Astros Bullpen Falls Apart in 13-3 Lost vs Tampa Bay, CJ Stroud Is Still Not Throwing In OTAs? Joseph Duarte Joins The Show

Astros Bullpen Falls Apart in 13-3 Lost vs Tampa Bay, CJ Stroud Is Still Not Throwing In OTAs? Joseph Duarte Joins The Show

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ten oh one in Age Town. Good morning, and.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome to a Friday edition of the Mount Thomas showing
ross THISIF Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
We are with you today on Anything Goes Friday until
two o'clock. We have Joseph Tortie is one of my
good friends and is a legit member of the media
in Houston, and he will be with us in studio
from eleven o'clock until one. Joseph has been on the
University Houston beat for a long time, but Joseph Covers
has covered everything in this town, from the NFL the baseball.

(00:35):
I don't know if he's not any Rockets or not,
but this is a man who knows as much about
the Houston sports scene as anybody I know, and of
course is very intimate with what's going on at uf H.
We'll talk some college athletics with him and will be
my co host today between eleven o'clock until one. We've
got Adam Weser right now as we speak at Texans
OTAs and we will hear from him. He'll come in

(00:55):
studio at one o'clock when he gets back and he'll
give us a little update of what he saw today
and we've got non Florida stories, and we have hell
yeah or not, and we're gonna wake the strippers up
at twelve noon today, so that My Friends is the
radio show. Now. We do non Florida stories every Friday
at one thirty, occasionally play the Fantasy five. My one

(01:18):
thirty story today on non Florida is very uncomfortable. Where's
it located?

Speaker 3 (01:24):
You know, that's a great question.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
I'm glad you asked. Where is my non Flora story
located from? Let's take a look. I've got to pull
it up here. Um, it doesn't even say where it's from.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Florida though, No, no it's not.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
And it's from some person named Colin Rugg I think
he's a political person.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
OK.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
So I'm in reading this story and I'm reading it
and I'm thinking about do I even bother putting this
on the air today. So at this point the answer
is yes, But I need to further. You know you,
when you were in journalism, when you're in college, you
got to get like three sources.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
I know you.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
I want to make sure Jonathan, this is absolutely right,
because this story is so uncomfortable that I would hate
for it to be a phony story.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Now I'm excited for it's so good.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Radio one O one says, you do not forward promote
something three and a half hours ahead, because the fact is,
I'd love for all of you to stay with me
for the entire four hours, or at least stay with
me to one thirty. But let's face it, when we
play believe it or not or hell yea or not?
What do most people do? They listen for the first
time at one fifty, and it disappoints me so because
I think we do a pretty good job. I listened
to a lot of sports radio in this town. I

(02:38):
think we do a pretty nice job. We don't keep
things too seriously, we don't bore you. We say a
couple of crazy things, we invite you to call in
or open and honest, we don't have an agenda.

Speaker 5 (02:49):
We're just sports radio's customer mount and stuff. What's that
other sports radio customers? Other sports radio is boring and
just mundanely. Let's get into a deep dive of you
know what tight end could be the difference making for
the Texans or what is the war?

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Plus apsc's CBR Sabr of the Astros third base kIPS right,
I can't do it. My mind doesn't do it. I
am a sports fan. Now there are some stats that
I think are interesting and relevant, but the most of
stuff I hear, I just go in one ear and
out the other like that does not I you have

(03:26):
to sports radio for me? Is you have to be
at a bar. Let's say, what's the hot bar in Acadochius?

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Flash?

Speaker 1 (03:35):
You and I are going to Flash, and we're going
to check out the ladies, right, Okay, we gotta go there,
and we gotta talk sports like we're talking at the
Flash having a couple of pops. If you're talking like
you are at a high brow bar. First of all,
not gonn give any ladies. Second of all, you're gonna
bore yourselves out, and third you're gonna go home and
feel sad for yourself. You and I are going to Flash.

(03:55):
We're gonna talk about sports in a general, very interesting,
lighthearted fashion, and we're gonna go home with somebody when
win win win win, right.

Speaker 5 (04:05):
Except you know, and now you don't even know what
Flash was like, But you're exactly right.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yeah, you and I at the Flash? Is it the
Flash or just flash?

Speaker 1 (04:12):
It's just flash? It's like, actually, this is a full name.
That's just the nickname we call it, so.

Speaker 5 (04:15):
You don't even know what the neural name of the
bars Flash. It's like Flash Cafe and something, but you know,
just called Flash.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
How's a food?

Speaker 1 (04:21):
They are good?

Speaker 5 (04:23):
It's like cheap ten dollars taco nachos, you know, ten
dollars for nachos. Not cheap, no, but like a big,
a big plate. I got the medium sized piece of
type of thing going on.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Okay, I got you. You know Gordy is a huge
nacho eater?

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Is he actually? Oh my god, there is no one
that will eat more nachos in the of my entire
broadcast career, of all the people I've worked with. Then, Chris, Gordy,
you will. We will go to China Garden and Hill
or nachos. You can't go wrong with it though, like you,
but you just can't eat nachos everywhere you go. You
can't go to Morton's and get a nice piece of
steak and say do you.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Any nachos to go along with this?

Speaker 6 (04:57):
No?

Speaker 5 (04:58):
How do you feel about the people that only get
like the chicken tenders and fries when they go to
places like No Matter?

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Dying in a judge because maybe you can't keep on
a budget. Oh so that's you. No, no, no, no, no,
no no. I like to I like to spend money
on food. I would like to eat out more often
than we do. And my wife's like, we need to
eat at home more often. She went to Costco at
Roscoe yesterday and I mean just bought all sorts of
crap that we're never gonna eat any of it. I
don't want to have hard to tell her that, but
it's just the truth. What if you don't have the
hard to tell of that, Like nine pounds of brisket

(05:27):
already cooked, I mean, well, we'll eat it once or twice.
When you get the five pound thing of King Ranch chicken, which,
by the way, is disgusting. I hate it. I don't
like cast roles in general, but really, to mix all
that crap together King Ranch chicken, Yeah, it's a it's
a it's a Texas dish. Okay, it's just gross. And
then they went and got nine salmon patties. I despise salmon,
so I'm not gonna get in that. So there's there's

(05:48):
about a two hundred dollars worth of groceries in my
refrigerator right now that I either will a note eat
or b will be throwing it away because it'll get
old because everybody else that does eat, it'll be like
I'm tired of eating salmon?

Speaker 7 (05:58):
All right?

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Can we get the sports? What are you putting me
down this uncomfortable avenue here? I know, I know it
isn't anything goes Friday here on the radio show. That
means you can call it in it's seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety and literally talk about anything
you want to. That would also include if you feel

(06:19):
like the need to the Astros game yesterday it was
three three and the comeback was in play, and I
was like, this is gonna be fun. Yan there Diez
goes deep by the way, he can't throw anybody out anymore.
We gotta get to that eventually.

Speaker 5 (06:37):
I was gonna ask you about the Oh we all
talked about how good the pitching.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Is all, how good that pitching is.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Huh, Well, the bullpen can have an off night, right,
I mean it's allowed to, of course, but boy do
they have an off night.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
I mean, Brian King.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Yikes, if you heard did you see how bad it
was box scores. Just I'm gonna tell you right now
how bad it was. Hopefully you were listening to seven
niney at least as long as you could. So Gusto
goes three and two thirds, and he's just he's gonna
his life is a major league starter at least on
This rotation is probably short lived. He's probably more of

(07:13):
a long you know, he's the Seth Martinez of yesteryear.
Bennett Susa mid anything in a third o Kurt scoreless
frame two.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
K's love that.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Then Brian King comes in, I mean, Brian's had a
really good season and he got pummeled. One third of
an inning, five hits, five runs all earned, home run surrendered.
Then Caleb Board comes in one inning, no hits, three
runs all earned, he walked three people. Then Forrest Whitley

(07:47):
comes in two thirds of an inning, three hits, two runs,
both earned. The best pitcher of the night Sazar Salazar,
your third string catcher, scoreless night inning is era zero.
Shout out to him. Astros lose thirteen to three. So

(08:07):
before you get into this deep depression mode, need not worry,
my friends, guess what happened last night in Seattle. First
of all, JP Crawford argued with a strike three call
and let the umpire home umpire have it. Then you
ready for this. The Mariners the Nationals were three three
going to the tenth inning. The Nationals scored six runs

(08:32):
in the top of the tenth and one nine to three.
So if you think we had a bad hair, six
National runs in the top of the ninth and they
went nine to three. So, with all that being said,
your beloved Astros, despite being thirty and twenty six, despite
losing a game by ten runs last night, are still
just a half game on our first place in the

(08:54):
American League West. It's an anything goes Friday at seven
to one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero. On Twitter,
I want to follow us. It's at sports mt as
sports RV is off today, so you can follow him.
He want to, but he's not on twee anything, so
why would you bother? And by the way, his Instagram,

(09:15):
Oh what a big old waste of time. That is,
in fact, to me a favor. Go on follow some
of his him on Instagram. There's nothing he's providing. Eleven
o'clock Joseph Torte, we're moving. I'm sorry to uh twelve
thirty today because it'd be hard for dwart Day to
come in here for half an hour and start apologizing,
but we're gonna do. I'm sorry. He's at twelve thirty.
Non Florida Stories at one thirty. Also something and you

(09:40):
don't know this, Jonathan, but something I hate on a
yearly basis happened last night that you hate that I
absolutely hate is a sports related no. Okay, okay, but
it happened last night, and I think it needs to
for once and for all end because I'm tired of
seeing media coverage about it. I'll tell you what it

(10:00):
is after I tell you about ryshealth dot com. It
is Anything Goes Friday on Sports Talk seven Nuty Matt
and Jonathan and Joseph Torte is gonna come by at
eleven o'clock and hang out with us for a couple
of hours. We've got some text and stuff I want
to get to in the next segment. And I there
was a phrase that I used to have an old

(10:21):
boss that I hated, and he used to say this
to me all the time. Walk me through this, meaning
like you made a decision and I don't like it,
and I want to hear why you made this decision.
I used to hate that phrase, don't even tell me this,
now walk me through this. So I've got to walk
me through this kind of thing next segment on the show,
and it involves the Texans, and I want to know

(10:42):
if we need to hit the panic button or not.
Just stay with me on this for the next segment.
So the thing that I find annoying every single year,
and if you've listened for this show for any length
of time, you absolutely know that I love just about
all the sports, football, basketball, baseball, watch golf occasionally the majors.

(11:03):
Not a big soccer fan, don't watch NASCAR a lot,
but I respect those that do because everybody has their
own favorite things they like to watch and enjoy. But
just because you enjoy something, or just because it's on
your certain TV network does not give it any more
legitimacy than the other. So the headlines today on ESPN

(11:26):
are mccullors, that's armacolors higher security in wake of online threats,
and I think that goes without saying. I mean, he's
obviously worried about his wife and his kids, and whatnot,
and there's some decided decisions about what happened last night
in the NBA playoffs and what's happening with the team
sales and players are heard. Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
The very last headline on the opening page is Texas

(11:49):
team spells as. I can't even pronounce it. E clarississement
a claar assessment. I don't even know if I'm saying
it right to win title? It doesn't sound right. You're right,
thank you. The word is the and you're saying, Matt,
what are you bringing up? The word a cement and

(12:10):
clariss clariss screw it. It's the word that a young
man from the Dallas area spelled to win the National
Spelling be under no circumstance is spelling be a sport?

(12:33):
Zero percent. There's no athleticism, there's no uh skill involved.
It's you memorize words or their origins. Wait, what is this?
This is the National Spelling But you've heard of this
of course? Okay, why is it on the very last

(12:53):
headline of my ESPN front page?

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Is it because it's a slow news day?

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Sure, but every year ESPN puts the winner of the
spelling Bee on their headlines.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Now, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
I remember for a while ABC used to broadcast the
Spelling Bee. I don't know if they did last night.
I didn't watch it. I was watching basketball and baseball,
so I can't tell you this, but to put this
out there as a sporting event is absolutely one hundred
percent ridiculous. Now, the young man who won, his name

(13:28):
apparently is Faison Zaki. Okay, and my guess is, Faison
Zaki is going to be a brilliant lawyer, a doctor,
an engineer, a biochemist, or he may cure cancer, or
he may do all the above, and for that we
thank him. But he shouldn't be on Sports Center. A.

(13:52):
He should not be on SportsCenter and B there is
no way, no how, no chance he's ever going to
use the word e clarississement if I'm even pronouncing it
properly in his life. And I mean this in all,

(14:12):
I've said this to you guys many years. We are
today's kids are spending way too much time on their
phones in front of video games and playing and watching television.
They're not they're out there exercising. They're not out there
playing baseball with their buddies in the neighborhood, or not

(14:34):
picking up a game of soccer, or they're not going
to the basketball court and shooting hoops. And not everybody
is going to do that. Not everybody thinks that sports
is a huge part of their life. And I understand that.
But there's other things you can do outside sailing. You
could go Roger bike, you could do I don't know,

(14:55):
maybe not even maybe paint and you look, look, you
can't paint with a broad brush with every kid, thank you.
But I worry about Faison Zaki because he has had
he's had his head in front of a dictionary for
a long period of time so he could properly spell

(15:19):
eclai cis cement.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
But not just power medicine. It is not that powerful.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
If you want to take high level classes in high
school or you want to study and your off time,
good for you, because again that's the one percent that's
going to make crazy money and be very successful and
unplot him. But is faise On Zaki just a good
old fashioned normal kid who gets at home and after
his hard day at school, he gets home, he wants

(15:46):
to put the TV on or maybe get a snag
in some chips and a hot dog or something. No,
he's probably getting home in carrots and salary and not
going open up his Webster's dictionary and studying A, B
and C. I didn't want my kids to do that.
I wanted my kids to have somewhat of a normal life.
And again, my kids may not be biophysicist. They might
be well, I should sign. We already know that. They're

(16:08):
already in their young days graduating. Don't knock on your
I know. But he I mean, but he went to
Texas A and M. He studied, he did everything good.
He's a good kid, did right way. I'd never put
a dictionary in front of him. And I just think
this whole spelling bee thing is so you never liked
the spelling Bee. I've never liked that. I competed one

(16:28):
time in the spelling Bee when I was in fourth
grade and got knocked out there, got knocked out relatively early,
and I wound up beeing my pants on stage. It
was very embarrassed. A oh yeah, but we didn't put
in their pants and they're in the fourth grade. Everybody
does that. I'll give you s.

Speaker 5 (16:41):
I did the same thing on the mound or before
I batted it on my coaches pits.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Team peeing your pants. Yeah, that's okay. I don't know
the cross parallel on this is, but that's fine. I'm
just trying to, you know, make you.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
You're talking about urinates occasionally in front of you. That's true.

Speaker 8 (16:57):
I like it.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
I just under the category of I just don't get it.
I will never get the spelling Bee because that young
man needs to have friends, he needs to be able
to go to amusement parks, well map.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
His friends are the people like they are like competing
in this.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Maybe they are.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
I mean I would definitely think they are. I'm sure
he's built a fraternity. Yeah, but at least chess club
you have got summit. I mean, when you are doing
spelling Bee, what are you doing? You're staring into a
dictionary and memorizing words. I will say, I just don't
get it. And that's all I'm gonna say about it.
But for it to be on ESPN Sports Center front page,

(17:40):
give me some other headlines. Speaking of headlines, the Texans
quarterback one of them didn't throw again today over at OTAs.
Should we be worried? Ten twenty eight on Sports Talk
seven ninety. It is a think goes Friday at ten

(18:01):
thirty two seven one three two one two five seven
niney if you want to join the conversation seven one
three two one two five seven ninety agains. Joseph Torte
is going to stop by for a couple of hours
between eleven o'clock until one. We've got uh, I'm sorry,
it's coming up at twelve thirty today. We'll push him
back an hour because we just want to be easier

(18:22):
for Joseph to say his sorryes after probably some controversial
things he may or may not say.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
You never know.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Uh. One thirty today we'll have non Florida stories and
at one fifty we'll have hell yeah or not. So
the Texans are back on the practice field for another
round of OTA's now just to paint the picture for you,
these are what they call organized team activities.

Speaker 7 (18:42):
They're very.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Light. Uh, there is no and I have not been
to an OTE in a long time, but there's no
tackling a full pads. It's just running routes. It's putting
guys in space. It's not much of terms of getting physical.
It's not a lot of hard hitting, if any at all.
They're just get out there, get the legs moving, you

(19:05):
know what I'm talking about, just kind of just doing
a light set of drills. But it does create the culture,
does put some plays into place. It does put the
young rookies in there. The young guys are trying to
find spots in the playing time and reinforce things like
getting with a new offensive line, which obviously be one
of the things that'll be key to an offense to
it this season's OTAs. There are quarterbacks throwing passes during

(19:30):
these OTAs. Davis Mills is throwing passes during OTAs. Guess
who's not throwing passes for the second time? No way, yep.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
CJ. Stroud is not throwing.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Now. When asked about it a couple of days ago,
Demiko Ryans said that these players, these quarterbacks, are on
a throwing schedule, and that there is a schedule and
you have to stick with the schedule. Now, see, Dimiko

(20:19):
is not set to speak today. Nick Cayley, the offensive coordinator,
apparently is expected to speak today. If you were to
create a throwing program, if you were to create a
throwing program, would you schedule those days during OTAs? So

(20:48):
at least and again, you shouldn't placate things to the media.
But if you're only going to open the media up
for certain days during OTAs, wouldn't you want at least
show that your quarterback is throwing a little bit. I mean,
he could be in the room getting filmed though. No,
he's out there, he's handled the ball off. Oh, just helping,

(21:10):
like the rookies and like the people like, yeah, he's
just out there doing this thing. He's now, he's in past,
he's you know, he's he's got the jersey on, he's
got he's in shorts, but he ain't throwing. Okay, if
that's the case. And let's say he had some sort

(21:30):
of shoulder procedure done in the off season. He did
take a lot of his last season. He did, and
it's not a typical for quarterbacks to get some things
cleaned up during the off season. I don't have a
problem with that. I don't have a problem with him
taking time off. But you have two OTAs, and once

(21:54):
you know television cameras are going to be there, and
that some members of the media who are they're gonna
be there. Meanwhile, most of them are not because they
just want to help their YouTube page and you're not throwing.
What am I supposed to think? What are you supposed
to think? So if you do, if he did have

(22:16):
a procedure done of any sort, that's okay. There are
a lot of guys that have off season procedures done
and they and they get right back on the bike
and they get riding along. And I would fully expect
CG to do that. But I don't know if I'm
supposed to believe that there's a throwing program and there's
a schedule and the two times the media have opportunities

(22:41):
to watch that those happen to just be days where
CJ is not supposed to throw. And for Texans homers
to say I don't give every throws or not, yeah
you do, you're lying to yourself if you think it's
just no.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
Big deal, unless.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Unless you come out and say, hey, I had some
shoulder tendonitis, I had a scope clean some things out.
Doctors said, you know, doctors even said don't throw for
two months. I would even accept that, But if you're

(23:26):
telling me there is a shoulder, there is a schedule
for the quarterback to throw, and it just happens to
be on two days where there are cameras.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
I don't think I'm buying it. Now.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
This could be water under the bridge, This could be
a non conversation piece.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Is he moving around? Just only hand the ball off?

Speaker 1 (23:48):
He just hand the ball off. I can't You don't
have to defend it.

Speaker 5 (23:52):
I'm just saying that I don't even you know, I
can't even have an answer for that. Like as athlete myself,
I don't even know, you know, Like you're right, it
might be something like a procedure or just somebody tell
him that you don't want you can't throw anymore right
now until.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Then, just tell us that if he has doctor's orders.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
That he has to take some time off, then I'm
okay with that.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
I can live with that.

Speaker 5 (24:20):
Which you could. But with the general Houston of.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Course, yeah yeah, But again, something has happened in the
Houston land sports landscape. And it's not just the Houston teams, uh,
but it's happening with a lot of teams. We just
have these teams that just don't want to tell us
the truth. Because I got news for you. If CJ.

(24:49):
Stroud is not throwing because he had something done in
the off season, that's not people in Jacksonville or Nashville
or Indianapols quaking in their boots because they know that
quarterbacks sometimes have things done in the offseason. Now, if

(25:11):
you have a quarterback that isn't throwing in late July
or in August as you're getting ready for the regular season,
that would sound the alarms off. Not throwing in the
OTAs to me, doesn't sound the alarms off. But you
got telling us that he's not makes me much more concerned.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (25:33):
And maybe y'all can help me out with this? What
is it with sports teams just not being a little
more forthcoming? What are they trying to tell? Why are
they trying to hide things? The Astros did it with
Kyle Tucker a long time last year. I don't think
necessarily hiding things here with you're on Alvaez.

Speaker 5 (25:56):
I think you're on.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Alvarez just doesn't want to talk, doesn't want to is
as upset that his hand hurts. I get that. And
by the way, hopefully he'll be better to back on
the mountain before we know, back on on the field
of play is gonna take some swings at dyk In
Park today. Do you hear anything about your dun Yeah,
he's gonna take some swing. Thanks for listening. I'm just

(26:19):
telling you. We talked to Cole Thompson about this, who
was with me for a couple hours yester, and he
said it was point zero zero zero zero zero one percent.
And now he's like, he just teen this. He just
tweeted out. He says, I'm now zero zero zero zero two.
He's lying. He did right now, he just did. Don't
believe I don't believe him, and I called him out

(26:39):
on it.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
You lie.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Remember the average person lies four times a day. You
used to be three board bumping it up. Now, Oh, he's.

Speaker 5 (26:46):
Gonna fight for that. He's scared. He's definitely worried now.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
And I don't think you need to be worried, but
just for the love of God, tell us the truth.
You don't schedule days off when you know people be there.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
Looking at you. What's your what's Matt's prediction? Like, if
you give a gut feeling right now, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (27:06):
I'm glad you asked. He obviously had something done. He
obviously went under the knife or scoped, or maybe he's
on maybe he's taking large amounts of ibuprofen, or maybe
they just told him don't throw. How about just saying

(27:30):
a lot of throws last year, a lot of workouts.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
It has been we've been told.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Not to throw. And then the question we follow up
is do you think this could be something serious? And
then he can then he can, then he can laugh
if he wants to. Now again, Nick Cayley will be
meeting with the media later today and maybe he'll tell us,
But do you really think the new offensive coordinator in
a new city, meeting the media for the first time

(27:55):
during OTAs is going to be all the way forthcoming,
especially when the head coach two days ago said he
was on a throw that there was a throwing schedule.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
Breath. I ain't buying it, all right.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
We got calls to get to in a matter of moments.
We got Gordian for a Friday visit as he normally does.
We called it Gordy stop by. Uh all right, Chris.
I just spent the last segment questioning, and again I
have no definitive information. We'll hear from Nick Cayley litter today.
The offensive coordinator for the Texans, Dimiko, said two days

(28:28):
ago it was a throwing schedule for CJ.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Stroud.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
CJ. Is handing the ball off today and not throwing.
What do you think I mean to me, it's one
of two things.

Speaker 7 (28:39):
Either he's he's a little bit banged up, maybe had
a little minor procedure in the off season. They're taking
it slow, which in my case, or if that's the case,
be honest tell us about it.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Then you're still in my bed. I just said this
two minutes ago. Stop stealing my material. Is he supposed
to be listening to show all the time?

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Go ahead? He was going to get your I'm just teasing.
I'm just teasing the You know that.

Speaker 7 (29:02):
It's either that or b CJ's entering diva status where
he goes voluntary OTAs. No, man, I'm good. I'm not
throwing Laramie Tunsel. He used to he used to be
able to take the whole off season off. I'm good.
So it's one or the other. Neither is great.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
I I you know what, I I don't lean b
I really don't. Now Again, I'm not close to the
situation at all. Be would greatly disappoint me, and I'm
not prepared to be disappointed. I mean, there's a lot
of things in my life to disappoint me. That can't
That can't be it. Man, I shouldn't say I can't
be it. I don't want that to be it. I

(29:40):
know what it's not. This guy on social media said
he's not hurt. He's just watching and observing, watching every
player's habits and tendencies to get a better feel for him.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
Shut up by the ways?

Speaker 7 (29:50):
Oh does that?

Speaker 1 (29:50):
And another one is uh, this is may nobody should
be worried. Well, then, if he's on a throwing schedule,
like Dimiko said, maybe today would be a go day
to throw.

Speaker 7 (29:58):
Why is everybody else doing everything?

Speaker 8 (30:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (30:01):
I don't see Pat Mahomes in a throng schedule and
not throwing.

Speaker 7 (30:05):
He is literally the only QB one in the NFL
not throwing at OTAs this week.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
So so so please put turn your brains on. Okay,
it's one of two things, and I hope Gordy's wrong
with the second one.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
He's the only one. Well, who else have you heard?

Speaker 7 (30:19):
If you?

Speaker 1 (30:19):
I mean, if let me tell you this, If Gino
Smith wasn't throwing when we hear about it, probably even
a mid level quarterback we'd be hearing about it.

Speaker 7 (30:28):
It's another guy. This could be precautionary is this is
his first time in the NFL switching coordinators and could
be as simple as sitting and listening and shut up.
That's so stupid and idiotic, like as if CJ's so
cerebral that hey man, we really want you to just
sit back and observe.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
It really does.

Speaker 7 (30:47):
Let that new playbook soak in, Like you sound like
a moron saying that.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Come on, yeah, and you know what, as I said
in the last time, because you're busy getting my guest
Joseph Dwarte joining us in ten minutes, if he had
something done. First of all, duh. Most quarterbacks get something done,
you get beat the hell. Last year he threw the
ball a lot more than he wanted to. And so

(31:11):
I respect that he has been told to not move
that shoulder, move that arm. I totally get that, But
just say that, and I don't know if the Texans
felt like they'd be panic, it would hit the city right. No,
but there are a lot of quarterbacks that have things
done to clean things up, or or he's been told
arrest and that happens all that Brett fav for years

(31:32):
was told to rest his arm.

Speaker 7 (31:34):
Here's here's my prediction here, Like it's it's that he
probably did have something minor done. It's not a big deal.
He's gonna be fine, But you make it a bigger
deal not talking about it.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Yeah, that's exactly.

Speaker 7 (31:49):
And what's the competitive And I never understand this. I
don't understand this. What the astros. I don't understand You're
not playing a game anytime soon? So like, what's the
gamesmanship here? If you guys were playing the Colts this way? Again,
I get it, it's gamesmanship. You don't want to let
them know that CJ may or may not play, but
it is may. Like it's okay to say, yeah, CJ
had a little something in his shoulder, he got cleaned up,

(32:11):
he's gonna be fine.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Yes, say that.

Speaker 7 (32:15):
When you go to two days of OTAs and he's
there and he's the only one not throwing all of
us look at it and go either he's heard or
he's a diva one or the other.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
It's like, it's like, and I don't even necessarily want
to blame PR people because I'm thinking PR people would say,
are we sure you want to go down this road?
And guess what these trainers and these coaches say, Uh,
I'm the boss and you're gonna follow my rules, and
what you're gonna do is you're gonna create I wouldn't
say hysteria. There's nothing hysterical about may OTAs. If I'm

(32:46):
gonna downplay them before the OTAs, what have I always said?
The only thing I don't want to hear about OTAs
is nobody getting hurt. Well, if CJ is hurt, that
makes it a story. But minimize the story by telling
us what he did, what happened. Now, if you got
if you got a ton rotator cuff, then okay, you
want to hide that. I get it.

Speaker 7 (33:05):
But even the remember the astros were was it verlind
or somebody slept crooked, had a had a next thing?
Like you can tell us that, yeah, CJ's he was
staying in the hotel, he slept a little crooked, his
arms a little sore. So we're just gonna, out of
precaution just not have him throw.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
All right, So I again, to me, honesty is always
the again any any game week, it ain't training camp.

Speaker 7 (33:29):
Right, And that's what other people say, like because it's
just OTAs, this isn't training camp. I get it, But again,
like say why he's not throwing. How hard is that?
But do not tell me he's in observation mode and
he's really trying to let this play before nobody.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
People people saying, who's saying? Who get out him? Social
media fans they're not real people. Well you know, Twitter people,
you'll tell me during the break. Is this person training campaign? No?

Speaker 7 (34:00):
No, this is this is fans responding to Aaron Nelson's tweets. Yeah, no, no, no.
But even Aaron isn't saying he's just a you know,
Davis Mills is running first team offensive. CJ Stroud watches
from the site. Again, maybe there's a quarterback controversy, there's
not a qu If Davis Mills steals the job from
CJ Stroud, then we got problems.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
M important it, Klee, that's I mean Nick wasn't like
running things today? Noopoop noop, noop wasna So why didn't
see j there? And if I swear to got it,
they go with it's he's on a throwing schedule. Today
was on his day. I will lose it is That'll
be a flat out line. Again, this is very uh
low level of concern. If we get into July and

(34:41):
he is limited and we're concerned. But what they did
today and again, well maybe maybe they will have some
sort of announcement, But what you did two days ago
was on a one to ten scale, was a one.
If you give us the same answer today, it's now
three or four.

Speaker 7 (34:56):
I just think in this day and age of sports,
with social media and their cameras everywhere, transparency is the
best thing to do.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
I mean, are are some members of media out there
wor They're not gonna get their T shirts in their
hats if they.

Speaker 7 (35:08):
Don't report it. I mean Circuit Burgers with col Yeah,
but I just to me and the astros too, I
gotta give them a little gruff here, Like it's okay
to be transparent with the fans and say, look, Jordheim's
got a thing in his hand.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
He's day to day.

Speaker 7 (35:24):
We hope, we hope he's better by tomorrow. Like it's
okay to be transparent when you don't say anything and
you ignore it, like we're not stupid. We could see
CJ's out there not throwing. Say why he's not throwing?

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Yep, because if he wants if it was, hey, we
want to rest his arm. That sounds fine by me.
But why are you resting his arm in May, especially.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
When thirty one other quarterbacks are not resting the.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
Two months off. Yeah, if it's the deal, all right? Uh,
Astros Game two of the series. How about this last
night Astros bullpen absolutely or horrendous? The Mariner's bullpen absolutely horrendous.
They keep up six in the nights of the Astros.
Only half came out.

Speaker 7 (36:02):
Yes, and Astro is still very much in this. I
talked to a friend who was at the game. He said, Uh,
while the bullpens sucked, the beer was good. He enjoyed
a nice old Crawford home for our friends at car.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
What a rumfic segue. It was eleven o'clock on Sports
Talk seven audio. It's our friend Joseph Torte who always
comes through at the NCAA ternin Forest, the Big twelve
tournament covers the Cougars.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
How long you been covering the Cougars now? Thirteen years?

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Thirteen years? How many years of the Chronicle together?

Speaker 8 (36:33):
Uh? Twenty seven, twenty seven years.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
You're like the John McClean of the Houston Chronicle.

Speaker 8 (36:39):
You know what I am Now Jonathan Fagan's gone, You're
the oldest one. I'm the longest tenured sports rider at
the Chronicle.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
What does that get?

Speaker 7 (36:47):
You?

Speaker 9 (36:47):
Like?

Speaker 3 (36:47):
A better parking space?

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Was lasting? We went to the building to go was
there tuesday? Really small world? Okay, all right, well you're
gonna hang out with us. You've covered all the team.
You'll only be you've never been on as a Rockets beet.
Is that correct?

Speaker 8 (36:58):
That's well? You know what, Jonathan, let me cover one
game when they were going to China one year. You
know they were taking off right afterwards.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
So I uh, so you've covered like hundreds of Astros games,
hundreds of Texans games, hundreds of Cougar games, and one Rocket.

Speaker 8 (37:15):
Game pretty much. All right there you go in on
one hundred Rice games.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
Oh that's right, you were you're a By the way, look,
did you see Rice to Dame looking for a naming
rights for their stadium.

Speaker 8 (37:26):
Yeah, I'd be interested to see how that's gonna go
over with the uh the older fan base, because you know,
it's historic Rice Stadium.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
It's a dump. It's it's the hardest place, beautiful neighborhood,
beautiful campus, smart people, wonderful people, an absolute dump of
a facility. It's an it's an eyesore. It's way behind
its time, and it needs to be destroyed, rebuilt, build
a twenty thousand seats stadium, and let Rice have something

(37:55):
to recruit to because that stadium, ain't it.

Speaker 8 (37:57):
You've traveled. Two Lane is sort of in the neighborhoo exactly,
and they've got a great absolutely. But yeah, if you're
if you're a college university, you're slapping naming rights on
any piece of.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Anything, anything at all, anything at all. All right, Well,
it's good to have you, and I appreciate you spending
some time with this. Again, You've always been a great
help for us come tournament time. By the way, I
made the decision if the Cougars go to the Final
four this year, which will be in Indianapolis, I'm not
going to go because I moved having on Earth to
get to San Antonio. And not only did I see
my Cougars lose, but I got COVID the day after that,

(38:30):
So I'm like that was a double whammy.

Speaker 8 (38:32):
Yeah, I know how those feel.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
The worst text I got was Brian McTaggart texted me,
He's like, you hugged my wife in San Antonio.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Like sorry, you know she didn't get.

Speaker 8 (38:42):
It, but you're you're probably gonna be watching them in
the final four again.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
You know you ought to book the ticket right now.

Speaker 8 (38:50):
I have. I have every regional already booked, Hotel Wise
and car. I mean, I just do it a year out.
You know we're gonna say, oh, you're you're jinxing. Well no,
I'm doing this from a logistics stampoint. But I've got DC.
But you know, and we reported this a couple of
weeks ago. They could they could play in Houston. So
they're going to take their name off of HUT. They're

(39:10):
gonna take the name off of the South region. Correct
if you if you relinquish host duties, which people say, well,
what does that involved, Well, you kind of are behind
the scenes and which is ridiculous. Staff does it. You
can get anybody to do that. Pay Rise play Houston,
Christian Texas Southern.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
Or the Big twelve come in and do it too.

Speaker 8 (39:26):
Yeah, that one's a little bit of a stretch. They've
done it before. I just logistically them being a Dallas
It was easier last year when they did it for
the TCU women. But you know, you just give it
off and and you can play it. I mean, that's the
only thing that's preventing them. So that is that done
deal yet or no, they're they're still talking them through
it and if they can get somebody, I would imagine
sometime in the next few months they try to get

(39:50):
a get a better feel for that.

Speaker 10 (39:51):
All right.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Well, obviously you know a lot about what's going on
in University of Houston Land or you know a lot
about the athletics world of college sports. We do want
to get into some Texan I know you're an Astro
follow two.

Speaker 11 (40:02):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
My greatest accomplishment for me, because Joseph has been so
nice to get me a lot of favorites, is that
I got him an Astro's uh pickleball paddle. Yeah, and
you know rockets, Oh Rockets. I thought it was an
astros one. Okay, so you're still playing pickleball?

Speaker 8 (40:17):
Well when I can. You know, it kind of comes
in spurts. It's not you know, I've been going every
day every week.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
I've been I've been doing some commercials for Talier Brewing
which is over in Sugarland, and they have a two
pickleball courts us older guys. It's perfect for us. Now
I've not played, I kind of don't get it. And
to like, get the rules, but I you can get
a decent sweat going, but not kill yourself.

Speaker 8 (40:41):
Yeah that's not I think gabs into a basketball right now. Yeah,
we do a lot of that. So I'm out there
and think you beat me like eighty to forty the
other day.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
I mean.

Speaker 8 (40:53):
Not very tall. Okay, a little little point guard left,
all right.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
So let's get to the sports scene. And Joseph is
so well versed in everything. Astros fall yesterday, still only
a half game out of first place. So what are
just some general thoughts as you watched this team. It's
kind of amazing they haven't hit very much this year.
So many injuries, uh, you know, both in their starting
rotation obviously with Jordon Alvarez, and yet they're still kind

(41:20):
of hanging around.

Speaker 8 (41:21):
Yeah, I'm you know, as as a former Beaky, I
never paid attention to standings this early.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
No, I'm a standings a whole way.

Speaker 8 (41:30):
So when I was driving in and Matt was like, oh,
they're only a half a game out, like it's it's May.
What is it May thirtieth?

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Yeah, so got paid editor, by the way, So.

Speaker 8 (41:39):
Yeah, I mean, so you're let's see, you're two months
away basically from the trade deadline. So you you look
at where I mean to me, it starts with it's
always pitching, starting rotation, and they're just they've got no one.
I mean you look at who they've got. They've got
what mccolors, they've got, uh.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Hunter Brown from Valdez. And then you're just kind of
in the recipies.

Speaker 8 (42:01):
So you go into August and you know, depending on
where you're at, you do you go out at another
arm strengthen that back ends of the rotation. You mentioned
the off night on the bullpen. I don't think that
that's something that that's a concern. But between getting the
bats going and then you know, more immediate is where
do you fit Jordan into the lineup? I think when

(42:22):
before he got hurt, he was batting third. I think
I think the idea right now is they'll probably push
him back to the four, you know, the cleanup spot,
because there's going.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
To be some pressure on him and he doesn't necessarily
I mean, party is like he's just coming back after
missing that time with a hand. You you want to
generally put him back in. But there's a lot of
Astro fans right now that are like all we need
is Jordy on in this offense will pick up where
it left off. The problem was that your and I
wasn't necessarily doing a whole lot before he got.

Speaker 8 (42:46):
Hurt, and he's probably not going to jump in and
just light it up. So I think it's encouraging that
al Tuvey has as especially on this homestand has has
been able to get things going. What is it FI
four home runs on this home.

Speaker 3 (43:02):
He's crushing it.

Speaker 8 (43:02):
Yeah, yeah, well actually it's probably fine because he had
the two two homer games, So yeah, I mean they've
got they've got some stuff that they're gonna work through.
But again it's it's May thirtieth. I don't see this
as a talk to me. If a month from now,
it's sort of they haven't made any product, or they
haven't maybe jumped into that first spot and extended the lead,

(43:23):
or then I think some of the things that are
that are hurting them may catch up. But it's it's
not even June one.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
Must one behind the scene story I want to get
from you, and then we'll get to the calls and
some other things going on. You have had to chase
down things are on the trade deadline, July thirty first, So,
which is still coming up on two months away. In
your past when you were on the Astros beat, did
you spend more time having to dissolve rumors because agents
were floading players out, there was a general managers trying to.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
Get you off the scent.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
What was it like having to hear things and go, Okay,
this makes sense or I'm gonna go chase this down
as compared to this is just somebody just throwing stuff
out there. Just throw stuff for the stuff out and
you'll know.

Speaker 8 (44:03):
I mean I I had the luxury of working with
our good friend Carlton Thompson. He was on the beat
with me at the time, and just to date myself,
I didn't have to chase and down rumors because there
was no social media, there was no Twitter. I wasn't
having to shoot down those type of things.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
But you are probably more pressure today than you are
because the national guys didn't have as much pull like
you do now.

Speaker 8 (44:27):
Yeah, And and for you know, when I covered the Astros,
Jerry Huntsicker was the general manager, Temproper was the assistant
and my forcoming were they Jerry was great. And I
guess the biggest story, uh, Trey deadline. When I was
on the beat was was the Randy Johnson deal. And
I remember Carlton was in Pittsburgh. I was back here
in Houston. We're both working the phone, you know, whether

(44:49):
if I'm calling Drayden, he's calling Hunt Sicker and the agent.
You just you're just working the phone. And that goes
down to like eleven fifty nine several time, and they
it's you know a matter of what what what the
package is gonna include, which minor leaguers, all that kind
of stuff, and they get it done right before the deadline.

(45:11):
And like that morning, I'm on a flight to Pittsburgh.
I'm literally they want all of us there to cover
Randy Johnson's first start, which is going to be that Sunday.
So uh, that was one. You know, there was the
Roger Clemens the first time around where they refuse to
give up Richard Hidalgo, Scott Ellerton and guys like that.
So uh. But I remember being in the clubhouse the

(45:33):
Sunday that Randy Johnson showed up, and you know, the
guy's what six seven, six' eight, Monster, yeah and he
forgets the duck walking into the visitors clubhouse and he
like slams his forehead onto the frame of the of
the the.

Speaker 9 (45:48):
Right.

Speaker 8 (45:48):
Away i'm like it. Is everybody sees it and we're,
like who's? Who you? Know you want to, say who
is this? Guy but you know who he, is but
he's like kind of clumsy and.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
Not to date, myself but it's too.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
LATE i Think i'm doing A University houston game basketball.
GAME i think we're In Saint. LOUIS i think we
were somewhere on the road for. Sure we played a
daytime game AND i think coach it Was Alvin brooks's
coach and the team and we go to a sports,
bar big screen. Televisions this is WHEN espn two first
started up and they had that scrawl where they would

(46:20):
have the sports headlines like a. Ticker now all the
networks have it, now but back then ONLY espn. Two
that was their niche thing they. Did And i'm, like
this is so. Cool you get to see sports headlines
at all times going for this ticker And i'm watching
it going through seeing, okay The mets beat The giants
and this happened in, golf and THEN i See Jerry

(46:41):
huntsecker and they're, like, wait this is like a Midnight
why Is Jerry huntsicker's name showing up on the sports
ticker at twelve o'clock on this least WATCH espn. Two
come to find Out Randy johnson was traded that day
or that literally that, hour and that's WHAT i. Knew
it was a crazy experience for me to see that
show up WHERE i was the moment That Randy johnson

(47:03):
and almost the middle of the night was traded from
The Seattle.

Speaker 8 (47:05):
Mariners and this is in a trade, deadline but this
goes with the trades that we were going To, nashville
AND i guess ninety nine maybe for the winter, meetings
AND i got, upgraded you, know that was common back
in the. Day And i'm sitting next To Roger clemens's
agents in first class And randy And ALLEN i Think

(47:27):
randy was on that. Trip so we get off the
plane and his phone starts to just ring and he
grasp me says hold. On he's, like you might need
to come to my hotel room later tonight because we're
going to have a little press. GATHERING i was, like
what's going. On he's, like, Well hunsicker just went in
front of the national media and blasted us For rogers
demands and. Everything so you're, like oh, crap you know

(47:49):
this is this is going to be huge. News but
it was. BEFORE i, mean that's the kind of stuff
that BEFORE i would have even gotten off the plane
would have been On. TWITTER i, mean it would have
just taken, off because nowadays you can tweet and do
everything on a. Plane, yeah couldn't do. That so, yeah
it's it was a lot of shooting down, stuff but
really it was just a lot of phone, calls chasing
down you, know rumors and trying to you, know it's always.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Fun.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
Though now things are changing in your beat now The
university Of, houston because not only are you having to
look at the transfer portal and we'll get to more
of this as the show moves, along you have to
now deal with nil and not dealing with the, institution
but you're dealing with the, collective which is a second
cousin to the school basically and. Thereabouts, YEAH i mean

(48:35):
it's you can't directly tie into the, school but you
can closely associate with this.

Speaker 8 (48:39):
Call and some of them now don't make any they
don't hide. It there's a. Connection everybody knows that they work,
like for, Instance houston Has Leinging who's and they it's
part of a bigger national. Collective but then you also
deal with the. Agents all these announcements that are coming
out transfer, portal they come from. Agents and WHEN i

(49:03):
got out of covering pro, SPORTS i THOUGHT i was
done with that. Stuff you, call you get the contract,
numbers you swap. Information, hey this is what the team's looking.
At this is and they're, like this is what we're.
Countering that's what you're getting. Now, now a lot of
the numbers don't get, out AND i really wonder how
real some of the numbers are that we. See but
like the young lady At Texas tech to softball player

(49:23):
who's making a million, dollars that's. Legit you hear some
of the numbers that are being thrown out for you
Again Texas, TECH i think they the guarantee that each
player was getting at one point or O. Lineman you
got to be careful with those. Numbers how much of
it is? True how much of it is.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
Because it'd be easier to inflate the number to make
you sound. Better, yet, yeah.

Speaker 8 (49:42):
Exactly so it's a it's a different way of covering
sports now and you know. It, also it can get
you because you look at Like Kansas state last year in,
basketball they spent a lot of money on their basketball
roster and didn't do. Anything and that's kind of the
case now WITH. Byu they've got a guy on their
team that they're they're paying a lot and if you

(50:04):
don't win and it doesn't, translate you set yourself up
for some. Criticism and rightfully, so all.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Right we'll go to the.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Phones coming.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
Back joseph obviously in THE, uhb but he is well
versed again in all the different sports in our. TOWN
cj strod again not to throwing today at Texans. OTA's
should the warning flags be up in the air for.
That we'll get to. That we'll get to some, Baseball
we'll get to SOME u OF h. Stuff and Also
joseph's thoughts on this college football expected expansion of THE

(50:33):
cfp to sixteen teams and what works best FOR i
don't care about THE sec because they're gonna win. Anywhere
but how does that Affect big twelve? Schools seventy, one, three, two, one, two, five,
seven Ninety all, right coming up in a little over an.
Hour and you don't know, this but Every friday we
Do i'm. Sorries we used them at eleven, thirty but

(50:54):
we're gonna let you say it until twelve. Thirty this
is where you apologize, people this for things you've done and. Said,
really you know you don't have to do, it but
it makes you feel. Better little therapy a lot of, Therapy.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
Jonathan isn't?

Speaker 1 (51:09):
It doesn't it make you feel better when you come
on here with all the mean and nasty things you've
said and done that you get to spunge him out
between eleven and thirty and.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Noon most days we'll do it at twelve.

Speaker 5 (51:18):
Thirty today it's, like can we yell and just get
that rage? Out it's the same, thing, Yes is.

Speaker 8 (51:22):
It like professionally or stuff you did person in your personal?

Speaker 1 (51:24):
Line and you want and then you Want?

Speaker 8 (51:26):
Wow PROBABLY i started getting texts from my wife LIKE.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
I death stared a woman in Like charles a couple
of weeks ago and wanted her to die of a.
Stroke AND i told HER i was. Sorry you should have,
no she didn't need. It she was hitting a fourteen
out of. FOUR i want her to.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
DIE i, Mean i'm. Serious money's, different you, know you,
know let's talk.

Speaker 1 (51:49):
To some people here in The Great city Of. HOUSTON
texta seven one three two one two five seven Ninety
Cougar chris is on The Matt Thomas show With, Ross
Joseph towarte in the house DOUBLE.

Speaker 7 (51:58):
C how were?

Speaker 8 (51:59):
YOU i am doing.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
WONDERFUL i didn't mean.

Speaker 12 (52:02):
To choke you.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Up i'm.

Speaker 8 (52:04):
CHOKING i, HOPE.

Speaker 4 (52:06):
I, hope Big big Twelve Cougar ross is having a
good day off and, UH i don't know how much
Longer joseph's going to be on The cougar beat Because
tuesday he asked a question and and coach called him
out and, SAID i hope you're teaching those students how
to ask better questions than you.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
Do So i'm not really sure what are you using a?

Speaker 8 (52:27):
Class we had to do some context, Here, YEAH i.
DID i did a workshop for for the journalism students
that you've. AGED i tried to give, back you, Know,
SO i guess that's. Nice i've Been i've been telling
him for, Years i'm going to HELP. O they never called. Me,
yeah well that's. Fine so we had about twelve. Kids
we took him over to The. Chronicle happened to Have
Kelvin zoom going, on SO i, said, hey you, know
this will be a great learning. DEAL i asked a

(52:49):
if the question was, Fine kelvin just Being. Kelvin kelvin
wanted to kind of slide in a, little you, know.
LITTLE i got a big. Yeah but but, YEAH i
was afraid you had some breaking news THAT i didn't
know about about me not being on the beat. ANYMORE
i was, like maybe this is my boss calling. In but,
yeah it's all good With. Kelvin he, uh you know
once you once you get to know. HIM i mean

(53:10):
you you've had him on your show many.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
Times, well WHEN i was calling Games chris the first,
year he was very stand. Offish, yes after the first,
year it was a complete one. Eighty and now he's
one of my favorite people in this. Town and he
treats me of. ALL i do some of their games
ON tv in the non, conference and he's always very
warm and.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
Accommodating and but, YEAH i, mean.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
Just like, anybody sometimes you have to kind of it
takes your walle to get in the inner. Circle and
once you get, in you're you're in a pretty good.

Speaker 4 (53:37):
Spot, OH i, knew AND i knew one the coach
was uh was joking with him and.

Speaker 8 (53:44):
Stuff BUT i just had to bring it. Up but
this is good that this shows That chris is a
die hard fan of The cougars because that that video's
not out. There so that Means chris went and, LISTEN
i guess on YouTube or something and saw the whole. Deal,
yeah so you, See chris knows WHAT i was talking.

Speaker 4 (53:59):
About AND i do enjoy your your commentary on The
cougar and stuff like.

Speaker 10 (54:05):
THAT i wanted to ask BEFORE i.

Speaker 4 (54:08):
Asked the question about The cougar about The. ROCKETS i
am excited about The cougar's basketball. PROGRAM i can't wait
For nopember third to get. Here but just to dig, It,
matt you, know he's talking about one honesty from the
teams about injuries and stuff like.

Speaker 7 (54:24):
That and this is coming from.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
A man That ross says.

Speaker 4 (54:27):
Lies all the. Time i'm not.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
Sure, yeah you, know.

Speaker 7 (54:31):
You know.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
What that's.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
Right you know, What, Chris i'm a. Phony i'm one
hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
PHONY i lie all the, time and yet when my teams,
LIE i get mad at.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Them so that's, right call me.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
Out you know. What i'm sorry For landy all four
times a day at, least you, know, Man.

Speaker 8 (54:47):
I've known you for thirty. YEARS i appreciate, you love, you, sure, Sure.

Speaker 4 (54:51):
But the QUESTION i had is the like a like
a second cousin wants.

Speaker 8 (54:55):
Removed the QUESTION i had was.

Speaker 4 (54:58):
On, tuesday that team that shall be remain unnamed that
comes on after you at two o'clock in your last
hour segment usually Had Josh hater on, there and they
were asking simple, questions interesting, questions but you, know and
some of them are. Personal but one question came up
to my mind That i've never, heard and one of

(55:19):
the two of you may can give an insight on.
It but if, not the next time you have sparks
on there or have a picture on, There i'd like
to know what happens OUT i know what happens in the,
dugout but what happens out in the bullpens here in the?
Game are they really focused on the? Game are they're
talking about? Pitches are they talking about where they're going to?
Dinner they're removed from the game some what goes on

(55:41):
out in the bullpen while the game's going? On and
that's a Question i'd like to have answered sometimes if
you ever think about, it we'll do, it for.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
Sure we have a lot of relievers come on the
show and Thanks chrystal the phone. Call it varies between,
athletes it varies between. TEAMS i would, say And i'm
going to paint with a broad brush on. This it
feels like it's a nomination of chit chat of. Life
what's going on in the, Game when is the bullpen
phone going to? Ring who's gonna get warmed? Up who
needs a? Day and the throw who. DOESN'T i would,

(56:11):
say it's not a lecture out. There it's also not
a comedy. Store it's kind of a little bit of a.

Speaker 7 (56:17):
Both. Maybe.

Speaker 8 (56:18):
YEAH i mean you see the the videos where they're
they're all sitting up on the bench and they're watching the.
Game now first three or four, innings there's probably. Not
it's probably more of the, hey let's just chat and.
Whatever you, know if you're getting your bullpen warmed up
in the second, inning well you got bigger. Problems so

(56:39):
that'd be a great. STORY i wish from it'll never
happen because from a, liability they're not gonna let a
reporter go sit down the awesome great story About, sure
there's a lot of a lot of you, KNOW i
used to know some astros relievers that would do some
crazy stuff in the in the club, ouse stuff that
we can't say on the, air but just, jokes pranks
all the. Time there's some of that going. On but

(57:00):
BUT i think, nowadays because people are watching and there's more,
visibility it's it's probably about as tame and you, know.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
Yeah in twenty twenty, five it's probably significantly more lame than,
say going back When Raleigh fingers And Goose cottage were
closing out, games that'd be fair to. Say let me
get To david And kingwin before we take a time out. Here,
david you're on seven ninety and good morning to.

Speaker 13 (57:23):
You, Hey, matt good morning to.

Speaker 14 (57:25):
You And.

Speaker 13 (57:26):
Joseph glad glad you're on the show this. Morning first of,
all start all, Saying, Joseph i've been following you for
a long time AND i appreciate all The cougar, updates,
news breaking. News you're definitely appreciated out of here the.

Speaker 8 (57:39):
Community.

Speaker 13 (57:40):
YEAH i got two questions And i'll spin them off
and y'all can answer. Them first, off both, Y'all matt And,
joseph how do y'all feel Pre milos coming back then
before you did the needle go up or stay the,
same or do y'all feel good either? Way Before papa

(58:02):
went to a and m, uh how y'all feel about?
That and my second question, is is it seems like
the last two or three seasons or, Years Clyde drexler
hasn't been around the program as much in my? Eyes
And i've asked that. Question i'm with the U h
a couple of sites and many they won't even post.

(58:25):
IT i Just i'm not being. NEGATIVE i JUST i
haven't seen Him like you see A keeme out there a.
Lot you rarely See clyde out there. Anymore with the
with the basketball. Program was there some bad blood that
didn't the obvious when he was? Coaching but does something
happen that maybe we don't know? About and maybe it's just,
me BUT i just haven't Seen clyde around the program

(58:46):
last quite.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
Three seasons or.

Speaker 8 (58:48):
So, Yeah, david AND i appreciate that you got.

Speaker 1 (58:50):
IT i don't know all the. ANSWERS i can. Tell
he was In San, antonio was he?

Speaker 8 (58:54):
NOT i believe he.

Speaker 9 (58:55):
Was.

Speaker 1 (58:55):
YEAH i don't Think clyde lives here. Anymore the LAST
i had Heard clyde lived In. Atlanta his wife's family
is in that part of the, country so that could
be part of the reason.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
Why but client was never always. AROUND i, mean, frankly
nobody was around when the team.

Speaker 8 (59:14):
Sucked, yeah but lately He's, yeah there's more visible. Guys you,
Know i've seen you, know at one Point OTIS i, seen,
yeah team you See, davis Dwy. Davis who else Read gettis?
Stuff you know the? Broadcast, uh. Mischaw, SO i mean
there's there's Been.

Speaker 1 (59:34):
YEAH i would just, say don't read. ANYTHING i don't
believe there's any game when you go To San. Antonio
that's obviously a HUGE i want to be.

Speaker 8 (59:41):
Around it's not A Michael young. Situation, now there was
some bad blood between that bad was because of the. Way,
uh but between The dicky era And kelvin you, know
they had some stuff going, on but that's actually mended
over the. Years SO i don't think there's anything but,
yeah what was your favorite Pop isaac's moment as A
cougar when he.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
Put his hands At Cougar.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
Pop, No i'm never a fan of a, player regardless of,
school regardless of his mind or not leaving to go
to THE. Nba WHEN i watch him enough And i've
Called milosh's end games very very good basketball, player BUT
i know what a pro is AND i never watched,
him WHETHER i was calling the game or just watching

(01:00:23):
on television or seeing in, person, going this is a
kid that Can't it needs to get THE nba. Tomorrow
and when you leave early and you're not in that,
situation you're only asking for. Trouble AND i think he
went and tested the. WATERS i think he went to the,
combine did not get great out particularly. Well and, Frankly
Jonathan joseph AND i, owe money is back home for.

(01:00:45):
YOU i don't know what it's gonna, be but it's
not like you're going back to the poorhouse and going from,
OH nba money to.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
Zero he's gonna have something when he's at you of, age.

Speaker 8 (01:00:52):
Right And dave ask how you how we feel Pre milo's.
Decision this is big For houston because now you went
from if you Kept, pop then you Had pop And Kingston.
Flemings now you Have. Milos he's experience is going to
be his team With, emanuel and now you can Use
milo's to sort of bring along the freshman rather than

(01:01:13):
having to throw the freshman in THERE a lot more
And milos that end of the year was certainly not
The milos we saw In november In, december and he
played his way into being at least a possible second
round draft. Pick so getting him, back we know How
kelvin uses the point, guard the value he puts into that.
POSITION i think this is huge and that puts, now

(01:01:35):
in my, opinion them from being a team THAT i
thought would have been a Second weekend regardless whether they
had him or, not to a team now that is
A final four team and it can win it because
that's how much of an IMPACT i think he'll make
in year. Two Point guards With kelvin make tremendous strides
in that second, year AND i think that we're going
to see the same thing With.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
Milos All, Right texans offensive cordat or new, One nick
spoke moments ago about WHY cj wasn't. Throwing we'll have
some details on that next eleven thirty On Sports talk seven.
Eighty All, right intrepid beat Reporter Joseph torti From The
chronicle hanging out with us. Today we Got i'm sorry
he's coming up at twelve. Thirty The news At noon
is coming. Up in twenty five Minutes Jonathan, alexander who's

(01:02:19):
your comrade over at The, chronicle quoting him twenty minutes.
Ago TEXANS Oc Nick cayley ON. Cj strode, quote no concerns.
Whatsoever we do a game here on the Show monday Through,
thursday we called It believe it Or.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
Not fridays we do hellya or?

Speaker 1 (01:02:34):
Not what do you think.

Speaker 8 (01:02:37):
Believe it or? Not but come, on, MAN i, mean
just gimme, look and this is as a, journalist give
me a little. SOMETHING i, mean just squash the, speculation
the Concern just lay it out. There, look the dude's
on a specific. Plan he had a minor. PROCEDURE i,

(01:02:58):
mean it's clearly nothing uh physically the visible did you?
SEE i, mean the guys out, there just calm your fan.
Base AND i don't even, know you, KNOW i haven't
been on special to see. That if they're upset or.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
Versans twitter is different than logically logically thinking text And.
Twitter you they never want to hear bad, information so
they're going to always go on the positive side of.
Things so The Astros twitter is the other, side and
they're usually, negative, Right so it.

Speaker 8 (01:03:26):
Depends, YEAH i, mean and you, know like for The,
Astros brian McTaggart And Chandler. Roma you, KNOW i always
like when there's some some stuff going on with the
astros and they're not getting the full story and the
way people start attacking them and what they want to
hear and what they don't. Hear BUT i, mean, YEAH

(01:03:47):
i figured this was gonna happen because you've been in
these press scruns swords and you're gonna ask, it and
you could ask it a million different difference and you're
still gonna get the same, thing or they're going to tell, You,
hey that's that's our. Story that's what we're standing, by
that's what we're sticking with.

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
Now When gordia was with us about forty minutes, ago
his was either he had something done procedurally which would
be far from a, normal or HE cj is being a.
Diva and, look quarterbacks and wide receivers are the two
biggest diva positions and in THE nfl generally. Speaking but
if he's putting the, path if he's putting the jersey

(01:04:25):
on in the shorts and walking out with the helmet,
on that's that's not being a.

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
Diva that's THAT'S i think the doctors saying don't throw, Right.

Speaker 8 (01:04:35):
YEAH i. DON'T i don't SEE i don't see that
as being a diva is not even being.

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
There, correct Like Laramie. Tuncil, YEAH i.

Speaker 8 (01:04:41):
Mean these are, voluntary so that that's probably if you
look at everything as a reasonable, Person, right it's got
it's got to be something was done in the off.
Season AND i get it if you don't want to,
say but if it was. Made and this is my
thing Whenever i'm dealing with, Schools i'm, like, look IF

(01:05:02):
i know something or IF i, don't don't downplay. It
if you're not going to say, anything just don't say
it at. All but then don't say it's something, small
but then it turns out to be something bigger down the.
ROAD i. Don't i'm not at The. Texans i'm. NOT
i don't have any inside knowledge over. THERE i just
think that this is this is probably what they. Do
this is how they do, it this is how they

(01:05:24):
but what what happens.

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
Did AND i know they answered.

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
This i'm Gonna i'm like a trial attorney asking a.

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
Witness did social.

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
Media change our? Teams not our, team not only The houston,
teams but sports teams in, general they they either don't
tell the truth and lie or they just don't want
to say. Anything and what are they afraid? Of are
they afraid of the intelligence getting back to their? Opponents

(01:05:55):
are they? GOING i, MEAN i can't AS i said
this in the first hour of the, show IF cj
had something done, today would it raise some eyebrowser in THE?

Speaker 3 (01:06:04):
Nfl of?

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
Course would it be abnormal or a team or another
quarterback that's never had a problem with? This of course.
Not BUT i guarantee you if there was, something if
he had something cleaned, Out let's, say, hey had could
you have you can't have? Chips can?

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
YOU i get.

Speaker 1 (01:06:18):
You you can have your shoulder Clean, yeah if your
shoulder was cleaned out and it was done thirty days,
ago forty five days, ago that doesn't mean there's Any
there would be no reservation about him being ready to
go come training camp. TIME i can guarantee you that
the teams in THE nf on The texans schedule are not, going,
oh he got his shoulder cleaned. Out we now know

(01:06:40):
what to do to go after. Him i'm telling, you
if he's one hundred percent, healthy they know what to.
Do sack the quarterback if the shoulder gets. Hurt oh,
well what if it's a. Misdirection maybe it's not even the.
Shoulder what if he can't go out, there and you,
KNOW i maybe it's a. Knee maybe they scoped his.
KNEE i don't. KNOW i, mean it could be any
number of. Days, yeah he's on a you can you
can say he's on a on a throwing schedule.

Speaker 8 (01:07:00):
Something but, MAYBE i, MEAN i don't. Know you just don't.

Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
Throw, yeah, yeah you hate to, speculate but they invite
speculation when YOU i don't, KNOW i just don't take
it at face value of, all no.

Speaker 8 (01:07:12):
Concerns but to your, point the way social, now the
teams also want to control the. MESSAGE i mean that's
sort of they hire in house, now they have in house.
Reporters they they do, things they do their own. Story
so sometimes now they control their own message and they
put the stuff. Out but in this, case it's just
a matter of being about as vague as you can bustleek.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
Me all, Right so again that's, Uh Nick, KAYLEY i
don't BELIEVE cj is going to speak during this. Time
he's not required to do, so like and these are
all voluntary. Things so everything has been on a voluntary.
Basis but, YEAH cj was in the shorts and the
shirt he was handing, off but it Was Davis mills
and some other. GUY i never heard of doing a
lot of the throwing during drills. Today, YEAH i JUST

(01:07:58):
i don't, know but we We we're not looking to,
probe but just a little more forthcoming.

Speaker 8 (01:08:04):
Things something gets me and this is major. Apple, wait
a few years ago when he was, coach they went
In Greg ward's, starter he's a quarter and he's, like,
ah there's a quarterback. Competition i'm, like, no there. Isn't,
YEAH i, mean it's just some of the silly games
that some of the schools, play whether it's college, pros
and they don't want to to acknowledge something that that

(01:08:26):
really could be just something. Minor if you get it
out of the, way say, hey he's our, starter or
he had this procedure, Done, fine move, on it's no
longer a. Story the news cycle will move. On by doing,
this it's going to. CONTINUE i don't know how many
more of these they. HAVE i think they goes Into
june right. Camp what happens if he doesn't do anything

(01:08:46):
the rest of the week or whenever the media has.
Access then he comes back In. June so here's WHAT i.

Speaker 1 (01:08:51):
Hear if he does throw a mini, CAMP i guarantee
that people were, like, WELL i told you it was
a big, deal and that really frankly accents defends our
argument of if it was no big, deal then just
tell it was no big, deal.

Speaker 15 (01:09:04):
Just gives The Matt thomas show something to talk. About
it's fine. AGAIN i don't believe it's anything. DIVISH i
just think it's child got cleaned, out not feeling.

Speaker 1 (01:09:14):
Great doctor, says stay off throwing the, football and let
me tell you the amount of times they throw the
football over a work week forgetting About. Sundays that doesn't
surprise me at. All it's like, pictures let to skip
a time through their. Rotation but, good they, say you know,
what we're worried about your number. Pitch you've thrown your workout.
Days take a, skip skip a. Start that makes perfect

(01:09:38):
sense to. Me well that's all you. Know but you know,
what it's not just The, texans not just The. Astros
it's about ninety five percent of teams in sports eleven
forty three On Sports talk, cety we have constant rumors
and speculation about how the new college football playoff will
come into play if it indeed goes to sixteen, teams

(01:09:59):
will get you some thoughts on that next eleven forty,
three we'll wake the strippers up in seventeen.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
Minutes is your wife in the?

Speaker 8 (01:10:04):
Car you know we had this discussion. Already. CAR i told, Her,
Hey i'm going. In don't know what that segment. Is
so it's it's, very very very. Easy it's just wake them.
Up and now at twelve, thirty we gotta.

Speaker 1 (01:10:15):
Apologize if we needn't, apologize and this is, Torta i'll
be happy to do that seven on, three two, one, two,
five seven. Ninety there are too many people that love
college athletics that know Who Greg sankee. Is college, commissioners generally,
speaking just go under the radar unless you're the commissioner
of the most powerful sports. League what is The Matt thomas,

(01:10:35):
Show JOSEPH toarti with us. Here we're gonna wake the
strippers up in about ten minutes from. Now we'll get
back to some astros conversation in the neon, hour and
then we Have i'm sorry he's coming up at twelve.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
Thirty joseph you've got into a few scrapes in your.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
Day so if you want to apologize some, people we
got some your opportunity coming up in forty minutes from,
now so you better be ready thinking about.

Speaker 16 (01:10:53):
It.

Speaker 1 (01:10:53):
Okay So greg thankye is floating out a variety of.
Things we've. Heard sixteen is sixteen is a four conclusion? Correct, yes,
Okay so we have two options. Here we have four.
Spots go to THE, ac to The big, ten four
to THE sec that's. Eight two go to THE acc

(01:11:13):
two go to The big twelve that picks it at.
Twelve you have the automatic qualifier right at, thirteen and
you have three open. Spots then you have some other people,
saying let's give the four conferences automatic, one the fifth
being the power group of. Five that's five and eleven open.

(01:11:34):
Spots and everybody has their own opinion about what fits
their conference the. Best Brent, yormark The big twelve, commissioner
believes the five plus eleven. Model it fits them. Best
some are, saying don't ask for, that because guess, What
you're then inviting eight or nine of the remaining eleven
spots to be filled By big ten and OR sec.

(01:11:56):
Team so in your mind what model fits, best and
what model fits best for schools that happened to be
in The Big twelve, conference of which you cover The
university Of, houston And i'm a fan and alumni of
The university Of.

Speaker 8 (01:12:08):
Houston, WELL i mean the amount of power right now
that's between THE sec and The big, TENANTS i, mean
they can they're controlling. THIS i think it's fascinating that
we're in the off season and they had an entire
week of headlines out Of florida at The. Razor it was.
Crazy you, KNOW i am talking, about, well should we

(01:12:29):
even be in THE ncaa to you, know this is how?
We how? WE i mean they passed out packets. YESTERDAY
i don't know if you saw. This it was like
an entire it's called a schedule of regular season. Gauntlet
they wanted the media to look at what it is
the metrics of playing AN sec. Schedule so all this

(01:12:50):
is coming. OUT i think the five plus, eleven you,
know everybody's from The big. Twelve you, know they've, said,
look that's the way we want to. GO i think
a lot of it right now is coming down down
to the whether you play an eight or nine game conference,
SCHEDULE i think right now The big ten is that nine?

Speaker 1 (01:13:10):
Eight oh that's?

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
Right, yeah big, yeah big.

Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
Ten yeah that's.

Speaker 8 (01:13:12):
Right SO i think that that will play into. Things but,
ultimately you, know what are we? In are we? In
like the tenth year and it started with four and
NOW i mean we've always we've always known there a push.
Yep BUT i think the five plus eleven it will
be the way that that things work. Out and if
you're the other two, leagues if you're The big ten

(01:13:33):
and the excuse, me The big twelve and the THE,
acc is it a perfect, scenario the perfect, world especially
when you consider the the the. Automatics, no BUT i
don't know if you're going to get any. BETTER i
JUST i think that in the, end based on the
street to, schedule that's also going to be, big AND
i think that'll factor. In but there's so many things

(01:13:55):
going on with how how much control or how much
influence the committee's gonna. Have H so something's gonna. Happen
this is gonna change for for TWENTY i guess twenty
twenty six is when it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:10):
Would how does THE acc With, Miami, Clemson Florida, STATE
i mean those are three pretty successful and in some
cases were both In Florida state and In clemson's, case
national championship teams in the last twenty. Years how do
they feel about being in the league that's only gonna

(01:14:31):
have two autmentic?

Speaker 8 (01:14:32):
Qualifiers, WELL i, mean you look at what their league's undergone.
ANYWAY i mean you look at some of the additions
that they've, had the on the bringing in the back
twelve schools AND. SMU i just think that the way
things have gone in college, athletics you, saw you knew

(01:14:53):
there was. Separation you knew that there were certain conferences
that were head and shoulders above the. Other but now
there's this huge. SEPARATION i mean everybody there's clearly. Right you,
know everybody will say the power. TOO i mean it
went from power, five power four to how people are
saying power to, uh.

Speaker 3 (01:15:08):
It is the power too and in many.

Speaker 8 (01:15:10):
Respects and you, so so if you're THE A C,
c you're trying to make sure that you don't fall
any more further back than you already. ARE i think
it's THE i think The big twelve is is the
third team the third conference right, NOW acc is the
fourth and then you have the.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
Rest but but the problem is with. That and, Look
i'm you have ag is in The big, twelve but
if you were to look at just football, related the
history is on THE acc, side.

Speaker 8 (01:15:37):
RIGHT i Mean big twelve loses their two, flagship.

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
Like who is the who is the best? Brand right?
Now big twelve football wise right this? Second probably it's
not an automatic, answer.

Speaker 8 (01:15:52):
Yeah BECAUSE i MEAN i look At Arizona, state but
they're they're just. NEW i mean Until Iowa state is?
It is it Cas?

Speaker 3 (01:15:59):
State who's gonna carry your?

Speaker 8 (01:16:00):
FLAG i, mean you. Don't you don't have and and
that's how they're gonna pitch it, that oh we've got
this great, period but that doesn't do anything for. You,
YEAH i mean you've got to have an. Anchor and
and like you, said THE acc does have these. Teams but,
yeah there's the five plus ELEVEN i think is the
way that they go for. Now and then you, know

(01:16:21):
there's a lot of changes coming and we'll get into,
This i'm, sure BUT i mean they're gonna they're thinking
about messing with THE ncaa basketball tournament going from sixty
eight to maybe. Seventy the cash grab for me, whatever THE.

Speaker 3 (01:16:33):
Tv, YEAH i don't.

Speaker 1 (01:16:35):
Know it's Just i'm still waiting for the moment for
THE sec The Big ten to Invite Notre, Dame Florida
State clemson In miami and say we see all. Later
and obviously that would upset The North carolina's of the,
group the basketball powers of. It but, this as great
as The march, madness isn't as much television dollars it gets,

(01:16:56):
There it still pales in comparison to what college football
brings to television and to the.

Speaker 3 (01:17:01):
Industry and that's why.

Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
They with all due respect To North carolina And kansas
and the other thoroughbreds of college, basketball they just don't.

Speaker 7 (01:17:11):
Matter.

Speaker 1 (01:17:11):
Now some people always tell me, that you, know and
some of My cougars get mad at. Me as awesome
as it is to Follow cougar basketball and see what
they've done and get to the championship game and all
the final fours in a routine, Tournament Eddie noniez And
Willie fritz are carrying a much greater responsibility right now
because you got. To because everything is around television contracts

(01:17:33):
and filling the stadiums and getting the big. Donors you're
not cutting checks for, Basketball you're cutting checks for.

Speaker 8 (01:17:39):
Football, yeah and when you don't fill stadiums and you
don't get that. MONEY i, MEAN i was looking at
the other, day just looking at the history of the revenue,
budgets And houston's made some big, strides but even where
they're at now AND i think they're they're a little
bit around. Ninety, yeah everybody else in the big and

(01:18:00):
this is just The big. Twelve this is the sec
of The big. Ten everybody else in The big twelves
at you, know one, ten one hundred and twenty. MILLION i,
mean that's a significant, gap but that's what happens when
you're not in The power, Five power four for for thirty.
Years and so there's a significant challenge and a lot
of room to to make up because like you, SAID

(01:18:22):
i mean They Eddie nunez's job when he got. Here
they were very upfront is to raise. Money they've got
to and that and that encompasses a lot of, things you,
know the ticket, SALES tv, revenue the media rights deals
at THE uh and that that stuff just doesn't happen.
Overnight so they have a lot of ground on.

Speaker 1 (01:18:40):
Me even a school Like. INDIANA i, know the coach
From indiana WAS i forget his, name it's. Whatever he
was in town for The Bear Brian wards this past
year and as great As indiana basketball has as a national,
reputation How indiana makes its money, football it's, Football kurt
is It kurt's signetti or something like. That it's something
strange him like. That all, Right, uh jose we gotta

(01:19:01):
wake the strippers, up AND i don't expect you to do.
It just sit back and. Relax that's when the strippers are, here.

Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
And we'll get to.

Speaker 1 (01:19:06):
Them we'll get to the news at noon and then
coming up in thirty minutes from, now we're gonna ask
you folks to say you're, sorry because you frankly owe
some people some. Apologies not, You actually you probably, Do.
Jonathan you certainly owe some. Apologies and you KNOW i
live my life apologizing to a lot of. People seven
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Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
Twelve oh four In Age, Town good, morning stern bars.

Speaker 1 (01:19:50):
And walk up loud under three of The Mount thomas showing.
Ross this Is Sports talk seven ninety our Buddy joseph
tour thing in for an hour until one. O'CLOCK i
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Speaker 3 (01:20:01):
Thing want to do it on a regular.

Speaker 8 (01:20:02):
Basis, EH i like my day.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
Job, YEAH i figured as. Much everybody wants somebody else's
job until they come in and try to do. It
LIKE i was, like oh you, MEANTIME i get to
go to cover games and just right about the.

Speaker 3 (01:20:12):
Score that seems pretty.

Speaker 1 (01:20:14):
Easy THEN i realized all the crap behind the, scenes
crape you guys gotta do yeah and have. INTEGRITY i
don't have to have integrity as a show with host
in this program twelve seven On Sports talk Seven anny
Time now for the news at. Noon all, Right the
headlines are very. Simple The texans had OTA's today and

(01:20:35):
Now i've had OTAs for several. Days but this was
an opportunity for the media to take a part and
watch some of the. OTAs C. J stroud did not throw.
Again new offensive Coordinator Nick kayley said quote ON. Cj
stroud not, throwing no concerns. Whatsoever believe him or.

Speaker 8 (01:20:58):
Not it's a, headline but, NO i do not believe.
Something something's, wrong something, wrong something, happened and somebody, said
don't throw.

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
The whole. Scheduling he's on a throwing. Schedule that's What
Demiko ryan said a couple of days ago and buying
that it is what it. Is so they'll have mini
camp coming up next month and to be off another.
Month a's that and then it's training camp. Time two
thousand twenty. Five as The, texans it's still amazing to
me not getting a lot of respect middle of the

(01:21:34):
pack in THE. Afc still teams in front of them
that consider to be legitimate threats to win THE afc
would Be Baltimore, buffalo of, Course Kansas city DEFENDING afc,
champions and a lot of folks are very robust on
The Los Angeles chargers and The Cincinnati bengals who didn't
even make the playoffs last. YEAR a lot of good
teams in front of. THEM i think the offensive line

(01:21:56):
is the main. CONCERN i don't THINK. Cj stroud's, ailman
whatever it is right, now should we have a concern
unless he doesn't throw next, month and then we can
spend the next month after that wigging out About white
and throw During OTAs And white didn't throw During Texas Mini.

Speaker 8 (01:22:12):
Camp, Yeah july is a little bit more of a
little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
Of a warning. Sign, yeah that's for. Sure astros last
night fall to The seattle to the excuse me The
Tampa Bay race by a score of thirteen to. Three
Brian king got. Crushed really good bullpen not so much last.
Night king and friends did not do a job Forst
whitley struggled as.

Speaker 3 (01:22:35):
WELL i feel like.

Speaker 1 (01:22:37):
The chase For Forest whitley in a long term major
league career is probably gonna be pretty short. Lived here
he continues to get hitted. HARD i know he's been
through a lot of, ailments suspensions and heard and that,
whatnot but this move of the bullpen has not paid
much dividend at this.

Speaker 8 (01:22:52):
Point, yeah do you look at your pitching situation as a.
Whole it's a. Rotation, YEAH i could see that the
but you, Know, matt THEY i looked up the, schedule,
right this is a pretty pretty, opportunity you, know teams
that they're playing schedule, Wise Pittsburgh, clan we start to
make some some ground because you, know you do have
a couple of tough series coming, up maybe in the

(01:23:13):
middle Of.

Speaker 1 (01:23:14):
June SO i have they have dropped three or four
to the race so. Far it'll be Fromer valdez on
the mound four and four with AN i. E R
a of three point three. Nine, astros by the, way
do not lose any ground to The Seattle. Mariners they
were playing in a game last night with The Washington.
Nationals it was three to three going to the, tenth
The national score. Six in the top of the tenth

(01:23:37):
they went nine or. Three you like The manford? Rule
anford man at second?

Speaker 8 (01:23:41):
Base what's?

Speaker 1 (01:23:42):
That The manford man? Rule runner at second? Base started
the extra.

Speaker 8 (01:23:45):
Inings, NO i don't like any of that. Stuff, OH
i want TO i want to get. Out, look your
deal is you don't like the war and all those.
Stats that's not. Though that's my. PIPPY i don't like
any of. That just play baseball the way it's meant
to be.

Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
PLAYING i got, YOU i got.

Speaker 1 (01:23:59):
You you're And albatz is gonna face live pitching today
at the. Ballpark could return sometime this. WEEKEND i like.

Speaker 8 (01:24:05):
It it's a good headline because you, know adding a
bat is always a good. Thing but, AGAIN i think
it's gonna take some. Time but having him back in
there get some, runs all?

Speaker 1 (01:24:19):
RIGHT nba from last, night The Indiana pacers really didn't
put up much of a fight last. Night they lost
to The New York. Knicks that means that series of
now three games of two in favor Of. Indiana game
six will be tomorrow night In. Indianapolis are you ready
for potentially In Oklahoma city Versus INDIANA Nba? Final and
it's a terrible question to ask because it really doesn't

(01:24:41):
mean anything in the big, Picture but As america ready
to watch two of the smallest teams market wise in
THE nba compete for a, TITLE.

Speaker 8 (01:24:49):
I Think america likes. That you, know If i'm If
i'm watching, it and Maybe i'm not a HUGE nba,
fan you want. THAT i, mean, yeah The knicks are
a different kind of story because they haven't wanted it
in a. While BUT i like some. VARIETY i don't
want to See Golden state in it every. Year uh you,
know well who was the uh you know some of

(01:25:10):
the other teams that have played more reasons Like, miami Right.
BOSTON i think this is a good. Thing. Uh market, size,
YEAH i mean that's that's factoring in viewership and eyeballs and.
Stuff BUT i think it's gonna be cool to see.
This uh you, Know, Uh, Indiana i'm not you, know
after watching them last, NIGHT i think they win next.

Speaker 1 (01:25:32):
Game they better or not taking it back To new
yorkuse that place will.

Speaker 8 (01:25:35):
Be that's what you. Want so if you Go Oklahoma,
City New, york THE nba gets what it, wants absolutely.

Speaker 1 (01:25:42):
Does and by the, way THE, nba and this is
for any of us that even pay attention to, THIS
i don't even know if the general fan. Does THE
nba doesn't care what the ratings. Are they ever got their.
Money they've got THEIR tv deal kicking in next. Year
that's gonna give EVERY nba team millions and millions of.
Dollars they don't care if you don't watch or.

Speaker 7 (01:25:57):
Not they just.

Speaker 8 (01:25:58):
DON'T i just want to See halliburton in the. Finals
that'd be kind of.

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
Cool do you think his suspension was long?

Speaker 7 (01:26:04):
Enough?

Speaker 8 (01:26:05):
Yeah just let him be a. Dad, yeah, MAN i
get what he.

Speaker 1 (01:26:08):
Did, Yeah, dad but don't go being you're like four
foot nine going up to talk To Giannis dent the
goop on the way that you. Did.

Speaker 8 (01:26:13):
Stop, yeah that was probably not a smart move, now
but but you had to do. Something So dad got
put in the. Corner that's that's.

Speaker 1 (01:26:19):
Enough and real, quick since you're here at you of
H todda winning is going to be back for the
twenty twenty six baseball.

Speaker 8 (01:26:24):
Season, yeah year number. Sixteen they, uh you, know regional start, Today.
Houston this is a six year that they're not in.
IT i know that's that's a little bit of a.
DOWNER a lot of people thought that there'd be a.
Change he's got one year, left so, basically you, know
this time next year if you're not if YOU'RE u
OF h and you're not in the, tournament then probably

(01:26:45):
be a coaching. Change all.

Speaker 1 (01:26:46):
Right there you go a year later to most people, thought,
yeah those are the news and noon. Headlines twelve fourteen
On Sports talk seven ninety. Nine listen in fifteen, Minutes,
houston if you're listening to the, show and for, that
we thank. You you're going to have to apologize for
things you've said and done this, week.

Speaker 3 (01:27:05):
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Saying seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven ninety will do.
That at the bottom of the, Hour Yankees keith has
an anything goes froddy. Question, hmm that could be very,
interesting he. Say he, says it's gonna help me with my.
Relationship do you have problems in your relationship right? Now
whatever he's gonna, say it's gonna help, me SO i
Got i'm here for. It is he gonna give you

(01:27:27):
some fatherly, advice some uncle advice help you? Out you never,
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seven one three two one two five seven ninety when C.
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concerns ABOUT cj not throwing. Today do you believe him or?

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Not seven one three two one two five seven ninety
with all, Right, jonathan you're the producer of the. Show
you get to do something that no other producer's ever.
DONE i think we're gonna do a spelling bee During
Helly aaron out at twelve fifty people are gonna call.
In i'm going to give them the word and they
must spell it within ten. Seconds all, right this is
gonna be. FINE i guess. Now these are gonna be

(01:28:10):
words that you everybody has ever. Used these are gonna
be words that wouldn't take a dork staring at a
dictionary for nine months in a row just to get.
Right these are and then the Words i'm using are
under a category THAT i google searched commonly misspelled words
in The National Spelling. Bee give, us give us like
one you know, What i'll give you one word that

(01:28:31):
we won't. Use, okay all, right recommend, mmm, OKAY i
will not use that. Word you know, WHAT i will
use that. Word we'll reward those that listen to the
show right. Now, okay that award is one of the
most misspelled words of The National Spelling. Bee SO i
will say, recommend and then they'll have ten seconds to spell.

(01:28:54):
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soon AS i say the. Word is that? Right IS
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are all words that you should get that if you

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had any sort of education?

Speaker 3 (01:29:16):
Whatsoever would you.

Speaker 7 (01:29:16):
Go to high?

Speaker 3 (01:29:17):
School you went To?

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
Lagrange?

Speaker 3 (01:29:18):
Right, NO i went TO i was. Close, no That
waslgrange arrival?

Speaker 1 (01:29:23):
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god you, know are you being bougie about Bass? Drop
i'm saying we're Not. Lagrange that's like Saying i'm From. Smithville,
Okay so who was Your who was Bass drop's rival?
Then actually at one point it was Uh Austin? Westlake
what what when in the, eighties, eighties? Nineties so who's
the rival right? Now if we were to go To

(01:29:44):
Basstrop by the, way are you in The Bastrop High
School wall Of?

Speaker 8 (01:29:47):
FAME i know where this is. Going i'm. NOT i
know you, are AND.

Speaker 1 (01:29:51):
I am WHEN i wasn't trying to Say Taylor High,
school shut your ball mass.

Speaker 8 (01:29:55):
Up, seriously that's Terrible. Taylor but No i'm. Not but
that's that's a slight omission on their.

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Part who's the most famous bass job high school? Graduate you?

Speaker 8 (01:30:07):
Know somebody?

Speaker 7 (01:30:08):
Else?

Speaker 8 (01:30:08):
No we actually there's a like a founder of A
burger place like back in the. Day but recently we
got a guy drafted by the forty nine ers in
the second, round so really probably him For, collins so real.

Speaker 3 (01:30:22):
Quick one of my friends from high.

Speaker 1 (01:30:24):
SCHOOL i was a third graduating class At Mad craik nineteen,
ninety so we had eighty eight eighty nine ninety ninety.
One so eighty eight to ninety one we kind of
stick together doing a lot of. Things. SOCIALLY i don't
do a lot from Because i'm, busy but that group
eighty eight through ninety. One so one of my friends
On facebook wants us to have an eighties get. Together

(01:30:48):
she wants us to go to a skating.

Speaker 12 (01:30:50):
Rink.

Speaker 1 (01:30:54):
Roller, YES i don't know if that's going to, be
if that's going to. End and, well that's a lot of.
Things that's people between the ages of fifty one and fifty.

Speaker 8 (01:31:06):
Five those are broken hips right. There you fall hurt.

Speaker 1 (01:31:09):
Yourself so NOW i understand eighties music goofiness because we
lived the skating when we were, younger, right all of,
us but a lot of us. DID i just. DON'T
i don't want to go and fall on my ass
and can cuss myself and break. Anything i'd rather just
if we're gonna do eighty, stuff just dance to, it

(01:31:30):
or sit and talk and say how's life.

Speaker 8 (01:31:33):
Been sounds like you need to tell her you're sorry
in the next segment when you say.

Speaker 1 (01:31:38):
This, oo So, lisa if you're, LISTENING i don't Believe
lisa Is i'm, sorry BUT i don't think what do you?
Think do you, Think, jonathan think we Should do you
think a bunch of fifty one to fifty five year
old should be playing going to a, dance to a
skating rink for a, reunion get together a skating?

Speaker 3 (01:31:52):
Rink, yeah you do know.

Speaker 5 (01:31:53):
A skating rink is still? You oh, no, no y'all
gonna mess up all type of ankles and.

Speaker 8 (01:31:57):
Everything, Okay well every time we go to the. Gallery. YEAH
I i point to my wife and, said, HEY i
want to go to the ice, skinning and thankfully she
talks me out of it BECAUSE i probably would break
a arm. Something you just can't do that. Now just like.
Pickleball you asked me about playing, PICKABLE i don't Pick.

Speaker 1 (01:32:16):
You can't get, hurting BUT i don't want. To if
you ever GET i got news for. You if you
ever get hurt in, pickleball, pickleball you should be. Embarrassed,
okay all, right let's do. That let's go to the.
Phones keith is with the sun set on the. High,
Keith how are y'all? Good?

Speaker 10 (01:32:30):
Okay SO i got something for all the males who
love women and who love. MUSIC i got a list
of three, songs And i'll give you the artist when
it's go. With it's going to help your, Relationship jonathan and, You, Matt, Mike.
Joseph these are the three. Songs, Yeah I'm one is

(01:32:51):
Called joy And. Repetition get out your yellow no pad
and your number two. Pencil one it's Called joy And.
Repetition who is CALLED I Hate? You and the third
one is the greatest love song. Ever it's called A
Door and the artist is the greatest, musician the greatest,

(01:33:12):
songwriter the greatest long live, Performer Prince Rogers. Nelson, Secondly
i'm gonna get to my Son Aaron, Arson. Judge he's
gonna win The Triple. Crown The yankees are gonna win
The World, series and the Overpaid dodgers that you ridiculous

(01:33:33):
is gonna win one hundred and twenty. Games we're gonna
sweep them this. Weekend that's ALL i. Got pay, Down,
JONATHAN i got the. Lyrics pour the lyrics On. Google
that's the greatest love song.

Speaker 3 (01:33:46):
Ever all, Right i'm just gonna tell you right. Now thank, You.
Keith go To Marvin, gaye will be just fine.

Speaker 1 (01:33:52):
And like that out real?

Speaker 3 (01:33:53):
Quick is?

Speaker 1 (01:33:53):
It marvin horrible? Person though, no his dad was Shouting.
Jill But Marvin gay had his issues. Too but are great, songs?

Speaker 7 (01:34:03):
Right?

Speaker 8 (01:34:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:34:04):
Absolutely christian on seven on A, Hello, christian hold on,
one hold, On i'm doing a major market radio. Show
what AM i?

Speaker 8 (01:34:15):
Gonna what AM? I?

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
WHAT i got time to hold on for?

Speaker 4 (01:34:16):
Here, well that's.

Speaker 17 (01:34:19):
Amis i'm, sorry but we down here In Galveston. County
we in the middle of a crazy lightning storm and
we just heard a explosion like sound of FAKE.

Speaker 1 (01:34:31):
O thank you for?

Speaker 3 (01:34:32):
THAT i? Think, sorry, yeah sorry for.

Speaker 8 (01:34:34):
That sounds like.

Speaker 17 (01:34:37):
A couple of questions to ask you and Mister dorte
of The. Chronicle first of, all when it comes down
to THE nba ON t N, T i know that
y'all probably don't care about the playoffs after The rockets got,
Eliminated but with THE nba on TN t having its final,
WEEKEND i just gotta, ask what do you think people

(01:34:59):
will remember about aside from inside THE. Nba and also
when it comes down to The astros last night getting
whooped by the, race do you think that they should
be embarrassed by losing to a team that plays at
a minor league ballpark or it's this motivation for how
they don't treat them this.

Speaker 8 (01:35:17):
Weekend Thanks Christian.

Speaker 1 (01:35:26):
Christians a one one of our old. Timers he he
laughs at his. Stuff by the, way do we Have
are we in a hurricane here right? Now we had tornado,
warnings but that was going on. OUTSIDE i just saw
lightning WHEN i went to the restaurant with love. It Poor,
christian he's the other And lamar getting his ass kicked.

Speaker 8 (01:35:40):
Up medication though that he's calling into The Matt Thomas
show while all that going.

Speaker 1 (01:35:44):
On the man's life is in peril and he is
still calling the. Show for, that we thank. Him inside
THE nba is the GREATEST tv, show pregame show in
the history of. Television it's still gonna be around next.
Year they're all talking about it was a great. Run
it's gonna be AN espn next. Year it's gonna be
the same. Version they're gonna record it In. Atlanta Ten
turner is gonna produce. It they're gonna send it via
satellite To New, york To New york, wherever Or, Bristol.

(01:36:06):
Connecticut they're gonna put it. On it's gonna have the
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carter was calling in real. Quick Uh, carter you own
two skating? Rinks is this?

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Accurate this is?

Speaker 7 (01:36:21):
True, yes?

Speaker 3 (01:36:21):
Sir do you want to.

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Have fifty one to fifty five year olds at your
skating rink potentially hurting themselves and damaging our?

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Bodies, Look, matt we.

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Do it all the.

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sixty year.

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Olds we got all all people coming on.

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Skate we do adult.

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Nights uh my, Boy, carl he get, out he gets out.

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There he's about sixty years.

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Old he can skate around, circus, right all these young.

Speaker 8 (01:36:45):
Guns i'm telling you.

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All, right do you have an icy machine in your skating?
Rink of COURSE i, do do you? Really is it
always working and?

Speaker 3 (01:36:55):
Fine always, working always?

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Fine we sell the crap out of.

Speaker 1 (01:36:59):
Them, okay so you're telling me so if the fifty
year old crowd wants to hang, out we're gonna we're
gonna be completely safe and and nothing's gonna have potentially harmssed. There,
yeah for. Sure all, Right, car you know where to find,
Me thank you very. MUCH i haven't BEEN i haven't

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Two what was last time you were on skates SINCE.

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I WHEN i was?

Speaker 5 (01:37:41):
Sixteen i've been skating SINCE i was, eight, Though, OKAY
i gotta see you on, Skates.

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Matt, Really, no you. Don't, yes What you're not gonna
see me on?

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HERE i had your, Producer Cole thompson and yesterday and

(01:40:14):
he said the fact THAT. C. J stroud did not
throw two days, ago he was worried point zero zero
zero zero zero zero. One today after finding out that
cd did not throw again, today Mister, wexer he is
at point zero zero zero zero. TWO i am significantly
higher than, that But i'm also not significantly. CONCERNED i

(01:40:34):
am significantly puzzled by the fact that if there was
something that was done with his shoulder this, year that
they would try to be so coy and frankly hide.

Speaker 18 (01:40:44):
It, well they could be hiding it by not having
him out there at all and we wouldn't know anything was.

Speaker 1 (01:40:49):
Wrong but he is.

Speaker 18 (01:40:49):
Attending he did participate today a little bit more than.
Yesterday did some team drills on each of the snaps
that he received the, ball and they were about eight
in a. Row, okay, WELL i don't know if this
is the exact, order BUT i think it went something like, this,
handoff handoff, pitch fumbled, snap handoff handoff.

Speaker 7 (01:41:08):
Pitch.

Speaker 18 (01:41:08):
Nice so there were no throws again today FOR. Cj,
Stroud Davis, mills And Keaton slovis handled.

Speaker 1 (01:41:13):
All the who the third one's, Name.

Speaker 18 (01:41:15):
Keaton, slovis former USC qb who was with the team last,
year did not play and got it we'd not play
this year unless some dramatic bad things. Happened the only
concern is there's probably a reason why he's not throwing
beyond What demico gave as an answer On, wednesday and
the NEW, Oc Nick, kyley gave us an answer. Today you,
know he said he was not concerned at, all which

(01:41:36):
was good to hear Because i'm totally in agreement with.
That there's no reason for. Concern but there's a reason it's.
Happening they're not resting, him they're not limiting his, Throws
like WHY i have him make one hundred throws In
may when we know he's going to be making. Hundreds
that to me is not the. Reason, Nope i've never
seen any quarterback get treated like.

Speaker 3 (01:41:55):
That there is a.

Speaker 1 (01:41:56):
Reason we just don't know what it. Is and it's
not far fetched or irresponsible when you have media availability
the limited times you have in the springtime and or
early summer to, say if your quarterback's not, throwing why
is he not? Throwing it's not out of the. ORDINARY
i don't know if thirty one OTHER nfl starting quarterbacks
are not. THROWING i haven't taken a. Look i'm sure

(01:42:18):
you may have time between now and two o'clock to
look for that.

Speaker 3 (01:42:20):
Answer but.

Speaker 1 (01:42:22):
The answer That tamiko gave two days ago about there
is a schedule and today was the day was not
a day to. THROWING i don't think was completely. Honest
and there may be a schedule that says do not
throw for two. Months if that's a, schedule then that
makes a lot of. Sense but throwing schedule and not
doing on a day where there are cameras and peeping,
reporters there is a little.

Speaker 3 (01:42:44):
Awkward.

Speaker 18 (01:42:44):
Yeah one of the other quarterbacks we did not see
on the practice field today and did not see on
the practice field On, wednesday the Draftee Graham. Mertz it
appeared he was throwing On thursday when we were not.
There because obviously their in house crew gets video from.
Practices media is not allowed to. Attend they're also shooting
the entire practice whereas we are. Not Now i'm mocking

(01:43:06):
a little bit all the snaps THAT cj took today
that we're all handoffs and running. Plays but it gives
you a good idea of his. Mobility it allows additional
guesswork to what might be holding him back if it
is something, physical and it certainly doesn't appear to be his,
foot his, knee his, legs his lower half in any,
way probably isn't something in the core or else he

(01:43:26):
wouldn't be turning and handing off or pitching in the
way that he. Is doesn't look like there's a, playing
big time amateur doctor.

Speaker 1 (01:43:33):
Here, well he's also a good teammate, too because if
you've been told not to. Throw that means you probably
don't need to be out there at, all because that's
what you're primarily there. For you're not there to go
practice your pitching or. Handoff you're there to throw the.
Football SO i give him credit for even being out
there to begin. With and that's the good part is
that he's you, know we were trying to speculate earlier
about this is him being a diva and not one to.

(01:43:53):
Throw TODAY i don't think that's the case at, All
SO i give him credit for putting on the shorts
and the t sh and whatever the case may. Be
quarterbacks who.

Speaker 18 (01:44:02):
Don't attend voluntary OTAs when they're the, starter they're doing it. Wrong,
yeah there's there's no other way to. Say As Aaron,
rodgers That's brett fare before. Him there's probably a handful
of other folks have done. It, fore it's a young,
team they've got a brand new Oc CJ's a young.
Quarterback everything about it screams you don't have a reason
to not.

Speaker 1 (01:44:22):
Attend so he.

Speaker 18 (01:44:23):
Is you've got his walkie talkie out there When nick
is running the plays out there To davis And, keaton
so he's very. Involved but there's clearly a reason why
he is. Not isn't currently throwing in front of. US
i doubt he's throwing like normal away from.

Speaker 3 (01:44:37):
Us he's.

Speaker 1 (01:44:38):
Not there no. Chance so you we all play amateur
psychologists on this. SHOW i think IT'S i think today's medical,
staffs and this is going to The, astros is going
to The, texans this is going to probably sixty to
seventy percent of sports teams in general just believe not

(01:44:59):
providing information is their. Way they can justify it by,
saying you know, what we keep things sometime with things in.
HOUSE i don't like. IT i don't think it's the
service to its fan. BASE i don't think there's panic
because if there is something that was, done he got
a shoulder clean, out or he was just, told, hey
you got ten nighters and don't. Throw that is very

(01:45:19):
typical of a young. Quarterbacks and three for a guy
that has thrown as many passes as he has in
his young. Life forgetting about two years of The Texans
Ohio state high. School they just say take a, break
and that's.

Speaker 3 (01:45:32):
Okay. Yeah that's WHAT.

Speaker 1 (01:45:33):
I want to know is why why even go to
the let amateur sports radio hosts like, ourselves speculatives to
what could be going.

Speaker 18 (01:45:41):
On that's WHY i would take a little bit from
The kaylee comment saying he's not. Concerned, AGAIN i wasn't concerned.
EITHER i don't know nearly as much as he. Does
he has a full picture of. It so, yeah, today
by the, Way may, thirtieth one hundred days until he's
on the field throwing passes Against Nick kayley's former team
on opening.

Speaker 1 (01:46:00):
Day they have the.

Speaker 18 (01:46:00):
Rams we still have one hundred days until we're. There
whatever the reason, is the, routine he's on, schedule he's
ON i don't believe there's reason for concern that it
keeps them off schedule for being ready to play thirty.

Speaker 1 (01:46:12):
One other teams are not panicking the here ward THAT.
Cj stroud did not throw passes. Today if it's a
month from now or two months from now at training,
camp then there may be aren't eyebrow. Raise if it's
two weeks for the start of the season they're game
planning For Davis, mills.

Speaker 18 (01:46:24):
It's worth noting they will have them for the next two.
Weeks they Got OTA's again next. Week the mandatory mini
camp follows on the eleventh Of june or that, week
and we'll be out there that day and then they're
away all the way up until training camp. Begins if
there's no throwing FOR cj next, week no throwing FOR
cj at mandatory mini, Camp i'm not sounding alarm, bells
but it is noteworthy because we won't see them again

(01:46:46):
for LIKE i, said about six and a half.

Speaker 1 (01:46:47):
Weeks all, right last thing BEFORE i let you go
and get ready for your very impactful two to six.
Show what is the second most interesting thing you saw
today at?

Speaker 18 (01:46:54):
Practice protas probably that they mixed in Tay ursery with
the first unit over at left. Tackle he's our second
round draft. Pick he's getting work on both. Ends he
is a, tackle so getting reps at right tackle with
different second and third. Units but, today as opposed to,
yesterday he was getting work at left tackle with that first,
Unit Cam robinson getting work with that second. Unit very

(01:47:16):
very very very little is decided on that offensive. Line
Maybe howard at right, guard probably nothing. Else so it's
definitely note. Worthy each day we're out there trying to
get a look see on what. Happens AND i certainly
think it's noteworthy That jaden And higgins And jail And
noel look every bit the part of what they did
At iwall, stay what they, were where they were, drafted
and what they've initially been able to. Show higgins wear's eighty,

(01:47:39):
one the number maybe you might associate with a tight.
End he's not a, huge, burly, big huge, guy but
you could you could pass for a tight end for
a player that. Size he's Basically Nico. Collins by the,
Way nico looks ridiculously good already as.

Speaker 1 (01:47:56):
Usual i'd, see how do you come in and say
something's happened to?

Speaker 9 (01:48:01):
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Speaker 1 (01:48:02):
Nico he, WELL i think he's gained ten. Pounds it
looks like he's. SLOW i mean when you, said when
you just said that we would expect.

Speaker 18 (01:48:09):
Nothing, less we WOULD i said to somebody out there,
today Like i'm down with this being the last time
we see him till training. Camp, yeah THERE'S i, MEAN
i appreciate him being one of the veteran. Wideouts it's
a crazy young group of wide receivers they. Have kirk
was not practicing, today but he And kirk are essentially
the veterans of the group at the front of the.
Line what he got on the two to six show

(01:48:31):
today obviously full breakdown of the seven to eight innings
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Night if you were unaware.

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Of nobody wants to make sure you, realize here's what,
Happened here's how it's going to affect him for the
rest of the.

Speaker 1 (01:48:42):
Season, no because you're going to treat it like it's
the end of The world. SHOW i, know sky's, falling,
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hammered and.

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Hear sometimes you run into a team you just don't
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Thing about last night was not only, well she, said
The astros losing wasn't, great but how The ms were
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ON i, mean that wasn't my sole. PURPOSE i just
wanted to make sure everybody. Realized The astros were tied
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ballpark and we'll get To joe's.

Speaker 3 (01:57:28):
Spot his thoughts on this when he meets the. Media
coming up at.

Speaker 1 (01:57:30):
Four is That Jordan alvarez is going to take some live.
PITCHING i believe from some minor. Legers it'll be called
up from Sugar, land so maybe he'll throw to some
guys and maybe that'll help with him and his, recovery
and if he feels, good maybe he'll get some playing
Time saturday Or sunday when The astros finish up the

(01:57:51):
series Of Tampa bay and then they go on the
road for a week to Play pittsburgh And. Cleveland, so
As joseph mentioned a few minutes, ago the schedule is
going to get a little softer, here and it's not
bad because again The astros find themselves just one half
game and right in the midst of a wild card
chase as. Well so hopefully some good news For Jordan
alvaretzku is getting him back in there and getting him
productive will certainly help a team that has been hitting

(01:58:12):
better as of, late especially Jose L, tubang and it
was lesser Extent Christian. Walker one thing The astros have
got to fix is teams are running on The. Astros,
well they're running on one person in, particular, yea on Your.

Speaker 3 (01:58:29):
DIAS i, mean that is not a good.

Speaker 1 (01:58:34):
SITUATION i don't know what his catching numbers are per
se compared to everybody, else But i'm not particularly happy
about what's going on with what's going on behind the.

Speaker 3 (01:58:43):
Dish And janner did hit a home run.

Speaker 1 (01:58:46):
Yesterday he's got six home runs so far this, year
batting two thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:58:50):
Five that's got to get.

Speaker 1 (01:58:51):
Better but his, framing WHICH i think is largely overrated
BECAUSE i think it doesn't take much to be a decent,
framer but it felt like The rays were running and
running and running and running at The astros expense and
not the base running is a huge part of the.

Speaker 3 (01:59:08):
Game but it is a part of the.

Speaker 1 (01:59:11):
Game and if that continues to be an, issue you,
know maybe The astros Win jordan comes. Back maybe they
try to keep third, catchers says Our salas are on this,
team and Let carotini get some more work behind the,
dish because right now teams are going to start building
reputations off of what The astros can't, do and then
what The astros can't do is throw runners. Out i'd

(01:59:36):
be interested to seeing Maybe i'll have time to do
it for the show's over with how The astros do
in terms of caught ceiling as compared to the rest
of the teams In Major League. Baseball but watching it last,
night watching a raise runner on the bases and An
aaron throw to the third base as, well that a
lot of run to. Score it's not one of those
things that as good as The astros defense has, been
there has been one achilles, heel and that is seeing

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runners advanced from FIRST'S i could via the stolen base
seven one, three, two one two five seven. Ninety also
we've got NO nba tonight Because Oklahoma city did win The.
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Saturday it'll be The knicks And Pacers. Indianapolis The pacers
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final score of one to eleven to ninety, four so
it's the three games to lead. There game number six
of that series will Be tomorrow night In, indianapolis if
they have to go to A game seven will Be
monday night In New. York and if you are rooting
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Say if The pacers lose this game tomorrow that The
knicks will be a very heavy favorite to Win game
seven on their home. Floor but as we've seen, before
we've seen teams they go up three to one in
the series lose the next two and Win game. Seven

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we saw it here In houston about what three weeks,
ago so it can't, Happen BUT i would not want
to IF i Was, indiana knowing how crazy That Madison
Square garden can get and the and how The knicks
play as well as they, did although that was the
first time they beat The pacers in the series In New.
YORK i wouldn't want to go back for a game.
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people that. Listen they know What i'm. Saying so wasn't
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Now we're a makeup. Now of course she. Does the
money we spend on makeup is is patently. Absurd BUT i.
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i can park at six, o'clock looking forward to a
talking with, you then first pitch at seven, ten and
Then i'll have the ten toenning. Show So i'm gonna
put a full out day. IN i want to, Hopefully,
jonathan you understand That i'm the only one here among
the talk shows that really puts in the major. Hours
ross's a little, Bit dan does, some but you See
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wax And clinton not out of their time. Slot no

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chance at The, yeah he gets a little. Bit clinton's
got no, excuses none. Whatsoever so when it comes to,
laziness it's really it's About clinton and Probably sean at
the top of the. List we love, them but you
know they had seen a forty hour work weeken god
knows how. Long all, right, Again astros On deck begins

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at six from Ber valdez will take the, hill and,
Again Jordan alvarez is going to be doing some hitting
to some apparently minor league pitchers and if that works out,
well maybe he will see him On saturday And. Sunday
game number six of THE Nba Eastern Conference finals takes
place tomorrow In. Indianapolis if there is A game, seven
it would Be monday In Madison Square. Garden and again C.

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That Brian? KING i know you've been good all, year
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Year begging for, It i'm not begging for.

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It joining me today co hosting for the full four
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is gonna be perfect for an entire? Season, no you
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for an entire?

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Season nor DO i.

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Day i'm a little surprised his pitch count was so
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MEATBALLS i was a little surprised he kept him out
there as long as he, did but understandably. So this
is what we've talked about since they lost starting. Pitching
it's not so much that they don't have a chance
to win the games when