):
It's can you go get XYZ Dealership, Budweiser Beer Companies, Airlines,
to spend money to put up the billboards in and
around the arena, and that's because that's where the main
money is made off the corporate sponsors.

Speaker 2 (01:21:05):
And it can work. I absolutely think that the I
forty five rivalry would be something that people would buy into,
and it works in Dallas. But it's a lot like
George R. R. Martin saying I'm almost done with Game
of Thrones. I'm gonna wait and see mode. Sure, when
it happens, it happens. I'm not holding my breath waiting
for a team to finally show up here at this point.
Twenty thirty could be it, it could be twenty forty,
could be twenty twenty nine. But I'm not sitting here

(01:21:25):
on pins and needles saying it's.

Speaker 3 (01:21:26):
Eventually gonna happen. Well, let me ask you this, and
we got other things to get to. But the reality
is this. Gary Bettman, the commissioner of the NHL, is
not stupid. If he knew, without a doubt Houston would thrive,
we'd have a team by now. Sure's obviously something in
the ivory towers of the NHL office that has the

(01:21:47):
warning flags up.

Speaker 4 (01:21:48):
So one of those warning flags, I wish I knew.

Speaker 2 (01:21:50):
But here's the thing, Matt. Why is Atlanta who's had
two teams that have filled miserably in attendance? Yeah, still
being mentioned because there right now in the running with
Houston as the next expansion city. Like I understand, Phoenix.

Speaker 4 (01:22:05):
Is gonna probably get a franchise too.

Speaker 2 (01:22:06):
And honestly, the problem with Phoenix was their attendance was fine.
It was the facilities, it was it was the complexes.
It was the overall status of what was the Coyotes like,
they didn't run the team well. So they said, no,
we're selling it to Salt Lake where it actually has
an arena and has a fan base that's already indoctionrinated
into hockey. We'll give them that reward. Get your stuff together,
and we'll think about bringing the team back here. But

(01:22:28):
like Atlanta's failed miserably in all three things, the business side,
the merchandising side, and the ticket sales side, but the
revenue distribution. Yet here we are saying, oh, Atlanta or Houston,
why not try Houston? You never have given a shot
outside of the Arrows. That was a minor league team
that eventually solded so to go up to Des Moines
with the Iowa Wild which I'm never over that one.

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
And it's also, by the way, it's not you know,
NBA expansion is going to be talked about, but these
NBA owners don't want to split the new TV deal
with right two other owners. There isn't a big television
deal that the NHL owners are all sharing. I'm again
I wish I would pour some true serum down Gary
Bettman sword and say, okay, why why are you a

(01:23:11):
slow to expansion and be giving Atlanta another shot potentially
over Houston, because I think there's two different groups of
people that would like to have hockey here.

Speaker 4 (01:23:18):
It's just how bad do they want it more than
fifty eight? Here's the time.

Speaker 3 (01:23:21):
We have the news at noon coming up, which will
feature the Astros moving on up seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven ninety coals in fross.

Speaker 4 (01:23:33):
I'm mad and this is Sports Talk seven ninety We
have We're moving on to.

Speaker 2 (01:23:39):
Dude Reckon pitch is delta, the center field are going
back on it still drefting and it's gone. We're time.

Speaker 7 (01:23:51):
This though, doesn't it's second home out of the year.

Speaker 6 (01:23:54):
It's three to three out.

Speaker 2 (01:23:58):
Please come binet three. Three ball games start out of
the stretch.

Speaker 3 (01:24:03):
First pitch is laced up the metal base and niels.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
Along through time five and three. Astros moving on or
in the American League West.

Speaker 3 (01:24:26):
Your Astros are one half game out of first place
in the American League West and could take first place
all to themselves if they beat the Tampa Bay Rays,
a team that beat them two out of.

Speaker 4 (01:24:41):
Three last week in Saint Petersburg.

Speaker 3 (01:24:45):
Actually they were in Tampa because they were actually playing
at the site of the Yankee spring training twebal three
as a time. Matt and Colon today ross the day
off time now for the News at noon.

Speaker 2 (01:24:55):
And The News at noon.

Speaker 3 (01:24:56):
Will feature Lance mccullors Junior col Six innings, one hundred
and two pitches, twelve strikeouts for a guy that.

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
Was not even on the radar three months ago. Welcome
back vintage Lance mccollors. That's what you want to see empty,
that's a side. Oh every strikeout was so perfect, And
I think the best part was is that he never
seen tired, he never seen derailed. Yeah, he gave up

(01:25:27):
a few walks, Yes, he had the two runs, but ultimately,
when you look back at that game, never allowed his
commis deteriorate, knew every position that he was in, worked
pitches in his favor, got into favorable counts, and then
blew past them with a ninety seven mile fastball. Like
that's the version of Lance mccullor's shun. You're that you're
not gonna get every single game, but give me it

(01:25:48):
once at every five starts. I'll call that a pretty
good deal after missing the last two years, still chasing.

Speaker 3 (01:25:52):
A decision, however, though quality start though he was his
first one for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:25:56):
But that's not also on you because like there's also.

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
Times where you look at quarterback positions. Quarterback can do
everything right.

Speaker 2 (01:26:03):
Defense doesn't do its job, it's a thirty five to
thirty four loss, but the quarterback has a perfect grating.
Like if the offense doesn't do its part and you're
not getting with the rodgers and scoring positioning, you're striking out.
You're not able to work outs in your favor. And
lou Luis Severino, who also surprisingly been a pretty good
pitcher this year mm hmm, but just can't get out
of his way because of there's inconsistent offense with the

(01:26:24):
athletics who don't have a home, so everything is in
Consistentos on the would be a trade chip for somebody,
that three year contract, though, I just think it's gonna
be too much, that's the thing. But like you look
at that, if the offense does its job several Reno's
probably one of the better pitchers and wins this year.
The same thing with Lance, like the offensive side to
go ahead of kick it into the high gear. Once
you got Duban on the mound, once you get to hater,

(01:26:45):
once you get to your bullpen, which also still deserves
a lot of flowers because if it's been the background
of the team.

Speaker 3 (01:26:50):
Yeah, Sean Newman getting the win yesterday, Shane Boz, Ryan
Gusto and today's mount matchup on Deck show begins.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
At six o'clock.

Speaker 4 (01:26:57):
Which Clinton or Wexer will be hosting it?

Speaker 11 (01:26:59):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
Neither one.

Speaker 4 (01:27:01):
Yeah, they don't want to go else other time slot.
That's fine, it is what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:27:04):
I'll been hosting tomorrow. I'll be well out of my
time slot. I get to stay here and be a
part of that team. That would be fun. I think
it's Dan Matthews. I think it's can't be wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:27:12):
I say it's not Gordy, it's not me, definitely, Clayton
or West not too No, so by default. Yeah, Dan
Matthews on deck six o'clock here today on Sports Talk
seven ninety. Last night in the NBA, what a complete disaster.
It was a game that saw the Minnesota Timberwolves score
nine points in the very first quarter and went on

(01:27:33):
to lose by thirty and rarely, Cole do you talk
about a game that was not indicative of the score.
The score was one twenty four to ninety fourth Thunder
over the Timberwolves. It probably could have been a forty
point game if the starters would have stayed a little
bit longer in the game.

Speaker 2 (01:27:46):
Do you know who Dan Wolkein is. He's a writer, Correctah,
he's for USN today. So he tried to compare the
SEC Georgia lost Notre Dame to Indiana's loss in Our Dame, Like, yeah,
you can say that it was a ten point swing,
but noted was up twenty seven to three with a
minute thirteen lot they took their starters out and said here, backups,
get ready to go play in New Orleans next week.

(01:28:07):
So that was the same thing for Oklahoma City last night.
Absolutely it could have been a fifty point game. But
the starter's still in for Minnesota, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
We also have game number five tonight in the Eastern
Conference Finals between the New York Knicks and the Indiana Pacers.
The game will be played in New York or I'm
sure tickets are going for five six hundred dollars a
pop if Indiana wins. Are we ready for an NBA
Finals that will feature two of the smallest markets in
the association.

Speaker 2 (01:28:34):
So the MLB just had that conversation not too long
ago when it came to Texas in our Arizona. Look
at the ratings for that they are begging. I guarantee
you that Adam Silver right now is colluding with Rick Carlisle. Dude,
just make this a seven, like, just please get this.
Don't be don't do that to us.

Speaker 11 (01:28:51):
No, you're not.

Speaker 2 (01:28:52):
You're not a believer of of the referee c center games,
are you? I'm not a believer of that, But I
am a believer that absolutely Nico Harrison knew that he
was getting Cooper fly. So I do believe that there
is collusion. Oh there is collusion. Jesus.

Speaker 3 (01:29:04):
Look, you get rid of an aging star with your
most profitable franchise and say, hey, this guy is fat,
he's pissing you off.

Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
Send him out West. We'll give you Cooper Flag. Absolutely
I buy into that. I am fully into the conspiracy theories.
We talked about that the day after it happened. I
am not conspiracy guy.

Speaker 3 (01:29:22):
The last conspiracy I believe in the NBA, and this
is before your time, was Patrick Ewing going to the
Knicks because David Stern pulled the frozen envelope out that
had the New York mix on it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:31):
That's the last few years. So do not believe anything
that Shack said about when he met with David Stern. Hey,
whereould you rather play hotter cold? Hotter cold? I know
the play in hot weather. Well, here come the Orlando Magic.

Speaker 3 (01:29:43):
Lebron literally his team an eight percent chance of getting
the number one pick.

Speaker 2 (01:29:48):
Oh, let's just have the kid from Acrons stay close
to home. What about Anthony Davis? Do you trade him?
You get Zion in return? That was all. Don't tell
me for one second that there is not collusion that
goes how is the one sport work Collusion I fully
believe is absolutely a part of the process.

Speaker 3 (01:30:04):
Reviews expressed by cole are not mine, and thank god
they're not, because everything I feel like I could pull
a bunch of stuff off with you.

Speaker 4 (01:30:12):
When it comes to collusion, I mean, what else, let's
see what else?

Speaker 2 (01:30:14):
Let me say, let's go fire away.

Speaker 3 (01:30:17):
Oh, Pat mahomes being defended by officials in the NFL
because Kansas City is a bigger draw than say, other
teams in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (01:30:23):
I don't think this year.

Speaker 4 (01:30:24):
I think, oh my god, oh my god, here's part
of it.

Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
It's part of it, not even a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:30:32):
You don't believe that, No, really, I believe in the
star power gets calls, but it's not because they're trying
to protect Kansas City, who, by the way, is a
bottom third NFL market in terms of television sit sure,
I will it had no national cash any fifteen years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
Sorry I didn't. Oh that's fair. What I will say
is that you protect your most profitable players, and that
is something that I think is always gonna be prevalent
regardless of where you play, because if you want to
make sure that they are at the forefront of all things,
for ratings, for television, for commercials, for all that. And
I'm not saying that Patrick Mahomes doesn't get his fair
share of calls because they also miss a ton of calls.

Speaker 4 (01:31:05):
On him that probably should be called.

Speaker 2 (01:31:06):
What I'm saying is is that when you flop going
out of bounds and it's a fifteen yard penalty and
then you get upset that that call isn't going and
putting you at the one yard line, you know that
there is at least something going on with you in
the referees.

Speaker 3 (01:31:20):
This a little bit, the fact that you have you
know what, I can't do that because if I do that,
then I'm gonna not believe anything in sports anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:31:27):
Well, okay, I believe in sports, but I also believe
that there is certainalities that are definitely that Brady got
every single call he wanted at the end of his career. Now,
was that going into it? Did you have to earn
that respect? Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (01:31:40):
But that's getting veterans getting calls isn't new. There's a
difference between veterans getting calls and veterans getting calls to
help the league and its television ratings, and it's cachet
and it's conspiracy. I don't think Michael Jordan getting a
whistle that otis Thorp did not get. I'm trying to date,
is a Steph Curry getting called that other players that

(01:32:01):
that Men Thompson doesn't get as a conspiracy towards getting
Golden State the next round the playoffs, here.

Speaker 2 (01:32:05):
Hear me out. Aziz al Shayer gets up and he
punches Roshawn Johnson in the face. Nothing happens on that play.
You're five feet out of bounds and Patrick Mahomes flops
into the actual into the into the bleachers and you
get a fifteen yard play. Who's the more profitable player
that's going to earn the paycheck?

Speaker 3 (01:32:23):
Okay, but that's star probably Again, I'll say this, I
think there's a separation between conspiracies and stars getting called.

Speaker 2 (01:32:31):
Now, I don't think that the NFL is colluding and
saying when you have a conspiracy, yes you you are
Commissioner Goodell, and you call the officials and say please
make sure Pat is taken care of.

Speaker 4 (01:32:43):
That's a conspiracy.

Speaker 11 (01:32:44):
Sure.

Speaker 3 (01:32:45):
Now, I don't think that phone call or anything close
that ever took place. Okay, I agree with you on that.

Speaker 2 (01:32:50):
What I will say is is that I don't think
in the NFL you're seeing collusion go on. What I
do think is you are doing everything promising to protect
your star players because if you want a profit at
the end of the day, and I do believe that
at the end of the time, Philadelphia is a great market.
Philadelphia also has star powers across the board, But.

Speaker 3 (01:33:10):
The NFL is market proof when it comes to that.
Look at green Bay's success. What did you worry about
NFL ratings when the Packers were playing and Pittsburgh was playing.
Those are really small markets compared to the New York's
in Chicago's in LA.

Speaker 2 (01:33:20):
Right, but they've been around for so long that their
fan base has made them better markets when it comes
to it nationally, did we we depressed when Carolina made
the Super Bowl?

Speaker 8 (01:33:28):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:33:28):
No, but they watch anyway? Well, who was the star
that year? Then they made the Super Bowl? Cam Newton?

Speaker 4 (01:33:33):
What do he did that year on the Heisman?

Speaker 11 (01:33:36):
Really?

Speaker 2 (01:33:36):
There there? You won the m v P and he
was the clear cut favorite to win the MVP And no,
it can I am talking conspiracy.

Speaker 4 (01:33:48):
This is ridiculous. I expect this ross not from you.

Speaker 2 (01:33:51):
You expect this from a c don't you.

Speaker 4 (01:33:53):
That's you mentioned Yeah, yeah, I was driveted.

Speaker 2 (01:33:55):
I was hearing you talk about how reality television started
with O. J.

Speaker 4 (01:33:58):
Simpsons, it did, and my.

Speaker 2 (01:33:59):
Ears perking up, where is Ac? That's right, all right?
And that my friends of the news at noon.

Speaker 3 (01:34:05):
By the way, for those of you wanting to know
a UT leading Florida one nothing in the game one
of the college softball series, I'm not turning it on
because I'm busy doing a major market radio show. And
I mean out of the girls try.

Speaker 2 (01:34:19):
I mean it's Texas. I'm just telling you Texas and Florida.

Speaker 3 (01:34:23):
If it was like Yukon versus Boise State, we wouldn't
be watching where you're watching.

Speaker 2 (01:34:26):
Ut We're not talking Idaho versus ukonra.

Speaker 3 (01:34:29):
Yeah, exactly. I see how your role is, all right,
I just don't get it. It's coming up at the
bottom of the ar. And for those of you new
to the show, first for where the hell have you been? Second,
then glad to have you. Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:34:38):
We spend a half hour.

Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
A week just running through things in our life that
we just don't get. And we have three generations of
people in here that can help you with that.

Speaker 14 (01:34:47):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:34:47):
If you have something you just don't get in your life,
whether it's something happening at work, whether it's something in
sports and you don't get it, you call us at
the bottom of the r and you can do that
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero alright,
twelve twenty on Sports Talk seven eighty.

Speaker 2 (01:35:02):
I was just arguing with Gordy about who's a bigger.

Speaker 3 (01:35:04):
Sec honk you or him? Yeah, and he he believes
he is the bigger Hanks. Course he is, all right,
So I told him this the other day. I Uh,
I'm a big Facebook video guy, the little small clips,
and I'm also the same thing on Twitter, even for
people that I don't fodel. So you just go through
the four you tab and you put the videos. And

(01:35:24):
Paul fine Bomb many of you know, is on SEC
Nation as his own radio show in the afternoon. He
wouldn't listen to it because again it's you.

Speaker 2 (01:35:31):
Mean, the guy who raws everything out and yeah, makes
makes a conversation.

Speaker 3 (01:35:39):
And takes shots of coaches and then doesn't realize that
they're listening and.

Speaker 2 (01:35:44):
Interview Kirby Smart. Ipe you didn't hear that. I think
your scene is going to be awful this year for.

Speaker 3 (01:35:48):
Those of the did he He talked about how bad
Kirby Smart quarter quarterback of the head coach at George's
quarterback is and he's like Kirby Smart's like, I heard
what you said?

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
Oh him and Link Kiffin still is Mussy TV just
for the awkwardness. So well.

Speaker 3 (01:36:00):
So Paul again car has carved his ntche and good
for him on that. And it's again making eighty times
what I'm making.

Speaker 2 (01:36:06):
That's fine. I'm not bitter anything. I interern out his
old radio station.

Speaker 3 (01:36:10):
So I have been sow I obsessed with all the
different SEC people he's on. He's doing the show from
Destin where the SEC spring meetings are. All the eighties
are there, the presence are there, and the head coaches
of the football and basketball teams. Every other day I'm
hearing new possibilities about what the SEC schedule is going
to look like and how it impacts the ultimately sick

(01:36:32):
future sixteen team tournament.

Speaker 2 (01:36:34):
For US just girls at sixteen, sorry right now, Cole.

Speaker 4 (01:36:40):
It's really I really enjoyed myself.

Speaker 3 (01:36:42):
I really enjoy the fact that they're not going to
give automatics just because you want to conference.

Speaker 2 (01:36:47):
Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 4 (01:36:48):
Now you can automatically get in, but you know, automatically
get seated.

Speaker 2 (01:36:51):
Well that's the that's the fair way, because how dare
we say that Boise State that lost one game last
year with the ninety six range schedule gets that first
round by Meanwhile, Texas that first year in the SEC,
I get it, it was easy, but it was the
thirty second ring schedule. You welcome in, oh Clemson. They
just won the ACC and their quarterback might be the
best returning player in college football this year.

Speaker 4 (01:37:13):
Yeah, so everybody's trying to figure it out.

Speaker 3 (01:37:16):
Now it sounds like to me that they're gonna go
to a ninth game they usually play right now, they
play eight conference games because because the ABC is gonna
ESPN's gonna pay for it. Yeah, because that's the reason.
I mean, I would, I honestly, if I'm if I'm
the SEC, if I'm ab CESPN, give me Georgia versus
I don't know, Randall Kentucky over Georgia hosting Bowlden Green, Right,

(01:37:37):
you know what I mean. But here's here's the interesting point.
So now there's rumors out there and coaches are kind
of backing this up. They want to play a twelve
game schedule percent usual, They want to play nine conference games. Sure,
they want to have two more non conference games of
your choosing, and then they want to make that twelfth
game playing somebody in the Big.

Speaker 4 (01:37:57):
Ten conference and things that way. I mentioned this to
Ross a couple of days ago.

Speaker 3 (01:38:04):
At one point, Cole, are we gonna, as the SEC
in the Big ten, gonna say deuces and create their
own football league with their own national champion And take
the thirty two teams that create those two conferences and
just say we're the best. Thirty two of our thirty two,
twenty four of them are household recognizable names.

Speaker 2 (01:38:24):
The other eight.

Speaker 3 (01:38:26):
Just take our money, take take your money, shure your money,
and good shut up and shut up and take your
bead downs, and we're gonna create this mega league in
ESPN and Fox or NBC or peacock.

Speaker 2 (01:38:37):
Or or YouTube or whomever.

Speaker 3 (01:38:40):
Netflix is going to just cut us a check, and
the rest of us, they're not in that thirty two,
are gonna be like, this is kind of cool. It's
fun playing the ACC champion for a national championship. It
feels like to me, when you start now scheduling intentionally
within another league, that's just getting one step closer to
saying let's.

Speaker 2 (01:38:56):
Go ahead and break aparty. So twenty thirty one, that's
when it will happen, you really think so. I don't
think will, but that's when it can help. I guess
twenty thirty one is when the current status of the
College Football Playoff is going to have to have a retribution.
I'm gonna have to have some addendums. At has that
happened before?

Speaker 8 (01:39:10):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:39:10):
No, it hasn't. You also have to realize that that's
the year for Florida State, Clemson, Duke, North Carolina, NC State,
Georgia Tech. They can get out of their media rights contract.

Speaker 4 (01:39:21):
By the way, they hate it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:22):
Well, did you watch how FSU is suing the ACC
while still playing an ACC schedule because they didn't back
them when they went undefemale.

Speaker 4 (01:39:30):
Wait, we forgot about Underdame too, underdam in the MIDI. Well,
here's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:39:34):
So what's gonna happen eventually is the big ten in
the SEC, which are actually doing a solid for the ACC,
and the Big twelve they're gonna say, either give us
this amount of teams and guaranteed bitch for the College
Football Playoff. We want to be represented because we bring
in the most revenue. And if you don't do that, well,
then we're going to call these certain schools from the

(01:39:54):
Big Twelve from the ACC, Clemson, North Carolina, NC State,
Duke will throw into Georgia Tech, We'll throw in Oklahoma State.
We'll throw in a TCU because they can match with
revenue purposes, throw in a Notre Dame, and then we're
gonna have a sixty eight team league and that's gonna
be the new college football playoff. We're not gonna be
relegated by the NCAAA. We're gonna have our own distributions,

(01:40:17):
We're gonna have our own revenue sharing, we're gonna have
our own deals with advertisement. And you can claim whatever
you want over here. But when the television market is
showing ninety five million people watching our national championship versus
the thirty three that are watching yours in the defunct
now ACC versus Mountain West School, congratulations. Now you know
who's actually in charge of college football?

Speaker 3 (01:40:39):
Well, I felt like for the last twenty years, the
SEC has run college because they have and they need to,
not as they need to. They they deserve it because
they bring more eyeballs, bigger crowds, more. I mean, the
ABC in Disney wrote a blank check to the SEC
and said we're gonna we won every one of your games.

Speaker 6 (01:40:59):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
They literally said, what is it going to take for
you to get off of CBS.

Speaker 2 (01:41:05):
We want every games.

Speaker 3 (01:41:06):
We'll even put your lousy as Vanderbilt versus South Carolina
game on the SEC. Now you disrespect Clarkley and shame
Beemer like that. I don't know those people are, but
that's fine. Point being is this Every single day that
I go to that for you, TAP, I hear different things.
I hear some people saying, well, you don't want to
have an automatic four you should. You should say if
we have eight teams that are good, get them in.

(01:41:27):
Then you hear about, well we should only have eight
league games because again, if you if you want up
having nine, you do take one home game out of
your mix that you could schedule, you tea Chattanooga.

Speaker 2 (01:41:36):
Sure.

Speaker 3 (01:41:38):
So it to me every single day I feel like
I'm hearing something different, And it's the question I have
is can you get a consensus leaving this meeting that
sixteen university presidents, sixteen eighties, and sixteen football coaches kind
of agree on.

Speaker 2 (01:41:53):
Yeah, there is there is one way that it all happens.
The college football playoffs, says the Big Tech. I mean,
the SEC will get automatic qualifiers and then we'll throw
in that nine conference game because number one, we're not
going to penalize ourselves and take us out of the
running to have the most representation when we bring in
the most viewership because of our strength of schedule. I mean, Matt,

(01:42:13):
I beg people when they say, well, look at what
the Big Ten is doing by winning back back national
championships with Ohio State and Michigan. Okay, well, number one,
the two biggest and most profitable programs in the Big
Ten have won national championships. Go ahead and wave the
white flag on everybody else. But the other thing is
you're watching as a Missouri versus South Carolina game is

(01:42:34):
bringing in thirty thirty three million eyeballs, and it's a
rank matchup between two top fifteen teams that have an
opportunity to punch their ticket to the college football playoff.
At the same time, you want to know what's going
on in the Big Ten. An unranked Minnesota is doing
battle against a number twenty five Illinois and it's a
thirteen to nine game going into the last two minutes. Now,

(01:42:55):
which television and which college football fan that just stay casual,
that isn't embraced into the sport the way that I
am is gonna be wanting to watch. Which game are
they gonna be turning into the one that is a
field goal battle in the middle of Champagne, Illinois or
one that's in Williams. Brice Stadium, which I call the
ultimate cathedral of chaos in college football because it's such
an underrated atmosphere with the Missouri team that takes the

(01:43:19):
lead with one twenty nine left and now you get
to watch the North Sellers go full Superman? Which one
are you gonna be buying into?

Speaker 4 (01:43:25):
And I love the last part of this real quick
is there?

Speaker 3 (01:43:28):
If they're getting the four automatics, they're gonna create a
pair of qualifiers for three and four. Three is gonna
play six, four is gonna play five. They're not trying
to side the next two teams. They're not doing it,
so the top two teams will get the top two spots,
the two teams that are playing the SEC championship game.
Then they want to create a bracket for three versus
six that gets a third spot. Four versus five gets

(01:43:50):
the four spot. Well, have you heard about the five
to eleven been, No, I'm not so.

Speaker 2 (01:43:54):
It's five teams, five automatic qualifiers, so that'd be the
five conference champions, the four Big one scroup of five
right eleven out long bids. I am salivating watching the
individual college football fan that does not know how bad
it is going to be for representation for the Big
twelve in the ACC because if you allow eleven at
large bids, nine are coming from the Big ten and

(01:44:15):
the SEC. So that's more representation. That's why they're saying.

Speaker 3 (01:44:18):
That's why I summer saying, why would you limit yourself
to the three at large with the four i'm at
A qualifiers?

Speaker 2 (01:44:23):
Brett, your remarks out here screaming, I am all for
the five eleven bid. Why so you get Arizona State
and meanwhile eleven and two Iowa State is going to
be sitting at home or playing.

Speaker 4 (01:44:34):
In the pop Tarts Bowl. That's a great bowl you.

Speaker 2 (01:44:37):
By the way, do you know what they actually have
that second pop tart that was there for a full
year because they can't buy two of them. I did
not know this.

Speaker 4 (01:44:45):
The mask got information we come from you is incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:44:48):
So the so the wild berry pop tart was the
exact same one that was saved from last year when
O Kansas State won it, so they kept it on
ice and then put it in the thing and then
that was the exact same one because he can't afford
two of them for the price that you're paying.

Speaker 3 (01:45:02):
Well, pop tart conversation you will get only on this
radio show that we call them at Thomas Show with Ross.
All right, now for the next couple of segments. We
need you as you're driving around Houston, and for that
we thank you for listening to the show. There's got
to be something in your life you just don't get, Cole.
You're gonna lose your virginity on this today, ha ha,

(01:45:24):
because I know in your young life of thirty one
years there are things you don't get.

Speaker 2 (01:45:28):
I'm here to help you.

Speaker 3 (01:45:29):
The young and over there Jonathan, as long as he
figures out, uh what button to properly hit, he will
also help you as well.

Speaker 2 (01:45:35):
I can't wait. Things you just don't get, we are
here to help you.

Speaker 3 (01:45:39):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven.

Speaker 4 (01:45:45):
Ninety What don't you get? We'll hear from you next
on seven ninety all right.

Speaker 3 (01:45:50):
Ladies and gentlemen. This is the cathartic part of our week.
Because we sometimes take shots of people, we tell them
to shut their bumb masses up. We don't we could
confuse by things. This is more their therapeutic Cole Tompson's
for a ross today. By way, Joseph Ortay is gonna
be in tomorrow to uh hang out with me for
a couple hours. Looking forward to having him in from
the Houston Chronicle. But this is where I don't get

(01:46:12):
things you youngins get involved with. There are some things
that you don't understand that I do. And we simply
ask you to call in at seven one three two
one two five seven, I give us your life story
and then say, hey, Matt, Cole Jonathan, I just don't
get it.

Speaker 2 (01:46:26):
So Cole, you're the newbie to the group today.

Speaker 3 (01:46:29):
Thank you for filling And there's got to be something
in your life you just don't get and it doesn't
and frankly, it's better when it's not sports related.

Speaker 2 (01:46:36):
What don't you get? I'm gonna sound like such a
terrible person when I say this, Oh please, that makes
us even better. This is could you put us?

Speaker 4 (01:46:44):
This is the best right here, This is this is
our this is our fast track?

Speaker 2 (01:46:47):
Go for it. What's up with Sidney Sweeney? Oh? I
get it?

Speaker 11 (01:46:51):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:46:51):
I don't get it. I'm agreeing with this one. I
don't get it. I don't get the infatuation with her
outside of two big assets that sit directly in front
of your eyeballs. That's I don't get. She's not a
good actress, she's not funny. I don't think that she
has talent. But here's what I really don't get. What
is the line between creepy and profitable? Did you see

(01:47:13):
what Doctor Squatch is doing right now? Who Doctor Squatch? Know?
Who Doctor Squatch is?

Speaker 8 (01:47:18):
So?

Speaker 2 (01:47:18):
Doctor Squatch is a soap company. It's made for like
the millennial group, like a millennial Carrera fit. Instead, let's
go get mahogany teak wood for men, and that way
they smell better. I got you. So for the low
low price of thirty nine ninety nine, you can now
buy Sidney Sweeney's Bathwater Bliss soap. What is the line

(01:47:42):
of creepy and just Okay, holy crap, why am I
doing it? That is creepy? But your original statement was
I just don't get Sidney Sweeney I don't get why
are you trying to bathe in Sidney Sweeney's bathwater? Why
are you trying to smell like the filth that comes
off of Sidney Sweeney? What is this? That's all I'm wondering.
That's interesting. That's the demographic right now.

Speaker 3 (01:48:03):
And see see that's Matt is definitely a demographic for
this one. What do you think it smells like?

Speaker 4 (01:48:08):
Do you get Okay, dumb it down? Do you get
Sidney swening?

Speaker 8 (01:48:11):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:48:13):
How can you be a warm blooded man that don't
get that doesn't get Sidney Sweeney?

Speaker 2 (01:48:17):
I enjoy more than just two assets.

Speaker 4 (01:48:22):
You don't get Taylor Maths.

Speaker 3 (01:48:23):
Dude?

Speaker 2 (01:48:23):
You do you?

Speaker 14 (01:48:24):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:48:26):
Do you get? Do you get walking Bets? Yes? I
absolutely get one. Totally get it. I totally get you
get walking Bets? Then you absolutely get Sidney Sweening.

Speaker 3 (01:48:35):
But I don't get why I want to pay thirty
nine ninety nine to know what her bathwater smells like.

Speaker 2 (01:48:41):
Also, let me ask you, Matt, what type of bathwater
am I getting? Is this after a five am run?
Is this after being on set for the last thirteen hours?
All right? You know what this get?

Speaker 3 (01:48:50):
We're we're not gonna get the bath water bit. I'm
just gonna say, to wrap it up nicely. I get
Sidney Sweeney paied in his story, fine bathwater, I don't
get Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (01:49:02):
Do you get it?

Speaker 5 (01:49:04):
No, I've seen that commercial with everything. I didn't know
they have bathwater. I think it's I think it's a bit.
I think it's not her bathwater. I don't think she's
talented or anything. I think he's just you know, another appeal.
I wonder what go ahead?

Speaker 3 (01:49:16):
Another we as warm blooded heterosexual men love bucks and
women generally speaking, and keep it classy just because she's not.
She's not trashy half naked in the doctor squad, you gotter?

Speaker 8 (01:49:30):
What what.

Speaker 11 (01:49:33):
I heard?

Speaker 2 (01:49:34):
Doctor?

Speaker 6 (01:49:34):
I heard it?

Speaker 4 (01:49:35):
Doctor Score? What do you watch some freak shows?

Speaker 2 (01:49:38):
Freak go? What are you watching there, Jonathan? When I'm
not around, doctor, I didn't do anything. I didn't bring
up squirret.

Speaker 3 (01:49:45):
Although it's a refreshing gray for a soda, it's like
mom walking in on you at fourteen.

Speaker 2 (01:49:48):
I didn't do it.

Speaker 3 (01:49:50):
All right, he doesn't get it. I will say I do,
But I don't get the bath water bit. All right, Jonathan,
what don't you get this week? You gotta come prepared.
Don't you see I can't prepared. No, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (01:50:03):
I just thought he was gonna Matt first you I
had three three. I was picking it. I was trying
to pick out a one take one, go ahead. I
just don't get And I'm gonna piggyback off this because
it really bothered me. The Stefan Diggs video. I'm watching
it more of it.

Speaker 5 (01:50:19):
I just don't get why professional athletes, I think it's
the coolest thing to record them like as it's the flex.
I don't I don't get the il all your respect,
all your clientele and all like everything.

Speaker 2 (01:50:31):
I just don't understand it. Here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:50:33):
If he does it without the ziplock bag, it's okay,
It's really okay. If he doesn't do it while the
Patriots are at OTA, sure you have a double strike
against you because you did it with the packet with
the ziplock bag, and you did it while your new
teammates who they.

Speaker 2 (01:50:52):
Just signed you. How much you making fifteen million next year?
Whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (01:50:55):
Yeah, well you're on a boat. They're at OTAs. Just
if you want to do this, put this, put this
video out three weeks from now more a month from now.

Speaker 5 (01:51:07):
OBJ did the same thing back when he was in
the Giants, and.

Speaker 2 (01:51:10):
They well, they did the boat. They did the boat
before the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:51:13):
I'm just telling you, guys, having been around the NBA
lifestyle and so the Rockets, but the NBA lifestyle, these
guys like to brag.

Speaker 2 (01:51:21):
Of course she did.

Speaker 3 (01:51:22):
And I'm gonna be brutally honest with you if you're
looking at that, and again it's it's February nineteenth, and
as long as there's no ziplock, you're bragging like Stefan
Diggs has got three bucksome broads on a boat.

Speaker 2 (01:51:36):
You know what's gonna happen, by the way, you.

Speaker 5 (01:51:37):
Know, conversation hold on, what's a conversation with Shador Sanders
though by him flexing and then Stefan Diggings doing the
same thing. But Stefan Digg hasn't done anything in a while,
even though he's a good accident and good.

Speaker 3 (01:51:47):
But Stefan Diggs also has been a long established NFL player,
four time Pro bowler, five time I mean four time
All Pro for five time pro bowler, six one thousand
yard seasons, Minneapolis Miracle, He's made mark in the NFL.
Sonora Sanders is a very nice college quarterback, but not
a Heisman winner and not a high draft pick.

Speaker 2 (01:52:08):
Just remember, if you go just slightly above five hundred,
you too, at a Big twelve school can get your
number retired. There you go, there you go. Listen. Here's
the thing though, and this is the one thing that
I also didn't know that you mentioned. You know who
was on that boat with Stefan Diggs, right, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:52:23):
Cardi B also say I did mar His girlfriend was
on the boat while he was also flirting with the
bustling bussies.

Speaker 2 (01:52:31):
So Cardi B is endorsing this. Oh did you not
see her section of the video. So there's another video.
I want you to type it in when we go
to commercial break, Cardi B. She's on the exact same boat.
It's the type of behavior that he's okay with. And
also here's the thing I will say, and I agree
with you on this, Matt.

Speaker 3 (01:52:51):
When you don't have money and then you get a
lot of money, and then you get even more money,
you're gonna flood it and you're gonna want it a
lot because if you want to show look at what
I can do.

Speaker 2 (01:53:03):
Because you never had that opportunity before. So if this
happens in April, if this happens in December and you're
out of the playoffs, if it happens in March, nobody cares.
Nobody's gonna just think about it.

Speaker 4 (01:53:15):
It's time in place. It's about it it literally.

Speaker 2 (01:53:17):
But also here's the other part seven is nothing's gonna
happen with this because if the NFL didn't see him
ingest anything, so they can go ahead and say, hey,
you weren't at a voluntary practice that you didn't have
to show up to.

Speaker 3 (01:53:31):
We don't have evidence that you actually did any of
these things. Maybe you're just passing it out. And also,
this is gonna become a headache for us that we
don't really want to deal with at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:53:42):
We have a bunch of other things that we gotta
deal with. Just just time and place next time, Steffan
like that, like that's what's gonna be. Like April first
would have been a beautiful day to do this. We'd
have been like, damn, dude, you got it. And Cardi's
there and she's okay with this. You freak You get
your freak on, Paul, what don't you get my friend I'll.

Speaker 13 (01:54:00):
Tell you what they old lady got a new car
that well new to us. Yes, why would you put
the fuel fill inlet on the passinger side of the
car because she didn't fill the car up? When I
take the car out, I'm by myself. I take the
car and I go fill it, and I got to
walk around all the way to the other side of the.

Speaker 4 (01:54:20):
Car with my fifty eight year old Ladies, I don't
need to do that.

Speaker 13 (01:54:23):
Why can't you put the fuel filled outlet on the
passenger side of the I mean on the driver's side
of the car.

Speaker 2 (01:54:30):
I don't get it. You know what.

Speaker 3 (01:54:32):
I have never produced a vehicle before, But why does
a gas tank sometimes on the left and sometimes on
the right? You know what?

Speaker 4 (01:54:38):
I stay with you, Paul, I just don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:54:40):
I don't understand how. Well, here's all I understand. Why
is it the same company? They'll switch it. So some
models were having on the left, other models were having
on the right. If you're one company, just put it
on the same side. Yeah, I agree with that one.

Speaker 3 (01:54:52):
I would have to say, typically I prefer to have
my gas tank on the left side where I'm driving.
Same plus it when you go to the way. There's
it a piss you off when you go get gas
and you're on the wrong side. When you're like I
drove my son's car yesterday, sure, and I was on
the wrong side and I dropped five more f bombs,
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:55:06):
Need to do that. Well. See, like if you go
to Costco now, they have the elongated ropes, so it
doesn't matter what side you're on, just pull on up,
pulled over the side of your car, you can still
gas up.

Speaker 3 (01:55:15):
We speaking of Costco really quick. My family is are
Costco holics. I just don't get it. I understand there's value.

Speaker 2 (01:55:22):
But you don't get Costco.

Speaker 11 (01:55:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:55:23):
Stay with me.

Speaker 3 (01:55:25):
I appreciate Costco big value, large bounce of paper towels,
big six cases of cokes and whatever you gotta get,
but they go to the prepared food section. I don't
need five pounds of a Frenitini Alfredo in my house
because only guess what, only a pat of big gets
eaten between the five of us or four of us
spending who's in the house. Yea, I throw away four pounds.

(01:55:45):
I'm not getting value, so please they're there today. As
a matter of fact, for those of you that go
to Costco, just be careful what you're buying the prepared
food section, because if you want to go buy nine
dozens semon rolls, while they're tasty, you're only probably gonna
have one or two. You know that you're gonna have
a serious shit your problem. I say to those of
you that go to your wives and your kids that
want to go to Costco to get their shopping done,

(01:56:06):
buy these large amounts of food.

Speaker 2 (01:56:08):
I just don't get it. So my rule is in
my house, and Kiosen knows this like back of hand.
If it's in the fridge, it's being eaten. I refuse
to go out. I refuse to let leftover stay. I
will eat all leftovers before I ever go. So if
I'm going to Costco and I'm buying nine pounds of chicken,
that nine pounds of chicken is gonna be eaten before
I go back to Costco. But I'm different, like I'm

(01:56:31):
somebody that doesn't like to waste things. I like what
I do with my money.

Speaker 3 (01:56:34):
We clean our we clean our cupboards out, and our
pantries and our refrigerators out, and there's so much wasted food.
So I would just say I don't get that. I
just I'm not gonna eat bad food. I'm gonna let
foods sit in there for a week and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:56:46):
But are you gonna go juice up your price and
go four hundred and fifty dollars at say Chi be
or at Costco and then the second that you get home,
go man, big City Wings. That sounds delightful.

Speaker 3 (01:56:57):
Of course I would Big Sie Rings, a proud sponsor
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Speaker 4 (01:57:04):
Nobody's in that trash.

Speaker 3 (01:57:05):
Exactly twelve forty six on Sports Talk seven ninety, Eric
and Gill, we'll get to you next, gentlemen, Yorke takes
about Sidney sweeny or not being received all by the
Twitter verse. I I would not expect either one of
you to go check him. I'm about to don't do it.
They're gonna they're gonna create some issues with your sexuality.

Speaker 2 (01:57:23):
Not that I'm judging or anything, nothing anything's wrong about that.

Speaker 3 (01:57:26):
But I just want to once again say I firmly,
and I mean firmly, get Sidney sweetie. Seven one three
two one two five, seven ninety Jill at twelve fifty
one on seven eight G I got a question for you.

Speaker 2 (01:57:39):
What don't you get?

Speaker 8 (01:57:41):
All? Right?

Speaker 12 (01:57:42):
Man?

Speaker 15 (01:57:42):
So before I get into this, I just don't get it.
I just want to say I am saying this with
all due respect. Now, I have been listening to you
guys for about eight to ten years now, so I
think I can got a good opinion on this. But
I just don't get how the show after You guys
was able to get on TV before you got Now

(01:58:05):
maybe you guys can help me understand it, but I
just don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:58:08):
I will I have an answer for you on that,
but we'll continue on. Good, go on. That's pretty much okay,
I got an answer for you.

Speaker 3 (01:58:17):
They it's an easier way for them to forward promote
their evening programming Space City Home Networks most of their
not most all of their original programming happens after six
o'clock at night, and to be brutally honest, and I
don't want to get into too much of Space City's business,
but they do do some infomercials about how it's easier

(01:58:40):
to use for you to go to the bathroom or
to work out how do I say this or investment wealth,
and so they use the mid days to put on
shows like that and make revenue, and they use the
A team as a good way to segue into their
astros and their Rockets coverage. So I will say, with

(01:59:01):
all due respect, Gell, I get it.

Speaker 11 (01:59:03):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:59:04):
Would they like ratings or were they like a very charming,
handsome ball white man doing a show with a brooding
Hispanic co host. Yes, Matt and Ross in the mid
days would work. But I will also and I really
need to peel the curtain back on this. I don't
I'm miscu the micronup there, you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:59:22):
And you produce the show, right, So I can't have
a comment comment on this one.

Speaker 4 (01:59:25):
You can actually come in us. You cannot use like
we were doing.

Speaker 3 (01:59:29):
We're playing TV theme songs, right, you can't do that
on that show because everything you get to pay.

Speaker 2 (01:59:34):
A rights fee for that kind of stuff. So Geo,
I have one hour where I get to play whatever
music I want to lead back into the show two
to three.

Speaker 4 (01:59:42):
Two to three, yep.

Speaker 2 (01:59:43):
Everything else has got to be unsolicited music that I
can just play on air because it has to match
with the television coming on back. So because you don't
have the rights, you can't have fun bits like we
have today, Like I'm loving listen to all these theme
songs coming back. Yeah, I don't get to use that,
and we don't get to play those type of games
or bit. It's because of the television market and the
TV rights don't mash with the rights that we could play.

(02:00:06):
So it's part of a problem. Like those are things
that sometimes you appreciate when you listen to the Matt
Thomas Show where the sanchalz.

Speaker 3 (02:00:12):
But I will say this, Geo, we are significantly more
handsome and I would say beyond talented over the afternoon show.
I can tell you what, and we definitely work a
lot harder. I am the best looking version of the
A team and I'm not even on the A team.
So there we go.

Speaker 15 (02:00:25):
I'll tell you what, man, I can't wait truck to
the day you guys get on stream. Man, you guys
are way more Hey, Layers and Wix and A and
AC over there.

Speaker 3 (02:00:34):
Now they're funny people too. We love them like brothers.
Thank you very much, Joe, and I appreciate. Yeah, we
can go on the stream.

Speaker 2 (02:00:39):
And do all we want.

Speaker 4 (02:00:39):
Matter of fact, I'm looking at myself like, damn, I'm
good looking today.

Speaker 6 (02:00:42):
Look at that.

Speaker 4 (02:00:42):
Geez Oh sorry I was looking at myself.

Speaker 2 (02:00:45):
I say, you're looking at yourself? Yeah, sorry about that?
All right?

Speaker 4 (02:00:48):
Eric, you have a short leash, My friend, Eric, what
don't you get?

Speaker 10 (02:00:52):
Hey?

Speaker 12 (02:00:52):
Hey, well, I'm sure Cole was prepped that. There's a
lot I don't get, But I will say this. I
had to listen to all that football jib or jabber,
and you know, I love this show because we talk
rockets and astros. But what I don't get is is
the NFL can put in all these rules to protect
their players that make the game a little less appealing,
and Major League Baseball can't put in some rules about

(02:01:14):
pitching that protect these pitchers because there is extensive research
online that shows how much this has blown up with
the Tommy John surgery, and it's become very dangerous. And
if you're a guy like Renel Blanco, your career is
possibly cooked now after having a pretty incredible story coming
into the league, because a pitching coach or a manager,

(02:01:36):
that bomb manager of ours, wants you to throw all
these pitches with all this spins. It's become a pressure situation.

Speaker 4 (02:01:45):
I don't know, Thank you, go ahead and finish up.

Speaker 14 (02:01:48):
Well, I just want to say. What I really don't
get though, is you and Ross is dislike for pitchers
over forty.

Speaker 11 (02:01:55):
I will tell you this.

Speaker 14 (02:01:56):
Every pitcher since Tom Seaver that has over three hundred
wins my research pitched into their forties. And in fact,
let me say one last little tidbit here for you.
I found over ten pitchers that pitched more than one
thousand innings after the age of forty, and then Ronel
Blanco and Hayden Westnski don't have five hundred combined innings
career and they're going to get Tommy John surgery.

Speaker 2 (02:02:19):
This is polludicrous. I don't get it. There you go,
thank you. I mean I don't. What are you supposed
to do?

Speaker 3 (02:02:27):
Your spin rates and the metrics say you got to
change things up and you have to, uh, you know
you have to. You can't throw an eighty eighty more,
you can't.

Speaker 2 (02:02:39):
You. I'm with you when it comes to the over
forty pitcher. No, I'm one hundred percent with you on
that one. Yeah, I hate them, I hate them.

Speaker 11 (02:02:46):
I do.

Speaker 3 (02:02:47):
What I also he's saying is that you have guys
that are used to pitching their forties on a regular basis.

Speaker 2 (02:02:51):
That's just not happening. It's not happening anymore. Your arm
is dead by the time you get to thirty six.
You're lucky to give yourself.

Speaker 3 (02:02:57):
You've been pitching since you were eight, and you've been
pitched in ninety two since you were sixteen.

Speaker 2 (02:03:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:03:02):
Yeah, there's nothing that baseball can do. What are you
gonna say that pitch is illegal? No, well, let me
ask you real fast for we got to break. Do
you like the pitchclock?

Speaker 2 (02:03:14):
Because I personally think that the reason why you are
seeing more injuries like this is because the pitchclock.

Speaker 3 (02:03:19):
I'm not anti pitchclock. I'm anti it's being so short.
I would add five seconds to everything. I would do
twenty seconds. I'm very cool with that one, not fifteen.
I would add five to everything with a runner on base,
and five more with even when the runners on on base.

Speaker 4 (02:03:32):
I think that would help out a little bit.

Speaker 2 (02:03:33):
I think a worst role is having the runner on
second to begin the extra innings. No, I love it,
Oh you very much. Got I don't get that. I
totally get it. I don't you know what.

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Speaker 3 (02:06:33):
Well, the things you learn about col Thompson off air,
I don't know if that's a positive thing.

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No, we you say you don't listen to show enough, John,
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Speaker 2 (02:07:14):
I did not know this.

Speaker 3 (02:07:15):
Yeah, now I understand if you are someone that spends
money with the station and get we help you spread
your message out. We're happy to talk about Big City
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Speaker 2 (02:07:25):
You which big City Wings. I'll be going there tonight.
Oh yes, I live in the Cypress area, so I'm
gonna check out the Brandy location.

Speaker 3 (02:07:31):
Well, drop drop my name and you may get a
free some retreat or something, and we Incline will probably
add to your bill.

Speaker 2 (02:07:39):
Of course they will. No, they'll they'll find a way
to meet me there. I got one for you.

Speaker 3 (02:07:42):
I'm gonna throw clanner the bus lightly here before we
get to some master's conversation. You know. So, I don't
know how he's ever talked about this, but uh, and
I'm not talking on a school friend.

Speaker 4 (02:07:50):
He only eats one hour a day. Yeah, he's talked
about it before, mentioned before.

Speaker 3 (02:07:54):
So we go to Big City Wings for that have
vented opening a couple of days back, and he eats
an order of white wings, which is like the chicken
wings wrapped in bacon with some cheese.

Speaker 2 (02:08:05):
It's delicious. I was the one to tell him, opinion,
tell tell ownership to make that an actual entra. Yeah,
so fantastic. He gets that first.

Speaker 3 (02:08:15):
Then he's he's eating these wild white wings with a
oreole smoothie. Then he gets an order of his own
wings with fries, and then he gets a brownie dessert,
and then he eats some of our fried oreoles. So
he probably had I don't know, twelve thousand calories in
one hour. How do you lose weight that way? I

(02:08:38):
I frankly, I just don't get it.

Speaker 4 (02:08:40):
Oh, I don't get it at all. I completely it's
a scam.

Speaker 2 (02:08:43):
Oh well, the intermediate fasting thing I kind of get
because if I try to do that, like I won't
eat things past nine o'clock at night, and then I
won't eat until about ten in the morning.

Speaker 4 (02:08:51):
Okay, that's okay, that's that sounds fair.

Speaker 2 (02:08:53):
So I go about thirteen hours without eating. I'm okay
with that. Like I've tried not to snack. I try
to get a protein shake in probably early before I
go work out, and that's at most what I'll put
in my body, but like once a day. And then
I went out with him for the start of the
Silver Boots series last week. Me and him and Wex
went out to the one at the Marquee Center and

(02:09:14):
in a span of what was it two and a
half hours, white wings, the the the casadia, an order
of fries, each of us having an order of chicken.

Speaker 3 (02:09:26):
Strips, fried oreos. We also had what was it, like
like a fried pickles and like two other things. Yeah,
in one city.

Speaker 2 (02:09:36):
It's a scam. It's one hundred. But he plays it
off and I appreciate this because I'm also I'm also
this way. He drinks black coffee, so it's like it
just runs through some no fruit fruit drinks Like that's
me at this point. All right, So there you have it.

Speaker 3 (02:09:48):
So, yeah, good luck to Big City Wings Cypress location
open up today. One O six Sports Talks said, one
of the Astros again winning yesterday, that held the game
is almost twenty four hours old now, Yeah, seven ten
to night for the Astros against the Rays and uh
an Astro victory and a Seattle loss because the Mariners
are an action tonight and the Astros will wake up
right now. They are tied when the wind column. The

(02:10:10):
Astros have one more loss than the Mariners do. But
it's amazing to me, and I feel like we do
this as sports fans. We have our favorite teams, whether
it's football, basketball, or baseball. We have problems with this, this, this, this, this,
this and this, and then we sit there and look

(02:10:30):
at our standings and go well with all that. They're
still virtually in a time for first place. Half game out,
they're in the wall. Kind of grand we stuck. We're
only in the third the way through the season, but
it could be so much worse.

Speaker 11 (02:10:44):
Now.

Speaker 4 (02:10:44):
Granted, if you're in the National League, we're filling the doldrums.

Speaker 3 (02:10:47):
But because we're in the subpar American League, it's Detroit, really,
the Yankees and everybody else is a distant third.

Speaker 2 (02:10:53):
Why not?

Speaker 6 (02:10:53):
Why not?

Speaker 3 (02:10:54):
Think you got a chance to be competitive until October.
Well it's a standard and like I can appreciate this
from like an Alabama. So every year that you lose
one random game and they go eleven to one, the
sky is falling.

Speaker 2 (02:11:07):
The world is coming to an end. Nick Saban needs
to be fired or thrown out of college football because
of the game's passed and by. Because if you lose
to an unranked Texas A and M squad, or you
lose to a Vanderbilt squad, or you lose to a
Kentucky But yet end of the year you're in the
college football playoff. You have an opportunity to win yet

(02:11:27):
another national title. All these players are going to go
in the first round. You still have a top five
recruiting class, You're still one of the best when it
comes to transfer, portal acquisitions and retaining talent. But we
set our brains that way. We're so fixated on the
Astros are the pinnacle of the American League. The Astros
have been a staple for the last ten years as

(02:11:50):
a dynasty of sorts and more so one of the
few constants that you can expect to make the playoffs.
So when the offense is underwhelming, and you're seeing one
bad performance from a farmer Valnis, and you're getting bad
from versus good Fromber and you're not getting vintage Lance
mc collors out there. We complain because of our brains
have been so directly devolved into saying we should be

(02:12:14):
ten games over five hundred.

Speaker 3 (02:12:16):
Cause it is funny because just two weeks ago I
brought up on the show, I said, I don't know,
and there's a there's no term you can describe it
as there's a way to measure it. I felt like
our audiences, not on just my show, but at the
shows in the station, weren't filling the astros. No, the
crowds have been down a little bit. I think just
generally callers to our show. Now that the callers are

(02:12:38):
a huge metric, but they are certainly a metric they
care about the Yeah, I was gonna say, the colors
were very depressed. Every time it was less of them,
it was sky is falling. I do postgame shows occasionally,
I work Tomorrow night as well, and it just feels
like that there have been less of.

Speaker 2 (02:12:54):
Them this year.

Speaker 3 (02:12:56):
And then come full circle two weeks call here we
are today and I'm thinking, my god, you got Lance
mccullor's giving you twelve strikeouts and six innings. The Astro
offense is not largely all the way back, but they're
getting closer. Christian Walker, before he got dinged yesterday, was
having a nice series. Jose L Twoby until yesterday's ozer
for he was having an amazing home stand. He still
have a good one. And you are getting hopefully at

(02:13:19):
some point, you'red On Alvarez back soon.

Speaker 8 (02:13:21):
Now.

Speaker 3 (02:13:21):
Granted this is all coming with some bad news of
the pitching staff, there's still enough things that we should
be going. Hey, at least we're not in Colorado. At
least were not the Reds. I got a better one
for you. At least we're not Atlanta like Atlanta Baltimore
for that matter, like Atlanta did have Spencer Strider and
Ronald Acuna Junior.

Speaker 2 (02:13:40):
To begin the year. They were off to a disastrous start,
like the worst in franchise history, right, and they feel
like that they finally are putting themselves in a good
position to start attacking Matt They're nine and a half
games back in the in the NL East, they're two
games below five hundred, and they're middle of the pack
in the wild card right now.

Speaker 4 (02:13:59):
But go look at Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (02:14:00):
Go look at.

Speaker 3 (02:14:02):
Baltimore. Is even a ma harsher example because you have
been in the playoffs two straight years. Yes, you went
to the Astros plan of building your franchise. Because Michael
Lias was an assistant general manager under Jeff lunou here
now he's running his own shop. You have this all
this preseason publicity of this vaunted lineup, good pitching staff,
two playoff appearances, two tough losses. Now we're growing up,

(02:14:24):
we're maturing. They don't make a couple of free agent signings,
so they don't spend a lot of money the off season,
they fire their manager and there's sixteen games under five hundred. Folks,
there's going to be a downturn with the Astros. And
there was a downturn with the Reds in the Big
Red Machine. There was a big downturn with that line
of Braves. There's a downturn of the Yankees. Every team
goes down, goes through this quote unquote downturn. But look

(02:14:47):
where we are. No Tucker, no Bregman, three of your
fifths of your starting rotation is hurt.

Speaker 2 (02:14:54):
You don't even really have a super strong.

Speaker 3 (02:14:57):
Rotation because it can't go deep into games except for
maybe and maybe Lances in the mix now.

Speaker 2 (02:15:01):
But except Hunter Brown and.

Speaker 3 (02:15:03):
Fromer Valdez, most of your lineup is well below seven
fifty ops and you are five games of five hundred.
You are a half game out of first place. You
are in you are one of the three wallid card spots.
My feeling is today compared to two weeks ago, instead
of just being kind of blase, tour to be like, man,

(02:15:24):
if the Astros do anything like just get healthy, yeah,
or make a trade.

Speaker 4 (02:15:29):
Imagine how much fun we're going to have the last
two months of the year.

Speaker 2 (02:15:32):
Well, the way that I said it was, I went
into this season believing the Astros were a playoff team
that could win a series. Nothing more, nothing less. That's
how I felt. Even after the loss to Tampa last week,
I felt the exact same way. Injuries are part of
the game. You have to learn to roll with the punches.
The offense right now is inconsistent. You have Christian Walker
looking like Jose of bray you at the plate, but

(02:15:52):
he's great defensively, he'll put that stink on him on
that I am the president of the Christian Walker fan Club.
I've been clamoring for him to come to Houston for years.
You deal with the president of the Jake Myers fan
Club sometimes just gotta let this grow and fester and
eventually it we'll get there. But Josel Twovea is thirty
five years old and you're seeing in the back and
you're seeing to come decrease. You don't have your on Alvarez.

(02:16:13):
And even when you had yourd on Alvarez, he wasn't
doing anything at the plate. You have young players that
are learning new positions. Cam Smith last year at this
time was in a regional trying to make it to Omaha.
Now he's playing in right field for the first time
in his career. Defensive metrics are amazing better than his
offensive metrics right now when you think about it, so
all these things to say, it can always be worse.

(02:16:36):
Like I, I just don't get it. I just don't
get how people can be looking at this Astros team
sitting five games about five hundred, knowing that there are
still things that need to be corrected injuries. You can
make a trade, You can look at your entire farm
system and say guys not gonna fit long term. Guys
not gonna fit long term. Let's go get a Yusee
Kakuci two point zero to better better our rotation and

(02:16:58):
put ourselves in a position to win the division once again.
You can look at this team and say, yeah, under underwhelming,
gotta fire Joe Spot, I got a clean house. I
don't get it.

Speaker 3 (02:17:08):
Yeah, well that but that's that's the low hanging fruit
for any fan base. That's not just Houston, that's not
not just ass defense.

Speaker 2 (02:17:14):
It's it's easier.

Speaker 3 (02:17:16):
I mean, there are people that were on u Meyadoka
earlier this year. I mean, I can guarantee you if
the game one against Charlotte back way back in October,
you lose the first game after you're supposed to be
an improved basketball team. Oh, he May, This is not
gonna be fun. It's gonna be He didn't have the
Boston Celtics. He's got it's name one up on fifty
two basketball games. Yeah, but god forbid you say anything
negative about the Texans. Oh, you just don't know what

(02:17:37):
you're talking about. Like that's how it feels right now.
But yet he May was able to take a team
to the number two seed. The Astros are still in
the running for a waldcard spot, and knowing baseball, how
crazy he can get when it gets October, they may
end up going on an epic run to the World
Series and get one more championship out of this. The
Texans have a quarterback that right now is probably top

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ten on a very team friendly deal, and they can't
get an offensive line to save his life. But god
forbid you say anything negative about them. You have no
idea what to talk about, all right, So we will
get to a little bit of Texans conversation next, we'll
get more on the Astros. Brian McTaggart, I was a
guest earlier today. If you missed that visit, we'll have
some of that for you coming up at the bottom
of the hour one fourteen. This is the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross out today Cole Thompson in for another segment.

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I know there's a lot of hate for the city.
I know it's because they're arrogant, elitist, but this is
one of my five favorite TV shows of all time.
Of all time of all time, Curby Enthusiasm. Okay, I'm

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gonna ask you a second.

Speaker 4 (02:19:17):
One of my five favorite shows of all time.

Speaker 3 (02:19:22):
Curbs number one, Dallas gotta be I'm trying to think
what else It runs out hot and cold on me there.

Speaker 4 (02:19:28):
Favorite you breaking that guy?

Speaker 2 (02:19:32):
Nope?

Speaker 3 (02:19:33):
Okay, I'm trying to think of the comedies I've watched. Oh,
let me get back to you a note of three.

Speaker 2 (02:19:39):
All right, do you this is the way that I've
always viewed it. I personally think Larry David's beast work
is criby enthusiasm, no question.

Speaker 6 (02:19:47):
I cannot.

Speaker 2 (02:19:48):
I grew up in a house where Seinfeld was never played.
But then I got to college and my roommates I
wasn't Seinfeld ever played. My parents just didn't like Seinfeld. Okay.

Speaker 4 (02:19:56):
I like Seinfeld, didn't love it, but liked it though.

Speaker 2 (02:19:58):
But all my roommates in college they have signed up
playing in the background non stop. I never got the
humor when Curb came on three hours later, we're still
watching it like that was me? Fully Yes, and Oh.

Speaker 3 (02:20:09):
Buio with Sanford and Sons one of my mouth time favorites. Okay,
that's not a bad one.

Speaker 2 (02:20:12):
The Fred g.

Speaker 3 (02:20:13):
Sanford versus aunt Esther stuff back and forth fighting was
unbelievably funny. I can get caught up into YouTube clips
rabbit hole on those in that sture, but I'll give
you a list.

Speaker 4 (02:20:24):
But yeah, curb to Me number one Dallas theme song.

Speaker 3 (02:20:27):
M so damn good. We got a couple more to
get to before the close of the show. This is
your last segment here, so let's say let's get a
little Texans in here real quick. Uh So, Casario doesn't
feel that the offensive line should be not necessarily a
talking point. That'd be foolish if anybody discussed that, but
a point of concern. Two years ago, we thought the

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line would be horrendous and it turned to be pedestrian average. Okay,
CEJ was great. Last year, we didn't bring up the
offensive line a whole lot, and it wanted to wind
up being a hot mess. What is your We do
got feelings on Tuesdays when you look at the story.
If you were right down every week after the Monday
after every Texans game, how much do you think the

(02:21:12):
conversation is going to be about the offensive line? Are
we talking too much about it, not enough? Or just
about right? Because we know what the adventure result is
going to be. You got a bunch of high priced,
not high priced, middle priced veterans that have been good elsewhere,
but maybe a long in the tooth or not as
good as how the Texans want to sell it to
us with alignment with rookies that are.

Speaker 2 (02:21:35):
Trying to be learning or do you see the line
this year in your mind? I personally think it's like
massed potatoes. You're okay with it as a side dish.
It's not the worst thing out there. Is that the
best thing out there? You'll live.

Speaker 4 (02:21:45):
I think that's the case. CJ stays upright.

Speaker 3 (02:21:47):
Yeah, because most teams in the NFL, if you describe
them as a mashed potato offensive line, there's way more
mashed potatoes out there than there are ogrotten with heavy cheese.

Speaker 2 (02:21:57):
Sure, and there's a lot. And I can tell you what,
there's a lot worse size have out there besides matchetato's
that jays are fine. You can survive with it. It
could be on your plate and you'll you'll make it
through a meal. That's what the offensive line has to
be this year. Here's my question, though, what happens if
you feel that the players that you've invested in Blake

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Fisher and Tay Orsi in the top two. They aren't
ready and they are not going to prove to you
that they are ready. Because if now you have a
bunch of middle price I mean middle of the road
type of offensive linemen, not high road, that are also
middle of the road players that are all here on
one year contracts. Lake and Tomlinson's here for one year.
That's what you have to figure out if he is

(02:22:39):
going to be a part of your long term play,
and if he is, he's gonna cost you more. Cam
Robinson's here for one year, because if you went and
you drafted Tay Orsary and you trade up ten spots
to Lante Orsary to hopefully be your laryerming Tons to replacement.
So if Tay's not ready, what's gonna be the new
asking price for Cam Robinson if he.

Speaker 4 (02:22:57):
Does exceed the expectations.

Speaker 2 (02:22:59):
So the thing I worry about with this offensive line
more than anything else, man, is just I'm looking at
it from a perspective. You have a lot of young guys,
guys that you've either traded up for or that you've
traded for, and that you've brought in to be hopefully
a foundation underneath Amiica Ryans what they're still not developing.
And yet you internally as a scouting staff, are not

(02:23:23):
making the changes on who is watching these linemen and
telling you to draft them because of now we're going
into a second or third year with a Jared Patterson
and a Juice Grugs and a Blake Fisher and they're
just not getting it done. Yet you're not willing to
make the changes to your scouting department that's going to
better your opportunity to build around CJ Stroud because now

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CJ's going to cost money.

Speaker 4 (02:23:46):
Do you think it's a question of the scouts.

Speaker 3 (02:23:48):
I mean, don't you believe they all borrow the same
intelligence to an extent?

Speaker 2 (02:23:54):
But like, Okay, Nick Caseario, round three, I trust whoever
he draft is going to hit. I just do because
it's happened every single year, Kaylin Bilock. Last year, Nico
Collins was a third round pick. Christian Harri has had
his moments as a third round pick. Tank Dell looked
awesome as a rookie as a third round pick. So
it's like any single time that the third round pick

(02:24:14):
has made Oh, Nick Casiio knows what he's doing wide
receivers even for that matter, I think for the most part,
knows what he's doing because if you look at Nico
Collins and for the most part, even in the limited role,
Xavier Hutchinson, I think that I think Jalen Noel, which
by the way, I think Noah's a better player than Higgins,
But conversation for another day him and Higgins had come in.

(02:24:34):
I think he's gonna hit on those things. But when
you constantly are going back to why is the offensive
line still looking like a turn style? Why would I
rather have five Traffick Cones out there block for CJ.
Stroud than throw Kenyan Green out there? When those are
the conversations that you're having and you're not able to
develop the talent, then what are you looking at to
where players like Tyler Linderbaum who was still on the board,

(02:24:56):
or is Ion Johnson who was still on the board.
Why are they finding success in las An It was
in Baltimore and we're not finding the same success here.
When nobody that I spoke to had a first round
grade on Kenyon Green, nobody I've spoken to had a
second round grade or a day two grade. On Juwice Scruggs.

Speaker 3 (02:25:11):
Yet you're going out of your way to spend money
on them. So somebody has the ear of Casario that
he obviously trust.

Speaker 2 (02:25:19):
I think, or at least there's somebody in the building
who says this player is special because of X, Y
and Z, and sometimes that's not the case. I mean
when you look at.

Speaker 4 (02:25:30):
The Texan because here's the reality.

Speaker 3 (02:25:32):
I the honest, average Houston Texan fan doesn't care who
plays at what spot, whether you're moving people around, and
we and we as sports radio hosts have to understand
the minutia of football. It's the quarterback, it's the receiver,
it's the running back, it's the pass rush. Offensive line
is really described to and discussed as a whole. Either

(02:25:55):
CJ is upright or is running for his life or
getting sacked. I don't don't care if Titus Howard plays
left guard. I don't care if if Jared Patterson is
the center or not. I don't care where Cam Robinson plays.
It's just keep my quarterback up right, sure, and that's
the end game for us. I think the minutia of
getting into who plays what, generally speaking, at least from

(02:26:16):
my point of view, me, being a football novice, I
just want cj upright my and that's the number one
thing that Cassario will be judged on, not whether or
not a player was drafted too high or wasn't it
supposed to be a second day pick when it was
a third day pick. Whatever, we got to keep the quarterback.
This franchise s type player has got to stay healthy.

(02:26:37):
My personal belief, and it's always been this way.

Speaker 2 (02:26:40):
If you do not have an offensive line, you do
not have a shower winning a Super Bowl, just case
in point. And I truly believe the teams that are
built internally based off their offensive lines are the ones
that are the most successful. Philadelphia look at their roster,
Jordan Malata picked up as a free agent former rugby
player Lane Johnson, first round pick, Cam Jorgan's draft pick,

(02:27:01):
Landon Dickerson draft pick. Eighty percent of their offensive line
that helped Ta Kwan Barkley and Jalen Hurts win a
Super Bowl last year was homegrown. The reason why I
was so high on watching the Saints and I think
that the Saints will be better than advertise is because
of a lot of their players are homegrown on the
offensive line and Kellen Moore has worked with multiple offense flights.

(02:27:23):
Way to Kellen Moore start before he went to Philadelphia,
Dallas and when Dallas had mediocre Dak Prescott in some
ways going fourteen and two and twenty sixteen with all
that great offensive linee All Pro left tackle, all Pro
right tackle, Pro Bowl guard, all Pro center, you have
to have the offensive line. So I'm pushing back a
little bit with you on this one, Matt Okay, I

(02:27:44):
think that the offensive line is the most critical part
for your success. You can win with slightly above average
quarterback play, as long as you have an elite offensive line.
You better have an elite quarterback if you have a balloon.
And the problem is we gotta roll on.

Speaker 3 (02:27:56):
This is that I don't think anyone is subscribing what
is put together for two thousand twenty five is elite.
And that's what should scare Texans fans. You need to
get ready for your next show. Thank you so much
for coming in. We're gonna bother you again. You know this, right,
I hope, So you passed the test. Simmy Sweeney one
back on the Astros conversation with Brian McTaggart.

Speaker 4 (02:28:16):
Next, this is sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (02:28:30):
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Speaker 2 (02:28:30):
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This was a TV show in the late seventies early eighties,
johnath Than. It was based off of a radio station
in town, WKRP. Is it a wacky general manager, a
couple of DJs, newsman, pretty funny show.

Speaker 2 (02:28:58):
Don't make nothing now they don't think that's actually really
that sounds really I would watch that. That's going radio bit.

Speaker 3 (02:29:04):
You need to go YouTube clip WKRP, Thanksgiving Turkey drop.

Speaker 2 (02:29:11):
Doing that for the show.

Speaker 3 (02:29:12):
Gonna focus on shore right now, right now, I want
to hear here a few minutes of our conversation we
had with Brian McTaggart earlier today here on the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross. We talked to tags about how
things are going so well for the local nine. The
Bats are starting to improve and with this latest run
of winning games three or four against the Mariners, two
straight against the A's, they find themselves today just a

(02:29:33):
half game out of first place in the AL West.

Speaker 2 (02:29:36):
Yeah, well, I think you hit it. I mean it's offense.

Speaker 1 (02:29:38):
They had what five games in a row where they
had at least eleven hits, which they hadn't done in
about six years. You know, the series over the weekend
that we're getting a lot of singles. You know, they
finally started driving the ball a little bit here the
last couple of games. But yeah, they're just they're just
score more, getting more guys on base, hitting better with
runners in scoring position. I mean, starting pitch has been

(02:29:59):
good enough. You know, Hunter Brown was really good. You know,
Lance giving me six. The big question, Marcus, what are
you going to get now from the two rookies that
are in your rotation now? Probably for at least I
don't know, probably for until you get Eric Getty back
in Gusto and Gordon. But yeah, I mean we've said
all along in the one area where they they got

(02:30:20):
to pick it up his offense, and they've done that.
It's really in the month of May. I mean they
entered the month of May I think twenty in the
twenty like twenty first maybe in batting average, not the
batting averages everything, and I think they lead the majors
in batting average in the month of May.

Speaker 2 (02:30:35):
So they've really turned it around here from you know,
top to bottom.

Speaker 3 (02:30:38):
I know, that Jose had a goose yesterday, but he
has had a really really good homestand overall, what does
he think he attributes that to.

Speaker 1 (02:30:48):
Yeah, it's you know, starting to drive the ball more
trying to hit the ball and the more. I mean
he was his ground ball percentage rate at least about
a week ago was probably the highest of his career.
He was over fifty percent of balls off his bat
room and play with ground balls, which.

Speaker 2 (02:31:03):
Is not not ideal. So he's really started to drive
the ball here in the last week.

Speaker 1 (02:31:09):
You know, he's worked a lot with with Alex Sinchronie
saying he started to come in early and just really
putting the work at the cage to uh you know
what he said was told us it's just he tries
to focus on one pitch instead of trying to, you know,
cover the whole cover the whole batter's box or the
whole strike zone, and you know, it leads him to

(02:31:31):
chase a little bit. He's sort of owned honed in
on one pitch and that's helped him, you know, make
better contact and turn it around a little bit.

Speaker 3 (02:31:39):
You know, his numbers really this year overall have been
significantly down from years past, and it's hard for us
because you've been with him every bit of his major
league baseball career. You know, I've been here as well,
but you see him a lot more in face to
face than I do. There's a part of me that's
that would be sad if we started to see the
dramatic drop off, because he has been, in my mind,
the greatest aster of them all.

Speaker 2 (02:32:00):
Because I do include the postseason as part of it.

Speaker 3 (02:32:02):
But it is kind of nice to see him get
his mojo back a little bit, because I think there
were some legitimate concerned about what was left in Jose's tank.

Speaker 1 (02:32:11):
Yeah, but I always thought, in the back of my mind,
I've seen him do this before where he has these
streaks where he i mean for two or three weeks
and just you know, he swings at everything, swings out
of his shoes, out of his own and you're like,
good grief. And then you know, boy, when he gets hot,
you know, he'll have four games where he's you know,
eleven for fifteen or something like that, and then you
look up and his numbers are about what you expect.

Speaker 2 (02:32:34):
And I'm never gonna count this guy out.

Speaker 1 (02:32:37):
I mean, you know, like you said, I mean, I've
covered him his his entire career, from you know, day
one when he got called up, and you know, you know,
everyone knows what he went through and all the naysayers,
people who told him he couldn't play, and look what
he's done in his career.

Speaker 11 (02:32:52):
Saw.

Speaker 1 (02:32:53):
I think at the end of the year, Hoseel TV
is gonna end up having some some pretty solid numbers.
He's he's never going to be twenty seventeen Jose two
of anymore, but he's he's thirty five and he can
still be make some good contributions to this offense.

Speaker 3 (02:33:05):
Last thing about him, how often do you ask him
or is it even discussed about three thousand hits? Because
we have lost in baseball because guys take time off
and the three hundred win numbers, it seems like it's
never gonna happen for pitchers. Does Does he venture into
that conversation very much with you or for anybody that
covers the team.

Speaker 2 (02:33:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:33:25):
I actually talked to him about it a couple of
times a year, just when I mean his locker, are
just talking and he you know, he knows us out there,
and you know he certainly wants it. You know, one
thing he said to me, I think it was earlier.
This year is how much did the pandemic shortened season
cost him? And then the season where he I guess
it was twenty twenty, twenty two, twenty three where he

(02:33:46):
broke his stumb in the World Baseball Classic. It cost him,
you know, fifty games, so that those two things combined
cost him about a season's worth of games, which to
him is you know, one hundred, fifty hundred and sixty hits.
So he would be a lot closer if those things
hadn't happened. But he shouldn't get his twenty four hundred
hit this year. It put him six hundred out, which
you know he could get and in four or five years,

(02:34:07):
I mean, you're still gonna have to do one hundred
and fifty hundred and sixty hits a year. But he
knows it's going to be tough. But I think he
knows he's got a real shot a shot at it
if he can stay healthy.

Speaker 3 (02:34:18):
Ryan mctagger with us here Sports Talk seven hunty for
his weekly visit tag, how is Christian Walker's hand today
or how did it feel or how did he feel
about it after the game last night?

Speaker 1 (02:34:30):
Yeah, we talked him after the game last night and
he said it was really sorry. He said he couldn't
grip the bat. X rays were negative, but he said,
I'm good to go, So you know, we'll have to
see when we get to the.

Speaker 2 (02:34:40):
Park later today how he feels it.

Speaker 1 (02:34:42):
He said, it's just going to be a matter of
handling the inflammation, which immediately I was like, uh oh,
because we know Jordan Alvarez has had inflammation for like
three weeks now. So but if you remember, in the
College World Series a few years ago, Walker got hit
by a pitch in the hand I believe broke his
hammet bone and played the next day. So I fully
expect Christian Walker to be in the lineup today.

Speaker 10 (02:35:05):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:35:06):
Injuries have been obviously a huge part of this year,
with the ailments to pitching staff, in particular Renel Blanco's
announcement yesterday that he's gonna have the Tommy John Is
anybody doing and we you have kind of briefly talked
about this. Are the Astras catching this at a bad time?
Obviously there's no good time for it. Are we finding

(02:35:27):
TJ's hitting every team it feels like, or is this
the Astros in a situation where they've got two guys
right now already going through it, and then get another
guy in Arrageta who's out with that injured thumb.

Speaker 2 (02:35:39):
No, it's a it's a league wide issue.

Speaker 1 (02:35:40):
And I think last week I was on here, I
talked to you about the uh you know, the study
of MLB did last that came out last December, and basically,
I mean, guys are chasing spin and chasing velocity more
and at earlier ages it's just taking tos on on
the elbows.

Speaker 2 (02:35:54):
I mean, the Astros aren't unique in this.

Speaker 1 (02:35:57):
You know, haven't gone around and looked at everyone's eye
l to see how many tuys, but I'm sure each
team probably has a few. The Astros right now have
six starters on the IL, four coming off or including
Blanco who hasn't had surgery yet, four that have had
TJ surgery, So you know, Garcia and Javier, you know
they're they're quite a bit removed from it, but not

(02:36:18):
back yet. So the Astros maybe a couple more guys
than most teams, but I don't think they're unique to
too much.

Speaker 2 (02:36:26):
Of an outliger.

Speaker 1 (02:36:27):
The Astros have also played way more games than most teams.
In the last decade, and guys like Javier and Garcia
have pitched deep into the postseason for a couple of
years in a row, and.

Speaker 2 (02:36:37):
I think that's got to be a factor as well.

Speaker 3 (02:36:40):
I know the Astros aren't overly forthcoming with injury updates,
but it sounded like there was some news with Luis Garcia.
What do we know and what do we do interpret
off of what has been said the last to twenty
four hours or so.

Speaker 1 (02:36:53):
Well, he's you know, he's out there at the park
every day and he's throwing some bullpens out of Dana
Brown said on your station that he thought he'd be
back in late late July, early August. So he's still
got a couple of months ago. I mean, you know,
he's he's done this a couple of times now. He's
he's two years removed almost from from Tommy John surgery,
so he's had a couple of setbacks. So he's gonna

(02:37:16):
have to ramp up again and do the whole process
of uh uh, you know, taking some live VP and
then you know, getting in some minor league games and
he's you know, he's gonna need the full gamut. Four
or five starts so that whole process is going to
take him a while. But he's done this a couple
of times, and he's had a couple of setbacks. So
until I see him pitching, you know, in a minor league,
minor league game, on a minor league rehabit, I don't

(02:37:38):
think we can, you know, get too excited about Garcia returning.

Speaker 3 (02:37:41):
All right, That again is Brian McTaggart earlier today here
on Sports Talk seven on All Things about Shake. Gilgis Alexander.
He is the Western Conference Finals MVP, along with the
MVP of the regular season. We'll discuss him next to
play Believe It or Not at seven one three two
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Speaker 2 (02:38:03):
All right, So, which are the songs that you like
the best today that we play?

Speaker 3 (02:38:06):
We we We opened the show with Moving On Up
because the Astros were moving on up the American League
West now just a half game out of first place
with the Jeffersons, And I said, there's a great collection
of TV shows that have great theme songs to them.
For me, it's Jefferson's number one. I'm gonna go with
Jefferson's number one.

Speaker 2 (02:38:24):
Mm hmm. And then I'm gonna go wait.

Speaker 4 (02:38:28):
To hear all right, look at you rattling pages back there.

Speaker 5 (02:38:31):
The love bows second, oh yeah, I love talking about
And then for number three is.

Speaker 2 (02:38:35):
The w k RP. I didn't my favorite to three.

Speaker 3 (02:38:38):
All right, we won't do this every time, but once
in a while, well, we will put some theme songs
out there for you. There's still about fifty more that
I want to play for you, like Sopranos, great one,
the Greatest American Hero which is Believe it or Not,
which is kind of what we based the game off of.

Speaker 4 (02:38:55):
That's what we get there too. So we got some yeah, yep.
So that is all on the Jenna.

Speaker 3 (02:39:00):
Tomorrow on the radio program, we will have a Jonathan,
not Jonathan, Joseph Dwarte will be with us. He is
the longtime Houston Chronicle writer. He's covered just about every
team in the marketplace. He's been on the U of
H beaton does a brilliant job on that. We'll talk
to him about a little bit of U H stuff,
a little bit about college athletics, and he's also well
versed in all the local stuff as well. So we'll

(02:39:20):
look forward to having Joseph Dowarte hang out with us
for a couple hours tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (02:39:24):
Plus we've got non flora stories.

Speaker 3 (02:39:26):
Jonathan, I'm going to tell you in advance my non
flora story tomorrow is very uncomfortable. It's already ready. It's
about flatulence. And that's all I'm going to say. I've
got issues, Jonathan, I fully admit that. Five minutes up

(02:39:46):
to go on the show, what should we do? We
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Speaker 5 (02:40:23):
Of course Sports Talks seven ninety t shirt and a
pair of tickets to see Nelly and Jall Rule with
special guests Eve and Jermaine Duprix live on the Where
the party at tour September fourth at the Wodlands Pavilion?

Speaker 2 (02:40:33):
Hey, Bill, where's the party at.

Speaker 10 (02:40:36):
Man Mlka at the Trio Burger O'Kon b.

Speaker 2 (02:40:40):
I don't think I want to go to that one
and read well of this? Help.

Speaker 4 (02:40:46):
I don't understand the word you said.

Speaker 3 (02:40:47):
Here we go. Sga Bill was born and raised in Brooklyn,
New York, and spent one season playing college basketball at
Ohio State.

Speaker 2 (02:40:54):
Believe it or not? At Ohiouse, who'll believe it? No,
he's from Canada. He went to Kentucky. Was that? What
did you say? Oh? Okay, come on, you didn't tell
my Sga being Canadian all the way through?

Speaker 4 (02:41:12):
What's the matter with y'all? I'm glad you lost.

Speaker 2 (02:41:15):
Robert on Sevenattie Robber, are you ready to play? Believe
it or not? Believe it?

Speaker 3 (02:41:20):
Everybody thinks he's related to Nikhil Alexander Walker of the Timberwolves.

Speaker 4 (02:41:24):
They are not related. Believe it or not.

Speaker 3 (02:41:28):
Believe it. No, their cousins. Sorry, this concerns reach out
of the very much so Randy in the Woodlands. Randy,
what was your favorite part of today's ten to two
radio show.

Speaker 10 (02:41:45):
All Day Long.

Speaker 3 (02:41:46):
Sga spent his first season with the Clippers before being
traded to Oklahoma City as part of the Paul George trade.
Believe it or not? That is a believer it statement
number two for the win. Sga was afraid to fly
and college while at Kentucky and would often have traveled
to SEC road games via private car.

Speaker 2 (02:42:05):
Believe it or not? Believe it, No, he loves to fly.
I made that one up.

Speaker 4 (02:42:11):
Sorry, I'm pretty proud of myself.

Speaker 12 (02:42:15):
John.

Speaker 4 (02:42:16):
Then I gotta say though.

Speaker 2 (02:42:20):
Michael on seven Nintie, Michael, you're ready to play Believe
it or not? Believe it Michael.

Speaker 3 (02:42:26):
Sga averaged eleven point four free throw attempts this past
season for the Thunder Believe it or not?

Speaker 2 (02:42:33):
Believe it?

Speaker 4 (02:42:34):
No, it's only eight point eight. Sorry, I'm gonna have that.

Speaker 2 (02:42:36):
Number right in front of you today that I'm on fire.

Speaker 3 (02:42:41):
Brian on seven Nintie, Brian, your favorite part of today's
ten to two radio show.

Speaker 2 (02:42:47):
Like the Roth having a substitute in for what?

Speaker 4 (02:42:51):
Don't tell him that though, I won't say a word
between me and you.

Speaker 3 (02:42:54):
SGA's IG account is at Shay and he has four
point three million followers.

Speaker 2 (02:42:59):
Believe it or not? Believe it?

Speaker 3 (02:43:02):
That is correct statement number two for the win. After
winning the MVP Award last week, SGA bought all of
his teammates Rolex watches Believe it or not?

Speaker 2 (02:43:14):
Believe it? Yes, congratulation.

Speaker 4 (02:43:18):
Where's the roless cost these days?

Speaker 2 (02:43:20):
I have no idea. There's no way.

Speaker 4 (02:43:25):
Okay, I got you.

Speaker 3 (02:43:26):
Let's go to uh Scott on seven ninety Scott, you're
ready to play Believe it or not?

Speaker 2 (02:43:33):
Only got one question? Good luck to you.

Speaker 3 (02:43:35):
One of SGA's favorite pregame rituals is eating a Macintosh
apple Believe it or not? Uh he is Canadian but not.

Speaker 15 (02:43:46):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (02:43:46):
He loves his apple and doesn't care if it's red
or white or no red or green. I was just
saying I never had a white apple before. All right,
I'm pretty proud of myself. I haven't done a believe
it or not in quite some time, as they usually do,
or live or day. That doesn't take any creativity whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (02:44:04):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (02:44:04):
I appreciate that, all right.

Speaker 3 (02:44:06):
So again, Joseph Dwarte Tomorrow eleven o'clock until one will
have non Florida stories.

Speaker 2 (02:44:10):
Oh we have to do.

Speaker 4 (02:44:10):
I'm sorries too,