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Speaker 1: Ten o one at each town.

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Speaker 2: A good morning, and welcome to a Tuesday edition About

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Thomas Show with Ross alongside ross Villereale and our producer

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Jonathan Alla. And I'm Matt Thomas, and we hope that

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you had a very safe, relaxing Memorial Day weekend, thanks

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to all that serve and to give us opportunity to

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have this day of rest and relaxation back with it

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for a full four hours today, which will feature I'm

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putting my name on something our gut feelings at eleven

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thirty and it's not because give me, it's not gonna

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be an Ald timer. Doesn't even involve a Houston athlete currently,

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so just wanna give you that a little bit. We

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got gut feelings at eleven thirty. Okay, we have Joe Spotts,

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go join us at twelve thirty. Wow. We have the

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NFL rewind at one twenty. I love it, and we

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have believe we're on at one fifty. What a big show.

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It's a full four hour show today, wonderful and we

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look forward to having all of you with us, whether

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through your funny, interesting, informative tweets, not the ones that

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are vicious and mean. I like those so they get

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you very upset. Yeah, but you know what, the one

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thing I've learned from really about the only thing I've

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ever learned from was the mute button is your friend.

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Oh it's so clutch. Especially just know that if you

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don't follow me, you're never going to get a response

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because if you don't, if you don't follow me, you

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don't know the show. You don't know us, I don't

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I will literally not care about your opinion. So it

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is at the mute immediately. Okay, but thank you for

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letting me, for allowing me to have that avenue. I

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didn't invent it, talk to while it was before you

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let me say it. But I'm just saying you're the

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one that said, Hey, I'm the champion of the mute,

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but mute is your friend. You said that before. So

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we have a full show. Seven one three two one

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two five seven nine zero is how you reach our

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show today if you'd like to be a part of it.

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And look, we are the friendliest radio show in the

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marketplace unless you have dumb ass takes and then we

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kind of just take take you to task. But generally speaking,

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we give you a leash. It is longer on Fridays,

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but Monday through Thursday is pretty good. Uh, And we

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do have the Astros with that off day yesterday, so

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we don't have a game to chew on. We do

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have a series to chew on. And the Astros won

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three out of four and we'll wake up today and

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have done so today a game and a half out

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of first place in the very Mid American League West Division.

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Good weekend for this the Texans, for all this year.

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Somebody else win the ANFC South. Somebody's got to win it,

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and it could be the Astros, even with all these

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injuries and bat issues and really no sign of Jordan.

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I mean, I know he's running some bases. What's the latest. Well,

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he's got a little tykes bat. I heard he was

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off a tee he was playing. Uh what was that game?

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I like, what's the game? You take a plastic bat

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and you would take like a piece of tape and

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right rolled in a piece of tape. You know, you

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take tape and you roll it up into a ball

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and you'd play in the back bodies. Okay, he's playing that. Okay,

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he's very very little stress on the hand. Okay, that's fine.

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Something so at least getting some swings in what wonderful?

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the cheap dollar back. I know what you're talking about. Yeah,

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what is that? We used to call it again? But

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we just hit a tennis ball. No, that would be

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too far, okay, And I did. I did have a

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filthy knuckle curve on that ball of table that used

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to throw. Yeah. Back in the day, I was legendary

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at the University of North Texas for such an event.

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All right, what else we got? We have NBA playoffs

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from last night. So some people that I follow and

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thus they follow other people, and I get on the

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four you tab a side of things. We're complaining about

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a rule that has been in the NBA, and not

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even a rule, it's a strategy. And the folks in

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Minneapolis are losing their mind because Oklahoma City was up

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three and decided to foul a shooter in Minnesota with

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less than ten seconds left to go, so the free

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throws would count as two and there would be no

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chance at a three shot and tie the game ultimately,

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and they're like, the NBA is going to changes, No,

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you don't. You just don't have to be down three

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with ten seconds left to go. That's the easiest way

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to avoid the fouling, the getting fouled by the opponent

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when you're down by three and you can't get a

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shot off. Yeah. Why, I guess this is popping up

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because it was in a big playoff game, but this

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has been for years and years and years, ever and ever. Yeah.

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And also on the show today, there is a take

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that my former CSN colleague Adam Wesler nick right, Okay,

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had on his TV show yesterday that wasn't completely awful.

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Uh oh, all right, it's one of his hot takes.

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It's not awful, is what you're saying. Well, it's all

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hot takes. Ninety eight percent of what Nick Wright says

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is hot and ridiculous and made fun of and proper

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properly ratioed on the social media street Ross m hm.

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What he said yesterday wasn't terrible, but I don't know

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if there's a resolution to what he said. So got

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teas master well, I mean, I feel like we've got

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four hours, got a lot of different no, no, no. I

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have been teased many times in my life. I'm not

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much of a tea put it this waymber of times

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oh oh, yeah, I'm a teas master when it comes

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to that first sees. All right, So seven one three, two,

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five seven nine zero ross was your from World Day weekend.

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Full of rest and relaxation.

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Speaker 3: That was good.

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Speaker 2: Not as much rest and radio relaxation as I would

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have liked, but that's all right. Still had a good time.

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I really, ultimately was pretty bored. I did work Saturday's

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Astros game, okay, when they when they won, it was

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a two to one pitcher's duel. You cut up on

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all your game shows and your stories. I did watch

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a show called Running Point. It's on Netflix, Okay. It's

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basically a loose adaptation of the law Los Angeles Lakers.

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It is Kate Hudson plays the role of a what

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Magic Johnson no famous family that owns the Lakers. Who

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dad dies. Oh, she sees Genie Bus. So she's basically

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loosely based off a Genie Bus's life. And I think

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Kate Hudson's very attractive, and so it was an easy watch.

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Uh huh. And she appears on a magazine cover with

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basketballs bread just play Jeanie Bus in the movie. Well

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you don't see Kate's breast, but you see her basketballs. Yeah,

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I guess you do. Okay, So we binge watched that.

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That was eight episodes. Next episode you watch it in

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one weekend. Yes, you're sick. There's like twenty five minutes each.

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They were fine. Oh all right, they're not full hours.

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No no, no, no, got you? And then not that we're going.

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We'll get back to sports, I promise. So now my

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wife is binge watching another show which is ridiculous. It's

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called Younger. Have you heard about this show? It's been

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long gone. It's about this woman who who divorces her

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husband because I think he's cheating on her and he's

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also got gambling issues. I have not watched it with her.

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she's like forty. I think she's forty or forty one

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years old, and she has to go get a job

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back in the workpo oh man, that's tough, and she

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has it worked in the publishing industry in fifteen years.

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executive assistant. And her best friend said, Hey, the easiest

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way for you to get back in the game, because

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you've been gone for so long, is to pretend that

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you're twenty six. Oh okay, So this forty year old

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woman is now trying to pretend that she's twenty six, right,

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working for this book company, this publishing company, and she's

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trying to act. So every time she bring up something

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that would be a forty year old, she has to

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kind of cover her trying. She can't make saved by

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the Bell references. Well, she brought up Punky bruceter go,

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and they we're like, who's Punky Bruce? You know, so

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they're like, so yeah, and so she saw it on YouTube.

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So she's trying to hide her life with a she's

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also dating a guy who's a tattoo artist who's also

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in his mid twenties, and then you know, so she's

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always constantly making subtle older references. Wow, this sounds like

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a horrible show that I have no interest in. I'm

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telling you it is unwatchable. Matter of fact, I had

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to go. I was watching the NBA playoffs on my

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phone yesterday trying to spend quality time with the wife

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while the show was on. I'm like, I got to

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get out of here. This show sucks. That is like,

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you were really bored man so. And then also, the

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our our pantry, and are both her refrigerators? Younger has

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ninety seven percent on rotten tomatoes. Matt can't be that bad.

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But could a woman at forty get away with being

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twenty six? I find that to be highly doubtful. They

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feel like there's news stories about that all the time.

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hide she's twenty six. Wasn't there there was a recent

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story about like some twenty six year old dude. It

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was in high school and he couldn't even make the

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JV hockey team. Real well, I mean badn't make varsity.

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like twenty four, like, it's time to hang him up.

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a guy could pull it off easier than a girl

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could could not. I mean, forty years old and this

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woman's I don't know who this woman is not actually,

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but she's attractive. It would be a difficult believable. Oh

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you're only twenty six. So that was hospitment weekend. Okay,

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Binge watching a Running Point, which is like Lucid based

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off the La Lakers. This show younger cleaning out cupboards

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and watching some basketball and working and watching the Astros

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tick too, with a three out of four three out

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of four. Ross and Seattle came in pretty hot. I

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mean remember they had just finished last week and sweeping

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the Potteries in San Diego. They had just taken what

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two or three against the White Sox in Chicago. They

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had a really good trip. It as usual. The Astros

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are the Mariners, Daddy, It's brilliant. What's pretty much how

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it is. Let's go stuck it Mariners one and a

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half games. So for everybody that called the other day

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and wanted Frober Valdez Aggie Doug to trade for two

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quality starting pitchers as compared to one. Why don't they

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just trade for three? I don't disagree. Makes sense to me,

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So that is how I spent the weekend watching that.

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I also saw a tweet yesterday or two days ago

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that had Scott Foster officiating game being the referee extender,

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and I almost went to the well, if you believe that,

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spend your entire inheritance and every dollar that you have

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in your big pank account on that. Well, Scott Foster

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did extend the series because it was a the nixt

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extend of the series. Well that's the Pacers collapse. Yeah,

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but I'm glad I didn't do it because I'd have

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been an old takes exposed on reading of that, you

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know what I mean. So we got that going on.

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We have got feelings at eleven thirty, Joe spot at

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twelve thirty, you guys, in between the news at noon,

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we have the NFL rewind And by the way, Texans

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OTA's will start tomorrow. You excited about that. I couldn't

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be more excited. You say OTA's and then just chills

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go through my body. It's like we're only now four

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months away from the start of the season. Let's go

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to OTAs. Yeah, a bunch of has been media people

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that are on podcasts and YouTube shows get tass about well,

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thin guy looks bigger and stronger than faster and never

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you shut up. Hey, everybody's gonna be in the best

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shape of their life. Oh, no question, popping in person

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more than I thought they would. Team chemistry is really

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good right now. Yeah, the team is coming together as one.

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Blah blah blah blah blah. We got all that to

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get to refocused. Yeah, love it all right. Seven one

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those of you that are single guys out there, Look,

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it's great being married, but you just don't have to

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watch shows you don't want to watch that take over

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your room. That's the primary benefit, right with with spouses

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and her girlfriends. Yeah, she can watch the show and

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then you can go in the room and watch extended

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highlights from the Premier Premier League over the weekend, No

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question about that. That's what I'm thinking about. Seven one

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that if you're because then you got a lot of

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to just decide. If you're a grown ass man, you

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love your wife and she wants stay in their bedroom,

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you need to go to the room. Is that that's

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the safe way?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: You sent her to other room? She gets a little grumpy.

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Don't you think we as grown men can jump up

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and go five seats over, five steps over to the

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next room. I don't know. It just depends on how

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your house is configured. Matt. You might have to be

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on the iPad. That's it with the earbuds on. Yeah,

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I got you better put them earbuds on. Oh, no

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question about that, all right? Twenty on Sports Talk seven.

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So the Astros did not crush the ball over the

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course of the weekend. On the Thursday they did so

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nine to two, but that was the outlier. A lot

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of close games, good offense. On Sunday Saturday was a

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classic pitchers duel. Mm hmm, two to one. You can

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win those. They did, and uh, three out of four.

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I don't think we even thought going in that three

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out of four was a possibility. We should have thought,

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and I were like, hey, let's get a split out

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of this because the Mariners are playing really well. The

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Astros had just dropped two or three to Tampa Bay.

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You know what, the vibe was not great. But once

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they I said it on Friday after they won the

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first game, that was nice of you, because I mean,

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George Kirby versus Lance Mcaller's junior. Let's be honest, right,

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I thought I had l written all over it. Right

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once they won that one, I thought you out of

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three was whin the framber starting and split the other two.

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And that's what they did. Ye, let's go looking good,

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feeling good. Lance Collers Junior steps in the right direction.

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I need to start it to go five innings now,

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that's happening occasionally, but not enough. Yeah now, and even

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Frobro was just six right. Yeah, So I'll say this,

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you had too many five or less inning starts, and

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you survive, then they go ten and seven during this time,

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I think is what they have in the seventeen games.

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So if you survive by going ten and seven, and

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your bullpen is not Their arms are not dragging. And

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we'll talk to Joel about this in a couple of hours.

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He's got to be thinking, Man, we dodged a bullet.

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Don't you think I would be? I would think so

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the wheels that Look, you've had two guys go down

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with Tommy John surgery, and you've been shoring things up

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with a guy like Lance mccullors junior or hasn't gone

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five innings in a game yet, and you went ten

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and seven over that stretch. Now, the next good, Yeah,

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the next few weeks are good. The Astros have consecutive

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Mondays off June second, in June ninth, and then they

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have another pretty deep stretch of games between June tenth

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and June twenty second without an off day, So there'll

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be some there'll be another set of times. I'm curious

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if you if he reforms back to a five or

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six man rotation up until that pointer, does he keep

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it at six because of the fact that even though

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Lance is in the rotation. Yeah, well, here's the thing

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that makes you down an arm. But you're putting guys

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in there who aren't going to go deep into it. Yeah,

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so you're kind of damn if you do, Dan, If

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you don't, aren't you that'll be a question for the skipper. Okay,

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but I believe that the seventeen game stretch is the

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longest they have all year. That is correctly, But again,

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you got another in less than three weeks. You've got

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another game of six, ten thirty, you get another thirteen

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game stretch. And the reality is this, This is what

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miss is what baseball does. I mean, Baseball's cruel. It

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gives you just a few number of days off during

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the course of the year. Now they've tried to give

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you some more days off by starting the season in

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late March as compared to they never really started until

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early April back you know, even five or ten years ago.

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It's still a cruel sport, it really is. In terms

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of number of days off. You do get four days

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off of the All Star break, but if you'd send

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an All Star there, you're only only getting a day

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and a half. By the way, all Star Josh Hater

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mm hmm, Jake Myers, I would say no because of

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name value. He got my vote. Well, Frankly, east sich

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Pretti is probably is in the mix. Yes, although I'm

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guessing there's a lot of slugging third basement around baseball.

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That's probably an easy position to find. In terms of guys,

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I mean, I don't know how he's doing. Alex Pragman's hurt.

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Get him out of here. Yeah, speaking of pregnant, did

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I hear right? Two months? Is that right? Well, they're

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saying a quad inter were very similar to what he

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had in twenty twenty months. Yeah, that was a long

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period of time. Jeremy Pania All Star candidate eight hundred

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oh ps cold glove quality shortstop. It feels like to me,

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all stars don't get there for their glove work unless

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you're Rossie Smith. Yeah. Yeah, but that's thirty years ago,

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So I don't think we're going to go to that reference.

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I don't know Kevin Kiermer make any he was, he

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was all Usually the catchers have good defensive players, they're

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never never much for hitting. But yeah, so that's something

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for down the road, and obviously time for us to

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kill and done a different day. But it's funny, you know,

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ross Nobody ever brings up Josh Haters salary this year

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when he is perfect in save opportunities and his Ernie's

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under two, nobody's complaining. But once he blows a game,

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Like if he has a week where he blows like

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two out of three games, everybody be complaining. It'll happened. Yeah. Yeah,

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and it was massive changes you made. We had people

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saying the Astros should become sellers at the deadline, and

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I think I think I got asked this many times

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on Twitter. I was like, you know what, why don't

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we wait thirty days. We'll have a better feel of

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things July the first than we would obviously before we

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even hit June first. I will say this, and I

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brought this up. I think I to tell the truth.

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I think I think the Astros need to make a

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move prior to July thirty first. I think waiting two

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months is hard. Now, again, it's very difficult to make

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that happen because you teams want to hold on to

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the very last seconds. They have a leverage there's they

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want to keep the leverage, and secondly, they also want

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to see if they're going to be in it for

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the long haul. Yeah, with this third wildcard, I mean

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you have very few teams wanting to be sellers. Yeah,

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even the A's are only five and a half back

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of a wildcard Orioles and White Sucks are way out

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as far as the American League and that's it. So

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national league it would be Marlin's Pirates, Rockies probably National.

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So you're looking at six of the thirty teams that

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think at this point where our season has already faded, Yeah,

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that's limited amount of teams to deal with obviously, So

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I'm trying to think, is there something we can do

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to entice more moves, because I think trades make things

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very interesting. Now it would take away some of the

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buzz of July thirty first, when we're watching the clock,

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watching the TV shows, still make more moves with the

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limited prospects they have, But I'm talking about in just

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the sport in general. You how do you help push along? Hey,

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going to get a deal done July ninth isn't the

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worst thing in the world. The problem is, I think

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teams also don't want to do that because they know

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that if they were to lob a call to the

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Baltimore Oils for any of their prospects or their players,

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the Oil to be like, Okay, we want your number three,

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number five prospects, and like maybe in three weeks, we'll

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that deal won't be nearly as difficult to make happen.

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You're gonna have fewer trades, But I think it's that

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makes it better for the overall health of the league.

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I don't like the extra wild card because it cheapens

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the postseason to me, but it keeps more teams keeping

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their players, keeps more teams interested in making the playoffs,

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and keeps more fan bases invested. Those are all good things.

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I would not get rid of the third World. No,

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I wouldn't. I would not, even though it cheapens the postseason,

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but how much more them? It's like Detroit well Man, Well,

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what it does is it adds a layer of playoffs,

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which is we've seen in sports, adds a layer of

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financial money go into these networks. By the way, did

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you see eighty six win teams getting into the playoffs?

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We were talking about the last couple weeks about how

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I think ow Major League Baseball needs a kiss up

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to ESPN and make a deal happen somehow, some way.

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You see that NBC is interested in that Sunday night

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package of games. Really? Yeah, how well NBC is trying

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to create fifty two weeks of Sunday sports program. Mmm,

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you know how to success. So their NFL package, Yes,

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on prime time of end of the week, they get

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the best games they do. There's gonna the new NBA

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deal is gonna have Sunday night basketball on once football

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is over with. And NBC is like, well, if we're

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already doing it with basketball and football, why don't we

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start putting in baseball right after that? That's pretty smart.

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It's genius normally networking to do something. I'm like, why

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are they doing that? That's idiotic. Yeah, try to keep

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people there every Sunday all year long, and that's genius.

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So what they'll do is they'll put some games on

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NBC once the playoffs are done, and then they'll put

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a whole bunch of games on Peacock, which reality, I

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mean Peak. What do you think of sports? Amazon Prime? Right?

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Netflix is gonna get more aggressive in sports calling Yes, yes,

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because the wrestling in itself is going on. I know

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it's not sports, but you know what I mean. Netflix

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has now gained viewers that way sports entertainment. I feel like,

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if you don't have Peacock, you're gonna be missing a

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lot of stuff here. I got Peacock, Matt, I do too.

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Premier League every week. I got it. That's how they

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got me. If it didn't have Premier leagu Would you

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watch it ever? No? I mean I think I watched it.

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I don't watch anything right now, but I hate movie.

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But I can watch it. I will tell you. Probably

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in the last year, last of three hundred and sixty

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five days, I've watched maybe one or two movies on there,

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and I've watched twenty five or more Premier League. Are

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there good TV shows on Peacock? I don't know. I'm

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sending good stuff on Peacock. What's your favorite Peacocks wicket

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on there?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I've been wanting to watch nos Ferratu. I just watched

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enough a Peacock. Hold on, hold on, hell, y'all, y'ld.

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He's gonna Houston. Hold on a second. He's trying to

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figure out what he wants. No more thrilling radio than

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him browsing Peacock. Yeah, I forgot. How could you forget?

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You said you watch a show, but then I lift

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it up and then I gotta sign in and stuff.

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It's a whole ordeal, all right? I got you. It

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feels like a lot of work. Sign in Mind ten

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twenty nine on Sports Talk seven uty seven one three

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two one two five seven nine is zero seven one

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three two one two five seven Hony, can I ask

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another simple question? Sports? However, don't answer because you or

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I don't know the answer from you. Are you watching

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the playoffs? I mean, okay, see, Minnesota was pretty good

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after three consecutive blots. Had a very close game last

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night and the Pacers had a twenty point lead and

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gave that up. So New York feels like they're still alive.

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I feel like we're about to go down some dangerous

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territory here sports RV. Okay, maybe we do it for

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like a minute and a half. We should do that, like, uh,

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you you just start, you go two minutes too minutes

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we do two minutes of We could just have somebody

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call We're so we're talking NBA and we're talking about

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the playoffs, and then somebody calls and says, Matt like

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at the Gong Show, h you call in, Mark, you're

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on the southwest side. Go ahead, gone, we gonna stop

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the NBA conversation. Okay, Oh, so we'll talk NBA until

472
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,279
someone calls in to stop us. Yes, I like that

473
00:22:50,759 --> 00:22:54,000
all right, although that could be very bad. Nobody calls

474
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,279
for an hour and a half. Yeah, I don't know

475
00:22:56,279 --> 00:22:57,440
if we want to go three and a half hours

476
00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,920
of NBA. So we're gonna talk about the many playoffs.

477
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,359
If you want us to stop, you have to gongus.

478
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:07,039
I don't think I've ever asked the radio on its

479
00:23:07,039 --> 00:23:09,400
to do that to us. Seven one three two one

480
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,960
two five seven seven one three two one two five

481
00:23:12,039 --> 00:23:25,480
seven Natti. I was just telling ross Uh that my

482
00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:29,119
daughter and I are in a text chain, which by

483
00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:31,440
the way, it's it's group Text Tuesday on the show

484
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,279
Group Chat Tuesday, Group Chat Tuesday, and she sent m

485
00:23:37,519 --> 00:23:41,359
h m okay, And a lot of times she'll put

486
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:43,279
in things in our text that I don't know what

487
00:23:43,319 --> 00:23:46,720
they mean, like g T fo oh no, I know that.

488
00:23:47,039 --> 00:23:48,960
I know that means she's always telling you to stf

489
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,160
you a lot off us, a lot of g T

490
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:56,759
h o U I Y I know, you know if

491
00:23:56,799 --> 00:23:59,759
you know whatever, y K y K. So today was

492
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:04,359
mhm okay, do you know what m ahm mean he's talking?

493
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,319
I was gonna say, I wonder Jonathan knows what mhm means.

494
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:13,400
I thought it just meant. There's an actual definition according

495
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:16,599
to AI, Okay, go ahead, what is a your interjection

496
00:24:16,799 --> 00:24:19,920
used to express agreement, understanding, or acknowledgement in a conversation?

497
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,279
Oh so you You basically just write, oh okay, I

498
00:24:25,279 --> 00:24:31,440
got you, I got you? All right, that's fine. Yeah.

499
00:24:31,799 --> 00:24:34,960
So I'm pretty happy with myself that I can go.

500
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:37,000
I can use a ID as my friend. It also

501
00:24:37,039 --> 00:24:40,400
may mean methodist healthcare ministries. I don't know if that.

502
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:44,400
I don't think seventeen year old talks like that. By

503
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:45,599
the way, I gotta tell you one more thing I've

504
00:24:45,599 --> 00:24:48,000
done on Twitter before we get to the NBA. I've

505
00:24:48,039 --> 00:24:54,240
gone to like five graduation parties. If your Irish goodbye

506
00:24:54,319 --> 00:24:58,759
game is not good, you shouldn't go to graduation parties. Well,

507
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:00,960
you don't have to have good game. You walk out,

508
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,000
but you have to do it subtly so you don't

509
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,920
look like you're just departing just to get out. Okay,

510
00:25:06,039 --> 00:25:08,640
you wave, you do a hey see, Uh, you can't

511
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:12,039
do any of that. I think my Irish could bye

512
00:25:12,039 --> 00:25:15,039
game has been phenomenal of the Spring of twenty twenty five.

513
00:25:15,559 --> 00:25:19,240
Proud of you. I'm proud of myself because I was, like,

514
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:20,960
we my wife and I are like, oh, should we

515
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:22,519
go back and say good bye? Like, no, there's a

516
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,519
hundred you're gonna be there for twenty minutes minimum. Yeah,

517
00:25:25,559 --> 00:25:27,480
there's one hundred people at these parties. I'm not going

518
00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:29,240
to do that because I want um seeing somebody. I know,

519
00:25:29,279 --> 00:25:30,799
I got to talk to them for five minutes. And

520
00:25:31,799 --> 00:25:36,559
you know, so the Irish could buy is strong. Yeah,

521
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,839
it's great and it should be, especially graduation parties and

522
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,039
our weddings for that matter. Don't you Irish could buy

523
00:25:43,039 --> 00:25:44,720
a weddings too? Yeah, you don't go to was a

524
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,680
bride in the group, are dancing? Don't even really shut

525
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,920
the party down personally at the wedding. Well, that's because

526
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,440
you have horrible dance moves. That's the reason why you should.

527
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,319
That's not true. Number one, you don't cut around. Number two,

528
00:25:55,559 --> 00:25:57,160
Uh oh you look like all right, ten man, I

529
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:58,720
don't want to hear from you. No no, no, no no

530
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:02,680
no no no no. So number one, number two, yeah,

531
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,640
you shut it down as long as the bar's open,

532
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,359
whatever the bar closes, whatever, I leave. That's the Irons

533
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,039
you'd buy. And you know I got you, I got you,

534
00:26:10,319 --> 00:26:12,400
all right. So last night, Oklahoma, City's up three games

535
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,759
to one. They beat the Wolves by two, right, I

536
00:26:14,759 --> 00:26:17,319
think that's what it was. Uh huh and uh. The

537
00:26:17,319 --> 00:26:19,400
Minnesota fans that are followers of mine, I used to

538
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,440
obviously work there. They're all bent out of shape because

539
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,160
of the issue. Was it Anthony Edwards? I got founded

540
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:26,759
on the three on the shop? I forgot who the

541
00:26:26,839 --> 00:26:28,960
last two free throws? I can't remember either, but point

542
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,079
being is they were Minnesota was down three. Oklahoma City

543
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,720
Fowls used two free throws, intentionally missing the second free throw.

544
00:26:35,799 --> 00:26:38,759
Rebound gathered by shake Gojes Alexander, who then throws the

545
00:26:38,759 --> 00:26:43,920
ball to the sideline at mid court, giving the Wolves

546
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:45,960
three tenths of a second to put a shot up.

547
00:26:46,759 --> 00:26:50,559
I will say it makes a lot of sense for

548
00:26:50,759 --> 00:26:54,119
them to legislate this out of the game, because they

549
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:58,000
did it with the hack a shack, They did it

550
00:26:58,039 --> 00:27:00,799
with the take foul, they did it with the not

551
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:05,319
that what's the clear path foul, So intentional fouls to

552
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:10,079
give yourself an advantage they've legislated out of the game.

553
00:27:10,319 --> 00:27:11,839
So it does feel like this one's going to be

554
00:27:11,839 --> 00:27:15,960
in the crosshairs now, and I'm okay with that. It

555
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,119
means more drama. It takes away a little bit of

556
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,480
strategy or what if it's a legitimate reach in foul

557
00:27:22,519 --> 00:27:24,079
that's not consent right, then you have to have the

558
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,000
referece as side, whether they have to decide whether or

559
00:27:26,039 --> 00:27:28,240
not it was intentional. Yes, I think that'll be tough.

560
00:27:28,279 --> 00:27:30,119
That's a judgment. That's a gray area that I don't

561
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,519
want to go to HM because there's enough gray area

562
00:27:33,599 --> 00:27:36,160
officiating in the NBA beginning. There's there's no real gray

563
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,799
area in the UH in the clear path, but there

564
00:27:38,839 --> 00:27:40,799
has been some grayer I feel like over this, over

565
00:27:40,799 --> 00:27:43,480
this couple of seasons, with the transition take fright to

566
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,359
even start to break to begin with yea yeah, because

567
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,119
sometimes guys are fighting for a loose ball than they

568
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:48,839
call it. A take foul feels like a bad call.

569
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,440
So yeah, it could end up with controversy for sure.

570
00:27:51,799 --> 00:27:54,119
My controversy in the last two minutes of an NBA game,

571
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,079
I know my first initial thought was don't be down

572
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,079
three with ten seconds left to go. Yeah, then you

573
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,920
won't we run into this issue. That's true, and also

574
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:04,720
there's no guarantee that it works because you have to

575
00:28:04,759 --> 00:28:06,440
make your free throws as well. You have to make

576
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,839
at least one yeah, or I guess yeah, you have

577
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:10,799
to miss two, bounce it out, kick it out to

578
00:28:10,799 --> 00:28:12,319
an open three, and then shoot the three ball whatever

579
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,519
to tie the game. So that's issue number one. Now

580
00:28:15,559 --> 00:28:19,559
I tease this about Nick Wright, who, yeah, I know,

581
00:28:20,759 --> 00:28:23,640
never heard of them. Of every one hundred takes he has,

582
00:28:23,759 --> 00:28:27,279
ninety eight of them are horrific. He probably would say

583
00:28:27,279 --> 00:28:28,559
the same thing as me, and that's fine. I can

584
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:33,039
live with that. He's doing quite well for himself. He's

585
00:28:33,079 --> 00:28:35,039
doing great whatever the network he works on these days.

586
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,759
But whether they say a blind scroll finds a nut

587
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,039
once in a while or the clock is right twice

588
00:28:41,079 --> 00:28:45,400
a day, he had something that actually made some sense

589
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,519
to me, But I don't know the resolution to it.

590
00:28:48,119 --> 00:28:50,279
What are you watching today in the NBA? When it

591
00:28:50,319 --> 00:28:53,359
comes to players and officials more than ever before in

592
00:28:53,359 --> 00:28:57,400
the last couple of years, a question roll coverages. No,

593
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,319
I'm talking about when calls are made, What happen? What

594
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,359
typically happens when a foul is called on a particular athlete,

595
00:29:03,839 --> 00:29:07,640
or a ball goes out of bounds or anything. The

596
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,640
answer is, you see them raise their index finger for

597
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,839
a challenge, A challenge Okay, so we're seeing these challenge

598
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,519
things going up one hundred times a game. Everybody wants

599
00:29:17,519 --> 00:29:22,000
something challenged. Everybody's got a check to make sure. And

600
00:29:22,039 --> 00:29:25,400
Shane gun is the most guilty of them, of the Rockets,

601
00:29:25,519 --> 00:29:28,359
and it ain't even close a number of times index

602
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:32,680
finger wagged, Well, there's eighty two games, one hundred and

603
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,720
fifty times in the season for him. Yeah, then the

604
00:29:36,759 --> 00:29:39,039
coach has to go check it. Then you have to

605
00:29:39,079 --> 00:29:40,880
and then you realize, oh, you don't have a challenge.

606
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,279
You can't do this what Nick Ryde said the other day,

607
00:29:44,359 --> 00:29:47,200
And god, I feel like a dirty whore by saying this.

608
00:29:49,359 --> 00:29:52,680
He's like, you need to treat those like timeouts. You

609
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,079
can't fake call a time out. It stops to play.

610
00:29:56,279 --> 00:29:59,119
It creates chaos because people don't know if you have

611
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:00,720
a challenge or not, or then you have to have

612
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,000
to go plates if you went, if if you put

613
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,960
the index finger up, put everybody on the team, that

614
00:30:06,079 --> 00:30:09,480
is an automatic indication off you want to challenge. No,

615
00:30:09,519 --> 00:30:11,640
I don't like coaches. The email does not like that.

616
00:30:11,759 --> 00:30:13,920
So guess what that would do that it would eliminate

617
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:18,640
those guys doing that. It would be after the coach well,

618
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,039
that's my point is that if they snap their fingers,

619
00:30:21,599 --> 00:30:23,279
what if they put their hands up in the air

620
00:30:23,359 --> 00:30:26,359
like a clap, that they can change this. That's the

621
00:30:26,359 --> 00:30:28,160
thing is you don't have a way to resolve this.

622
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,920
Teams could have internal signs patting their head and their

623
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:33,680
head like an ineligible receiver. You know what I'm saying.

624
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,519
I don't think it's that much of an extra delay. Oh,

625
00:30:36,559 --> 00:30:39,680
I think if you watch a game, it's not delay.

626
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:44,680
It's just a hyper annoyance that everybody wants everything challenged

627
00:30:44,759 --> 00:30:47,039
over and over and over again. I don't think there's

628
00:30:47,079 --> 00:30:50,319
a resolution to it. I just would say, and the

629
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,039
category of a blind squirrel finds a nut twice once

630
00:30:53,039 --> 00:30:56,079
a day. It was like, yeah, I kind of I

631
00:30:56,519 --> 00:30:58,319
get bothered by because I can I can tell you

632
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,440
ross when I'm calling games, Oh there's a goes a challenge.

633
00:31:01,599 --> 00:31:05,400
I mean, it does create a little bit of not

634
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:09,640
this harmony, but it's it's clunky, okay. I mean it

635
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:13,759
happens in baseball. Anytime somebody's thrown out, they Joe spot

636
00:31:13,839 --> 00:31:15,599
It puts his hand up like the stop sign. Hold on.

637
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,440
But it's not even look at this. A number of

638
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,920
times they do that compared to a basketball game, is

639
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,920
not even every every foul that a player gets. I

640
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,640
shouldn't say everyone eighty percent of fouls that are called

641
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:27,519
you want the challenge, sign up. I don't think it's

642
00:31:27,519 --> 00:31:30,480
eighty percent. I know you're exaggerating for for the bit,

643
00:31:30,559 --> 00:31:34,240
but I it's it's way more than what you described

644
00:31:34,279 --> 00:31:38,039
in baseball, way more so. I'm just saying, if you

645
00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:40,079
can't in a nine inning game versus a two hour

646
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,319
basketball game, it's probably throw miss. Let's make up numbers.

647
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:46,920
It happens how many times in a two hour basketball game?

648
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:53,319
Fifteen times? Yeah, at least. Okay, like tonight, not that

649
00:31:53,319 --> 00:31:55,759
I'm gonna let's count. I can't. I want to see

650
00:31:55,759 --> 00:31:57,799
you count. I have plans tonight. Now, No, get your

651
00:31:57,799 --> 00:32:02,599
pad out, get your legal all right, your ballpoint pin.

652
00:32:03,039 --> 00:32:05,079
If there's anybody that loves the NBA as much as

653
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,559
Ross and I do, I want to get a lot

654
00:32:07,559 --> 00:32:10,279
of free time and you have nothing else going on

655
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,480
as tonight, I can't do it and you have nothing

656
00:32:13,519 --> 00:32:16,200
else going on. Please tell us how many times a

657
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,160
player calls for a challenge. Jonathan said he'll do it

658
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,519
for twenty five an hour. That's fifenty five an hour.

659
00:32:22,559 --> 00:32:25,559
I would love to do that. That's fifty. What if

660
00:32:25,599 --> 00:32:29,400
I bring you a taco tomorrow. Yeah, that's that's fifty.

661
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:34,119
Cheese and beef, and cheese and beef and some potatoes, okay,

662
00:32:34,759 --> 00:32:38,640
and some salsa, green and red id the green? He's

663
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:43,200
you're gonna make up the data. That's smart. So even

664
00:32:43,359 --> 00:32:47,200
even even though I do think it makes some sense,

665
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,880
there's you will just change the sign because you can't

666
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,079
say any sign indicating like if the coaches don't know.

667
00:32:53,119 --> 00:32:55,240
And a lot of times the players generally have more

668
00:32:55,279 --> 00:32:57,400
information than the coaches. They're wrong a lot, but they're

669
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:02,440
right a lot. I just it's it's not a nuisance.

670
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,400
But it's just something that just I get. I get.

671
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,480
Here's what my answers. I get tired of seeing it

672
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,400
as often as I do. Okay, it doesn't bother me. Okay,

673
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,079
but I can tell you. You can go to four

674
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,279
you and people are doing this. I saw it what

675
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,759
Nick said, like, damn, I hate Nick, but he actually

676
00:33:16,799 --> 00:33:18,759
is right. It doesn't annoy the hell out of me. Okay,

677
00:33:18,839 --> 00:33:22,440
So it's just annoyance. And then I'll conclude our NBA

678
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,680
conversation for the day until we get the news at noon, right,

679
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:26,839
get a little run of it the news at noon,

680
00:33:27,039 --> 00:33:29,480
maybe a little bit full NBA conversation. I don't think

681
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:31,799
that's gonna happen at all. All Right, you know who's

682
00:33:31,799 --> 00:33:36,519
got big stones? Who the commissioners of the Big Ten

683
00:33:36,599 --> 00:33:39,559
and the SEC. Uh oh, they got big stones, They

684
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:43,079
got big money, They have big money, and they have Willburrows.

685
00:33:43,279 --> 00:33:45,319
We'll discuss what they're thinking about these days next ten

686
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:49,519
forty five on Sports Talk seven eighty ten fifty two

687
00:33:49,599 --> 00:33:52,319
on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Got feelings coming

688
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,799
up in forty minutes from now. If you would like

689
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,440
to be on this radio program, we'd love to have

690
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,119
you at seven one three two one two five seven

691
00:34:01,279 --> 00:34:04,960
nine zero seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

692
00:34:05,079 --> 00:34:09,760
So there is still so much conversation sports RV about

693
00:34:10,119 --> 00:34:16,199
this expansion of a sixteen team college football playoff format.

694
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:22,199
Oh dear, and the Big Ten and the SEC have

695
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:27,880
basically said, we're guaranteeing eight spots. We get eight, no

696
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,639
matter if our third and our fourth team, or our

697
00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:32,280
second team for that matter, or a bunch of seven

698
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:36,639
and five's wow, we want three. The Big Ten wants three.

699
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:38,760
Acc and the Big twelve will get two and then

700
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:44,159
you the other spots are are at large. So basically

701
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:46,719
a lot of other commissioners from other conferences as you

702
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,039
would expect Mountain West and MAC and Conference USA. And

703
00:34:50,119 --> 00:34:51,840
I don't know how Big twelve say anything on but

704
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,599
a lot of these smaller commerces are like, you know what,

705
00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:55,840
you're not thinking of the good of the game. Greg,

706
00:34:56,159 --> 00:34:58,079
thank you is doing something we will do tomorrow. Tell

707
00:34:58,079 --> 00:35:02,079
them to shut their probmasts up. He says he's not

708
00:35:02,199 --> 00:35:04,840
interested in lectures about the good of the game from

709
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:11,119
rival leagues. Mmm. And basically I'm not saying it's going

710
00:35:11,159 --> 00:35:14,840
to happen Ross. But if Greg sank, you know, and

711
00:35:15,119 --> 00:35:16,679
who is the Big ten commission I don't really know

712
00:35:16,679 --> 00:35:18,119
who it is. It's changed a couple of times over

713
00:35:18,159 --> 00:35:20,920
the years. Let's get Gordy in here. No, he's at

714
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,199
least locked on SEC. He's not locked on he knows.

715
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:29,199
I bet you he knows. Tony Patiti, Yeah, former television

716
00:35:29,199 --> 00:35:33,440
executive h okay, is there any part of you that

717
00:35:33,639 --> 00:35:35,880
if at the Big if the SEC and the Big

718
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:40,199
ten don't get their satisfactory eight guaranteed spots, they might

719
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,960
just say screw you. We're gonna create our own thirty

720
00:35:42,119 --> 00:35:46,000
year and just and create our national champion. We'll be recognized.

721
00:35:46,039 --> 00:35:48,760
That's like the nuclear option. That doesn't feel like that

722
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:55,920
feel good, but it's probably being discussed. Oh man, this

723
00:35:56,039 --> 00:36:00,079
is so funny because here's the thing. If you took

724
00:36:01,039 --> 00:36:03,760
the thirty two. How many are the SEC? There's fourteen

725
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,559
or sixteen teams on the SEC. How many are in

726
00:36:06,599 --> 00:36:09,159
each league? Now six SEC is sixteen? I think they're

727
00:36:09,159 --> 00:36:13,679
both sixteen sixteen. If you took those thirty two, you'd

728
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:18,159
have a halatiously fantastic college football league, wouldn't you, Yes,

729
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:22,039
you would. You would have who would be the biggest

730
00:36:22,079 --> 00:36:24,719
brand outside of it? Notre Dame. Notre Dame would be

731
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:27,840
on the outside. You'd have Uh, North Carolina would be

732
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,800
on the outside. You would have uh, you're talking about football,

733
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:32,920
big football brands, big football brands. Notre Dame would be

734
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:38,800
number one. Miami, Yeah, Florida State, Florida State, Clemson, Clemson,

735
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:42,000
those those would be That's about it. That's it. I mean,

736
00:36:42,039 --> 00:36:49,239
you have Alabama, Texas, Ohio State, Michigan, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Georgia, Oregon, Ucla, yeah,

737
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:57,360
washingt USUSC and maybe you even even even invite some

738
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:03,320
of those in. Yeah, you could have. You could invite.

739
00:37:03,559 --> 00:37:05,719
You'd get to get it to thirty six. I mean

740
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,719
thirty four would sea the heck would your conference? It

741
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:09,840
would be just a postseason tournament. I don't know what

742
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,760
would even do, but there would be one mega conference.

743
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:12,880
You would just call it. You would call it a

744
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:14,960
league like the National Football League. You have your follow Okay,

745
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,519
you know that's would be my assumption. National College League

746
00:37:17,519 --> 00:37:20,119
Football League. Yeah, National College Football League or whatever. Yeah,

747
00:37:20,199 --> 00:37:22,719
you know, that's what you'd have, and then everybody else

748
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,039
would be You'd be playing for the national championship of

749
00:37:25,119 --> 00:37:27,360
a second tier league, which would be called the NCAA.

750
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:34,079
So what are you supposed to do? I I don't.

751
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:39,599
I think those teams have history television sets. They're the

752
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:43,039
reason why these leagues get paid. I mean, you Fox

753
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,719
is paying for Big ten games. Now, Big twelve helps,

754
00:37:48,559 --> 00:37:51,039
but the big but the Big ten dr I mean,

755
00:37:51,199 --> 00:37:57,960
Ohio State Michigan is going to outdraw Colorado West Virginia

756
00:37:58,079 --> 00:38:01,760
every damn week. What is that's funny you you bring

757
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,639
that up? What is the biggest game in the Big twelve? Right, well,

758
00:38:06,199 --> 00:38:08,639
the biggest possible to make the championship game every year. Okay,

759
00:38:08,639 --> 00:38:10,480
and yeah, but I mean, like like you said, Ohio

760
00:38:10,559 --> 00:38:15,880
State Michigan is from sex in a standpoint, Well, I mean,

761
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,000
do you want to give it to Dion because of Dion?

762
00:38:18,159 --> 00:38:20,039
Or do you want to do with this tech Colorado?

763
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:24,239
You don't have one. I mean TCU played for the

764
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,639
national championship a few years ago, Arizona Arizona State. I

765
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:32,599
mean Arizona State was played well in the tournament. But

766
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:34,000
the answer is that you don't have an answer, So

767
00:38:34,079 --> 00:38:39,320
let's just leave that blank. B y u utah, No,

768
00:38:39,599 --> 00:38:44,559
don't care. I'm trying. I know, don't you stop? So

769
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,000
if if Sanki and the and Tony Batite don't get

770
00:38:48,079 --> 00:38:53,000
what they want, four automatics, create their thirty six Go

771
00:38:53,119 --> 00:38:55,280
Get Go, Get Notre Dame and three other of the

772
00:38:55,639 --> 00:38:58,639
accs that you want. Call it thirty six Florida State

773
00:38:58,679 --> 00:39:01,079
Miami and call it a day and create your own

774
00:39:01,159 --> 00:39:03,679
league until they ended of a leagabye, you could do two.

775
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,000
That would be thirty six to eighteen team leagues. Could

776
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,840
there be some ramifications towards the basketball tournament and the

777
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,119
other sports? I don't that I have no answer to.

778
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,360
There will be lawyers. There will be a lot of

779
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,039
lawyers that'll be anti trust litigate. I mean this is

780
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,480
this could get message, but let's do that. Let's get

781
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,159
to the point of it. Could there be an off

782
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,559
year now not probable, but could there be an off

783
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:30,880
year where your number one team in your SEC is

784
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:36,880
say ten and two, Yeah, your second, your first team

785
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,400
is maybe eleven and one or twelve and zero, but

786
00:39:40,559 --> 00:39:44,639
your third best team might be nine and three. Absolutely,

787
00:39:44,679 --> 00:39:47,719
your four team could be eight and four, and you're

788
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:52,400
going to in theory, kick them in. While let's say

789
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:57,679
a third big twelve team wins ten games, a third

790
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:03,440
ACC team wins ten games, to decide, how about the

791
00:40:03,519 --> 00:40:06,480
quality of those ten wins? Yeah, exactly, And then you're

792
00:40:06,559 --> 00:40:11,000
gonna the SEC argument they will always win because there's cannibalization, like, oh,

793
00:40:11,119 --> 00:40:13,519
Tennessee beat this SET team and they lost this other

794
00:40:13,679 --> 00:40:18,800
SEC team, and it always ends up to where So

795
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:20,920
I'm going to reverse the question on you a little bit. Then, Okay,

796
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:24,039
then what is the Then why are they even trying

797
00:40:24,079 --> 00:40:27,679
to play nice with this? Just create your thirty six

798
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,719
team league and separate and say, look, we have been

799
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,960
pound for pound for twenty years. The two most dominant

800
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:38,480
conferences with all due respect now would then Ball State

801
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,840
and then would then UTEP say we're not going to

802
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,800
come play you, and you can't cast your money, you

803
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,679
can't make your money. That's how they fund their programs. Yeah,

804
00:40:47,079 --> 00:40:49,880
I don't know what give me the value unless again,

805
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:54,320
they felt like there could be some long standing troubles

806
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,719
with the other sports. Would they hurt themselves when it

807
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,880
comes to the March madness if they were to separate

808
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,519
themselves from a college into a college football league. The

809
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:09,079
fourth best SEC team this year would be the nine

810
00:41:09,159 --> 00:41:12,320
and four Alabama Crimson Tide, who did not get into

811
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:16,480
the twelve but would have gotten into a sixteen. Also

812
00:41:16,679 --> 00:41:19,039
the LSU Tigers and the South Carolina game Cocks. For

813
00:41:19,159 --> 00:41:26,239
nine and four you need an automatic bid for four

814
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:32,679
loss Alabama. That's crazy. I don't think. I don't think

815
00:41:33,159 --> 00:41:36,360
now SEC eyeballs. You put Alabama and you're getting eyeballs.

816
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,000
I don't think the SEC and Big Ten are backing

817
00:41:38,039 --> 00:41:40,679
down for this. Well, yeah, they've also Alabama lost their

818
00:41:40,679 --> 00:41:42,039
bowl games, so they were nine and three in the

819
00:41:42,079 --> 00:41:45,800
regular season. I think they are going to put their

820
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:47,760
foot in the in the dirt and say this is

821
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,679
we're going with us or we are the Power League.

822
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:54,320
Our team's weeket in, week out, play the best competition,

823
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,760
and no disrespect to Boise State or no disrespect to

824
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:01,280
Colorado State or no disrespect to even Kansas in the

825
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,679
Big Twelve. But pound for pound, our schedule is significantly

826
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:06,400
more difficult. We're gonna have more losses. But at the

827
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:08,639
end of the day, we present a greater challenge and

828
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:12,199
a better resume to play for a national championship. Then

829
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:16,760
bringing in, you know, another at large team or another

830
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,519
team from the acc ACC you deserve too. You get

831
00:42:19,559 --> 00:42:21,480
to Big twelve, you deserve too, You get your two.

832
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:24,639
We in the Big Ten are sixteen strong, and we

833
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,880
believe our top four teams can beat anybody else that's

834
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,320
not a top two team in another league. By standings,

835
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:35,039
the fourth best Big Ten team is your national champion

836
00:42:35,119 --> 00:42:43,840
Ohio State Buckeyes. So that furthers our argument. Then interesting,

837
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:49,039
it's all for greed. It's all for money. We talked

838
00:42:49,079 --> 00:42:51,679
about pageantry. You know you can't pay the players. It's

839
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:56,280
for prestige and history. It's all about the money. Here

840
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,639
we are eleven o'clock. We'll start the second hour. John

841
00:42:58,679 --> 00:42:59,679
of League say he wants to get in on this

842
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:02,119
converse is what would you like to get to the Astros? There?

843
00:43:02,159 --> 00:43:04,559
Fair game. We'll talk with Joe Spot at twelve thirty.

844
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:09,719
This is Sports Talk seven hout eleven o five on

845
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:13,039
Sports Talk seven ninety. Good morning, everybody. We thank you

846
00:43:13,159 --> 00:43:14,639
very much for spending part of your day with us.

847
00:43:14,639 --> 00:43:16,360
Why don't you to stay with us for three more hours?

848
00:43:16,599 --> 00:43:18,239
We were not going to disappoint you. We're not gonna

849
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:22,679
mail in segments. We're not gonna regurgitate things. Actually, we're

850
00:43:22,679 --> 00:43:24,760
not gonna regurgitate, because what's we do? People come in

851
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:26,639
and out. We want you here till two o'clock hang

852
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:28,679
with us. It's called a reset. Matt, don't well, it's

853
00:43:28,679 --> 00:43:33,840
something so disgusting violent. Yeah, Regurgitation usually means what you

854
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,079
swallow your own bommel when you drink too much. That's asphyxiation.

855
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,599
I think that's true. All right, Astros back at action

856
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:46,119
tonight against the A's. I'm saying Oakland a's, you can't.

857
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:46,599
Speaker 1: Why not?

858
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:51,280
Speaker 2: It's not what they're gonna They're gonna arrest me, They'll

859
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,159
make fun of you. That's fine. How about if I

860
00:43:54,199 --> 00:43:57,320
say Sacramento a's. You know, what I'm writing. I'm writing

861
00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:59,880
in my script right now. You know what the folks

862
00:44:00,039 --> 00:44:02,480
on Giants TV last one, we called him the I

863
00:44:02,519 --> 00:44:05,199
think they call him the Okramento's that's actually not bad.

864
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:08,519
I like that sounds delicious ocamento. Would you like some

865
00:44:08,639 --> 00:44:18,000
spicy ocramento? What is okramento? It's pimento and okra. It's like, yes,

866
00:44:18,199 --> 00:44:21,079
like a spreadable chee you put on crackers. Ah, some

867
00:44:21,199 --> 00:44:23,599
of that awesome of the actually sounds disgusting. Some of

868
00:44:23,599 --> 00:44:25,880
those Waverley crackers of the ocamental spread a little garlic

869
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:30,159
and salt. Ocamento. Maybe that's a type of tree. It

870
00:44:30,199 --> 00:44:31,920
sounds like a bad baseball team, is what it is,

871
00:44:32,079 --> 00:44:34,320
and it is They've really not played well the last

872
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:38,079
few weeks. Uh NBA playoffs continue tonight with Game number

873
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:42,320
four against between the New York Knickbockers and the Indiana Paces.

874
00:44:42,639 --> 00:44:45,440
Must win Game four? Nobody the answer both?

875
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 1: Yeah.

876
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:49,960
Speaker 2: I would think it's a must win game. Both teams

877
00:44:50,039 --> 00:44:52,280
must win it. Yes, I feel like one wants to

878
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:56,360
feel bad about it. M hm. Does Oklahoma City finish off?

879
00:44:56,960 --> 00:45:01,800
The Wolves come out tomorrow night, thunder and five. That's

880
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:03,519
what I told you got feeling last week. What'd I

881
00:45:03,559 --> 00:45:05,960
say thunder and six? I think, so, okay, that's off.

882
00:45:06,199 --> 00:45:08,119
I think you said Wolves and four. I thought it was.

883
00:45:08,519 --> 00:45:12,719
That's actually not true, not true. All we got gut

884
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:14,159
feelings coming up in a half an hour, but now

885
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,400
by last today, so we will see how we did

886
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:20,360
in our sports predictions. But yeah, you're Indiana Pacers. Old

887
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,199
Jonathan had a chance. They were up twenty looks yesh,

888
00:45:23,559 --> 00:45:25,920
it's still looking good. They're still sitting pretty their home

889
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:29,760
favorites for game four. I'm telling you, if people have

890
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:31,400
asked me this before, if there's a place to go

891
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,320
to watch an NBA game, I said two places, and

892
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,079
you would not be on the top of the radar. Well,

893
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:40,960
there's actually three. Going to Crypto dot com in LA

894
00:45:41,079 --> 00:45:42,840
to see the stars and how the dark screen and

895
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:46,639
just the ambiance Laker girls. It's just kind of show,

896
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:50,280
you know, show me time, showtime. It's not real life. Okay,

897
00:45:50,519 --> 00:45:54,440
But if you love basketball, Toronto and Indiana are the

898
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,920
two spots. What about Oklahoma City? It always seems like

899
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:00,119
it's great in there. That's this seventeen thousand fans that

900
00:46:00,199 --> 00:46:02,400
are just but when you wear the energy looks great.

901
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:04,920
When you walk into gamebridge Fieldhouse, you feel like you're

902
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,480
in a basketball gym. I like that. They all wear

903
00:46:07,599 --> 00:46:11,320
the shirt too. In Oklahoma City, everybody puts on the

904
00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:14,119
colored shirt. Makes it feel like a better atmosphere. Well,

905
00:46:14,159 --> 00:46:17,000
those those single pro towns tend to do it pretty good.

906
00:46:17,079 --> 00:46:20,039
M hm O SMULTI sporters. We're a little slow to

907
00:46:20,079 --> 00:46:23,199
the jump. Yeah, that's fine. In Houston, they don't want

908
00:46:23,199 --> 00:46:25,079
to put it over their dress shirt from their corporate job.

909
00:46:25,159 --> 00:46:29,000
That's okay. I mean, maybe you can't take that tie

910
00:46:29,079 --> 00:46:32,119
up before seven o'clock or a thirty tip time, or

911
00:46:32,159 --> 00:46:33,800
in some case you get there for nine thirty eight

912
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,800
thirty tip time. That's okay. That's that feels rude. Seven

913
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:39,679
one after seven one three two one two five seven

914
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:42,119
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety

915
00:46:42,159 --> 00:46:43,599
John is in League City with US on seven I

916
00:46:43,679 --> 00:46:46,280
needy John, good morning, Hey, good morning, Hey Matt. How

917
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:50,039
you doing well, sir? Thank you? Good good. So this

918
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:52,000
SEC thing again, you.

919
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 4: Know number one uh four, you were talking about the

920
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,840
fourth place team and the SEC the fourth place team

921
00:46:58,840 --> 00:46:59,360
in the Big ten.

922
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 2: Who would that It's just like those of whatever.

923
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 4: Anyway, normally it would be you know, somebody like freaking

924
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:10,960
Wisconsin or something like that.

925
00:47:11,159 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 2: I mean it's like, I mean, in a normal season anyway,

926
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:15,559
you can't operate.

927
00:47:15,719 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 4: You know, Number one, college football is probably the second

928
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:20,280
most popular sport in this country.

929
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:25,079
Speaker 2: Correct, basketball? You said, no, college football? Second most popular? Oh,

930
00:47:25,199 --> 00:47:30,719
college football, college pro football. So I would say between

931
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:32,800
college college football and baseball.

932
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,559
Speaker 4: And it's yeah, but they're all real kind of close.

933
00:47:36,599 --> 00:47:40,599
But but it is still somewhat a territorial or geographic sports.

934
00:47:40,639 --> 00:47:42,880
When you say southeast to the south most.

935
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,519
Speaker 2: Yea East coast, the East coast could care less about

936
00:47:45,559 --> 00:47:48,320
college football. Yeah, I agree with you. Even it'll be even,

937
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:49,280
it'll be even worse.

938
00:47:49,599 --> 00:47:51,559
Speaker 4: You know, you can't have two leagues and have a

939
00:47:51,679 --> 00:47:54,679
game of the sport. You know, it's you do need

940
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,760
the Big twelve in all that sense. You do need

941
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,239
whatever's left of the ACC. You do need West Coast

942
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:02,599
teams to compete.

943
00:48:02,599 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 2: At some point. You just can't have thirty college teams.

944
00:48:05,639 --> 00:48:07,320
It doesn't work. And then you even thought about the

945
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:10,119
other sports. It it would never work. It would destroy

946
00:48:10,159 --> 00:48:12,599
the game quite frankly, in my opinion. Well, let me

947
00:48:12,639 --> 00:48:15,480
ask you this, because I look, I do find value

948
00:48:15,599 --> 00:48:19,079
in having one hundred teams competing, competing. Okay, so I'm

949
00:48:19,079 --> 00:48:24,079
not I'm not encouraging or proponent of this separation. But

950
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:26,800
if you're Greg Sanki, the SEC commission or you're the

951
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,920
Big ten commissioner, what does the Big twelve bring to

952
00:48:29,039 --> 00:48:34,199
you in football? Probably nothing? But that's what we're talking about.

953
00:48:34,199 --> 00:48:35,639
You we're not talking about it. I don't thinky're talking

954
00:48:35,639 --> 00:48:39,239
about full separation. Now that may be an apparat and

955
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:41,159
then how does that work? You mean, that's not fair

956
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:42,920
for the student athletes. And here's the other thing they

957
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:43,559
always forget.

958
00:48:44,039 --> 00:48:47,400
Speaker 4: Not every school in the SEC is paying millions upon

959
00:48:47,519 --> 00:48:49,800
millions upon millions of dollars for these players. And how

960
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,079
long is that going to last? When when you don't

961
00:48:52,119 --> 00:48:54,239
get banged for the buck, people aren't going to pay that.

962
00:48:54,679 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 3: You know?

963
00:48:55,079 --> 00:48:58,280
Speaker 2: Oh yes they are, yeah, I mean there John, they

964
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:00,880
are paying it. They have he ask you know who

965
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:04,760
pays it? ESPN. ESPN one of the SEC so bad

966
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:08,639
they bought the entire package of games. I'm talking about,

967
00:49:08,679 --> 00:49:13,800
Ni l Oh. I don't think. I don't think. Look,

968
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:17,599
let me tell you in the SEC Commissioner Sankie, I mean,

969
00:49:17,639 --> 00:49:19,599
he would never publicly say this but he doesn't care

970
00:49:19,639 --> 00:49:22,239
if Kentucky and Vanderbilt play their nil players for football.

971
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:24,000
I mean, there got me some sacrificial lands in the

972
00:49:24,039 --> 00:49:27,760
group mansons. To God's honest truth, right, there is no

973
00:49:28,119 --> 00:49:30,719
there is no concern for Alabama, Florida, L s U,

974
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:33,800
Ole Miss for how the ni L game is going

975
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:37,480
on at South Carolina. They just don't get. But which

976
00:49:37,519 --> 00:49:38,800
again South Carolina as well too.

977
00:49:39,639 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 5: And my last question or my last point, how's this fair?

978
00:49:43,159 --> 00:49:47,840
What about schools like Illinois and Indiana and freaking uh Vanderbilt,

979
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:49,960
Like you said, Vanderbilt, South Carolina one of these schools

980
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:50,679
that can compete.

981
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:53,079
Speaker 2: They should, they should. They're just as good as Big

982
00:49:53,119 --> 00:49:53,800
twelve teams too.

983
00:49:54,119 --> 00:49:54,599
Speaker 1: I don't know.

984
00:49:54,639 --> 00:49:56,519
Speaker 2: I don't disagree with that, but they also. But I

985
00:49:56,559 --> 00:49:58,599
don't think Alabama on L, s U, and Florida want

986
00:49:58,639 --> 00:50:02,519
to have to take on goal every week. That's true.

987
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,880
That's true too. Anyway, that's my opinion. Thanks guys, you

988
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:07,679
got a nice to hear from you. Yeah, I don't

989
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:09,519
like this. I'm not I'm not trying to, but I'm

990
00:50:09,639 --> 00:50:12,239
thinking I'm When I talk of this right now, I

991
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:18,719
think of the pure greed and the pure ego mania.

992
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:22,559
That is the SEC's athletic director's presidents and its commissioner,

993
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,599
Greg Sankie just said the other day he doesn't want

994
00:50:26,599 --> 00:50:28,119
to hear the whate with me from their conferences. He

995
00:50:28,159 --> 00:50:30,639
has no interest in feeling bad for the sport. He's

996
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:34,440
Greg Sankee's responsibility as a commissioner. The SEC is not

997
00:50:34,599 --> 00:50:37,239
look for for the goodness of college football. He's in

998
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:39,079
the He's in the business for the goodness of the

999
00:50:39,119 --> 00:50:43,280
sixteen members of its conference. And let me tell you something, Vanderbilt, Kentucky,

1000
00:50:43,679 --> 00:50:47,480
who else sucks in the SEC? Mississippi State, They're all

1001
00:50:47,519 --> 00:50:49,440
along for the ride. They're like, bro, you do whatever

1002
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:52,000
you want to do, feeling good. Yeah, as long as

1003
00:50:52,039 --> 00:50:54,119
you get to keep a part of this this TV money,

1004
00:50:54,199 --> 00:50:54,840
we're all for it.

1005
00:50:55,119 --> 00:50:55,280
Speaker 1: You know.

1006
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 2: If we got to go four and eighty every year

1007
00:50:56,760 --> 00:51:00,199
to do that, so be it. Because Misssippi State at

1008
00:51:00,199 --> 00:51:02,480
four and eight or who else is a second tier

1009
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:04,920
Kentucky at five and seven. It pays for a lot

1010
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:09,280
of their athletic programs. So Kentucky and Mississippi State and

1011
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:12,360
Vanderbilt and going to the to the Big Ten. If

1012
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:17,039
the Northwestern was complaining about this situation, then they would say,

1013
00:51:17,039 --> 00:51:19,719
get out, go find on their conference. But Northwestern is

1014
00:51:19,719 --> 00:51:21,840
never gonna bead the Big ten. They have no reason to. No,

1015
00:51:23,559 --> 00:51:26,800
it might get kicked out. Cross country program goes away

1016
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:30,039
if a big if Northwestern football goes away, because Gary

1017
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:32,400
I guarantee the Big twelve wants north part of Northwestern.

1018
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:35,360
The a SEC doesn't want Northwestern. Nobody wants them. That's

1019
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,639
why you'll never hear of those schools going well, this

1020
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:41,000
isn't fair, this isn't nice. You're treating Alabama better than

1021
00:51:41,039 --> 00:51:45,960
we are. Yeah, exactly what they're doing. It's a broken system,

1022
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:48,800
that's the bottom line. And we could try to fix

1023
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:51,239
it any kind kind of way we want. But it's broken.

1024
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:53,960
Aren't we due for a massive overhaul. It's broken and

1025
00:51:54,079 --> 00:51:58,920
driven by greed. That's all we need to know. Yeah,

1026
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:01,159
but there is. Do you really think at A and

1027
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:03,280
M and all that nil flesh money they're getting in

1028
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:06,039
there is is overly concerned that Vanderbilt's only making thirty

1029
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:08,199
thirty per cents in the dollar for every dollar they

1030
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:11,000
bring in for an il No chance. It's like facilities.

1031
00:52:12,119 --> 00:52:16,880
Who's better facilities for football? Kentucky or Texas? Probably Texas

1032
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:21,639
one hundred percent Texas, I know. Eleven fourteen Sports Talk

1033
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:25,000
Sevenatti seven one three two one two five Sevenatti seven

1034
00:52:25,079 --> 00:52:28,760
one three two one two five seven nine zero. And

1035
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:32,199
you know who again, who's driving this. It's the television network,

1036
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:36,760
not this full stadiums. It's TV TV has gotten noney.

1037
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,079
TV's got no issues with what Gregg thank you is

1038
00:52:39,159 --> 00:52:43,079
saying publicly say that though, because they are getting, they

1039
00:52:43,159 --> 00:52:46,079
are taking. They are spending money on Big twelve in

1040
00:52:46,159 --> 00:52:47,840
acc and hoping to make money off of that, and

1041
00:52:48,119 --> 00:52:49,679
so I mean they have they have to have a

1042
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:51,480
vested interest, but they're never going to publicly say with

1043
00:52:51,519 --> 00:52:53,079
Greg thank you saying to say, you do what you

1044
00:52:53,159 --> 00:52:55,039
need to do as long as whatever you decide to do,

1045
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:57,760
we broadcast the games and we'll cut your check to

1046
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:02,239
do it. Eleven fifteen on seven ninety, congratulations to minos

1047
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:05,639
Uzanne and the Houston Cougar point guard declared himself for

1048
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:08,599
the NBA Draft. Did not hire an age to the

1049
00:53:08,639 --> 00:53:12,880
Combine and the combine to go back to college. We'll

1050
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:16,079
get some seasoning. It should happened a lot. Yeah, he

1051
00:53:16,119 --> 00:53:18,440
went to the Combine and they were handing him his assessment.

1052
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:24,599
They handed him a Greek Dictionary and it said you

1053
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:28,599
better learn Greece, buddy. The Greek League a little late

1054
00:53:28,639 --> 00:53:30,920
to that. I'm sorry. Maybe it wasn't a good joke

1055
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:35,960
or Turkish League. It was a John's smile, and of

1056
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:41,960
course John to learn Greek, buddy, get the never mind,

1057
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:46,280
I'm gonna stay away from an Israeli league reference. I mean,

1058
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:49,199
that's where players go. Are you doing to get political?

1059
00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:51,119
I'm just trying to name leagues that guys go to.

1060
00:53:52,679 --> 00:54:00,760
I said, I'm staying away, all right, that's funny. So, uh,

1061
00:54:01,199 --> 00:54:07,360
there was a player that that Riley Matt come on,

1062
00:54:07,519 --> 00:54:12,039
Milos Uzzan, Milos Uzanne. Uh, decided he was going to

1063
00:54:12,119 --> 00:54:15,400
come back. And ironically enough, there was a kid that

1064
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:19,639
played at Creighton, Pop Isaacs, who transferred to Houston. Yes,

1065
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:22,000
but good right, yeah, it's now a transfer to A

1066
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:27,119
and M. He transferred. What Pop Isaacs is going now? Yeah? So,

1067
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:30,199
thus the Cougar collector on Twitter, stealing a bit from

1068
00:54:30,199 --> 00:54:32,440
my own show, which I appreciate. What was your favorite

1069
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:36,960
Pop Isaac's the Houston Cougar memory. Yeah, shoot, hurt right.

1070
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,679
Those Creighton Blue Jays are flying around. I want to

1071
00:54:43,679 --> 00:54:47,119
stay over there. Okay, that's surprising because up Crighton's great program.

1072
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:49,159
First of all, great conference, good city. Not all have

1073
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:50,840
to do there, but it's really nice city. But he

1074
00:54:51,039 --> 00:54:53,280
was going to be basically the heir apparent point guard.

1075
00:54:53,320 --> 00:54:55,920
And I guess from now with miss came back, my

1076
00:54:56,079 --> 00:54:59,800
guess is that Kelvin, not being asked, called him and said,

1077
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:01,360
who's on coming back? What do you want to do?

1078
00:55:02,039 --> 00:55:04,599
So Pop, Isaac's just what I'm saying. Started at Texas

1079
00:55:04,679 --> 00:55:06,920
Tech a couple of years there, went to Creyton, they

1080
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,159
went to you of H briefly, and Nowaday it ain't

1081
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:15,159
m correct. Okay, I don't even know. I mean, Isaac's

1082
00:55:15,199 --> 00:55:18,239
never probably even to classic you of age correct, I

1083
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:20,440
don't think so. How does a transcript look when you've

1084
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:25,679
been to multiple schools? I don't know. Now I transferred once. Yeah, Matt,

1085
00:55:25,760 --> 00:55:28,599
you hit the portal, I did, and you of H

1086
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:32,039
just like, thank you, Matt, legendary sportscaster. You get a

1087
00:55:32,079 --> 00:55:34,960
lucrative nil deal over here. Me Nan sworel. I mean

1088
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:38,360
that's pretty good, right, Yeah, that's great. I'm still in

1089
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:42,119
the portal, still making a decision. You know, as I

1090
00:55:42,199 --> 00:55:44,360
told Carly, I said, you know, sometimes you go in

1091
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:48,480
the portal, you don't come out. That's true, man, the

1092
00:55:48,599 --> 00:55:52,039
portal is crazy. Yeah, there was uh, there was a

1093
00:55:52,119 --> 00:55:55,360
Kansas State PJ. Haggerty I think is his name. He

1094
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:58,840
was supposed to get three four million dollars for nil

1095
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:00,599
and then he drug out his commitment and now he

1096
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:04,280
just committed to Kansas State. Like just now, what's still

1097
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:07,320
the same money or no, less way less money. Apparently

1098
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:11,679
he had big offers from I can't remember. I'll go

1099
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:15,760
look from like some some NC state, maybe some other schools.

1100
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:17,960
One quick thing about this, when you and I don't

1101
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:20,000
and I don't I know the answer, something openly asked this.

1102
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:22,119
Let's say that you are a kid and you get

1103
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:26,679
crazy money, and you get paid this crazy money and

1104
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:31,719
you don't stay. Have we had any sort of ligation school.

1105
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,840
Usually it's like a four million for over four year deal,

1106
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:36,719
and so if they leave after one year, they don't

1107
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:40,119
get the It's like basically a promise. So the four

1108
00:56:40,199 --> 00:56:43,360
million over four year guys getting a million dollars normally

1109
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,519
when we see I. That is my understanding is that

1110
00:56:46,639 --> 00:56:48,320
normally we'll see this guy, Oh, you got a four

1111
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:51,000
million dollar deal. Usually that's over four years of college

1112
00:56:51,039 --> 00:56:53,119
and nobody does four years of college and I think

1113
00:56:53,199 --> 00:56:55,000
it's one year, one million, and they have to sign

1114
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:57,960
at the eight season, right, Okay, renews every year, so

1115
00:56:58,079 --> 00:56:59,840
you don't you would you get the money as a

1116
00:57:00,039 --> 00:57:02,480
season progresses, like like a paycheck or do you get

1117
00:57:02,519 --> 00:57:04,760
in one lump sum? I don't think that's up to

1118
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:07,000
the school. Yeah, they want to pay you like November.

1119
00:57:07,639 --> 00:57:09,880
The collective, I can't say, yeah, yeah, the collective. The

1120
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:16,679
school is collective. Yeah. Yeah. And then there was what

1121
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:21,800
there was a Tennessee quarterback nicom Nico who cost himself money,

1122
00:57:22,119 --> 00:57:24,840
lots of money. And then his brother too, right, I

1123
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:28,360
think is involved in that as well. I'm gonna leof

1124
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:30,480
as are there. I'm just proudly you said it correctly.

1125
00:57:30,559 --> 00:57:32,199
I don't know if I did. Oh, there'll be a

1126
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:34,000
chance if he's a Heisman candidate. We'll have to get

1127
00:57:34,039 --> 00:57:36,719
it right eventually. Okay, Yes, let's talk to We did

1128
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:38,599
that with tongue of aloa. Let me ask a aggi

1129
00:57:38,679 --> 00:57:40,679
dog aga dog is a pride? Ain't him graduate? Are

1130
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:44,320
you concerned about the nil future at say? I don't

1131
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:47,880
know Arkansas this day? Not really? Are you?

1132
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:53,719
Speaker 6: No, I'm more concerned about an io level and make

1133
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:55,559
sure that we got plenty of money to get as

1134
00:57:55,639 --> 00:57:57,800
many players as possible. And that was great that we

1135
00:57:57,880 --> 00:58:00,760
get a US trash So I love that.

1136
00:58:01,079 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 2: A and M got a player. No, no, no, we

1137
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:06,800
said we sent to the trash on to use what

1138
00:58:06,880 --> 00:58:08,719
we did. Well.

1139
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 6: I appreciate that because we needed a point guard. So

1140
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:14,000
but no, dude, I was I was calling because I

1141
00:58:14,039 --> 00:58:17,400
heard y'all talking about the college football, you know, the

1142
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:22,199
new format or whatever. Let's not kid ourselves like it's

1143
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:24,880
it's more about betting than it is anything else, right,

1144
00:58:25,079 --> 00:58:25,679
I mean, that's.

1145
00:58:25,719 --> 00:58:26,440
Speaker 1: That's what I mean.

1146
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:28,679
Speaker 6: That's what everybody was freaked out about last year. Those

1147
00:58:28,719 --> 00:58:31,599
first round games were such atrocious games, and there was

1148
00:58:31,719 --> 00:58:33,719
tons of money that were that were on those games,

1149
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:36,000
and it was like, I'm not gonna bet something with

1150
00:58:36,079 --> 00:58:40,239
a twenty there's something. I mean, as a playoff game,

1151
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:41,119
it's just ridiculous.

1152
00:58:41,159 --> 00:58:43,559
Speaker 2: But let me ask you this, Aggie Duke, if you

1153
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:49,119
are a professional gambler, I'm not talking a thousand dollars

1154
00:58:49,159 --> 00:58:52,000
on a raindows Saturday, Okay, I'm talking about what they

1155
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:56,519
call them sharps. Right, Basically, if you're a sharp, you

1156
00:58:56,639 --> 00:58:58,880
don't care if to spread his eighteen or nineteen points,

1157
00:58:59,199 --> 00:59:01,360
because it's up to you decide who wins the game,

1158
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:03,639
and you don't care what the spread is as long

1159
00:59:03,679 --> 00:59:06,000
as you're on the right side of that spread. So

1160
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:09,000
I would respectfully disagree with you that it might not

1161
00:59:09,159 --> 00:59:10,760
help the guy that puts one hundred dollars down in

1162
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:12,920
the game, or fifty dollars or two hundred dollars. But

1163
00:59:13,079 --> 00:59:15,760
the Sharks, they're there to make money every single week

1164
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:18,599
down on just about every game, so I don't think

1165
00:59:18,639 --> 00:59:20,400
they particularly care what the lines are and how the

1166
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:22,039
matchups are. They just want to be on the right

1167
00:59:22,119 --> 00:59:22,440
side of it.

1168
00:59:24,079 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 6: And I don't disagree with that. But also, what kind

1169
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:29,199
of counter with is that? Do you really want to

1170
00:59:29,199 --> 00:59:31,719
put a crap ton of money on a twenty five

1171
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:35,519
point point spread if you feel freaking away.

1172
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:37,119
Speaker 2: But if you feel that team is much better than

1173
00:59:37,119 --> 00:59:39,280
a four touchdown dog, you're going to jump all over that.

1174
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:42,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, But in a in a playoff scenario you're thinking about,

1175
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:46,360
I mean, basically, a kicker gets hurt or or the

1176
00:59:46,519 --> 00:59:48,400
star running back goes down and all of a sudden

1177
00:59:48,519 --> 00:59:51,239
you're out a million dollars, two million dollars that you

1178
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:53,760
bet on a twenty five point point spread. So that's

1179
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:55,639
why I think that it's that they're just trying to

1180
00:59:55,679 --> 00:59:58,599
get the games to be more competitive. Obviously, you know

1181
00:59:58,719 --> 01:00:01,159
the Sharks, they're about the the pick them's and the

1182
01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:04,079
one and two and three point spreads because they got

1183
01:00:04,159 --> 01:00:07,679
the information from their inside guy that's telling them, hey,

1184
01:00:08,199 --> 01:00:10,199
this is the guy that's gonna go off this game,

1185
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:12,079
or this guy's a little banged up, so he's not

1186
01:00:12,159 --> 01:00:14,760
going to do anything. So I think that from a

1187
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:17,920
perspective of competitive balance, I think that's what they're trying

1188
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:20,480
to do more than anything because last game, I mean,

1189
01:00:20,599 --> 01:00:22,079
I know it was the first year of the College

1190
01:00:22,199 --> 01:00:23,000
of the playoff like.

1191
01:00:23,039 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 1: That, but I mean they've got to do better than that.

1192
01:00:26,800 --> 01:00:29,280
Speaker 2: I would disagree with the notion that big betters like

1193
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:32,039
smaller spreads. So's that's more volatility. Yeah, I would say

1194
01:00:32,039 --> 01:00:34,639
if I if I love a game in thanks Ady

1195
01:00:34,719 --> 01:00:36,599
for the phone, especially in football, is a one score,

1196
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:38,920
like you know, any any touchdown and he picked six,

1197
01:00:39,039 --> 01:00:42,039
any fumble six and just completely flip the spread. I

1198
01:00:42,119 --> 01:00:43,920
think if I'm betting two hundred and fifty thousand dollars

1199
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:46,079
in a particular game, I've done my research on this,

1200
01:00:46,239 --> 01:00:48,079
and I'm not gonna I don't think I'm gonna let

1201
01:00:48,119 --> 01:00:50,280
a fourteen points spread determinative. If I'm not gonna bet

1202
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:51,800
the Game'm not going about the game regardless. And a

1203
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:54,199
lot of guys do like the bigger spreads and in

1204
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:57,280
the smaller games rather than going with, you know, Alabama

1205
01:00:57,400 --> 01:01:00,639
versus Ohio State, because that's that really like fling Miami

1206
01:01:00,679 --> 01:01:04,679
of Ohio versus on the Ohio Bobcats whatever rivalry game. Man,

1207
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:07,320
But it would be scary if you were, let's say,

1208
01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:10,199
at Orando Wednesday and you had Bowling Green versus Western

1209
01:01:10,239 --> 01:01:12,840
Kentucky on and some and a sharp walks into ats

1210
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:15,159
three hundred thousand dollars on a one team. You'd be like, well,

1211
01:01:15,199 --> 01:01:16,280
the first of all, they're not going to the tip,

1212
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:17,599
they're not going to the pay window. They've got their

1213
01:01:17,599 --> 01:01:20,880
own people. But it would be kind of weird. No,

1214
01:01:21,039 --> 01:01:24,480
I don't. This to me is nothing about betting. This

1215
01:01:24,599 --> 01:01:28,880
is to me about making sure that our television partners

1216
01:01:29,239 --> 01:01:33,639
ESPN and CBS and a much smaller extent, Fox are happy.

1217
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:36,679
Yeah they are. They are happy with matchups that are closer,

1218
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:39,360
that are big right game matchups. Yeah, they don't want

1219
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:40,880
the twenty point spreads. They don't want to be in

1220
01:01:41,039 --> 01:01:42,719
I tab. They don't want to dan in an under dame.

1221
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:45,440
They don't want that. Well last year, Indiana was good

1222
01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:48,480
last year, But in general, in general, they want sexy

1223
01:01:48,559 --> 01:01:52,719
matchups with history, with blue blood teams. Yes, because you

1224
01:01:52,719 --> 01:01:54,519
don't know what that gets eyeballs? You know what that

1225
01:01:54,639 --> 01:01:58,880
gets advertising dollars. Because even though Arizona State Texas last

1226
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:01,679
year was a great game, right yes, with Camps Cattaboo,

1227
01:02:02,199 --> 01:02:06,800
it's Cataboo overrated. Does Arizona State carry anymore national cachet

1228
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:09,360
today and they did six months ago? Nope, they'd have

1229
01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:11,320
to sustain it. Yeah, you'd have to win it. You'd

1230
01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:13,519
have to win those games, knock off Texas, win a

1231
01:02:13,599 --> 01:02:15,400
national champion. Yeah, I think they have to.

1232
01:02:15,719 --> 01:02:16,039
Speaker 1: You have to.

1233
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:19,199
Speaker 2: Like Baylor and TCU were kind of sexy teams into

1234
01:02:19,199 --> 01:02:20,719
the Big twelve for a little while, at least more

1235
01:02:20,760 --> 01:02:22,719
than they were right now. I mean, what are they now?

1236
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:25,719
I'm going now? Yep, all right, time for some gut feelings.

1237
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:27,519
We'll get to those phone calls coming up in a

1238
01:02:27,559 --> 01:02:29,639
minute seven one three two one two five seven.

1239
01:02:29,639 --> 01:02:29,679
Speaker 3: Ho.

1240
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:31,719
Speaker 2: This is this half hour of the show where we

1241
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:34,239
asked you to make predictions about anything, and I have

1242
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:37,880
a prediction that I'm putting the name on it. You're

1243
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:40,480
doing over gut feeling over gut feeling right, let me

1244
01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:42,559
get the no shar wrongest file out that feels wrong.

1245
01:02:42,639 --> 01:02:44,320
Do you you to even bring that up at this point?

1246
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:46,000
But I write it down when you put your name

1247
01:02:46,039 --> 01:02:54,079
on it, put my name on it. Time He's eleven

1248
01:02:54,199 --> 01:02:56,760
thirty four. This next half or our hour is very

1249
01:02:56,760 --> 01:02:58,559
important to those of us that like to make predictions

1250
01:02:58,679 --> 01:03:00,679
that includes you the great and against that we call

1251
01:03:00,719 --> 01:03:03,320
the Matt Thomas Show. Ross. That includes those of you

1252
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:04,840
on social media, that includes those of you on the

1253
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:07,320
phones at seven one three two, one two five seven

1254
01:03:07,440 --> 01:03:12,920
ninety seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.

1255
01:03:13,159 --> 01:03:15,440
Time for us to make some gut feelings Ross. Before

1256
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:17,920
we do that, let's wrap up and recap how we

1257
01:03:18,039 --> 01:03:20,639
did just one week ago. Yes, last week, Matt, we

1258
01:03:20,719 --> 01:03:25,280
were a hot topic. Was the Olympic NFL thing with

1259
01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:28,960
the flag football And did you see the court by

1260
01:03:28,960 --> 01:03:31,360
the way, the flag football quarterback came out and said, like, hey,

1261
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:33,559
we they don't need to just boot us off the team.

1262
01:03:33,559 --> 01:03:36,159
We've been winning for a long time, which means, oh,

1263
01:03:36,840 --> 01:03:40,159
pros versus Joe's. Should we get a little game schedule?

1264
01:03:40,239 --> 01:03:42,159
Do we know who the the quarterback was for the

1265
01:03:42,159 --> 01:03:44,400
flag fight ball? I can't remember his name, something the third,

1266
01:03:45,559 --> 01:03:48,960
but apparently he's really good in shifty, which is good

1267
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:50,880
for flag football. Of course, as I said, my gut

1268
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:53,559
feeling was mid quarterback. That's why you need somebody shifty,

1269
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:57,239
like a Lamar Jackson or a Josh Allen. Nope, nope,

1270
01:03:57,920 --> 01:04:02,119
Jade Daniels, nope. Pat Mahomes has expressed his interest, but

1271
01:04:02,199 --> 01:04:03,079
he's not squarely enough.

1272
01:04:03,119 --> 01:04:03,239
Speaker 3: You know.

1273
01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:05,039
Speaker 2: I've expressed interest in doing a lot of things in

1274
01:04:05,119 --> 01:04:08,039
my life, but I've been registered too. Yeah, you expressed

1275
01:04:08,039 --> 01:04:10,800
interest in being Somalia, which I thought was interesting, expressed

1276
01:04:10,840 --> 01:04:12,760
interest being a male in a national male model and

1277
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:14,280
has it worked out? They haven't called you back for

1278
01:04:14,320 --> 01:04:18,159
some reason. I've also been show an interest in hosting

1279
01:04:18,239 --> 01:04:20,320
match game and freaking Martin short as seventy five years

1280
01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:23,039
old is gonna do. I'm showing interest in dating Scarlett Johansson.

1281
01:04:23,519 --> 01:04:25,199
Well she's married. That'd be a little bit an whatever.

1282
01:04:25,239 --> 01:04:29,800
She's free again, maybe she'll get divorced again. Been a

1283
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:32,400
double I think she's had three three marriages. I think

1284
01:04:32,679 --> 01:04:35,519
let me ask me four times. Baby. I'm just gonna say,

1285
01:04:35,559 --> 01:04:37,880
if you're marrying, care for your baby. You just don't

1286
01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:42,679
screw that up, right, what you marry Scarlett Johanson, You

1287
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:44,920
live by her rules? Do you know? Oh yeah, I'm

1288
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:46,320
just saying that would that would be the maybe she

1289
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:48,199
wants somebody to boss her around. If she hits you,

1290
01:04:48,880 --> 01:04:50,719
Oh well then yeah you got her, then you definitely

1291
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:58,800
stay matt freakingly all right. Anyways, last week you said

1292
01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:01,800
it will be zero all pro quarterbacks on Team USA.

1293
01:05:02,639 --> 01:05:05,159
You said a mid to below quarterback will be in

1294
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:08,599
the Olympics. You also picked, Oh, look at this Oklahoma

1295
01:05:08,679 --> 01:05:11,719
city and six we'll see probably looking like five. Probably

1296
01:05:11,880 --> 01:05:17,840
we'll see you had Indiana in five. Yeah, that's looking

1297
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:22,039
pretty good. They got a chance for sure. No ESPN

1298
01:05:22,119 --> 01:05:25,519
baseball game coverage. What does that mean? That esp they'll

1299
01:05:25,559 --> 01:05:28,559
never know they're done? Okay, And that even came before

1300
01:05:28,719 --> 01:05:31,280
NBC said yeah, we're thinking about carrying tho Sunday night games.

1301
01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:34,440
Uh huh on the Peacock as well. Well, you gotta

1302
01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:37,960
be really careful. You just better be careful. Short, you

1303
01:05:38,079 --> 01:05:41,599
can't shorten like, don't go North Carolina South Carolina a

1304
01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:44,480
game cocks on us. You can't say I'm watching it

1305
01:05:44,559 --> 01:05:47,039
on the blank. You just can't. It would sound very awkward.

1306
01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:48,480
I understand.

1307
01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:49,960
Speaker 7: Uh.

1308
01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:52,679
Speaker 2: Let's see, I said the Astros would win three of

1309
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:56,039
their next five games. I don't think that happened. No,

1310
01:05:56,159 --> 01:05:59,719
because they lost two or three to uh the Rays

1311
01:05:59,800 --> 01:06:02,639
and lost one to the Mariners. Why didn't I count?

1312
01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:04,400
That's weird? All right, Well, that's fine.

1313
01:06:05,039 --> 01:06:05,159
Speaker 7: Uh.

1314
01:06:05,639 --> 01:06:08,440
Speaker 2: Then I also said Oklahoma City in five, it's looking good,

1315
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:10,840
great chance of that. And I said Nix in seven,

1316
01:06:11,119 --> 01:06:13,360
which is a live Oh for sure it is, especially

1317
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:16,400
if they win tonight. Is it a must win game

1318
01:06:16,599 --> 01:06:18,119
for the New York Dicks. I didn't write anything down

1319
01:06:18,119 --> 01:06:20,639
for Jonathan. Was he out or something? Ah, he's checked out.

1320
01:06:22,199 --> 01:06:24,119
Did you say something last week, Jonathan? I didn't write

1321
01:06:24,119 --> 01:06:25,840
it down. I'm gonna be honest. I'm one of the

1322
01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:28,119
worst minutes keepers in the biz. I feel like I did,

1323
01:06:28,199 --> 01:06:30,199
but I couldn't tell you, right, Yeah, okay, well I'm sorry.

1324
01:06:30,239 --> 01:06:31,840
That's all. I got back and checked the tapes. Yeah.

1325
01:06:32,239 --> 01:06:34,760
So with that, Jonathan, so Ross does not forget. We're

1326
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:37,320
gonna let you go very first this week. Yes, I'm

1327
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:38,960
writing it down and again if you have any back

1328
01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:41,519
of links, any sports predictions seven one three two one

1329
01:06:41,599 --> 01:06:43,800
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two

1330
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:47,559
five seven nine zero. You know my guy feeling. And

1331
01:06:47,679 --> 01:06:50,199
I haven't been watching MLB in a long time. I

1332
01:06:50,320 --> 01:06:52,679
used to be a big range of span growing up,

1333
01:06:52,679 --> 01:06:54,280
always went to the stadium, all that type of stuff,

1334
01:06:54,320 --> 01:06:56,320
big baseball guy, and I Do'm coming back and I'm

1335
01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:59,519
watching the Astros. Dude, Jake Myers looked like he's gonna

1336
01:06:59,519 --> 01:07:04,760
stay consistent. Oh, you have no idea what his history

1337
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:07,760
is post June first du year, what he's due? Baby,

1338
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:10,719
But I'm looking and it looks like he's Okay, the

1339
01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:13,400
best season. So Jake Myer's best season. I mean he's

1340
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:15,960
already gonna have that, hopefully, I think. But he died

1341
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:19,000
bombed last year. Specificate have more hits than he did

1342
01:07:19,119 --> 01:07:22,599
last year. Okay, Okay, well yeah, yeah, I think he

1343
01:07:22,679 --> 01:07:25,000
might already. I'll give you a Jake Myers got feeling.

1344
01:07:25,199 --> 01:07:30,119
Yeah is ops? Okay, what is it right now? It's

1345
01:07:30,159 --> 01:07:33,239
like seven seventy seven or something, seven eighty seven. I'll

1346
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:37,719
go look, boy, the swoon, the swoon comes in and

1347
01:07:37,840 --> 01:07:41,239
the June swoon does happen. He's known for his June swoon.

1348
01:07:41,719 --> 01:07:48,400
His ops will stay above seven fifty through June seven seventy. Yeah,

1349
01:07:49,039 --> 01:07:53,760
I'm good. I'm staying away, he said, above set fifty. Yeah,

1350
01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:57,760
I like that, above seven fifty. Write that down. That's

1351
01:07:57,760 --> 01:07:59,280
the rest. I put my name on it, though. It's

1352
01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:02,239
just good. Guys are making some good feelings for Jake Myers.

1353
01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:02,639
Speaker 3: I like this.

1354
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:08,000
Speaker 2: Okay, Uh, Hunter Brown? At least Hunter Brown goes at

1355
01:08:08,039 --> 01:08:11,519
least seven innings today. What's up? It's the A's should

1356
01:08:11,599 --> 01:08:14,800
shouldn't you go mandatory seven against them? I'm not finished?

1357
01:08:17,079 --> 01:08:19,279
Only one run given up? Seven innings and one run ball?

1358
01:08:19,279 --> 01:08:22,319
What's up? That is really specific?

1359
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:24,199
Speaker 1: All right?

1360
01:08:24,439 --> 01:08:27,079
Speaker 2: Now? I got another one really quick? Oh yeah, please?

1361
01:08:27,640 --> 01:08:33,239
Who's on the hill tomorrow? I don't know it rhymes

1362
01:08:33,279 --> 01:08:34,279
with the rants mumbulers.

1363
01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:40,000
Speaker 7: Oh what he's going five? Baby, he's going five. Finally,

1364
01:08:43,359 --> 01:08:46,479
Junior is going fine. I'm coming to join your honey.

1365
01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:55,119
Speaker 2: It's a big one. Sports r V. Yeah, daytime game, Yes,

1366
01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:59,199
roof close, he's he pitched, he's really settled in last start.

1367
01:08:59,399 --> 01:09:01,479
He retired like twelve of the last thirteen or something.

1368
01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:04,520
But it is the Okramento A's. It is the That's

1369
01:09:04,560 --> 01:09:07,159
another reason I'm going to this as well. There's a

1370
01:09:07,159 --> 01:09:10,279
little calculation here, Matt. He looked better in his last start.

1371
01:09:10,399 --> 01:09:13,239
He struck out eight, he settled into the game. You

1372
01:09:13,319 --> 01:09:19,079
got the Okramento A's five innings. Let's go. You hear

1373
01:09:19,119 --> 01:09:21,000
that relation, gentlemen, there's nobody else in the marketplace. I

1374
01:09:21,119 --> 01:09:23,880
want to say that I got one for you. I'm

1375
01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:28,199
putting my name. Oh oh, I closed the no strungest

1376
01:09:28,239 --> 01:09:30,359
file on me. Real, open it up. That's fine. Seven

1377
01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:36,239
Alex Bregman will be in Oakland. EXTU mean we'll be

1378
01:09:36,279 --> 01:09:38,840
in Oakland, will be a Boston Red Sox in twenty

1379
01:09:39,039 --> 01:09:43,399
twenty six. Put my name on its, Okay, I mean

1380
01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:45,279
that seems about right. If he's going to miss a

1381
01:09:45,279 --> 01:09:47,680
couple of months, we don't know that for sure, but

1382
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:49,640
it's the same sort of quad injury that he suffered

1383
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:51,000
a couple of years ago, and that he did miss

1384
01:09:51,119 --> 01:09:53,159
a lot of times. And the A's and then he

1385
01:09:53,199 --> 01:09:55,039
why keeps him the ase? The Red Sox brought up

1386
01:09:55,039 --> 01:09:58,199
their number two overall prospect to replace him on the

1387
01:09:58,239 --> 01:10:01,840
active roster. By the way, the Red Sox. They're starting there.

1388
01:10:01,920 --> 01:10:07,439
Jake Myers swoon early, the June swoon is hitting early.

1389
01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:11,279
They losing some games right now. The current standings in

1390
01:10:11,279 --> 01:10:14,800
American League East will have the Boston Red Sox a

1391
01:10:15,039 --> 01:10:17,800
distant four games back at twenty two or twenty three.

1392
01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:20,159
How about the Yankees for all the money they've spent now,

1393
01:10:20,199 --> 01:10:23,439
granted they did lose Garrett Cale to TJ, they're twenty

1394
01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:28,239
five and eighteen. That's just very pedestrian. But are you

1395
01:10:28,319 --> 01:10:30,479
saying he opts in or he renegotiates a new dealer,

1396
01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:33,720
both both on the table. Hey, yeah, no, I fans

1397
01:10:33,760 --> 01:10:36,239
abouts he is a Boston Red Sox of twenty twenty six.

1398
01:10:36,279 --> 01:10:38,640
Do you know the again, I know the answer to

1399
01:10:38,640 --> 01:10:43,119
this question. You know, the Detroit Tigers are far, far,

1400
01:10:43,159 --> 01:10:45,960
and away the best record in the American League. They

1401
01:10:46,119 --> 01:10:51,000
have a let's see here, Uh you know what I got.

1402
01:10:51,039 --> 01:10:53,720
You know what, It's funny my app gave out wrong

1403
01:10:53,800 --> 01:10:56,039
stands a one game lead over what I said. It's

1404
01:10:56,079 --> 01:10:59,119
so crazy the now see, yeah, Marie told you there

1405
01:10:59,159 --> 01:11:01,039
were four back. It's actually not correct. The Red Socks

1406
01:11:01,039 --> 01:11:03,479
are seven and a half out. You know what ESPN

1407
01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:05,800
app get your app together. The AB does suck. I

1408
01:11:06,279 --> 01:11:08,479
prefer Yahoo. You know what, I'm gonna go to Yahoo.

1409
01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:11,319
I'm done with UESPN out. So New York is a

1410
01:11:11,359 --> 01:11:13,399
game back. So I correct myself. Boston is seven and

1411
01:11:13,399 --> 01:11:15,119
a half out and not four back of the Yankees

1412
01:11:15,159 --> 01:11:18,319
in the Al East. Yeah, Tigers are a game ahead

1413
01:11:18,359 --> 01:11:20,039
of the Yankees, but four and a half. How about

1414
01:11:20,039 --> 01:11:23,760
the Mariners are third in the man The American League sucks.

1415
01:11:25,399 --> 01:11:27,920
By the way, if the playoffs were to start today.

1416
01:11:27,960 --> 01:11:31,119
In the playoffs, are the Astros in a wildcard spot?

1417
01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:34,119
A game one sixty three would take place between the

1418
01:11:34,279 --> 01:11:37,880
Astros and the Kansas City Royals, and the game will

1419
01:11:37,880 --> 01:11:42,000
be played in Houston. No, it would not be because

1420
01:11:42,079 --> 01:11:45,399
in Kansas City win the season series. Yeah, I'll take

1421
01:11:45,439 --> 01:11:47,640
your word for it, all right, there you go. So

1422
01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:53,079
guess what they ain't selling at least yet? The Hunter

1423
01:11:53,159 --> 01:11:57,760
Brown versus who seth Lugo? Chris Bubitch. Yeah, and hopefully

1424
01:11:57,840 --> 01:12:01,920
Bobby Wood Junior takes the day off arrested Sorney Sorney

1425
01:12:02,319 --> 01:12:06,680
Thrinkles eleven forty four, Sports Talk seven ninety seven one

1426
01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:09,239
three two two five Sevennie Brian's got a gut feeling.

1427
01:12:09,239 --> 01:12:11,359
We'll get to him, and we'll get to you after

1428
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:18,239
Ross gets you feeling better about it. Yeah, all right,

1429
01:12:18,319 --> 01:12:19,920
another gut feeling for you. We'll go to the phones

1430
01:12:19,960 --> 01:12:22,159
after that. At seven one three, two one two five

1431
01:12:22,279 --> 01:12:26,039
seven NINETI Chris Paul plays somewhere beside San Antonio next year.

1432
01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:31,680
I thought they were already parting ways with him. I

1433
01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:33,880
don't think so. I mean, he could change his mind.

1434
01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:37,600
He ain't signing where yet, Chris Paul. You mean to

1435
01:12:37,680 --> 01:12:42,319
him a team, I thought, Mark, Yeah, I read I

1436
01:12:42,439 --> 01:12:44,600
read this earlier. Mark Stein is already reporting that that

1437
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:46,159
Chris Paul is gonna be on the movie wipe it

1438
01:12:46,199 --> 01:12:48,159
off the board then, so i'd be up to meet

1439
01:12:48,199 --> 01:12:50,199
and predict the team. Oh yeah, I don't do that.

1440
01:12:50,760 --> 01:12:52,920
He could be anywhere. He should just hang him up.

1441
01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:57,640
Are you kidding me? He's got more assistant records of break. Okay,

1442
01:12:59,359 --> 01:13:02,800
he's not catching Stockton. Chris Paul is going to be

1443
01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:05,199
This is just a random Oh here we go in

1444
01:13:05,319 --> 01:13:15,119
my favorites Portland Troublazer. That is random backing up Scoot Henderson. Sure,

1445
01:13:15,159 --> 01:13:19,159
why not? Okay, if I'm right, you better bring a

1446
01:13:19,199 --> 01:13:23,079
big bouquet. I'll need my flowers I'll leave my flowers

1447
01:13:24,079 --> 01:13:26,920
seven one three two one two five seven dounty. If

1448
01:13:26,960 --> 01:13:28,399
you have a gut feeling, you want to get to

1449
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:32,800
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.

1450
01:13:32,920 --> 01:13:35,119
Let's go onto the phones and see what the great

1451
01:13:35,159 --> 01:13:37,520
people of Houston are thinking about as we continue this

1452
01:13:37,640 --> 01:13:39,439
addition to gut feeling, we got the news at noon

1453
01:13:39,520 --> 01:13:41,920
coming up in a matter of moments, and let's talk

1454
01:13:42,039 --> 01:13:45,399
to Oh. My computer system is not working, so we'll

1455
01:13:45,439 --> 01:13:47,039
lock it up and go to line number two, Brian

1456
01:13:47,279 --> 01:13:49,720
on seven ounty. Brian, what is in your gut this week?

1457
01:13:51,159 --> 01:13:54,039
Speaker 8: Well, I'm gonna give you an update on last week's prediction.

1458
01:13:55,199 --> 01:13:58,319
Uh I said that Kyle Larson would not finish all

1459
01:13:58,399 --> 01:14:01,439
eleven hundred miles in uh Co Colas six hundred and

1460
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:05,479
Indianapolis five hundred last weekend, and and he didn't make

1461
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:08,319
it halfway through the Indy five hundred, and he wrecked out,

1462
01:14:09,039 --> 01:14:11,840
and then he also got wrecked right towards the end

1463
01:14:11,880 --> 01:14:15,680
of Coke Colas six hundred, so he only finished just

1464
01:14:15,880 --> 01:14:17,960
under six hundred eleven miles.

1465
01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:23,279
Speaker 2: And my racing expertise this week.

1466
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:27,520
Speaker 8: My gut feeling for this week is that the Astros

1467
01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:31,119
will win both these Gay games against the what you

1468
01:14:31,239 --> 01:14:31,600
call him, the.

1469
01:14:35,760 --> 01:14:38,359
Speaker 2: Storing at least six gun six runs?

1470
01:14:38,560 --> 01:14:38,800
Speaker 1: Wow?

1471
01:14:41,479 --> 01:14:44,239
Speaker 2: Are you crazy? I started calling me at the Houston

1472
01:14:44,279 --> 01:14:50,000
City Bombers. Is Jr's hand healthy? It's a gut feeling?

1473
01:14:50,039 --> 01:14:52,880
Come on now that's true. Hey, congratulations. By the way,

1474
01:14:52,920 --> 01:14:56,800
are you an Indy Car fan too? Uh? Just a

1475
01:14:56,880 --> 01:14:59,279
little bit. I'm not real big on the rocket slift.

1476
01:14:59,319 --> 01:15:00,439
Speaker 1: I prefer my a call.

1477
01:15:00,520 --> 01:15:02,800
Speaker 2: We're rubing is racing? All right? Well, I was gonna

1478
01:15:02,800 --> 01:15:05,560
ask you is Apparently Fox got ripped for their coverage

1479
01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:07,840
of the Indianapolis five hundred, So I was just curious

1480
01:15:07,880 --> 01:15:09,960
if people thought it was as bad as the social

1481
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:10,640
media stokes.

1482
01:15:11,159 --> 01:15:13,359
Speaker 8: I'm not real sure because I was up at my

1483
01:15:13,439 --> 01:15:16,239
buddy's property this weekend, so I only call a little

1484
01:15:16,279 --> 01:15:20,399
bit here and there. So we're out there floating the

1485
01:15:20,479 --> 01:15:22,520
river and stuff, So I didn't watch actually too much

1486
01:15:22,560 --> 01:15:22,760
of it.

1487
01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:25,000
Speaker 2: Fair enough, Thank you Brian for the phone call. By

1488
01:15:25,039 --> 01:15:26,439
the way, do you see what that they that?

1489
01:15:26,760 --> 01:15:26,920
Speaker 3: You know?

1490
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:29,239
Speaker 2: So Fox broadcasts at India five hundred. They brought Tom

1491
01:15:29,239 --> 01:15:32,800
Brady out there. People boot him Indianapolis. Yeah, that's that's

1492
01:15:33,319 --> 01:15:35,680
It's like bringing Mike Fires to an astro reunion game.

1493
01:15:35,720 --> 01:15:37,880
Why would you bring Tom Brady to Indianapolis for that's

1494
01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:40,920
a little bit different. I know that would be like,

1495
01:15:41,079 --> 01:15:44,199
that's a good example. Oh it's Steph Curry. Curry coming

1496
01:15:44,199 --> 01:15:47,560
to Houston for anything'd be like Steph Curry's wife opening

1497
01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:49,920
up a barbecue restaurant here. Not gonna, not gonna be

1498
01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:53,239
very successful. Uh he put on social media? Did Tom Brady?

1499
01:15:53,239 --> 01:15:55,159
It was nice to get in one more successful drive

1500
01:15:55,239 --> 01:16:00,159
in front of a bunch of Colts fans. Savage h

1501
01:16:00,760 --> 01:16:07,399
very rude. Yeah, but he he He obviously knew he

1502
01:16:07,479 --> 01:16:09,279
was not going to be treated very warmly there, right.

1503
01:16:09,319 --> 01:16:12,760
I mean that's if any, if any quarterback that's haunted

1504
01:16:12,800 --> 01:16:15,359
that team, So like when Peyton Manning would come to

1505
01:16:15,399 --> 01:16:19,800
Houston to haunt the Texans. Yeah, what do we hate?

1506
01:16:19,840 --> 01:16:23,000
Hear Peyton Manning in Houston? Though? No, you first, so

1507
01:16:23,039 --> 01:16:26,520
you can't hate Paint Manning for anything. Ohoo, well I'm

1508
01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:29,319
talking to a bias Manning family. Dad is yeah, do

1509
01:16:29,399 --> 01:16:30,000
you hate him though?

1510
01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 3: No?

1511
01:16:31,319 --> 01:16:33,119
Speaker 2: He's got a nice big forehead. He's funny on the

1512
01:16:33,239 --> 01:16:35,319
I like watching the Manning cast. So why did you

1513
01:16:35,359 --> 01:16:37,159
go to his physical attributes? I don't know, do you

1514
01:16:37,199 --> 01:16:38,520
think he did. You think he did the same thing

1515
01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:40,720
for you? He might, No, I don't. I don't think

1516
01:16:40,760 --> 01:16:43,319
peyt Man is that kind of person at all. I

1517
01:16:43,399 --> 01:16:45,359
think he is. I think he's a jokester. Do you

1518
01:16:45,439 --> 01:16:47,000
think he walks up and he looks that he gives

1519
01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:49,760
you the stair down and goes yeah. I think he would.

1520
01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:53,159
He would josh around with people after, but he that

1521
01:16:53,199 --> 01:16:54,399
would be the first thing out of his mouth.

1522
01:16:54,479 --> 01:16:54,560
Speaker 3: Hi.

1523
01:16:54,640 --> 01:16:56,039
Speaker 2: Wrong, It could be the first thing out of his mouth,

1524
01:16:57,399 --> 01:16:59,520
because I mean, like him going to me, going, hey, Matt,

1525
01:16:59,640 --> 01:17:04,680
nice live eggs. I'm covering them up. They're so pasty

1526
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:09,600
right now, Okay, summer, madam, Matt, gonna let those things breathe. Y.

1527
01:17:09,640 --> 01:17:11,359
If it's like it was sixty seven degrees when all

1528
01:17:11,359 --> 01:17:13,680
out the house today, I'm good. Was it?

1529
01:17:14,239 --> 01:17:14,760
Speaker 1: It was cool?

1530
01:17:14,880 --> 01:17:16,840
Speaker 2: Fruit front coming with those storms. You still hear the

1531
01:17:16,880 --> 01:17:21,000
storms last night? Terrible? Poor dogs losing their minds. I'm sorry, Matt,

1532
01:17:21,039 --> 01:17:23,199
All right, Uh we need we got room for one

1533
01:17:23,279 --> 01:17:24,840
more gut feeling if you want to get in seven

1534
01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:27,239
one three two one two five seven nine zero seven

1535
01:17:27,279 --> 01:17:31,119
one three two one two five seven ninety So Oklahoma

1536
01:17:31,239 --> 01:17:34,960
City will play. I stayed with the Indiana to the

1537
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:38,840
for the NBA Finals. I'll stick with Nickson seven. Why not?

1538
01:17:39,319 --> 01:17:41,479
And those and those finals, by the way, don't start

1539
01:17:41,600 --> 01:17:43,760
until a week from Thursday, so we kind of it

1540
01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:45,239
wouldn't be a horrible thing. Rouss. So we got a

1541
01:17:45,279 --> 01:17:46,960
pair of six or sevens when it comes to link

1542
01:17:47,039 --> 01:17:49,279
the series because they yeah, they lock in the days

1543
01:17:49,319 --> 01:17:51,680
of the finals, no matter what. Yep, let's go to

1544
01:17:52,159 --> 01:17:55,159
uh Kyle and pair Land eleven fifty four on seven.

1545
01:17:55,199 --> 01:17:57,840
Onty Kyle, what's in your gut this week? Yeah, I'm

1546
01:17:57,880 --> 01:17:59,159
a long time. How y'all doing that?

1547
01:17:59,319 --> 01:17:59,479
Speaker 1: Well?

1548
01:17:59,520 --> 01:17:59,840
Speaker 2: Thank you for.

1549
01:18:01,479 --> 01:18:04,800
Speaker 8: I think they're going to release uh Rogers put out

1550
01:18:04,840 --> 01:18:07,760
two days the everyday second baseman, and we're gonna have

1551
01:18:07,840 --> 01:18:09,119
a platoon in left field.

1552
01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:16,439
Speaker 4: Ummm, not the.

1553
01:18:17,199 --> 01:18:19,840
Speaker 2: Ross, not the craziest thing. I don't think he wants

1554
01:18:19,880 --> 01:18:23,439
to play Mauricio Dubon six days a week at second base, No,

1555
01:18:23,640 --> 01:18:27,479
I don't think so. Yeah, Rogers been left field. You

1556
01:18:27,560 --> 01:18:30,079
got McCormick in left field to help out. We got McCormick.

1557
01:18:30,119 --> 01:18:33,039
You could go Dubon. You certainly have your Descenzo. I mean,

1558
01:18:33,079 --> 01:18:34,920
you got you got a lot of different options. That's

1559
01:18:35,119 --> 01:18:39,560
not terrible well, thank you. Yeah, not terrible. You're welcome.

1560
01:18:39,720 --> 01:18:41,399
Thank you for saying I'm not terrible. Well, I mean

1561
01:18:41,439 --> 01:18:44,880
I don't hear very often from you. Yeah, well say

1562
01:18:44,960 --> 01:18:48,880
less terrible stuff. I know that's fair. They had the

1563
01:18:49,039 --> 01:18:53,000
option Scott Free to release Brendan Rodgers forty five days

1564
01:18:53,000 --> 01:18:55,760
into the season. They didn't do it. That he was

1565
01:18:55,800 --> 01:18:57,399
showing more signs of the light a life of the

1566
01:18:57,439 --> 01:19:00,359
plate then, so not playing a whole lot these days. No,

1567
01:19:01,920 --> 01:19:04,079
and du Bond's been hitting. It's been Joe Spot has

1568
01:19:04,079 --> 01:19:05,399
been like, hey, you get a couple of hits, I'm

1569
01:19:05,399 --> 01:19:09,680
gonna keep putting in the lineup. It is crazy, is

1570
01:19:09,720 --> 01:19:11,520
gonna put a hot hand in there, especially for a

1571
01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:13,880
team that's been so offensively deprived. He's been doing sink

1572
01:19:13,920 --> 01:19:16,319
or swim. Yeah, and you know, well, Brennan Rodgers has

1573
01:19:16,359 --> 01:19:23,279
been sinking recently. And again Brendan's nice guy field his position. Well,

1574
01:19:24,079 --> 01:19:26,119
it was a good interview with him earlier this year.

1575
01:19:26,119 --> 01:19:28,720
He was also available in February for a reason. Yes,

1576
01:19:29,680 --> 01:19:32,760
my thought is, and we would never forcet Brendan Rodgers

1577
01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:34,479
to drink the truth serum, But my guess is he

1578
01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:35,920
was thinking there was a chance he may not be

1579
01:19:35,960 --> 01:19:39,239
playing baseball anymore. This will maybe be his last opportunity.

1580
01:19:40,159 --> 01:19:42,039
He always hit at Colorado. I mean the numbers were

1581
01:19:42,039 --> 01:19:44,439
good there, but everywhere else it wasn't good. But like

1582
01:19:44,560 --> 01:19:47,159
Christian Walker, how about the walk off ROSSI yes, sir,

1583
01:19:47,399 --> 01:19:51,479
coming around. I need some of that right there. Let's

1584
01:19:51,479 --> 01:19:54,720
see last five games. Brennan Rodgers is oh for twelve

1585
01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:59,800
with no walks. That's an on base percentage of zero. Well,

1586
01:20:00,399 --> 01:20:02,439
I don't know if you got a catcher's interference in there, Matt,

1587
01:20:02,560 --> 01:20:06,960
to go check it out. His slug was that zero

1588
01:20:07,800 --> 01:20:12,039
is on base plus slugging with me? What zero yet?

1589
01:20:12,119 --> 01:20:17,920
No catcher's interference, no rb I, no any walks nor

1590
01:20:18,199 --> 01:20:20,159
because it was on blaze. You have a percentage with

1591
01:20:20,239 --> 01:20:27,399
his twelve plate appearances seven strikeouts. Wow, you know what?

1592
01:20:27,920 --> 01:20:31,279
It was a cheap get? Does that make sense? I was, yeah,

1593
01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:35,279
you were buying low and hoping that something would have come.

1594
01:20:35,520 --> 01:20:38,680
It was a penny stock you bot, and the penny

1595
01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:41,640
has grown actually sextually lost value. It's kind of stagnated,

1596
01:20:41,960 --> 01:20:44,359
all right, That, my friends, was this week's got feelings.

1597
01:20:44,359 --> 01:20:46,119
We have the news at noon coming up next. Joe A.

1598
01:20:46,159 --> 01:20:49,159
Spota in thirty five minutes. This is Sports Talk seven ninety.

1599
01:20:50,359 --> 01:20:53,720
What's happening to lunch timers? Twelve oh one, NH Town.

1600
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:57,279
This is our number three of the Matt Thomas Show.

1601
01:20:57,279 --> 01:20:59,760
Would Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety. Joe A. Spotta

1602
01:21:00,319 --> 01:21:04,520
is in thirty minutes here on Sports Talk Center. I

1603
01:21:04,560 --> 01:21:07,239
need to talk all things Astros baseball, Astros against the

1604
01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:15,239
Ocremento Oaklamento Ocamento Okamento Ocramento, Ocremento a's o crementor is

1605
01:21:17,439 --> 01:21:22,119
ocramento the type of a treaty you'd find in the Cascades? Correct,

1606
01:21:22,600 --> 01:21:25,319
the ocamanto tree. Sure all its generally present to you

1607
01:21:25,399 --> 01:21:28,039
every day at this time or thereabouts, the news at noon.

1608
01:21:29,880 --> 01:21:31,960
And we will do that with the Bob Lee of

1609
01:21:32,279 --> 01:21:37,479
local sports. Wow news journalist. Thank you. We're going outside

1610
01:21:37,520 --> 01:21:40,760
the lines. Yes we are Rossfield, Areal. Maybe we're saying

1611
01:21:40,840 --> 01:21:43,520
in the side the lines. Okay, Astros with the day

1612
01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:47,479
off yesterday, but the Ocremento A's are in town. They

1613
01:21:47,560 --> 01:21:51,239
were able to win a must win series. Okay, maybe

1614
01:21:51,279 --> 01:21:52,920
it wasn't a must win series, but it was very

1615
01:21:53,000 --> 01:21:55,840
nice to win the series over the weekend against the

1616
01:21:56,079 --> 01:22:00,640
Seattle Mariners. And how about the three hits the walk

1617
01:22:00,720 --> 01:22:03,960
off from Christian Walker, matt could this be the catalyst

1618
01:22:04,920 --> 01:22:09,439
for a Christian Walker to finally wake up? Also had

1619
01:22:09,439 --> 01:22:12,279
a couple of hits on a Saturday, so five hits

1620
01:22:12,319 --> 01:22:15,600
in his last two games with three runs batted in

1621
01:22:16,000 --> 01:22:19,720
average up to two twelve. If the Astros go five

1622
01:22:19,800 --> 01:22:23,760
and one this week, are they in first place American

1623
01:22:23,840 --> 01:22:29,800
League West? I would say yes. The American League, by

1624
01:22:29,840 --> 01:22:34,159
the way, is out there. I mean it's it shouldn't

1625
01:22:34,159 --> 01:22:36,199
be too difficult for the Astros to make the playoffs.

1626
01:22:36,239 --> 01:22:39,000
Quite frankly, right now, Seattle Mariners are third in the

1627
01:22:39,039 --> 01:22:41,159
American League. You're only a game a half behind them.

1628
01:22:41,239 --> 01:22:43,199
They're just twenty nine and twenty three. It's not like

1629
01:22:43,239 --> 01:22:45,600
they're lighting the world on fire. So you look at

1630
01:22:45,640 --> 01:22:49,039
the overall league standings, Detroit Tigers right now ahead of

1631
01:22:49,039 --> 01:22:51,119
everyone at thirty five and twenty and then the Yankees.

1632
01:22:51,199 --> 01:22:53,119
But then it's a huge drop off in a missmash

1633
01:22:53,239 --> 01:22:57,439
of meh with the Mariners, Guardians, Twins, Astros, Royals all

1634
01:22:57,520 --> 01:22:59,359
in that mix, Matthew, and they're gonna be the mix

1635
01:22:59,439 --> 01:23:01,840
all the way through, which means the Astros will be

1636
01:23:03,880 --> 01:23:09,359
buyers at the Deadlions compared to selling. Okay, even though

1637
01:23:09,359 --> 01:23:11,560
they've got one really sellable piece at the front end

1638
01:23:11,560 --> 01:23:15,319
of their rotation, the menywhere Else. In twenty twenty six,

1639
01:23:15,439 --> 01:23:19,960
Hunter Brown on the Mountain on a dollar dog Tuesday,

1640
01:23:20,159 --> 01:23:22,840
how we feel? Are you gonna have some tonight? I

1641
01:23:24,640 --> 01:23:28,199
here's Ross's option. It's got three of them. Okay, twelve

1642
01:23:28,239 --> 01:23:31,279
dollars media meal, which you say usually pretty good. Really,

1643
01:23:31,359 --> 01:23:35,119
two different main entrees, two different side dishes. Yeah, they

1644
01:23:35,119 --> 01:23:39,399
take care of a sold salad bar, hot dogs, nachos, Yes,

1645
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:46,119
plenty of dessert options like fifteen to twenty options peanuts, chips, sodas, puddings,

1646
01:23:46,800 --> 01:23:49,119
and pretzels. That's why the media is so fat, because

1647
01:23:49,159 --> 01:23:50,760
we you go these media meals and they got pay

1648
01:23:50,760 --> 01:23:53,640
twelve dollars unless you're like some of the media that

1649
01:23:53,640 --> 01:23:55,279
waits for the fifth inning and they start cleaning the

1650
01:23:55,319 --> 01:23:57,359
food out and you go get the free stuff because

1651
01:23:57,359 --> 01:24:00,920
you're cheap. Skit like that. But I won't name it, Okay,

1652
01:24:01,039 --> 01:24:04,359
I want to, but I won't. Option number two is

1653
01:24:04,439 --> 01:24:07,119
to go to the Astros seven ninety Sweet and Jones

1654
01:24:07,119 --> 01:24:09,800
down on their foot. Oh, I've done that before. And

1655
01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:11,760
an option number three is to get your dot at dogs.

1656
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:16,000
I've done all three before. I've gone on a Tuesday

1657
01:24:16,039 --> 01:24:17,479
and be like, I'm not spending twelve dollars in the

1658
01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:19,880
media meal. I'm getting dogs. I will agree that you

1659
01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:21,960
have done all three. I'll scan now, first of all,

1660
01:24:22,119 --> 01:24:25,479
scan and see what the meal is correct. There's too

1661
01:24:25,560 --> 01:24:27,520
much an hour. I'm gonna have to throw the Astros

1662
01:24:27,560 --> 01:24:29,760
media relations team on the busters many. There's too many

1663
01:24:29,840 --> 01:24:31,760
vegetarian options in there. What do you mean too many

1664
01:24:31,880 --> 01:24:35,680
veggie dogs, veggie burgers? Somebody eats that. No, they that's

1665
01:24:35,800 --> 01:24:38,319
I think it's good if you taste it. They have

1666
01:24:38,479 --> 01:24:40,079
meat and they have you don't have to do it.

1667
01:24:40,159 --> 01:24:42,279
They have both, and they usually have a carving station,

1668
01:24:42,359 --> 01:24:47,840
which is carnivorous. Stay away from vegan being your own food.

1669
01:24:47,840 --> 01:24:50,119
If you're gonna be vegan, No you don't. They should

1670
01:24:50,119 --> 01:24:52,520
have options for people who just want maybe even don't

1671
01:24:52,520 --> 01:24:54,800
want to be vegan, but you want a little healthier options.

1672
01:24:54,840 --> 01:24:55,079
Speaker 1: Matt.

1673
01:24:55,479 --> 01:24:57,079
Speaker 2: There you go to the media donald day. First of all,

1674
01:24:57,079 --> 01:25:00,399
they got dogs at nachos. You every day, every game

1675
01:25:00,479 --> 01:25:02,760
is dogs and nachos. You want to pig out in there,

1676
01:25:02,920 --> 01:25:05,039
you can pick out. Okay. Then they normally have like

1677
01:25:05,079 --> 01:25:07,800
a pork chop or fried chicken or whatever, and then

1678
01:25:07,840 --> 01:25:10,279
they have a carving station. You're fine, it's not gonna

1679
01:25:10,359 --> 01:25:12,239
hurt you. Veggie loaf does not look good makes you

1680
01:25:12,319 --> 01:25:15,239
turn on. Usually if they have like veggie pesto, pasta

1681
01:25:15,279 --> 01:25:16,359
or what, I'll get a little bit of it and

1682
01:25:16,439 --> 01:25:19,680
eat it. Good for you, yis, you're so weird. It's

1683
01:25:19,680 --> 01:25:21,359
not gonna hurt you. It does hurt me. If you

1684
01:25:21,399 --> 01:25:23,520
have one less hol you have so many more options.

1685
01:25:23,560 --> 01:25:25,399
You can get a salad as well. Oh, we don't

1686
01:25:25,399 --> 01:25:25,840
want salad.

1687
01:25:26,319 --> 01:25:26,560
Speaker 1: You know what.

1688
01:25:26,720 --> 01:25:28,760
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna go on. I'm done arguing food with you.

1689
01:25:29,760 --> 01:25:32,840
Oh by the way, I almost bought up a jar

1690
01:25:32,920 --> 01:25:34,960
of generic barbecue sauce, and something's gonna bring it to

1691
01:25:34,960 --> 01:25:37,800
you today. Why, because I know you love barbecue sauce.

1692
01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:40,520
I don't want generic barbecue sauce. I want good barbecue sauce.

1693
01:25:41,399 --> 01:25:44,640
Continue on, all right, My gosh. Dana Brown is speaking

1694
01:25:44,720 --> 01:25:46,960
to the Astros Radio network on Sunday. What is the

1695
01:25:47,079 --> 01:25:49,359
latest on your Don Alvarez.

1696
01:25:50,199 --> 01:25:53,760
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's still unknown, but he's doing well full baseball

1697
01:25:53,800 --> 01:25:57,960
activity right now. Mainly it's how does the hand feel,

1698
01:25:58,039 --> 01:26:01,000
you know, once he gets to place where it feels

1699
01:26:01,039 --> 01:26:01,560
pretty good.

1700
01:26:02,560 --> 01:26:03,760
Speaker 2: You know, we're gonna turn him loose.

1701
01:26:04,319 --> 01:26:04,439
Speaker 7: Uh.

1702
01:26:04,520 --> 01:26:06,760
Speaker 9: The one thing, as I mentioned before, what we don't

1703
01:26:06,840 --> 01:26:09,239
want is for him to come back too soon, re

1704
01:26:09,399 --> 01:26:12,319
injure it, and then be sitting out for another three weeks.

1705
01:26:12,359 --> 01:26:15,039
So if he can just continue to let it heal

1706
01:26:16,359 --> 01:26:18,600
and then you know, once he starts to take swings

1707
01:26:18,600 --> 01:26:21,520
and he doesn't feel anything, we'll we'll turn him loose.

1708
01:26:23,920 --> 01:26:26,039
Speaker 2: Let's go. I'm ready. I am so ready for your

1709
01:26:26,279 --> 01:26:31,680
to comeback full baseball activities. So that's good. It's a

1710
01:26:31,720 --> 01:26:34,960
step in the right direction. Hopefully he'll be back. We'll

1711
01:26:34,960 --> 01:26:37,439
talk to Joe Espada. Not sure if he'll give us

1712
01:26:37,439 --> 01:26:39,640
an update or not, but we'll have him coming up

1713
01:26:39,680 --> 01:26:42,039
at twelve thirty. Oh hey, people want to know the

1714
01:26:42,159 --> 01:26:44,640
name names something. Media people to go in the fifth inning,

1715
01:26:44,720 --> 01:26:47,199
and I'm not doing that. I'll let them get caught

1716
01:26:47,239 --> 01:26:49,840
on their own. Is it run with rat Ramas? No,

1717
01:26:50,000 --> 01:26:50,359
it doesn't.

1718
01:26:50,399 --> 01:26:50,720
Speaker 3: I pay.

1719
01:26:52,239 --> 01:26:54,119
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I O. What I do

1720
01:26:54,239 --> 01:26:55,760
is I go get a snack before the on deck

1721
01:26:55,800 --> 01:26:57,079
show and I say, hey, I'll be giving you my

1722
01:26:57,159 --> 01:26:59,039
credit card when I come in. They're like, oh yeah, Matt,

1723
01:26:59,039 --> 01:26:59,960
we trust you and I can gi him. The tw

1724
01:27:00,199 --> 01:27:02,520
twelve dollars were done. Why they had your picture on

1725
01:27:02,560 --> 01:27:04,479
the wall though it looks like a mug shot. No,

1726
01:27:04,680 --> 01:27:06,359
I'm not a part of it. Do not listen to

1727
01:27:06,399 --> 01:27:08,800
this man. I'm not a part of the Houston Baseball

1728
01:27:08,880 --> 01:27:11,359
Media Hall of Fame. No, you're definitely, I'm not. There's

1729
01:27:11,359 --> 01:27:11,920
no picture of me.

1730
01:27:12,039 --> 01:27:12,079
Speaker 3: No.

1731
01:27:12,560 --> 01:27:14,199
Speaker 2: I don't think you should be in there either. Well,

1732
01:27:14,239 --> 01:27:16,039
I mean, it would be nice if some dagon in it,

1733
01:27:16,079 --> 01:27:18,079
but I'm not worried about it. For what only twenty

1734
01:27:18,159 --> 01:27:21,279
years of Astros postgame shows. Yeah, but I mean it's

1735
01:27:21,399 --> 01:27:27,960
late night. People aren't listening. They listen some when they

1736
01:27:28,000 --> 01:27:29,880
were better. I'm glad to see good friend of the show,

1737
01:27:29,960 --> 01:27:34,479
Kevin Eschenfelder up there. Yeah, Kevin's up there, Milo Models there,

1738
01:27:34,520 --> 01:27:37,359
Bill Browners there, Alan Ashby won last year. Do you

1739
01:27:37,439 --> 01:27:39,119
think you deserved to be up there with those guys?

1740
01:27:41,760 --> 01:27:47,439
I've seen worse. All right, Moving along, by the way,

1741
01:27:47,439 --> 01:27:48,960
I'll be there Friday, and I'll be using my twelve

1742
01:27:48,960 --> 01:27:51,199
dollars credit card to purchase a media meal at the Astro.

1743
01:27:51,399 --> 01:27:54,279
On the news at noon, man, good news for friends

1744
01:27:54,319 --> 01:27:58,800
of the Houston Cougars. Basketball program. Milo's Oozen would drawing

1745
01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:02,159
from the NBA draft, you will return to the Houston

1746
01:28:02,199 --> 01:28:05,119
Cougars All Big twelve second team eleven points, four point

1747
01:28:05,119 --> 01:28:08,520
two assists, forty three percent from three. Of course, the

1748
01:28:08,840 --> 01:28:11,800
disappointing choke in the National Championship game for the University

1749
01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:14,600
of Houston Cougar's. But they basically are assembling a super

1750
01:28:14,640 --> 01:28:16,960
team over there. Well, here's the crazy part of it.

1751
01:28:17,119 --> 01:28:21,000
When you went back to college after the NBA said

1752
01:28:21,039 --> 01:28:23,239
you're not ready for us yet, that was a pretty

1753
01:28:23,279 --> 01:28:26,760
difficult ego. Blow Modinos, Whosann's gonna go back and get

1754
01:28:26,800 --> 01:28:28,279
some mount of am money? He will not be he

1755
01:28:28,319 --> 01:28:31,039
will not be poor in twenty twenty five dash twenty six.

1756
01:28:31,159 --> 01:28:32,560
He's got a deal waiting for him. Is it gonna

1757
01:28:32,560 --> 01:28:34,319
be all good to go? You cutting the check, Matty,

1758
01:28:34,760 --> 01:28:36,680
I'm not cutting any checks. Why don't you get him

1759
01:28:36,680 --> 01:28:42,000
promoting this show? Let's go? Um, I don't know if

1760
01:28:43,199 --> 01:28:46,079
I mean, I guess I could? You know what we

1761
01:28:46,119 --> 01:28:48,000
have to do. I'll pay models. Who's gon to get

1762
01:28:48,039 --> 01:28:49,840
a tattoo of our radio show in the back of

1763
01:28:49,920 --> 01:28:51,239
his h What do you want to put on his

1764
01:28:51,359 --> 01:28:54,920
neck so people could see it? On a shoulder blade. Okay,

1765
01:28:55,359 --> 01:28:57,520
that was just on his forehead at Sports MT on

1766
01:28:57,600 --> 01:29:03,159
this No, not your Twitter, this show, Oh, Matt thomashall Twitter. Yeah,

1767
01:29:03,199 --> 01:29:08,880
that's fine. We can shorten it tms w R and

1768
01:29:08,960 --> 01:29:10,760
you put a QR code on there and people can

1769
01:29:10,920 --> 01:29:17,119
can scan that they needed more information. That's gross. I'm

1770
01:29:17,159 --> 01:29:18,800
trying to think outside the box. We can take do

1771
01:29:18,920 --> 01:29:22,000
whatever we can at this point. All right, Matt, Moving along.

1772
01:29:22,119 --> 01:29:25,159
There was a graphic posted on Twitter the other day, uh,

1773
01:29:25,399 --> 01:29:29,520
proposing a Team USA versus Team World. Team USA being

1774
01:29:29,640 --> 01:29:35,720
Lebron Durant, Anthony Davis, Jason Tatum and is that Devin Booker,

1775
01:29:35,760 --> 01:29:40,359
I think versus for example, Nikola Jokic, Janis Atenta Kumpo, Luka, Doncic,

1776
01:29:40,600 --> 01:29:44,880
Victor Wimbin Yama, Shake Gilders, Alexander jan attend to Kompo.

1777
01:29:45,039 --> 01:29:47,479
Quote tweeted it said this should be the next year's

1778
01:29:47,520 --> 01:29:51,800
All Star game format must see basketball. Do you agree

1779
01:29:52,399 --> 01:29:55,399
to try to reinvigorate the All Star Game? The NBA

1780
01:29:55,439 --> 01:30:00,079
should go to a Team USA versus the World. I

1781
01:30:00,199 --> 01:30:04,119
don't care, you don't care. I don't have any interest.

1782
01:30:04,199 --> 01:30:06,840
The only All Star game I have any interest in

1783
01:30:07,199 --> 01:30:10,159
is the Baseball Star Game, and I call the NBA.

1784
01:30:10,439 --> 01:30:15,279
I love the NBA. The NBA had me by a

1785
01:30:15,920 --> 01:30:18,880
thread two years ago until somebody scored two hundred points

1786
01:30:19,760 --> 01:30:21,920
and I waved it off for good. I raised the flag,

1787
01:30:21,920 --> 01:30:24,319
I said, I give up. I don't think there's anything

1788
01:30:24,359 --> 01:30:26,319
you can do at this point that could save the

1789
01:30:26,399 --> 01:30:31,840
NBA weekend h So you sound much more optimistic about

1790
01:30:31,840 --> 01:30:33,520
it than I do. So tell me what would make

1791
01:30:33,560 --> 01:30:37,000
it more competitive. That would be more competitive, probably for

1792
01:30:37,119 --> 01:30:38,920
a year, and then the novelty would wear off. It's

1793
01:30:38,920 --> 01:30:40,800
like when they did the elam ending, where guys had

1794
01:30:40,920 --> 01:30:42,800
tried for a year or two and then so you

1795
01:30:42,880 --> 01:30:44,479
can only do it for so long and then the

1796
01:30:44,600 --> 01:30:46,520
novelty is gonna wear off in guys it there's really

1797
01:30:46,560 --> 01:30:48,439
nothing to do. The guys are making fifty million dollars

1798
01:30:48,439 --> 01:30:51,399
a year. They're not gonna give their all unless there's huge,

1799
01:30:51,680 --> 01:30:56,399
massive financial ramifications. Other than that, I think it's mostly

1800
01:30:56,439 --> 01:30:58,239
a lost cause. But I think this would work for

1801
01:30:58,279 --> 01:31:01,239
a year or two, and then it would so answer

1802
01:31:01,319 --> 01:31:03,920
the simplistic question to me, then why did they care

1803
01:31:03,920 --> 01:31:06,039
about it in nineteen eighty five? And they'd give two

1804
01:31:06,119 --> 01:31:10,319
blanks about it in twenty twenty five, more many more

1805
01:31:10,359 --> 01:31:13,600
millions being made. It's less of a which used to

1806
01:31:13,640 --> 01:31:16,039
be a showcase for the league, you know, nineteen sixty one.

1807
01:31:16,119 --> 01:31:19,319
I'm talking about the players. I don't the players don't

1808
01:31:19,319 --> 01:31:20,800
care how much money the league makes. I guess they

1809
01:31:20,920 --> 01:31:23,119
sort of do because it's how much they're making. Oh,

1810
01:31:23,399 --> 01:31:25,399
you're saying because they make so much more money that

1811
01:31:25,479 --> 01:31:28,319
they don't need any sort of finance. A more competitive

1812
01:31:28,399 --> 01:31:30,199
time in general, I think a lot of times these

1813
01:31:30,239 --> 01:31:32,640
guys grow up together. They're in aau. They know each

1814
01:31:32,680 --> 01:31:35,800
other from Nike camp and under Armoured camp and whatever

1815
01:31:35,960 --> 01:31:38,279
camp working out in the summer. Together, it's a much

1816
01:31:38,399 --> 01:31:43,039
more cordial and probably less competitive against each other, I

1817
01:31:43,039 --> 01:31:45,520
would say. The interpersonal rivalries, I guess there are probably

1818
01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:50,479
less than they were. More friendly overall. I always pretend

1819
01:31:50,520 --> 01:31:52,640
I have more familiar I've always got feel like I've

1820
01:31:52,680 --> 01:31:55,560
got an answer for almost anything in sports, being around

1821
01:31:55,600 --> 01:31:57,720
all my life. I don't have an answer for this.

1822
01:31:58,159 --> 01:32:02,239
I don't know what they could possibly do to generate competitiveness.

1823
01:32:02,279 --> 01:32:06,359
Now they're still generating numbers. People watching, ratings are okay.

1824
01:32:06,479 --> 01:32:09,000
There still a huge money making event that USA the

1825
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:11,960
world would have a ratings pop for a year or two,

1826
01:32:12,039 --> 01:32:14,000
But don't you want to find something that can be

1827
01:32:14,079 --> 01:32:16,199
sustainable for more than just a year or two. I

1828
01:32:16,239 --> 01:32:19,239
don't think there's a solution for it unless, like I said,

1829
01:32:19,279 --> 01:32:21,479
unless you're giving like the winning team twenty million dollars

1830
01:32:21,560 --> 01:32:24,680
or something which nobody. Nobody's gonna pony up for that. No,

1831
01:32:25,479 --> 01:32:27,279
you're not gonna make that money back. No, you'd have

1832
01:32:27,359 --> 01:32:29,359
to take it out of the coffers of the player's funds. No,

1833
01:32:29,479 --> 01:32:31,000
I gonna do that. You could do that, and they're

1834
01:32:31,039 --> 01:32:33,119
not gonna do that either. All Right, I've met elsewhere

1835
01:32:33,199 --> 01:32:39,000
off the beaten path. Today, the prestigious Texas Monthly Top

1836
01:32:39,239 --> 01:32:43,439
fifty barbecue joints in Texas came out. Really it's once

1837
01:32:43,520 --> 01:32:46,600
every four years, so it's a big deal. Mat just

1838
01:32:46,720 --> 01:32:50,039
can make or break businesses. H Top ten. Number one

1839
01:32:50,239 --> 01:32:52,760
was Burnt Bean Company in Sagine, Texas. Have you been

1840
01:32:52,960 --> 01:32:55,479
I have not? Okay, it's delicious. Number two Lero and

1841
01:32:55,520 --> 01:32:57,520
Loose in Austin, Texas and no been, Nope.

1842
01:32:57,720 --> 01:32:57,880
Speaker 1: Oh.

1843
01:32:58,039 --> 01:33:01,640
Speaker 2: Number three Goldies in four Or Texas. Nope, I've been

1844
01:33:01,680 --> 01:33:03,680
to all three of those. Matt, and your favorite of

1845
01:33:03,720 --> 01:33:08,760
the three, oh Man they're a amazing I'm gonna go

1846
01:33:08,880 --> 01:33:13,560
Leroy and Lewis, They're all amazing. Truth. Barbecue in Houston,

1847
01:33:13,600 --> 01:33:16,560
Texas the only joint here I believe in town to

1848
01:33:16,680 --> 01:33:18,399
make the top ten unless some of these I haven't

1849
01:33:18,439 --> 01:33:20,279
heard of are in Houston. I have to do some

1850
01:33:20,399 --> 01:33:23,159
further digging on this, but there you go, number nine

1851
01:33:23,439 --> 01:33:24,880
on the list. They were number three in the twenty

1852
01:33:24,920 --> 01:33:26,560
twenty one list, bumped down to number nine.

1853
01:33:26,880 --> 01:33:27,239
Speaker 3: Do you know?

1854
01:33:27,479 --> 01:33:32,119
Speaker 2: And this is the God's honest truth. If this is hard,

1855
01:33:32,159 --> 01:33:33,960
because you if you're gonna pay for a high ends,

1856
01:33:34,119 --> 01:33:35,720
if you're gonna if you're gonna get a high in Steike,

1857
01:33:35,720 --> 01:33:38,000
you gotta pay for one. I guess I gotta shake

1858
01:33:38,119 --> 01:33:41,359
myself of If you want really good barbecue, it's gonna

1859
01:33:41,359 --> 01:33:45,359
cost you forty dollars. And I have a play, and

1860
01:33:45,479 --> 01:33:47,279
I have I'm still having a hard time a lot

1861
01:33:47,279 --> 01:33:48,680
of these plays. You can get to three meat played

1862
01:33:48,720 --> 01:33:52,680
for thirty twenty five or thirty like you get a

1863
01:33:52,680 --> 01:33:54,640
two meat play for when you, me and the other

1864
01:33:54,680 --> 01:33:58,159
producer went, we spend one hundred dollars for three of us. Yes,

1865
01:33:58,640 --> 01:34:00,399
we also got desserted. I mean we got way too

1866
01:34:00,439 --> 01:34:03,199
many sides, yes, and then I then then the food

1867
01:34:03,279 --> 01:34:05,239
spilled out of my car and it was a waste.

1868
01:34:06,640 --> 01:34:09,239
M I wanted those ribs. We need to go back

1869
01:34:09,399 --> 01:34:12,800
that beefer. It was delicious. Oh we nod on it

1870
01:34:12,920 --> 01:34:16,319
for like a week. That's feels no, I don't put

1871
01:34:16,359 --> 01:34:17,800
that in there. Yeah, you nod on it for a week.

1872
01:34:19,359 --> 01:34:24,479
And that's today's news at noon. I'm gonna try to

1873
01:34:24,520 --> 01:34:25,880
knock off the rest of this top ten. I've been

1874
01:34:25,920 --> 01:34:29,720
to I think four of this top ten. I need

1875
01:34:29,760 --> 01:34:30,359
to knock off three.

1876
01:34:30,399 --> 01:34:30,520
Speaker 1: Now.

1877
01:34:30,520 --> 01:34:33,600
Speaker 2: Will you be considered barbecue snob if you don't put

1878
01:34:33,600 --> 01:34:35,359
sauce on this stuff? Or you are you required to go?

1879
01:34:36,840 --> 01:34:39,199
I put a I will eat it without sauce, but

1880
01:34:39,319 --> 01:34:40,880
then you put a little bit on there, you try it,

1881
01:34:41,000 --> 01:34:44,199
you do both, Okay, I'm good with that. I can

1882
01:34:44,239 --> 01:34:47,920
do barbecue thout sauce. Yeah. It's it's like somebody makes

1883
01:34:47,960 --> 01:34:53,039
you a nice, wonderful, crispy uh New York strip and

1884
01:34:53,079 --> 01:34:55,279
then you play a plaster eight one all over it

1885
01:34:55,319 --> 01:34:58,880
before even taking a bite. Yeah, it's a disrespectful the shift.

1886
01:34:58,920 --> 01:35:00,840
This is exactly what he said. Would you see Charles

1887
01:35:00,880 --> 01:35:03,319
Barkley utter day on TNT No he eats his steak

1888
01:35:03,439 --> 01:35:07,680
well done. There's a lot of guy spends millions of dollars.

1889
01:35:07,680 --> 01:35:09,920
He makes millions of dollars a year. Can eat any

1890
01:35:10,000 --> 01:35:11,760
fine steak house he wants to, and he's like, I

1891
01:35:11,840 --> 01:35:18,239
can't eat even with red in it. Disgusting. I like him.

1892
01:35:18,279 --> 01:35:23,000
Twelve fifteen, Sports Talk seven ninety Joe spot him ten

1893
01:35:23,039 --> 01:35:25,319
minutes from now Sports Talk seven ninety. It is the

1894
01:35:25,359 --> 01:35:27,600
Matt Tomlins Show with Ross seven one three two one

1895
01:35:27,680 --> 01:35:31,399
two five seven nine zero seven one three two one

1896
01:35:31,520 --> 01:35:33,760
two five seven niney. If you want to visit with

1897
01:35:33,880 --> 01:35:36,079
us through Twitter, you may do that as well at

1898
01:35:36,119 --> 01:35:38,560
Sports empty and at Sports RV. By the way, Josh

1899
01:35:38,640 --> 01:35:41,359
Hater will be a guest of the A team right

1900
01:35:41,399 --> 01:35:43,800
off the bat at two five today as they get

1901
01:35:43,840 --> 01:35:47,560
ready for that series the two. Yeah, so Josh Hater

1902
01:35:47,640 --> 01:35:50,039
a guest with Adam and Adam coming up in just

1903
01:35:50,119 --> 01:35:53,880
a few minutes. Um seven one three two one two

1904
01:35:54,239 --> 01:35:57,000
five seven. And I'm trying to clear my computer system

1905
01:35:57,039 --> 01:35:59,920
which continues on to work. Gotcha going to Keith?

1906
01:36:00,119 --> 01:36:00,439
Speaker 1: You hear that?

1907
01:36:00,520 --> 01:36:05,800
Speaker 2: Yeah? Keith on seven Good afternoon, Hey, how y'all doing great?

1908
01:36:07,640 --> 01:36:15,000
Speaker 1: I got some questions about the Big Three what yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1909
01:36:15,279 --> 01:36:17,800
So I heard him say that Calum Murphy's I heard

1910
01:36:17,880 --> 01:36:20,600
him say Calm Murphy's the coach. And I heard him

1911
01:36:20,640 --> 01:36:25,119
say that Gerald Green and and who else is Gerald Green? Uh,

1912
01:36:26,279 --> 01:36:29,279
Corey Brewer and some other green and I could never

1913
01:36:29,359 --> 01:36:32,920
ever make out what they're saying. I want to. I

1914
01:36:33,039 --> 01:36:35,640
don't want to ask y'all some serious I will not

1915
01:36:35,800 --> 01:36:39,800
serious question. I wanted to have a serious answer to

1916
01:36:40,239 --> 01:36:45,079
how do they make money? For one? Who's their target audience? Number?

1917
01:36:45,159 --> 01:36:45,319
Speaker 2: Two?

1918
01:36:46,159 --> 01:36:49,319
Speaker 1: Have we also? Have you ever sent through a Big

1919
01:36:49,439 --> 01:36:50,039
Three games?

1920
01:36:50,880 --> 01:36:51,279
Speaker 2: Whoa whoa?

1921
01:36:51,359 --> 01:36:51,600
Speaker 3: Whoa?

1922
01:36:51,640 --> 01:36:57,520
Speaker 2: Whoa? Whoa whoa? What you owe us an apology? Why

1923
01:36:58,199 --> 01:36:59,840
one of us in this room has been to a

1924
01:36:59,880 --> 01:37:02,359
Big Three event? One is not and his name is

1925
01:37:02,399 --> 01:37:05,560
not Boss Bill Brial. I don't nobody knows anybody in apology?

1926
01:37:05,880 --> 01:37:07,199
Why didn't you ask me if I went to a

1927
01:37:07,239 --> 01:37:08,760
Big Three? You're talking to me and Keith can talk.

1928
01:37:08,960 --> 01:37:09,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what.

1929
01:37:09,439 --> 01:37:11,119
Speaker 2: I will step out of this because I have answered

1930
01:37:11,119 --> 01:37:13,359
all these questions I watched. Since you didn't ask if

1931
01:37:13,399 --> 01:37:15,640
I went to a Big Three, which I did, suck

1932
01:37:15,720 --> 01:37:18,399
it go on? Uh, I watched it on TV. It's

1933
01:37:18,439 --> 01:37:18,960
not very good.

1934
01:37:20,439 --> 01:37:22,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't do it, no more than two minutes.

1935
01:37:22,319 --> 01:37:25,159
How about a w How about a w NBA game?

1936
01:37:25,199 --> 01:37:27,920
Have you ever watched a whole w NBA game? I have.

1937
01:37:29,399 --> 01:37:30,600
Speaker 2: Normally when I have been on it.

1938
01:37:32,439 --> 01:37:33,600
Speaker 1: Oh you have a ross?

1939
01:37:35,000 --> 01:37:35,199
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1940
01:37:35,600 --> 01:37:36,960
Speaker 1: Did you say you say you have?

1941
01:37:37,279 --> 01:37:38,920
Speaker 2: Yeah? Not when I haven't gambled on it though.

1942
01:37:39,680 --> 01:37:42,399
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay? Well, so how does how does the

1943
01:37:43,399 --> 01:37:45,720
Big three make money? And who's their target?

1944
01:37:45,920 --> 01:37:53,720
Speaker 2: Ticket sales and advertising? But I mean how it goes if.

1945
01:37:53,640 --> 01:37:57,520
Speaker 1: They have live games? How many people ever show up

1946
01:37:57,560 --> 01:37:58,960
to see that craft?

1947
01:38:00,159 --> 01:38:01,720
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, how many people were at the

1948
01:38:01,760 --> 01:38:06,399
event you were at? I don't know. We can ask you, no,

1949
01:38:06,600 --> 01:38:10,199
you can't. Come on. It's funny. I have all the answers,

1950
01:38:10,239 --> 01:38:12,199
all these questions. I didn't have to act like a child,

1951
01:38:12,279 --> 01:38:13,880
Matt where I'm just asking you a question now?

1952
01:38:15,600 --> 01:38:18,399
Speaker 1: Sorry, man, No, you did?

1953
01:38:18,600 --> 01:38:21,560
Speaker 2: You did offend me too late? You did offend me, Kate.

1954
01:38:21,680 --> 01:38:24,439
The answer is this, They have a very sweetheart friendly

1955
01:38:24,520 --> 01:38:27,000
deal on CBS. I think they share revenue on that

1956
01:38:28,119 --> 01:38:31,079
on the split of a league sponsors and whatnot. By airtime.

1957
01:38:31,800 --> 01:38:31,920
Speaker 7: Uh.

1958
01:38:32,199 --> 01:38:34,680
Speaker 2: They do try to fill the buildings, but that has

1959
01:38:34,760 --> 01:38:35,800
been a minimal success.

1960
01:38:36,560 --> 01:38:36,640
Speaker 1: Uh.

1961
01:38:36,760 --> 01:38:38,119
Speaker 2: They used to just do it in three or four

1962
01:38:38,159 --> 01:38:40,039
different places. They're now trying to go all around the

1963
01:38:40,119 --> 01:38:42,119
country to try to regionalize it to get people that

1964
01:38:42,159 --> 01:38:45,600
would be familiar with the players on that team. But

1965
01:38:45,800 --> 01:38:48,600
they are. They have four or five core sponsors. They've

1966
01:38:48,640 --> 01:38:52,239
got CBS is a TV network, and they think it's

1967
01:38:52,760 --> 01:38:55,960
iced Tea correct, right, Ice ice Q one of the two.

1968
01:38:56,000 --> 01:38:59,000
I don't know that think that uses his social platforms

1969
01:38:59,039 --> 01:39:02,079
to get people to go the events. It's it's fine.

1970
01:39:03,199 --> 01:39:06,439
It's for old school basketball fans that love guys that

1971
01:39:06,560 --> 01:39:09,600
played in the league ten, fifteen, twenty years ago. To

1972
01:39:09,680 --> 01:39:12,359
play a three on three, It's okay. I've also been

1973
01:39:12,399 --> 01:39:14,039
to a lot of WNBA games because I used to

1974
01:39:14,039 --> 01:39:16,279
be the announcer for the comments for some years, so

1975
01:39:16,439 --> 01:39:17,640
I've been to a lot of them. I've been to

1976
01:39:17,680 --> 01:39:21,279
a game recently obviously, So I think I answered all

1977
01:39:21,319 --> 01:39:23,840
your questions. Thanks for asking me eventually.

1978
01:39:25,960 --> 01:39:26,560
Speaker 1: Have a great day.

1979
01:39:26,760 --> 01:39:30,680
Speaker 2: See you later, Keith. I'm just trying to I'm curious

1980
01:39:30,720 --> 01:39:32,239
how much these tickets are. I'm just trying to look

1981
01:39:32,279 --> 01:39:35,800
this up. I'm going to presume they're fairly reasonable. Everybody

1982
01:39:35,840 --> 01:39:38,479
sits in the lower level, huh, I mean, unless you're

1983
01:39:38,520 --> 01:39:40,239
just really filling the house up. I went and saw

1984
01:39:40,720 --> 01:39:43,439
Ryan Hollins, a friend of the show and obviously Rockets

1985
01:39:43,479 --> 01:39:45,840
TV analysts on Space City. He was a part of

1986
01:39:45,960 --> 01:39:49,119
a team that featured him and Joe Johnson, and I

1987
01:39:49,199 --> 01:39:50,840
forgot the other two guys were, but they were. They

1988
01:39:50,880 --> 01:39:53,800
were representing a team, and so Craig Ackerman and I

1989
01:39:53,920 --> 01:39:56,479
drove the Dallas with a little Bros Trip Ross and

1990
01:39:58,319 --> 01:40:03,159
the coach of Ryan's team was Lisa Leslie. Ryan got

1991
01:40:03,239 --> 01:40:07,199
two thousand and first two minutes and didn't play again,

1992
01:40:07,840 --> 01:40:10,920
so we drove all the way to Dallas to see

1993
01:40:11,000 --> 01:40:17,359
Ryan play two minutes. So we have privately mfed Lisa

1994
01:40:17,479 --> 01:40:21,640
Leslie's name for a better part of two years. If

1995
01:40:21,680 --> 01:40:24,000
you want front, if you want to on the floor seats,

1996
01:40:24,359 --> 01:40:28,039
guess how much they are total center on the floor.

1997
01:40:28,560 --> 01:40:30,640
I want to say two hundred and fifty dollars. Twelve

1998
01:40:30,680 --> 01:40:34,600
hundred dollars. Shut up if you want good seats, but

1999
01:40:34,720 --> 01:40:36,960
good seats from there are pretty reasonable. One hundred and

2000
01:40:36,960 --> 01:40:40,039
seventy dollars for like basically four rows back. If you

2001
01:40:40,119 --> 01:40:43,039
want front row of the what do you call it,

2002
01:40:43,079 --> 01:40:46,000
behind the basket whatever, that section you would call that

2003
01:40:46,319 --> 01:40:51,159
baseline baseline one hundred hundred dollars. I bet well it

2004
01:40:51,199 --> 01:40:53,199
would do them some good if they give you and

2005
01:40:53,279 --> 01:40:56,359
I front a course yay, because we would shoot photos

2006
01:40:56,399 --> 01:40:59,279
of ourselves. We'd walk around and say, hey, ice Cube

2007
01:41:00,159 --> 01:41:03,920
love this sport. Yeah, I think we have tickets available

2008
01:41:04,079 --> 01:41:06,359
if you want to claim a couple. Alright, I'm going

2009
01:41:08,199 --> 01:41:09,960
Ryan Hollinves is gonna play. I got I gotta check

2010
01:41:09,960 --> 01:41:12,239
it right. Get a second. That's my brother's birthday, So

2011
01:41:12,279 --> 01:41:15,760
I don't know what we're doing. Probably drinking. We can

2012
01:41:15,840 --> 01:41:18,079
drink it. They serve. I'm sure that's your alcohol. Is

2013
01:41:18,199 --> 01:41:22,000
a Tuesday? Oh at the club coming up on a Tuesday.

2014
01:41:22,079 --> 01:41:24,479
Let's go away the asker of a day game on Wednesday.

2015
01:41:24,479 --> 01:41:26,279
I don't mind you doing that. We got a full

2016
01:41:26,279 --> 01:41:28,359
show Wednesday. I need you full strength. Yeah, I'll take

2017
01:41:28,359 --> 01:41:30,000
a day off. I got a lot of vacation left.

2018
01:41:30,079 --> 01:41:32,359
Twelve twenty eight, Let's talk to Joe as Spot of

2019
01:41:32,439 --> 01:41:35,039
the Astros manager. He'll join us next here on Sports

2020
01:41:35,119 --> 01:41:39,359
Talk seven ninety. This is the Matt Thomas Show with

2021
01:41:39,600 --> 01:41:44,560
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety. Very happy to be

2022
01:41:44,720 --> 01:41:47,600
joined by the manager of your Houston Astros twelve thirty

2023
01:41:47,640 --> 01:41:49,800
two is a time Matt and Ross with you on

2024
01:41:49,920 --> 01:41:52,920
Sports Talk seven ninety as the Astros start a series

2025
01:41:52,920 --> 01:41:54,640
of the eight tonight game and a half behind the

2026
01:41:54,920 --> 01:41:59,720
MS in the American League West and Joe is with

2027
01:41:59,800 --> 01:42:03,680
a skip first off day in seventeen days. I'm going

2028
01:42:03,760 --> 01:42:05,880
to assume your one hundred new list from missus the spot.

2029
01:42:05,920 --> 01:42:06,680
It was quite lengthy.

2030
01:42:09,159 --> 01:42:12,239
Speaker 3: Yes, we had a really nice time together as a family.

2031
01:42:13,039 --> 01:42:16,760
Must it must need a break, Matt, for you know,

2032
01:42:16,880 --> 01:42:19,479
for the coaches, but most important for our players.

2033
01:42:19,600 --> 01:42:21,279
Speaker 2: It was it was a long road and.

2034
01:42:22,840 --> 01:42:25,039
Speaker 3: I thought we played really well doing those seventeen games,

2035
01:42:25,079 --> 01:42:27,640
so we ready here to get get going against the A's.

2036
01:42:28,159 --> 01:42:31,720
Speaker 2: To me, Skip, the biggest positive was you didn't get

2037
01:42:31,760 --> 01:42:33,840
a whole lot of linked out of your starting pitching

2038
01:42:34,479 --> 01:42:36,760
fromber gave you some quality starts, hunting and whatnot, but

2039
01:42:36,840 --> 01:42:38,239
you had a lot of nights where you han't a

2040
01:42:38,279 --> 01:42:41,359
battle using your bullpen guys in the sixth inning and

2041
01:42:41,600 --> 01:42:44,800
correct me if I'm wrong. It feels like everybody got

2042
01:42:44,880 --> 01:42:46,760
a good amount of work, but nobody felt like they

2043
01:42:46,800 --> 01:42:47,520
were overused.

2044
01:42:48,800 --> 01:42:51,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. I think you know, that's that's

2045
01:42:51,520 --> 01:42:53,640
been you know, one of our strength this season has

2046
01:42:53,640 --> 01:42:58,159
been our bullpen and everybody contributing, and everybody's getting big innings,

2047
01:42:58,239 --> 01:43:00,520
getting you know, some of some of these guys four whiles,

2048
01:43:00,560 --> 01:43:02,239
some of them are going there for two hours, uh

2049
01:43:02,640 --> 01:43:03,399
for two innings.

2050
01:43:04,720 --> 01:43:05,640
Speaker 2: You know, credit to.

2051
01:43:05,680 --> 01:43:09,399
Speaker 3: Those guys, they've been they've been really good, preparing themselves

2052
01:43:09,479 --> 01:43:12,920
very well, getting rested and like you mentioned, getting some

2053
01:43:13,039 --> 01:43:15,279
qualities starts from some of our guys and then piecing

2054
01:43:15,359 --> 01:43:17,600
it together with with a few others. But I thought

2055
01:43:17,640 --> 01:43:20,439
this run was pretty good. And now we you know,

2056
01:43:20,479 --> 01:43:23,800
we're getting uh a few mondays off here after six

2057
01:43:23,880 --> 01:43:25,520
in a row, so it should be it should be good.

2058
01:43:25,840 --> 01:43:27,439
Speaker 2: You know, I was gonna ask you about your thoughts

2059
01:43:27,439 --> 01:43:30,199
about the six man rotation, but really your sixth guy

2060
01:43:30,399 --> 01:43:32,600
is a guy that you've bounced backwards and forwards to

2061
01:43:32,680 --> 01:43:35,439
the bullpen and starting rotation. It's Ryan Gusto. Is that

2062
01:43:35,600 --> 01:43:37,399
kind of the plan at least for the foreseeable future,

2063
01:43:37,439 --> 01:43:39,000
to use him as a swing guy?

2064
01:43:40,439 --> 01:43:42,880
Speaker 3: You know what, right now we are we we we're

2065
01:43:42,920 --> 01:43:46,760
talking things through. You know, we do have these off

2066
01:43:46,840 --> 01:43:49,359
days coming up. Gusta has done a really nice job

2067
01:43:49,520 --> 01:43:52,279
being that swing man. But you know, obviously we really

2068
01:43:52,439 --> 01:43:55,439
like when he goes out there and give us, give us,

2069
01:43:55,520 --> 01:43:58,239
you know, strong five innings. But he's also at piece

2070
01:43:58,279 --> 01:44:00,840
that we could use in the bullpen and and and

2071
01:44:01,000 --> 01:44:03,720
give us, you know, strong six out six. You know,

2072
01:44:03,960 --> 01:44:06,000
you know, more than two innings of work. So we're

2073
01:44:06,039 --> 01:44:07,960
trying to figure it out what's going to be our

2074
01:44:08,039 --> 01:44:10,680
next move here moving forward against the age. And then

2075
01:44:10,680 --> 01:44:12,840
we got four, uh four against Tampa.

2076
01:44:13,640 --> 01:44:16,319
Speaker 2: So you win three or four against Seattle. Look, a

2077
01:44:16,399 --> 01:44:19,880
division can't be won or lost in late May. But

2078
01:44:20,000 --> 01:44:21,800
the reality is if you had to drop three or four,

2079
01:44:21,840 --> 01:44:23,960
you'd probably felt pretty sick to your stomach. Winning three

2080
01:44:24,039 --> 01:44:26,319
or four kind of changes the morale of Hey, we

2081
01:44:26,520 --> 01:44:29,119
survived this. We've had Jordan gone for a long period

2082
01:44:29,119 --> 01:44:32,000
of time. Our starting rotation is a mess because of

2083
01:44:32,079 --> 01:44:33,800
injuries at this point, and hell, we're a game and

2084
01:44:33,840 --> 01:44:35,479
a half out. You really couldn't ask for much more

2085
01:44:35,520 --> 01:44:36,000
at this point.

2086
01:44:36,760 --> 01:44:39,680
Speaker 3: No, Yeah, the the effort was was there. You know,

2087
01:44:39,760 --> 01:44:42,239
these guys, they they knew the importance of this series,

2088
01:44:42,319 --> 01:44:44,800
even though it's in May. But anytime you could win

2089
01:44:44,960 --> 01:44:48,520
series against team in your division, you know you're gaining

2090
01:44:48,600 --> 01:44:51,479
you're gaining some games you're gaining some ground and you're

2091
01:44:51,520 --> 01:44:54,640
carrying some momentum, and you don't want to be too

2092
01:44:54,720 --> 01:44:58,159
far away from from these teams once, you know, June

2093
01:44:58,239 --> 01:45:01,399
July come comes around. So so I thought, we show

2094
01:45:01,520 --> 01:45:03,199
up and we played very well. We got some big

2095
01:45:03,279 --> 01:45:05,199
hits when we needed to in our pitching again doing

2096
01:45:05,279 --> 01:45:08,039
a fabulous job keeping us, keeping us in it.

2097
01:45:09,119 --> 01:45:11,640
Speaker 2: Speaking of Jordan, I know you're probably getting tired of

2098
01:45:11,680 --> 01:45:14,319
ask basically every day, but just any update there.

2099
01:45:16,399 --> 01:45:18,079
Speaker 3: He's going to run the basis today, he's going to

2100
01:45:18,359 --> 01:45:21,880
do some outfield defense. We want to keep him, you know,

2101
01:45:22,279 --> 01:45:24,960
in game shape of one, he tells us, So you know,

2102
01:45:25,039 --> 01:45:27,760
I'm ready to go. He you know, we feel like

2103
01:45:28,000 --> 01:45:32,319
he's strong enough physically, you know, lower half, so he

2104
01:45:32,399 --> 01:45:35,319
can uh start playing right away. But you know he's

2105
01:45:35,359 --> 01:45:36,800
going to come in here today. He's going to hit

2106
01:45:36,880 --> 01:45:39,520
again off the machine and then and then we judge

2107
01:45:39,560 --> 01:45:39,920
from there.

2108
01:45:40,680 --> 01:45:43,279
Speaker 2: Astros manager Joe Spott, it was here on a Sports

2109
01:45:43,359 --> 01:45:46,520
Talk seven ninety how about seven hits from Cam Smith

2110
01:45:46,600 --> 01:45:49,319
in the series. Looks like he's really blossoming at the plate.

2111
01:45:50,600 --> 01:45:53,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, he is. He had made some adjustments, he's starting

2112
01:45:53,720 --> 01:45:57,560
to gain some confidence, you know, success, bring some confidence

2113
01:45:57,640 --> 01:46:00,439
to your game, and he's starting to. He started to

2114
01:46:00,479 --> 01:46:04,079
feel good about where he's at offensively. He's done a

2115
01:46:04,159 --> 01:46:07,319
nice shop in right field. You know, we knew that

2116
01:46:07,439 --> 01:46:10,319
this guy is going to be a really, really good player,

2117
01:46:11,039 --> 01:46:13,600
but our job is just kind of moving him along,

2118
01:46:14,079 --> 01:46:17,560
help him through this processes. But he's starting to, you know,

2119
01:46:18,439 --> 01:46:21,640
drive the ball, getting some I've gone some big hits

2120
01:46:21,720 --> 01:46:25,800
for us, and you know, excited to have him. He's

2121
01:46:26,000 --> 01:46:28,760
he's you know, he's been he's been really good for us.

2122
01:46:29,960 --> 01:46:32,239
So you know, we'll keep him going. We'll keep an

2123
01:46:32,239 --> 01:46:33,479
eye on things, and we'll.

2124
01:46:33,399 --> 01:46:36,199
Speaker 2: Keep him going. So, Joe, if you weren't the manager

2125
01:46:36,199 --> 01:46:37,359
of this team, and you and I were sitting at

2126
01:46:37,359 --> 01:46:39,239
the bar having a beverage, and I said, our favorite

2127
01:46:39,279 --> 01:46:41,319
baseball team is going to put a left fielder out

2128
01:46:41,359 --> 01:46:43,079
there has ever played left and a right fielder has

2129
01:46:43,079 --> 01:46:46,319
never played right before, You're gonna be like, oh, hell,

2130
01:46:46,520 --> 01:46:47,960
this is how bad it is going to be. First

2131
01:46:48,000 --> 01:46:51,239
of all, Cam is fielding his position beautifully, and then

2132
01:46:51,399 --> 01:46:53,800
al two Bays throw Friday night which got at the

2133
01:46:53,840 --> 01:46:57,439
base runner by like thirty feet. I mean, all things considered,

2134
01:46:57,720 --> 01:46:59,760
I mean it could have gone a lot worse. And

2135
01:46:59,800 --> 01:47:02,960
I'm not trying to jinx anything here, but my goodness,

2136
01:47:03,199 --> 01:47:05,600
especially with Camon right field, you guys are not missing

2137
01:47:05,640 --> 01:47:07,119
any beat out there, at least defensively.

2138
01:47:08,279 --> 01:47:10,760
Speaker 3: Well, we're having that beer at the bar and we're

2139
01:47:10,800 --> 01:47:13,760
talking about this, this this particular situation. I'll tell you

2140
01:47:13,880 --> 01:47:15,560
that I had no doubt that these guys can do it,

2141
01:47:15,720 --> 01:47:18,199
because you got to take in consideration the athlete that

2142
01:47:18,279 --> 01:47:21,359
you're dealing with, the mindset off the player, the work

2143
01:47:21,439 --> 01:47:24,880
ethic of of the guy. So I had no doubt

2144
01:47:24,920 --> 01:47:27,479
that these guys are going We're going to have some

2145
01:47:27,640 --> 01:47:30,399
success and figure things out, and and we you know,

2146
01:47:30,520 --> 01:47:33,680
we're not there yet. They continue to work and get better.

2147
01:47:33,840 --> 01:47:35,840
But I had no doubt that both of these guys

2148
01:47:36,319 --> 01:47:38,880
have the ability and the mindset to make this adjustments.

2149
01:47:39,279 --> 01:47:42,199
Speaker 2: What is in your mind the most difficult part of

2150
01:47:42,279 --> 01:47:44,560
his transition from being an infielder his entire life to

2151
01:47:44,600 --> 01:47:47,079
playing outfield? Is it the angles? Is it the cutoff man?

2152
01:47:47,119 --> 01:47:48,800
There was maybe one throw this weekend that you probably

2153
01:47:48,800 --> 01:47:51,319
weren't crazy about, But generally speaking, what do you think

2154
01:47:51,479 --> 01:47:54,760
is the biggest thing not necessarily has to overcome? But

2155
01:47:54,840 --> 01:47:56,600
the thing that he said to you, Hey, I can

2156
01:47:56,680 --> 01:47:58,760
do this, but give me some time in this particular

2157
01:47:58,840 --> 01:47:59,399
area of the game.

2158
01:48:00,840 --> 01:48:02,880
Speaker 3: You know, for me, it's just perception. The ball off

2159
01:48:02,920 --> 01:48:05,640
the bat right, you went from being on the infield dirt.

2160
01:48:05,720 --> 01:48:08,119
The balls getting to you quicker, so you reacting to

2161
01:48:08,279 --> 01:48:11,760
it much sooner. Angles and direction that you take to

2162
01:48:11,840 --> 01:48:15,720
the ball are are more quicker, and you're reacting to

2163
01:48:15,880 --> 01:48:16,119
the ball.

2164
01:48:16,239 --> 01:48:18,880
Speaker 6: Now the ball is traveling, you know.

2165
01:48:19,319 --> 01:48:21,560
Speaker 3: Part of the way for you know, from you and

2166
01:48:21,640 --> 01:48:25,800
you got to cover way more way more ground. Communication

2167
01:48:26,039 --> 01:48:28,800
is a factor, you know, uh, in a two ways case,

2168
01:48:28,920 --> 01:48:32,880
you know, having Jade to his to his left, you know,

2169
01:48:33,079 --> 01:48:36,880
dealing with that game situation, knowing the speed of the

2170
01:48:36,960 --> 01:48:39,000
runner and now you've got to keep double place in orders.

2171
01:48:39,000 --> 01:48:41,000
There's so many factors that go into this and the

2172
01:48:41,039 --> 01:48:41,800
same thing we can.

2173
01:48:43,560 --> 01:48:45,479
Speaker 1: But I think one thing is that.

2174
01:48:45,600 --> 01:48:47,039
Speaker 3: We were coaching these guys up.

2175
01:48:47,159 --> 01:48:48,920
Speaker 1: We have weekly.

2176
01:48:48,720 --> 01:48:51,760
Speaker 3: Conversations with him. We're showing video. Uh, we go over

2177
01:48:51,960 --> 01:48:55,119
game situations and just to make sure that we are

2178
01:48:55,800 --> 01:48:59,720
still teaching them how to play the position and continue

2179
01:48:59,760 --> 01:49:01,039
to it just as as we go.

2180
01:49:01,560 --> 01:49:04,840
Speaker 2: A couple more minutes here with the Astros manager Joe

2181
01:49:04,880 --> 01:49:07,399
A spotted with us here on Sports Talk seven one eighty.

2182
01:49:07,520 --> 01:49:09,760
So you've got these games coming up now with some

2183
01:49:09,920 --> 01:49:12,800
off days in between. You've also mixed in a lot

2184
01:49:12,880 --> 01:49:15,640
of Jose doing some dhing And I know that younger

2185
01:49:15,720 --> 01:49:19,000
players never want a DH. Have you noticed a change.

2186
01:49:19,119 --> 01:49:21,439
I know that Jose wants to play wherever he can play,

2187
01:49:21,560 --> 01:49:23,520
left field, second base, whatever you ask him to do.

2188
01:49:23,600 --> 01:49:26,239
But has he been more forthcoming and saying, you know,

2189
01:49:26,279 --> 01:49:28,119
the DH days aren't the worst things in the world.

2190
01:49:29,359 --> 01:49:31,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think he's open to that. I

2191
01:49:31,600 --> 01:49:34,359
think Jose knows that you know that you know the

2192
01:49:35,479 --> 01:49:37,800
behind it. It's the fact that I want to keep them,

2193
01:49:38,560 --> 01:49:41,279
we want to keep them healthy, and the DH days,

2194
01:49:41,600 --> 01:49:43,600
you know, it gives him an ability, a chance for

2195
01:49:43,720 --> 01:49:46,399
him to be of his feed and he's been more

2196
01:49:46,479 --> 01:49:49,600
open to that. Also, he knows that gives me the

2197
01:49:49,640 --> 01:49:52,319
ability to get some of these young players on the field,

2198
01:49:52,880 --> 01:49:55,159
and he knows that fus when we need something, we

2199
01:49:55,279 --> 01:49:58,960
need to develop these this next generations of you know,

2200
01:49:59,239 --> 01:50:02,119
mejor league players going to allow us to keep this

2201
01:50:02,279 --> 01:50:05,239
winning culture going. So, you know, Hosey, it's it's he's

2202
01:50:05,279 --> 01:50:09,439
all in, but definitely more open to d H You know,

2203
01:50:09,600 --> 01:50:12,560
I I normally text him or call him or tell

2204
01:50:12,600 --> 01:50:15,199
him the night before my plans. And you know, he's

2205
01:50:15,199 --> 01:50:17,680
always been honest and open with me how he feels

2206
01:50:18,239 --> 01:50:19,520
when he comes to his playing time.

2207
01:50:20,600 --> 01:50:22,640
Speaker 2: Speaking of that, we haven't been seeing much of Brendan

2208
01:50:22,760 --> 01:50:26,439
Rodgers lately. It's been a lot of Dubon. Ideally for you,

2209
01:50:26,600 --> 01:50:28,680
you'd probably like to see more from him at the play.

2210
01:50:28,800 --> 01:50:31,039
But how do you think that the whole second base

2211
01:50:31,319 --> 01:50:34,560
situation shakes out with Rogers factoring in?

2212
01:50:35,880 --> 01:50:37,840
Speaker 3: You know what he's gonna He's gonna continue to play.

2213
01:50:38,039 --> 01:50:41,119
Dubon has been swinging a good bat of late, so

2214
01:50:41,279 --> 01:50:43,319
we we're gonna do that. But you know, just like

2215
01:50:43,439 --> 01:50:45,840
the rest of these guys, I'll put him in there

2216
01:50:47,079 --> 01:50:49,399
and give them, give them opportunity to try to match

2217
01:50:49,439 --> 01:50:51,920
them up with uh some pitching that I that I

2218
01:50:52,039 --> 01:50:55,760
feel like they can handle. And and but it's you know,

2219
01:50:55,800 --> 01:50:58,880
it's not an easy situation with having all these players

2220
01:50:59,399 --> 01:51:02,239
UH here, and I want to get them involved and

2221
01:51:02,319 --> 01:51:06,000
I want them all to contribute. So communication is important

2222
01:51:06,119 --> 01:51:09,880
being patient through this process. And but but he's gonna

2223
01:51:09,880 --> 01:51:11,560
get He's gonna he will get more. He will get

2224
01:51:11,600 --> 01:51:12,880
some opportunities here to play some.

2225
01:51:13,720 --> 01:51:17,239
Speaker 2: And speaking of a communication Lance Cullors Junior on the

2226
01:51:17,439 --> 01:51:20,079
hill tomorrow. What what has that been like for you?

2227
01:51:20,199 --> 01:51:23,640
It's very unique situation. Are you still kind of checking

2228
01:51:23,800 --> 01:51:26,520
and monitoring him more than most? But he did throw

2229
01:51:26,600 --> 01:51:27,880
ninety one pitches last time out?

2230
01:51:27,960 --> 01:51:28,079
Speaker 3: Is it?

2231
01:51:28,199 --> 01:51:29,600
Speaker 2: Is it kind of like he's just one of the guys. Now,

2232
01:51:29,640 --> 01:51:31,520
where are you at with them? No?

2233
01:51:31,920 --> 01:51:33,640
Speaker 3: You know, I think he's always been one of the guys.

2234
01:51:34,239 --> 01:51:34,439
Speaker 1: You know.

2235
01:51:34,560 --> 01:51:36,640
Speaker 3: I always just talk to him, make sure that he

2236
01:51:37,000 --> 01:51:39,319
feels okay. I've watched his bullpens just to make sure

2237
01:51:39,359 --> 01:51:44,199
that he's that he's the process is in place that

2238
01:51:44,279 --> 01:51:47,239
he's not rushing to any of this or we're not

2239
01:51:47,359 --> 01:51:51,720
rushing them to any of this. So he's been he's

2240
01:51:51,800 --> 01:51:52,359
been really good.

2241
01:51:52,439 --> 01:51:54,680
Speaker 2: He's bouncing back very well. He's working the weight room.

2242
01:51:54,720 --> 01:51:55,079
He's great.

2243
01:51:55,159 --> 01:51:59,199
Speaker 3: He's bullpens in between starts. Uh, we have like no

2244
01:51:59,439 --> 01:52:03,640
issues now, is Uh, he'll be more efficient in the games,

2245
01:52:04,039 --> 01:52:06,520
throwing strips, putting guys away.

2246
01:52:06,880 --> 01:52:08,000
Speaker 2: Uh, so he could.

2247
01:52:08,119 --> 01:52:09,560
Speaker 3: So he could get us deep in the game and

2248
01:52:10,039 --> 01:52:13,000
I'm listen, the stuff is there. Uh, it's just more

2249
01:52:13,079 --> 01:52:15,960
execution and once he gets it going, I could see him,

2250
01:52:16,000 --> 01:52:17,880
you know, pitching deep in our games.

2251
01:52:18,079 --> 01:52:20,119
Speaker 2: It felt like to me, Skip, you were trying everything

2252
01:52:20,159 --> 01:52:21,399
in your power to keep him out there for that

2253
01:52:21,439 --> 01:52:23,600
fifth inning to get that victory, and that that had

2254
01:52:23,640 --> 01:52:25,239
to be a hard walk for you, knowing that he

2255
01:52:25,279 --> 01:52:26,319
couldn't get it because of that.

2256
01:52:27,399 --> 01:52:31,960
Speaker 3: So yeah, you know, really trying. But he also you know,

2257
01:52:32,079 --> 01:52:35,600
he understands. You know, we were trying to his health,

2258
01:52:35,760 --> 01:52:38,359
trying to keep him healthy and were trying to win games.

2259
01:52:39,319 --> 01:52:41,479
But yeah, I really wanted him to get that the

2260
01:52:41,600 --> 01:52:43,880
lass out there in the fifth inning. Uh put him

2261
01:52:43,880 --> 01:52:46,000
in a position to win the games. But he'll he'll win.

2262
01:52:46,079 --> 01:52:47,439
He'll win some games here coming.

2263
01:52:47,359 --> 01:52:50,239
Speaker 2: Up, Skip, great visitors, always, good luckainst the ace tonight.

2264
01:52:50,279 --> 01:52:52,119
We'll talk again next week. We appreciate it as always

2265
01:52:52,920 --> 01:52:55,319
a fellas, thank you got it. That is manager Joe

2266
01:52:55,399 --> 01:52:58,760
spotted with us here on Sports Talk SEVENINET. Twelve forty

2267
01:52:58,800 --> 01:53:01,359
three is our time. We are with you today until

2268
01:53:01,439 --> 01:53:04,560
two o'clock. Ross. What is today's edition believe it or not?

2269
01:53:04,640 --> 01:53:06,840
Coming up at one fifty, I don't know, all right,

2270
01:53:07,159 --> 01:53:09,680
nfl rewind what is your topic? At one twenty you

2271
01:53:09,680 --> 01:53:11,399
will find out. Oh, I know what it's gonna be.

2272
01:53:11,960 --> 01:53:14,680
Was it off the field stuff. Maybe I do. It's

2273
01:53:14,760 --> 01:53:19,920
kind of it. It's got some juice to it. It's cheesy, kitchy.

2274
01:53:21,119 --> 01:53:21,680
Speaker 3: For what it is.

2275
01:53:22,640 --> 01:53:25,880
Speaker 2: I don't think of the National Library of Congress. This

2276
01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:28,800
song is not being etched out the Forsoni Institute. Yeah,

2277
01:53:28,840 --> 01:53:31,880
that's fine, but it's fine. I'm gonna listen to this

2278
01:53:31,960 --> 01:53:34,159
on the way to uh to my appointments. I have

2279
01:53:34,199 --> 01:53:35,439
a for the show today. What are you gonna do

2280
01:53:35,479 --> 01:53:37,840
the other thirty seven minutes you're driving? It's gonna play

2281
01:53:37,840 --> 01:53:41,000
on endless luke. Oh, that's well, you're you're gonna crash

2282
01:53:41,039 --> 01:53:45,520
into somebody crash out as the kids call it. Yeah.

2283
01:53:45,600 --> 01:53:48,079
I don't know anything about him except that song. Apparently

2284
01:53:48,119 --> 01:53:53,399
he is quite uh with the McCoy's. Did hang on Sloopy? Really?

2285
01:53:53,479 --> 01:53:56,239
He sang that? Well, he played guitar on. I was

2286
01:53:56,279 --> 01:53:58,800
gonna say, I don't know, all right, so they go

2287
01:53:58,840 --> 01:54:01,159
a little rock and roll hoot another hit of his.

2288
01:54:02,239 --> 01:54:05,119
I thought he was a one hit wonder I stand corrected, Well,

2289
01:54:05,880 --> 01:54:08,920
was I'm a real American? The top forty eight? Well,

2290
01:54:08,960 --> 01:54:12,000
I mean, I think Hawk made it somewhat popular. I

2291
01:54:12,119 --> 01:54:14,359
mean it might have charted. I guess, I guess we

2292
01:54:14,439 --> 01:54:18,000
could find out unbelieve it or not? Are we doing

2293
01:54:18,079 --> 01:54:18,720
rig Dringer?

2294
01:54:18,840 --> 01:54:19,239
Speaker 3: Believe it?

2295
01:54:19,720 --> 01:54:21,760
Speaker 2: Let's make up five things. You can get it and

2296
01:54:21,880 --> 01:54:24,279
you can find four truthful things and four false things.

2297
01:54:24,279 --> 01:54:27,279
That's fine, rinked Derringer. Oh great, And uh, you know

2298
01:54:27,479 --> 01:54:29,800
Adam Klan's a huge brick Darringer fan. Maybe he could

2299
01:54:29,840 --> 01:54:31,720
help out. You never know his all right, Okay, but

2300
01:54:31,800 --> 01:54:33,359
he'd have to get here before the show started. So,

2301
01:54:33,560 --> 01:54:37,800
oh he dated jon Jet? Did he really? Or did

2302
01:54:37,840 --> 01:54:41,359
he just made that up? Okay?

2303
01:54:41,920 --> 01:54:42,039
Speaker 7: Uh?

2304
01:54:42,560 --> 01:54:44,960
Speaker 2: Dated jon Jet? For let's let's let's do an NodD

2305
01:54:45,039 --> 01:54:47,319
question right now. Okay, we'll take care of those twelve

2306
01:54:47,319 --> 01:54:51,119
fifty listeners of ours dated Joon Jet briefly in the

2307
01:54:51,239 --> 01:54:56,840
nineteen eighties, but said her concert constant tour scheduling interfered

2308
01:54:56,840 --> 01:54:59,359
them in that relationship. Now we'll see. I think that's

2309
01:54:59,399 --> 01:55:06,520
a great question. Thank you, Matt. Welcome terrible, I said,

2310
01:55:06,640 --> 01:55:08,800
we'll see. All I want to help you, and that's

2311
01:55:08,800 --> 01:55:12,079
what I get in return. You're just using the question

2312
01:55:12,239 --> 01:55:14,039
I just came up with, but I gave you I

2313
01:55:14,119 --> 01:55:17,920
excented it. Well, we'll put it under consideration. Thank you.

2314
01:55:17,960 --> 01:55:19,399
All right, A mission, what do you want to talk

2315
01:55:19,439 --> 01:55:23,399
about in the final hour of the show. The Astros okay, uh?

2316
01:55:23,680 --> 01:55:26,199
The NBA also the NBA real quick here, so the

2317
01:55:26,279 --> 01:55:29,880
layoffs playoffs? Who do you got tonight between the Pacers

2318
01:55:29,920 --> 01:55:33,239
and the Knicks? Pacers? Pacers go up three to one,

2319
01:55:33,319 --> 01:55:38,640
good feeling. I'm just saying that because they favored two

2320
01:55:38,640 --> 01:55:40,600
and a half. I'm throwing a question that for you.

2321
01:55:40,760 --> 01:55:45,359
But is the NBA ready like the Ivory Towers, like

2322
01:55:45,439 --> 01:55:48,760
the Park Avenue, NBA ready for Oklahoma City, India? Build

2323
01:55:48,760 --> 01:55:51,199
them up full on marketing blizz You got good players

2324
01:55:51,239 --> 01:55:54,359
Tyre's Halliburt and Shake Gill, just Alexander Jalen Williams is fun,

2325
01:55:54,840 --> 01:55:59,279
Chad Holmgren, people like Longhorn, Legend, Miles Turner, They're good

2326
01:55:59,319 --> 01:56:03,119
players in these Can I tell you about Chetoll Olgrin

2327
01:56:03,159 --> 01:56:06,279
for a minute? Yes, years ago. Now, I'm gonna this

2328
01:56:06,359 --> 01:56:08,640
is gonna make it a rocket centric part of the conversation.

2329
01:56:09,680 --> 01:56:12,399
Were you at the draft party when we was remember

2330
01:56:12,560 --> 01:56:14,600
at the depot, I was handing right next to you

2331
01:56:14,600 --> 01:56:17,680
when this happened. But go ahead, So Polo bang Caro

2332
01:56:17,800 --> 01:56:21,560
gets selected number one. Man. I wanted Polo, so did

2333
01:56:21,760 --> 01:56:26,000
the Rockets and then everybody did until Uh it was

2334
01:56:27,319 --> 01:56:29,640
a woj bomb that said that Orlando's taking him, and

2335
01:56:29,640 --> 01:56:32,359
I think what Orlando Woje said it was going to

2336
01:56:32,399 --> 01:56:35,039
be Smith. He found on an hour beforehand that everybody

2337
01:56:35,159 --> 01:56:37,640
changed my and I was told well after that that

2338
01:56:37,840 --> 01:56:40,960
everybody had pollow one, that there was some misinformation going

2339
01:56:41,000 --> 01:56:42,720
out there that interest that Paula was going to be

2340
01:56:42,840 --> 01:56:48,039
number one. So Oklahoma City was number two, and everybody

2341
01:56:48,079 --> 01:56:51,439
at the depot, that's where we were, right downtown, the post,

2342
01:56:51,520 --> 01:56:55,760
the post what the same difference. Uh, everybody said just

2343
01:56:56,000 --> 01:56:59,960
don't take chet. Don't take him. He's a three point guy.

2344
01:57:00,800 --> 01:57:05,199
He's very slim, bill Rail looking for ail, looking fragile,

2345
01:57:05,279 --> 01:57:07,960
and he has about to that advantage. He has gotten

2346
01:57:08,039 --> 01:57:10,119
hurt quite a bit in his career. He missed his

2347
01:57:10,560 --> 01:57:13,039
first full year. He only played thirty two games this year.

2348
01:57:13,920 --> 01:57:16,119
But he can knock down three, he can blockshots, basically

2349
01:57:16,159 --> 01:57:18,920
what he was advertised coming out of college. Mm hmm.

2350
01:57:19,720 --> 01:57:23,880
Everyone's like, please don't take him. So when Chad got

2351
01:57:23,960 --> 01:57:27,279
selected number two by Oklahoma City, remember if you were there,

2352
01:57:27,319 --> 01:57:30,640
you were there with me. The place went bonkers, like

2353
01:57:30,840 --> 01:57:34,800
cool clapping, like it was like the rockets had picked

2354
01:57:34,840 --> 01:57:37,079
their player, but it really wasn't their player. It was

2355
01:57:37,159 --> 01:57:42,000
Oklahoma City and it was like who dodged a bullet? Yes,

2356
01:57:42,520 --> 01:57:46,760
and then Jabari was packed was taken third, right, Yes,

2357
01:57:50,039 --> 01:57:50,920
I think about that.

2358
01:57:53,039 --> 01:57:53,159
Speaker 3: Now.

2359
01:57:53,199 --> 01:57:58,600
Speaker 2: I'm not saying the Rockets, if they were two, would

2360
01:57:58,640 --> 01:58:02,039
have not taken jabbar saying that. But what I am

2361
01:58:02,199 --> 01:58:04,680
saying is is that I think those of us that

2362
01:58:04,800 --> 01:58:09,680
did the Shusi relief. Chad is a good NBA player,

2363
01:58:11,560 --> 01:58:14,960
but attendance is what wise man once told me, is

2364
01:58:15,039 --> 01:58:18,159
part of the grade. And he has not been there

2365
01:58:18,239 --> 01:58:22,159
a whole lot. But when he plays, he knocks down threes,

2366
01:58:22,840 --> 01:58:26,600
he's hard to guard, and he walks ross into five

2367
01:58:26,640 --> 01:58:30,119
block shots the game. It feels like, so there is

2368
01:58:30,840 --> 01:58:33,319
There is tremendous value what I just describe for an

2369
01:58:33,359 --> 01:58:35,680
NBA player as long as he gets and it is

2370
01:58:35,760 --> 01:58:37,720
on the floor. Yeah, it didn't matter for the Thunder

2371
01:58:37,760 --> 01:58:39,279
that he only played thirty two games. The team is

2372
01:58:39,319 --> 01:58:41,399
so well built they still won what sixty eight games

2373
01:58:41,439 --> 01:58:43,399
and it is the best point of evinchal in history.

2374
01:58:43,479 --> 01:58:47,680
Pretty crazy. But he has had two major injuries. He

2375
01:58:47,760 --> 01:58:50,319
missed fifty games this year. He missed his entire first season.

2376
01:58:51,239 --> 01:58:53,680
I don't know if I'd spend super big money on him,

2377
01:58:53,720 --> 01:58:59,520
he's gonna get it, but he is still frail. So

2378
01:59:00,039 --> 01:59:02,119
uestion I have is, do you ever in a world

2379
01:59:02,239 --> 01:59:04,319
of yours, when you're sleeping at night and can't sleep,

2380
01:59:04,399 --> 01:59:06,000
do you ever think about, besides the girls that you

2381
01:59:06,039 --> 01:59:07,840
wouldn't want to Ascott in high school? Do you every

2382
01:59:07,840 --> 01:59:10,279
think about what ched Holmgren could have been. If the

2383
01:59:10,439 --> 01:59:12,039
Rockets would have gotten him at three and that the

2384
01:59:12,119 --> 01:59:16,359
Thunder would have taken Jabari at two, it'd be a

2385
01:59:16,399 --> 01:59:20,000
pretty good pairing with Alpi. He can stretch the floor

2386
01:59:20,479 --> 01:59:23,119
to the basket. He would have stretched the defensive. Yeah,

2387
01:59:23,159 --> 01:59:24,920
I mean weeks had helped defense, getting a bunch of

2388
01:59:24,960 --> 01:59:29,760
block shots. So as I think about that, I think

2389
01:59:29,800 --> 01:59:33,319
to myself it would not have been nearly as bad

2390
01:59:34,760 --> 01:59:38,720
as I thought it was going to be on Draft night. Now,

2391
01:59:38,760 --> 01:59:41,399
I'll tell you this, if the Rockets would have taken

2392
01:59:41,479 --> 01:59:43,920
him third in Oklahoma City, would have taken Jabbari two,

2393
01:59:44,680 --> 01:59:48,319
and then he gets at Liz Frank injury, we'd have

2394
01:59:48,359 --> 01:59:50,279
been just sworn up and down. We knew this was

2395
01:59:50,319 --> 01:59:52,760
going to happen. This is a foregone conclusion that a

2396
01:59:53,119 --> 01:59:56,159
slim frail, Chad Holmgren was going to get hurt. Well,

2397
01:59:56,199 --> 02:00:00,479
he's had one healthy season out of three. That's tough.

2398
02:00:00,800 --> 02:00:03,479
That is one hundred percent tough AND's and it's indefensible.

2399
02:00:03,479 --> 02:00:05,000
I mean not that we don't feel bad for him

2400
02:00:05,000 --> 02:00:08,399
out that it's anybody's fault. But again, if you don't play,

2401
02:00:09,560 --> 02:00:12,640
you can't get value. But he was good last night,

2402
02:00:12,720 --> 02:00:14,439
and he looked win and he looked tired, but there

2403
02:00:14,520 --> 02:00:16,600
was a block shot late in the contest. You know

2404
02:00:16,640 --> 02:00:18,279
what he also does too, And I hate to say this,

2405
02:00:18,319 --> 02:00:20,960
I don't want to brag anybody that's not a Houston Rocket,

2406
02:00:21,199 --> 02:00:23,000
but he also does a really good job ross of

2407
02:00:23,199 --> 02:00:28,119
being a smart shot blocker. He times it perfectly. He

2408
02:00:28,279 --> 02:00:32,479
doesn't use the backboard to gain a goaltend. He he's

2409
02:00:32,520 --> 02:00:38,079
a smart player. So I just sometimes I think about

2410
02:00:38,479 --> 02:00:40,640
what would the rockets have been? Think about it, man,

2411
02:00:40,760 --> 02:00:42,720
you're wasting your time, Okay, I won't. I mean, I

2412
02:00:42,880 --> 02:00:45,279
like Jabari a lot. I mean it went in order,

2413
02:00:45,399 --> 02:00:47,720
that was the way it was going to go, one, two, three,

2414
02:00:49,079 --> 02:00:50,920
But it was funny the day before it was Jabari

2415
02:00:50,920 --> 02:00:54,159
spills gonna be the number one pick. That's strange unless again,

2416
02:00:54,239 --> 02:00:57,319
you were inside the rooms of these NBA teams. Everybody

2417
02:00:57,399 --> 02:00:59,760
had said, let's be honest. The number one pick is

2418
02:01:00,000 --> 02:01:02,199
Paulo Banko, and paul has been really good, but he

2419
02:01:02,279 --> 02:01:06,159
needs help in the playoffs. Fifteen games, he's averaging sixteen points,

2420
02:01:06,239 --> 02:01:09,279
eight point seven rebounds, a couple of blocks. It's good,

2421
02:01:09,640 --> 02:01:14,680
it's really good. But he's he's also got tremendous people

2422
02:01:14,720 --> 02:01:18,319
around him. Yeah, he's he's a cog in a big wheel.

2423
02:01:18,399 --> 02:01:22,520
Got the MVP. Yes, that's fair. They should have finished second.

2424
02:01:23,800 --> 02:01:25,720
I don't think people heard you. He should have finished

2425
02:01:25,720 --> 02:01:28,600
the second. There you go. That's okay, MVP caliber player.

2426
02:01:28,640 --> 02:01:31,159
All right, Final hour the Matt Thomas Show, NFL rewind

2427
02:01:31,199 --> 02:01:33,000
coming up here twenty minutes, but believe it on in fifty.

2428
02:01:33,039 --> 02:01:34,199
We want you to be a part of the break

2429
02:01:34,279 --> 02:01:37,039
program as well. Seven one three, two one two five

2430
02:01:37,119 --> 02:01:39,800
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven

2431
02:01:39,880 --> 02:01:50,359
ninety What oh three? Sports Talk seven ninety It is

2432
02:01:50,520 --> 02:01:52,920
the hour number three, Make an hour number four. We

2433
02:01:53,000 --> 02:01:54,520
got three hours in the books. Ross, you got fifty

2434
02:01:54,520 --> 02:01:56,159
eight minutes left to go. Let's make it the power hour.

2435
02:01:56,199 --> 02:01:58,680
You want to let's go. I mean, I don't know

2436
02:01:58,760 --> 02:02:00,319
I'm just gonna shot a beer every minut. That's what

2437
02:02:00,399 --> 02:02:03,119
a power hour is. And Mike let me ask, y'all,

2438
02:02:03,159 --> 02:02:05,039
would y'all mind if we took a shot at one o'clock.

2439
02:02:06,720 --> 02:02:09,079
One o'clock shot. Yeah, we don't want to do a

2440
02:02:09,119 --> 02:02:11,520
shot up. You're gonna order a sex on the beach

2441
02:02:13,119 --> 02:02:18,279
or a lemon drop. He got you pegged. After the

2442
02:02:18,399 --> 02:02:22,159
eighteen inning game, folks, the Seattle Mayors, the Ashros battle

2443
02:02:22,199 --> 02:02:25,039
well for eighteen innings. Me and are one of our

2444
02:02:25,079 --> 02:02:27,199
mini producers at the time. No offounce in Matt. We're

2445
02:02:27,199 --> 02:02:28,760
all like, all right, let's do a shot. We got

2446
02:02:28,880 --> 02:02:31,000
to celebrate that win. We really do this because we

2447
02:02:31,119 --> 02:02:33,800
drove all the way to we listened to the game.

2448
02:02:34,039 --> 02:02:36,239
Oh yeah, we drove all the way to Lake Charles.

2449
02:02:36,359 --> 02:02:37,880
Then we watched the game for like an hour and

2450
02:02:37,920 --> 02:02:42,439
a half in the book at a certain place. Yeah,

2451
02:02:42,520 --> 02:02:44,159
and then we're afterwards, we're like, all right, let's take

2452
02:02:44,199 --> 02:02:46,439
a shot. And me and the guy Noah, we're like,

2453
02:02:46,479 --> 02:02:48,159
all right, we're doing tequila. Matt, what are you doing?

2454
02:02:48,239 --> 02:02:52,960
He goes sex on the beach Like that's not even

2455
02:02:53,000 --> 02:02:57,760
a shot. Lemon drops are delicious. I did two yellow

2456
02:02:57,880 --> 02:02:59,920
I did the two lemon drop shots after the Cougar

2457
02:03:00,159 --> 02:03:03,720
beat Duke in the Final four semifinal. I did zero

2458
02:03:03,840 --> 02:03:05,720
shots after we lost to Florida. Why not you got

2459
02:03:05,800 --> 02:03:08,239
to drown You're sorr are either celebrating or you're drowning sorrows.

2460
02:03:08,279 --> 02:03:10,680
You know, I you know I drowned myself in chicken

2461
02:03:10,720 --> 02:03:14,800
fried steak with lots of cream gravy at Rennies. Okay, God,

2462
02:03:14,880 --> 02:03:17,960
it sucked. You gotta side pancakes sick? If I say Rainnees,

2463
02:03:18,039 --> 02:03:18,439
is that good?

2464
02:03:18,920 --> 02:03:19,319
Speaker 6: Not bad?

2465
02:03:20,359 --> 02:03:24,439
Speaker 2: Okay, dinner at Rainnees is not horrible. I mean it's

2466
02:03:24,479 --> 02:03:26,680
not not like a top destination, but it'll do in

2467
02:03:26,720 --> 02:03:28,760
a pinch. I mean it was eleven o'clock at night.

2468
02:03:29,000 --> 02:03:34,279
The options weren't a plentiful. Yeah, San Antonio, Texas, anytime

2469
02:03:34,359 --> 02:03:35,079
like to eat that do well?

2470
02:03:35,119 --> 02:03:35,239
Speaker 3: Man?

2471
02:03:35,239 --> 02:03:36,680
Speaker 2: Ask you this, how many places can you go to

2472
02:03:36,720 --> 02:03:38,720
get a great meal at eleven o'clock at night in Houston?

2473
02:03:39,359 --> 02:03:41,640
Very limited? If you're in the city, you got options.

2474
02:03:43,039 --> 02:03:45,239
You're six miles from the sit downtown, you don't have

2475
02:03:45,319 --> 02:03:48,199
very many options. I have a bunch of options around me.

2476
02:03:48,199 --> 02:03:50,479
There's a bunch of who all trucks, there's uh, there's

2477
02:03:50,520 --> 02:03:54,039
an all twenty four hour rubway. Now I'm talking about

2478
02:03:54,079 --> 02:03:56,319
like a sit down meal. Okay, you gotta go down.

2479
02:03:56,359 --> 02:03:59,079
It used to be mouse of mice now now they

2480
02:03:59,119 --> 02:04:00,960
closed Earlier you got to go to Rainnies or Bye

2481
02:04:00,960 --> 02:04:08,199
Bop or there's a Matt's Melli name ever Mulls. I

2482
02:04:08,279 --> 02:04:12,560
got options, I don't. I gotta, I gotta Runner Berger Drive.

2483
02:04:12,680 --> 02:04:14,720
There are various Mexican joints that you can go to

2484
02:04:14,840 --> 02:04:18,159
as well. Yeah, I've been there. I've been to some

2485
02:04:18,279 --> 02:04:20,039
late night in Mexican. Yeah, if you don't speak Spanish,

2486
02:04:20,079 --> 02:04:22,880
you're gonna have a little basically need a little kitchen Spanish.

2487
02:04:23,119 --> 02:04:24,840
You go to Banish lours and you can get you

2488
02:04:24,880 --> 02:04:26,640
twenty four hours of yess. You can see, and it's

2489
02:04:26,640 --> 02:04:28,439
also the samest place to eat too. There's always cops

2490
02:04:28,479 --> 02:04:30,640
in there. That's good. Makes it really good. All right?

2491
02:04:30,720 --> 02:04:35,159
Moving on, so the so, uh, yeah, shot, well how

2492
02:04:35,199 --> 02:04:37,199
do we get shots? And astros? In the same conversation,

2493
02:04:37,319 --> 02:04:39,119
I don't know, you said were you said it was

2494
02:04:39,119 --> 02:04:40,840
a power hour, I said, Okay, we're gonna take some shots,

2495
02:04:40,840 --> 02:04:42,159
all right, So we're gonna start doing shots that won

2496
02:04:42,520 --> 02:04:46,000
do a full power hour in college. Describe it's a

2497
02:04:46,000 --> 02:04:48,399
shot of beer every one minute, and you can put

2498
02:04:48,439 --> 02:04:50,520
on a playlist or whatever and the song changes everybody.

2499
02:04:50,560 --> 02:04:52,279
You can do eighties power hour, you do nineties power

2500
02:04:52,439 --> 02:04:54,800
you can do whatever power hour. You can do your

2501
02:04:54,800 --> 02:04:58,239
own power hour. If you're buy yourself or other people.

2502
02:04:59,439 --> 02:05:05,119
If you're buy your yourself, that's full blown alcoholism. No, okay,

2503
02:05:06,000 --> 02:05:07,960
we did in college a few times. Now. I never

2504
02:05:08,039 --> 02:05:10,119
did the Century Club. That was one hundred minutes. That's

2505
02:05:10,159 --> 02:05:15,520
for the real heart raging alcoholics. The most. I'm not

2506
02:05:15,680 --> 02:05:17,800
a oh my god, I've got to go have a

2507
02:05:17,920 --> 02:05:20,600
drink kind of person, like I only did it once

2508
02:05:20,640 --> 02:05:22,920
in my life. I'm not like that anymore. But about

2509
02:05:22,920 --> 02:05:25,479
twenty one, I was so in my twenties. Me and

2510
02:05:25,560 --> 02:05:28,399
a buddy of mine went to go see Showgirls and

2511
02:05:28,600 --> 02:05:33,479
it was such a bad movie. It was the first

2512
02:05:33,680 --> 02:05:37,880
NC seventeen movie I'd ever seen. It was so incredibly bad.

2513
02:05:38,000 --> 02:05:41,000
How bad was it that we went to Bama's mafe

2514
02:05:41,119 --> 02:05:43,079
when he was open over there in West Timer, Okay,

2515
02:05:43,279 --> 02:05:45,960
and we shot gunned about two beers in twelve seconds.

2516
02:05:46,279 --> 02:05:48,600
That's good. I was like, I have to get the

2517
02:05:48,680 --> 02:05:51,279
stench of that movie off of my brain, and that's

2518
02:05:51,319 --> 02:05:52,560
the easiest way to do that was to have a

2519
02:05:52,600 --> 02:05:54,560
couple of cold beers in a very short period of time.

2520
02:05:56,560 --> 02:05:59,239
That's my story. Thank you. Matt astro is starting a

2521
02:05:59,399 --> 02:06:03,560
two games series with the uh sack of Tomato ocremento

2522
02:06:03,640 --> 02:06:07,479
Ocramento as tonight. I think it works, okram it, yeah,

2523
02:06:08,520 --> 02:06:12,319
ocremento ocrementto A's although although probably Oakland's, like, you don't

2524
02:06:12,319 --> 02:06:13,960
get part of the name there, you left it just

2525
02:06:14,000 --> 02:06:16,840
to be the Sacramento A's. Or is they're calling themselves

2526
02:06:16,960 --> 02:06:19,039
just the plan on all of them at Sacramento A's

2527
02:06:19,279 --> 02:06:22,520
today on the Astros on Deck show coming up at

2528
02:06:22,560 --> 02:06:25,600
six o'clock. All right, if you did not hear Joe

2529
02:06:25,640 --> 02:06:27,520
a spot on thirty seven minutes ago, there's probably a

2530
02:06:27,600 --> 02:06:29,600
one hundred percent chance you're going to hear it at

2531
02:06:29,840 --> 02:06:33,239
six o'clock. Now, it depends. Here's the problem. The eight

2532
02:06:33,279 --> 02:06:35,720
team steals our interviews all the time and plays them.

2533
02:06:35,800 --> 02:06:38,520
So if they don't, you know, so what you play

2534
02:06:38,560 --> 02:06:40,920
it three times, always turning over what's the problem? All right,

2535
02:06:41,239 --> 02:06:43,479
got a lot of hours of fill It's true six

2536
02:06:43,640 --> 02:06:46,199
with entertainment. Oh what do you want to do? You

2537
02:06:46,239 --> 02:06:47,840
want to hear you read them game notes. You want

2538
02:06:47,840 --> 02:06:49,159
to hear from the skipper. I want to hear from

2539
02:06:49,159 --> 02:06:53,840
the skipper exactly. My questions were fantastic, A little long winded. No,

2540
02:06:54,000 --> 02:06:56,640
they tighten those up. I think I think the skipper

2541
02:06:56,720 --> 02:07:01,159
turned said something said less than satisfactory your question earlier

2542
02:07:01,199 --> 02:07:05,680
today six fifteen. We'll have that interview today with the manager,

2543
02:07:06,199 --> 02:07:09,000
Joe spot right ish six to fifteen ish, because you

2544
02:07:09,159 --> 02:07:12,199
got to really play news breaks, we'll come be the

2545
02:07:12,239 --> 02:07:14,079
news break. I've been on a bad run of having

2546
02:07:14,119 --> 02:07:17,119
to start off with injury reports. Yeah, I've done it

2547
02:07:17,159 --> 02:07:19,960
before too, Like guys, injury report for a thing out

2548
02:07:20,000 --> 02:07:23,279
of the gate of the trades. Yeah, well, I don't

2549
02:07:23,279 --> 02:07:25,800
think that's happened. Or releasing of players. When jose air

2550
02:07:25,840 --> 02:07:27,279
Bray you got released, that was a big, That was

2551
02:07:27,319 --> 02:07:30,920
a big, That was a topper. Mendon Modgers, Why are

2552
02:07:30,920 --> 02:07:32,760
you think of the Mendon Modgers in trouble? I don't.

2553
02:07:33,119 --> 02:07:36,840
He's played like twice in the last ten days. All right,

2554
02:07:36,880 --> 02:07:39,239
So the A's and the Astro six o'clock on Deck

2555
02:07:39,279 --> 02:07:41,479
show and that'll be right here on a Sports Talk seven.

2556
02:07:41,479 --> 02:07:43,000
I mean, they have a daggaing tomorrow which we're only

2557
02:07:43,079 --> 02:07:45,359
on for two hours tomorrow before we get into on

2558
02:07:45,479 --> 02:07:48,640
deck coverage. Yes, before I get into on deck coverage,

2559
02:07:48,720 --> 02:07:52,760
that's right. And then we have what was gonna tell you?

2560
02:07:52,800 --> 02:07:55,279
We have what are you Brian Ogusvic tomorrow at eleven o'clock,

2561
02:07:55,560 --> 02:07:57,079
and then we got to shut your ball mass upending

2562
02:07:57,079 --> 02:07:59,560
and by the time for that eleven so huge. What

2563
02:07:59,680 --> 02:08:01,880
a show. It's gonna be a great one. I think

2564
02:08:01,960 --> 02:08:05,119
so too. All right? Uh, okay, we got game number

2565
02:08:05,199 --> 02:08:07,359
four of the NBA Playoffs to night between the Pacers

2566
02:08:07,479 --> 02:08:10,319
and the nixt I wish you know, when David Barron

2567
02:08:10,560 --> 02:08:14,079
used to cover TV radio for The Chronicle, he would

2568
02:08:14,079 --> 02:08:17,520
give us rating reports about how things do. I guess

2569
02:08:17,560 --> 02:08:18,880
we could find them, it would just have to take

2570
02:08:18,920 --> 02:08:22,439
somebody in the industry to do it. I'm going to

2571
02:08:22,479 --> 02:08:25,760
assume there isn't a large following for definitely not the

2572
02:08:25,800 --> 02:08:28,239
Eastern Conference. Maybe there's a smidge more for the West,

2573
02:08:28,359 --> 02:08:31,359
but I don't know. Clymba city in Minnesota, don't really

2574
02:08:31,399 --> 02:08:33,720
resonate here in town either. We're not a great city

2575
02:08:33,760 --> 02:08:39,520
when it comes to other cities teams competing. So I

2576
02:08:39,840 --> 02:08:42,319
don't think we've taken a single playoff call yet I

2577
02:08:42,359 --> 02:08:45,239
don't know. We've taken a couple really have I think

2578
02:08:45,279 --> 02:08:47,359
Biscuit called about the playoffs? Yeah, I have Biscuit calls

2579
02:08:47,359 --> 02:08:50,439
about everything, but he he that counts. That is true,

2580
02:08:50,960 --> 02:08:54,199
that it's true. We just need to I'm gonna tell

2581
02:08:54,199 --> 02:08:56,479
you selfishly, we need the Astros to be competitive for

2582
02:08:56,520 --> 02:08:59,119
the next two months because nice, I don't want to

2583
02:08:59,159 --> 02:09:01,399
get into a deep dive of texans Ota a game

2584
02:09:01,479 --> 02:09:04,239
and a half out of first let's go and tied

2585
02:09:04,319 --> 02:09:06,840
for the final wald card spot of the American League. Wonderful.

2586
02:09:07,199 --> 02:09:11,079
American League sucks. American Leagues does suck, but that means

2587
02:09:11,119 --> 02:09:14,000
if it does suck, that means again, are you really

2588
02:09:14,119 --> 02:09:15,239
scared of Detroit.

2589
02:09:16,760 --> 02:09:16,880
Speaker 7: Now?

2590
02:09:17,000 --> 02:09:18,960
Speaker 2: Somebody has to be on top of things. And obvious,

2591
02:09:19,000 --> 02:09:22,119
Oklahoma City has been top of the NBA, But are we?

2592
02:09:23,520 --> 02:09:26,720
I mean, you can't throw tark schooble every night. Well,

2593
02:09:27,119 --> 02:09:29,359
who knocked the Extras out of the playoffs the last year?

2594
02:09:30,119 --> 02:09:32,920
And that was two games? Small sample size, best seven,

2595
02:09:32,960 --> 02:09:34,880
the Astros would have won. Oh, okay, best of seven,

2596
02:09:34,880 --> 02:09:36,520
you're down two? Oh they would have won. I don't

2597
02:09:36,560 --> 02:09:40,239
know that must win games. Really, it takes four takes

2598
02:09:40,239 --> 02:09:43,560
four losses make it four, I must win, so that's

2599
02:09:43,560 --> 02:09:47,279
three losses. But yeah, it is uh, of all the

2600
02:09:47,359 --> 02:09:51,520
years for the Astros to essentially play Mid American League,

2601
02:09:51,600 --> 02:09:55,000
it's really there. I mean, the Yankees are underperforming, the

2602
02:09:55,159 --> 02:09:57,239
Orioles have dropped off the face of the earth, and

2603
02:09:57,279 --> 02:09:59,239
that was the team that I think I haven't predicted

2604
02:09:59,239 --> 02:10:01,359
to go the World Series. If you could get into

2605
02:10:01,399 --> 02:10:06,000
the playoffs with Brown, Valdez, Arragetty and a viable mccullors

2606
02:10:06,119 --> 02:10:08,359
whatever your fourth game, viable mccollor whoever that becomes, you know,

2607
02:10:08,520 --> 02:10:13,039
that's a decent rotation. You get your unhealthy Christian Walker's

2608
02:10:13,039 --> 02:10:17,800
he keeps turning around, Jeremy Penney keeps it up. You

2609
02:10:17,840 --> 02:10:21,319
could compete. You wouldn't be favorites over the Yankees of

2610
02:10:21,359 --> 02:10:24,640
the other Tigers. But I ain't scared. Let me ask

2611
02:10:24,680 --> 02:10:26,680
you this, and it would take a little bit of research.

2612
02:10:26,800 --> 02:10:29,960
Are playoff games in the playoffs higher scoring and lower

2613
02:10:30,000 --> 02:10:33,159
scoring than you would say during the regular seas historically

2614
02:10:33,239 --> 02:10:35,399
lower scoring? Because I mean the pitch is better, so

2615
02:10:35,520 --> 02:10:39,000
then so then the Astors would have a better chance.

2616
02:10:39,039 --> 02:10:42,239
Because again, I you talked about this last week. It's

2617
02:10:42,279 --> 02:10:44,439
not an indictment against him. It's just the truth. They're

2618
02:10:44,600 --> 02:10:46,800
just never gonna They're never gonna slug in the top

2619
02:10:46,880 --> 02:10:48,479
ten this year. They're never gonna be in top ten

2620
02:10:48,520 --> 02:10:50,800
at home runs, they're probably not gonna be in top

2621
02:10:50,880 --> 02:10:54,800
ten and ops. But teams have won with outstanding pitching

2622
02:10:54,880 --> 02:10:57,439
and good defense. Is just enough hitting. Not every not

2623
02:10:57,600 --> 02:11:00,560
every team that leads a league in OPS wins World Series.

2624
02:11:00,600 --> 02:11:04,079
That was the case, you'd be the Yankees every year. Yes.

2625
02:11:05,279 --> 02:11:08,199
And another thing that we didn't even mention, this bullpen

2626
02:11:08,319 --> 02:11:10,560
is nails. You get into the playoffs and it's a

2627
02:11:10,600 --> 02:11:12,600
lot of close games, and you get a league going

2628
02:11:12,640 --> 02:11:15,319
into the sixth, you're gonna feel pretty good about your chance.

2629
02:11:15,359 --> 02:11:18,239
And it feels like Joe Spotta has hit the right

2630
02:11:18,359 --> 02:11:22,119
buttons just about every time. The only guy that really

2631
02:11:22,199 --> 02:11:24,640
this year was having a horrendous day in the bullpen

2632
02:11:24,800 --> 02:11:27,960
or season was Taylor Scott, and he's gone, Yeah, I

2633
02:11:28,039 --> 02:11:33,520
was fire. Joe spotted guy doing these days after they

2634
02:11:33,640 --> 02:11:35,840
just I mean, they just won a weekend series against

2635
02:11:35,840 --> 02:11:39,119
the Mariners with funny, fire hitting coach. Guys also gone too.

2636
02:11:40,640 --> 02:11:43,760
Still there. Do you think his tweets are locked in

2637
02:11:43,800 --> 02:11:47,000
the draft category? I would say great job by the

2638
02:11:47,079 --> 02:11:49,399
hitting coaches, getting Christian Walker to go three for five

2639
02:11:49,520 --> 02:11:51,920
with a walk off homer. Or how about Cam Smith's

2640
02:11:51,920 --> 02:11:55,279
production the last weekend, Josell Twobay's gotten better than the

2641
02:11:55,319 --> 02:11:57,960
last week and half. Obviously Smith, it's been a heading coaches,

2642
02:11:58,039 --> 02:12:01,319
Jeremy Paineya, Jake Myers, let's go hitting coaches. Great job.

2643
02:12:01,359 --> 02:12:04,119
Anybody want to tip the cap? No, they wanted they have,

2644
02:12:04,279 --> 02:12:07,720
they have the fire. Whoever the coaches they want to

2645
02:12:07,760 --> 02:12:10,399
fire Bob Cluck because he's the hitting coach and that

2646
02:12:10,439 --> 02:12:13,039
was pitchy coach in the eighties. Sorry, okay, their names mixed.

2647
02:12:13,079 --> 02:12:15,359
I'm not familiar with Bob Kluck. It's a good name,

2648
02:12:15,399 --> 02:12:17,439
though it is. It is good. Do you think he

2649
02:12:17,520 --> 02:12:24,159
was called the clucker when he was younger? Wh what

2650
02:12:24,279 --> 02:12:33,239
did they call his mom? Missus Clucker? Let me tell

2651
02:12:33,239 --> 02:12:36,119
you something, I will never bring up break up Bob

2652
02:12:36,199 --> 02:12:40,600
Cluck's name ever again. They're in a radio show host

2653
02:12:40,640 --> 02:12:42,600
in his town and brought has brought up Bob Cluck's

2654
02:12:42,680 --> 02:12:46,000
name in probably thirty years, and it's probably more successful

2655
02:12:46,439 --> 02:12:49,319
and they're they're significantly feeling better about themselves than I

2656
02:12:49,399 --> 02:12:54,600
am right now. Thank you man. What a random pull

2657
02:12:54,680 --> 02:12:58,399
by me. I'm proud of you. Show you that budding

2658
02:12:58,479 --> 02:13:01,760
in me. I brought up Bob Clucks name. I guess

2659
02:13:01,800 --> 02:13:03,399
he was doing a good job in those days. Pitching

2660
02:13:03,520 --> 02:13:06,239
was good. You give hand to everybody an emery board

2661
02:13:06,239 --> 02:13:10,920
and say good to work. That's terrible but true. One

2662
02:13:11,039 --> 02:13:15,319
fourteen on Sports Talk seven. Ninety one thirty six on

2663
02:13:15,479 --> 02:13:17,159
Sports Talk seven, I we have Believe it or Not

2664
02:13:17,279 --> 02:13:20,239
coming up at about fifteen minutes from now tomorrow, we've

2665
02:13:20,239 --> 02:13:22,479
got a shorter show. We're on ten to noon before

2666
02:13:22,520 --> 02:13:24,520
Astros on Deck gets you at twelve for a one

2667
02:13:24,640 --> 02:13:26,800
tenth first pitch with the A's and then Tampa Bay

2668
02:13:26,840 --> 02:13:29,119
will be in for a four game series Thursday, Friday,

2669
02:13:29,199 --> 02:13:34,600
Saturday and Sunday. This is just a general TV question,

2670
02:13:35,279 --> 02:13:37,720
and we've always talked about what the value is and

2671
02:13:37,800 --> 02:13:42,039
having good broadcasters. I do because I was really bored

2672
02:13:42,119 --> 02:13:44,439
last night, even though I cleaned out the two bat

2673
02:13:44,640 --> 02:13:47,880
the two refrigerators, and the poetry. Look at you and

2674
02:13:48,000 --> 02:13:50,039
you're knocking off that list on a holiday weekend. I

2675
02:13:50,399 --> 02:13:52,359
try to do something productive. So you put up the work.

2676
02:13:53,159 --> 02:13:55,039
We did it together. Thanks for asking.

2677
02:13:59,720 --> 02:14:00,319
Speaker 3: So for you.

2678
02:14:00,439 --> 02:14:05,399
Speaker 2: TAB was in play go ahead, heavy, heavy, criticism for

2679
02:14:05,760 --> 02:14:08,520
Doris Burke and Richard Jefferson on the ABC on the

2680
02:14:08,760 --> 02:14:12,800
ESPN broadcast, really saying they've got no chemistry. There are

2681
02:14:12,840 --> 02:14:15,760
three people just talking, having three different conversations where they

2682
02:14:15,800 --> 02:14:18,920
felt like with Mark Jackson, Jeff Van Gundy and Mike Breen,

2683
02:14:18,960 --> 02:14:22,239
they were having conversations. Yeah, they would argue with each other.

2684
02:14:22,279 --> 02:14:31,000
It was entire chemistry. It was good. I like Doris Burke.

2685
02:14:31,840 --> 02:14:34,159
I know she runs mixed with a lot of people.

2686
02:14:34,760 --> 02:14:36,640
Do you think that I'm not trying to be sexist here,

2687
02:14:36,640 --> 02:14:38,720
but do you think her being a woman helps her

2688
02:14:38,800 --> 02:14:40,920
keep that job a little longer? That it would come

2689
02:14:40,960 --> 02:14:43,880
across as a negative if she was to get bumped

2690
02:14:43,880 --> 02:14:46,520
from the number one crew? Maybe? But I think she

2691
02:14:46,600 --> 02:14:49,119
does a good job. See, I think I think she

2692
02:14:49,159 --> 02:14:52,439
gets better analysis than Richard Jefferson. Yeah, I there's nothing

2693
02:14:52,439 --> 02:14:54,600
I've said. I've listened to Richard Jefferson going, oh, I

2694
02:14:54,640 --> 02:14:56,520
didn't think about that. Yeah. I think I think people

2695
02:14:56,600 --> 02:15:00,159
get uh yeah. If you think that she's staying there

2696
02:15:00,199 --> 02:15:01,960
because she's a woman, perhaps, I don't know, but I

2697
02:15:02,000 --> 02:15:03,640
think she does a good job. I think players stay

2698
02:15:03,680 --> 02:15:05,439
in the job because they're just former players, even though

2699
02:15:05,439 --> 02:15:09,159
they don't give good analysis. Yeah, yeah, Kendrick person Perkins

2700
02:15:09,279 --> 02:15:11,840
case in point. I think Reggie Miller's got a lot better,

2701
02:15:11,920 --> 02:15:13,640
but I think he's more of a name than he

2702
02:15:13,720 --> 02:15:16,840
is good analysis. NBC loves him. He'll be the number

2703
02:15:16,840 --> 02:15:20,600
one broadcaster next year for them. Okay, by the way,

2704
02:15:20,640 --> 02:15:23,399
if you love the NBA and I'm gonna I'm dealing

2705
02:15:23,439 --> 02:15:25,279
in an area that may not be abundant among the

2706
02:15:25,319 --> 02:15:27,960
audience right now, but you're gonna see a lot this

2707
02:15:28,199 --> 02:15:30,359
NBA TV package I was looking at over the weekend

2708
02:15:30,399 --> 02:15:32,640
because I was just kind of curious how there's gonna

2709
02:15:32,640 --> 02:15:36,960
be so much NBA for you to digest that you're

2710
02:15:37,000 --> 02:15:40,800
gonna basically get NBA four to five nights a week

2711
02:15:40,840 --> 02:15:44,239
even during the regular season. ESPN is gonna have Wednesdays,

2712
02:15:45,560 --> 02:15:48,079
Amazon Prime is gonna have Friday's not and this is streaming.

2713
02:15:48,159 --> 02:15:50,720
So if you don't have these services, you're not getting him. Uh,

2714
02:15:50,920 --> 02:15:53,840
And then you're gonna see a Sunday night game on NBC.

2715
02:15:54,159 --> 02:15:57,359
Wants the NBA, and once the NFL season stops on

2716
02:15:57,520 --> 02:16:00,239
and on NBC, and they're also gonna do a Twonesday

2717
02:16:00,279 --> 02:16:03,199
night game on NBC. They're gonna have double. They're gonna

2718
02:16:03,199 --> 02:16:06,239
have two games on one night for the West Coast

2719
02:16:06,279 --> 02:16:08,680
audience to have a game in prime time and the

2720
02:16:08,920 --> 02:16:11,319
rest of the time zones and T and T has

2721
02:16:11,399 --> 02:16:14,319
lost everything. T and T has lost everything. ESPN's reducing

2722
02:16:14,319 --> 02:16:16,399
the number of games from two games a week to one,

2723
02:16:16,720 --> 02:16:20,039
but they'll have a few games on Fridays, so they

2724
02:16:20,399 --> 02:16:24,119
do Wednesday Friday and then the occasional Saturday night primetime.

2725
02:16:24,319 --> 02:16:26,800
They'll still have that Marquee matchup, but they're dropping the

2726
02:16:27,279 --> 02:16:31,479
Tuesday Friday just to Wednesdays. So if you do love

2727
02:16:31,560 --> 02:16:33,159
the NBA, and I hope many of you do, and

2728
02:16:33,680 --> 02:16:36,000
the rook the Rockets are going to be seen on

2729
02:16:36,120 --> 02:16:38,479
national television a lot more next year because they're gonna

2730
02:16:38,479 --> 02:16:40,879
they're a playoff team and they're and people are intrigued

2731
02:16:40,879 --> 02:16:43,719
to buy them. And obviously if Kevin Durant comes here

2732
02:16:44,040 --> 02:16:46,840
or uh Jannison than the Goompo or for that matter,

2733
02:16:46,920 --> 02:16:50,920
any impactful player, the networks will scoop them up. What

2734
02:16:51,040 --> 02:16:54,719
did you say about Thursdays? Nothing on Thursdays? Wow? So

2735
02:16:54,760 --> 02:16:56,879
it's just an empty hole there. That was the night

2736
02:16:56,959 --> 02:17:02,399
for you knew there was gonna be Big four. And

2737
02:17:02,520 --> 02:17:06,639
I still believe, and Kevin Harlan's gonna work games on Prime.

2738
02:17:06,719 --> 02:17:08,520
It sounds like he's not signed his deal yet. I

2739
02:17:08,600 --> 02:17:11,840
know Iron Eagle has, but Kevin Harland's not. Iron Eagle

2740
02:17:12,000 --> 02:17:14,760
just makes this the game seems sound bigger. He does

2741
02:17:15,200 --> 02:17:17,719
Kevin Harland too, That's what I said, Kevin har Yeah,

2742
02:17:19,000 --> 02:17:24,120
they just that's a Kevin's just man. He's so talented.

2743
02:17:24,399 --> 02:17:26,399
I don't know how he does it. He's still he's

2744
02:17:26,440 --> 02:17:28,559
in his early sixties. He has been traveling. I was

2745
02:17:28,600 --> 02:17:30,760
telling my wife this Saturday, because she's like, you know

2746
02:17:30,840 --> 02:17:32,479
you travel I said, well, you know how much Kevin

2747
02:17:32,520 --> 02:17:35,280
Harland travels. He travels probably about three hundred thousand miles

2748
02:17:35,319 --> 02:17:38,920
a year. He's never home. He will be sixty five

2749
02:17:39,440 --> 02:17:42,360
on June twenty first, Happy birthday. That is crazy that

2750
02:17:42,559 --> 02:17:45,000
he is still going the way that he does during

2751
02:17:45,040 --> 02:17:47,920
the football basketball season. And then this is broadcasting goofiness.

2752
02:17:47,920 --> 02:17:49,559
But it just I don't know. I think it's interesting.

2753
02:17:50,639 --> 02:17:53,760
He'll do a Suny nine game, Sunday afternoon game on CBS,

2754
02:17:54,360 --> 02:17:57,239
he'll do the Monday nine game on radio, and then

2755
02:17:57,319 --> 02:18:00,760
he'll do either the Tuesday or the Thursday. Tn T

2756
02:18:00,920 --> 02:18:03,000
gamer was doing it and then he goes turns right

2757
02:18:03,079 --> 02:18:05,200
back around and does it all over again. The guy.

2758
02:18:05,360 --> 02:18:07,959
The guy is a machine. He never gets to live

2759
02:18:08,280 --> 02:18:12,959
Kansas City Central. Yeah, but it's not like it's a

2760
02:18:13,079 --> 02:18:14,360
hub for anything. It's not easy to get to a

2761
02:18:14,399 --> 02:18:17,159
lot of places. T and T can cut the check

2762
02:18:17,959 --> 02:18:21,440
or yeah yeah see yeah, Bezos put on his own plane.

2763
02:18:22,760 --> 02:18:24,760
Great because I said, would you be mad if I

2764
02:18:24,840 --> 02:18:26,920
was going that way my life? And she was like, no,

2765
02:18:27,520 --> 02:18:30,079
you're making Kevin Harlem money. I buy sure he's doing

2766
02:18:30,079 --> 02:18:34,959
all right? Yeah, this is crazy. I find television interesting.

2767
02:18:35,000 --> 02:18:38,920
But yeah, there has been nothing but negative reviews on

2768
02:18:39,760 --> 02:18:42,600
Doris Burk and Richard Jefferson, and I'm just curious. Again.

2769
02:18:43,319 --> 02:18:46,840
I like Van Gundy and Mark Jackson better, but that

2770
02:18:46,840 --> 02:18:48,639
doesn't mean I can't enjoy what Doris Burke does. I

2771
02:18:48,639 --> 02:18:50,040
don't think she just fine. I'm not gonna use you

2772
02:18:50,120 --> 02:18:51,799
guys know. I do not like women play about play

2773
02:18:51,840 --> 02:18:55,879
Guys women play about play announcers, Uh, they largely just

2774
02:18:56,319 --> 02:18:58,399
don't they great on my ears? But she doesn't. She

2775
02:18:58,440 --> 02:19:01,159
doesn't play out play either. It's sexist to say that

2776
02:19:01,319 --> 02:19:06,000
you just like a big, booming, deep voice as a

2777
02:19:06,040 --> 02:19:07,680
play by first classic it has been that way for

2778
02:19:07,680 --> 02:19:10,959
one hundred years. Yeah, yeah, I don't think that's sexist

2779
02:19:11,040 --> 02:19:13,440
to say that's just like the best guys of all time.

2780
02:19:13,639 --> 02:19:16,000
For Matt Thomas, you got big pipes, put you on

2781
02:19:16,120 --> 02:19:18,559
play by play. Yeah, it sounds better. It comes with

2782
02:19:18,639 --> 02:19:22,719
the territory. Like there are some guys in the NBA

2783
02:19:23,120 --> 02:19:25,440
that I could tell you that don't have the big pipes,

2784
02:19:25,559 --> 02:19:27,840
and it and the cults just don't mean the same.

2785
02:19:28,360 --> 02:19:31,600
It doesn't. Yeah, it doesn't feel the same. And Harlan,

2786
02:19:31,719 --> 02:19:34,680
to me, is a huge part of why. And he

2787
02:19:34,799 --> 02:19:37,399
phrases it beautifully, and he has the right inflection, and

2788
02:19:37,520 --> 02:19:39,799
he has the right emotion. And Ion does that too.

2789
02:19:39,840 --> 02:19:42,479
But Iron but Kevin's voice is deeper and more authoritative

2790
02:19:42,479 --> 02:19:47,000
than even Iron Eagle's voice. Hey, look at what I've learned.

2791
02:19:47,000 --> 02:19:51,559
It's it's just a largely subjective business. Yes, But ABC

2792
02:19:51,680 --> 02:19:54,600
and ESPN are always tinkering because they just haven't been

2793
02:19:54,639 --> 02:19:57,600
able to find the same trio that kind of fitts

2794
02:19:57,639 --> 02:19:59,440
now grainted. Last year they used JJ Reddick, and then

2795
02:19:59,479 --> 02:20:01,200
JJ Reddick became the coach of the Lakers, so they

2796
02:20:01,239 --> 02:20:02,920
had to make a move there. But I thought J. J.

2797
02:20:03,000 --> 02:20:05,079
Eerico was really good. Yeah. The one guy in the

2798
02:20:05,239 --> 02:20:07,399
ESPN I do like a lot that I think should

2799
02:20:07,440 --> 02:20:09,760
get an opportunity to call the number one game is

2800
02:20:09,840 --> 02:20:13,479
Jae is Uh Tim Legler. I think he's excellent. They do.

2801
02:20:13,600 --> 02:20:16,200
They've done some games with legs. Yeah, but he's he's

2802
02:20:16,319 --> 02:20:17,959
on the sidelines, he's under the main g. I mean,

2803
02:20:18,040 --> 02:20:19,760
Richard Jefferson to me is just mid. He doesn't do

2804
02:20:19,760 --> 02:20:23,719
anhing for me. So he's gonna be Is he gonna

2805
02:20:23,719 --> 02:20:29,399
be on the NBA Finals? Yeah? Yeah, big audience. They

2806
02:20:29,520 --> 02:20:31,559
have to change that up. Well, how big of an

2807
02:20:31,559 --> 02:20:34,719
audience it could be? Not as big as you think

2808
02:20:34,719 --> 02:20:37,000
it's gonna big. I'll be watching and you and I

2809
02:20:37,079 --> 02:20:38,319
will be too. Well, you know, we'll have our own

2810
02:20:38,319 --> 02:20:43,079
private parties podcast. We're gonna call it around the Horn.

2811
02:20:43,200 --> 02:20:49,000
Two man game, pick and roll more role you're pick are,

2812
02:20:49,319 --> 02:20:53,399
pick your more role, give and go. Yeah, one of iHeartMedia.

2813
02:20:53,399 --> 02:20:55,360
Would I like the two man game? What's wrong with that?

2814
02:20:58,639 --> 02:20:58,799
Speaker 4: Oh?

2815
02:20:59,239 --> 02:21:01,600
Speaker 2: Jonathan doesn't like Jonathan wants some run on this two

2816
02:21:01,600 --> 02:21:02,840
If he's gonna produce, you me as we'll get some

2817
02:21:02,920 --> 02:21:05,079
run on it. No, No, just Rock is a know

2818
02:21:05,200 --> 02:21:08,040
the two man game doesn't sound that doesn't sound. Oh

2819
02:21:08,159 --> 02:21:11,319
you're you're going you're going sexual with it? How about pick?

2820
02:21:11,440 --> 02:21:13,479
How about you said? How about that? How about this

2821
02:21:13,559 --> 02:21:19,680
pick and pop? Picking pop? Pick and pop pop? You do?

2822
02:21:19,760 --> 02:21:21,879
We have to do something basketball? Okay, why can't wed

2823
02:21:21,920 --> 02:21:24,200
you say basketball podcast? Everybody's got to come up with

2824
02:21:24,280 --> 02:21:27,159
some kind of kitchen name. Rolling pick is kind of nice, though,

2825
02:21:27,799 --> 02:21:31,280
Rolling pick, No, it sounds terrible. No, pick and roll.

2826
02:21:31,639 --> 02:21:33,680
Pick and roll is better not rolling pick. I'm sure

2827
02:21:33,719 --> 02:21:35,680
there's a one hundred podcasts called the pick and Roll

2828
02:21:35,680 --> 02:21:39,440
about the NBA? How about two bros talking basketball in

2829
02:21:39,520 --> 02:21:41,920
a city that doesn't love basketball? How about drop coverage?

2830
02:21:43,799 --> 02:21:47,040
Go Tampa to Tampa two? And that's not NBA. You

2831
02:21:47,120 --> 02:21:48,840
mean to tell me there's not a single place called

2832
02:21:48,840 --> 02:21:52,760
Tampa two. No, you're probably right. All right, let's play

2833
02:21:52,799 --> 02:21:55,440
Believe it or not? Next? Thank you? What are you

2834
02:21:55,479 --> 02:22:01,120
playing for today? Great? Great prizes? Should say, well, I

2835
02:22:01,159 --> 02:22:02,959
would hope so you know, we'll save it. But it's

2836
02:22:03,040 --> 02:22:05,879
but they're amazing prizes. Yes, it's a it's a really

2837
02:22:06,000 --> 02:22:08,840
one big, really big price, one really really big prize

2838
02:22:09,280 --> 02:22:11,879
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

2839
02:22:11,959 --> 02:22:15,120
one three two one two five seven ninety. This is

2840
02:22:15,239 --> 02:22:16,799
rock and roll. Ho chiku. We're gonna get to Believe

2841
02:22:16,799 --> 02:22:17,920
It or Not. I don't know if they can play

2842
02:22:18,000 --> 02:22:21,360
much more of this? What's wrong with it? You told

2843
02:22:21,360 --> 02:22:23,239
me to put it on? I know, I want to

2844
02:22:23,280 --> 02:22:27,239
hear how it sounded. Sounds bad. I'm a real American.

2845
02:22:27,319 --> 02:22:29,440
Much more. You don't like a little rocket roll? Hoo chiku?

2846
02:22:29,479 --> 02:22:29,639
Speaker 6: Wait?

2847
02:22:29,680 --> 02:22:36,000
Speaker 2: Bring it back? Bay Wait choo chiku. It's fine. The

2848
02:22:36,079 --> 02:22:39,079
overriding sement is picking pop. You put this on when

2849
02:22:39,120 --> 02:22:42,559
you're in your nineteen ninety three f one fifty heading

2850
02:22:42,600 --> 02:22:44,360
over to pick a case. Pick up a case of

2851
02:22:44,440 --> 02:22:48,000
natural light bush lie almost Yeah, we're bush and It

2852
02:22:48,799 --> 02:22:52,000
or what bush Lattes? And a twelve pack of tacos

2853
02:22:52,120 --> 02:22:55,799
from uh Rock Correl. Yeah. Five minutes that's quite a night.

2854
02:22:55,959 --> 02:23:01,120
Five minutes left to go the show What should we Do? Wait?

2855
02:23:01,479 --> 02:23:06,120
Should Playmerica's fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply

2856
02:23:06,159 --> 02:23:07,920
called it be Believe It or Not It. Here's how

2857
02:23:07,920 --> 02:23:09,879
it works. You call seven one three two one two

2858
02:23:10,000 --> 02:23:12,920
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five

2859
02:23:13,000 --> 02:23:14,959
seven ninety Today's edition to Believe or Not? It's all

2860
02:23:15,000 --> 02:23:16,920
things about Rick Darren jer May he rest in peace.

2861
02:23:17,239 --> 02:23:19,799
I'll read your statement about Rick David's completely utterly accurate.

2862
02:23:19,840 --> 02:23:22,440
You'll say this, Bell Sam and Tierroni's full of ball.

2863
02:23:22,440 --> 02:23:24,680
Comeit up. You'll say this Nah to believe or not?

2864
02:23:24,799 --> 02:23:27,680
Said Row when you're prize? What are you playing for today, Jonathan?

2865
02:23:27,799 --> 02:23:29,959
Of course? The Sports Talk seven ninety T shirt and

2866
02:23:30,079 --> 02:23:32,280
a pair of ticket see Nelly and Jo Rule with

2867
02:23:32,319 --> 02:23:35,520
special guests Eve and Jermaine Dupree live on the Where

2868
02:23:35,600 --> 02:23:38,360
the party at tour September fourth at the Woodlands Pavilion.

2869
02:23:39,000 --> 02:23:40,959
It's a nice prize, by the way. Good first go.

2870
02:23:41,200 --> 02:23:46,000
Let's what a party at seven? One, three, two? People

2871
02:23:46,040 --> 02:23:49,680
are dropping it. I'm not big fans. Jeremiah on Saravana seven.

2872
02:23:49,719 --> 02:23:52,520
Ain't you ready to play? Believe it or not Believe it?

2873
02:23:52,840 --> 02:23:56,520
Jeremiah Rick Dearinger was an accomplished session session guitarist for

2874
02:23:56,680 --> 02:23:59,799
Columbia Records, working with bands such as Chicago, Neil Young

2875
02:23:59,840 --> 02:24:03,319
and others. Believe It or not Believe It? No, he

2876
02:24:03,479 --> 02:24:07,040
was no part of that. Sorry, no jar roll for you.

2877
02:24:08,399 --> 02:24:12,079
No my damn computer screen. I gotta hate this software.

2878
02:24:12,719 --> 02:24:17,559
Uh let's go to uh Brock Brian on seven? Are

2879
02:24:17,600 --> 02:24:20,719
you ready to play? Believe It or not? Yes, Sir Brian.

2880
02:24:20,799 --> 02:24:23,079
Rick Daringer was only seventeen years old when his band

2881
02:24:23,159 --> 02:24:25,319
The McCoy's hit number one in the US Billboard chart

2882
02:24:25,360 --> 02:24:28,719
with hang On Sloopy, Believe It or Not Believe It,

2883
02:24:28,799 --> 02:24:30,840
I Believe It, Believe It Steven number two for the

2884
02:24:30,879 --> 02:24:33,719
Way and Rick Darringer's song Real American was written specifically

2885
02:24:33,840 --> 02:24:36,559
for the WWE along with Cydney Laupera as a two

2886
02:24:36,639 --> 02:24:39,399
rote and produced the eighty five album the Wrestling Album

2887
02:24:39,479 --> 02:24:40,079
Believe It or.

2888
02:24:40,120 --> 02:24:42,639
Speaker 1: Not Believe It It is correct.

2889
02:24:42,680 --> 02:24:48,440
Speaker 2: Congratulations, proud of you. Let's go to John on seven

2890
02:24:48,479 --> 02:24:50,360
pintighty John, what was your best best part of today?

2891
02:24:50,360 --> 02:24:53,680
You send the two radio show. I just woke up earlier.

2892
02:24:54,040 --> 02:24:56,639
That that's fair. You're always a late riser, John. I

2893
02:24:56,840 --> 02:25:00,319
can respect that. Rick Darringer preferred the Gibson fl lying

2894
02:25:00,639 --> 02:25:03,680
V guitar for live performances, saying quote looks like rock

2895
02:25:03,680 --> 02:25:06,879
and roll. Believe it or not? I believe that. No,

2896
02:25:07,000 --> 02:25:10,319
you shouldn't mean ross made. Thank you though, and get

2897
02:25:10,360 --> 02:25:13,639
yourself some rest. Ken on seven pinty, Ken, you're ready

2898
02:25:13,639 --> 02:25:14,360
to play Believe It or not?

2899
02:25:15,360 --> 02:25:15,760
Speaker 1: Believe It?

2900
02:25:16,079 --> 02:25:19,520
Speaker 2: Rick Darringer's first cousins with longtime Pittsburgh Steelers player and

2901
02:25:19,600 --> 02:25:24,280
coach Roger Derringer. Believe it or not? Not, Nope, that's

2902
02:25:24,319 --> 02:25:26,159
a made up one. Statement number two for the when

2903
02:25:26,280 --> 02:25:29,159
former President Barack Obama used Rick Darringers, I'm a real

2904
02:25:29,239 --> 02:25:32,879
American while revealing his birth certificate at the twenty eleven

2905
02:25:32,959 --> 02:25:37,600
White House Correspondents Dinner. Believe it or not, Believe it

2906
02:25:37,760 --> 02:25:44,280
he certainly did. Congratulations nicely done, Rob on seven ninety Rob,

2907
02:25:44,319 --> 02:25:45,879
what was your favorite part of today's ten to two

2908
02:25:46,000 --> 02:25:46,559
radio show?

2909
02:25:48,520 --> 02:25:49,959
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna go at the start of the show

2910
02:25:49,959 --> 02:25:51,120
because I just got in the car.

2911
02:25:51,639 --> 02:25:54,120
Speaker 2: Rick Darringer was the opening act for the infamous Who

2912
02:25:54,319 --> 02:25:58,120
Caught Who concert disaster at the Riverfront Coliseum back in

2913
02:25:58,239 --> 02:25:59,440
nineteen seventy nine.

2914
02:26:00,159 --> 02:26:02,600
Speaker 1: It or not, I'm gonna go with not.

2915
02:26:02,920 --> 02:26:05,639
Speaker 2: That is correct. The concert did happen. It was a

2916
02:26:05,680 --> 02:26:07,159
bad thing, but it was involving the Who, and he

2917
02:26:07,239 --> 02:26:09,440
was uninvolved. Statement number two for the waiting for the

2918
02:26:09,520 --> 02:26:12,319
nineteen seventy three hit rock and roll Hoochie Coo. Rick

2919
02:26:12,399 --> 02:26:15,520
Darringer played the guitar, the bass, and the tambourine. Believe

2920
02:26:15,559 --> 02:26:20,159
it or not, I'm gonna say not oh, I'm sorry,

2921
02:26:20,239 --> 02:26:21,840
but thank you for getting the car and listening to it.

2922
02:26:23,000 --> 02:26:24,959
We have so many people getting in the car listening

2923
02:26:25,239 --> 02:26:27,799
just to Adam and Adam They're like, we found something

2924
02:26:27,799 --> 02:26:29,799
else you'll listen to. Well, we were gonna listen at

2925
02:26:29,799 --> 02:26:32,040
two o'clock. Well they should stay at two o five.

2926
02:26:32,559 --> 02:26:35,760
That's right, because our favorite closer, Josh Hater, is gonna

2927
02:26:35,760 --> 02:26:38,719
be on the show in like ten minutes, so we

2928
02:26:38,799 --> 02:26:42,440
will say goodbye, don't go anywhere, do not move, two

2929
02:26:42,559 --> 02:26:44,479
to six, and then at six o'clock you want to

2930
02:26:44,479 --> 02:26:47,600
put something else on, that's fine. Up next, it's Clinton,

2931
02:26:47,959 --> 02:26:52,520
It's Wexler, it's the Ty on Sports Talk seven y