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Speaker 1: Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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Speaker 2: Ten O two and h Town. Good morning, and welcome

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to a Thursday Wednesday edition of The Matt Thomas Show

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with Ross. This is Sports Talk seven ninety.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 2: We knew we'd get some sort of update. That's why

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we sent Gordy down there. And granted he's probably vacationing

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more of the trip. He's probably just stop that jumping

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in and jumping out of a spring training I stop.

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I'm just kidding. He was up there this morning. Yes, now,

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he's probably not doing much now. Oh no, he's definitely

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in a Racarel having a three egg breakfast. We've been there,

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We've done Racarel. You've harassed the waitresses there, harassed the

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strong term. Just kidding. Iways been fairly polite of the

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people there. I haven't ever seen you be rate a

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waiter or a waitress. No, no, no, no, I mean

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it had to take extreme measures. That's good, all right.

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It is Matt at Ross with you on this Wednesday.

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Good morning to you. We are with you today until

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two pm, and then we've got some more Rockets basketball

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for you tonight here on seven on. Any of the

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Rockets took care of the Clippers last night, which we'll

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get to that email. Dock will be with us at

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eleven o'clock eleven thirty. Will be shut you by my

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ass up eat. Nobody got damned for that, well the

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news at noon and of course believe it or not.

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So we've got a lot of things going on between

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now and two pm today, but we start today. Uh,

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no surprise, we're starting with is that buster only sweet?

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Yesterday said that josh Hader was throwing off a light ground. Yeah,

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flat ground, flat ground, good, light ground. I guess it

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would be light, it would be a heavy ground. Don't know.

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Is there anything that it's not loose gravel? Well, you

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want to slip and fall, it could be fluffy grass

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that's technically like be good. I guess yeah. Uh, And

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GORDI to get some video of him doing that today

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in West Palm Beach. We do invite you to look

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at our Sports Talk seven ninety social channels to see that.

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But when Joe A. Spot I met with a media

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at approximately eight o'clock our time this morning, he did

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give us an update on what's going on with one

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Joshua Hater. Oh, let's give it a second. It's frozen

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but it's gonna unfreeze. I believe.

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Speaker 4: So Josh had a really good all season. UH had three?

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Speaker 2: Can you pull this up, Johnathan? It's it's literally a

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spot of cut one. That's my computer's freeze. I'm going

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to restart it right now. Just let us know when

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you have it. I'm going to restart this bad boy.

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How you doing, Matt?

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Speaker 5: I got it?

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Speaker 2: Okay? Thank you? Don't. I don't want to answer that

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I had a really good all season.

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Speaker 4: Uh had three three really really good bullpens, and leading

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into his fourth one, UH doing his thorn program, he

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stopped he's throwing because arm soreness. We immediately went and

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got some imaging and uh there's some inflammation on his

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bicep tendon. So he has not been thrown for I

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want to say, ten eleven days, and he will start

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getting back on his throwing program again today.

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Speaker 2: Biceps tending inflammation is not what I wanted to hear.

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Would you like some more? I guess we had to

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figure there was a setback. There had to be a setback,

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no question, and it was just it was the chalk

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pick when we heard the buster only report. Sure, I

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guess we can get some more Ian Urdas is a footspring. Okay, great,

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well at Leasta Catcher doesn't need their feet all right.

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So when you go to when you go to sports

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radio one on one camp, when you want to be

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a radio host, you're supposed to have eternal optimism unless

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it helps your narrative of your show. Just being a

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cranky s willb the whole time. Really, I never heard

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the eternal optimism. Oh, sooner rather than later? If you've

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not heard that phrase one hundred times, who says that

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in life except sports radio hosts? Uh me for everything.

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My life's gonna turn around sooner rather than later, Matt.

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And you've been waiting for that to set that for

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fifteen years and how that turned out. Life is beautiful.

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But yeah, sooner rather than later. Hey, things are going

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to turn around. Hey, listen, let's see if this sounds familiar.

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Speaker 2: Straw can't be worse this week. Hey, he can't be

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worse than that now though, for real this time, I

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don't know about that. You're not Come on, he's not

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throwing four picks in a game. His entire life can't

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get worse than that. So here's what I'm going to

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do to buck that trend. Okay, you're gonna be negative

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and pessimistic. Oh come on, So here's what it doesn't

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sound good. We're here's what we're gonna do. We're not

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doing this because we're anti aster. In fact, we're frankly

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pro astro. Maybe in fact, I'm too close. I was

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an astrobuddy in nineteen seventy, so I mean, when you're

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a buddy, we're gon We're like in a small fraternity

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of people in this world. It's true. People don't are

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running around Mexico City going hey, I was an astro

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buddy people in Denver and saying I was an astro buddy.

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I walked the bases at the astroom for kids, walk

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the basis. Alan Ashby and I said hello to each

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other back when he was a catcher. Huh. I mean

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that's how that's how long it's been. So I have

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a vested interest in making sure the Astros are good

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because that's my tip. That's my baseball team. I have

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a basketball team. I've got a baseball team. I ain't

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buying any of this stuff. I am thinking the very worst.

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I'm not saying season ending surgery. I'm not saying he's

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never gonna throw again. I'm not gonna I'm just saying

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I don't want to hear about we're optimistic. I don't

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want to hear about it's a positive sign that he's

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throwing on flat ground. I ain't hearing any of it

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because last year scorned me. It's like when your kids

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come home late from being out. I'll never do that again.

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I'll never do it again. And eventually you just don't

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buy it. Hey, if you have a spouse or a

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significant other that constantly cheats on you, wow, you know

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you get kired of hearing about it. And I know

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it's a different situation because everybody is different. It seems

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like it I'm using this as context wrong. This certain

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alogies in rare form this morning. It does work the

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boy who cried wolf. Okay, well, every injury is different, optimistic,

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That's what I'm saying. Every injury is different. So there's

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really no reason for me to have this pessimism. But

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I feel like it was too optimistic last year with

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a lot of things. And now I'm gonna go in

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the other direction. I was when you show up, you

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show up. Until then, I don't want to about how

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close you are and It's not not an indictment against Josh.

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It's just about the whole nature of sports injuries. I

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was continuously optimistic about Lance Keller's junior, and I was

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continuously optimistic about I don't know spin talking about yeah, well,

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well half is a whole nother ball of axe. All

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those guys are gone, though, didn't they clean house and

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the training staff and all that. Jeremiah Randall's laughing his

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ass off right now, So we blame the training staff.

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It's training staff's training staff, it's you know, he's working

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in his own bullpen. The injuries are gonna happen to sport.

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This is the new normal in baseball. I feel like

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with the pictures, we keep saying, and you know, every

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pitching interview I asked a question, Hey, what can be done?

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don't know, and general manager's like shoulders. So you have

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strength to numbers, you need spin, and you need vello

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and spend more spin more, spend more, spend more Vello,

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more villo, more villo, more offseason working programs, You're gonna

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have arm injuries. Yep, guys are not showing up thirty

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pounds overweight, ready to get in shape in February, rolling

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their own cigarettes on the mound. This is a different time. Yeah.

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So I come to you, and because I love all

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of you, well, I love most of you, I come

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to you and tell you that when I hear of this,

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I'm not gonna be like, Oh, I hope everything's for

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the best. Of course, I hope everything's for the best,

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but I ain't waiting for it. When Josh Hater makes

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his debut, whenever that may be, I'll be excited, but

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I'm not gonna I mean, we'll we'll have to ask

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for timelines because that's our responsibility. But my timeline is

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I don't have a timeline for Josh Hates. Yeah. I

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get sick of the timeline game last times. It is bad.

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If you hear sooner rather than later from me or

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from any listener, you're gonna get You're gonna get the shocker.

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It's not pleasant, hurt about something else. I don't care.

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Whatever stings you, whatever hits you in the core your body,

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that stings the nostrils. Yeah, okay, I'm I'm done with it.

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Now the foot sprain happened. I mean, I'm looking at

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what Chandler said. He is not a Diaz is participating

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in baseball activities. He will actually catch uh EMI's bullpen

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session today. Okay, so he's fine, he's gonna run, he's

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gonna hit, he's gonna catch, He's just not gonna run. Okay. Now,

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that to me is a little more optimistic because foot

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sprains can get healed in a handful of weeks. It's

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not like you're gonna be asking your catcher to get

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a four AB's pergader on the base and steel bases,

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but you ultimately need him to be ready for the

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start of the season because you cannot. You do not

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have an automatic runner like we did back when we

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were junior high school. Man, I love yourd On and

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he's biops plus, the greatest hitter in n Astro's history.

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wanting to put him in the field, I'm just thinking

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of that because you'd like to put the ideas in

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the DH spot here and there, or we've we've talked

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about a course about Altuve or Walker or Cray or whoever.

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this foot sprain from Diaz may end up being nothing.

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the middle of the season, where you'd say, oh, well,

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we'll put him in it. We'll give a DH. Dan

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jord On in the DH spot every single day. You

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buy declaring not saying that he's that uh, Jordon is

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exclusively this DH, but by declaring he's the primary DH,

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it does not give you options for guys to get

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up there. Feet is actual words from Joe spot. I

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will do everything in my power to have ord On

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in the in the spot he might have said, we're

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not calling him a DH, We're calling it the Urdon spot. Yes,

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all right, Rocket's gonna win last night. We'll get to that.

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We're gonna hear more from Joe a Spotta in the

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bottom of the hour. We're gonna go to Gordy in

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West Palm Beach. Oh really, We're gonna get him off

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of the table where he's playing his little game with

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the with the with the golf keys. We'll pull him

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away from Rachel's What is that called when you play

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that that that the tea box game, you know where

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you you jump over the tees oh a cracker barrel. Yeah,

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I don't remember. I I have never in my life

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and I've done it. I don't know, between being a

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kid adult, maybe a hundred times. I've only gotten to

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two t's one. I never had one T. I've never

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done one. So I don't think so I could do

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between you and me. I mean I forgotten it. I

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forgot the technique, but like how I mean I used

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You used to know where I could do it? Bothered? Bothered,

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it was boring to me, so I kind of gave out. Okay,

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have you done the riverscue multiple TI? I don't think so. No,

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I didn't have one. But there's there's algorithms you can do.

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You can there's people who can do them in like

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twenty seconds. Yeah, there's used to be a speed contest

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back where there still is? Is there really fun? They

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do them blindfold now too? How do you know what

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colors match up? It's basically if you turn it a

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certain amount of times, a number of ways. You eventually

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you'll get there. Well, that feels like a scam there,

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which I came up with that strategy, by the way,

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a long time ago. Matt and were able to monetize it. No,

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all right, seven one three two two five seven seven

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Thomas Shold Ross. This is Sports Talk seven anyways, ten

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Gordy's sting at the hotel. The bullet wounds are and

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I you were fine, No, you're never in danger. Well,

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I'm gonna make sure we brought in all our laptops

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from the car. Yeah, we left nothing in the vehicle.

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just in case of vandalism. No we didn't. We declined

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the extra coverage. That's a scam, right of course. Yeah,

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it's all a scam. Everything's a scam. Don't get me started,

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all right, All right, My god, can I get Nick

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Wright's face off my timeline? Jeez? Sorry, go ahead, what

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do you mean? I have so much to tell you

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about social relevance and sports whatever. Brauh. And he's doing great.

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I'm sure he's doing fine. Of course. I again, my

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my skin is too thin to have people literally hate

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me every time I tweet something. Yeah, I get it.

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I'm getting better about that. I just mute every conversation.

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Like Jamel Hill, she writes something, and I mean I

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look at her replies. I mean they're I would be like,

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you know what, take the l and just don't do it,

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because I mean usually again, if you're doing if you

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put stuff on social media to get that controversial, then

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you kind of deserve it. And I think Nick and

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Jamel want to do that kind of stuff. But to

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each his own, all right, So we've got some more

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audio in from this morning, and again Gordon's gonna join

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us in about five minutes here, so we'll be able

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to accentuate, all right, accent when he was talking about

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moments with the with the shortinger, somebody else you got today?

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What else do I have? Yeah? Oh, I'm sorry, I

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had restarted, so I lost my page. How's everything with you?

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It's good. Computers are somewhat working today, I hope. So

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I just restarted this bad Boy, so we should we

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should be humming on all cylinders. Can't wait? I think?

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All right? Uh well, here do you want to hear

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from Dana Brown? Are you hear for more from Joe Spott?

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Let's go all the above? How about more on I

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like this one? A more update from hater with Chandler

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question are we gonna hear exasperation in the voice of

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Joe spotted with Chandler Rome's question, yes or no? What

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do you think I'm gonna say no? Because sorry?

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Speaker 4: So he went for I want to say ten eleven days,

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so he'll he'll get back in that flat ground today

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and and get and get going again.

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Speaker 7: Are you guys able to ascertain right now whether that

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would put him in jeopardy for opening day or kind

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of Where are you.

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Speaker 2: Guys at timeline?

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Speaker 5: You know what?

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Speaker 8: Day to day?

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Speaker 2: Weeks?

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Speaker 9: Two weeks?

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Speaker 2: I think he's early.

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Speaker 4: I think we have we have a good seven eight

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weeks if I'm not counting, but but I think we

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we we have time. So Joshua, josh knows his body

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very well. So he'll let us know.

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Speaker 2: He said day to day, which I can live with. Weeks,

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two weeks, I'm not through with.

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Speaker 10: Said.

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Speaker 2: If he said month to month, we'd have been really

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But even when it's month to month, he says day

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to day. So we're all scarred from last year. There

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was a little sigh, but it wasn't at Chandler. I

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think it was at the injury. By the way, what

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a wonderful to ascertain?

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Speaker 9: Mean?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, seriously, that is high brow vocabulary. I

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guess the average person doesn't use a word to ascertain daylight.

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I would say, you learned that word in eighth grade. No,

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but it's a great word. You learned the word oh

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yea yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean we should be trying

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to use more very vocabulary. I don't disagree with you

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at all. I tell people all the time that are

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in our business. I said, the number one thing you

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can do is take as many English classes as possible

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to diversify you. That's why we get your reading the

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Tory Spelling Book. I mean it was good, Mum, buy

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you a book. We're gonna start the Matt Thomas book

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Club that we're not We're going to do none of

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the such. All right, we'll get you on some curious George.

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That's more my speed. Thank you very much, thank you,

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all right? What else? What else from Joe A.

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Speaker 1: Spada?

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Speaker 2: Well, let's see. How about Tatsuya em has been a

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topic of conversation. Apparently he is going to be in

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a pool of possible pitchers to throw for Japan in

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the WBC, but he's not supposed to be there in

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pool play. Here's what Joe Spott had to say about

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keeping an eye on his workload.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna lean on his feedback. You know, he is

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going to throw today off the mound. We want to

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see what he's at looked like. How many pitch is

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going to require him for him just to you know,

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get ready, and we're gonna lean on him. We have

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some ideas, we have a planning place, but his feedback

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is very important just to get him, just to get

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him going here.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So he's looking good and while he's part of

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the pitching depth the astros have. We kind of talked

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about this man. It's we went through the possible candidates.

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How many names did we get to as far as rotation,

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so a lot of pitching a depth for the Astros,

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which is something they definitely needed last year, and Joe

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Spotta says it's a good thing.

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Speaker 4: Obviously, you never want to hear any any injuries to

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to any of your players. But we went out and

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we reinforced our pitching staff just so we can endure

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and be in a position to anything anytime any of

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our pitchers will go down for a period of time

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that we have enough quality of pitching and we and

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we did that.

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Speaker 2: Translation, pitching injuries are the new normal, so we have

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to have as many bodies as possible, and we got them.

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That's why I said us the other day. And it's

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not like I came up organically on my own. We're

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gonna see more six mans in Major League Baseball. I

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even think even with the off days, to shave starts

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off of people, to have them running for August and September,

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even though every game counts the same. You don't want

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to be sitting there worrying about a guy in July

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who's got a tired arm and having a nurse's way

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through the rest of the season. So yeah, you better

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have six I like that. I like what they did.

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I like they have a bunch of options. You know,

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they don't have a you know, like the old old

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days you had the ACE and then you had like

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your co ace and then a couple guys. They have

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a bunch of guys who are good, maybe not great,

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maybe not a bunch of cy young award winners, but

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he got a bunch of sevens. You're gonna make it

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through the rotation. You can be all right, No, this

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is not a this is not the Braves rotation. This

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isn't the Astros rotation of like twenty nineteen. But it

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does have depth to it. It doesn't make you squeamish

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when you get to say the four, five, six, seven spots,

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because all those guys have some sort of major league

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It's very pretty good about those guys, even like Jason

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Alexander in the back end and those other guy like

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Ryan Weiss. I'm intrigued, NYJ. Blueball had a cup of

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coffee for it is spring training, so we're optimistic about everyone.

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And your buddy Lance mcclors, Yes, Lance mc colors, and

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your beave off that island. I've been way off that

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Guardy's been off the island for a long time. He

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didn't get that angry with him at fan Fest, sources

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to him, was quite uncomfortable. Well, Lance mccullor's junior doesn't

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like criticism. Nobody does, especially not him. That's right, all right.

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Let's speaking of Gordon. He's down in West Palm Beach. Yes,

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he's finishing up his pancakes and apple Compote. Will be

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looking forward to getting his update from what he had

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for breakfast and what is going on with what he

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saw and the reading between the lines. We heard the

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audio officially, what is unofficially? What do we seeing? We'll

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talk with Gording next ten twenty nine on Sports Talk

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seven ninety. Frost and Matt with you here and at

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ten thirty four, Emai Doka is going to join us.

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At eleven o'clock, Get shut your bum ass up, Rockets

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head coach. I got to shut your ballass up. Anybody

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got time for that? About my own NBA at eleven

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and thirty. You know what he should say about Rockets fans?

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You do? I should. Fred van Vliet was on the

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TV broadcast and he was talking about Rockets fans being

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so negative and panicking too. Really, yes, he said, I've

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been on Twitter more since I've been since he's been injured.

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He said he blames KD because KT is always on me,

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is online for sure people KD. Kat has told people

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where he he knows where they live. He told him

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to suck various parts of his enneritolia. Hey, various parts?

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All right? Anyways, all right, go to Gordy's.

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Speaker 5: Go to Gordy.

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Speaker 2: Good God, you brought up to Katie on Twitter? Make

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you talk about genitalia? Well, I mean it is what

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it is, uh seven to one three. I mean I

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didn't ask Katie to get so viol on Twitter. I mean,

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I still I'm here for it. Let's talk to our buddy,

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Chris Gordy. He is, of course, uh handling our spring

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training coverage early on before Ross and I get down

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there next week, and Gordy was there for all of

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the hullabaloo. You did get some flat ground video of

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Josh hater Gordy, What did you think?

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Speaker 8: I mean, he's tossing. I wouldn't classify it as throwing,

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but you know, I guess that was good that he

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was on flat ground and throwing around to baseball. But yeah,

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I mean, this this thing feels like it's I mean, everybody,

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nobody's hitting the panic button. Right now, but it does

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feel like, you know, this is going to be an

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opening day and we'll wait and see and then you know,

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probably a few weeks after that.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 8: I mean, it's very early, but you know, we're just

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finding out about the setback he had what his fourth

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winter ball bullpen he was throwing, and of course the

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inflammation has become the big word around the Astros organization

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the last few years.

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Speaker 5: But I guess I'll.

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Speaker 8: Classified as a good sign that he was out there

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and at least throwing the ball around on black rounds.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't necessarily have to do that. I'm he

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was just curious if there was anything like you're going

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to talk to him. Obviously the meaning will be waiting

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for Josh at his locker after the throwing session today

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and be better just to hear directly from him. But

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as I said open the show today, Guardian, I'm gonna wait,

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and I'm not gonna have sooner around than later. I'm

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not gonna be optimistic. I'm done with timelines and I

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don't think I'm speaking on behalf of the minority of

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Astro fans. When he gets out there, that's great, thankfully.

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If there is this over lining You do have some

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people like Brian and Bray who can slot in that

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closer spot at least early on was good last year

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not great in that spot, but at least you've got

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some insurance.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's what Data Brown kind of said, was you

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know they you know, he even said he's like, you

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guys know me, I love adding pitching, and so they

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added a lot of pitching this offseason. And they've got

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a lot of guys that, you know, we don't know

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what their roles are yet. You know, we think everybody's

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gonna be healthy and this will be a six man rotation,

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but there are there are some jobs up for graps.

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But yeah, I mean, you feel good about what Brian

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King gave you last year. You know what what Brian

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pray You brings you. So you feel good about both

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of those guys as they both have to move up

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from seven to eighth to eighth and ninth innings. But uh,

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you know, again, the hope would be that it wouldn't

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be very long and Hater would be back out there.

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But yeah, like I said, talking to most people out here,

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nobody nobody's really panicked panicking on the Hater things.

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Speaker 2: Then we'll do it here in Houston, because I again,

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I don't think there's any worse way you can open

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up a training camp and having your twenty million dollar

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year closer barely tossing the baseball. I'm gonna just be

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really honest and I and I and I'm not blaming

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the Astros. I'm just saying that I think I'm having

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I'm having a negative flashbacks PTSD over what the Astros

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went through last year.

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Speaker 8: Well, I was Sugacheller about it this morning. He was

471
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even saying that he thinks, you know, they're probably fine

472
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with him going on whatever schedule he needs to because

473
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he's so proven. You know, he's he's a veteran who's

474
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been there, done that, so you just been a younger guy.

475
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And they were being more rigid with his with his uh,

476
00:23:23,839 --> 00:23:25,559
you know, schedule, and oh, we got to get him

477
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back by this date, and he's got to be throwing

478
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this many pitches by this date. I think they trust

479
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Hater to know his body and when he says he's ready,

480
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he'll be ready.

481
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Speaker 2: Chris Gordy was here on Sports Talk seven ninety at

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West Palm Beach. Thanks to Willie's grill and ice house.

483
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What about the the other news as far as injury,

484
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Yiner Diz and his foot sprain. Sounds like he's going

485
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to catch a bullpen today and hopefully it's not too

486
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much of an issue.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, he looks fine walking around out there.

488
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Joe Spotta kind of said. All it means is they're

489
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just gonna limit his running a little bit. So he'll

490
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still catch all the bullpen and you know, he'll he'll hit,

491
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,079
he'll do all that stuff. He just won't be running

492
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the bases a ton now. So I think that's that's fine.

493
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But my antenna went up when I heard that, because

494
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keep in mind they lost Victor Karattini this offseason and

495
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did not replace him. And as much as we like

496
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:19,039
says arsalas are, uh, you know he's he's gonna have

497
00:24:19,039 --> 00:24:21,200
a big role thrust upon him this season if they

498
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,119
don't add another veteran catcher and so as Dana Brown

499
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talked about it this morning, said, yeah, we like Dally

500
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and we think he's ready. But I made a point

501
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,519
to ask him about Walker Yannick, who was their first

502
00:24:32,599 --> 00:24:35,079
round pick from a couple of years ago, and I said,

503
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where is he in his development? And he said, we

504
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like where he's at, and obviously, look, if he can

505
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come out and have a big spring, maybe that escalates

506
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,960
his track a little bit and maybe he gets called

507
00:24:45,039 --> 00:24:48,480
up this year. But uh, it is a glaring hole

508
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,000
because of uh, you know how much you know jannar

509
00:24:52,079 --> 00:24:55,079
Diez his bat dropped last year. You wonder how much

510
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:59,000
of that was him playing so much and you know,

511
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and now you lose Victor Karatini Ardea is not like

512
00:25:01,799 --> 00:25:04,960
his workload is gonna go down at Also, it's certainly

513
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something to watch.

514
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Speaker 2: What about back into the rotation obviously has been another storyline,

515
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and you know, tying into the pitching and the injuries

516
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and stuff like that, just from from you being out there,

517
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how do you feel like that could possibly shape up?

518
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Speaker 8: Well, let me let me bring you more to the

519
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,680
front of the rotation now. Obviously Hunter Brann announced today

520
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:27,079
as the opening day starter, but today was Tatsi, Tatsuya

521
00:25:27,079 --> 00:25:29,640
and my gay like the Japanese media here, I mean

522
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,599
there's about a dozen of them that I mean literally

523
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,720
he drops something, bends down to pick it up, they're

524
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,160
all literally like in his face, filming him and following

525
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,759
him around. I mean, it's they are obsessed with this

526
00:25:40,799 --> 00:25:42,599
guy following him around, and we got to see him

527
00:25:42,599 --> 00:25:44,960
throw just a few minutes ago, and I think they're

528
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:48,440
about sixteen pitches, all fast falls. But he looks good.

529
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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 8: I mean, it's this guy. It's it's gonna be exciting

531
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to see what he brings to the Astros. And and

532
00:25:53,799 --> 00:25:55,839
a humble guy too. I mean, you know, you come

533
00:25:56,079 --> 00:25:58,599
come from Japan, where he's beloved. There was an all

534
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,000
star over there, and he's just a guy in the

535
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clubhouse here, you know, obviously speaking through his translator. But

536
00:26:04,799 --> 00:26:07,680
uh and then somebody pointed out he puts some highlights

537
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,839
in his hair too, so he's got that going for

538
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,599
him now. But uh, yeah, am I bringing a lot

539
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,039
of tension. But to your point, I mean, Mike Burrows

540
00:26:16,079 --> 00:26:19,720
is here, got to see him kind of throwing around today.

541
00:26:19,799 --> 00:26:24,079
You know, White, Ryan Weiss and you know Nate Pearson.

542
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:25,680
These are all guys that are all competing for the

543
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,200
back end of the rotation spots, and so's gonna be

544
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,599
in trusted to follow them throughout spring training. And then

545
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,279
the guy who just walked past us a few minutes ago, Lance,

546
00:26:33,319 --> 00:26:35,720
but the Colors, he's still here, still getting paid well

547
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,480
and if he could pitch, well, that would mean good

548
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:39,559
things for the Astros.

549
00:26:39,599 --> 00:26:42,079
Speaker 2: Pure gut. Do you think Emi leaves the team to

550
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,400
join the WBC at any point.

551
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Speaker 8: I don't get that vibe, but feel it feels like

552
00:26:48,559 --> 00:26:51,160
he's he's trying to set it. I mean, somebody asked

553
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,279
him how he's enjoying Florida, and he's like, I've been

554
00:26:53,319 --> 00:26:56,319
here two days, like it's everything's new, and he's trying

555
00:26:56,319 --> 00:26:58,400
to settle in, get to know these guys, these new

556
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,839
teammates and everything. So I don't get that vibe. Feels

557
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,880
like he's here and ready to stay.

558
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 2: So we know the big storylines as far as the

559
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,240
pitching and hater and the injuries and stuff like that.

560
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,000
Anything you've noticed or it's something you think is flying

561
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,960
under the radar right now, it's bring training, that could

562
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,400
be another storyline to pop up.

563
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,759
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, the noticeable absence guy's being in the clubhouse.

564
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,680
And it sounds silly to say, but not having Mauricio

565
00:27:23,759 --> 00:27:27,240
dubond I mean, Douby was the guy that everybody loved

566
00:27:27,279 --> 00:27:30,359
and you knows kind of almost like that George Springer

567
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:31,880
that she used to have, the guy that just puts

568
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,839
a smile on everybody's face when you see him, and

569
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,319
not having him here it's kind of a noticeable absence.

570
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,880
And so you know, I talked with Nick Kelly this morning,

571
00:27:41,039 --> 00:27:43,119
the you know, the guy that's going to be the

572
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,240
new utility man replace him, coming over from the Braves.

573
00:27:46,279 --> 00:27:49,720
But yeah, I mean, the question is who's going to

574
00:27:49,759 --> 00:27:51,680
be that guy who's going to be the you know,

575
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,119
when everything's tight, a guy who can make everybody smile.

576
00:27:55,279 --> 00:27:56,680
I don't know, we'll have to see who that's going

577
00:27:56,759 --> 00:27:56,920
to be.

578
00:27:57,599 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 2: All right. When is Josh supposed to speak with you guys,

579
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,480
as I'm assuming after he showered and shaved and worked

580
00:28:02,519 --> 00:28:03,279
on his hair product.

581
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,640
Speaker 8: Yeah, any minute now. So we're going to head in there,

582
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,880
and Hunter Brown's supposed to speak as well about being

583
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:10,720
named the opening day starter. So we'll have that for

584
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,720
you on our Sports Talks of a ninety Twitter and

585
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,839
our website presented by Willie's Grill and Ice House.

586
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Speaker 2: And apparently they're serving crawfish already at Willi's. Is that accurate?

587
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,400
Speaker 8: Yes, that's what they want to be your go to

588
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,160
crawfish spot. So yeah, if you're looking to get into

589
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,960
the crawfish season already Willies has got you's got you

590
00:28:30,079 --> 00:28:32,079
taken care of and uh, I can't wait to get

591
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:33,640
back to Houston so I can get some all.

592
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Speaker 2: Right, send us word down the line when Josh has

593
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:37,200
something to say. Thank you, Gordy. We'll talk with you

594
00:28:37,279 --> 00:28:39,039
about this same spot tomorrow here on the show. We

595
00:28:39,039 --> 00:28:42,920
appreciate it as always, all right, fellas, that's Chris Gordy

596
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,400
at West Palm Beach and as soon as Josh speaks,

597
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,160
we'll carry some of that. Are not Carrie, but we'll

598
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:50,039
bring you some of that audio directly from West Palm Beach.

599
00:28:54,799 --> 00:28:58,279
SVK leading and finn or Tie one one in the

600
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Winter Olympics. Man, come on, Slovakia, Slovakia, Finland. Finn I

601
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,720
knew what Finland was. Slovakia had taken him in. Really

602
00:29:11,079 --> 00:29:17,720
eh okay, Hockey, I'll say this to its credit is

603
00:29:17,759 --> 00:29:20,480
an amazing sport in person. Television doesn't do the sport

604
00:29:20,559 --> 00:29:25,039
dust justice in the arena when you're hearing the pocket

605
00:29:25,079 --> 00:29:28,720
the glass, Yeah, that's exciting. When you're watching the Houston

606
00:29:28,799 --> 00:29:31,400
Arrows versus the Indianapolis Ice and you're in the arena,

607
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:35,039
it's a good time. Two thousand and one appreciates what

608
00:29:35,119 --> 00:29:37,640
you just said, the rest of us for the last

609
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,440
twenty years don't even know what you're saying. Okay, that's fine.

610
00:29:40,839 --> 00:29:43,559
Uh seven one three two five, seven ninety If you

611
00:29:43,599 --> 00:29:45,079
would like to be a part of our show today

612
00:29:45,079 --> 00:29:47,160
seven one three two one two seven And we're going

613
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to talk to emy Adoka coming up in just a

614
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few minutes here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

615
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Let's continue on the phones and say, how are the

616
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,720
great folks we're going to Terry are Cleveland Guardians and

617
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,359
analysts from northeast Ohio? Terry, how the hell are you?

618
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 11: I'm doing fine, guys. Is Cole Thompson there?

619
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 2: No, he's not. He's his day ends at ten o'clock

620
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:09,920
in the morning.

621
00:30:11,319 --> 00:30:13,599
Speaker 11: He said he's going to stick around with you guys.

622
00:30:13,839 --> 00:30:19,160
But anyway, he made a comment about the Guardians they

623
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,240
couldn't beat anybody. Well, let me tell you they came

624
00:30:23,279 --> 00:30:26,240
to Houston's. What the asked is the dyke and Park

625
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:28,960
kept him out of the playoffs?

626
00:30:36,759 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 2: Did he hang up? I didn't. Oh why did you?

627
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:41,519
Why did you hang up on him?

628
00:30:41,559 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 5: Oh?

629
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,519
Speaker 2: Because he lied to Jonathan. Apparently you cannot lie to Jonathan.

630
00:30:44,559 --> 00:30:48,839
He will hang up on you. Nothink twice just happened. Yeah,

631
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,279
I was looking at Instagram. Who said anything about the Guardians?

632
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:56,079
Apparently you don't take your phone. No, I mean, I know,

633
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,440
Terry good friend of the show, but you know it's

634
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,720
going to be a Cleveland Center phone calling for those

635
00:31:01,759 --> 00:31:03,440
that don't know. We do a show for primarily if

636
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,799
you said anything about the Guardians, he probably called it.

637
00:31:06,119 --> 00:31:09,759
Oh Cole Thompson did. Yeah. Oh, so he's responding to

638
00:31:09,799 --> 00:31:12,359
Cole Yes, says you know he's on for four hours

639
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:16,200
A yeah, Terry, call Cole tomorrow. Yeah, you got beef

640
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,119
of cold Cold six to ten. I know he's only

641
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:20,880
going to talk to you about SEC football, but maybe

642
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,559
you'll throw a little Guardian talk at you too. Maybe

643
00:31:23,559 --> 00:31:25,319
he'll give you a run down of the Guardian rotation,

644
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:29,200
Tennessee Volunteers transfer portal and what's going on with the Guardians. Yeah,

645
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,400
he'll give you his mock draft of Texans mock draft

646
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,319
for nine rounds. There's only seven, and he'll give you

647
00:31:34,359 --> 00:31:36,359
nine rounds because they give you a bonus Coston case

648
00:31:36,759 --> 00:31:40,240
just in case x little compensitorial free agents. There you go,

649
00:31:41,119 --> 00:31:43,119
and nobody in the world knows more about Priority free

650
00:31:43,119 --> 00:31:48,720
agents than Cole Thompson. When it when it, I guess

651
00:31:48,759 --> 00:31:50,920
it already is mock draft season and we start breaking

652
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,480
those bad boys, then I take I've told this year

653
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,000
in and year out. It's just worthy of saying it.

654
00:31:55,480 --> 00:32:00,920
If you're doing a mock draft, you really have got

655
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,799
to branch out why because what if it's your job?

656
00:32:05,839 --> 00:32:09,400
Uh Like uh NFL dot comas schmanche smert Line. He

657
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,720
does mock drafts, but he doesn't do round by round

658
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,920
of every team. That is such a wild goose chase

659
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,559
you'd go on, Yeah, it's a fun off season speculation.

660
00:32:18,599 --> 00:32:21,160
You gotta get them off season clicks, Matty, I don't

661
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,240
need those. NFL content creator, Well, there's no off season

662
00:32:24,279 --> 00:32:26,119
for this show because we talk all sports. Would you

663
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,000
like for me to give you a mock draft of

664
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,200
something for Do you think I can give you thirty

665
00:32:30,279 --> 00:32:36,559
days of mock drafts of everything? No, that wouldn't intrigue you. Yes,

666
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,720
I'm extremely intrigued. I don't know. Let me ask you this.

667
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:40,640
I was backed into a corner now. I was thinking

668
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,559
about this driving home the other day. Were you what

669
00:32:43,599 --> 00:32:48,640
if I gave you once a week a mock draft

670
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:54,519
of something Okay, it could be race cars. It could

671
00:32:54,559 --> 00:32:57,559
be that's sort of like a Fantasy five. Yeah, I go.

672
00:32:57,599 --> 00:32:59,480
I was gonna say, what if you drafted five things?

673
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,039
An I draft the five things and we did in

674
00:33:01,039 --> 00:33:03,279
a snake format, and then people voted on our lists.

675
00:33:03,319 --> 00:33:05,319
I'd be that's okay, we're kind of doing that. Then

676
00:33:05,599 --> 00:33:08,599
I stand correct. Forget what I said. Rockets won last night.

677
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,519
Did you enjoy it? Well, it wasn't the prettiest game, honestly, No,

678
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,559
I don't think Nasmith Hall of Fame's calling for a

679
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,839
copy of it. Yeah, but you got the job done.

680
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:22,720
You shot fifty percent from three. I mean, i'man Thompson. Well,

681
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,920
not in the postgame interview, but during the game he

682
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:32,160
was good, and alprynching Goon was good. How about this,

683
00:33:33,039 --> 00:33:35,240
Kevin Durant, I let me see if I can pull

684
00:33:35,279 --> 00:33:36,920
the number up. Is it like one thousand and one

685
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,559
to twenty point games? Or is one one hundred and

686
00:33:39,599 --> 00:33:44,440
twenty two games the Geese played. Okay, so over twenty

687
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,559
points in one thousand of them last night was a thousand.

688
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:52,559
That's pretty good. That's amazing. It's him m h, it's

689
00:33:52,759 --> 00:33:56,319
lebron Kareem and Kareem and Karl Alone. Yeah, I heard

690
00:33:56,359 --> 00:33:58,480
Adam Wexler running it down to the postgame show, which

691
00:33:58,559 --> 00:34:02,039
was thrilling the way he delivered or just the anadol

692
00:34:02,119 --> 00:34:06,559
of it. Okay, it's good. Yeah, that's rarefied air. And

693
00:34:06,599 --> 00:34:08,239
I continue to say this, and you back this up

694
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:13,039
when I say it, one of the ten fifteen greatest

695
00:34:13,079 --> 00:34:15,039
players in the history of the NBA is going to

696
00:34:15,079 --> 00:34:17,480
wrap up his career. You would think in theory wearing

697
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:22,679
a Houston Rocket uniform. It's pretty good. And he was off.

698
00:34:22,679 --> 00:34:25,039
He was one for eight in the first quarter of

699
00:34:25,039 --> 00:34:26,559
the game and then kind of settled back and was

700
00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:29,719
much better than the second half. Second greatest shooter of

701
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:34,360
all time, fight me, I don't. I can't buy into

702
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:35,760
that completely because I got really going to do a

703
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:37,480
deep dive, meaning I'm not gonna do it at all.

704
00:34:37,559 --> 00:34:41,880
But that's not a terrible thirty seven. So he's on

705
00:34:42,519 --> 00:34:45,400
the cusp of a fifty forty ninety season. Yeah, getting

706
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,440
thirty percent from the field, forty percent from three to

707
00:34:47,559 --> 00:34:49,760
ninety percent from the free throw line. He's the only

708
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,840
eighty eight point one from the free throw scientis tisk

709
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,079
He's got to get those numbers up Scott on seven

710
00:34:56,119 --> 00:34:59,039
on a good morning Scott, Good morning man, how you

711
00:34:59,039 --> 00:34:59,880
doing good?

712
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 12: Get a little rain out here, but anyway.

713
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 2: Be careful.

714
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:09,679
Speaker 12: Yeah, forty five is a mess. So I'm just curious

715
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:11,039
what your thoughts are, because I know.

716
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,199
Speaker 10: You go to all the games.

717
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 12: I'm wondering if you saw a more organized offense last

718
00:35:18,039 --> 00:35:20,719
night like I did. Did it seem like they had

719
00:35:21,039 --> 00:35:23,920
a different game plan last night to you and it

720
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:24,320
did to me.

721
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,039
Speaker 2: I need you to explain because I'm willing to listen.

722
00:35:27,079 --> 00:35:29,199
But I didn't see anhing out of the ordinary yesterday

723
00:35:29,199 --> 00:35:30,239
at all.

724
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:34,639
Speaker 12: I saw less isolation. I guess they were more in

725
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:40,000
fast break than anything, but more than usual. But it

726
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,039
seems like the only offense they have is an isolate

727
00:35:43,119 --> 00:35:45,800
saloon at the top of the key or isolate KD

728
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:47,559
at the top of the key. But I saw a

729
00:35:47,559 --> 00:35:49,480
lot more passing going on, and it seemed like they

730
00:35:49,559 --> 00:35:52,800
had some different screens going on. I'm not wondering if

731
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,119
you noticed that, or it's just me.

732
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,599
Speaker 2: Well, I'll say this yesterday to me and thank you

733
00:35:57,639 --> 00:36:01,039
for the skull. Scott. Be careful out there. Maybe if

734
00:36:01,039 --> 00:36:03,320
you were to take the amount of time the ball

735
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,440
was in a Men Thompson's hands, it would be reduced

736
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:09,360
a little bit. Yes, they were running because the Clippers

737
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,079
didn't start the game with the five on one, which

738
00:36:12,119 --> 00:36:15,519
is what people have been doing, putting the opposing center

739
00:36:15,559 --> 00:36:17,440
on him and Thompson and sagging them off. But they

740
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:21,119
did it a little bit with brook Lopez and they

741
00:36:21,119 --> 00:36:23,159
did have him in Thompson a little bit more off

742
00:36:23,159 --> 00:36:26,639
ball screening, running those types of things. But I would say, no,

743
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,400
they're not an isolation offense. I mean it ends up

744
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,400
that way generally, would they It's a pick and roll set.

745
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,039
What they do with Kevin Durant and Alprin shing Goon

746
00:36:35,079 --> 00:36:38,400
in a two man game with Amen Thompson normally kind

747
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,320
of roaming around, that's basically their go too. They don't

748
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:43,360
do it every single time down the floor, but that's

749
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:44,880
what they do. They were using them in more as

750
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,039
a screener last night than I have seen in recent time,

751
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,760
which was good because it forces They were doing it

752
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:53,639
also very like top of the key. So if brook

753
00:36:53,679 --> 00:36:55,480
Lopez is going to be sagging off of a Men

754
00:36:55,519 --> 00:36:57,280
Thompson and that's how they want to go the defense

755
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,000
to get him in the paint, well, yeah, run a

756
00:36:59,079 --> 00:37:00,880
high pick and roll with the men as a screener.

757
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:02,840
Then brook Lopez is going to be in deep waters

758
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,239
because he's gonna have to either switch and get onto

759
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,360
Kevin Durant or Outbrnching Goon and let them operate. And

760
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,719
it's also gonna just help more movement all around and

761
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:13,599
help with the space. And the reality is this, we

762
00:37:13,679 --> 00:37:17,639
have seen more centers attack men. The thing you may

763
00:37:17,679 --> 00:37:20,239
have noticed differently last night is brook Lopez athletics. I

764
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,920
can't do no no, And that's the reason why there

765
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,039
was a little more roaming around because the men didn't

766
00:37:25,079 --> 00:37:29,199
have a big athletic six ten, six eleven guy chasing round.

767
00:37:29,199 --> 00:37:31,599
It's good because they're gonna have solutions to this problem.

768
00:37:31,639 --> 00:37:34,039
They're gonna need counters to that, especially c playoff time.

769
00:37:34,079 --> 00:37:36,519
If you get matched up right now, they would be

770
00:37:36,599 --> 00:37:39,119
matched up in the second round against the San Antonio Spurs.

771
00:37:39,519 --> 00:37:41,639
So I like that they've they're going to have some

772
00:37:41,679 --> 00:37:44,400
time to figure this out, work on it, fine, tune it,

773
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:47,920
and get more reps working on this men. Thompson getting

774
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,559
defended by five because you need him out there because

775
00:37:50,559 --> 00:37:51,920
you have you know, some people want him out of

776
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,039
the starting lineup because of the spacing and all that stuff.

777
00:37:54,039 --> 00:37:55,639
You got to figure it out because the men. Thompson

778
00:37:55,679 --> 00:37:57,400
needs to be on the floor. Yeah, because he's a great,

779
00:37:57,519 --> 00:38:00,360
dynamic two way player. When he was asked yesterday whether

780
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:03,239
or not Reid could supplant a man in the starting lineup,

781
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:07,760
he said nine anytime soon and probably not ever. Reid

782
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,960
had a great night four six from three. I like

783
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,440
offense off the bench to play thirty minutes. It's not

784
00:38:12,519 --> 00:38:15,000
like read. People act like Reach Shepherd. Oh, you gotta

785
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,960
start Reach Sheepherd, you gotta start Reach Shepherd. He played

786
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,400
more minutes than Tari Easton last night, who started. He's

787
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,679
playing minutes. But it's about the configuration of on the floor.

788
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,280
As you mentioned, he can come on with the second unit,

789
00:38:25,559 --> 00:38:28,519
be the primary ball handler and shooter and score off

790
00:38:28,519 --> 00:38:30,840
of there because Click Capella ain't giving you twenty off

791
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,599
the bench. You need bench scoring and that's where Reach

792
00:38:33,679 --> 00:38:36,360
Shepherd thrives. Emay Duncan next on seven.

793
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 1: Ninety's The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

794
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,800
Speaker 2: Love It two on seven ninety Man and Ross with You,

795
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,199
we spend ten minutes now with the head basketball coach

796
00:38:48,199 --> 00:38:50,440
of your Houston Rockets. Last night, Rockets took care of

797
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:54,119
business one two to the l A Clippers. Emay Duckle

798
00:38:54,159 --> 00:38:58,880
with US coach, good morning. How different was it facing

799
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,480
a Clipper team with out Zubots and Harden on the floor.

800
00:39:02,559 --> 00:39:04,440
I know you know all those players very well. You

801
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,119
certainly know Kawhi and what he's able to do. But

802
00:39:06,639 --> 00:39:09,480
just for the strategizing during the course of the game,

803
00:39:09,519 --> 00:39:12,719
was it a complete different change or there's some elements

804
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:14,639
that used in previous games without those two guys on

805
00:39:14,679 --> 00:39:15,039
the floor.

806
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:17,800
Speaker 5: No, it's very different.

807
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 13: Obviously, Harden is just such unique player and what he

808
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,119
brings to the table. You have to game plan this

809
00:39:23,159 --> 00:39:25,320
scheme for him, and you know, Zubo's kind of their

810
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,679
anchor on defense, and so very different as far as

811
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,159
the space thing with Lopez, you know, more spaced out

812
00:39:31,199 --> 00:39:34,320
on the perimeter the ball and Leonard's ten one hundred

813
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,599
percent of the time now, and then you know they're

814
00:39:36,599 --> 00:39:39,719
not at full strength. You know, Garland's out, and obviously

815
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,599
they're getting their guys up to speed. Mather and then

816
00:39:41,679 --> 00:39:43,679
Jackson playing in their first game. So it was very

817
00:39:43,679 --> 00:39:45,159
different than the team we faced before.

818
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,199
Speaker 2: The double team on Kawhi look you got his shots up,

819
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:50,599
but it took him nineteen to get twenty four. So

820
00:39:50,599 --> 00:39:52,519
I think you'd be generally speaking pretty police the way

821
00:39:52,559 --> 00:39:54,800
you guys doubled him on a fairly regular basis.

822
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:57,760
Speaker 13: Yeah, and that's my point, you know, with with with

823
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,199
hard Gun and some of their guys out we you know,

824
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,320
have to go after Kawhi Leonard obviously he's gonna have

825
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,360
the ball in his hands and much more. And so yeah,

826
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,280
you don't always look at the final score, you know,

827
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,280
him having twenty four points, it's the nineteen attempts. Other

828
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:12,960
than you know, nine free throws. I think we did

829
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:13,880
a decent job on them.

830
00:40:15,039 --> 00:40:17,559
Speaker 2: Read back off the bench. Good to get Amend back

831
00:40:17,599 --> 00:40:20,440
out there. There was some time out there that looked

832
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,360
like that Amen didn't have to necessarily worry about ball

833
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,559
handling as much as maybe in previous games. Was that

834
00:40:24,639 --> 00:40:27,760
intentional or just how the game progress, especially because he

835
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,039
had not as many big men chasing after him as

836
00:40:30,039 --> 00:40:31,199
he had in recent weeks.

837
00:40:32,519 --> 00:40:33,599
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, you know.

838
00:40:33,599 --> 00:40:36,199
Speaker 13: We like to have multiple handlers out there at times,

839
00:40:36,199 --> 00:40:38,320
and so when we can get reading our men out

840
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:39,519
there together, it's always.

841
00:40:39,199 --> 00:40:40,280
Speaker 5: Been good for us.

842
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:40,639
Speaker 6: You know.

843
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:43,159
Speaker 13: Obviously you can initiate through Alpi and Kevin does his

844
00:40:43,199 --> 00:40:44,199
share handling as well.

845
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,039
Speaker 5: So as always.

846
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:47,320
Speaker 13: This year, you know, we tried to go through a

847
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,400
little bit through committee while the young guys are learning.

848
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,480
But yeah, several different ways to attack it. And like

849
00:40:52,519 --> 00:40:54,960
I said, with Alp being such a unique center that

850
00:40:55,119 --> 00:40:57,440
can play up top and get us into our sets,

851
00:40:57,760 --> 00:40:59,440
you can take some of that pressure off the other guys.

852
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:01,800
Speaker 2: There has been a lot of talk about him and

853
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:05,760
Thompson and the fives guarding him. How much has that

854
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,920
been discussed in practices and meetings and things like that,

855
00:41:09,079 --> 00:41:11,760
and as part of you as a coach kind of

856
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,239
like the challenge of seeing that and trying to work

857
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:16,679
on ways to combat it.

858
00:41:18,599 --> 00:41:21,360
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean it's something that we've seen since his

859
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:24,159
first year, since his rookie year, when you know when

860
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,199
Alper went out with the last eighteen games and was

861
00:41:27,199 --> 00:41:27,960
technically our.

862
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,280
Speaker 5: Small ball five or you know him and Jabari out.

863
00:41:30,199 --> 00:41:31,599
Speaker 13: There at the four and the five, so quite a

864
00:41:31,599 --> 00:41:34,159
few teams had the bigs on him. So something that

865
00:41:34,199 --> 00:41:37,320
he and we are very accustomed to. And you know,

866
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:39,400
he knows the spots that he can pick, whether he's

867
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,639
handling obviously putting the big on him a second back

868
00:41:41,679 --> 00:41:44,599
takes away some of the driving lanes, but very good

869
00:41:44,639 --> 00:41:46,800
in the in the pocket, very good in the dunker spot.

870
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 5: You know, him setting screens and rolling has always been

871
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:49,360
good for us.

872
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:51,760
Speaker 13: And so he's had his practice over the last few years,

873
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,440
and we know the areas we can get to with

874
00:41:53,519 --> 00:41:55,159
him not handling the ball.

875
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 2: Rocket take coach Imy Doka was here on Sports Talk

876
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,679
seven ninety just reach Shepherd of course, with the bounce

877
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:04,960
back night shooting last night. Is there any bit of

878
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,400
a kind of a semblance of a maybe he's not

879
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,159
a rookie, but a rookie wall to he's played double

880
00:42:10,199 --> 00:42:12,199
the minutes that he did all of last year. What

881
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,280
have you been seeing from him, not only just from

882
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:18,280
on the floor, but as far as energy and maintaining

883
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:19,519
and being out there on the floor.

884
00:42:21,199 --> 00:42:23,159
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean he's played a lot more this year.

885
00:42:23,199 --> 00:42:25,199
Obviously then you know, didn't play a ton of this

886
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,039
rookie year. But I think for all young guys, everybody's

887
00:42:28,039 --> 00:42:29,880
gonna have a slump at some point during the season.

888
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 5: And you know what we.

889
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:34,039
Speaker 13: Say is don't let that affect your overall game. You know,

890
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,639
don't just rely on jump shots to impact the game.

891
00:42:36,679 --> 00:42:38,800
And so for Reid, you know, he's making some really

892
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,559
nice passes and stepping up on the defensive end. It

893
00:42:41,679 --> 00:42:43,239
is what we're asking all the guys to do, and

894
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:46,360
so he didn't may hit that wall, and obviously one

895
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:48,440
more before All Start break, you can get your legs back,

896
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:50,760
get a little rest in, and kind of reset from there.

897
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 5: But I think he's playing fine.

898
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:54,800
Speaker 13: You know, missing some shots that he normally made early

899
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:56,840
in the season, but Jabari did a few weeks ago.

900
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,119
Auferins gone through his thing, and so you just have

901
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:01,559
to push through it, like I said, and I just

902
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,280
let made shots dictate how your.

903
00:43:04,159 --> 00:43:04,760
Speaker 5: Game's going to go.

904
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:08,840
Speaker 2: We've discussed as many times where coaches like yourself have

905
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,039
to kind of fight the All Star break, you know, like, hey,

906
00:43:11,079 --> 00:43:13,599
I want to think about the vacation or getting away

907
00:43:13,599 --> 00:43:15,880
from the sport. Your guys have fought through that the

908
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:19,360
last couple of days. Discuss the bounce back in your

909
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,559
mind the team has had after those two home losses

910
00:43:21,559 --> 00:43:23,400
to Boston Charlotte. How you fought back and now with

911
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:25,000
a chance here to go to the break in a

912
00:43:25,039 --> 00:43:26,000
three game winning streak.

913
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:29,639
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, it's just the effort and intensity that

914
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:31,679
takes to win a basketball game, wasn't there in those

915
00:43:31,679 --> 00:43:32,199
two games.

916
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:33,519
Speaker 5: And you know, quite simple.

917
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,559
Speaker 13: You know, whether you make shots or not or guard

918
00:43:36,639 --> 00:43:38,800
well enough, if you don't play with the right effort

919
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,039
in mindset, you're not gonna give yourself a chance on

920
00:43:41,079 --> 00:43:43,519
the nightly basis. And so for us, it was just

921
00:43:43,519 --> 00:43:45,239
getting back to that. I think you saw that in

922
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:47,440
Oklahoma City game. We watched quite a bit of film

923
00:43:47,679 --> 00:43:50,519
on the Charlotte and Boston game and look like two

924
00:43:50,559 --> 00:43:53,400
different teams. Whether you know it was just legs or

925
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:55,000
guys thinking about All Star.

926
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:55,320
Speaker 5: Break or whatever.

927
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,239
Speaker 13: We had five games left and we wanted to play well.

928
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,679
So you know, two of those not too well. The

929
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:01,760
last been really good. And it's like I said, you

930
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:03,519
can see the difference on the tape. Our guys have

931
00:44:03,639 --> 00:44:06,480
been back locked in and obviously want to finish on

932
00:44:06,519 --> 00:44:07,199
a good note tonight.

933
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,159
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've heard from the medical staff.

934
00:44:09,199 --> 00:44:10,920
Where are you on who can sit and who can

935
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:13,320
stay tonight? Is there anybody that would be definitely out

936
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:14,039
for tonight's game.

937
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 13: Dorian will be out tonight for sure. Try will be

938
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:19,440
a game time decision. You know he's gonna try it

939
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:21,360
down and see how he feels and go from there.

940
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 2: All right, Josh did not play a show. Is that

941
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:23,719
being okay with him?

942
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:26,280
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, just Josh was fine.

943
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 13: I think part of it was the fact that Dorian's

944
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:31,039
going to be out tomorrow tonight and you don't want

945
00:44:31,079 --> 00:44:32,199
to rest him.

946
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,280
Speaker 5: But obviously Josh is always ready to be called.

947
00:44:34,159 --> 00:44:37,079
Speaker 13: Upon and went with the little short of rotation knowing

948
00:44:37,119 --> 00:44:39,199
that we're gonna run some guys some longer minutes and.

949
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:41,039
Speaker 5: We'll have Josh tonight for sure.

950
00:44:41,199 --> 00:44:43,519
Speaker 2: What did you think of ben nick Mather and getting

951
00:44:43,559 --> 00:44:45,360
his first amount of playing time for the Clippers. We

952
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:47,119
just saw him a few weeks ago wearing paster gear.

953
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, he's gonna be a good asset for them.

954
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:51,119
Speaker 5: I think.

955
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,239
Speaker 13: You know, it's always hard when you kind of get

956
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,719
implemented into a new situation like that, and you know,

957
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,800
he wasn't as aggressive as he's been with Indiana, but

958
00:45:00,199 --> 00:45:02,440
expect that to happen over time here, you know, probably

959
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,719
right after all start break when they gets some practices in,

960
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:06,760
but good pickup for them in general.

961
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:09,840
Speaker 2: Do you tell the NBA folks to keep your center

962
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:11,800
and your power forward on ice and make sure you

963
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:13,440
don't work him too hard. I mean, it's a great

964
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,639
experience for both of them, especially for Albi when getting

965
00:45:15,639 --> 00:45:19,119
the late addition. But Kevin's been through this a lot,

966
00:45:19,159 --> 00:45:21,360
so do you think about that, Like, hey man, I

967
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:23,079
want you to get away from the sport. But it

968
00:45:23,079 --> 00:45:24,840
feels like to me that Katie's been such a gym

969
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,280
ra at his entire life that it's he he'd trying

970
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:29,000
to find a place to shoots some baskets even during

971
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:29,559
this off time.

972
00:45:30,679 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 13: Oh, he definitely would have done that regardless, and so

973
00:45:33,119 --> 00:45:35,440
you know, it's another honor for him. Man outbring, you know,

974
00:45:35,559 --> 00:45:38,719
and we want those guys to be perennial All Stars.

975
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:40,719
And you know, as much as the rest is good

976
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:42,840
for you, that's a huge runner. And I think the

977
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:44,960
guys will trade that off any day, but in know

978
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:46,880
how to mix it in and get the rest in

979
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:48,480
that they need in the in the days with the

980
00:45:48,519 --> 00:45:51,000
media and all that. And then obviously the game isn't

981
00:45:51,039 --> 00:45:53,360
full speed full speed, so they'll they'll be out there

982
00:45:53,599 --> 00:45:55,719
getting some rest. But even after that, they got two

983
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,079
three four days off to until our next game agains

984
00:45:58,159 --> 00:45:59,960
Charlotte and get a chance to rest up then.

985
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 2: And we've still been through this amazing run of back

986
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:06,360
to backs. It's getting better. I mean, they're they're being

987
00:46:06,599 --> 00:46:08,559
knocked off the list, But it feels like this squad

988
00:46:08,599 --> 00:46:10,239
has had more back to backs in the last month

989
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:11,840
and a half than maybe anybody else in the NBA

990
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:12,280
has had.

991
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:14,679
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I'm sure we have.

992
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,679
Speaker 13: I think we didn't have any for the first you know,

993
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:19,840
eight or so weeks. I think we had our first

994
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:22,360
in late December, and so, you know, we had it

995
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:23,760
easier earlier in the year, and now.

996
00:46:23,679 --> 00:46:24,599
Speaker 5: It's catching up to us.

997
00:46:24,639 --> 00:46:26,199
Speaker 13: You know, we basically had won every week for the

998
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:28,480
last four weeks, and so it is what it is.

999
00:46:28,519 --> 00:46:29,719
You know, it's going to catch up to you at

1000
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:31,880
some point. And like I said, we have done a

1001
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,599
good job and some struggled earlier in some others and

1002
00:46:34,639 --> 00:46:36,480
now we want to finish tonight with on a good

1003
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:37,400
note against Clippers.

1004
00:46:37,519 --> 00:46:39,199
Speaker 2: Is there any the wrap things up with you? Is

1005
00:46:39,199 --> 00:46:41,400
there any individual message you like tell the guys that

1006
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,360
they step away from the sports or is it more

1007
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:47,239
of a team get together conversation as guys trying to

1008
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:49,199
take a step a break away from the sport for

1009
00:46:49,199 --> 00:46:49,800
a few days.

1010
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 5: I think I think it's both.

1011
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 13: I think you know, team and individually, everybody needs to,

1012
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:57,239
you know, kind of take a step back and decompress,

1013
00:46:57,719 --> 00:46:59,440
you know, get your legs back. We have twenty nine

1014
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:01,960
games coming out of the break and that goes really quickly.

1015
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,639
So get the work in that you need to. Obviously,

1016
00:47:04,639 --> 00:47:06,599
don't come back out of shape or you know, rusty,

1017
00:47:06,679 --> 00:47:08,920
but also get away from it for a minute.

1018
00:47:09,159 --> 00:47:11,320
Speaker 5: Like I said, clear your mind and prepare for what's

1019
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:11,599
a hit?

1020
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:13,679
Speaker 2: Are you much of a standings watcher guy right now

1021
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:16,320
or is that never gonna happen for you?

1022
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:16,360
Speaker 14: No?

1023
00:47:16,519 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 5: I think we're all conscious of it.

1024
00:47:18,639 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 13: Such a tight, tight race in the West that every

1025
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:23,679
game kind of matters, and so when it's that tight,

1026
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:25,880
and this is one of the season, you're already starting

1027
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:26,480
to peek at it.

1028
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:28,519
Speaker 2: Thank you for the visitors always, We'll see you tonight,

1029
00:47:28,519 --> 00:47:29,920
and good luck against the Clippers.

1030
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:31,280
Speaker 5: Thank you, guys, you got it.

1031
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 2: Emao Doka with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety

1032
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:38,320
was Danning's watch? Was it Joe that was never watching standings?

1033
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:42,519
Or that is every coach line I'm aware of that,

1034
00:47:42,559 --> 00:47:45,400
he's aware of it. Yeah. Number three in the West,

1035
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,920
Well it's five percentage point, still number three in the West.

1036
00:47:49,039 --> 00:47:51,800
I love it. That does. You can say whatever you want.

1037
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,360
You can put all your asterisks and all that number

1038
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:57,119
three in the West, and I think I had n

1039
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:58,800
and coaches, you know, because.

1040
00:47:58,639 --> 00:48:01,639
Speaker 15: The words and they're gonna be eight seed and the

1041
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:04,000
team's falling apart.

1042
00:48:05,039 --> 00:48:06,199
Speaker 2: Who is that? Is that?

1043
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 5: All?

1044
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,800
Speaker 2: Have you seen? Rockets? Twitter? Rocket? Twitter? Sounds like that

1045
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:18,559
audio shop Firestone fire email you doka? Are you ready

1046
00:48:18,599 --> 00:48:19,440
for this little knuck?

1047
00:48:21,119 --> 00:48:21,320
Speaker 5: What?

1048
00:48:21,639 --> 00:48:25,239
Speaker 2: The Rockets are one game better record wise this year

1049
00:48:25,599 --> 00:48:28,840
than they were at this same point last year. They

1050
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:32,760
were thirty two and twenty. Last year they're thirty three

1051
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:33,360
and nineteen.

1052
00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:33,639
Speaker 5: Now.

1053
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 2: M okay. You know what just feels a little bit

1054
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,599
different is the fact that last year was Oklahoma City

1055
00:48:40,639 --> 00:48:43,519
boat Race. Everybody, Yes, how you got the San Antonio

1056
00:48:43,559 --> 00:48:47,440
Spurs killing it? Yeah, they're like, uh, they might win

1057
00:48:47,559 --> 00:48:50,760
sixty games. Oh, we don't need to talk about what

1058
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:52,760
when b Dyama did last night? Will you please text

1059
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:53,800
Clinton during the break for me?

1060
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 5: No?

1061
00:48:54,199 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 2: Why, just want to say his reaction he well, this

1062
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:00,000
is what he's gonna I'm gonna I'll predict if he's

1063
00:49:00,119 --> 00:49:02,280
not listening, let's do it in pardiculaar. I was gonna say, right,

1064
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:03,920
now he's just saying, oh, yeah, I was against all

1065
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:09,480
the Lakers backups, which is true. Lakers were missing Reeves, Lebron, Doncicu,

1066
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:12,119
who else, some other players the under eight, and I

1067
00:49:12,119 --> 00:49:14,320
think didn't play. So for those who don't know, Wemby

1068
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,840
last night scored forty points. Here's the incredible part of it.

1069
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:21,360
He scored thirty seven of that in the first half,

1070
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:24,960
twenty five. In the first quarter he had twenty five.

1071
00:49:25,039 --> 00:49:27,599
He was Gay's going Wilt Chamberlain pace. In the first

1072
00:49:27,679 --> 00:49:31,440
quarter he had twenty five. The Lakers had thirty collectively,

1073
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:35,119
and then the first So what you do is why

1074
00:49:35,159 --> 00:49:36,599
you don't want to root for San Antonio.

1075
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:37,039
Speaker 5: I don't.

1076
00:49:37,079 --> 00:49:40,760
Speaker 2: It does give a little separation between three, four, five, six.

1077
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:47,400
Yeah's you're three and a half back. So I think

1078
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:50,360
I think heading to San Antonio for Game one of

1079
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:54,119
the Western Semis feels like a the chalk pick. You're

1080
00:49:54,119 --> 00:49:56,119
staying with me, right, the chalk pick. You know we're

1081
00:49:56,119 --> 00:49:57,880
going to San Antonio to go We're staying on the

1082
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:02,280
sewage walk. Well, we stay a little bit off of

1083
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:03,920
it a little okay, we're in the more of the

1084
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,760
Christis Casino in San Antonio, it's about I don't know,

1085
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:11,760
a thousand miles away in Denver or in Las Vegas. Gosh,

1086
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:14,960
I thought Texas was supposed to be about freedom. Speaking

1087
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,239
of that, what's the deal? There's an interesting story about

1088
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:20,679
what's going on in Dallas with the ownership of the Mavericks. Oh,

1089
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:22,880
because they want some cash. They want they want some

1090
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:25,239
casino cash. We'll talk about that in the second okay.

1091
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:26,599
And then we got Chutch you boy mass up at

1092
00:50:26,599 --> 00:50:28,559
bottom of the hour here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

1093
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:32,000
We got some breaking news here on the Matt Thomas Show.

1094
00:50:36,079 --> 00:50:38,320
Did I hear it or not? Many know? All right,

1095
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:41,559
well do you want them? I think we should get one. Okay,

1096
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:43,800
I don't know what's happening. It's not breaking. It's oh

1097
00:50:44,039 --> 00:50:46,039
common to you know, when you hear from people it's

1098
00:50:46,079 --> 00:50:49,519
also breaking as well. Okay, So we hear is Josh

1099
00:50:49,559 --> 00:50:53,679
hater uh speaking to the media literally a couple of

1100
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:55,559
minutes ago. This is raw. We have not cut the

1101
00:50:55,599 --> 00:50:58,079
sound up, but this is I'm assuming a couple of

1102
00:50:58,159 --> 00:51:01,559
Q and a's. Oh computer froze up, so he says,

1103
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,320
keep a second. Oh, this is Josh speaking after he

1104
00:51:04,679 --> 00:51:08,800
soft tossed today and and When Gordy said soft toss,

1105
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:12,079
he really meant he was having a catch. Well he was,

1106
00:51:13,039 --> 00:51:14,280
but it this way. If he had a two year

1107
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:16,280
old son, he was probably throwing the ball to his

1108
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:18,440
teems was te bat? You know it was an underhand,

1109
00:51:18,519 --> 00:51:18,800
was it?

1110
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:20,519
Speaker 5: You know?

1111
00:51:20,559 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 2: Maybe you use your right hand, build up a strength

1112
00:51:22,559 --> 00:51:24,039
just in case. I mean, if you're paying twenty million

1113
00:51:24,039 --> 00:51:25,480
dollars a year when you las want to travel to

1114
00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:28,719
give it a go with the right hand. It's well, okay,

1115
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:33,239
are you ready? I think he's maybe we're still frozen.

1116
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:37,360
All right, he says, I sent it to Ross. We're

1117
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:43,800
a multi billion dollar company and we have the worst equipment. Sorry,

1118
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:47,880
I gotta run this bios update real quick. You just

1119
00:51:48,159 --> 00:51:54,880
now you're just making things. Okay, I'm kidding. Computers are great. Well,

1120
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,679
can you give us the gist of what he said? No,

1121
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:01,079
I'm not giving we get a paraphrase. No, No, we

1122
00:52:01,119 --> 00:52:03,679
can call you the gister. No we're not. No, No,

1123
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:06,079
I'm a gesture, not the gister. Excuse me what I

1124
00:52:06,159 --> 00:52:11,400
just say? Uh man, we tried it. I'm telling you

1125
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:13,880
fair Well, here's from Chandler rome A. Well, we'll get

1126
00:52:14,079 --> 00:52:16,559
we'll get the audio eventually, Josh Kater just send it

1127
00:52:16,599 --> 00:52:23,599
to you. We are an audio company medium. It's fine. Uh.

1128
00:52:23,639 --> 00:52:25,960
He's a few weeks behind, but did one did not

1129
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,119
want to speculate about opening day. He said he thinks

1130
00:52:28,119 --> 00:52:30,719
the biceps issue was independent of the shoulder capsule sprained

1131
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:32,639
that sidelined him last year. He said he felt his

1132
00:52:32,679 --> 00:52:35,639
bicep grab while throwing a change up in catch. We'll

1133
00:52:35,679 --> 00:52:39,880
see you may first. You want to fight me on

1134
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,280
and go ahead? No, I don't. I'm defeated some down,

1135
00:52:42,639 --> 00:52:44,639
I know, because that gives us a him mount of

1136
00:52:44,679 --> 00:52:47,840
computer system. Okay, well I know it's it's all rolled

1137
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:50,239
into one, Matt. Oh, it probably is. Yeah, combination of

1138
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:53,360
bringing down your subconscious, which is a powerful thing. All right,

1139
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:54,320
check your email, sud.

1140
00:52:54,599 --> 00:52:54,800
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1141
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:56,199
Speaker 2: Well I have to roll on this and then save

1142
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:59,519
it and then we can so really our computer crash.

1143
00:52:59,639 --> 00:53:01,079
We have people that I would like to get Josh

1144
00:53:01,119 --> 00:53:04,360
hand audio here and we can't play it. We're working on.

1145
00:53:06,559 --> 00:53:13,920
We got a team with the Tiger teams on it.

1146
00:53:15,280 --> 00:53:17,719
Just break down the Slovakia Finland game for I don't

1147
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:19,239
want to do any of that. I would like to

1148
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:21,679
have equipment that works. That's all in an all film someday

1149
00:53:23,559 --> 00:53:25,320
here was this play. I don't know, I just kind

1150
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:27,239
of take us through what happened when you were stress

1151
00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:29,119
Bryan mctagger's during your fourth bullpen, I believe.

1152
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:29,519
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1153
00:53:29,559 --> 00:53:32,360
Speaker 16: So I was going in my fourth bullpen and for me,

1154
00:53:32,519 --> 00:53:34,239
when I was throwing catch play, I just threw a

1155
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:37,559
change up kind of grabbed on me. So then kept

1156
00:53:37,599 --> 00:53:40,480
going on and then the next day felt it again

1157
00:53:40,599 --> 00:53:44,440
on a change up. So following that, tried to do

1158
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:46,760
it without throwing the change up, and then the more

1159
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:51,239
intense I got, felt it again. So the base kind

1160
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:54,119
of got inflamed. So then I took about ten days

1161
00:53:54,159 --> 00:53:56,960
off and started just letting that heel a little bit.

1162
00:53:57,280 --> 00:53:59,679
And now we're here today, and today was the first

1163
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:04,159
hip catch play, which was pretty good. So, like I said,

1164
00:54:04,199 --> 00:54:09,199
a little setback, but nothing too concerning for me. And yeah,

1165
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:11,639
so just building back up now and just get ready

1166
00:54:11,639 --> 00:54:12,159
for the season.

1167
00:54:12,440 --> 00:54:15,840
Speaker 2: What you gotta do now, Just I actually see how

1168
00:54:16,119 --> 00:54:16,639
I'm polls.

1169
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:19,559
Speaker 16: I mean, it's just back to normal, just building back up. So,

1170
00:54:19,679 --> 00:54:21,079
I mean I was at the point where I was

1171
00:54:21,079 --> 00:54:23,400
summer bullpens. I was up, you know, in eighty five,

1172
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:26,320
and you know, it felt really good. So I think

1173
00:54:26,559 --> 00:54:28,840
it's more so just getting back to that, just building

1174
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:30,760
the arm back up since I had ten days off,

1175
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:34,000
so I would say we're probably a few weeks behind

1176
00:54:34,079 --> 00:54:36,280
right now on just getting that arm.

1177
00:54:36,159 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 2: Back to where we need it to be. Where you're staying.

1178
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:42,199
Speaker 7: It's the first workout, but I mean giving yourself a

1179
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:44,360
time frame as to whether you think you've been really

1180
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:45,039
broken there.

1181
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:47,679
Speaker 16: No, right now, I'm just taking it week by week

1182
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:51,079
into just seeing how I'm progressing with that. For me,

1183
00:54:51,159 --> 00:54:54,480
it's it's more of just like seeing how my body

1184
00:54:54,519 --> 00:54:58,199
responds on everything, because if I start setting a table,

1185
00:54:58,480 --> 00:54:59,880
I don't want to get to the point where I'm

1186
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,480
I'm going to be rushing and then something long term happens,

1187
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:06,000
which I don't think it will, but you know, sometimes

1188
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:08,679
you got to be cautious with that. But for right now,

1189
00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:13,360
it's just building back up to where we need to be.

1190
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:15,760
Speaker 2: It's building back up. It's all good, baby, It's a

1191
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:21,440
little soreness, Mattie, don't worry. Don't you worry about a thing? Okay,

1192
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:24,599
you're not worried, Well, I'll do it like no, no, no, no, no,

1193
00:55:24,639 --> 00:55:27,199
you said literally an hour ago. I'm not worried about

1194
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:30,719
when he's back. I asked you a question, are you

1195
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:33,639
worrying you are going to say, No, I'm worried so

1196
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:36,800
about what he's gonna rip his bicep. No, that this

1197
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:38,199
is going to be something that we're gonna be sitting

1198
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:40,000
here talking about for weeks and weeks and weeks. It

1199
00:55:40,079 --> 00:55:42,239
is what it is, and we do about it and

1200
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:44,519
be there when he's going to be there. He'll be

1201
00:55:44,559 --> 00:55:46,800
here when he gets here. Like we said, you heard

1202
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:48,800
on all last year and then Kyle Tucker of the

1203
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:55,639
year before that. Yeah, Brian Brady's got this. Let's go. Yeah,

1204
00:55:55,719 --> 00:55:57,599
it is what it is. Brian King's raid to rock

1205
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:00,800
Brian King the most important and seventh inning guy in

1206
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:05,559
Major League Baseball. Let's go yeah. Okay, May first, it

1207
00:56:05,639 --> 00:56:10,000
sounds good to me. I'm okay with that. I mean,

1208
00:56:10,119 --> 00:56:14,360
I mean whatever. Again, the only thing I have any

1209
00:56:14,679 --> 00:56:16,760
sort of feel good about is that you've got a

1210
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:19,960
terrific plan. B the most team. Most good teams are

1211
00:56:20,039 --> 00:56:21,920
supposed to cover for guys that are closed. It are down.

1212
00:56:22,199 --> 00:56:24,239
If you don't have an eighth inning guy, why you

1213
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:26,159
spend all the money on your ninth inning guy. The

1214
00:56:26,199 --> 00:56:30,519
Astros have always spent considered amount of money and importance

1215
00:56:30,519 --> 00:56:33,840
in their bullpen, and I respect them for that. Backup

1216
00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:38,519
catcher in utility in fielder not so much. But don't

1217
00:56:38,519 --> 00:56:41,440
get me started on that. I mean, we're gonna miss

1218
00:56:41,519 --> 00:56:45,480
Victor Kartini. I get it. But unfortunately you just can't

1219
00:56:45,559 --> 00:56:49,639
have gold glovers or unbelievable. Gotta have this guy in

1220
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:52,079
my roster and through all twenty six spots in your rotation.

1221
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:59,079
He's greatest catch. I'm convinced more than ever I know

1222
00:56:59,159 --> 00:57:01,360
that day to today's that that things have cooled off. Yeah,

1223
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:03,440
I think once the Red Sox got out of the running,

1224
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:05,800
things did cool off. You know, things is gonna heat up.

1225
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:09,159
Somebody's gonna get hurt. Well, then you get then you

1226
00:57:09,159 --> 00:57:11,960
you then you don't have a log jam. Yeah, I'm

1227
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:14,760
talking about from some other team and from another team. Okay,

1228
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:17,320
I thought you meant here, Yeah, just my I mean

1229
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:19,760
it could. I mean, look, Corey is thirty three with

1230
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:23,079
back issues, and San Francisco wouldn't pass him in a

1231
00:57:23,079 --> 00:57:26,719
physical Jose al two Bay is about three thirty six.

1232
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:30,400
But you're also presuming Christian Walker that ESCAC parties can

1233
00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:33,440
play some second base. I mean can you move people around?

1234
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 6: Uh?

1235
00:57:34,519 --> 00:57:38,599
Speaker 2: No, because you you know again, if estac parties play

1236
00:57:38,639 --> 00:57:40,800
second base, it's wonderful. But that's something that's not been

1237
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:44,079
a huge part of his professional repertoire. He's done it before. Well,

1238
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:47,239
I'm gonna say something that's gonna sting you. Please, it's

1239
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:49,000
not gonna be worse than now two a at second base.

1240
00:57:49,079 --> 00:57:52,440
Oh stop, I'm sorry, I disagree at this point in

1241
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:59,639
their careers. All right, Well, let's make a DRS bet.

1242
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:03,039
I don't even know what that means, but I think

1243
00:58:03,079 --> 00:58:05,960
I know what it means. Let's make a oh a

1244
00:58:06,159 --> 00:58:09,480
a bet. No, we're not doing metrics bets. Okay, Only

1245
00:58:09,519 --> 00:58:12,800
people that uh sit in their laboratories with their door

1246
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:15,559
closed and have no friends make DRS. There was one.

1247
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:18,199
There was one guy who was the worst at his

1248
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:21,599
at two positions last year in d R S the

1249
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:26,880
defensive runs saved A DRS stands for defensive run saved. No,

1250
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:31,920
it's something else. Okay, I'm just saying. I know I

1251
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:33,679
told you it was gonna sting. You know what it

1252
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:36,519
is DRS is dumb ridiculous stat Oh here we go.

1253
00:58:36,519 --> 00:58:40,079
Good job, it's pretty good. Guess who's you you don't

1254
00:58:40,119 --> 00:58:43,119
like them, and that's fine. You and everybody at the

1255
00:58:43,119 --> 00:58:45,440
p knuckle game doesn't like d r S. I get it,

1256
00:58:45,679 --> 00:58:47,800
but it's being used all over the place. I don't

1257
00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:49,920
play p knuckle. Yeah, I know you're playing bridge with mad.

1258
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:53,480
I play spades in bridge, spades with Maud love shades.

1259
00:58:53,559 --> 00:58:55,400
I'm a great spades player. By the way, at the

1260
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:58,199
shuffle board, they don't get the RSL. I understand. If

1261
00:58:58,199 --> 00:58:59,880
you don't count your books properly, I will get mad

1262
00:58:59,880 --> 00:59:04,920
at what is twenty twenty six? Ryan and Montgomery eleven

1263
00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:10,320
twenty seven. Hello Ryan, Hey guys, Sorry, i'all doing good.

1264
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:13,480
Speaker 17: I want to pull my hair out because all I

1265
00:59:13,519 --> 00:59:16,679
heard was blah blah blah blah blah. We're gonna try

1266
00:59:16,679 --> 00:59:18,679
to fix this and we're gonna pay nineteen million for

1267
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:22,760
half a season's worth of Josh Hayder and it's gonna suck.

1268
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:25,239
And maybe that's just the negative Nancy and me and

1269
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:28,800
just the Astros just upsetting me, which they have, and

1270
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:29,599
that's okay.

1271
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:32,440
Speaker 10: But I agree with Ross also close out two mays

1272
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:37,159
a defensive liability. I mean, my god, and it's DRS matters, Matt,

1273
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:41,360
it does, and I just I'm shook. I don't know

1274
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:42,199
how to what.

1275
00:59:42,199 --> 00:59:43,920
Speaker 14: Should I even be excited for Opening Day?

1276
00:59:44,119 --> 00:59:46,039
Speaker 2: Yes, of course you should be. This team is still

1277
00:59:46,079 --> 00:59:51,079
gonna be very good. Come on, because I'm nervous as

1278
00:59:51,119 --> 00:59:53,239
hell about Josh Ander's return doesn't mean this team still

1279
00:59:53,239 --> 00:59:54,119
can't win some games.

1280
00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:56,880
Speaker 6: It's not just Josh hater Matt.

1281
00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:58,400
Speaker 8: It's just a lot of stuff.

1282
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:00,000
Speaker 9: Man, this is freaking me out.

1283
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:04,440
Speaker 2: Oh God, freaking out.

1284
01:00:04,519 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 14: Man.

1285
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 5: All right, I'll talk to you later, Thank you very much.

1286
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:19,119
Speaker 2: DRS matters, It does metrics matter. I'm saying Paradis second

1287
01:00:19,119 --> 01:00:21,119
base can't be worse than al Twove. I'm just saying

1288
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:25,480
he can't. We love Josel tub build a statue. See

1289
01:00:25,639 --> 01:00:27,679
I think if somebody's listened to the show that's not

1290
01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:30,599
seen jose al Tuove play you come across. I'm not

1291
01:00:30,599 --> 01:00:32,599
saying you're trying to do it, but it comes across

1292
01:00:32,599 --> 01:00:34,199
as a butcher out there. And he's not a butcher.

1293
01:00:34,519 --> 01:00:38,320
He just has limited range. And I'm sure range is

1294
01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:40,280
a huge part of the r Range is a huge

1295
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:42,320
part of it. But he doesn't he that the ball

1296
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:46,760
gets to him. He doesn't kick balls. The arm is

1297
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:49,199
in a strong and he's late thirties. Guy, I mean,

1298
01:00:49,239 --> 01:00:51,960
that's it is what it is. But I've never in

1299
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:55,280
my mind, and maybe I'll feel differently in twenty twenty six.

1300
01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:58,480
I've never gone, oh my god, Hoseel Tuoba is a

1301
01:00:58,519 --> 01:01:03,159
second base we're in trouble where I've honestly felt like

1302
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:06,119
jose L Tuoby in left field puts us in trouble. Yeah,

1303
01:01:06,159 --> 01:01:07,840
I don't feel that way about second bass I just don't.

1304
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:09,679
That's just me being honest. He was the worst left

1305
01:01:09,679 --> 01:01:12,000
fielder in baseball. I know you hate d rs, and

1306
01:01:12,079 --> 01:01:16,280
then let's see, in only five hundred innings, the seventh

1307
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:20,679
worst second baseman. Uh, it's yeah, it's about I will

1308
01:01:20,719 --> 01:01:23,039
say I say often. I don't normally say, oh, he

1309
01:01:23,039 --> 01:01:24,880
booted that ball. Now he happens and he's not. He

1310
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:27,719
doesn't have a thousand fielding percentage. But there's a lot

1311
01:01:27,719 --> 01:01:29,679
of times I say, ooh, I think somebody else would

1312
01:01:29,719 --> 01:01:33,440
have gotten to that. That's fair all right, time for

1313
01:01:33,480 --> 01:01:35,320
people to say shut your bull mass up. I'm gonna

1314
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:37,679
tell I'm gonna tell me to ship no, no, I do

1315
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:41,440
that even non Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Eleven thirty. I'm going

1316
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:44,760
to tell a national talk talk shows. Shut the soss. Okay,

1317
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:46,800
it just came down the for you tab. I'm intrigued.

1318
01:01:47,079 --> 01:01:50,559
And then I have one for my beloved NBA that

1319
01:01:50,599 --> 01:01:53,280
I love. It's more of Ain't nobody got time for

1320
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:54,599
them to shut your bum mess up? I mean, I

1321
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:57,119
know where I need to stand on that. Seven one

1322
01:01:57,159 --> 01:01:59,639
three two two five seven seven one three two one

1323
01:01:59,679 --> 01:02:02,719
two five seven nine zero. It's a Matt Thomas show

1324
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:08,599
with Ross again again again, tamp it again, damp it

1325
01:02:09,239 --> 01:02:13,199
can beget, damp it care again, tamp here again, time

1326
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:16,159
hereby again, damp it all right. This is where we

1327
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:19,039
spend the next twenty five minutes just letting it all out.

1328
01:02:19,119 --> 01:02:23,800
And Ross wants to say something, but he can't because

1329
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:26,960
I'm trying to create harmony in these streets of seven ninety.

1330
01:02:27,039 --> 01:02:31,280
So we'll save that for I didn't mean to fill

1331
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:33,880
anything the buzz on. Keep things in house, Matt, Yes,

1332
01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:37,000
we do keep occasionally do that, all right? Seven one

1333
01:02:37,039 --> 01:02:39,800
three seven ninety. If there's anything that you want to

1334
01:02:40,039 --> 01:02:42,519
just say, you know what, some of the office is

1335
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:46,800
grinding in your nerves. Somebody at the driver's license office

1336
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:48,320
was not polite. Do you want tell them to shut

1337
01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:50,239
their bumb mass up. Here's where for you here right

1338
01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:53,559
here in seven ninety Hey, nobody get or shut your

1339
01:02:53,559 --> 01:02:55,960
bum mass eve either one? All right, uh, I'm gonna

1340
01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:58,599
start first with one shut your bum mass up and one.

1341
01:02:59,440 --> 01:02:59,559
Speaker 5: Uh.

1342
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:01,679
Speaker 2: Anybody got time for that? I'm gonna go with the

1343
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:04,719
NBA first. The NBA nous yesterday, and look, I love

1344
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:07,480
the NBA. I mean I want to say that of

1345
01:03:07,719 --> 01:03:10,400
all the people in this city that do radio, we

1346
01:03:10,599 --> 01:03:13,519
you and I fawn for the NBA more than anybody

1347
01:03:13,519 --> 01:03:15,440
else in the marketplace. I think it's even safe to

1348
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:20,280
say that. Correct. The NBA is going to send two

1349
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:22,880
hundred influencers to the All Star Game so they can

1350
01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:25,039
take pictures and videos and all that kind of thing

1351
01:03:25,119 --> 01:03:27,360
to show how awesome everything about the All Star Weekend is.

1352
01:03:29,679 --> 01:03:32,079
I love you, NBA, but I'm muting you this weekend.

1353
01:03:33,039 --> 01:03:37,119
Ninety five percent of people that consider themselves professional influencers

1354
01:03:37,159 --> 01:03:44,360
are douchebags, not one hundred percent. Okay, eighty, it's ninety five.

1355
01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:47,400
The last thing I want is a bunch of twenty

1356
01:03:47,519 --> 01:03:50,199
year old people, twenty two year old people who got

1357
01:03:50,239 --> 01:03:52,199
a free trip to stay at a nice place in

1358
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:55,679
Los Angeles and all airfairness, amazing access. Tell you what

1359
01:03:56,199 --> 01:03:58,239
everybody else in the world is missing they can't afford

1360
01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:01,679
or doesn't have the access to. So I will say, respectfully, NBA,

1361
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:04,880
I love you, But anybody got time for influencer d

1362
01:04:05,039 --> 01:04:08,119
bags to give me highlights of NBA All Star Weekend? Hey,

1363
01:04:08,199 --> 01:04:11,719
nobody got time for that's connect with the young audience, Matt.

1364
01:04:12,719 --> 01:04:15,480
They're gonna anger the audience. They're not going to connect

1365
01:04:15,519 --> 01:04:18,920
with them. Did you you've not go look at the

1366
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:22,719
replies when the NBA announced this. It's not pretty. Number two.

1367
01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:25,840
I would say friend of the show, but he's not

1368
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:27,599
in front of the show. Nick Wright is. He and

1369
01:04:27,679 --> 01:04:31,400
I have been knowing each other for years, and he

1370
01:04:31,639 --> 01:04:34,360
is the epitome of let's do something on a national

1371
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:39,519
hot take that we'll get people talking. And I don't

1372
01:04:39,559 --> 01:04:42,159
think it'll get people talking except me for one thing. Again,

1373
01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:47,559
my philosophy is not all publicity is good publicity. Some

1374
01:04:47,639 --> 01:04:49,320
people will disagree with that that if you just get

1375
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:53,719
the name out, that's good. Apparently I caught this on

1376
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:58,639
for you just a few minutes ago, Rossie. He says this.

1377
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:01,559
According to a ringer, the NBA could fix the All

1378
01:05:01,639 --> 01:05:05,679
Star Game by doing something. Do you know what that

1379
01:05:05,719 --> 01:05:13,119
would be? Think about what Nick Wright is about grifting? Lying?

1380
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:17,840
You can't grift during the All Star Game? Oh you

1381
01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:22,880
could lie? I guess, social justice gigant warmer? What what

1382
01:05:23,599 --> 01:05:26,719
I'm scared now? He would like to have a team

1383
01:05:27,519 --> 01:05:30,480
on one side full of white players versus a team

1384
01:05:30,719 --> 01:05:34,800
kidding of black players. You're stop, you're joking. There's no

1385
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:38,000
way that happened. That's ai. He did not say that.

1386
01:05:40,079 --> 01:05:43,199
NBA Central, that's a legitimate Be sure it's Sentel, No,

1387
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:48,079
it's Central. I'm let me tell you something right now.

1388
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:52,320
Was he joking? I really wish, and I'm speaking as

1389
01:05:52,320 --> 01:05:58,679
a white person, I really wish. It feels like everything

1390
01:06:00,039 --> 01:06:03,280
when it comes into conversation has either a political line

1391
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:10,719
or racial line to it. We have to stop a

1392
01:06:10,880 --> 01:06:16,159
society warring about color of skin and political affiliation. We

1393
01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:18,920
just if we disagree on something, we disagree and we

1394
01:06:19,079 --> 01:06:24,880
move on. Where does okay? Sorry, go ahead? How would

1395
01:06:25,559 --> 01:06:27,920
think about this for a second? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome

1396
01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:33,280
to the NBA All Star Game, introducing the team of

1397
01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:38,760
white players versus the team of black players. And let's

1398
01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:41,159
be brutally honest on this ross What if you have

1399
01:06:41,280 --> 01:06:44,400
a white mother, and so what if you mix? There's

1400
01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:46,320
no way this is as serious. He has to be joking.

1401
01:06:47,119 --> 01:06:47,360
Speaker 11: I'm not.

1402
01:06:47,760 --> 01:06:49,199
Speaker 2: There's no way, are you.

1403
01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:50,000
Speaker 9: You know?

1404
01:06:50,159 --> 01:06:52,079
Speaker 2: Nick Right? You've heard him to talk before. You think

1405
01:06:52,079 --> 01:06:56,039
he's kidding. He's either kidding or stupid or trolling. Damn it,

1406
01:06:57,400 --> 01:07:02,760
so Nick trolling, race Baider, shut your bumb ass up.

1407
01:07:03,239 --> 01:07:07,119
Speaker 5: Shit, so bum ass up, man, and I'm done.

1408
01:07:07,239 --> 01:07:10,440
Speaker 2: He's kidding. He's gotta be joking. I'm gonna listen to

1409
01:07:10,480 --> 01:07:12,159
the Ardie now. We were gonna play it, but he's

1410
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:13,920
he swears a lot during it, so I guess we

1411
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,679
couldn't play. I would I would rather not here Nick

1412
01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:19,559
Right on this show. I don't disagree with you, Jonathan.

1413
01:07:19,599 --> 01:07:23,079
What's the matter with you? My friend? You know what,

1414
01:07:23,280 --> 01:07:24,840
it's one of those weeks. I'm not the past. I

1415
01:07:24,880 --> 01:07:31,360
got too much anger. Wow, too angry?

1416
01:07:32,079 --> 01:07:32,280
Speaker 14: You know what?

1417
01:07:32,519 --> 01:07:35,079
Speaker 2: Sometimes you don't need to put air out the dirty laundry.

1418
01:07:35,079 --> 01:07:36,920
And for that, okay, good, we didn't do anything wrong,

1419
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:39,480
did we gonna make sure we're okay. It's probably Matt

1420
01:07:40,000 --> 01:07:43,800
not on that. Okay, thank you. I'll go with Rockets fans.

1421
01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:47,079
Last week, Rockets lost to the Celtics and the Hornets.

1422
01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:50,719
Speaker 15: Oh, the Rockets are falling apart, and oh they're gonna

1423
01:07:50,760 --> 01:07:53,400
be an eight seen and oh this team is terrible

1424
01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:57,199
and the sky's falling and they're the worst and men Thompson,

1425
01:07:57,280 --> 01:07:58,079
he's come off.

1426
01:07:57,960 --> 01:08:00,719
Speaker 2: The bench and blah blah blah blah blah. Now they

1427
01:08:00,800 --> 01:08:03,119
beat the Thunder. Okay, they didn't have Shake Gills Suckxander,

1428
01:08:03,159 --> 01:08:05,760
but they won, and they beat the Clippers. They're the

1429
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:11,400
number three seed in the West. With two rotational players,

1430
01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:14,920
a starter and a major bench player out for this season.

1431
01:08:15,679 --> 01:08:18,479
You can't play Dorian Finney Smith on back to backs,

1432
01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:20,800
and when he does play, he's not playing well. Tarry

1433
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:22,680
Easton doesn't play back to back, so you've had a

1434
01:08:22,720 --> 01:08:25,439
limited rotation to where I mean, you're having to hold

1435
01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:27,920
out Josh Okogie of all people so that he can

1436
01:08:27,960 --> 01:08:30,319
play the second half of a back to back. And

1437
01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:33,399
they're third in the West. Shut jobum, ass up a

1438
01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:41,119
bunch of whiners in the Rockets. Twitter, man, that's grumpy.

1439
01:08:41,359 --> 01:08:44,640
We fall for this every year. It's an eighty two

1440
01:08:44,720 --> 01:08:47,279
game season and we gonna become prisoner of the moment

1441
01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:50,600
every every time the Astros lose three games in a row.

1442
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:53,239
Every time the Rockets lose two games in a row,

1443
01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:56,720
the sky's falling. Fire rufel Stone, I can go and

1444
01:08:56,800 --> 01:08:59,560
if I put fiery Miandoca, I can find you one

1445
01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:06,800
thousand tweets from the last week. Idiots and over reactionary.

1446
01:09:07,520 --> 01:09:10,279
It's getting worse. I know this is what it's always been.

1447
01:09:10,319 --> 01:09:11,920
Prison in the moment, but it's getting worse and worse

1448
01:09:11,960 --> 01:09:15,600
and worse. Check your bumb messes up.

1449
01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:18,000
Speaker 5: Sit so bum mess up.

1450
01:09:18,079 --> 01:09:18,199
Speaker 1: Man.

1451
01:09:18,199 --> 01:09:21,239
Speaker 2: All right, we've let the groundwork down. Okay, now it's

1452
01:09:21,279 --> 01:09:26,199
Houston's turn. Yes, you're driving around. You're an eleven o'clocker.

1453
01:09:26,239 --> 01:09:28,359
We go shout out to eleven o'clockers. Maybe you're a

1454
01:09:28,399 --> 01:09:30,039
upisode because it's raining right now in your neck of

1455
01:09:30,079 --> 01:09:33,640
the woods. Seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

1456
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:36,319
Seven one three two one two five seven eighty. If

1457
01:09:36,359 --> 01:09:39,399
something is bothering you, we are here for you. Seven

1458
01:09:39,439 --> 01:09:42,680
one three two one two five seven ninety. It's eleven

1459
01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:45,760
forty three. It is about Thomas Showldross and this is

1460
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:50,000
sports talk. SEVENAINTI all right, last call for shuts your

1461
01:09:50,039 --> 01:09:52,199
ball mess up in just a moment. Seven one three

1462
01:09:52,279 --> 01:09:54,199
two one two five seven ninety. If you got something

1463
01:09:54,199 --> 01:09:56,319
you're complaining about, anybody got time for that, We'll take

1464
01:09:56,359 --> 01:10:00,520
it seven one three two one two five seven to

1465
01:10:00,920 --> 01:10:03,479
nine zero. We mentioned this a little while ago. I

1466
01:10:03,560 --> 01:10:06,560
wanted to get in between the Josh Harrison boba. We're

1467
01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:08,800
gonna have the full update for you on what's going

1468
01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:11,399
on with the Astros the top of the hour with

1469
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:16,520
the news at the noon. Mark Stein used to work

1470
01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:19,039
for ESPN. Now he just does a sub stack. Can

1471
01:10:19,119 --> 01:10:21,279
you make money off just doing stubstacks? And how do

1472
01:10:21,319 --> 01:10:23,880
you pay the bills? I mean, I guess you have

1473
01:10:24,039 --> 01:10:27,840
like people that subscribe, but mark Stein, you can get that.

1474
01:10:28,039 --> 01:10:30,439
You can get an information from ESPN. Dudes and mark Stein.

1475
01:10:30,520 --> 01:10:35,279
But he put out a story that Mark Cuban has

1476
01:10:35,359 --> 01:10:38,880
been approached by several investors to help try to rebuy

1477
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:42,560
the Dallas Mavericks from the current family that owns the

1478
01:10:42,640 --> 01:10:48,319
Dallas Mavericks, and it's not going anywhere at this point.

1479
01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:52,600
The Mavericks ownership group, which is tied to a casino

1480
01:10:52,760 --> 01:10:56,760
chain I want to say in Las Vegas, has said, yeah,

1481
01:10:56,880 --> 01:10:59,279
we're not looking to sell. We're looking forward to running

1482
01:10:59,319 --> 01:11:01,520
it back with Cooper Flag and looking forward to having

1483
01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:05,159
a successful run as Dallas Mavericks owner. The reality is

1484
01:11:05,239 --> 01:11:08,279
this and how it ties in the state of Texas.

1485
01:11:08,359 --> 01:11:11,000
And again we're not getting into Maverick deep conversation here,

1486
01:11:11,520 --> 01:11:16,800
but they bought the Mavericks in order to create a

1487
01:11:17,319 --> 01:11:21,520
entertainment empire. They want a new arena for the Mavericks,

1488
01:11:22,079 --> 01:11:24,439
just their own, not to share with the stars. And

1489
01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:28,399
they want to build a casino. I mean, not like

1490
01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:32,760
a folk casino. I mean a real casino with real

1491
01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:37,079
black jacket reel back around and real crabs and real roulette.

1492
01:11:37,159 --> 01:11:40,159
How's that going? It's going nowhere. Have you heard any

1493
01:11:40,239 --> 01:11:41,960
buzz for casinos in Texas?

1494
01:11:42,279 --> 01:11:42,319
Speaker 9: No?

1495
01:11:44,680 --> 01:11:48,000
Speaker 2: So the issue is is that they're saying, why do

1496
01:11:48,119 --> 01:11:50,079
you think all of a sudden it's going to turn

1497
01:11:50,159 --> 01:11:52,439
on the diamond. People are going to change their minds

1498
01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:54,960
and say, yes, we're gonna get casinos in Texas. And oh,

1499
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:57,359
by the way, even if they do, how long would

1500
01:11:57,359 --> 01:12:00,640
it take for a casino to be built? Casinos take

1501
01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:04,640
multiple years to build. Yes, you don't even have a

1502
01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:08,520
Texas Casino Commission that regulates over things like that. I mean,

1503
01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:10,520
we're looking if they passed it all of a sudden,

1504
01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:14,720
tomorrow you're probably looking at at minimum five, maybe ten

1505
01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:18,680
years before we ever got it. Yeah, like you said,

1506
01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:21,199
you need a gambling commission, you need all kinds of stuff,

1507
01:12:21,239 --> 01:12:24,239
you need everything, some sort of regulation. Yeah, they're gonna

1508
01:12:24,239 --> 01:12:29,119
get their taste. Yeah. So the people that are trying

1509
01:12:29,159 --> 01:12:30,960
to inquire or at least have kicked the tires to

1510
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:33,439
Mark Cuban, have said, hey, if they're not getting this

1511
01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:36,239
anytime soon, let's see if they can sell it back

1512
01:12:36,279 --> 01:12:40,119
to us so we can solidify the Mavericks membership in Dallas.

1513
01:12:40,119 --> 01:12:41,760
Because there are some people still to this day, to

1514
01:12:41,880 --> 01:12:44,319
this hour, believe that the Mavericks ultimately could be moving

1515
01:12:44,359 --> 01:12:47,079
out of Dallas and going to Las Vegas if they

1516
01:12:47,159 --> 01:12:49,840
decide to put an NBA team in Las Vegas. I

1517
01:12:49,880 --> 01:12:53,439
don't that. I don't think the Dots seems way out

1518
01:12:53,479 --> 01:12:54,960
of it. I don't think they would get out of

1519
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:57,199
the Dallas market. I don't. I mean Adams would be

1520
01:12:57,279 --> 01:12:59,520
foolish to leave Dallas for Las Vegas. He just would.

1521
01:12:59,520 --> 01:13:00,880
I mean, Dallas this is too big of a sports

1522
01:13:00,920 --> 01:13:03,560
mark Las Vegas again, I say it sounds sexier than

1523
01:13:03,600 --> 01:13:07,840
it is. I still think they're there. By the way,

1524
01:13:07,840 --> 01:13:10,720
I was listen to a podcast Yesday Wrestling Podcast. Oh really,

1525
01:13:11,079 --> 01:13:15,159
twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five, So I don't

1526
01:13:15,199 --> 01:13:17,560
have the twenty five to twenty six numbers. Okay, let's

1527
01:13:17,760 --> 01:13:22,079
change February. So Las Vegas seven percent down in overall

1528
01:13:22,239 --> 01:13:26,399
revenue in Las Vegas twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five.

1529
01:13:26,399 --> 01:13:28,239
I'm curious where that is, even from ten years ago.

1530
01:13:29,439 --> 01:13:34,439
It's fair. Yeah, it's gonna get worse. I think. Get

1531
01:13:34,560 --> 01:13:37,079
rid of the resort fees on. Well, yeah, it's lower

1532
01:13:37,119 --> 01:13:40,359
your hotel fees in general, because guess what if you

1533
01:13:40,479 --> 01:13:43,600
lower your fees, we'll go back and we'll spend We'll

1534
01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:45,640
spend our gambling money there. We will. We promise I

1535
01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:48,279
won't because three to two is not coming back. I'm

1536
01:13:48,279 --> 01:13:52,159
staying downtown. We're talking about Vegas in general, don't Yeah,

1537
01:13:53,239 --> 01:13:55,000
Oh you got me team downtown. By the way, I'm

1538
01:13:55,239 --> 01:13:56,840
about I was talking about today with my wife. I said,

1539
01:13:56,880 --> 01:13:58,079
Ross and are going to book a trip the next

1540
01:13:58,119 --> 01:13:59,840
month or so, and we're going downtown. We're going to

1541
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:06,039
ok okay, because nobody under the age of twenty ones there.

1542
01:14:07,039 --> 01:14:12,520
Beautiful pool, beautiful pool, beautiful pool. Oh the water is delightful. Oh,

1543
01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:18,439
it's refreshing. Yes, good, great sports book, huge sports, amazing

1544
01:14:18,479 --> 01:14:21,000
sports book, and a beautiful pool and three to two

1545
01:14:21,039 --> 01:14:24,880
blackjack and three to two and everywhere everywhere you go.

1546
01:14:26,119 --> 01:14:28,479
And they're nice people there. The food the Burger place

1547
01:14:28,560 --> 01:14:30,880
is good. They got good food there. Yeah, but lower

1548
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:34,239
food costs twenty percent. Well, I don't lower your get

1549
01:14:34,319 --> 01:14:36,119
rid of the resort fees because they're killing people there.

1550
01:14:36,279 --> 01:14:39,319
Here's a thirty dollars smash burger on Thanks Vegas. We'll

1551
01:14:39,319 --> 01:14:42,439
eat your fries with it. Although rocked to the Coney Island,

1552
01:14:42,479 --> 01:14:43,800
I get by two for one. I got with you

1553
01:14:43,800 --> 01:14:46,720
a PBR and a dog for two bucks. Kay. So

1554
01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:48,680
on seven ninety k. So what's the matter with you?

1555
01:14:50,439 --> 01:14:50,560
Speaker 5: Uh?

1556
01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:53,439
Speaker 9: Quickly before I tell someone to shut their my mass up.

1557
01:14:53,960 --> 01:14:58,359
As someone who listens to the Ringer podcast, and I

1558
01:14:58,439 --> 01:15:01,319
actually listened to the one this morning with Nick Wright,

1559
01:15:01,880 --> 01:15:03,520
and I've always kind of had a soft spot for

1560
01:15:03,640 --> 01:15:06,079
Nick because back in the Harden days he was one

1561
01:15:06,079 --> 01:15:09,279
of the true, the only true believers in James, So

1562
01:15:09,520 --> 01:15:11,880
I've always kind of liked him. His tera drives me crazy.

1563
01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:17,760
But it was clear they were clearly joking. He anything

1564
01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:21,920
that Bill Simmons and Nick talk about on that podcast.

1565
01:15:22,399 --> 01:15:24,600
It was clearly this them joking.

1566
01:15:25,159 --> 01:15:26,399
Speaker 2: I know it got a.

1567
01:15:26,399 --> 01:15:30,520
Speaker 9: Big uh, you know, rally out of everyone on the internet,

1568
01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:32,840
but it was clearly in fodder. And I just think

1569
01:15:32,880 --> 01:15:35,520
it's kind of funny how everyone's blowing up on him.

1570
01:15:36,079 --> 01:15:38,279
And I would say this. I mean, I would think

1571
01:15:38,279 --> 01:15:40,359
the white would have a puncher's chance. Now, wouldn't you

1572
01:15:40,399 --> 01:15:45,600
say the whites? Well, it wouldn't be so lopsided.

1573
01:15:46,720 --> 01:15:49,920
Speaker 2: I don't care if the whites had a six point advantage.

1574
01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:53,760
We have got to a society stopped trying to characterize

1575
01:15:53,760 --> 01:15:55,359
people by the color of their skin. I know I've

1576
01:15:55,359 --> 01:15:56,840
been I think everybody's been saying that for the last

1577
01:15:56,880 --> 01:15:58,479
I don't know, one hundred and fifty years of our life.

1578
01:15:58,560 --> 01:16:02,159
But I mean to Luka Doncic count though he's Slovenia. Yeah,

1579
01:16:02,159 --> 01:16:04,880
they're saying all Europeans would go to the whites. We

1580
01:16:05,039 --> 01:16:08,359
as whites would get the Europeans. He was a victor

1581
01:16:08,399 --> 01:16:11,239
of women. Yama's French. He's in there. He would go

1582
01:16:11,319 --> 01:16:16,039
to the blacks. His mom's white. Come on, he goes

1583
01:16:16,079 --> 01:16:20,039
to a black. Oh all right, you know what, I'm

1584
01:16:20,119 --> 01:16:23,560
turning my microphone off for the rest of this case,

1585
01:16:23,640 --> 01:16:26,319
I'm out of here. It's to even bring it up

1586
01:16:26,439 --> 01:16:29,039
this preposterous. I'm sorry, No, all right, let me just

1587
01:16:29,159 --> 01:16:30,760
let me get my shut your bumb ass up, all right,

1588
01:16:31,199 --> 01:16:32,159
I'll get off ahead.

1589
01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:35,680
Speaker 9: I just want to send one to an old rival,

1590
01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:39,840
to the Rockets, to the whole organization for having an

1591
01:16:39,960 --> 01:16:46,359
actual decent roster and sitting every starter every fourth quarter,

1592
01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:49,880
not not taking one time out, not doing anything so

1593
01:16:49,960 --> 01:16:52,840
they can continue to tank. To them, I talked to

1594
01:16:53,319 --> 01:16:56,439
the Utah Jazz. Shut your bumb ass up. You got

1595
01:16:56,520 --> 01:16:58,600
a great roster and a not great roster. You have

1596
01:16:58,640 --> 01:17:01,520
a great coach and an okay roster, and he nobody

1597
01:17:01,600 --> 01:17:05,039
got time for your tanking rooting the NBA. I'm over it.

1598
01:17:05,520 --> 01:17:06,520
Speaker 2: Shut your bumb ass up.

1599
01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:08,279
Speaker 5: Thanks, shuts obam ass up.

1600
01:17:08,399 --> 01:17:08,560
Speaker 7: Man.

1601
01:17:13,720 --> 01:17:18,720
Speaker 2: Uh mister j LF Matt, I understand why you say

1602
01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:20,920
Jalen Williams six, but it's annoying. Is that what the

1603
01:17:20,960 --> 01:17:23,439
Oklahoma City radio announcer says? Hashtag game? But they got

1604
01:17:23,479 --> 01:17:29,399
time for that? I'm sorry, j R. Jalen Williams is

1605
01:17:29,479 --> 01:17:33,159
a Oklahoma City thunder. There are two of them. He

1606
01:17:33,359 --> 01:17:36,239
calls eighty two of their games. I call four of them.

1607
01:17:36,319 --> 01:17:39,880
Sometimes three. What does he say? He says, I shouldn't

1608
01:17:39,880 --> 01:17:43,760
say Jaalen Williams, Jay Will and Jay I mean, I

1609
01:17:43,800 --> 01:17:45,319
don't know. I don't even know what he says. It

1610
01:17:45,399 --> 01:17:47,600
doesn't matter. I do it the way I want to

1611
01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:51,000
do it because it's easier for me to identify and

1612
01:17:51,039 --> 01:17:53,640
there's a difference. So you don't have time for it,

1613
01:17:53,680 --> 01:17:56,840
then shut your bomb ass up. But don't listen. God,

1614
01:17:56,880 --> 01:17:58,840
I'm I love the critics that want to come in

1615
01:17:58,920 --> 01:18:00,800
and tell me how to do my job. Up shit,

1616
01:18:00,920 --> 01:18:01,840
so bum ass up.

1617
01:18:01,960 --> 01:18:02,119
Speaker 5: Man.

1618
01:18:02,439 --> 01:18:09,520
Speaker 2: Oh that pisses me off. I see that clearly it does. Yeah,

1619
01:18:09,560 --> 01:18:12,920
I don't I don't know how. How does anybody else

1620
01:18:12,960 --> 01:18:14,840
do it? They do? J Will or j Will? They

1621
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:17,159
do one of him, says. One guy says Jay wolfrom

1622
01:18:17,199 --> 01:18:20,680
Santa Clara. One guy says Jay Will from the other college. Yeah,

1623
01:18:20,920 --> 01:18:22,600
I don't know. There's no easy way to do it.

1624
01:18:24,039 --> 01:18:27,960
Don't listen. You don't like it, don't listen. Did I

1625
01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:32,119
didn't mean to hurt you. It's ridiculous. I got a

1626
01:18:32,159 --> 01:18:33,920
hard enough job as it is, trying to worry about

1627
01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:35,720
five hundred players in a league, and if I have

1628
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:38,359
to go Jay Williams six Jane Williams eight, because there

1629
01:18:38,399 --> 01:18:43,600
are two literally Jaylen Williams on this floor, Joe bumass up.

1630
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:46,399
Identifying them by the number seems way better than by

1631
01:18:46,439 --> 01:18:51,119
the college. Yes, and if I set them by their nicknames,

1632
01:18:51,159 --> 01:18:52,760
you wouldn't know who was w because you don't know

1633
01:18:52,760 --> 01:18:54,640
who Clabus City is. They don't we don't know what

1634
01:18:54,680 --> 01:18:58,760
their nicknames are. J Y J will I mean, is

1635
01:18:58,840 --> 01:19:02,000
that easier? Stop you should do ste Jay Williams good

1636
01:19:02,039 --> 01:19:06,039
and Jay Williams Bad. I could say Jay Williams Big four,

1637
01:19:06,159 --> 01:19:08,119
j Williams off guard. I mean, I could say that

1638
01:19:08,439 --> 01:19:11,319
Jay Williams mid and Jay Williams Good. Well, but if

1639
01:19:11,359 --> 01:19:13,520
what if j Williams six has a good game from

1640
01:19:13,520 --> 01:19:15,560
three point mes, Jay Williams six had a three point

1641
01:19:15,560 --> 01:19:18,359
in Jay Williams mid is playing like Jay Williams good

1642
01:19:18,439 --> 01:19:24,840
tonight and to toeyo to board Aye would have got

1643
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:26,760
time for you telling me how to do my job.

1644
01:19:26,800 --> 01:19:28,680
I feel like the way you do it seems it's

1645
01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:31,279
exactly pretty logical. Look, I understand if you know if

1646
01:19:31,279 --> 01:19:34,079
there's some things you don't like, except some guy two

1647
01:19:34,079 --> 01:19:35,720
weeks ago is that he doesn't like what we play.

1648
01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:37,600
I'm sorry by what's her name, Connie France?

1649
01:19:37,640 --> 01:19:37,880
Speaker 1: Why not?

1650
01:19:38,039 --> 01:19:40,520
Speaker 2: Oh no, it's Brindley, Brindlelee whatever, same difference.

1651
01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:41,159
Speaker 5: Why not?

1652
01:19:41,439 --> 01:19:44,840
Speaker 2: It's a jam. I reminds me of Tommy Boy. It

1653
01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:46,600
reminds me of Tommy Boy when they're at the diner.

1654
01:19:47,279 --> 01:19:49,319
I'm gonna make sure just to piss off mister j

1655
01:19:49,479 --> 01:19:52,079
RLF whatever his name is. I'm gonna do one hundred times,

1656
01:19:52,880 --> 01:19:56,239
Jason Juh, Jaylen Williams, six, Jaylewens. I'm just gonna just

1657
01:19:56,279 --> 01:19:57,840
confuse the hell out of you. And by the way,

1658
01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:01,600
there's a Kendridge Williams on the squad too. Well, at

1659
01:20:01,640 --> 01:20:06,479
least Jalen Green's not there. Oh my god, I'm going

1660
01:20:06,520 --> 01:20:08,560
to get some eggs out. The news a dude, isn't it. Relax?

1661
01:20:09,560 --> 01:20:15,800
We're nine innings, ash pros, three guardians. Great, here we

1662
01:20:15,880 --> 01:20:19,720
go total four. Sports Talk seven ninety is the news

1663
01:20:19,840 --> 01:20:24,319
of the day, right, would you say, Josh Hater soft

1664
01:20:24,439 --> 01:20:31,359
tossing and then speaking Yes. This is where Ross jumps

1665
01:20:31,399 --> 01:20:34,920
in with the news. Oh chat, dude, Yes, Matthew, And

1666
01:20:34,960 --> 01:20:37,600
the top news at dude is that it is a

1667
01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:41,279
biceps issue for Josh Hater. He said in his fourth

1668
01:20:41,359 --> 01:20:44,279
bullpen of the off season, he felt some tightness while

1669
01:20:44,319 --> 01:20:47,239
throwing a change up, and he took about ten days

1670
01:20:47,319 --> 01:20:49,920
off and he threw some catch today and he's feeling

1671
01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:54,640
better and maybe everything's gonna be okay. Man, all right,

1672
01:20:55,000 --> 01:20:57,560
May first if he's back, can't wait. Other than that,

1673
01:20:58,279 --> 01:21:02,000
I'm not holding my breath. I mean, whatever will be

1674
01:21:02,119 --> 01:21:02,359
will be.

1675
01:21:04,159 --> 01:21:04,319
Speaker 6: Uh.

1676
01:21:04,840 --> 01:21:08,439
Speaker 2: He got eight weeks, as our good friend Joe Spotter said,

1677
01:21:09,399 --> 01:21:14,760
so he does. He got Bobby Brian Bradus a great Yes, Bobby,

1678
01:21:14,800 --> 01:21:16,560
we'd be nice as well, but it only is going

1679
01:21:16,600 --> 01:21:19,800
to be Brian. Well, let's go just we'll go ahead

1680
01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:22,239
and hear from Joe spot earlier today on what's going

1681
01:21:22,279 --> 01:21:24,119
on with Josh Hater. Josh had a.

1682
01:21:24,159 --> 01:21:24,920
Speaker 5: Really good.

1683
01:21:26,359 --> 01:21:26,920
Speaker 2: Off season.

1684
01:21:27,239 --> 01:21:31,840
Speaker 4: Uh had three three really really good bullpens and leading

1685
01:21:31,880 --> 01:21:36,000
into his fourth one, UH, during his throwing program, he

1686
01:21:36,359 --> 01:21:41,279
stopped his throwing because arm soreness. We immediately went and

1687
01:21:41,399 --> 01:21:45,439
got some imaging and uh there's some inflammation on his

1688
01:21:45,600 --> 01:21:50,600
bicep tendon. So he has not been thrown for I

1689
01:21:50,640 --> 01:21:52,760
want to say, ten eleven days, and he will start

1690
01:21:53,560 --> 01:21:56,600
getting back on his throwing program again today.

1691
01:21:59,560 --> 01:22:02,399
Speaker 2: And he did throw, yes, and we'll hear more from

1692
01:22:02,840 --> 01:22:06,520
he had a catch. Yes, he didn't say alie at

1693
01:22:06,520 --> 01:22:08,159
any point, which is a very good sign.

1694
01:22:08,279 --> 01:22:08,479
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1695
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:12,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was an actual baseball. He wasn't

1696
01:22:12,920 --> 01:22:15,439
using like a whiffle ball. Probably put more strain on

1697
01:22:15,560 --> 01:22:19,600
his shoulder. You're right, so we're all good, and let's

1698
01:22:19,640 --> 01:22:25,039
see also elsewhere in the news, yinter, Diz, what's going

1699
01:22:25,079 --> 01:22:29,640
on with his foot? Here's Dana Brown. Diaz, you know,

1700
01:22:29,680 --> 01:22:32,800
he hurt his foot on the slide. So I saw

1701
01:22:32,880 --> 01:22:35,960
him yesterday, take good VP driving the ball over the fence.

1702
01:22:36,399 --> 01:22:37,560
Speaker 5: He looks totally normal.

1703
01:22:38,239 --> 01:22:40,760
Speaker 2: He's like a modified running program right now.

1704
01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:43,920
Speaker 13: But everything else in terms of swinging the back and throwing,

1705
01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:46,279
he's fine, So I would expect it.

1706
01:22:46,560 --> 01:22:47,399
Speaker 5: He's gonna be fine.

1707
01:22:48,960 --> 01:22:51,239
Speaker 2: Dana Brown said it's gonna be fine. Dana Brown speaks

1708
01:22:51,239 --> 01:22:54,520
to gospel. Dana Brown has never steered us wrong with

1709
01:22:54,640 --> 01:22:57,560
an injury. Matt, let me ask you this. Doesn't every

1710
01:22:57,680 --> 01:23:01,159
general manager do that, Doesn't every coach do that. Doesn't

1711
01:23:01,199 --> 01:23:04,199
every front office official in every sport do that. I mean, look,

1712
01:23:04,359 --> 01:23:06,840
we are closer to it because we heard it on

1713
01:23:06,920 --> 01:23:09,960
the daily last year. But tell me a team that

1714
01:23:10,119 --> 01:23:14,760
comes out and says, man, now, the last person I

1715
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:17,000
can think of. That was as open and honest right

1716
01:23:17,079 --> 01:23:20,960
after something had happened. Was when Bonnicks hurt himself in

1717
01:23:21,079 --> 01:23:24,560
the afc A divisional playoff game. Remember that right after

1718
01:23:24,600 --> 01:23:25,920
the game, he is in front of the poety me.

1719
01:23:25,920 --> 01:23:27,880
He said, Yeah, Bonix is gonna have foot surgery tomorrow

1720
01:23:27,880 --> 01:23:29,720
and he's done our ankle surgery whatever it is, and

1721
01:23:29,840 --> 01:23:32,479
we're gonna be starting Jared s tohim and please pray

1722
01:23:32,560 --> 01:23:40,239
for us. Yes, so the y is gonna be fine eventually. No, No,

1723
01:23:41,079 --> 01:23:43,560
he's good to go. He's on runnings, catching bullpens. He's

1724
01:23:43,680 --> 01:23:47,640
modified running program whatever that means. So quick question if

1725
01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:52,159
it was me versus briend, you don't even know what

1726
01:23:52,239 --> 01:23:54,399
I was gonna say. I was gonna say running to

1727
01:23:54,439 --> 01:23:57,720
first base. Do you think has with a hurt ankle

1728
01:23:57,880 --> 01:23:59,399
is better off than I am? I think he could

1729
01:23:59,399 --> 01:24:02,119
do it backward and beat you. I don't believe that now,

1730
01:24:02,239 --> 01:24:04,840
Oh now, twenty five years ago. Now what, let's try

1731
01:24:04,880 --> 01:24:07,000
to get this going. Actually, let me let me text

1732
01:24:07,079 --> 01:24:10,479
some people. No, don't you text anybody. Yeah, so you're

1733
01:24:10,560 --> 01:24:14,359
saying he will beat you backwards even with a bad ankle, Yes,

1734
01:24:15,920 --> 01:24:17,880
no chance. Are you serious?

1735
01:24:17,960 --> 01:24:18,159
Speaker 13: I'm not.

1736
01:24:18,439 --> 01:24:20,720
Speaker 2: I'm not a prodder I can get Okay, you know what,

1737
01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:22,880
Let's go out to a field and get your feet

1738
01:24:22,920 --> 01:24:26,319
per second sprinting because we can find How about I

1739
01:24:26,399 --> 01:24:28,279
just run ninety feet? How about you want to do

1740
01:24:28,319 --> 01:24:30,000
a per second? Just go ninety feet and see how

1741
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:32,680
it goes. Okay, let's do it. It's the problem is

1742
01:24:32,760 --> 01:24:35,039
we can't do because he won't run. Yeah, I gotta

1743
01:24:35,039 --> 01:24:36,279
go buy a hold on. Let me go to Amazon

1744
01:24:36,359 --> 01:24:39,920
trying to buy a sun dial real quick. You know

1745
01:24:40,039 --> 01:24:42,199
the way I am is because of you? What more

1746
01:24:42,279 --> 01:24:45,600
often than that? What do you mean you just called

1747
01:24:45,760 --> 01:24:48,560
me a sundial Well, I mean when you're up in

1748
01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:51,720
the clouds, I gotta pull you down to earth. Matt, God,

1749
01:24:54,039 --> 01:24:55,039
somebody's got to do it.

1750
01:24:55,920 --> 01:24:56,039
Speaker 5: Oh.

1751
01:24:56,079 --> 01:24:59,560
Speaker 2: I got JRF telling me I can't pronounce Jyalen Williams

1752
01:24:59,560 --> 01:25:04,960
six Jen eight. He finds it annoying. I find some

1753
01:25:05,039 --> 01:25:10,279
other things annoying. All right, what else you got? Oh?

1754
01:25:10,439 --> 01:25:15,279
For the news at noon? Man? Victor wim Minyama. Oh

1755
01:25:15,319 --> 01:25:18,239
you're not. You're bearing the rockets over Victor. Okay, I

1756
01:25:18,279 --> 01:25:20,800
mean the rockets won. Yeah, we got that. This is

1757
01:25:20,920 --> 01:25:24,279
head Loto two to ninety five. Kawhi Leonard with twenty

1758
01:25:24,319 --> 01:25:26,520
four points on nineteen shots. He was double team much

1759
01:25:26,560 --> 01:25:31,479
of the evening. Kevin Durant was good twenty six points

1760
01:25:31,520 --> 01:25:34,760
on twenty two shots. Jabari Smith Junior good enough. He

1761
01:25:35,119 --> 01:25:36,600
me did he make the first two threes of the

1762
01:25:36,640 --> 01:25:38,239
game and then he didn't make another one the rest

1763
01:25:38,239 --> 01:25:40,279
of the game. If offensive player, that's okay. I mean,

1764
01:25:40,319 --> 01:25:43,159
thirteen points is fine. Thirteen points from Jabari. You don't

1765
01:25:43,159 --> 01:25:46,039
need much more than that, certainly not when the defense

1766
01:25:46,079 --> 01:25:50,199
is holding the Clippers to just ninety five points. It

1767
01:25:50,359 --> 01:25:53,119
was a slower, knockdown, drag them out game. Rockets won

1768
01:25:53,199 --> 01:25:56,000
by seven. They shot fifty percent from the three point line,

1769
01:25:57,039 --> 01:25:59,279
which is very nice because they had been they were

1770
01:25:59,399 --> 01:26:01,840
forty from the year and they've down to thirty seven

1771
01:26:01,920 --> 01:26:05,520
percent going into this game tonight, and really a forty

1772
01:26:05,560 --> 01:26:07,960
percent three point shooting team. But free Chepper was four

1773
01:26:07,960 --> 01:26:10,159
to six, a nice bounce back. The numbers are the

1774
01:26:10,239 --> 01:26:12,279
numbers from You like to tell me the number sent

1775
01:26:12,560 --> 01:26:14,640
they are, but they numbers don't lie. But the numbers

1776
01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:18,760
can also be out of whack. The numbers, there's always

1777
01:26:18,800 --> 01:26:19,640
context in the numbers.

1778
01:26:19,680 --> 01:26:19,800
Speaker 5: Man.

1779
01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:22,239
Speaker 2: I'd like to hear this context. Well, when everybody's shooting

1780
01:26:22,319 --> 01:26:24,760
well above their career averages, probably the numbers are gonna

1781
01:26:24,760 --> 01:26:27,239
dip regression to the mean they call it, Matthew Okay, Well,

1782
01:26:27,720 --> 01:26:29,960
last night a thirty seven percent free a three point

1783
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:32,880
shooting team shot fifty and I want more of that tonight. Okay,

1784
01:26:33,600 --> 01:26:35,680
So you buy your numbers and they're gonna shoot fifty

1785
01:26:35,680 --> 01:26:38,079
percent every night. No, I'm saying, I'm hoping they shoot

1786
01:26:38,079 --> 01:26:41,319
fifty percent every night. Well, some regression came and now

1787
01:26:41,399 --> 01:26:43,319
it bounced back the other way. So we're all good,

1788
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:47,000
sort of like Unfortunately Outpria and Chingoon's free throw percentage.

1789
01:26:48,399 --> 01:26:50,560
We don't want to talk about that. I won't. Then

1790
01:26:51,079 --> 01:26:53,359
Kevin Durant was seven to seven, all right. Then Victor

1791
01:26:53,399 --> 01:26:57,279
wibin Yama, Adam Clinton's favorite son, with twenty five point

1792
01:26:57,399 --> 01:27:00,359
did you tweet? Did you text and I forgot no him?

1793
01:27:00,960 --> 01:27:04,159
Did you see here's what you're gonna to Adam Clinton?

1794
01:27:04,199 --> 01:27:06,520
Include me on this? Did you see what Wemby did

1795
01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:09,039
last night? Because those who don't know Adam hates Wemby.

1796
01:27:09,720 --> 01:27:11,119
Now he would love him if he was a Houston

1797
01:27:11,159 --> 01:27:17,119
Rockett not and he hates it. The immediate response will

1798
01:27:17,159 --> 01:27:20,680
be did you see who the Lakers put out there yesterday?

1799
01:27:21,039 --> 01:27:23,520
He will say somebody the context of well, I would

1800
01:27:23,520 --> 01:27:26,840
have scored forty if I if I had Dalton Connect

1801
01:27:26,840 --> 01:27:31,880
guarding me, if I had who was their leading score

1802
01:27:31,960 --> 01:27:39,119
last night? Luke Canard? Yeah, sorry, I'm sending my tweet,

1803
01:27:39,720 --> 01:27:41,880
I mean text texts. Yeah, oh, I hit the wrong button.

1804
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:44,279
All right, Jesus, don't send that text of that girl

1805
01:27:44,319 --> 01:27:48,359
person who That can cause some issues. All right, all right,

1806
01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:50,960
I miss her. That's the news in noon. We are

1807
01:27:51,079 --> 01:27:54,159
good with that, Yes, okay, very good. All right. It's

1808
01:27:54,199 --> 01:27:56,199
twelve twelve here on spoil. It was twenty five points

1809
01:27:56,239 --> 01:27:58,399
in the first quarter, forty points on twenty shots in

1810
01:27:58,520 --> 01:28:03,199
twenty six minutes, and twelve rebounds, four turnovers. He's got

1811
01:28:03,239 --> 01:28:05,840
a high turnover numbers, as does anybody seven feet tall,

1812
01:28:05,920 --> 01:28:10,159
typically only one block. JJ Reddick after the game calling

1813
01:28:10,239 --> 01:28:12,159
him one of one and one of the best five

1814
01:28:12,199 --> 01:28:15,000
players in the league. I'm not ready to do that.

1815
01:28:15,399 --> 01:28:16,880
Matter of fact, I will never call a Spur a

1816
01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:18,560
top five player in the league unless I just was

1817
01:28:18,680 --> 01:28:20,880
like held under a gun point or something. Then you're

1818
01:28:20,920 --> 01:28:22,439
just being a hater. I'm with you, but I'm not

1819
01:28:22,439 --> 01:28:24,319
gonna say just because he's a spur. No, but I'm

1820
01:28:24,359 --> 01:28:27,199
not going to root for him. You know, you know

1821
01:28:27,319 --> 01:28:29,520
that's what I'll send to Clinton. Did jj Reddick quote?

1822
01:28:30,279 --> 01:28:32,720
Oh God, now you're just gonna pour salt in his wounds.

1823
01:28:33,439 --> 01:28:34,560
You know you're you know what you're doing. You're just

1824
01:28:34,640 --> 01:28:36,439
poking a big bear. Well, he's the one that called

1825
01:28:36,520 --> 01:28:39,720
him a bum. Yeah, right, twelve twelve on Sports Talk

1826
01:28:39,760 --> 01:28:41,840
seven ninety If you'd like to join our conversation, God

1827
01:28:41,920 --> 01:28:43,840
knows we need it seven one three two one two

1828
01:28:44,039 --> 01:28:47,279
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five

1829
01:28:47,760 --> 01:28:51,640
seven nine zero. So let me ask you this. I

1830
01:28:51,800 --> 01:28:53,720
brought this up very early in this show today for

1831
01:28:53,760 --> 01:28:57,800
your ten o'clock as we love you for that. I

1832
01:28:57,920 --> 01:29:01,119
am not optimistic about Josh Hater because if I've been

1833
01:29:01,159 --> 01:29:07,760
optimistic in the past, it always burns me. No be optimistic, Matt, Nope,

1834
01:29:08,079 --> 01:29:10,319
He's gonna be ready to go at some point. You

1835
01:29:10,560 --> 01:29:14,039
tell me when you hear the Josh Hater is throwing

1836
01:29:15,800 --> 01:29:19,840
uh with a ball whiffle balls. I get tennis. He

1837
01:29:19,840 --> 01:29:21,439
could throw a tennis ball hard. I guess if he

1838
01:29:21,520 --> 01:29:25,960
wanted to. When I say that, he that spring training

1839
01:29:26,279 --> 01:29:30,880
is in flux, not spring training. The regular season is

1840
01:29:30,920 --> 01:29:34,720
in flux. How nervous are you? Seven one three two

1841
01:29:34,760 --> 01:29:36,960
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one

1842
01:29:37,039 --> 01:29:53,399
two five seven ninety twelve nineteen on Sports Talk seven

1843
01:29:53,479 --> 01:29:57,720
ninety Astro's Spring Training Pictures and Catchers reporting today. Officially

1844
01:29:57,760 --> 01:29:59,680
there are some position players there as well. Is uh

1845
01:30:00,079 --> 01:30:03,399
Dana brought up on Yarnerdas was hitting the ball hard. Now, Yonner,

1846
01:30:03,560 --> 01:30:07,279
to me, foot sprain doesn't sound nearly severe, because again,

1847
01:30:07,319 --> 01:30:09,800
if it was severe, he wouldn't be stunning the bad

1848
01:30:09,840 --> 01:30:11,680
They would have said, go rest and relax and lay

1849
01:30:11,720 --> 01:30:15,319
in bed. He wouldn't be catching bullpens. It's all good, right,

1850
01:30:15,479 --> 01:30:17,840
So that to me is not to worry. The hater

1851
01:30:17,960 --> 01:30:21,399
s up worries me, but thankfully you've got an insurance. Today.

1852
01:30:23,439 --> 01:30:26,479
They they may put a gun on that. No, could

1853
01:30:26,520 --> 01:30:28,399
you imagine going over and watching a soft toss with

1854
01:30:28,479 --> 01:30:32,920
a gun. Eleven ten it would be interesting. Fourteen you

1855
01:30:32,960 --> 01:30:35,119
get the spin rate on it? Well, what's the RPMs

1856
01:30:35,159 --> 01:30:35,279
on that?

1857
01:30:35,399 --> 01:30:35,560
Speaker 5: Bad?

1858
01:30:35,600 --> 01:30:37,439
Speaker 2: Boy? Do you even have a spin rate on that?

1859
01:30:38,640 --> 01:30:40,319
As long as it's not knuckling, it's got to have

1860
01:30:40,399 --> 01:30:43,199
some spin. So who thought of who thought of spin rate,

1861
01:30:43,239 --> 01:30:45,600
because spin ry's spin around as long as baseball has

1862
01:30:45,640 --> 01:30:47,720
been around. I mean yeah, I mean you just twisted

1863
01:30:47,800 --> 01:30:50,199
around and day you called it snap snap on the

1864
01:30:50,239 --> 01:30:52,479
curve ball. It's a snapping because it's spinning. And then

1865
01:30:52,520 --> 01:30:55,920
that's I mean or saliva. Yeah, I can't remember what

1866
01:30:56,039 --> 01:30:59,119
is it called the way that the ball moves. I

1867
01:30:59,159 --> 01:31:05,159
don't cameras, No, there's an effect on the wind's curveball.

1868
01:31:06,840 --> 01:31:08,600
We're getting in the weeds on this today. Mean to

1869
01:31:08,640 --> 01:31:10,560
do this, trying to think of it now, it's you know,

1870
01:31:10,920 --> 01:31:15,479
you can't come up. The Magnus effect. Wow, the aerodynamic

1871
01:31:15,600 --> 01:31:18,000
force acting on a spinning moving object that causes it

1872
01:31:18,119 --> 01:31:22,079
to curve. I mean, you talk about it in tennis.

1873
01:31:22,119 --> 01:31:25,520
You want a lot of top spin, top spin lobs,

1874
01:31:26,279 --> 01:31:29,319
that kind of stuff. Put spin on the ball, you

1875
01:31:29,439 --> 01:31:32,119
do it. They do it in ping pong. I mean,

1876
01:31:33,359 --> 01:31:36,479
try to get a good spin on the ball, whiffle ball.

1877
01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:40,520
What about putting English on a basketball? English on a

1878
01:31:40,560 --> 01:31:43,880
basketball it's a little different because it's bouncing, yeah, off

1879
01:31:43,920 --> 01:31:46,920
of the backboard, but Chris Paul put some great English

1880
01:31:46,960 --> 01:31:51,399
on the ball. Back Spin on a golf shot rates everywhere.

1881
01:31:51,760 --> 01:31:53,760
It is everywhere. What happens when I hooked the ball

1882
01:31:53,800 --> 01:31:55,960
into the woods. It's got a high spin rate. It

1883
01:31:56,000 --> 01:31:59,159
means I'm usually snapping my club in half and swearing exactly.

1884
01:32:00,720 --> 01:32:02,640
Really try. I've tried to cut my swaring down in

1885
01:32:02,680 --> 01:32:05,800
twenty twenty six. It's not going well. Really, yeah, I

1886
01:32:05,880 --> 01:32:08,199
haven't noticed an uptick or a down turn nice something.

1887
01:32:08,239 --> 01:32:10,800
That's what I'm saying. It was supposed to go down. Okay,

1888
01:32:11,119 --> 01:32:15,359
hasn't happened. How's the swear jar at the Thomas household.

1889
01:32:15,479 --> 01:32:18,079
I'm the least I am the least one that contributes

1890
01:32:18,119 --> 01:32:22,319
to it. Really yeah, Okay, the boys are number one

1891
01:32:22,359 --> 01:32:26,640
and number two. Actually that's not true. Kim's one, boys

1892
01:32:26,800 --> 01:32:28,840
two or three, and then Carly's fourth, but she's not

1893
01:32:28,920 --> 01:32:31,720
far behind. It is so amazing. You don't have children,

1894
01:32:31,800 --> 01:32:35,399
so you can't speak to this, thank God, But hearing

1895
01:32:35,479 --> 01:32:39,600
your children swear it hurts me really, yes, really, and

1896
01:32:39,720 --> 01:32:41,600
I don't like to really swear in front of them

1897
01:32:41,720 --> 01:32:43,520
very often. I don't swear in from my mother at all.

1898
01:32:43,720 --> 01:32:44,000
Speaker 1: I did.

1899
01:32:45,159 --> 01:32:49,960
Speaker 2: I can't say that I don't. I didn't for years,

1900
01:32:50,279 --> 01:32:53,199
but around you first, certainly around my dad, my bros.

1901
01:32:53,479 --> 01:32:55,000
I do it all the time I did around my

1902
01:32:55,079 --> 01:32:59,439
dad like come run eighteen nineteen probably, and then my

1903
01:32:59,520 --> 01:33:01,520
mom took a little longer, and it's rare. I try

1904
01:33:01,600 --> 01:33:04,399
not to around my mom and and there's really no

1905
01:33:04,520 --> 01:33:06,479
reason for it, because again I I I would say

1906
01:33:06,520 --> 01:33:08,319
on a scan of one to ten, my potty mouth

1907
01:33:08,760 --> 01:33:11,199
is about a seven. It's stupid, made up, It's just

1908
01:33:11,359 --> 01:33:13,239
sounds coming out of our mouths. I think it's dumb

1909
01:33:13,279 --> 01:33:16,000
that we can't say certain words to certain people. Or

1910
01:33:16,039 --> 01:33:18,000
how about maybe just changing up? Do we have to

1911
01:33:18,520 --> 01:33:21,279
every every language, every culture has swear words, so it's obviously,

1912
01:33:21,359 --> 01:33:23,520
I mean, right's is everywhere. But I think it's dumb.

1913
01:33:23,720 --> 01:33:26,560
But just hearing my I can track my baby girl.

1914
01:33:26,760 --> 01:33:28,720
I can say truck on the air. I can say

1915
01:33:28,800 --> 01:33:31,880
muck on the air. I can say tuck on the air.

1916
01:33:32,560 --> 01:33:36,560
Yes you can't. I can't. Nope, you cannot. That's has said, Yes,

1917
01:33:36,760 --> 01:33:40,840
you're not stupid. They there are the magic words. And

1918
01:33:40,880 --> 01:33:46,119
George Carlin head what the heck? Yeah, Like in Utah

1919
01:33:46,479 --> 01:33:49,079
you can say oh my hell. They always say oh

1920
01:33:49,119 --> 01:33:53,560
my heck. The Mormons did not want it. You swear

1921
01:33:53,560 --> 01:33:58,960
in any circumstance on air anywhere. Okay, that was always

1922
01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:00,640
kind of a running catchphrase, as you know, said they

1923
01:34:00,680 --> 01:34:02,479
were really mad at us and they go, oh my

1924
01:34:02,640 --> 01:34:06,960
heck six wives cool? Hell, no, no, stop, that's two

1925
01:34:07,079 --> 01:34:11,039
hundred years ago. Okay, I'm sorry Nick on seven nine

1926
01:34:11,079 --> 01:34:14,199
of your twelve twenty three. I'm sorry calling you mister stereotype.

1927
01:34:14,239 --> 01:34:19,479
Speaker 14: Hell hello, Nick, Hey, good morning man, I'm going sir, good.

1928
01:34:19,520 --> 01:34:19,880
Speaker 1: How are you?

1929
01:34:19,960 --> 01:34:20,600
Speaker 2: What's going on with you?

1930
01:34:22,319 --> 01:34:24,600
Speaker 12: Oh man, dude, you just want to get your take

1931
01:34:24,680 --> 01:34:25,920
on Donda Smith.

1932
01:34:25,960 --> 01:34:27,039
Speaker 10: What was your thoughts of him?

1933
01:34:27,680 --> 01:34:31,319
Speaker 2: He was a qu of h year Donovan Smith.

1934
01:34:34,600 --> 01:34:36,279
Speaker 6: Yeah, Donald Smith quarterback.

1935
01:34:37,079 --> 01:34:38,600
Speaker 2: I mean the one that was here two years ago

1936
01:34:38,680 --> 01:34:40,399
they didn't get the Cougars were Bowl game. Is that

1937
01:34:40,439 --> 01:34:44,560
what you're talking about? I'm talking about exactly that one.

1938
01:34:45,479 --> 01:34:46,960
I would say he was mid at best.

1939
01:34:50,520 --> 01:34:52,199
Speaker 12: How he's supposed to be at number one pick at

1940
01:34:52,239 --> 01:34:52,760
one time?

1941
01:34:53,479 --> 01:34:57,159
Speaker 2: Number one of number one and what XFL he transferred

1942
01:34:57,239 --> 01:34:59,720
out of Texas Tech? No, he I don't know when

1943
01:34:59,720 --> 01:35:01,640
ever nobody ever considered a number one. I mean he

1944
01:35:01,720 --> 01:35:03,720
might have been a highly recruited high school player, but

1945
01:35:04,399 --> 01:35:08,199
never is a collegiates about it?

1946
01:35:08,319 --> 01:35:08,760
Speaker 14: One time?

1947
01:35:08,840 --> 01:35:13,640
Speaker 2: All right? Just just stop. First, was he signed with

1948
01:35:13,640 --> 01:35:15,600
the Gamblers the other reason why you asked. That's the

1949
01:35:15,680 --> 01:35:18,000
reason it has to be. He sign with the gamblers.

1950
01:35:20,359 --> 01:35:26,680
Gambles talk. I see what you did. I see what

1951
01:35:26,800 --> 01:35:32,399
you did. Nick, You're very crafty, my friend. Sometimes you

1952
01:35:32,520 --> 01:35:35,840
did it and you got me. Thank you, you got it.

1953
01:35:37,640 --> 01:35:40,279
It's not gonna happen. I'm not gonna do it. Thank

1954
01:35:40,359 --> 01:35:43,640
you for the phone because nobody cares. I mean for

1955
01:35:43,920 --> 01:35:50,319
I guess I'm telling you. I'm gonna tell you something

1956
01:35:50,399 --> 01:35:52,079
right now. I want to take a photo. I'm gonna

1957
01:35:52,119 --> 01:35:54,239
take a photo. Listen to Nick. Nick, I'm gonna take

1958
01:35:54,279 --> 01:35:56,239
a photo of the crowd opening week and I'm gonna

1959
01:35:56,239 --> 01:35:58,079
send it to You're gonna be like, damn, when when's

1960
01:35:58,119 --> 01:35:59,760
the game start. I'm gonna say it's in the second quarter.

1961
01:36:02,960 --> 01:36:04,199
Speaker 14: Hey man, I'm gonna say that.

1962
01:36:04,239 --> 01:36:06,119
Speaker 12: I think this is the year it takes all.

1963
01:36:06,680 --> 01:36:06,920
Speaker 5: Why not?

1964
01:36:07,119 --> 01:36:09,000
Speaker 12: Which I mean, that's the best thing we have in Houston.

1965
01:36:09,760 --> 01:36:13,960
Speaker 2: That's not true. The Texans went of the divisional playoffs.

1966
01:36:14,560 --> 01:36:16,560
Now now you're just now you're just trying to go

1967
01:36:16,680 --> 01:36:20,399
to me. Thank you, Nick for the phone call. Donovan

1968
01:36:20,439 --> 01:36:26,720
Smith Smith Houston Gambler. I don't know does Donald Smith

1969
01:36:26,760 --> 01:36:32,760
even know what TV's playing? For I'm not getting Did

1970
01:36:32,840 --> 01:36:35,279
somebody call and suggest that donamand Smith be drafted by

1971
01:36:35,319 --> 01:36:37,319
the by the gambler? Is that what they're trying to be?

1972
01:36:37,479 --> 01:36:44,680
Hunter Deckers who was taken in the UFL draft. Ye,

1973
01:36:44,760 --> 01:36:46,079
I don't see that. I don't see this any I

1974
01:36:46,199 --> 01:36:50,039
mean they're they're spending money to play at Shell Energy Stadium.

1975
01:36:50,079 --> 01:36:52,800
They spent money to play it tdc U. Nobody went there.

1976
01:36:52,840 --> 01:36:56,199
Nobody's gonna go to Shell Energy. Nobody's gonna go anywhere. No, no, no,

1977
01:36:56,880 --> 01:37:01,920
it's it's a non starter. Let's get you on the games. No,

1978
01:37:02,119 --> 01:37:04,600
I'm busy enough as it is. I want an audience.

1979
01:37:08,479 --> 01:37:09,920
I mean as soon as I get one. I'll let

1980
01:37:09,960 --> 01:37:11,800
you know when I get one. But as soon as

1981
01:37:12,039 --> 01:37:16,880
an audience, I cannot wait. Although it was on serious

1982
01:37:17,279 --> 01:37:19,760
Channel eighty six, the main channel last night for the Rockets,

1983
01:37:19,800 --> 01:37:22,840
in an interview, no on the game call? Oh really? Yeah?

1984
01:37:23,600 --> 01:37:26,119
Was anybody in Los Angeles listening? I want to call

1985
01:37:26,199 --> 01:37:31,920
in and complain. Anybody get called at jamokeh it does happen?

1986
01:37:33,279 --> 01:37:36,600
That was Clant not me. Okay, that is so funny.

1987
01:37:37,680 --> 01:37:39,760
Yeah you can so, you guys are like the feature

1988
01:37:39,880 --> 01:37:42,800
everyone there was only four games last night, the four games.

1989
01:37:42,840 --> 01:37:44,600
First Lakers was in the future game or that was

1990
01:37:44,680 --> 01:37:48,079
after Okay. Uh, there are about seven or eight different

1991
01:37:48,159 --> 01:37:51,399
NBA channels. Okay, but they put the main game on

1992
01:37:51,479 --> 01:37:53,560
this what they call the Serious XM radio. If you're

1993
01:37:53,560 --> 01:37:55,439
in the main game, that was the main game, and

1994
01:37:55,520 --> 01:37:58,399
they usually match it up with what's on television, whether

1995
01:37:58,399 --> 01:38:01,800
it's you know, like last night'scal on NBA TV. It wasn't. Oh,

1996
01:38:02,279 --> 01:38:05,239
they took Craig and Ryan simulcast and they simulcast in

1997
01:38:05,359 --> 01:38:08,319
the NBA TV Serious XM. But that sounds great. Yeah,

1998
01:38:08,760 --> 01:38:11,079
so a lot of I love Craig and and Ryan

1999
01:38:11,199 --> 01:38:13,399
and Vanessa. And they had Fred van Vliet on there,

2000
01:38:13,800 --> 01:38:15,439
and you like that, You said you enjoyed that. Yeah,

2001
01:38:15,479 --> 01:38:18,720
Fred was pretty funny. Fred's got a broadcast career ahead

2002
01:38:18,720 --> 01:38:21,159
of it if he wants it. It's got a good voice.

2003
01:38:21,239 --> 01:38:22,720
I tell him. Souls rolled down and they'd be doing

2004
01:38:22,760 --> 01:38:24,760
this podcast belonging. Yeah, you said, don't worry. As soon

2005
01:38:24,800 --> 01:38:26,399
as I get back on the corner, I'm out. He's bored.

2006
01:38:27,199 --> 01:38:30,119
He is bored. He also swears. That's the number one

2007
01:38:30,159 --> 01:38:32,720
thing about these podcasts. These guys can swear left right.

2008
01:38:32,800 --> 01:38:34,439
We can't do it. It's just against the rules. Not

2009
01:38:34,479 --> 01:38:36,960
that they wouldn't accentuate our show one way, but I'm

2010
01:38:36,960 --> 01:38:39,680
gonna swear on my podcast. What's your podcast to be called?

2011
01:38:41,119 --> 01:38:44,760
Gutter mouth villar Real that's one of the working titles.

2012
01:38:45,520 --> 01:38:48,319
Really yeah, I didn't think of that. Things a little

2013
01:38:48,359 --> 01:38:51,239
wordy for a hashtag. Hey, I'm ross the gutter mouth.

2014
01:38:51,479 --> 01:38:58,000
Stay with me? Yeah sounds good. Let me talk about

2015
01:38:58,000 --> 01:39:00,159
ice dancing. This this guy that's the ice dancer he

2016
01:39:00,520 --> 01:39:04,640
uh goes to college at George Mason. Really yeah. I

2017
01:39:04,680 --> 01:39:07,680
think he's twenty one years old, free flowing locks. He

2018
01:39:07,880 --> 01:39:10,760
is the heavy heavy favorite to finish the Golden and

2019
01:39:10,840 --> 01:39:13,800
whatever that category is. I don't think it's free skate.

2020
01:39:14,239 --> 01:39:16,840
It's I don't know if it's ice dance program yeah,

2021
01:39:16,840 --> 01:39:21,039
ice dancing yeah? Or is it ice skating? It sounds

2022
01:39:21,079 --> 01:39:23,479
like all the above different. Can you do both? Can

2023
01:39:23,520 --> 01:39:25,640
you excel at both? Why couldn't you? I don't know.

2024
01:39:26,359 --> 01:39:28,359
It's like you should. Could you be a good skeleton

2025
01:39:28,439 --> 01:39:30,159
and a good bob Clebbert that It feels like it's

2026
01:39:30,199 --> 01:39:32,880
might be a little too different. I don't know. Yeah,

2027
01:39:33,319 --> 01:39:37,960
all right, that'll conclude. Uh win Olympics and Gambler talk

2028
01:39:38,039 --> 01:39:41,000
for the day seven one three, two, one two five

2029
01:39:41,119 --> 01:39:44,520
seven Daddy Well, I mean, I look, if they draw

2030
01:39:44,560 --> 01:39:48,079
twenty five thousand a game, I'm all for it. Yeah,

2031
01:39:48,439 --> 01:39:52,000
but they're not. These people aren't gonna pay for I mean,

2032
01:39:52,640 --> 01:39:56,319
truth be told, Minor league football kind of makes me

2033
01:39:56,479 --> 01:40:01,720
sad that we can't. But they're every literally ross every

2034
01:40:01,840 --> 01:40:07,439
league that has ever been created has failed. XFL camp

2035
01:40:07,600 --> 01:40:10,800
or whatever, UFL camp. Yeah, how long have they been going?

2036
01:40:11,560 --> 01:40:11,680
Speaker 4: Uh?

2037
01:40:11,960 --> 01:40:13,960
Speaker 2: Well, the Rock bought into it a couple of years ago.

2038
01:40:14,119 --> 01:40:16,880
It was XFL the twenty four remember they remember they

2039
01:40:16,960 --> 01:40:20,600
merged the USFL. They merged in twenty twenty four, so

2040
01:40:20,760 --> 01:40:23,199
this is their third season. But yeah, it doesn't feel

2041
01:40:23,199 --> 01:40:25,159
like it's gonna last much longer. Every time I watch it,

2042
01:40:25,239 --> 01:40:29,000
I see how many teams can you name? Right now?

2043
01:40:29,239 --> 01:40:33,159
Houston Gamblers? I would probably change names. I would have

2044
01:40:33,239 --> 01:40:36,359
went to zero. I can recognize these, but to name

2045
01:40:36,399 --> 01:40:37,560
them and pull them out of the air is a

2046
01:40:37,560 --> 01:40:40,760
little different, believe it or not. Today, was this listen

2047
01:40:40,800 --> 01:40:43,000
to me? This is a good one. Was this ever

2048
01:40:43,119 --> 01:40:48,319
a team name of a minor league franch football franchise? Okay, USFL,

2049
01:40:49,079 --> 01:40:53,199
the World League of American Football, the XFL, remember the

2050
01:40:53,239 --> 01:40:56,920
old school, the XFL defunct football teams defunk Yeah, was

2051
01:40:56,960 --> 01:41:00,840
this ever a defunct football team? The Memphis Steamboats. No,

2052
01:41:01,079 --> 01:41:04,039
that's not that's not what they were. The Memphis Showboats.

2053
01:41:04,119 --> 01:41:08,239
Oh showboats. Sorry, no, steamboats would have been wrong. Okay, good.

2054
01:41:09,319 --> 01:41:13,039
Best uniforms ever, the Chicago Blitz. They were wrecked and silver.

2055
01:41:13,960 --> 01:41:16,520
I love the uniforms ever. I love the USFL in

2056
01:41:16,680 --> 01:41:19,000
sports history. They were my favorite in the USF is

2057
01:41:19,119 --> 01:41:22,760
Chicago Blitz, the Chicago Blitz. This quarterback was Vince Evans,

2058
01:41:22,800 --> 01:41:24,840
who was a backup quarterback for the Bears for a

2059
01:41:24,840 --> 01:41:27,359
long time. A pretty sharp actually, thank you, you know.

2060
01:41:27,439 --> 01:41:30,119
The coach of the Chicago Blitz was it was dumb DeLuise,

2061
01:41:33,479 --> 01:41:37,399
so a row ten comedian, right, a football team that

2062
01:41:37,520 --> 01:41:37,960
you went with.

2063
01:41:43,039 --> 01:41:48,680
Speaker 18: Dumb Deello, I like, this has struck you so funny.

2064
01:41:49,119 --> 01:41:53,000
You're the dumbest person alive. You really are, you really are?

2065
01:41:54,000 --> 01:41:54,520
Speaker 2: You're dumb.

2066
01:41:55,880 --> 01:41:59,479
Speaker 3: I don't care what education or that's laughing at the

2067
01:41:59,640 --> 01:42:09,640
wise with the head sat on, No.

2068
01:42:09,680 --> 01:42:20,239
Speaker 2: One of the league went under. More on the Astros,

2069
01:42:20,399 --> 01:42:24,479
we come back, yes, going back to sports. Tom Delaise

2070
01:42:24,920 --> 01:42:34,399
twelve thirty one on Sports Talk seven ninety. The answer

2071
01:42:34,439 --> 01:42:39,079
to my question before you went to Dom Delouise was

2072
01:42:39,159 --> 01:42:43,079
a Hall of Fame coach George Allen. You put me

2073
01:42:43,159 --> 01:42:46,359
in a laughing fit. I could stop. Nobody else find

2074
01:42:46,399 --> 01:42:46,760
it funny.

2075
01:42:47,079 --> 01:42:47,319
Speaker 9: I know.

2076
01:42:47,560 --> 01:42:48,520
Speaker 2: That's what makes me.

2077
01:42:50,039 --> 01:42:50,079
Speaker 4: That.

2078
01:42:50,359 --> 01:42:54,119
Speaker 2: No, that's why I laugh because it's so stupid, because

2079
01:42:54,199 --> 01:42:58,640
people criticize the show for not being serious enough, and

2080
01:42:58,800 --> 01:43:00,359
you didn't help to.

2081
01:43:00,399 --> 01:43:00,720
Speaker 5: Do with that.

2082
01:43:00,880 --> 01:43:04,800
Speaker 2: I understand. Yeah, bust those goods. Just talk sports. Oh man,

2083
01:43:05,960 --> 01:43:07,920
we gotta hang out and we gotta have fun. Sorry,

2084
01:43:08,439 --> 01:43:10,319
we have not. We have not gone to any Texans

2085
01:43:10,359 --> 01:43:13,399
off season conversation yet. You want straight, boring sports talk,

2086
01:43:13,439 --> 01:43:15,319
you can find that out. You can find plenty of

2087
01:43:15,359 --> 01:43:19,279
places in this town. Jesus. You could on YouTube channels too,

2088
01:43:19,319 --> 01:43:24,720
but that's a different issue for a different time. All right, Oh,

2089
01:43:25,279 --> 01:43:29,359
oh my god, Johnny wears hair min whoa, my god,

2090
01:43:30,680 --> 01:43:34,760
he's gone uh full what was her name, Winona's rider's

2091
01:43:34,840 --> 01:43:39,920
name and Beetlejuice. Yeah, that's exactly what the character is.

2092
01:43:41,680 --> 01:43:43,399
Did Johnny wear wake up in the morning and go

2093
01:43:43,560 --> 01:43:47,479
this looks good? He went full lydiadeets. I never saw

2094
01:43:47,479 --> 01:43:49,279
the second Beetlejuice you ever see it. Hey, it was okay,

2095
01:43:49,760 --> 01:43:52,319
it wasn't that bad, but it wasn't that good. I

2096
01:43:52,640 --> 01:43:54,279
don't regret seeing it. This is like a six out

2097
01:43:54,279 --> 01:43:55,880
of town. I'm a big Mike Michael Keaton fan.

2098
01:43:55,960 --> 01:43:56,560
Speaker 4: I like.

2099
01:43:56,720 --> 01:43:58,920
Speaker 2: I actually liked him in Batman for Nostali's sake. It

2100
01:43:59,039 --> 01:44:02,640
was good. Yeah, and yeah, Michael Keaton was great. Catherine

2101
01:44:02,640 --> 01:44:06,920
O'Hare may she rest looked old in the movie, but

2102
01:44:07,039 --> 01:44:08,960
I mean credit to her. She's not like one of

2103
01:44:08,960 --> 01:44:11,560
those people. They got a billion, you know, a bunch

2104
01:44:11,600 --> 01:44:14,039
of work done. And yeah, good for her. All right,

2105
01:44:14,720 --> 01:44:18,039
Uh so we got let's see uh oh, Cougar basketball

2106
01:44:18,119 --> 01:44:19,520
last night took care of Utah. That was good.

2107
01:44:19,840 --> 01:44:20,039
Speaker 1: Yeah?

2108
01:44:20,560 --> 01:44:20,720
Speaker 5: Good?

2109
01:44:21,159 --> 01:44:22,880
Speaker 2: Two were of the utes? Are they gonna get their

2110
01:44:23,000 --> 01:44:25,119
dead last place in the Big Big twelve?

2111
01:44:25,760 --> 01:44:25,920
Speaker 6: Oh?

2112
01:44:26,000 --> 01:44:30,000
Speaker 2: Remember I told you yesterday real quick about the big

2113
01:44:30,079 --> 01:44:33,560
announcement that was gonna be revolutionized the Big twelve tournament.

2114
01:44:34,640 --> 01:44:36,520
I completely missed the boat on that one. Oh what

2115
01:44:36,760 --> 01:44:39,399
was it? They're gonna be playing it on a glass floor?

2116
01:44:41,439 --> 01:44:41,479
Speaker 6: What?

2117
01:44:42,039 --> 01:44:45,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're gonna they're gonna kind of like it's gonna

2118
01:44:45,239 --> 01:44:49,079
have graphics on it and stuff. Correct and advertisers, Oh,

2119
01:44:49,199 --> 01:44:53,840
for sure, Brenton Ormark told all those little Big twelve

2120
01:44:53,920 --> 01:44:56,039
radio cronies, Hey, guys, I want you to really pump

2121
01:44:56,119 --> 01:44:57,880
this up. It's gonna be really awesome. People are gonna

2122
01:44:57,920 --> 01:45:00,720
love it. And yeah, the score, but the the board,

2123
01:45:00,880 --> 01:45:05,600
the surface itself will change colors and I'm sure we'll

2124
01:45:05,640 --> 01:45:09,159
have exploding fireworks and as you mentioned, sponsor plugs, but

2125
01:45:09,439 --> 01:45:11,439
that's not going to drive people to Kansas City to

2126
01:45:11,520 --> 01:45:15,680
go watch the tournament. No, Kansas being in the final will. Yeah,

2127
01:45:16,199 --> 01:45:18,239
I mean the Big Twelve has made a concerted effort

2128
01:45:18,239 --> 01:45:19,720
to say, hey, we got to figure every which way

2129
01:45:19,720 --> 01:45:22,560
would lose to get either Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State

2130
01:45:22,840 --> 01:45:26,880
in the Big Total tournament. Houston versus anybody in Texas,

2131
01:45:26,960 --> 01:45:29,960
no thank you. Houston versus Arizona, no thank you. Because

2132
01:45:29,960 --> 01:45:32,880
if I'm a Houston fan and I'm saving my money,

2133
01:45:34,079 --> 01:45:35,439
I'm skipping all that. Well, I don't want to go

2134
01:45:35,439 --> 01:45:37,680
to COT today. It used to move. I remember one

2135
01:45:37,760 --> 01:45:39,920
year Texas was in there. It was in Dallas. It

2136
01:45:40,039 --> 01:45:41,640
was when I was on campus, because I remember a

2137
01:45:41,680 --> 01:45:43,239
bunch of us there were kind of regulars in the

2138
01:45:43,279 --> 01:45:46,159
student section. We're talking about going and a group trip

2139
01:45:46,239 --> 01:45:49,800
and stuff like that. Honestly, I know why they go

2140
01:45:49,880 --> 01:45:52,359
to Kansas City because that's where the powerhouse of the

2141
01:45:52,479 --> 01:45:55,840
league is. In theory, it was, and it also draws

2142
01:45:55,840 --> 01:45:58,399
a lot of people where honestly, you put a college

2143
01:45:58,439 --> 01:46:03,279
basketball tournament in Houston, ordalla us very good. No, they're smart,

2144
01:46:03,840 --> 01:46:07,199
I get it, and unfortunately gives them a home built

2145
01:46:07,239 --> 01:46:10,520
in home court advantage. Didn't last year with the Cougars.

2146
01:46:10,520 --> 01:46:12,479
They won the whole damn thing there. So yeah, but

2147
01:46:12,800 --> 01:46:15,680
historical Lake Kansas well, because they've been good. But it

2148
01:46:15,800 --> 01:46:17,760
was also sad watching Houston play for the beige Hole

2149
01:46:17,880 --> 01:46:21,239
championship last year. There wasn't anybody in the house. No,

2150
01:46:21,399 --> 01:46:22,479
we're the huge U of h fans.

2151
01:46:22,560 --> 01:46:22,800
Speaker 14: Let's go.

2152
01:46:22,960 --> 01:46:25,399
Speaker 2: We were saving our money, big powerhouse, and we saved

2153
01:46:25,439 --> 01:46:27,760
it to got San Antonio. Now we did well. We

2154
01:46:27,800 --> 01:46:30,159
went to which Tad and Drew and did well there.

2155
01:46:30,399 --> 01:46:33,920
I don't remember where they played their South Regional or meanwiest,

2156
01:46:33,920 --> 01:46:36,039
I don't know what they were in. But I know

2157
01:46:36,119 --> 01:46:38,279
this year that the South Regional, if they get to

2158
01:46:38,359 --> 01:46:40,760
the second day at the second weekend of the tournament,

2159
01:46:40,760 --> 01:46:44,520
will be in Houston at Tota Center. So that'll help. Now,

2160
01:46:44,560 --> 01:46:48,319
the championship game has been in Indianapolis and hotels are

2161
01:46:48,359 --> 01:46:52,159
not cheap there at this point, are you looking booked?

2162
01:46:52,319 --> 01:46:52,439
Speaker 12: Oh?

2163
01:46:52,520 --> 01:46:54,399
Speaker 2: I booked the airfare. I'm not booking the hotel because

2164
01:46:54,520 --> 01:46:56,000
here's what I'm gonna do. I'm going to book the

2165
01:46:56,079 --> 01:46:58,600
hotel if they play for the championship game. I'm going

2166
01:46:58,640 --> 01:47:01,800
to book it the night before because people will be leaving. Ah,

2167
01:47:01,960 --> 01:47:04,079
you're smart, and then I'll scoop in and buy a

2168
01:47:04,159 --> 01:47:07,880
room at the very last second. That's some satder savvy veteran.

2169
01:47:08,039 --> 01:47:13,720
You're welcome travel tips from Matt Thomas. Yeah. I think

2170
01:47:13,760 --> 01:47:14,760
it's for any sports fan.

2171
01:47:14,920 --> 01:47:15,119
Speaker 5: Yeah.

2172
01:47:15,399 --> 01:47:17,159
Speaker 2: Don't they always say when you go to a tournament

2173
01:47:17,600 --> 01:47:19,880
and your team loses, you should just wait outside the

2174
01:47:19,960 --> 01:47:22,000
arena and people are walking out going I'm out of here.

2175
01:47:22,000 --> 01:47:23,560
I'm going to try to sell my tickets for forty

2176
01:47:23,600 --> 01:47:25,439
cents in the dollar. Makes a lot of sense to me. Yeah,

2177
01:47:26,840 --> 01:47:29,119
it's very smart. I'll take you this. I have been

2178
01:47:29,199 --> 01:47:33,319
to a handful of regionals over my life. It's fun

2179
01:47:33,399 --> 01:47:36,000
because you do it's interesting to get eight fan bases,

2180
01:47:36,279 --> 01:47:38,760
or my case, I went to a sweet sixteen. Four

2181
01:47:38,880 --> 01:47:42,039
fan bases that all go to this building. Think they're

2182
01:47:42,039 --> 01:47:44,600
going to win the whole thing. It's a lot of fun,

2183
01:47:45,760 --> 01:47:47,840
and you mix that up with other fans and whatnot,

2184
01:47:48,039 --> 01:47:52,439
and hopefully you get to all experience it sometime. If

2185
01:47:52,479 --> 01:47:55,319
you're a connoiseurer of college basketball, especially for school that

2186
01:47:55,359 --> 01:47:57,079
you think that you went to or room, not holding

2187
01:47:57,119 --> 01:48:00,439
my breath, I'll go with you in big text tournament

2188
01:48:00,520 --> 01:48:04,399
run not this year. Recruiting class wills to be good.

2189
01:48:05,520 --> 01:48:09,720
Sean Miller's a good coach. It needs time. Yeah, I've

2190
01:48:09,720 --> 01:48:14,359
been waiting for twenty three years now. You got the facilities, Yes,

2191
01:48:14,560 --> 01:48:19,000
you got the money. Yes, good coach, you have the conference.

2192
01:48:19,279 --> 01:48:21,800
Good enough coach to win with if you get players right.

2193
01:48:23,800 --> 01:48:25,039
So let me ask you this, are we going to

2194
01:48:25,119 --> 01:48:27,680
see something in college basketball that we've seen in football

2195
01:48:27,720 --> 01:48:31,119
where Indiana out of nowhere becomes this national power? That

2196
01:48:31,159 --> 01:48:35,960
would what would be the comp on that? Alabama's kind

2197
01:48:35,960 --> 01:48:37,760
of they've been good for a half dozen years now.

2198
01:48:38,600 --> 01:48:40,239
Who would be nothing? Go to say, come out of nowhere,

2199
01:48:40,319 --> 01:48:44,079
but Texas Tech has always been flirting around top twenty

2200
01:48:44,079 --> 01:48:45,560
five would be the camp. I'm trying to think of

2201
01:48:45,560 --> 01:48:49,359
a football school that has been miserable in basketball. Penn

2202
01:48:49,399 --> 01:48:51,479
State would be the call. That'd be my call. Penn

2203
01:48:51,479 --> 01:48:53,359
State football has been really good. Penn State basketball has

2204
01:48:53,359 --> 01:48:59,760
been a trophan. Okay, Vandy's pretty good. Oh how about byu?

2205
01:49:00,800 --> 01:49:03,600
Uh they're there, but I mean back in the day.

2206
01:49:03,600 --> 01:49:06,399
I mean now they're well, now there are twenty second

2207
01:49:07,279 --> 01:49:09,119
But you're spending a bunch of money. Yeah, b way

2208
01:49:09,159 --> 01:49:11,600
you went and destroyed the better last night. A young

2209
01:49:11,680 --> 01:49:18,159
de band's name AJ debantsa Yeah, top five pick. No caffeine,

2210
01:49:19,680 --> 01:49:24,840
no sex, No, you can't wink wink. It's a break

2211
01:49:24,840 --> 01:49:27,439
of an honor code. And if you break the honicolee,

2212
01:49:27,439 --> 01:49:29,600
you're supposed to go to telp. It's somebody you broke it.

2213
01:49:30,039 --> 01:49:31,960
You have to go. You got to snitch on yourself

2214
01:49:32,239 --> 01:49:34,079
to get yourself kicked out of school. Let me ask

2215
01:49:34,119 --> 01:49:35,479
you this. How are they supposed to find out?

2216
01:49:35,520 --> 01:49:35,680
Speaker 9: Then?

2217
01:49:36,279 --> 01:49:40,319
Speaker 2: I don't know, I mean bed check. I hope not.

2218
01:49:40,720 --> 01:49:43,640
Let's get weird over there. Yeah, it's twenty twenty six.

2219
01:49:44,720 --> 01:49:51,560
It's religion. Okay, some have a little more. Uh, well, man,

2220
01:49:51,560 --> 01:49:54,159
I would think to presume most really, Butler coming on it.

2221
01:49:54,159 --> 01:49:57,000
We're talking about no coming to nowhere in college basketball? Yeah,

2222
01:49:57,079 --> 01:49:59,960
but who would do it? In the NIL era? I guess, yeah,

2223
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:01,720
I don't think of Butler. Rat Steven's like one of

2224
01:50:01,760 --> 01:50:04,960
the greatest coaches of all time. He made Butler relevant.

2225
01:50:05,359 --> 01:50:09,159
They turn the Celtics around, won a championship. I was, well,

2226
01:50:09,319 --> 01:50:14,479
is there he's still their GM. Correct? Uh, yeah, I

2227
01:50:14,520 --> 01:50:17,840
mean he's clearly is a very very astute basketball mind,

2228
01:50:17,880 --> 01:50:21,199
that's for sure. All right, twelve forty three on Sports

2229
01:50:21,279 --> 01:50:23,359
Talk seven on he coming up in the next hour

2230
01:50:23,439 --> 01:50:25,359
and change. We do need to let you hear what

2231
01:50:26,760 --> 01:50:29,119
Josh Hater had to say about his situation is he

2232
01:50:29,199 --> 01:50:33,119
did throw off flat ground today and we'll let you

2233
01:50:33,239 --> 01:50:37,920
guys decide whether or not. I mean, I think I

2234
01:50:37,960 --> 01:50:40,159
would think most people that are as stude Astro fans

2235
01:50:40,279 --> 01:50:44,800
are not overly thrilled with this announcement. But remember we

2236
01:50:44,880 --> 01:50:47,119
do have a backup plan what the Astros do with

2237
01:50:48,079 --> 01:50:53,000
Brian Abray the rocket's gonna be. I don't think anybody's

2238
01:50:53,039 --> 01:50:55,920
like worried about amputation. I mean, fine is one thing,

2239
01:50:55,960 --> 01:50:58,039
but getting it back on the field is another thing.

2240
01:50:58,760 --> 01:51:00,159
Because if he's soft toss in the day in a

2241
01:51:00,199 --> 01:51:03,000
flight ground, when's it? When When do you start kicking

2242
01:51:03,039 --> 01:51:06,079
that vlo up getting on the bump? He said it

2243
01:51:06,239 --> 01:51:08,199
was in the audio we played from Brian McTaggart in

2244
01:51:08,199 --> 01:51:10,119
the locker room. He was throwing around eighty five, and

2245
01:51:10,159 --> 01:51:15,479
then that's when he got hurt, so he was ramping up.

2246
01:51:15,520 --> 01:51:17,960
I must presuming he would eventually got into the nineties

2247
01:51:17,960 --> 01:51:18,760
where he normally is.

2248
01:51:18,960 --> 01:51:19,119
Speaker 5: Right.

2249
01:51:19,359 --> 01:51:21,399
Speaker 2: I think you're may first. Let's stick with that. We'll

2250
01:51:21,399 --> 01:51:23,920
be fine. You know, blow everyone out. You're not gonna

2251
01:51:23,920 --> 01:51:26,960
need a closer the whole first month. First of all,

2252
01:51:26,960 --> 01:51:28,600
we don't even count the first month of seasons anyway.

2253
01:51:28,720 --> 01:51:30,640
I think this is gonna be unstoppable. Oh, I like

2254
01:51:30,680 --> 01:51:35,239
how you think fresh Al tuove Jordon's in the lineup, Esach,

2255
01:51:35,359 --> 01:51:37,840
the the pinch hit Wizard. You have an incredible dh

2256
01:51:37,960 --> 01:51:40,039
the whole time. Yes, let's get back to that in

2257
01:51:40,199 --> 01:51:42,760
a minute. The es socks definitely come back twelve forty

2258
01:51:42,760 --> 01:51:45,199
four matten Ross seven one three two one two five

2259
01:51:45,279 --> 01:51:47,439
seven ninety Believe it or not? Today is whether or

2260
01:51:47,439 --> 01:51:53,319
not this was a former extinct defunct defunct if you will,

2261
01:51:53,520 --> 01:51:56,079
I guess it's defunct and extinct. This two different things,

2262
01:51:56,159 --> 01:51:58,520
right in stinks is probably an extinct, is probably an

2263
01:51:58,560 --> 01:52:04,720
animal or plant? Funked NFU Football franchise seven one three, two,

2264
01:52:04,840 --> 01:52:10,119
one two, five, seven fifty on Sports Talk seven. I

2265
01:52:10,239 --> 01:52:13,000
need to amount Thomas Show with Ross. Friend of the show,

2266
01:52:13,119 --> 01:52:19,920
Chris has sent us a awesome photo. Now is this

2267
01:52:20,079 --> 01:52:22,720
AI or did he really find this somewhere? What I

2268
01:52:22,840 --> 01:52:26,319
assume this is AI? This is Dom Delawise wearing an

2269
01:52:26,399 --> 01:52:32,199
NFL headset. That's kind of be AI. Of course, Chris.

2270
01:52:33,880 --> 01:52:35,680
If there's many d bags that listen to the show

2271
01:52:35,760 --> 01:52:39,000
that want to correct me with everything, they Hey, ninety

2272
01:52:39,159 --> 01:52:41,760
nine percent of people are nice or don't say anything,

2273
01:52:41,800 --> 01:52:44,199
which is nice. Yeah, because I don't nine percent I

2274
01:52:44,239 --> 01:52:47,399
don't correct you. Well you I do correct. I was

2275
01:52:47,439 --> 01:52:52,520
gonna say, wait what I got confused? We kinda we

2276
01:52:52,600 --> 01:52:54,279
got a little one percent on the Twitter world that

2277
01:52:54,399 --> 01:52:57,239
just wants to just zigg get in there and ziggis out. Okay,

2278
01:52:57,640 --> 01:52:59,640
I guess we're gonna do. I mute your asses. I'm

2279
01:52:59,680 --> 01:53:02,159
gonna be even ruder back to you. We'll see how

2280
01:53:02,199 --> 01:53:04,600
you like it. Mute button is your friend? Mute this conversation.

2281
01:53:04,680 --> 01:53:07,119
I'm finding very valuable. Mm hmm. When I say the

2282
01:53:07,199 --> 01:53:09,239
Rockets aren't scared of Victor wimbin Yama and then Tari

2283
01:53:09,279 --> 01:53:11,720
Eisan mom's mom retweets it, and then Wimby goes off

2284
01:53:11,760 --> 01:53:13,680
in the second half. I'm like, gotta meet this conversation.

2285
01:53:13,720 --> 01:53:15,800
I don't want to hear. It's so salty on Twitter.

2286
01:53:15,920 --> 01:53:19,199
Oh my god. She's quite a ma swure machine herself

2287
01:53:20,279 --> 01:53:22,680
sometimes and when her son's not playing wells you crush him.

2288
01:53:23,279 --> 01:53:25,359
She's eco opportunity for that's for sure. All Right, we

2289
01:53:25,439 --> 01:53:28,600
gotta tell you about something here. Okay. It has been

2290
01:53:29,000 --> 01:53:31,439
among people that like the response we talk about the Astros,

2291
01:53:31,520 --> 01:53:36,239
this rather large debate about can the Astros live with

2292
01:53:37,279 --> 01:53:43,760
too many good people in the infield. I'm not backing

2293
01:53:43,840 --> 01:53:46,640
down for my stance. It's not the best interest for

2294
01:53:46,760 --> 01:53:51,199
the Astros to have somebody sitting every day. I know

2295
01:53:51,239 --> 01:53:52,960
it's one hundred and sixty two. Let me get let me,

2296
01:53:53,399 --> 01:53:55,680
let me get you all the prefaces. Okay, I know

2297
01:53:55,760 --> 01:53:59,279
it's not valuable to have one sixty two. Uh, I

2298
01:53:59,319 --> 01:54:01,640
mean you have to play on sixty two. I know

2299
01:54:01,760 --> 01:54:04,079
guys need days off. I know all these things. You

2300
01:54:04,119 --> 01:54:05,880
don't have to come and tell me this in advance.

2301
01:54:05,880 --> 01:54:08,720
I've watched baseball a lot of my life. I know

2302
01:54:08,840 --> 01:54:12,119
that guys get in slumps. I know sometimes pitcher batter

2303
01:54:12,239 --> 01:54:16,479
matchups can make a difference. But if there is a

2304
01:54:16,640 --> 01:54:23,239
part of your team that is significantly in with a

2305
01:54:23,319 --> 01:54:26,560
tremendous amount of uncertainty, I consider that the outfield. I

2306
01:54:26,640 --> 01:54:30,039
think the Astros outfield is a huge level of concern

2307
01:54:30,119 --> 01:54:32,319
and maybe something that is not being talked about enough.

2308
01:54:33,439 --> 01:54:36,520
Oh that if you can strengthen one part of your

2309
01:54:36,600 --> 01:54:41,359
team by getting giving up something that you have too

2310
01:54:41,520 --> 01:54:45,439
much of, that's good business sense. That would be the

2311
01:54:45,520 --> 01:54:49,439
perfect world as you would trade probably Christian Walker for

2312
01:54:49,880 --> 01:54:52,439
a viable outfielder and then you would kill the two

2313
01:54:52,520 --> 01:54:55,560
birds with one stone. Problem is, Walker has less value.

2314
01:54:56,000 --> 01:54:58,359
Esik Pretus does have more value. So that's why his

2315
01:54:58,520 --> 01:55:03,279
name has been mentioned more in trades and in theory.

2316
01:55:03,880 --> 01:55:07,800
Giving guys days off of Koreas older back issues. Josel

2317
01:55:07,880 --> 01:55:09,640
Tuve is gonna be thirty six by the start of

2318
01:55:09,680 --> 01:55:12,359
the season, Christiah Walker's thirty four. You can kind of rotate.

2319
01:55:12,399 --> 01:55:14,600
But baseball is also a game where everybody that I

2320
01:55:14,720 --> 01:55:16,840
just mentioned wants to be out there as much as possible,

2321
01:55:17,279 --> 01:55:20,239
and you need guys to go in rhythm and baseball

2322
01:55:20,399 --> 01:55:23,359
is a sport where people can slump for weeks or

2323
01:55:23,399 --> 01:55:25,840
even a month plus and still be very good players.

2324
01:55:25,880 --> 01:55:27,000
And they need to work out of it. So you

2325
01:55:27,079 --> 01:55:30,680
got to keep guys in a rhythm. Yeah, all, yeah,

2326
01:55:30,720 --> 01:55:32,359
I think the two of us is giving you a

2327
01:55:32,439 --> 01:55:35,720
bunch of points. It you just don't have that you

2328
01:55:35,840 --> 01:55:39,119
don't in twenty twenty six, when every spot on a

2329
01:55:39,199 --> 01:55:44,039
roster is valuable. Look, I can't wait to find out

2330
01:55:44,039 --> 01:55:48,039
what Zach Cole does in April. I know what Jake

2331
01:55:48,119 --> 01:55:52,279
Myers is hey for six months baller. I'm not saying

2332
01:55:52,600 --> 01:55:55,159
glove finalists, but there's no slap, there's no power. It's

2333
01:55:55,159 --> 01:56:00,680
all slap. Ten home runs and the olden days, when

2334
01:56:00,680 --> 01:56:02,520
a guy hit fifteen, you'd say it had some pop.

2335
01:56:02,720 --> 01:56:05,399
And when I'm the olden days, all right, the fan

2336
01:56:05,479 --> 01:56:07,800
club is just the fan club. Jake Myers fan club

2337
01:56:07,880 --> 01:56:11,039
of me is talking. And Cam Smith should be given

2338
01:56:11,079 --> 01:56:13,479
every opportunity to do exact what he did last March,

2339
01:56:13,520 --> 01:56:17,079
and that was crush it. But he regressed. He was

2340
01:56:17,159 --> 01:56:20,319
not the same player because the competition was different in

2341
01:56:20,520 --> 01:56:22,520
Florida than it was during the course of the season

2342
01:56:22,560 --> 01:56:24,680
when the games really counted. He had ops under five

2343
01:56:24,800 --> 01:56:27,920
hundred and the second half. That's not acceptable. I mean

2344
01:56:27,960 --> 01:56:30,359
the great. Right field is great. If you're not worried

2345
01:56:30,399 --> 01:56:32,920
about the outfield, then you have your blinders on them.

2346
01:56:32,960 --> 01:56:36,560
You need your corner guys, especially to hit. Yes, and

2347
01:56:36,720 --> 01:56:40,359
I I'm not trusting Zach cole September, and I wouldn't

2348
01:56:40,359 --> 01:56:43,560
trust that Cole March. But he's he's been given the opportunity.

2349
01:56:43,760 --> 01:56:45,239
Now you can say, well, you're not I'll be out there.

2350
01:56:45,479 --> 01:56:48,079
It doesn't sound like get me very much. Yeah, your

2351
01:56:48,239 --> 01:56:50,760
your backup plan is that no trade is made, and

2352
01:56:50,840 --> 01:56:52,800
then you have to figure out the log jam, and

2353
01:56:52,920 --> 01:56:56,079
then you have some options. As far as outfield guys.

2354
01:56:56,279 --> 01:56:58,600
The backup plan isn't terrible. You would just like it

2355
01:56:58,680 --> 01:57:01,479
to get improved with a possible trade of getting rid

2356
01:57:01,520 --> 01:57:03,760
of the log jam and helping the outfield. If you

2357
01:57:04,159 --> 01:57:08,439
had I don't even know, you wouldn't. First of all,

2358
01:57:08,439 --> 01:57:10,439
you would have estock prities if you kept Kyle Tucker,

2359
01:57:10,560 --> 01:57:12,640
So that's not even a conversation. But if you had

2360
01:57:12,880 --> 01:57:17,000
somebody like if you had Cam Smith to seventy five

2361
01:57:17,199 --> 01:57:20,159
with an OPS of about seven to seventy five, you'd

2362
01:57:20,199 --> 01:57:22,000
feel better about it. I think we looked at his

2363
01:57:22,079 --> 01:57:24,479
Baseball Reference projection. I think they had him at seven

2364
01:57:24,640 --> 01:57:27,760
seventy or am I thinking of Zach Cole. I'd have

2365
01:57:27,840 --> 01:57:28,399
to look that up.

2366
01:57:30,119 --> 01:57:30,720
Speaker 6: But you have.

2367
01:57:32,239 --> 01:57:36,720
Speaker 2: A very youthful you have a corner outfield spots of

2368
01:57:37,560 --> 01:57:40,239
not much experience, and what little experience one of them

2369
01:57:40,279 --> 01:57:44,399
had was didn't come up to advertise as advertised living

2370
01:57:44,439 --> 01:57:47,199
Spring training, and guys outperform their projections all the time,

2371
01:57:47,399 --> 01:57:51,119
especially young guys. So while again I appreciate that you

2372
01:57:51,279 --> 01:57:55,039
can't trade estcoc Partes Truthers, I understand where you're coming from. Yeah,

2373
01:57:55,239 --> 01:57:58,399
you don't have strengths in a lot of categories, and

2374
01:57:58,640 --> 01:58:05,800
honestly does this if in fact the Diez is gonna

2375
01:58:05,840 --> 01:58:09,399
worry about this ankle all year long? Do you want

2376
01:58:09,439 --> 01:58:12,640
to improve your backup catcher spot? You would ideally, But

2377
01:58:12,720 --> 01:58:14,520
says Oar salasars out of options and you want to

2378
01:58:14,600 --> 01:58:16,279
keep him so you can't yoo him up and down

2379
01:58:16,319 --> 01:58:19,760
from Sugarland like you have been. I just don't think

2380
01:58:19,840 --> 01:58:23,800
it's it's not irresponsible to continue to say that the

2381
01:58:23,960 --> 01:58:26,960
best thing for the Astros is to trade you sick paratus,

2382
01:58:27,560 --> 01:58:30,079
because because here's the thing you can trade Christian Walker

2383
01:58:30,680 --> 01:58:34,520
love it, but the other team wants the other team

2384
01:58:34,600 --> 01:58:39,239
wants money back money, and guess what, you're gonna want prospects. No, no, no, no,

2385
01:58:39,479 --> 01:58:41,840
you're gonna want prospects because you're the one paying this salary.

2386
01:58:42,159 --> 01:58:44,359
You're dumping him, you're paying for prospect. Better pay some

2387
01:58:44,479 --> 01:58:48,119
big cash then, And maybe Jim Cran's like, I can't

2388
01:58:48,199 --> 01:58:51,319
do that, yeah, because that would once again be another

2389
01:58:51,600 --> 01:58:55,319
loss on their quote unquote free agent acquisition to the

2390
01:58:55,399 --> 01:59:00,560
last handfel years. And you're also assuming, and you're also

2391
01:59:00,600 --> 01:59:03,319
assuming the hamstring is a healthy froppritus. And then he

2392
01:59:03,399 --> 01:59:07,720
can feel first base, well, he's got You gotta put

2393
01:59:07,760 --> 01:59:10,159
him somewhere. You do it, That's right, you can't. It's

2394
01:59:10,239 --> 01:59:12,079
easier to trust him at first more than what it's like.

2395
01:59:12,239 --> 01:59:16,239
It's the Yeah, well we had Tony Parris Chico on

2396
01:59:16,279 --> 01:59:18,279
a fan fest. He said second base is the easiest

2397
01:59:18,880 --> 01:59:22,199
just in terms of lure, right right, right. He did

2398
01:59:22,319 --> 01:59:24,279
make me feel better about him going to second base.

2399
01:59:25,359 --> 01:59:27,159
And now I will say this again. You're gonna get

2400
01:59:27,199 --> 01:59:30,279
mad at me. Don't say it can't be worse than Altwove.

2401
01:59:31,079 --> 01:59:37,039
I'm sorry. Love you build a statue first bout Hall

2402
01:59:37,039 --> 01:59:40,000
of Famer. Well, hopefully if they if the if the

2403
01:59:40,039 --> 01:59:45,479
writers aren't bitter. He's a first ballot Hall of Famer. Okay,

2404
01:59:49,119 --> 01:59:50,479
I'm not saying a bad word about a two V.

2405
01:59:50,479 --> 01:59:55,000
I'm sorry, Okay, I'll be will be realistic. He's not

2406
01:59:55,079 --> 01:59:57,439
a butcher out there, and I think that those that

2407
01:59:57,560 --> 02:00:00,119
want to make fun of his second base work. We've

2408
02:00:00,119 --> 02:00:04,199
seen butchers in left Okay, second base. He was like

2409
02:00:04,319 --> 02:00:07,199
a bottom ten second baseman in baseball last year, and

2410
02:00:07,279 --> 02:00:09,640
he's number one in my heart. I know Final Hour

2411
02:00:09,720 --> 02:00:11,199
The Matt Thomas Show and Ross coming up in a

2412
02:00:11,279 --> 02:00:13,000
matter of moment seven to one three two one two

2413
02:00:13,199 --> 02:00:16,680
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five

2414
02:00:17,119 --> 02:00:19,680
seven ninety We take this program until two o'clock. If

2415
02:00:19,720 --> 02:00:21,640
you missed our conversation with Ima Dook, we'll have it

2416
02:00:21,720 --> 02:00:23,800
for you coming up in about thirty minutes. Believe it

2417
02:00:23,840 --> 02:00:26,960
or not. Today is this defunct football team did it

2418
02:00:27,079 --> 02:00:34,760
ever exist? That's UFL xfl USFLU World Football League, World

2419
02:00:34,800 --> 02:00:37,319
League of American Football, hell CFL will take it all.

2420
02:00:37,600 --> 02:00:40,960
Twelve fifty eight on seven ninety is The Matt Thomas

2421
02:00:41,079 --> 02:00:51,000
Show with Ross. All Right, Ross and I have argued,

2422
02:00:51,039 --> 02:00:52,600
we got phone calls to get to here at seven

2423
02:00:52,640 --> 02:00:55,079
one three two one two five seven. We always enjoy

2424
02:00:55,199 --> 02:00:58,199
good conversation with you folks. Then we nor will Gambler

2425
02:00:58,279 --> 02:01:01,880
talk on the show ever, unless they win the whole thing.

2426
02:01:03,359 --> 02:01:06,319
It'd be a nice Houston Sports championship, Yes, and a

2427
02:01:06,359 --> 02:01:10,880
big parade, a hothot to win back in the day. No, no, no,

2428
02:01:11,319 --> 02:01:15,439
all right, So you and I have a interesting observation

2429
02:01:15,600 --> 02:01:17,600
and a small bed about the number of games you're on.

2430
02:01:17,600 --> 02:01:21,279
An Alvarez is going to play for the rest of

2431
02:01:21,359 --> 02:01:24,159
his career. Yes, yes, you have him under one hundred

2432
02:01:24,159 --> 02:01:28,600
and thirty, for which I'm entire life. I'm hopeful that's

2433
02:01:28,680 --> 02:01:33,119
that's inaccurate. I hope he gets there this year. Oh man,

2434
02:01:33,560 --> 02:01:35,000
I mean if he plays over one hundred and thirty,

2435
02:01:35,039 --> 02:01:38,800
guess what he's gonna do. Gonna mash Well, it's a

2436
02:01:38,840 --> 02:01:40,960
reason he's never hit forty home runs in his career.

2437
02:01:41,119 --> 02:01:41,279
Speaker 6: Well.

2438
02:01:41,279 --> 02:01:44,039
Speaker 2: The reason why I bring this up is because the

2439
02:01:44,119 --> 02:01:46,640
folks on the gambling websites have said, Hey, would you

2440
02:01:46,800 --> 02:01:48,600
like to predict who's gonna hit the most home runs

2441
02:01:48,640 --> 02:01:55,479
in twenty twenty? Say, okay, Aaron Judge won three and

2442
02:01:55,479 --> 02:01:59,439
a half to one. You gotta lay seven to two.

2443
02:02:00,239 --> 02:02:02,279
It's plus three fifteen Okay, so you got him lay

2444
02:02:02,279 --> 02:02:04,000
three hundred and fifty dollars. Oh no, no, you lay

2445
02:02:04,000 --> 02:02:07,319
one hundred and three fifty What what everything is for

2446
02:02:07,479 --> 02:02:11,439
Aaron Judge? Yeah? Yeah, okay, can I yuh what? Give

2447
02:02:11,439 --> 02:02:12,279
you that website again?

2448
02:02:12,319 --> 02:02:13,239
Speaker 8: Please? Yeah?

2449
02:02:13,279 --> 02:02:15,520
Speaker 2: You go to any casino Louisiana case. I'm sure you could.

2450
02:02:16,119 --> 02:02:17,880
So it seems like he should be even money. Let

2451
02:02:17,960 --> 02:02:20,920
me give you the top five. Aaron Judge is three

2452
02:02:20,960 --> 02:02:23,800
and a half to one. Shoe Halo Tani is on

2453
02:02:23,880 --> 02:02:26,119
leave the entire majors. Yeah and home. Okay, I don't know.

2454
02:02:26,159 --> 02:02:28,880
I was thinking American League. That makes a little more sense.

2455
02:02:29,079 --> 02:02:31,560
Shoho Tani is four to one, Kyle Schwarber is eight

2456
02:02:31,600 --> 02:02:34,760
to one, cal Ralegh nine to one, and Nick Kurtz

2457
02:02:35,039 --> 02:02:36,840
is ten to one. I would like to short col

2458
02:02:37,000 --> 02:02:41,520
Raley like bet against bet the other side. Oh that's easy, right,

2459
02:02:41,880 --> 02:02:44,159
he can't do this twice in a row. Can't this

2460
02:02:44,199 --> 02:02:46,560
twice in a row. So just to put you in

2461
02:02:46,680 --> 02:02:52,279
perspective of where baseball sees, you're done. Yes, you have

2462
02:02:52,359 --> 02:02:55,079
to go all the way down to about tenth or

2463
02:02:55,079 --> 02:02:57,359
eleventh in the list. Jord On Albaretz is thirty three

2464
02:02:57,439 --> 02:03:01,039
to one. Okay to leave the major league and home runs. Well,

2465
02:03:01,079 --> 02:03:05,600
he's never hit forty. Yeah, not only has he never

2466
02:03:05,680 --> 02:03:08,520
hit fifty, he's never hit forty. So he needs to

2467
02:03:08,560 --> 02:03:10,359
get there. Part of the reason is because he isn't

2468
02:03:10,399 --> 02:03:13,600
always out there. The most he's hit is ninety excuse me,

2469
02:03:13,720 --> 02:03:18,319
thirty seven. Well, I'm gonna twenty twenty two. Maybe maybe

2470
02:03:19,600 --> 02:03:21,640
Joe wants me to lose this bet with you, because

2471
02:03:21,680 --> 02:03:25,000
I think the easiest way for him to stay above

2472
02:03:25,199 --> 02:03:27,600
the one thirty line is by daging as much as possible,

2473
02:03:28,319 --> 02:03:31,199
although his injuries frankly ross him and that come with

2474
02:03:31,359 --> 02:03:34,920
him on the base path. It's happened. Yeah, normally he

2475
02:03:35,520 --> 02:03:41,399
say wipe down home plate please after first innings. Then

2476
02:03:41,439 --> 02:03:44,000
he also slide awkwardly in the second base into second base.

2477
02:03:44,319 --> 02:03:46,439
You know, he kind of lumbers. He's a big dude.

2478
02:03:48,479 --> 02:03:50,960
He can mash, he can mash, he can he can

2479
02:03:51,079 --> 02:03:55,119
hit upper deckers off a Robbie Ray and give you

2480
02:03:55,239 --> 02:03:57,920
the most electric moments of your life. And then he

2481
02:03:58,000 --> 02:04:00,600
can also be out with knee injury and creaking ease

2482
02:04:02,079 --> 02:04:05,319
and oblique injuries and whatever else. I honestly tell you

2483
02:04:05,399 --> 02:04:08,279
today at one o five, I pray that I lose

2484
02:04:08,359 --> 02:04:12,079
the bet, you're gonna lose because eventually I haven't. The

2485
02:04:12,119 --> 02:04:14,479
bet ends at twenty thirty six. By the way, is

2486
02:04:14,520 --> 02:04:16,279
that what we said we put in fifteen years? Hey,

2487
02:04:16,319 --> 02:04:17,800
you don't let that go. Look, I don't remember what

2488
02:04:17,920 --> 02:04:19,680
what did we bet? I don't remember dinner or something.

2489
02:04:19,960 --> 02:04:23,079
It's something small. I got to pay off of my coffee?

2490
02:04:23,239 --> 02:04:25,720
Did I already pay my coffee off? I know? Oh

2491
02:04:25,920 --> 02:04:27,479
you got me so, but you didn't give me a

2492
02:04:27,720 --> 02:04:31,640
pastry though, Oh I owe you a pastry. No, we're

2493
02:04:31,640 --> 02:04:34,720
supposed to go to a nice place. It's right, not Starbucks,

2494
02:04:34,880 --> 02:04:37,119
I'll say it, not Starbucks. Supposed to go to a nice,

2495
02:04:37,159 --> 02:04:40,439
good coffee place. We can bring your computers and work

2496
02:04:40,439 --> 02:04:42,760
while we're there, or absolutely, we don't want to have conversation.

2497
02:04:42,880 --> 02:04:43,800
Was a WiFi password?

2498
02:04:43,920 --> 02:04:44,199
Speaker 4: Does that?

2499
02:04:44,279 --> 02:04:46,359
Speaker 2: Barissa? Hear that more than anything in the world. Or

2500
02:04:46,359 --> 02:04:48,439
how about what's your code for the bathroom? Oh that

2501
02:04:48,520 --> 02:04:53,359
happens too, wi Fi password one? You try? The address

2502
02:04:53,479 --> 02:04:56,760
number is a good guess the things you learned, not

2503
02:04:56,880 --> 02:04:59,000
necessarily going to a lot of places that require that. Yes,

2504
02:04:59,039 --> 02:04:59,239
I do.

2505
02:04:59,439 --> 02:04:59,880
Speaker 5: I live in this.

2506
02:05:02,319 --> 02:05:04,359
Speaker 2: All right, So I just want to give you people,

2507
02:05:04,600 --> 02:05:07,000
if you wanted to bet on Jordan Alvarez being the

2508
02:05:07,119 --> 02:05:09,680
home run King of twenty twenty six. For every ten

2509
02:05:09,760 --> 02:05:11,880
dollars you put down, you'd win three hundred and thirty

2510
02:05:11,960 --> 02:05:14,880
outs for all of baseball. Now, how far down the list, Oh,

2511
02:05:15,359 --> 02:05:17,239
let me give you some other names, really coarly like

2512
02:05:17,279 --> 02:05:19,359
he's he's what like seventh, eithh like? Where is he

2513
02:05:19,479 --> 02:05:23,039
from the top five, six, seven, eight nine? He's tenth. Okay,

2514
02:05:23,159 --> 02:05:24,960
so he's supposed to finish top ten a home runs

2515
02:05:24,960 --> 02:05:27,159
in the entire Major League. He's in a three way

2516
02:05:27,279 --> 02:05:31,079
tie for eighth actually with Matt Olsen and vlad Guerrero Junior. Okay,

2517
02:05:31,600 --> 02:05:33,479
Peter A. Lonzo's in front of him, Won Soto's in

2518
02:05:33,520 --> 02:05:39,680
front of him, and that's it. But Aaron Judge the

2519
02:05:40,000 --> 02:05:43,000
clear favorite, because that's what Aaron Judge does. He hits

2520
02:05:43,039 --> 02:05:45,800
in a homer and let's tell you that's chalk. He

2521
02:05:45,840 --> 02:05:49,319
plays ninety games a year and ridiculously friendly home run stadiums,

2522
02:05:49,760 --> 02:05:52,159
Yes he does, between Fenway and Yankee. I'm sure there's

2523
02:05:52,159 --> 02:05:54,239
other places too, but yeah, and then he comes here

2524
02:05:54,319 --> 02:05:57,880
sometimes pretty friendly manashes pretty well. Let's talk to the

2525
02:05:57,920 --> 02:05:59,720
great people to Houston. When the win's not blowing in

2526
02:06:00,520 --> 02:06:03,319
Aaron Boone, do we I don't think we've had a

2527
02:06:03,359 --> 02:06:05,720
single game roof open last year, did we not? I

2528
02:06:05,760 --> 02:06:08,199
don't think we don't think so because normally the playoffs

2529
02:06:08,199 --> 02:06:10,479
they open it up, and well, I got one for you.

2530
02:06:10,600 --> 02:06:12,640
Should they open it up for the World Baseball Classic

2531
02:06:13,000 --> 02:06:15,359
that's coming here? Wouldn't that be a great way to

2532
02:06:15,439 --> 02:06:17,720
cud players don't like the city. The players don't like

2533
02:06:17,800 --> 02:06:20,079
the unknown element of the winds. No, that's not the players,

2534
02:06:20,119 --> 02:06:23,319
it's Lance mcculors doesn't like it. Remember Lance was all

2535
02:06:23,399 --> 02:06:25,439
Horty was upset in that Arizona opened up their roof

2536
02:06:25,479 --> 02:06:33,439
and then everything he was taking against no real quick? One?

2537
02:06:33,560 --> 02:06:37,399
Two three? Is Lance mccullors Junior a major storyline for

2538
02:06:37,439 --> 02:06:41,479
the Astros in twenty twenty six? Now major major means

2539
02:06:41,520 --> 02:06:43,920
like a comeback story well, or or something meaning like

2540
02:06:43,960 --> 02:06:47,920
he's got a meaningful role or we phrase. Is Lance

2541
02:06:48,000 --> 02:06:51,720
mccullors a major part of the twenty twenty sixty one?

2542
02:06:51,840 --> 02:06:52,439
Two three?

2543
02:06:52,880 --> 02:06:52,920
Speaker 6: No?

2544
02:06:53,479 --> 02:06:56,199
Speaker 2: I love Lance mccullors junior. You didn't marry him in

2545
02:06:56,279 --> 02:07:01,000
the h No does Lance Colors finished the year with

2546
02:07:01,079 --> 02:07:09,159
the Astros? Because here's I want to give you a phrase.

2547
02:07:09,359 --> 02:07:11,000
How about this one before you go to your phrase.

2548
02:07:12,319 --> 02:07:16,920
Tradable deadline for a veteran arm if he's healthy or

2549
02:07:17,119 --> 02:07:20,319
b We gave you as much time as we could.

2550
02:07:20,399 --> 02:07:23,560
We thank you for your service, but we've eventually had

2551
02:07:23,560 --> 02:07:28,359
to take a loss. Cleared Waivers deciding to accept his

2552
02:07:28,399 --> 02:07:34,359
assignment to sugar Land. That hurts me, sail out. Wow,

2553
02:07:34,600 --> 02:07:37,880
that's not my bengo. Okay, good, that's not my bingo card.

2554
02:07:38,279 --> 02:07:41,119
Let's talk to John. He's gonna bounce back.

2555
02:07:41,479 --> 02:07:41,720
Speaker 5: You know what.

2556
02:07:41,920 --> 02:07:44,119
Speaker 2: I'm changing my mind right now. Wait a minute, you

2557
02:07:44,680 --> 02:07:47,720
just literally said something else five seconds ago. Please, I

2558
02:07:47,800 --> 02:07:51,319
gotta believe baby. He's only thirty two. Hi, John.

2559
02:07:53,239 --> 02:07:56,760
Speaker 14: Empty. I was just about to say something until raw

2560
02:07:56,880 --> 02:07:58,119
say what he said.

2561
02:07:58,279 --> 02:08:00,680
Speaker 5: As is a wrap man.

2562
02:08:01,960 --> 02:08:04,920
Speaker 2: He let me believe John, Let me let me. Let

2563
02:08:04,960 --> 02:08:07,000
me tell you, John, it's the name of that show

2564
02:08:07,079 --> 02:08:08,960
is Matt Thomas. Show was ross. It's Matt Thomas was

2565
02:08:09,039 --> 02:08:11,840
the flip flopper over here. I had him out right

2566
02:08:11,920 --> 02:08:14,600
and I got him bounce back with seconds. Are such

2567
02:08:14,640 --> 02:08:15,119
a fraud?

2568
02:08:17,119 --> 02:08:19,000
Speaker 14: That is fraudular behavior.

2569
02:08:20,279 --> 02:08:21,600
Speaker 2: Behavior that is for sure.

2570
02:08:21,880 --> 02:08:23,720
Speaker 14: Real quick, give two things.

2571
02:08:24,239 --> 02:08:27,960
Speaker 6: I agree with you that the outfield for us does

2572
02:08:28,079 --> 02:08:33,279
not get talked about enough because I totally suspect much

2573
02:08:33,439 --> 02:08:36,479
like him did. They don't have any tape on cold.

2574
02:08:36,800 --> 02:08:40,439
So he's gonna start off like game Busters and.

2575
02:08:40,520 --> 02:08:43,560
Speaker 14: By the second half don't figure him out.

2576
02:08:43,520 --> 02:08:44,840
Speaker 2: Just like they're figuring Cam out.

2577
02:08:45,560 --> 02:08:49,000
Speaker 6: And I think you'll have the same type of season

2578
02:08:49,079 --> 02:08:52,439
that Cam had in his first year, kind of up

2579
02:08:52,479 --> 02:08:52,800
and down.

2580
02:08:52,920 --> 02:08:56,920
Speaker 2: So if you if you were Dana with that piece.

2581
02:08:56,800 --> 02:09:00,439
Speaker 6: Of paratist, who is still out there that you would

2582
02:09:00,520 --> 02:09:04,359
trade for as far as the outfitter to the outfielder

2583
02:09:04,439 --> 02:09:08,279
to boast, you know, boost the outfield, because I agree.

2584
02:09:08,399 --> 02:09:10,159
Speaker 14: The three guys that we have out there now.

2585
02:09:10,800 --> 02:09:12,720
Speaker 6: And I'm sorry, Ross, I know you're the president of

2586
02:09:12,760 --> 02:09:15,680
the fan club, but but around these parts, Jake Maris

2587
02:09:15,800 --> 02:09:20,359
is a jag. He's just another guy, and you can't

2588
02:09:20,680 --> 02:09:23,680
You got to be able to to find something something

2589
02:09:23,720 --> 02:09:25,960
for that center field. And then and then the lastly,

2590
02:09:26,479 --> 02:09:29,479
em T what do you call what is Dorian Finney

2591
02:09:29,520 --> 02:09:31,479
Smith's nickname when you call him on.

2592
02:09:31,520 --> 02:09:33,319
Speaker 2: The on the on the radio? What what what is

2593
02:09:33,399 --> 02:09:38,199
the dfs NA DFS Okay? Is there anyway?

2594
02:09:38,279 --> 02:09:40,199
Speaker 6: And Ross, please get behind me on this because we've

2595
02:09:40,199 --> 02:09:44,119
got a poition going. Can we change his name from

2596
02:09:44,319 --> 02:09:46,159
that to Kelvin Cato?

2597
02:09:46,800 --> 02:09:47,000
Speaker 5: Oh?

2598
02:09:47,720 --> 02:09:50,279
Speaker 2: Come on too soon?

2599
02:09:51,800 --> 02:09:54,199
Speaker 14: Is it possible that we could call him Kevin Cato?

2600
02:09:55,000 --> 02:09:58,840
Because I just I just believe any any wide.

2601
02:09:58,600 --> 02:10:01,960
Speaker 6: Open three point shots that are open hit it and

2602
02:10:02,039 --> 02:10:04,880
I and at last he's in the Dallas Mavericks uniform.

2603
02:10:05,640 --> 02:10:08,520
We've been we've been bamboozl we've been hoodwink.

2604
02:10:08,760 --> 02:10:10,680
Speaker 14: So that's all I got him to you. I want

2605
02:10:10,720 --> 02:10:13,800
to hear if who would you trade for? And again,

2606
02:10:13,840 --> 02:10:15,880
should we just get that Calvin.

2607
02:10:15,600 --> 02:10:18,920
Speaker 2: Tato as as a new DMV call? Thanks guys here,

2608
02:10:19,000 --> 02:10:25,640
get to listen. No, you're not gonna call him Dorian

2609
02:10:25,720 --> 02:10:27,880
Phinney Smith. They're gonna call him the other nickname that

2610
02:10:27,960 --> 02:10:31,159
I heard. There are other names, sadly that are out

2611
02:10:31,239 --> 02:10:33,640
there for Dorian Phinney Smith. Do you want to say

2612
02:10:33,640 --> 02:10:36,439
it or you know I'm not under zero chances, I'll

2613
02:10:36,479 --> 02:10:40,000
say it, Dorian fin the miss. That's not very nice.

2614
02:10:44,239 --> 02:10:50,119
He's a work in progress, work in progress. People can improve.

2615
02:10:50,680 --> 02:10:52,840
I like him personally. He's had a terrible say. I

2616
02:10:52,840 --> 02:10:56,239
didn't realize he was thirty two years old. Let's get

2617
02:10:56,279 --> 02:10:58,039
him good, you know what. Let's get him wrested from

2618
02:10:58,119 --> 02:11:00,920
the the All Star break, and we'd for like thirty

2619
02:11:00,960 --> 02:11:02,600
minutes of play and he can get into a rhythm

2620
02:11:02,640 --> 02:11:04,960
and play better because the Rockets are gonna need bench play.

2621
02:11:05,640 --> 02:11:07,800
That's the bottom line. You can talk about whether or

2622
02:11:07,800 --> 02:11:09,600
not he's gonna play well or not they meet him,

2623
02:11:10,680 --> 02:11:12,720
because last night on the bench when you had you

2624
02:11:12,760 --> 02:11:15,000
can't play Dorian Phinneysmith the entire Easten on back to

2625
02:11:15,079 --> 02:11:20,000
backs it was zero points from Clint Capella and I

2626
02:11:20,039 --> 02:11:23,000
can't even remember. You're getting JD. Davison minutes, you're getting

2627
02:11:23,199 --> 02:11:26,880
the this stray Isaiah Crawford. They need Dorian Phinneysmith to

2628
02:11:26,880 --> 02:11:29,800
be a key part of this rotation. To answer your question,

2629
02:11:30,039 --> 02:11:33,039
I can't give you names because everybody that had names

2630
02:11:33,079 --> 02:11:36,399
attached to potentially a trade with Eastsik Pretties have been

2631
02:11:36,439 --> 02:11:41,239
traded by now. The market is cooled. That much is clear. Yeah.

2632
02:11:48,439 --> 02:11:51,560
I mean I'm looking at the literally the latest trade

2633
02:11:51,640 --> 02:11:54,279
rumors of a website that I do trust, and they're

2634
02:11:54,319 --> 02:11:59,439
saying that there's Boston already filled its spot. Who does

2635
02:11:59,640 --> 02:12:03,479
does boss I have an extra outfielder at this point? Yeah,

2636
02:12:04,039 --> 02:12:09,640
but it's too late, baby, It's too late because from

2637
02:12:09,680 --> 02:12:18,159
the Red Sox. They made a trade opening day a Bray.

2638
02:12:18,239 --> 02:12:23,960
It was available, wasn't he Brian No Wilner, Oh, Willyer Yeah,

2639
02:12:25,960 --> 02:12:33,359
mm hmm. Former Astro's legend, Astro's farm system legend. Yeah,

2640
02:12:33,359 --> 02:12:38,680
they trade. They got Caleb Durhan from the Brewers. Yeah,

2641
02:12:39,319 --> 02:12:43,600
it's I'm getting nothing. Excuse me, that's fine. Durbin Durham.

2642
02:12:43,720 --> 02:12:49,239
Like I know, I don't know. There are there are

2643
02:12:49,359 --> 02:12:52,119
mystery clubs in the in the package. I don't know

2644
02:12:52,159 --> 02:12:54,239
who's tradable. I don't know what teams right now have

2645
02:12:54,319 --> 02:12:57,439
too many outfielders. Oh I'm not Oh no, there's other

2646
02:12:57,560 --> 02:13:03,840
nicknames for for Dorian Finney Smith. Don't Finny Shoot, don't

2647
02:13:03,840 --> 02:13:06,640
even show that to me, don't Why did you look

2648
02:13:06,680 --> 02:13:09,279
that up? I didn't look it up. Oh just popped

2649
02:13:09,319 --> 02:13:12,079
up in your Tielne really tweeted it to me. Willie,

2650
02:13:12,840 --> 02:13:18,960
please be polite. He's gonna be all right.

2651
02:13:19,039 --> 02:13:19,279
Speaker 5: Guys.

2652
02:13:20,640 --> 02:13:22,760
Speaker 2: Everybody was calling read Shepherd a bus and then now

2653
02:13:22,800 --> 02:13:24,760
one year later, everybody wants him in the starting lineup.

2654
02:13:24,800 --> 02:13:28,359
Guys can improve Now he's thirty two. It's different case. Well,

2655
02:13:28,600 --> 02:13:30,399
he better improved because he's on the books for a

2656
02:13:30,439 --> 02:13:32,000
lot of money. That's what I'm saying. He's on the

2657
02:13:32,039 --> 02:13:33,760
books for like three more years. He was as good

2658
02:13:33,800 --> 02:13:37,039
as a Laker against us. He's gonna get better, He's

2659
02:13:37,079 --> 02:13:39,520
gonna get healthier. He had a three point of last night. Yeah,

2660
02:13:40,520 --> 02:13:41,960
and then he almost caved the front end of the

2661
02:13:42,039 --> 02:13:43,840
rim and with the other one, well, he's gotta get

2662
02:13:43,840 --> 02:13:45,960
little more left on it. Yeah. The line drivers are

2663
02:13:46,000 --> 02:13:47,359
not gonna w Yeah, he's got to get his legs

2664
02:13:47,439 --> 02:13:47,960
underneath them.

2665
02:13:47,960 --> 02:13:48,159
Speaker 5: Guys.

2666
02:13:48,199 --> 02:13:50,960
Speaker 2: Let him get the All Star break one fifteen Sports

2667
02:13:51,039 --> 02:13:53,760
Talk seven ninety. We'll hear more from the Rockets coach

2668
02:13:53,800 --> 02:13:57,359
in about fifteen minutes here on seven ninety. They start

2669
02:13:57,439 --> 02:13:59,840
today coming out of his spring training with Josh Hater

2670
02:14:00,239 --> 02:14:03,920
and his apparent set back. He did throw some soft

2671
02:14:04,000 --> 02:14:07,560
tosses today at Florida and Florida down at West Palm Beach,

2672
02:14:07,600 --> 02:14:10,920
and after that he spoke to the media. Can you

2673
02:14:11,199 --> 02:14:11,840
just kind of take.

2674
02:14:11,800 --> 02:14:13,760
Speaker 9: Us through what happened when you were shut down with

2675
02:14:14,079 --> 02:14:14,920
junior fourth bullpen?

2676
02:14:14,960 --> 02:14:15,680
Speaker 2: I believe Yeah.

2677
02:14:15,760 --> 02:14:18,520
Speaker 16: So I was going in my fourth bullpen and for me,

2678
02:14:18,720 --> 02:14:20,439
when I was throwing catch play, I just threw a

2679
02:14:20,560 --> 02:14:23,720
change up kind of grabbed on me. So then kept

2680
02:14:23,800 --> 02:14:26,640
going on, and then the next day felt it again

2681
02:14:26,800 --> 02:14:30,560
on a change up, So following that, tried to do

2682
02:14:30,680 --> 02:14:32,960
it without throwing the change up, and then the more

2683
02:14:33,000 --> 02:14:37,439
intense I got, felt it again, So the bicep kind

2684
02:14:37,439 --> 02:14:40,319
of got inflamed. So then I took about ten days

2685
02:14:40,359 --> 02:14:43,119
off and started just letting that heel a little bit.

2686
02:14:43,479 --> 02:14:45,880
And now we're here today, and today was the first

2687
02:14:45,920 --> 02:14:50,000
day of catch play, which was pretty good. So, like

2688
02:14:50,119 --> 02:14:53,479
I said, a little setback, but nothing too concerning for me.

2689
02:14:53,960 --> 02:14:57,359
And yeah, so just building back up now and just

2690
02:14:57,399 --> 02:14:58,319
get ready for the season.

2691
02:14:58,600 --> 02:14:59,399
Speaker 5: What are you gonna do now?

2692
02:14:59,640 --> 02:15:02,880
Speaker 2: Just I actually see I would I'm posed.

2693
02:15:03,479 --> 02:15:05,600
Speaker 16: I mean, it's just back to normal, just building back up.

2694
02:15:05,680 --> 02:15:07,159
So I mean I was at the point where I

2695
02:15:07,199 --> 02:15:09,279
was summer Bullpens. I was up, you know, in eighty

2696
02:15:09,359 --> 02:15:12,119
five and you know, it felt really good. So I

2697
02:15:12,199 --> 02:15:14,680
think it's more so just getting back to that, just

2698
02:15:14,760 --> 02:15:16,880
building an arm back up. Since I had ten days off,

2699
02:15:18,079 --> 02:15:20,199
so I would say we're probably a few weeks behind

2700
02:15:20,279 --> 02:15:22,840
right now on just getting that arm back to where

2701
02:15:22,880 --> 02:15:23,399
we needed to be.

2702
02:15:24,479 --> 02:15:27,840
Speaker 7: Where you're staying it's the first work out, but giving

2703
02:15:27,880 --> 02:15:30,079
yourself a time frame as to whether you think you'd

2704
02:15:30,159 --> 02:15:31,239
be really broken there.

2705
02:15:31,720 --> 02:15:33,760
Speaker 16: No, Right now, I'm just taking it week by week

2706
02:15:34,479 --> 02:15:37,239
and just seeing how I'm progressing with that. For me,

2707
02:15:37,359 --> 02:15:40,640
it's it's more of just like seeing how my body

2708
02:15:40,720 --> 02:15:44,359
responds on everything, because if I start setting a table,

2709
02:15:44,680 --> 02:15:46,239
I don't want to get to the point where I'm

2710
02:15:46,279 --> 02:15:49,680
going to be rushing and then something long term happens,

2711
02:15:49,680 --> 02:15:52,159
which I don't think it will, but you know, sometimes

2712
02:15:52,199 --> 02:15:53,279
you got to be cautious with that.

2713
02:15:54,079 --> 02:15:56,079
Speaker 5: But for right now, it's just building back up to

2714
02:15:56,159 --> 02:15:56,800
where we need to be.

2715
02:15:57,680 --> 02:16:00,960
Speaker 2: How you feel you know, Oh, there's something that you

2716
02:16:01,079 --> 02:16:04,680
caught that in the interview. It wasn't about the questions

2717
02:16:05,000 --> 02:16:06,840
or it wasn't about the answers, it was the way

2718
02:16:06,840 --> 02:16:09,880
they were presented. I have found myself and we've talked

2719
02:16:09,880 --> 02:16:12,079
about this with other people in the media business. For

2720
02:16:12,279 --> 02:16:16,079
some reason, when you get into a clubhouse, you do

2721
02:16:16,399 --> 02:16:18,439
not want to go full throat.

2722
02:16:20,239 --> 02:16:20,279
Speaker 6: You.

2723
02:16:22,439 --> 02:16:25,159
Speaker 2: Josh was giving you his answers right yes, in a

2724
02:16:25,239 --> 02:16:30,199
normal tone. The questions were like, so, do you feel

2725
02:16:30,279 --> 02:16:33,360
like you're gonna be how far behind you are? I

2726
02:16:33,399 --> 02:16:36,079
think it's natural. You got guys in the locker room

2727
02:16:36,159 --> 02:16:38,239
and the next over and they're getting ready other guys

2728
02:16:38,280 --> 02:16:40,959
are chatting, you don't want to just blow them out, Matt.

2729
02:16:41,079 --> 02:16:44,840
But there was not equal balance between Josh's voice and

2730
02:16:44,959 --> 02:16:47,920
the reporter voice. Yeah, but I am. I have done

2731
02:16:47,959 --> 02:16:50,959
that myself over the years where I've I catch myself, well,

2732
02:16:51,040 --> 02:16:53,760
why am I talking softer than the guy I'm interviewing. Yeah,

2733
02:16:53,799 --> 02:16:57,319
but also that's from Brian McTaggart, and he's pointing the

2734
02:16:57,399 --> 02:17:00,280
camera at Josh Hater and not the reporters who were talking.

2735
02:17:00,399 --> 02:17:02,079
So if you if you move, if you move the

2736
02:17:02,120 --> 02:17:03,520
direction of the microphone, it'd pick.

2737
02:17:03,440 --> 02:17:03,840
Speaker 9: It up better.

2738
02:17:05,639 --> 02:17:07,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's so fairly if you're there, the volumes

2739
02:17:07,680 --> 02:17:11,719
a little closer the second the first question. After Brian's

2740
02:17:11,760 --> 02:17:14,639
won the second question over all, the guy was like, man,

2741
02:17:14,840 --> 02:17:17,159
you know hug or something. Yeah, you can hear Brian's

2742
02:17:17,200 --> 02:17:19,399
question better because he's right there in front of the phone. Okay,

2743
02:17:19,440 --> 02:17:21,840
so I was off, Mike. I will just say that

2744
02:17:22,360 --> 02:17:25,200
we as reporters when I when I do very little reporting,

2745
02:17:25,239 --> 02:17:27,799
but when I'm in the clubhouse, I'll interview interviews. We

2746
02:17:27,920 --> 02:17:30,680
as interviewers have done that in the past, where you've

2747
02:17:30,760 --> 02:17:33,680
kind of gone, you know, are you're gonna be back

2748
02:17:33,719 --> 02:17:35,959
in next says your ar, I'm gonna fall off? Or

2749
02:17:36,079 --> 02:17:38,079
what's to do with that? Did you throw a curveball

2750
02:17:38,239 --> 02:17:39,760
or a change up in that fourth inning? You don't

2751
02:17:39,760 --> 02:17:41,399
want to you don't want to shout at anybody. Well,

2752
02:17:41,399 --> 02:17:42,879
you know what it is. You're also trying to soft

2753
02:17:42,920 --> 02:17:45,360
play also if it's something you're kind of sheepish about

2754
02:17:45,440 --> 02:17:48,840
having to ask the question correct if if it's something negative,

2755
02:17:48,879 --> 02:17:52,479
especially like oh it went wrong in the ninth there, well,

2756
02:17:52,920 --> 02:17:54,760
and again when you go to your bedy you're mad

2757
02:17:54,760 --> 02:17:57,760
at me? Who's hurt? That's the last I mean, you're

2758
02:17:57,799 --> 02:18:01,120
not like you and I are relatively jolly people in general.

2759
02:18:01,280 --> 02:18:03,799
I can't imagine us going to Lance mc colors make Lance,

2760
02:18:03,920 --> 02:18:05,319
do you think you're gonna make it through the season?

2761
02:18:05,360 --> 02:18:07,280
I mean, you wouldn't go hey, Lance, and he thought

2762
02:18:07,280 --> 02:18:10,280
about you playing a full one sixty two this year, like,

2763
02:18:10,440 --> 02:18:12,520
you know, five runs at any and third, that's gotta

2764
02:18:12,520 --> 02:18:14,840
be some kind of record, Lance, Lance, Man, that must

2765
02:18:14,879 --> 02:18:17,440
have sucked out there. You go, hey, I know you

2766
02:18:17,479 --> 02:18:18,840
know it was. What was it working for you? Just

2767
02:18:18,920 --> 02:18:20,879
going through your What do you think you can improve

2768
02:18:20,959 --> 02:18:21,600
the next time out?

2769
02:18:23,280 --> 02:18:23,680
Speaker 9: That's just.

2770
02:18:25,159 --> 02:18:28,159
Speaker 2: That's a study in the in the vocal performances of

2771
02:18:28,239 --> 02:18:31,520
everybody in human interaction. Man, Yeah, is that ever work

2772
02:18:31,559 --> 02:18:32,000
in your life?

2773
02:18:32,520 --> 02:18:32,719
Speaker 5: Yeah?

2774
02:18:32,719 --> 02:18:35,079
Speaker 2: I guess, Well, like you're firing someone, you're not like, hey,

2775
02:18:36,440 --> 02:18:40,639
hey man, you're how to hear pal. Hey, I got

2776
02:18:40,719 --> 02:18:43,360
some news for you. Your numbers are down forty percent

2777
02:18:43,479 --> 02:18:45,520
year to year, and we can't keep you around anymore.

2778
02:18:46,399 --> 02:18:46,799
Speaker 5: What do you know?

2779
02:18:46,799 --> 02:18:49,399
Speaker 2: Never really do every decision on here?

2780
02:18:49,440 --> 02:18:49,680
Speaker 5: Still?

2781
02:18:49,879 --> 02:18:51,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we had to make some budget cuts.

2782
02:18:52,000 --> 02:18:53,879
It's say this is corporate, this is out of my hand.

2783
02:18:54,000 --> 02:18:57,559
Hard for Well, they don't say that, Well they used to.

2784
02:18:58,920 --> 02:19:01,840
Well they're lying, that's right. No, that's why I don't

2785
02:19:01,879 --> 02:19:04,639
just why you don't say it anymore? Yeah, I just uh,

2786
02:19:05,760 --> 02:19:07,920
it's not those are not easy. Some not blaming though,

2787
02:19:07,920 --> 02:19:09,639
I'm just saying that's just that's just the normal way

2788
02:19:09,760 --> 02:19:12,120
to you want to soft pedal it. So you don't

2789
02:19:13,120 --> 02:19:15,040
because obviously Josh Hater does not want to stand up

2790
02:19:15,040 --> 02:19:16,520
in front of a bunch of meeting explain why he's

2791
02:19:16,520 --> 02:19:17,840
not gonna be ready for probably the start of the

2792
02:19:17,879 --> 02:19:22,280
regular season. That's not an easy conversation to have. So

2793
02:19:22,399 --> 02:19:25,440
you kind of just you want to quietly work your

2794
02:19:25,440 --> 02:19:30,559
way up to asking the most important question biceps tending inflammation.

2795
02:19:34,079 --> 02:19:37,040
How are we feeling not good? I told you that,

2796
02:19:37,040 --> 02:19:39,840
at least I'm saying consistent with that. You flip flopped

2797
02:19:39,879 --> 02:19:43,319
already on Lance M. Colors is different. Are you sure

2798
02:19:43,319 --> 02:19:45,360
you want to do that too? Yes, because I don't

2799
02:19:45,360 --> 02:19:49,239
think it's gonna work out, but I wanted to. So

2800
02:19:49,319 --> 02:19:53,200
you're more hoping than dealing with realism. I'm not going

2801
02:19:53,239 --> 02:19:56,040
to the betting window and betting on Lancemcolor's overwins, okay,

2802
02:19:58,639 --> 02:20:02,399
but I'm hoping well. Honestly, if he does come back

2803
02:20:02,440 --> 02:20:05,600
and give you anything, you do need a long reliever

2804
02:20:06,959 --> 02:20:09,639
dems of breaks. You're still not a veteran pitching staff.

2805
02:20:10,639 --> 02:20:13,159
Guys are gonna have all performances and you could get it.

2806
02:20:13,200 --> 02:20:15,239
Maybe he's gonna blow us all away. Could you get

2807
02:20:15,239 --> 02:20:17,159
a guy that could give you three innings once every

2808
02:20:17,200 --> 02:20:19,479
seven or eight days if a guy struggles, if Lance

2809
02:20:19,520 --> 02:20:21,440
wants to inherit that. Look, at this point, the money

2810
02:20:21,440 --> 02:20:23,040
that's been spending on lands, Lance ought to be happy

2811
02:20:23,079 --> 02:20:24,840
that his arm is working and he can actually try

2812
02:20:24,879 --> 02:20:27,399
to help his team, whatever role that may be. He's

2813
02:20:27,440 --> 02:20:30,360
gonna get a shot to start. I believe that. I

2814
02:20:30,399 --> 02:20:32,559
mean that's a big guy feeling for me. Because he's

2815
02:20:32,600 --> 02:20:35,440
making eighteen million dollars. He's gonna be the sixth guy

2816
02:20:35,639 --> 02:20:38,360
and go out there and give us something. We're making

2817
02:20:38,399 --> 02:20:40,360
eighteen million dollars and he might get I don't know

2818
02:20:40,360 --> 02:20:41,920
if it's gonna be one start, five stars or what

2819
02:20:43,079 --> 02:20:48,079
if you gave me a healthy Lance McClory every sixth day.

2820
02:20:48,479 --> 02:20:51,639
Sometimes it'll be seven with off days and you'd have

2821
02:20:51,719 --> 02:20:54,239
to disabled him at any point this year. That's a

2822
02:20:54,280 --> 02:20:56,239
win for the asser to be shocking, first of all.

2823
02:20:57,239 --> 02:21:01,120
But I think unless he's a complete disaster in spring,

2824
02:21:01,760 --> 02:21:05,840
he's gonna get a shot because of the money, which

2825
02:21:05,879 --> 02:21:07,559
we did, and people will say, why is he out there?

2826
02:21:07,600 --> 02:21:09,120
I mean he could even I mean he could have

2827
02:21:09,200 --> 02:21:11,000
an atrocious spring, and I don't think it would matter

2828
02:21:11,319 --> 02:21:15,000
unless he is like really bad. Yeah. Seven one three

2829
02:21:15,079 --> 02:21:17,799
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two

2830
02:21:17,959 --> 02:21:20,479
one two five seven ninety's funding. I just got a

2831
02:21:21,280 --> 02:21:24,879
uh text about the Clippers injury report tonight. Nicholas Patum

2832
02:21:25,040 --> 02:21:27,959
is out for rest. He didn't play yesterday either. You

2833
02:21:28,040 --> 02:21:34,079
must want a lot of rest. Great, that's funny. Uh

2834
02:21:34,319 --> 02:21:37,959
So the Rockets outbran Ching Gun is probable. Okay, Tarry

2835
02:21:38,040 --> 02:21:41,200
Easton is questionable with his injury management. They've been trying

2836
02:21:41,200 --> 02:21:42,959
to get him back to back to backs. He may

2837
02:21:43,040 --> 02:21:45,280
Dooka said game time decision and we'll hear more from me.

2838
02:21:45,360 --> 02:21:47,760
May coming back here. Uh did the Rockets that beat

2839
02:21:47,799 --> 02:21:49,360
the Clippers last night trying to go for two in

2840
02:21:49,360 --> 02:21:52,000
a row and win three games overall before sending the

2841
02:21:52,040 --> 02:21:54,079
boys to the All Star Break. They are thirty three

2842
02:21:54,200 --> 02:21:57,440
and nineteen and by percentage points, own the third spot

2843
02:21:57,639 --> 02:22:05,879
in the Western Conference. More with Coach next Earlier on

2844
02:22:05,920 --> 02:22:07,440
the show today, we had a chance to visit with

2845
02:22:07,639 --> 02:22:09,680
Imay doesn't want to play a portion of that for you.

2846
02:22:09,959 --> 02:22:12,239
I May on the Rockets win last night and they

2847
02:22:12,280 --> 02:22:14,760
took care of the Clippers by a final score of one,

2848
02:22:15,200 --> 02:22:19,719
two five, Houston out thirty three and nineteen, and I

2849
02:22:20,079 --> 02:22:22,719
open up our visit with him asking how much different

2850
02:22:22,760 --> 02:22:24,920
it was taking on a Clipper team with no James

2851
02:22:24,959 --> 02:22:27,239
Harden and no Evins a Zubots on the floor.

2852
02:22:28,360 --> 02:22:29,280
Speaker 5: No, it's very different.

2853
02:22:29,360 --> 02:22:32,360
Speaker 13: Obviously, Harden is just such unique player and what he

2854
02:22:32,440 --> 02:22:34,639
brings to the table. You have to game plan this

2855
02:22:34,680 --> 02:22:36,840
scheme for him, and you know Zubot's kind of their

2856
02:22:36,879 --> 02:22:40,239
anchor on defense, and so very different as far as

2857
02:22:40,239 --> 02:22:42,680
the space thing with Lopez, you know, more spaced out

2858
02:22:42,719 --> 02:22:45,879
on the perimeter the ball and Leonard's hand one hundred

2859
02:22:45,879 --> 02:22:48,319
percent of the time now and then you know they're.

2860
02:22:48,159 --> 02:22:48,920
Speaker 5: Not at full strength.

2861
02:22:49,159 --> 02:22:52,040
Speaker 13: You know, Garland's out, and obviously they're getting their guys

2862
02:22:52,120 --> 02:22:54,000
up the speed. Mather and then Jackson playing in their

2863
02:22:54,000 --> 02:22:55,879
first game. So it was very different than the team

2864
02:22:55,920 --> 02:22:56,559
we faced before.

2865
02:22:57,360 --> 02:22:59,600
Speaker 2: The double team on Kawhi. Look, you got his shots,

2866
02:23:00,000 --> 02:23:02,360
took him nineteen to get twenty four, So I think

2867
02:23:02,399 --> 02:23:04,360
you'd be generally speaking pretty police the way you guys

2868
02:23:04,399 --> 02:23:06,239
doubled him on a fairly regular basis.

2869
02:23:07,559 --> 02:23:09,239
Speaker 13: Yeah, and that's my point, you know, with with with

2870
02:23:09,399 --> 02:23:12,680
hard John and some of their guys out, we you know,

2871
02:23:12,840 --> 02:23:15,840
have to go after Kawhi Leonard obviously he's gonna have

2872
02:23:15,879 --> 02:23:17,840
the ball in his hands and much more. And so yeah,

2873
02:23:18,000 --> 02:23:19,760
you don't always look at the final score. You know,

2874
02:23:19,879 --> 02:23:22,799
him having twenty four points, it's the nineteen attempts other

2875
02:23:22,840 --> 02:23:24,000
than you know, nine free throws.

2876
02:23:24,040 --> 02:23:25,399
Speaker 5: I think we did a decent job on them.

2877
02:23:26,559 --> 02:23:29,040
Speaker 2: Reading back off the bench. Good to get Amend back

2878
02:23:29,120 --> 02:23:31,920
out there. There was some time out there that looked

2879
02:23:32,000 --> 02:23:33,879
like that, Amen didn't have to necessarily worry about ball

2880
02:23:33,920 --> 02:23:36,040
handling as much as maybe in previous games. Was that

2881
02:23:36,159 --> 02:23:39,239
intentional or just how the game progress especially because he

2882
02:23:39,479 --> 02:23:41,600
had not as many big men chased after him as

2883
02:23:41,600 --> 02:23:42,440
he had in recent weeks.

2884
02:23:44,040 --> 02:23:46,239
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think, you know, we'd like to have multiple

2885
02:23:46,319 --> 02:23:48,520
handles out there at times, and so when we can

2886
02:23:48,559 --> 02:23:51,000
get reading the men out there together, it's always.

2887
02:23:50,719 --> 02:23:52,120
Speaker 5: Been good for us. You know.

2888
02:23:52,360 --> 02:23:54,680
Speaker 13: Obviously you can initiate through Alpi and Kevin does his

2889
02:23:54,760 --> 02:23:55,719
share of handling as well.

2890
02:23:55,799 --> 02:23:57,799
Speaker 5: So as always this year, you.

2891
02:23:57,799 --> 02:23:59,319
Speaker 13: Know, we tried to go through a little bit through

2892
02:23:59,319 --> 02:24:00,840
committee while the young guys are learning.

2893
02:24:01,000 --> 02:24:03,600
Speaker 5: But yeah, several different ways to attack it.

2894
02:24:03,680 --> 02:24:06,200
Speaker 13: And like I said, without being such a unique center

2895
02:24:06,399 --> 02:24:08,959
that can play up top and get us into our sets,

2896
02:24:09,280 --> 02:24:10,920
you can take some of the pressure off the other guys.

2897
02:24:11,840 --> 02:24:13,360
Speaker 2: There has been a lot of talk about him and

2898
02:24:13,440 --> 02:24:17,200
Thompson and the fives guarding him. How much has that

2899
02:24:17,399 --> 02:24:20,319
been discussed in practices and meetings and things like that,

2900
02:24:20,600 --> 02:24:23,200
And as part of you as a coach kind of

2901
02:24:23,479 --> 02:24:26,760
like the challenge of seeing that and trying to work

2902
02:24:26,799 --> 02:24:28,200
on ways to combat it.

2903
02:24:30,159 --> 02:24:32,399
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean it's It's something that we've seen since

2904
02:24:32,680 --> 02:24:35,399
his first year, since his rookie year, when you know

2905
02:24:35,479 --> 02:24:38,440
when Alper went out with their last eighteen games and

2906
02:24:38,639 --> 02:24:41,120
was technically our small ball five or you know him

2907
02:24:41,120 --> 02:24:42,559
and Jabbari out there at the four and the five,

2908
02:24:42,639 --> 02:24:44,440
so quite a few teams had the bigs on him.

2909
02:24:44,479 --> 02:24:47,360
So something that he and we are very accustomed to.

2910
02:24:47,559 --> 02:24:50,040
And you know, he knows the spots that he can

2911
02:24:50,120 --> 02:24:52,600
pick whether he's handling. Obviously, putting the big on him

2912
02:24:52,600 --> 02:24:54,600
a second bag takes away some of the driving lanes,

2913
02:24:54,639 --> 02:24:57,479
but very good in the in the pocket, very good

2914
02:24:57,520 --> 02:24:58,319
in the dunker spot.

2915
02:24:58,440 --> 02:25:00,600
Speaker 5: You know, him setting screens and rolling always been good

2916
02:25:00,639 --> 02:25:02,639
for us. And so he's had his practice over the

2917
02:25:02,760 --> 02:25:04,399
last few years and we know the areas we can

2918
02:25:04,440 --> 02:25:06,680
get to with him not handling the ball.

2919
02:25:07,440 --> 02:25:10,840
Speaker 2: Rocket Tech coach Imodoka was here on Sports Talk seven

2920
02:25:11,000 --> 02:25:14,399
ninety just reach Shepherd. Of course, with the bounce back

2921
02:25:14,479 --> 02:25:16,840
night shooting last night. Is there any bit of a

2922
02:25:16,959 --> 02:25:19,440
kind of a semblance of a maybe he's not a rookie,

2923
02:25:19,520 --> 02:25:22,159
but a rookie wall to he's played double the minutes

2924
02:25:22,200 --> 02:25:23,959
that he did all of last year. What have you

2925
02:25:24,079 --> 02:25:26,399
been seeing from him? Not only just from on the floor,

2926
02:25:26,479 --> 02:25:30,399
but as far as energy and maintaining and being out

2927
02:25:30,399 --> 02:25:30,959
there on the floor.

2928
02:25:32,760 --> 02:25:34,719
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean he's playing a lot more this year

2929
02:25:34,760 --> 02:25:36,719
obviously than you know, didn't play a ton of this

2930
02:25:36,840 --> 02:25:39,559
rookie year. But I think for all young guys, everybody's

2931
02:25:39,559 --> 02:25:41,360
going to have a slump at some point during the season.

2932
02:25:41,440 --> 02:25:43,840
And you know, what we say is don't let that

2933
02:25:43,920 --> 02:25:46,760
affect your overall game. You know, don't just rely on

2934
02:25:46,840 --> 02:25:49,280
jump shots to impact the game. And so for Reid,

2935
02:25:49,399 --> 02:25:51,799
you know, he's making some really nice passes and stepping

2936
02:25:51,879 --> 02:25:54,040
up on the defensive end is what we're asking all

2937
02:25:54,040 --> 02:25:54,600
the guys to do.

2938
02:25:54,680 --> 02:25:57,840
Speaker 5: And so they may hit that wall and obviously one

2939
02:25:57,920 --> 02:25:58,959
more before all start break.

2940
02:25:59,000 --> 02:26:00,719
Speaker 13: You can get your legs back, give a little rest

2941
02:26:00,799 --> 02:26:03,520
in and kind of reset from there. But I think

2942
02:26:03,559 --> 02:26:05,440
he's playing fine. You know, missing some shots that he

2943
02:26:05,559 --> 02:26:07,760
normally made early in the season, but Jabari did a

2944
02:26:07,799 --> 02:26:09,760
few weeks ago. Alfins gone through his thing, and so

2945
02:26:10,319 --> 02:26:12,360
you just have to push through it, like I said,

2946
02:26:12,559 --> 02:26:15,959
and I just let made shots dictate how your game's

2947
02:26:15,959 --> 02:26:16,280
going to go.

2948
02:26:16,920 --> 02:26:20,360
Speaker 2: We've discussed as many times where coaches like yourself have

2949
02:26:20,440 --> 02:26:22,559
to kind of fight the all star break. You know, like, hey,

2950
02:26:22,600 --> 02:26:25,120
I want to think about the vacation or getting away

2951
02:26:25,159 --> 02:26:27,440
from the sport. Your guys have fought through that the

2952
02:26:27,520 --> 02:26:30,879
last couple of days. Discuss the bounce back in your

2953
02:26:30,959 --> 02:26:33,040
mind the team has had after those two home losses

2954
02:26:33,120 --> 02:26:34,879
to Boston Charlotte. How you fought back and now with

2955
02:26:35,000 --> 02:26:36,760
a chance to go to the break in a three

2956
02:26:36,760 --> 02:26:37,479
game winning streak.

2957
02:26:39,000 --> 02:26:41,159
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean it's just the effort and intensity that

2958
02:26:41,280 --> 02:26:43,200
takes to win a basketball game wasn't there in those

2959
02:26:43,239 --> 02:26:43,719
two games.

2960
02:26:43,760 --> 02:26:45,000
Speaker 5: And you know, quite simple.

2961
02:26:45,559 --> 02:26:48,040
Speaker 13: You know, whether he make shots or not or guard

2962
02:26:48,200 --> 02:26:50,319
well enough, if you don't play with the right effort

2963
02:26:50,319 --> 02:26:52,479
in mindset, you're not going to give yourself a chance

2964
02:26:52,479 --> 02:26:55,000
on the nightly basis, and so across. It was just

2965
02:26:55,079 --> 02:26:56,719
getting back to that. I think you saw that in

2966
02:26:56,760 --> 02:26:59,000
Oklahoma City game. We watched quite a bit of film

2967
02:26:59,200 --> 02:27:02,079
on the Charlotte in Boston game and looked like two

2968
02:27:02,079 --> 02:27:04,920
different teams, whether you know it was his legs or

2969
02:27:05,280 --> 02:27:07,079
guys thinking about all start break or whatever. We had

2970
02:27:07,120 --> 02:27:08,879
five games left and we wanted to play well. So

2971
02:27:09,559 --> 02:27:11,520
you know, two of those not too well. The last

2972
02:27:11,559 --> 02:27:13,200
two have been really good. And it's like I said,

2973
02:27:13,239 --> 02:27:14,879
you can see the difference on the tape. Our guys

2974
02:27:14,959 --> 02:27:17,920
have been back locked in and obviously want to finish

2975
02:27:17,959 --> 02:27:18,719
on a good note tonight.

2976
02:27:18,840 --> 02:27:20,680
Speaker 2: I don't know if you've heard from the medical staff.

2977
02:27:20,760 --> 02:27:22,440
Where are you on who can sit and who can

2978
02:27:22,479 --> 02:27:24,840
stay tonight? Is there anybody that would be definitely out

2979
02:27:24,879 --> 02:27:25,559
for tonight's game?

2980
02:27:26,879 --> 02:27:29,360
Speaker 13: Dorian will be out tonight for sure. Sorry, will be

2981
02:27:29,399 --> 02:27:30,959
a game time decision. You know, he's gonna try it

2982
02:27:31,000 --> 02:27:32,840
down and see how he feels and go from there.

2983
02:27:33,000 --> 02:27:34,440
Speaker 2: All right, Josh did not play as sure? Is that

2984
02:27:34,479 --> 02:27:35,200
being okay with him?

2985
02:27:36,440 --> 02:27:36,600
Speaker 17: Yeah?

2986
02:27:36,680 --> 02:27:37,799
Speaker 5: Yeah, just Josh was fine.

2987
02:27:37,840 --> 02:27:39,920
Speaker 13: I think part of it was the fact that Dorian's

2988
02:27:39,959 --> 02:27:42,559
going to be out tomorrow tonight and you don't want

2989
02:27:42,600 --> 02:27:43,680
to rest him.

2990
02:27:43,760 --> 02:27:45,319
Speaker 5: But obviously Josh is always ready to.

2991
02:27:45,319 --> 02:27:47,840
Speaker 13: Be called upon and went with the little short of

2992
02:27:47,959 --> 02:27:49,879
rotation knowing that we were gonna run some guys some

2993
02:27:49,959 --> 02:27:52,520
longer minutes and we'll have Josh tonight for sure.

2994
02:27:52,760 --> 02:27:55,399
Speaker 2: What did you think of ben nickmatherin getting his first

2995
02:27:55,440 --> 02:27:57,079
amount of playing time for the Clippers. We just saw

2996
02:27:57,159 --> 02:27:58,600
him a few weeks ago wearing paster gear.

2997
02:28:00,040 --> 02:28:02,239
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean he's gonna be a good asset for them.

2998
02:28:02,319 --> 02:28:05,520
I think, you know, it's always hard when you kind

2999
02:28:05,559 --> 02:28:07,559
of get implemented into a new situation like that. And

3000
02:28:08,040 --> 02:28:11,159
you know, he wasn't as aggressive as he's been with Indiana,

3001
02:28:11,280 --> 02:28:13,600
but expect that to happen over time here, you know,

3002
02:28:13,680 --> 02:28:15,280
probably right after all start break when.

3003
02:28:15,120 --> 02:28:17,799
Speaker 5: He gets some practices in. But good pickup for them

3004
02:28:17,840 --> 02:28:18,239
in general.

3005
02:28:18,760 --> 02:28:21,360
Speaker 2: Do you tell the NBGA folks to keep your center

3006
02:28:21,399 --> 02:28:23,319
and your power forward on ice and make sure you

3007
02:28:23,360 --> 02:28:24,959
don't work him too hard. I mean, it's a great

3008
02:28:25,000 --> 02:28:27,159
experience for both of them, especially for Alba when getting

3009
02:28:27,159 --> 02:28:30,600
the late addition. But Kevin's been through this a lot,

3010
02:28:30,719 --> 02:28:32,840
so do you think about that, Like, hey, man, I

3011
02:28:32,959 --> 02:28:34,559
want you to get away from the sport, but it

3012
02:28:34,639 --> 02:28:36,360
feels like to me that Katie's been such a gym

3013
02:28:36,440 --> 02:28:39,040
r at his entire life that it's trying to find

3014
02:28:39,079 --> 02:28:41,040
a place to shoots and baskets even during this off time.

3015
02:28:42,239 --> 02:28:44,360
Speaker 13: Oh, they definitely would have done that regardless, and so

3016
02:28:44,680 --> 02:28:46,920
you know it's another honor for him. Man outbring, you know,

3017
02:28:47,079 --> 02:28:50,200
and we want those guys to be perennial All Stars.

3018
02:28:50,280 --> 02:28:52,200
And you know, as much as the rest is good

3019
02:28:52,280 --> 02:28:54,360
for you, that's a huge runner And I think the

3020
02:28:54,399 --> 02:28:56,479
guys will trade that off any day, but in know

3021
02:28:56,520 --> 02:28:58,399
how to mix it in and get the rest in

3022
02:28:58,479 --> 02:29:00,559
that they need in the in the days with the media.

3023
02:29:00,360 --> 02:29:00,639
Speaker 8: And all that.

3024
02:29:00,760 --> 02:29:03,639
Speaker 13: And then obviously the game isn't full speed full speed,

3025
02:29:03,719 --> 02:29:05,879
so they'll they'll be out there getting some rest. But

3026
02:29:06,159 --> 02:29:08,200
even after that, they got two three four days off

3027
02:29:08,319 --> 02:29:10,639
to until our next game against Charlotte and get a

3028
02:29:10,760 --> 02:29:11,559
chance to rest up then.

3029
02:29:11,799 --> 02:29:14,239
Speaker 2: And we've still been through this amazing run of back

3030
02:29:14,280 --> 02:29:17,920
to backs. It's getting better. I mean, they're they're being

3031
02:29:18,120 --> 02:29:20,079
knocked off the list, but it feels like this squad

3032
02:29:20,120 --> 02:29:21,760
has had more back to backs in the last month

3033
02:29:21,799 --> 02:29:23,360
and a half of maybe anybody else in the NBA

3034
02:29:23,440 --> 02:29:23,760
has had.

3035
02:29:25,239 --> 02:29:27,159
Speaker 13: Yeah, well, I'm sure we have. I think we didn't

3036
02:29:27,200 --> 02:29:30,120
have any for the first you know, eight or so weeks.

3037
02:29:30,159 --> 02:29:32,360
I think we had our first in late December, and so,

3038
02:29:33,319 --> 02:29:34,959
you know, we had it easier early in the year,

3039
02:29:35,000 --> 02:29:36,399
and now it's catching up to us. You know, we

3040
02:29:36,479 --> 02:29:38,520
basically had won every week for the last four weeks,

3041
02:29:38,559 --> 02:29:40,360
and so it is what it is. You know, it's

3042
02:29:40,399 --> 02:29:41,719
going to catch up to you at some point. And

3043
02:29:42,159 --> 02:29:43,879
like I said, we have done a good job and

3044
02:29:43,959 --> 02:29:46,239
some struggled earlier in some others.

3045
02:29:46,000 --> 02:29:47,799
Speaker 5: And now we want to finish tonight with on a

3046
02:29:47,840 --> 02:29:48,799
good note against Clippers.

3047
02:29:49,079 --> 02:29:50,719
Speaker 2: Is there any the wrap things up with you? Is

3048
02:29:50,719 --> 02:29:52,879
there any individual message you like tell the guys that

3049
02:29:52,959 --> 02:29:54,159
they step away from the sport?

3050
02:29:54,280 --> 02:29:54,479
Speaker 6: Is it?

3051
02:29:54,600 --> 02:29:57,280
Speaker 2: Is it more of a team get together conversation as

3052
02:29:57,399 --> 02:30:00,360
guys try to take a separate break away from the

3053
02:30:00,360 --> 02:30:01,239
sport for a few days.

3054
02:30:02,319 --> 02:30:03,440
Speaker 5: I think I think it's both.

3055
02:30:03,520 --> 02:30:06,399
Speaker 13: I think, you know, team and individually everybody needs to,

3056
02:30:06,479 --> 02:30:08,799
you know, kind of take a step back and decompress,

3057
02:30:09,239 --> 02:30:10,959
you know, get your legs back. We have twenty nine

3058
02:30:11,000 --> 02:30:13,440
games coming out of the break and that goes really quickly.

3059
02:30:13,559 --> 02:30:16,120
So get the work in that you need to. Obviously,

3060
02:30:16,159 --> 02:30:18,079
don't come back out of shape or you know, rusty,

3061
02:30:18,239 --> 02:30:20,719
but also get away from it for a minute, Like

3062
02:30:20,799 --> 02:30:23,159
I said, clear your mind and prepare for what's ahead.

3063
02:30:24,319 --> 02:30:26,079
Speaker 2: All right, getting away from it? Ross, How are you

3064
02:30:26,079 --> 02:30:29,799
getting away from it? I'm going to see my daughter

3065
02:30:29,840 --> 02:30:32,040
play volleyball, going to West Palm Beach. Anging to West

3066
02:30:32,040 --> 02:30:33,920
Palm Beach will be their Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday next week.

3067
02:30:33,959 --> 02:30:36,120
Looking forward to that much, very merry, very much. Sure

3068
02:30:36,680 --> 02:30:38,399
hopefully Josh Hey I'll be ready to go by then.

3069
02:30:38,799 --> 02:30:40,719
I think he will be on the on the bump

3070
02:30:40,799 --> 02:30:43,879
throwing ninety six. Let's not hold our breath on that one.

3071
02:30:44,719 --> 02:30:46,760
But I like you, you're turning some optimism. Inn No,

3072
02:30:46,959 --> 02:30:50,680
I'm just trying to play it to you, Okay, all right,

3073
02:30:51,079 --> 02:30:52,639
today's edition to Believe or Not. It's gonna be a

3074
02:30:52,639 --> 02:30:54,760
good one, all right. It's about whether or not this

3075
02:30:54,920 --> 02:31:03,719
is a defunct football team. Variety of leagues XFL, USFL, UFL,

3076
02:31:04,079 --> 02:31:08,760
World League of American Football WFL. Yeah, the NFL back

3077
02:31:08,799 --> 02:31:11,399
in the nineteen twenty Arena Football two. You want to

3078
02:31:11,399 --> 02:31:13,760
arena football, I'll throw it out. You went out throw

3079
02:31:13,840 --> 02:31:16,200
something in there? It was this really a team name

3080
02:31:16,799 --> 02:31:19,120
seven one three two, one two five seven on a

3081
02:31:19,200 --> 02:31:20,719
you and we'll have probably what we're gonna try you

3082
02:31:20,760 --> 02:31:23,520
ten or eleven of those. You think we got time? Eleven?

3083
02:31:23,760 --> 02:31:24,840
How about ten? Okay?

3084
02:31:24,920 --> 02:31:25,040
Speaker 13: Ten?

3085
02:31:25,319 --> 02:31:27,559
Speaker 2: I mean eleven is We've never done eleven ever in

3086
02:31:27,600 --> 02:31:29,760
the history of the show. That's why it got me

3087
02:31:29,840 --> 02:31:31,360
off guard. I'm just trying to throw I want to

3088
02:31:31,399 --> 02:31:34,280
do eleven. We can, all right. Seven one three two,

3089
02:31:34,319 --> 02:31:36,959
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one

3090
02:31:37,079 --> 02:31:43,079
two five seven nine zero. All right, what I was

3091
02:31:43,159 --> 02:31:46,600
looking on my phone is the nice people over at

3092
02:31:46,680 --> 02:31:49,840
SPA City Home Network ROSSI did a feature on me yesterday.

3093
02:31:50,719 --> 02:31:52,079
Actually it will be airing tomorrow.

3094
02:31:52,120 --> 02:31:52,399
Speaker 5: We did it.

3095
02:31:52,559 --> 02:31:56,319
Speaker 2: We recorded a couple weeks ago. It's uh, it's a

3096
02:31:56,440 --> 02:31:59,200
ride along. Vanessa drives me down to the Tote Center

3097
02:31:59,239 --> 02:32:00,959
and we talked some rock and talking about my career

3098
02:32:01,000 --> 02:32:03,200
a little bit. Uh huh. So that's going to air

3099
02:32:03,280 --> 02:32:06,680
tomorrow night on Rockets All Access. So if you want

3100
02:32:06,719 --> 02:32:09,360
to catch me with the nessa talking about my career,

3101
02:32:09,479 --> 02:32:11,600
it's gonna sounds great. I don't miss an episode, so

3102
02:32:11,719 --> 02:32:13,079
I can't. I can't wait. It was the best part

3103
02:32:13,120 --> 02:32:16,959
of the last episode. H read Shepherd Spotlight before that,

3104
02:32:17,840 --> 02:32:19,840
that would of course be the Don and Finney Smith Spotlight.

3105
02:32:20,200 --> 02:32:23,040
It'll be ridiculous you are watching it.

3106
02:32:24,440 --> 02:32:25,159
Speaker 5: I just made that up.

3107
02:32:25,920 --> 02:32:29,200
Speaker 2: So the funny thing was is the original feature. I'm

3108
02:32:29,239 --> 02:32:31,840
not to toot my own horn, but oh go ahead.

3109
02:32:32,239 --> 02:32:34,280
It was originally ten minutes long. They're like, we can't

3110
02:32:34,319 --> 02:32:36,440
give we can't give ten minutes of a Rockets All

3111
02:32:36,440 --> 02:32:39,959
Access show. Yeah, it's only like twenty two minutes. They've

3112
02:32:40,000 --> 02:32:42,319
shaved it down to four. Oh okay. And what they

3113
02:32:42,360 --> 02:32:43,760
did is they came in here and they kind of

3114
02:32:43,920 --> 02:32:46,120
they literally followed me throughout my day at the office,

3115
02:32:46,200 --> 02:32:48,959
including when I talk with you. So you know you're

3116
02:32:48,959 --> 02:32:52,040
not in the final clip sadly, Oh okay, Well that's fine.

3117
02:32:52,680 --> 02:32:54,360
It didn't get me taking a nap because they took

3118
02:32:54,360 --> 02:32:58,079
a pictures of me and sleeping, okay. And then they

3119
02:32:58,120 --> 02:32:59,719
got me going to the Tota Center and Benessa picked

3120
02:32:59,719 --> 02:33:01,280
me up to me down there. We were in a

3121
02:33:01,319 --> 02:33:02,719
Toyta and we drove down there and had a good

3122
02:33:02,760 --> 02:33:05,239
time and a nice visit. They didn't get me, they

3123
02:33:05,239 --> 02:33:07,719
didn't catch me. They have one of my calls a

3124
02:33:07,799 --> 02:33:09,719
men remember when the men Thompson had that little mid

3125
02:33:10,000 --> 02:33:12,159
ranging Boston a couple of years back. Though, Rockets finally

3126
02:33:12,159 --> 02:33:14,280
beat them against the Celtics up there, so that's on

3127
02:33:14,399 --> 02:33:17,239
there too. But yeah, So tomorrow night, six o'clock, Rockets

3128
02:33:17,319 --> 02:33:21,920
all access for my little Toyota ride along to the

3129
02:33:22,000 --> 02:33:25,959
Toda Center. Wonderful. I can't wait to catch it. DV.

3130
02:33:26,079 --> 02:33:27,920
All right, I want you to permanently keep it as

3131
02:33:27,920 --> 02:33:30,000
a part of your future. I mean, I'm good. I

3132
02:33:30,079 --> 02:33:31,719
want you where's the long version? When we get the

3133
02:33:31,719 --> 02:33:33,200
extended version. I'm going to try to find out that

3134
02:33:33,680 --> 02:33:35,959
where's the director's cut. That's what I'm saying. That's what

3135
02:33:36,040 --> 02:33:37,760
we need five minutes up to go on the show.

3136
02:33:37,879 --> 02:33:38,799
Speaker 1: What should we do?

3137
02:33:41,319 --> 02:33:47,159
Speaker 2: We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game. Should

3138
02:33:47,159 --> 02:33:49,319
we simply called it Believe it or Not? And here's

3139
02:33:49,319 --> 02:33:51,680
how it works. You call seven one three two one

3140
02:33:51,760 --> 02:33:54,399
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two

3141
02:33:54,559 --> 02:33:56,959
five seven ninety today's edition to Believe or Not? It

3142
02:33:57,079 --> 02:34:02,200
is all things about whether this is a defunct and

3143
02:34:02,520 --> 02:34:05,719
professional professional football professional football. No, no, not all NFL.

3144
02:34:05,879 --> 02:34:11,079
Oh my gosh, James vanner Mey just died forty eight

3145
02:34:11,159 --> 02:34:20,280
years old. Vanderbeek. Yeah, the Dawson Dawson's Creek dang gone

3146
02:34:20,319 --> 02:34:25,200
too soon. Literally, that's true. Let's believe it or not

3147
02:34:25,239 --> 02:34:26,959
for the wrong you can get that locked and loaded.

3148
02:34:28,280 --> 02:34:31,479
All right, here we go. Let me focus here. I'll

3149
02:34:31,479 --> 02:34:33,440
read his name, and if it's a defunct football team.

3150
02:34:33,440 --> 02:34:35,799
If it is, you'll say this, believe it. If it's

3151
02:34:35,840 --> 02:34:39,280
a real life team that eventually was never existed, that

3152
02:34:39,360 --> 02:34:41,159
doesn't make any sense. If it's a football team that

3153
02:34:41,239 --> 02:34:44,040
never existed, you'll say this to believe or Not's arow

3154
02:34:44,079 --> 02:34:45,479
wing your prize. You're going to play for one of

3155
02:34:45,559 --> 02:34:47,600
three prizes today on today's edition I Believe or Not.

3156
02:34:47,719 --> 02:34:49,840
One is the seven one t shirt too, is a

3157
02:34:49,920 --> 02:34:52,079
pair of tickets factually a four pack of tickets to

3158
02:34:52,120 --> 02:34:55,360
see that Mantra Jam this Sunday Energy Stadium. Will get

3159
02:34:55,399 --> 02:34:59,159
pit party passes with that, or a pair of tickets

3160
02:34:59,159 --> 02:35:01,479
to see the Stained on their Break the Cycle twenty

3161
02:35:01,520 --> 02:35:04,440
fifth anniversary tour that features see There with special guests

3162
02:35:04,520 --> 02:35:07,200
Hobastank and Hinder. That's October the seventeenth. If you want

3163
02:35:07,239 --> 02:35:09,520
tickets for the Manch Gym this weekend or that concert

3164
02:35:09,600 --> 02:35:12,479
that just brought up, go to ticketmaster dot com. That's

3165
02:35:12,520 --> 02:35:16,079
ticketmaster dot com. Let's play believe it or not. We'll

3166
02:35:16,120 --> 02:35:18,440
start with Neil on seven Hunty, Neil, you're ready to play.

3167
02:35:18,479 --> 02:35:18,959
Believe it or not?

3168
02:35:20,319 --> 02:35:20,719
Speaker 9: Believe it?

3169
02:35:20,920 --> 02:35:23,799
Speaker 2: Neil, good luck to you. The Toledo Maroons were once

3170
02:35:23,879 --> 02:35:27,959
a football team, Believe it or not. Believe it all right,

3171
02:35:28,200 --> 02:35:30,639
believe it. They were an NFL team Statement number two

3172
02:35:30,680 --> 02:35:34,000
for the win. The Washington Vigilantes were once a football team,

3173
02:35:34,040 --> 02:35:37,840
Believe it or not. Not, that's a believer that they

3174
02:35:37,840 --> 02:35:41,559
were on the Ohio League. My name is the precursor

3175
02:35:41,600 --> 02:35:43,959
to the NFL. Things you learn on the Matt Thomas

3176
02:35:43,959 --> 02:35:45,879
Show with Ross, Actually it's Ross giving him credit for

3177
02:35:45,920 --> 02:35:48,639
that one. Brian on seven Anty, Brian, you're ready to play.

3178
02:35:48,680 --> 02:35:52,159
Believe it or not Believe it? The Pittsburgh Malers we

3179
02:35:52,280 --> 02:35:55,959
once a football team, believe it or not not. That's

3180
02:35:56,000 --> 02:35:58,879
a believer that's USFL. That was Mike Rogier's team out

3181
02:35:58,920 --> 02:36:02,639
of the college football at Nebraska. Menually went on to

3182
02:36:02,719 --> 02:36:06,280
play for the Oilers in the NFL. Ken on seven,

3183
02:36:06,319 --> 02:36:08,239
AINTI Ken was your favorite part of today's ten to

3184
02:36:08,280 --> 02:36:09,120
two radio show.

3185
02:36:10,440 --> 02:36:13,639
Speaker 8: The interview with the Rockets head coach Emio Doka, Thank

3186
02:36:13,680 --> 02:36:14,000
you friend.

3187
02:36:14,159 --> 02:36:17,040
Speaker 2: Providence Blues once a football team. Believe it or not.

3188
02:36:18,600 --> 02:36:18,639
Speaker 5: Not?

3189
02:36:19,079 --> 02:36:22,280
Speaker 2: It's correct. Statement number two for the win. The Jacksonville

3190
02:36:22,440 --> 02:36:23,920
Bulls Believe it or.

3191
02:36:23,959 --> 02:36:26,639
Speaker 8: Not Believe it?

3192
02:36:26,680 --> 02:36:32,319
Speaker 2: I guess yeah, USFL. Nicely done. Let's go to c

3193
02:36:32,840 --> 02:36:34,799
in Brazoria. See you're ready to play. Believe it or

3194
02:36:34,799 --> 02:36:38,879
not Believe it? Memphis show Boats were once a football team.

3195
02:36:38,920 --> 02:36:39,600
Believe it or not.

3196
02:36:41,159 --> 02:36:41,520
Speaker 16: Believe it?

3197
02:36:41,639 --> 02:36:44,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, USFL statement number two for the win. The Evansville

3198
02:36:45,079 --> 02:36:48,079
Crimson Giants were once a football team, believe it or not.

3199
02:36:50,000 --> 02:36:52,399
Not they were an NFL team. I'm sorry, but thank

3200
02:36:52,440 --> 02:36:56,280
you for playing. Let's go to Pete on seven Atie, Pete,

3201
02:36:56,280 --> 02:36:58,840
you're ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it

3202
02:36:59,159 --> 02:37:02,120
the Flint morale. Once a football team, believe it or not.

3203
02:37:04,520 --> 02:37:06,639
That's correct. Dame a number two for the win the

3204
02:37:06,840 --> 02:37:09,760
Kansas City Cowboys or once a football team, believe it

3205
02:37:09,879 --> 02:37:14,360
or not, believe it they were in the NFL. Congratulately.

3206
02:37:16,319 --> 02:37:19,000
Last one belongs to Dave on seven ninety day of

3207
02:37:19,000 --> 02:37:21,079
your favorite part of today's ten to two radio show.

3208
02:37:22,639 --> 02:37:24,200
Speaker 14: Absolutely the whole show.

3209
02:37:24,239 --> 02:37:27,360
Speaker 2: Atlantic City Blackjacks or once a football team, believe it

3210
02:37:27,559 --> 02:37:27,719
or not.

3211
02:37:30,440 --> 02:37:31,120
Speaker 9: I believe it.

3212
02:37:31,239 --> 02:37:33,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were an Arena league team. Dame number two

3213
02:37:33,760 --> 02:37:36,799
for the when the Columbus Pioneers were once a football team,

3214
02:37:36,879 --> 02:37:37,680
Believe it or not.

3215
02:37:41,120 --> 02:37:43,079
Speaker 14: I have no idea, but I guess I'll believe.

3216
02:37:43,319 --> 02:37:45,399
Speaker 2: No, you shouldn't have Rossman or no. Thank you, though,

3217
02:37:47,399 --> 02:37:49,719
guy listens to show the whole thing, loves it, every

3218
02:37:49,760 --> 02:37:52,559
bit of it, and thus could not figure out the

3219
02:37:52,600 --> 02:37:55,719
Columbus Pioneers or a fake football team. All right, Rossie,

3220
02:37:55,760 --> 02:38:00,600
we got rockets on launchpad that at six o'clock. Dan

3221
02:38:00,719 --> 02:38:02,879
Matthews on the call. Yep, you'll be spending time with

3222
02:38:03,000 --> 02:38:06,200
your sister. Yes to her birthday. Shout out, Rachel. You're

3223
02:38:06,319 --> 02:38:11,799
cooking tonight, Yes, steaks, yes, and pans heared in cast iron.

3224
02:38:11,920 --> 02:38:14,719
Will you be doing any sort of seasoning to those steaks? Yeah,

3225
02:38:14,760 --> 02:38:19,600
salt pepper, no, marinate of any sort. No, we don't

3226
02:38:19,600 --> 02:38:21,799
want to get a bottle of steak and ale. No, sir,

3227
02:38:21,959 --> 02:38:24,600
take it ale. If you see her uh or what

3228
02:38:24,719 --> 02:38:26,360
was the stay shaking? You want to put some shaking

3229
02:38:26,399 --> 02:38:26,799
bake on it?

3230
02:38:26,920 --> 02:38:27,200
Speaker 9: No? No.

3231
02:38:27,280 --> 02:38:29,079
Speaker 2: If you get a nice, good cut of steak, all

3232
02:38:29,120 --> 02:38:30,760
you need is a little salt, pepper and oil and

3233
02:38:30,879 --> 02:38:33,239
you see it correctly, which I do, and then it's

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gonna be delicious. Will you take video of it?

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Speaker 9: Video?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I want to put it on my Instagram. I

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would love sports are I can't cook the steak and

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video myself. We'll have somebody do it for you. That

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seems weird, all right? Up next Wexler and Clinton. They

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are the team. I'll talk to you for Rockets and

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Clippers at seven right here on seven n eighty