Speaker 1: Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross one an Age Town.
Speaker 2: Good morning, and welcome to a Wednesday editione The Matt
Thomas Show and Ross.
Speaker 1: This is Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 2: Ninety tonight here inside Tota Center. The Knicks scored the
first point.
Speaker 1: It was our only lead of the game.
Speaker 2: After that, an awesome first quarter and four great quarters
of Rockets basketball as they defeat the Knicks.
Speaker 1: What eleven to ninety four show.
Speaker 2: I don't want you to pinch me under any circumstance,
Rossfield Reale. I will never, ever, ever, ever, unless we're
at the blackjack table together and I don't know, share
walks by or you and I hit four black jackson
a rope between the two of us, I'm not gonna
pinch you.
Speaker 1: Well, fist bump, hug.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 2: It depends. Are we doubling? Are we like doubling our
bets every single time? We are certainly pressing first? Okay
for pressing? Yeah that sounds actually that just made me happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah yah yeah.
Speaker 2: But the two local teams last night kick some serious
as they just did.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: That's why I said, don't pinch me or maybe pinch
I don't know. Is this a real life that we're living, right,
is real life?
Speaker 1: All right? To make sure I was.
Speaker 2: Puzzled why the Rockets were dogs to the Knicks, And
well they proved the Vegas odd makeer wrong.
Speaker 1: The Knicks were dogs last night, Yes they were.
Speaker 2: And I will tell you this and we will balance
obviously what's going on between both the Rockets and the
Astors last night. But it's hard on an NBA game
to lead the entire way. Now they were down one nothing.
It's a spec actually, and you think this is nuts
for me to say this. It's kind of hard to
hold onto a double digit lead the NBA, it is.
The three point shot can quickly get rid of deficits,
ebbs and flows. Teams can go on shooting slumps. The
Rockets never it got cozy a couple of times, but
that's his and never got tight.
Speaker 1: Put it that way.
Speaker 2: Everyone makes a run in the NBA, everybody does. And
the Knicks did make a little run, not much though
it wasn't enough, not enough. Then down the street, who
are these Astros? They were three hit on opening day? Yes,
seven yeah, yeah, and now they're like the the Bronx
Bombers are twenty seven.
Speaker 1: They're looking pretty good. Hunter Brown doing his thing.
Speaker 2: That guy you wered on Alvarez seems like he's pretty
good when he's in the lineup and he's pacing to
play one sixty two.
Speaker 1: Yes, he is very happy.
Speaker 2: He is opsing fourteen forty cam Smith going yard. Yes,
yes he did wooh good pitching, good defense, some dude
gotta say for the Astros.
Speaker 1: Yes, sure, I'd never heard of until this morning. I
believe it was Michael Bolton. Correct.
Speaker 2: How can we be lovers if we can't be friends
sports RV. How am I supposed to live without you, Matt?
Only if you have time, love and tenderness.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I'm done. I could probably go a little deeper.
Speaker 2: He did a bunch of covers, yeah, in the Mountain
high enough, and he.
Speaker 1: Did bed down Nicola Sheridan for a while. That's for him,
on Matt, That's okay.
Speaker 2: I think I don't know if Bolton's as good as Jeters,
but I bet you Bolton's up there.
Speaker 1: And Michael Bolton was rolling in nineteen ninety Scrooners did
quite well for this. Yeah, and you had long hair
in those days.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Now he's old and bald, just like me.
Still a handsome devil. Okay, sure, good morning. It is
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross and we are with
you today. We have a brunch size edition of the show.
We're only on ten to two today, ten to twelve today, Yes,
and then I will take you for on deck at
twelve o'clock this afternoon until a twelve forty Network Join
one ten.
Speaker 1: First pitch, Garrett Crochet.
Speaker 2: Gotta be a tough one. He's good, although was he
oh never mind?
Speaker 1: Is he ray zero?
Speaker 2: So he must have been decent his first time out.
Dam gotta win the only one they have. So maybe
I'm thinking of like a spring training I thought I
saw somewhere he was not doing well.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a spring training start or something. But maybe
you're speaking it into existing. Yes, you know what.
Speaker 2: I saw that one time on April first, he was terrible,
got shelled and Mike Burrows was spinning a gym. Can
I give you something? And this is an early Ain't
nobody got time for that?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: That at eleven thirty today we shut you by mass up.
I despise April Fool's Day. I don't think I get it.
I don't think it's intriguing. I think it gets people
in in trouble.
Speaker 1: I think it.
Speaker 2: Especially with social media. You can go run to your
Twitter a kound and put a bunch of stuff out there.
Speaker 1: Today. I already saw this again.
Speaker 2: I want to make sure our preface this five times
in front of it and five times behind it. April Fools,
April Fools, April Fols, April Fools, aper fools. There was
a report that Jason Kidd was fired by the Mapwicks.
Speaker 1: That's not true. April Fools, aper fools.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm still recovering from the time the girl I
was with told me she was pregnant on April Fools.
Speaker 1: Shut up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially crazy because you didn't have sex with her either. Yeah,
that's true. I'm saving myself from marriage. That's what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 1: Sports are I said, don't ever do that again to anyone. Look,
I can live with Saint Patris. That's just a day
to drink. I mean I get that. Sinking the mile
obviously is interesting again.
Speaker 2: Valentine's Day, Gallentine's Day, Piece Day. I can live with
all these things. I just don't like April Fool's Day
at all, Okay, I mean I think it's mostly for children.
I don't know if I've really gotten deep in the
April full game as an adult. Well, I hope you wouldn't.
That'd be weird. Yeah, all right, So we have that
to get to. We've got the Astros dominant performance slugging
like Mutta's leading me, leading the majors in runs. Yeah,
and they have seven home runs and especially after they
were just couldn't find the back of the yard on
the first couple of games of the season, you'll find
it on the home run counter today during Astros.
Speaker 1: Oh, look at this guy. So we have that.
Speaker 2: We have the Rockets, I mean absolutely annihilating the New
York Knicks last night. I don't know who Tarry Easton,
who was the first fourteen or fifteen games of the month,
but the last two were pretty good. Actually, yeah, Tari
Easton got the start. Rockets Twitter losing their damn mind.
You mean a Doka needs to be fired, blah blah blh.
They're gonna be down ten in the first quarter. They
got what was it from nineteen to two or whatever
it was, Matt, didn't they shoot like seventy five percent
from the floor in the first quarter. Yeah, Well, no, Reed,
Shepherd's gonna have to come in and fix this mess
because the Rockets are gonna be down ten in the
first five minutes.
Speaker 1: No, no, I know, a tough bunch.
Speaker 2: They like the No, you're they're idiots. Okay, let the
coach coach. Maybe it was a mistake, maybe it's not.
It didn't end up being a mistake. Reed Shepard was
great off the bench. You got bench scoring. Literally, the
twenty points from Reed Shepherd off the bench, two points
from everyone else you need bench scoring. Tarry Easton was
a better defensive matchup against a very good, potent offense
with the Knicks where they want to switch stuff where
they're running a lot of actions with Jalen Brunson and
Karl Anthony Towns and Reed Shepperd would have got picked on.
Speaker 1: Like you got picked on in the fourth quarter of
the game at Madison Square.
Speaker 2: Guard you just did. There's something called scott On report
for a reason and film.
Speaker 1: Oh well, well everybody on Twitter's breaking all that down,
so it's good. Nice. But anyways, Rockets got up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's sixteen or seventeen in the first quarter, and
that was the difference really from the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: It was within one. Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so honestly, a really good night for Houston sports teams.
We also have today on the radio show some comments
Jonathan Alexander, the Chronicle beat writer. He is in Phoenix
at the Owner's meetings and he had a chance to
sit down with Cal and Hannah. Hannah had a lot
to say, and kl just nodded his head for a
bunch show the twenty minute conversation. I'm sure, oh he did.
He didn't not offer nothing. Did he have like those
glasses with painted eyes on? He wanted to wear a
single and ready to Mingle t shirt at the Owner's meetings,
And Hannah's like, you're married to me. I think Cal's
shirt had number one Dad on.
Speaker 1: It too, Yeah, with like a coffee steam.
Speaker 2: Yeah, built a barbecue. I like that kiss the cook aprons.
Col's like, wait a minute, I'm not doing a cookout
like I do during training camp. Do you like my apron? Hannah, Cal,
Cal put the shirt on. I got out for you.
Speaker 1: Cal.
Speaker 2: Okay, you're saying all these things, Cow's worth billions and
billions of dollars.
Speaker 1: That's sure a lot of hard earned work.
Speaker 2: Well, you don't know that. We don't know the behind
the scenes of McNair. Fact, mean he's got an NBA
from Rice. I'm sure Carry McNair doesn't think he's worked
very hard for Probably Carry. You know what we didn't get.
We need to get Carry on the show. That would
be so spicy. Maybe a weekly segment.
Speaker 1: Oh maybe we could get him auto mobile. No, we
cant that would be good though, so damn good. I
have to put some PILs. I just put on you
come on.
Speaker 4: That'd be gold.
Speaker 1: And you know it. Well, here's the reality.
Speaker 2: Since they've resolved everything, it sounds like there's only no
need for it. But if it was, if they had
gone to a journey, to a trial or anything, we
would have had a corresponding there. We could have had
Carries Attorney animobile. Oh good, layers of this bad boy.
That's hilarious. Oh well, I guess they're getting along for now.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. We
have a shorter time today to visit with you, so
we need you guys to get in early. In fact,
we've got Mark and Roger and Carnell are cardinals.
Speaker 1: Carlo Carlos Carlotta call the show. I get to step
out of that during that segment. That's kind of nice. Yeah,
me and Carlo are Broski's.
Speaker 2: I guess yeah, yes you are Brosky's. Another Brosky of
the show is Brian bogus Evak. He will join us
today at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 1: Love it.
Speaker 2: We have a shit you old bump ass up. I
had a tough night last night after the game. Oh
that's all your tweet? Is it related to that?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: Huh, okay, I have something personal going on that I
was fair well. Actually, you know because I texted you
in Jonathan about it yesterday.
Speaker 1: Oh is that on the group show? In the group text?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see. Don't worry about it. We'll get to
a eleven thirty. Oh okay, I should I go look
at the group text for me yesterday?
Speaker 1: Okay? Is it about your gasiness?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, I've been pretty good, have you? Yeah? All right?
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. Astros
Baseball will have the ondic at noon. If you missed
the Dana Brown conversation about forty five minutes ago, you'll a.
Speaker 1: Build to hear that as part of the in deck
show today.
Speaker 2: Astros again trying to go for the sweep against the
Red Sox, Rockets in action tonight against the melliewalk A Bucks,
who beat the Mavericks last night in Milwaukee then had
to fly two and a half hours down here.
Speaker 1: So they're gonna be real nice in spry tonight, Rockets.
What's that line? Rossing that that I would even care
about it?
Speaker 2: But just for those of you that are oh so intrigued,
uh I, last night it was seventeen and a half.
I'm not sure if it's moved. Oh it's still seventeen
and a half.
Speaker 1: Seventeen and a half.
Speaker 2: That's a meaty, that's a that's a that's a fourth
quarter with a lot of Jeff Green. And actually you're
supposed to be a lot of beatdowns in the NBA.
Nuggets sixteen and a half over the Jazz. Oh, Lord,
Nick's fourteen and a half on the road against the Grizzlies,
and how about the Sixers fifteen and a half at
the Wizards. He's all these tanking teams are getting their
ass whooped.
Speaker 1: Yeh. By the way, Ceb Buckner screwed up again.
Speaker 2: You see the video of that. Yeah, we got to
talk about that. He needs to be fired. He's union
good luck, Yeah, I and they eventually got Angel Hernandez out.
What did they do to get Sebe Buckner out? And
the last day as your next and then the whole
put on power last night, Mark Wagner free pay, Yeah,
based on balls? What's on?
Speaker 1: Y is ever one? What's going on? I don't know.
Do you think ABS has really gotten to their own heads?
It has to have gotten to their heads.
Speaker 2: We're seeing seismic blown calls in the first week of
the baseball season.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Umpires get the count wrong all the time. Not all
the time, but frequently. I don't know. It's it's happened
a couple what Cam Smith did or what happened to
Cam Smith? We've seen a couple of times before. You
have an umpire clicker at ball strike clicker sticker, that's
say ball strike clicker for a reason.
Speaker 1: Don't you ball strike clicker? Yes?
Speaker 2: Or some people use the don't they use the rope
on their knuckles or whatever you know I'm talking about. No, Okay,
they have like a little band or whatever and they
mintion it like when it's on your first knuckle, like
between your middle finger and your index finger. It's one
and then two and three. I have never heard of
that but I completely believe you. I still have my
umpire clicker from when I was in softball back in
Saint Paul back do you do?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Really so I bring it in to the office when
you bring it out tomorrow. Oh, you're gonna bring it
your what out?
Speaker 1: Okay? They have like dust mites and stuff in it. Oh,
it's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 2: It was a really enjoyable night in the city. Who
staid except if you were trying to leave either one
of the two facilities? Seven one three two one two
five Sevenatis. We welcome back to the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross seven one three two one two five Savanati
Astros go for the sweep Rockets trying to go for
their fourth consecutive win. Boy, this is Do you want
to circle this day on the calendar?
Speaker 1: Ross?
Speaker 2: I don't know if we've had this much enjoyment, at
least in these parts in quite some time. Right, It's
been very nice, Matthew.
Speaker 1: I'm very happy, very very happy. And the lineup has
been posted. Or you want me to not spoil it? No,
go ahead, do it? Well?
Speaker 2: Uh, one quick thing before I start. Dana Brown earlier
today on the Morning Drive with Dan Matthews and Cole
Thompson said that Painya was going to be back in
the lineup consecutive days, but he is not here. We'll
talk about that in a second. It is Al Twove
at second base on batting. I love yourd on batting second,
by the way, me too at d H Paradis at
third batting third, Correa at shortstop batting cleanup, Christian Walker
of course at first, Cam Smith and right, Jake Myers
and center. Bryce Matthews in left Christian Vasquez bat's ninth
and he is at the backstop. Yeah, day game after
a night game is no surprise. That's exactly where I
was gonna go. See, matt this is why they pay
you the big bucks. We're on the same page. And
it gives jan Aira a second day off his feet
because they're off to Yeah, so maybe the consecutive days
will start after Yeah, you get the day, you get
the day game here, you get the off day, and
then he can play a couple of days on Friday
and Saturday. So maybe that's what Dana Brown meant, or
perhaps he misspoke a little bit. But as in next
opportunity after this day game, he's gonna get some consecutive
games together. Honestly, tell you the truth, I didn't thinking
you not. I think you'd agree with me on it.
I don't think we were thinking he was gonna be
ready for the start of the season. So to get
him in the game games at all at this point, it's.
Speaker 1: Been kind of bone up a bonus. Yeah, it's it's
it's been great.
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk to our buddy Roger on seven
ninety and ten to twenty five.
Speaker 1: Roger good owning to you.
Speaker 7: Hey, Matt Ross. Uh So before I before I start
with my take, I just want to say, you know,
you know, I love you guys like an old pair
of chocolates that's never going to change. Oh, cumfortable, para chaklas.
Speaker 8: That's why.
Speaker 7: That's how, that's how I relied.
Speaker 1: All right, Just don't throw him at us, Roger.
Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, that's only if I started messing
up the old ladys. She'll do that with deadly, deadly accuracy. Anyway, So, uh,
yesterday I was not allowed to do my gut feelings
because I called in earlier. Yeah, I specifically remember, and
I don't have specific receipts, but I was able to
call in twice when you do segments such as that.
So that's why I didn't do my gut feelings on
the initial call so well that I say, uh, at
least give me some detail or you know, check a
bomb mass up and about anybody out half of that.
Speaker 2: And now.
Speaker 7: With my take yesterday, and my take wasn't the Rockets
we're gonna win? But take that from what it's worth.
Uh So yesterday remind me of an old school slogan
was one of the old radio stations from back in
the eighties and ninety called Chief for Tuesday, And what
a beautiful Chief for Tuesday was.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 7: Now the Astros they're doing something they've never done last year,
and that score runs in fourth straight games, eight plus
runds never happened. And I just love to see it
because now you're getting some value out of your crystal
walking trade. You're getting you're getting a healthy ward on
Alvarez dos, you're getting a jose L two b taking walks.
Crazy stuff is happening with as I love it now
on the on the Rockets front, Uh, you know what
are we looking at here? Is this a bad April
fool shoke? Is this gonna be like a tease of
what they could have been or what they can be.
When they fly around and play defense like they mean it,
and you know, the body language is different. It just
looks like it's just like, I don't know, like a
metamorphous just happened overnight. Well, you know, success three full games,
and I'm asking you, is this this statable from this group?
Is this what we're gonna watch from here on out?
Because they got you know, you know, and they had
a lot of excuses with the injuries. I give it that,
but some of these losses were all self self induced
and it was you know, blowing leads, uh, turnovers, stuff
like that. You tell me, Matt, what are we looking
at here? And with that, I'll say I have a
good one, brother, Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I mean, I can't predict
the future. I'd like to.
Speaker 2: I can tell you that the tarisan of the last
three or four games has been missing for a better
part of a month. I think the temple, I thought
the fast breaks. I thought the pace was a lot
better last night than it had been in previous games.
I do like the fact that the start of the
fifth part of the starting lineup is fluid depending on matchups.
I think that that means the Rockets are scouting opponents.
Alburn has been highly, highly efficient. Kevin Durant continues to
bury you from three point range and from the elbows
like he's done every single moment of the season. A
man continues to just perform on both ends of the
floor with rebounds and block shots and amazing dunks. I mean,
you know, you know you always said that turm Ross
no disrespect to Well, I'm going to disrespect Memphis and
New Orleans.
Speaker 1: They suck.
Speaker 2: That those were games you were supposed to beat them up.
Last night was a coin flip. The Necks are a
good basketball team. It may not be good enough to
win the East, but they're still a top three team
in the East.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I we'll also say that, Yeah, the Rockets have struggled
against bad teams, so taking care of business is still
a good sign, especially the way they did it on Sunday.
And it was I mean fairly comfortable in Memphis, even
though the margin wasn't huge. But yeah, a big part
of this is Tarry Easton And you know, a couple
of weeks ago, we're arguing with people never played Tarry
Easton again, he's horrible.
Speaker 1: Leave him off the bench.
Speaker 2: It's like, if this team is gonna unlock their potential,
Tarry Easton has to be part of it. And Tarry
Easton has been a part of it. And since Alprin
Shangoon had those couple of days off with the back spasms,
he was shooting coming into last night like sixty two
percent and then he was four or five.
Speaker 1: So that's going to go up.
Speaker 2: So he is starting to come along and played to
the potential we know that he's capable of. Tarry Easton
is a big part of it. Reed Sheppard continues to
flourish and blossom and in this team, while I'm not
saying they're gonna win the NBA Championship, they look a
lot closer to what we were hoping for even without
Fred van Vliet and Steven Adams than they did even
a couple of weeks ago. So what does that mean?
Because when they're bad, we say they're not this bad.
When they're good, I don't know what do we say
not this good? But we know at least what they're capable.
Speaker 1: Of, So to be determined.
Speaker 2: Rockets One source had them as the fifth hardest schedule
left in the season, and then it was corrected to
the fifth softest schedule.
Speaker 1: My brain was not working. Thank you for listening. Thank
you for listening. Matt. I was like, what an idiot
I was.
Speaker 2: First of all, I didn't feel I felt bad for you.
I know what you meant and he'll figure it out.
But then secondly, I was just so pissed off because
of trying to get home last night that I was
just you were nice, atturnent.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you. Oh you were in a lot of
uh yeah.
Speaker 2: So what Matt's referencing is last night I was pulling
up the remaining schedule strength in the NBA, and for
some reason, my brain flipped the upside down, as in,
like one would be easiest when one is hardest. So
I read it wrong and I corrected myself later. Rockets
have the twenty sixth most difficult remaining schedule, so fifth easiest, right, Clippers,
excuse me, Nuggets are one. They have the most difficult
schedule remaining in the entire NBA in terms of a
opponents win percentage, Lakers are seven and the Timberwolves are
now eighteen including Rockets Wolves in Tota Center, the second
to last.
Speaker 1: Game of the season.
Speaker 2: So of all the teams you're battling with, you have
easily the the easiest road to try and make some
moves up the standings.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two five seven nine. If
you want to chime in and say hello to us,
we're with you today until twelve noon. We'll have Astros
baseball on deck at twelve with the first pitch at
to one ten in side Dyekud Park, and again we
will see uh the Astros go with Mike Burls making
his second start of the season and second start as
a Houston Astro. Sports Talk seven nine seven one three
two one two five seven nine. If you want to
chime in on the conversation, We've had a good visit
so far with Rockets and Astros so far, and you
are welcome to join it either.
Speaker 1: One.
Speaker 2: Again, a couple of comments from Hannah and Cal at
the owner's meetings about the team and about c J
and UH. We will try to dig deep into the
quotes a little bit later on here on the show.
Speaker 1: Right now, Cardinal is with us on cald morning.
Speaker 9: Okay, and look, I know you're new organ double today.
I like it look so I'm sorry I missed the
beginning of the show. So what Watson you play again
or no?
Speaker 1: No, we played? We played the Ohio players fire?
Speaker 9: Oh really yeah, Ohio player? So well, what is it about?
Sing it to me? I like that performance because of Korea?
Is doing about time?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's hitting his No. Over three hundred? Do you
think cardilal answers his own questions? Ross? It seems like
he does.
Speaker 2: Okay, got a walk, I mean the the the slug
hasn't really been there, but he's been hitting. Yeah, I know,
what do you think about how Yeah, he's getting a
lot of walks.
Speaker 9: He's patient, be patient with the does what happened with him?
I haven't seen it?
Speaker 1: What is he?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Uh? Who's the who's the baseball player from Honduras?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, tell me you know?
Speaker 1: Are you talking about Marisa Dubon?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 9: What is Yeah?
Speaker 1: He's in he's in Atlanta, Atlanta. He got traded for
Nick Allen.
Speaker 9: Okay, so yeah that's great. And uh so what did
you start up?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 9: You said no share up today? What's up?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: And he wants more share Matt. Okay, I think we're
going to enter in this conversation Hey, thank you so
much for listening. We appreciate you thinking. Carlo, I guess calling.
He had a few modelos called in. I like, Carlo,
nice guy. Do you date drink at ten thirty on
a Wednesday? I mean I guess you couldn't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean usually you're you and I are
on the air. Oh well, Carlo wants more share. You
can get on board with that.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what if he likes share, that's good.
We had a very popular edition of a Believe or Not. Yes, yes,
didn't like I could turn back time.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think we're done with that. Why uh uh?
All right?
Speaker 2: So what else you want to get to? We mentioned
the Astros, We mentioned the rockets. I'm I'm you know,
I'm kind of in a really good mood today.
Speaker 1: Well you should be.
Speaker 2: Now, okay, how we feel about this offense, because as
you said yesterday, and you're totally right, if the offense
was terrible, we'll be like everybody be patient. Now they're great.
So I mean some your nun's not gonna ops fourteen hundred.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean he could and if he is, he
carrying MVP trucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, al two Bay is not gonna ops thirteen hundred. Well,
if he is, that means he'd get the three thousand
h's by the end of the year. But it's still
been nice. It's been encouraging Cam Smith with the home run.
I mean, you had Bryce Matthews the other day with
a home run like I wouldn't a cheapy either, one
hundred and eleven off the bat.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: The hose al Tuoba thing, a lot of it has
to do with the fact that they said put your
left field glove away and never open it.
Speaker 1: You can never go get it again.
Speaker 2: Okay, if you say so, I'm just saying I just
think that's part of it.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me think of this. When we were asked
to do the two to four show.
Speaker 2: This is totally disistant. The same with me bad analogy,
but go ahead.
Speaker 1: We did it. We didn't enjoy it. Uh huh. We
got back to.
Speaker 2: Our midday route roots and we had a bunch better
time of things. Okay, just saying, Okay, and he's not
butchering second base. I mean, have you been looking at
his fielding numbers? I mean not, is he holding his own?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm scared too, not that it would.
Speaker 2: Even matter because the Astros just keep pound the ball,
so they could have a subpar defense.
Speaker 1: At this point, it really wouldn't even matter. He only
started forty four games and left last year.
Speaker 2: I'm just talking about the second base so far in
twenty twenty six. No, I know, I'm talking about his
attitude or whatever we're going with.
Speaker 1: He's a breath of fresh air.
Speaker 2: The new hitting coaches, everybody's everybody just loves everything new.
Could be a new voice, and that's what we talked about. Well,
we argue with people about the hitting coaches and stuff,
and of course can always con see that maybe just
a new voice is going to to help help things out.
Speaker 1: And that's that.
Speaker 2: Anything that could be a new voice, I mean, oh yeah,
I think that. Even the demiico Ryan said not to
move over to the technans here, but he was talking
yesterday about how much he liked Gerard Johnson. He said, look,
I just sometimes you need a different voice. But that's
a hard way to lose a job, isn't it. Hey,
we think you're really good and we know that you're
gonna get land on your feet, but we need to
get a different voice. That also means perhaps, yeah, you're
just not elite or especially in baseball, times change and
there maybe they want to go with a different philosophy.
Speaker 1: Is that just a polite way of saying we're tired
of your act.
Speaker 4: I think, I know, I don't.
Speaker 1: I think it depends, okay.
Speaker 2: Also when it paired with bad results, like if if
the Astros were the number one in ops last year,
you would want to change the voice, which I don't
know how they weren't with Mariso Dubon and Jesus Sanchez
and at shortened the boys. Taylor Tremille, don't freaking him. Hey,
by the way, Taylor Tremill had a goo game last night.
You'll find out in the minor league report. Oh great,
Maus be just teasing constantly this on deck show. Thank you, Matt.
It must be a real banger coming up. It's gonna
be fine.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: You know I have been doing these on deck shows
four let's see five, twenty. Where were we in twenty second?
Probably twenty five years of on deck shows. Wow, I'm
gonna get you some kind of a medal or something. Well,
I should have gotten to the Astros Media Hall of Fame,
but that's a different issue for a different time. You
should have really, why not? There's a chance you gonna
vote me in? Can you put me as an at
large vote? I mean, do you want a serious answer?
Oh no, no, I don't want to see it, not
from you. I want it from a young and Jonathan
Bok tried to blend his currer and mend his curring
and going home.
Speaker 1: Jonathan will have back all right.
Speaker 2: Brian Bogus seven is going to join us at fifteen minutes.
You may join us right now at seven one three
two one two five seven ninety all the way, Brian
bogustical join us in about ten minutes. I'm going to
step away for a segment to work on a diastrois
on Deck show, so it'll be Ross and Bogey talking
things up.
Speaker 1: He'll join you from Thanking Park. I believe.
Speaker 2: Really enjoying seeing Brian goo Bogus of its media career
jumping off to a really good start the last couple
of years. And we was like at the ford Oor
business with him Wednesday at eleven o'clock here on seven ninety.
Let's go to Andrew at ten fifty on seven ninety Andrew,
good morning to you.
Speaker 10: What's up?
Speaker 5: How are you guys doing great show as always?
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 7: So uh.
Speaker 10: I called you about five years ago, and my morning
routine started with drinking a bottle of wine four eight
o'clock in the morning. Wow, and I used to have
this liquid courage. And one day I called you just
hammered out of my mind. Anyway, after the call ended,
I think you went on for about ten seconds about
my day drinking and wow, this man must be day
drinking anyway, just to give you a medal that you
just talked about earlier, you kind of incentivized me to
quit drinking. So about five years ago, after that phone call,
maybe two weeks later, I ended up checking myself in
a reab and here I am.
Speaker 1: Today, Andrew.
Speaker 2: You and I have never met. I don't really remember
the phone call. You obviously do, but this phone call
will be the phone call of the week, maybe the month,
and maybe of the year. I'm very happy to hear
of your sobriety. That's excellent news. And thank you very
much for calling and telling us that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure you.
Speaker 4: Have a good one.
Speaker 10: Thanks, thank you for all you do.
Speaker 2: Thank you appreciate it. Later, Yeah, we're just trying to
entertain and that's great, great story. I have nothing more
I can say that, but congratulations to your sobriety. Let's
talk to another front of the show. Ross Terry, our
buddy in Ohio on seven ninety Terry, good morning to you.
Speaker 6: How are you doing?
Speaker 1: Who is this is this? Terry? Yes? Sounds like somebody
else for OS. I can't really pinpoint it.
Speaker 6: Oh it's me.
Speaker 1: Terry. What's on your mind today? Friend?
Speaker 6: When did they ask Throws play the Guardians?
Speaker 1: You mean in Cleveland or in Houston?
Speaker 6: In Houston?
Speaker 2: I mean, I hold on? Can we get some look
up music? I'll be happy to help you out with this.
Just give me a second.
Speaker 1: I've got this.
Speaker 2: I've got the Astros calendar on my desktop of my computer,
but I've got a bunch of different files opened up here.
This is an awesome radio right now. Astros twenty twenty
six schedule.
Speaker 1: There we go. Would you have for breakfast? Terry? I'm
just curious.
Speaker 6: Bacon, sausage, eggs and home fries?
Speaker 1: Wow? Did you cook that yourself or did somebody make
that for you?
Speaker 9: I mad it?
Speaker 1: Wow? You would double on the proteins? Huh? Okay, let's
go with the Astros play.
Speaker 2: The Guardians at the end of this month April twenty fourth,
twenty fifth, and twenty sixth, I think, don't excuse me,
twenty twenty one and twenty two.
Speaker 6: All right, I'll tell you what I'm planning to Houston
for that.
Speaker 2: Oh I'm sorry, that's in Cleveland. Let me correct that.
Let me correck that. That's April twenty twenty one and
twenty two is in Cleveland. The games in Houston are
going to be I'm looking, oh, June nineteen, twenty and
twenty one.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'll tell you what. I'll make a bet with you.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, well, what bet is?
Speaker 6: I'll fly to Huston mm hmm, and I'll guarantee you
the Guardians take the series and you could take me
and raw South for brisket, but you got to eat
brisket too.
Speaker 2: I love brisket. You're a liar, right, I'll get him.
Terry Terry Terry.
Speaker 1: Terry is rounding into one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: Terry Terry is a legendary color on this show. Now
apparently he's now. The problem is I will not be
able to do it because that is my son, my
son's birthday weekend, and so I will be spending time
with him. Not that I want to spend quality time
with you, Terry, but that's my son's birth my oldest
son's birthday.
Speaker 6: Well, how about if I say extra couple of days?
You still take rossing me out for brisk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're taking us out.
Speaker 6: No, the winner of the series.
Speaker 2: Now, if the Astros win the series, do we have
to stick go get barbecue or we can get something else?
Speaker 6: If they win the series, you can choose.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll go get some ribs and some jalapeno sausage.
Speaker 1: About that.
Speaker 6: That song is good?
Speaker 1: All right, thanks Sari, appreciate your calling. The bet is
in you just stand back there. Ross. You don't need
to comment anything. You're gonna get a free meal out
of this. Apparently it sounds amazing. What's coming going to eat?
Like at four o'clock? Uh? Yeah, that sounds good. Can
we talk politics? No?
Speaker 2: All right, Hobby here, Hobby here, hob here. First of all,
thank you for calling, Thank you for listening. You're always
working when you.
Speaker 1: Call the show. What the hell is going on behind you?
Speaker 5: Well, I walk at the company and right precision. I'm
a FO operator, so I'm cutting a home with the
metal tubes while I'm listening, But I just want to
talk a little ass they I can hear me. Yes, wrning,
do you think that hot start is going to continue
on the astros back? So the one we used to
be and or another thing? Last time. I'm listening to
the rocket game I have there. It's you know, it's
kind of inappropriate. I'm looking to the game of my
old fady. He's telling me, why are you more focused
on the guy? Who is the guy after? That's Matt Thomas.
That's a legend, the legendary Matt Thomas. He says, Okay,
well call that Thomas to come to the bay. That's
what I wanted to say.
Speaker 1: Baby, that's your wife or your girlfriend? I hung up.
Oh dang, did he say wife or girlfriend? Ross?
Speaker 2: I don't know I would honestly, I didn't catch it.
Let me tell you all something.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of noise in the background.
Speaker 2: If you're in bed with the woman and you're more
focused on me, that's an issue. I mean, I appreciate
the honesty. You know, I'm the easiest. I'm a good
way to go to bed with you. You know, you put
my you put you get my voice and put it
against your here to night. Oh there's gonna be nothing
but sweet nothing.
Speaker 1: So she said, tell Matt Thomas to come to bed.
I mean we have to ask what her number is?
I mean one to ten, because Matt, you're happily married.
Oh that's right.
Speaker 2: It's probably listening right now, because why do you care
what number she is? You're married to a ten?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 2: Ross, you got Brian bogos Yeah, yes, Oh lord, this
has a bit of a bizarre segment.
Speaker 1: Huh, it's been a good one. This is like it.
This is why this show, why this show's been around.
This is why we take calls. We can cusin discus.
Speaker 2: We have the Texas linebackers are gonna take one in
the draft.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do it twenty eight. You're going to No,
we don't want to do that.
Speaker 2: Go to the jar, Go to the jar, Matt. All right,
that's a double pay right there. Yeah, it's like a
two dollars Wednesday. Bet all right, we're gonna c and
discuss Astros baseball, Rossie and Brian Bogasvic next here on
Sports Talk Sevenatti. If you want to join us for
shut Jo bumbass up and what he got time for
that that'll be coming up in a half an hour
is the Matt Thomas Show with.
Speaker 1: Rosst eleven to two. Here on the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 2: With Ross Sports Talk seven ninety with you until twelve o'clock,
at which point we will head into Astros on Deck
Mode one.
Speaker 1: Ten to first pitch. Astro's going for a.
Speaker 2: Sweep against the Boston Red Sox after taking the first
couple of games in this series, and right now please
to be joined by our weekly baseball guest, Brian bogus
Sevic of Space City Home Network and of course a
former Astro himself. Brian appreciate the time as alway, let's
just go ahead and start with this offense, leading the
entire majors in runs scored first couple of games. Scuffling
a bit, let's just kind of do with more of
a macro before to getting into some of the individual hitters.
But just how are the Astros doing this? Piling up
all these runs?
Speaker 8: You know what, They're doing it a lot of different ways,
which is a good thing. If you're going to score
runs consistently over the course of the season, you're going
to have to be able to do it in multiple ways,
and you know, we've seen the long innings that they
had a couple of times against the Angels. We've seen
more of a power, quick strike offense show up here
against the Red Sox. There's been some aggressive base running.
They're working walks, so there's a lot of traffic on bases.
Extra base hits are piling up. Besides just the home runs.
They're driving the ball all over the field, So you know,
right now, it's they're scoring runs a ton of different ways,
which is great and it's a lot of fun to watch.
But you know, if you're going to try to look
at it further down the road and say what that
means for the long haul, it means you know, there's
gonna be times when you're not doing one or the other,
but you know you can continue to go out there
and have an offense that can that can put up
runs no matter what.
Speaker 2: Astros second in team ops in baseball right now, and
let's get into the micro some of the individuals, starting
with Jordan Alvarez.
Speaker 1: That guy's pretty good.
Speaker 8: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, having a season.
Speaker 8: Like last year where he was out so much and
when he was here, he wasn't fully healthy. You know,
you almost forget what it looks like when he's fully
healthy and totally locked in, which is what he is
right now. It just looks like everything at the plate
is moving so slowly for him when when he when
he gets a good pitch to hit, he just unleashes
a swing that you know, he's hitting the ball a mile.
But it's the takes that are really impressive for a
guy to have that, you know, violent and powerful a swing.
When he takes the ball well, he doesn't flinch. It's
not a bunch of check swings. It's not starting early
to get the bat head out. He had some tough,
some tough takes on two strike breaking balls yesterday that
he's seeing it out of the hand. And when you
have a guy who's seeing the ball that well, the
swing is so pure he can drive the ball to
any part of the ballpark. It's just he really does
feel dangerous on every single pitch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we hear that a lot.
Speaker 2: Brian seeing the ball well, and it's something that that
kind of comes and goes. Can you explain that to us,
like what does that mean I'm seeing the ball well?
Speaker 1: And what does that mean when it pales to I'm
not seeing the ball.
Speaker 8: Well, well, you know, you have to pick up different
cues to tip you off as to what pitch is coming, right,
a fastball, a slide, or a change up. There's different
things that you can find. And when your timing's not right,
or maybe you have a little bit of head movement,
it takes longer to recognize those things. The ball seems
like it's sped up on you. But when everything's kind
of moving slow, when your head and your eyes are
real still, you'll see the little bit of different arm
angle that a pitcher has on a fastball versus a
change up, or you'll see the breaking ball pop up
out of the guy's hand just a little bit earlier.
That'll tip you off as to what pitch it is.
And for jord On right now, it almost seems like
as soon as that pitcher's arm gets up above his head,
he's recognizing what pitch is coming. He's doing the calculation
on where it needs to start versus where it needs
to land for it to be a pitch that he's
going to go after, and all those decisions that are
happening in you know, fractions of a second, it seems
like he's got way more time than he actually does.
Speaker 2: Brian boga Sevic with us here on Sports Talk seven
ninety hose al two v eight walks in the first
six games. That certainly has jumped out at us. What
are you seeing from him as far as meshing being
the same old al twove who is going to be
a Hall of Famer into maybe a different approach. Is
that what you're seeing from him so far?
Speaker 8: Yeah, And you know, I don't think the A approaches
necessarily be more patient in terms of him walking as
much as he had, but I think it's an approach
of being committed to hitting the ball in the middle
of the field using the other way, not being so
pull happy, not trying to force pull side power, and
what that's allowed him to do is see the ball
a little bit longer and make better swing decisions. A
lot of the pitches that he's laid off of, especially
later in counts, have been breaking balls down in a way,
pitches that you know he would have committed early too
and maybe swung over the top of or chopped into
the ground last year. He's waiting just a little bit
longer because he's comfortable hitting the ball in the middle
of the field and able to lay off those pitches.
But the thing is is that he's not giving anything
up to do that. We saw the two home runs
the other night, both of those were on the pole side,
So how did that happen? Well, he's seeing the ball
long enough to make good swing decisions, but the swing
is in a good place to where he's still quick
enough when a hanging breaking ball shows up or a
sinker leaks back in, fee quick enough to get around
on it and drive it. And it's just he's in
a really good spot right now, where the swing's in
a good spot and the approaches in a good spot,
and he's covering everything.
Speaker 2: Brian bogas Evin continuing with us here on Sports Talk
seven ninety, Why was Lance mccullor's junior so good and
how does he keep it up?
Speaker 8: Well, you saw it in spring training. You saw, first
of all, the stuff being a little bit sharper than
it was last year, the velocity up a little bit,
the breaking ball spin a little bit tighter. But you
also saw a more committed approach to attacking his own
and a lot of that probably comes from just the
confidence in the stuff being a little bit better but
what we saw on that first start was even turned
up a little bit more from what we saw in
spring training. It was a guy who looked like every
pitch that he was throwing, he wanted to induce the swing,
he wanted to induce contact because he was confident that
his stuff was going to beat the hitters in the zone.
It looked like, you know, at times last year where
he wanted to get chases, he wanted to get swings
at pitches that weren't going to be able to be
put in play because he didn't trust his stuff to
be to play in the zone. And this year, it
just looks like he's got to increased confidence in what
his pitches are, what the shape of them are, what
the velocity of those pitches are, and going out there
and saying, hey, I hope you swing and I hope
you hit it because I know that I'm going to win.
Speaker 2: We'll get to Jeremy Penny in a second. He is
out of the lineup today, but just kind of a
general question, what does that when we always talk about
in baseball day game after a night game and that
being a grind. Can you just kind of take us
through that, how much of those extra couple hours change
your routine. Of course, Christian Vasquez in the lineup today.
Of course, you try to keep catchers off their feet
at a day game after a night game.
Speaker 1: What happens, What changes with those extra six hours or
so that get shaved off with the day game.
Speaker 8: Well, you know, the obvious thing is just the quick turnaround.
You know, you're on your feet running around finishing the
game last night at ten o'clock, and now these guys
are already back on the field. They're just finished taking
round balls here at you know, eleven o'clock. So a
quicker turnaround, but it interrupts your regular routine of getting
ready for the game. A lot of these guys, you know,
they get here twelve one o'clock in the afternoon. You eat,
you start to get stretched out, You do some work
in the weight room, get some work in the training room,
and it's this slow build up to be to work
in the batting practice to then get yourself ready for
the game, and you just don't have time to do that.
So it's an abbreviated routine. You have to get on
your feet a little bit quicker, maybe don't have as
much time to check all those boxes you just have
to hit kind of the main points that you want
to get to.
Speaker 9: So it's a.
Speaker 8: Combination of a quick turnaround and just not having as
much time to recover, but also the abbreviated routine for
whatever it is that you do to get yourself ready
for a seven o'clock game.
Speaker 1: Did you ever have an injury similar to Jeremy's.
Speaker 8: No, not, not something like that that I was still
kind of working through on the build up back. I mean,
I've had broken bones and stuff, but by the time
I was back into gameplay, I was one hundred percent
full go. I mean, where he's what it looks like
he's at right now is a guy who's recovered from
the injury but still in the build up phase. And
if it would have been a non non factor, if
this would have happened earlier in spring and he could
have used the last week or two to do that
more natural build up, you know, in spring training, you're
not going to take a guy who with him played
in a while and just say, Okay, you've got nine
innings back to back to back to back days. So
just kind of the timing of it, it's more of
it feels like it's a build up of we are
protecting your body, not necessarily trying to trying to baby
or nurse an injury.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Brian Bogusovik with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
Mike Burrows on the mound. We were very excited about
his results in spring training. First start didn't.
Speaker 1: Go oh maybe the way whoa really anybody on the
ASTROS side wanted What did you see from him in
the first start? Was he need to improve today?
Speaker 8: Honestly, you know, besides two swings, it wasn't really a
whole lot different than what we saw in spring training.
And he gave us five runs. Four of them were
on a three run homer that landed in the front
row of the Crawford boxes, and then you know, Mike
Trout locked in like that.
Speaker 10: Gets a whole lot of guys.
Speaker 8: So so really the stuff didn't look all that different.
The bottom line wasn't I don't think what anybody would
have expected based on how he threw the ball in spring.
What I think is really interesting about his matchup today
is what we saw from Lamps two nights ago and
then Hunter yesterday was a lot of really aggressive pitching
early in the count a lot of strikes, a lot
of attacking with fastballs, get ahead, put away, get ahead,
put away. And that was exactly what Mike Burroughs m
O was all throughout spring training. He was working fast,
He's ahead of everybody, and it looked like a guy
who really had no interest been messing around and setting
up pitches. It was just here's my stuff, it's good.
I'm going at you with it, and I think I'm
gonna beat you. So I think that approach that he
had all throughout the spring plays well against what this
Boston offense is in its current state. So yeah, I
think from from a bottom line aspect, the first start
of the year wasn't exactly what you would have wanted.
But I don't think what he was was all that
different from multice on spring.
Speaker 2: All right, there you go, Brian Bogas have a great stuff.
As always our weekly to excuse me Wednesday guest here
on Sports Talk seven ninety throughout the baseball season.
Speaker 4: Brian, thanks for the time.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 8: All right, thanks, Well, all right, there you.
Speaker 2: Go, Brian boga Sevic here on Sports Talk seven nine.
You're gonna take quick break here on the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross. Matt Thomas will rejoin. He will also
be bringing you on deck coming up at twelve. But
we also got eight. Nobody got time for that. Slash
shut Joe bum Ass up coming up at eleven thirty,
so make sure you stay tuned for that and you
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five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven ninety All right, Ross, and I will have shut
your bam mass up. Ain't nobody got time for that.
You know what, You and I may take up a
whole seing with just our two beefs. I got okay,
I saw yours. I forgot what it was, and now
I remember what it was. We gonna get too new
place to live. It's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: No, it's fine, It's been totally fine. Okay.
Speaker 2: I just want to make sure I can't have you aggravated.
Leave in the office and leave in your house.
Speaker 1: I got, Well, it's in negligent management. But we'll get
to that. We'll get to that, all right. Uh So.
Speaker 2: Jonathan Alexander does a great job covering the Texans for
the Houston Chronicle. Had a chance to catch up with
uh Cal and Hannah McNair at the NFL Owner's meetings. Now,
what I thought we would do Ross is I would
read the quote and then we interpret the quote very quickly.
We don't want to get into a super deep dive
on this, but again it's worthy of just initial first
thought impression on this. And again owners don't speak a
whole lot, but when they do, you should probably take
not of what they have to say. And good job
by Jonathan to get out to Phoenix to get those
conversations going. Number one, he asked who took the loss harder,
he says, I think Cal handled it a lot better
than I did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cal just went and flapped flipped on grand theft auto.
Speaker 2: Hannah wants to win very badly for multiple reasons. Multiple reasons.
Speaker 1: Cal is like wedding school. Hashtag referendum.
Speaker 2: Hashtag If I'm going to build the Toro Dome next
to Toro Town, I need.
Speaker 1: Some wins hashtag votes, hashtag.
Speaker 2: Ballots, hashtag government leaders hashtag tax break.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: When asked yesterday at the NFL owners Meetings about whether
they were committed to Stroud long c Day, Stroud long term,
and whether they prefer getting a long term deal done sooner.
Speaker 1: Callan.
Speaker 2: Hannah would not say specifically what that was the case,
but they did express support for Stroud, quoting cow, We're
totally behind him. He's totally bought into being our quarterback
and all that entails. We all want to get better
every year. He's doing that, We're doing that. Everyone is
doing that in the organization. Everybody is trying to get
better every day. To me, nice generic, not going to
cause a firestorm, not gonna cause CJ to get upset,
not necessarily going to cause CJ lovers to get upset,
not gonna necessarily hate this, have the CJ haters getting
all upset. Just a good old flat vanillaa an sir right.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: When asked about, uh, the contract extension, Hannah jumps in,
you want to continue to draft guys that come up,
and you're talking about a contract extension versus talking about
a draft bust. Right now, when you look at our roster,
we have so many guys that are so good. I'm
thankful I'm not in nick spot right now because that's
for him to work out. It is nice to have
so many guys in a building that you want to keep,
meaning basically roster construction.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Cal would go on to say, and there are a
lot of tools at Nick's disposal, and he'll use all
of them to put the best team he can put
on the field at the time, all the time. Excuse me,
thank you, Cal, cal Man. Cal got the vanilla card going,
didn't he?
Speaker 1: You know what he goes to.
Speaker 2: You know, when he goes to thirty one Flavors or
to Robel rav Creamery, he doesn't get the He just
gets the straight vanilla.
Speaker 1: He's good. You know what. I'm gonna push back on that.
Sometimes straight vanilla is fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but if you're gonna go all this pomp and circumstance,
how about just a little cream, milk and sugar.
Speaker 1: That's okay. But you know what, butter pecan taste better.
Cookies and cream's delicious.
Speaker 2: Simple flavors are good too. Vanilla bean is the goat
of all ice creams. Yeah, what's in vanilla? But what's
all the mixings and vanilla beans? You're calling it the goat? Well,
very simple. I'm going to if I'm going to babbel
slab or yeah, I'm gonna if I'm paying nine dollars
for a Cone, I better get a damn fix, and
I want you.
Speaker 1: Can if you want, it's up to you. Yeah, why
don't you.
Speaker 2: Oh you're not gonna do that. You're eating gummy bears
and stuff in there, that's true. Or marshmallows. Yeah, you're
a liar, You're a fraud, all right.
Speaker 1: So as the mcnari's continue to support c J.
Speaker 2: Stroud, uh, he does not subscribe to the national narrative
that Stroud has regressed significantly from his rookie season. Cal quote,
I will let them do that, and like I said,
we'll try to get better every year, top to bottom.
Hannah would back up Cal and back up CJ by
saying the following, you can't judge somebody based on one
or two games, because he did a lot of great
things as well.
Speaker 1: It's hard that those games happen to be in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: But I think CJ is the type of guy that
takes that to heart, and what you've seen this offseason
is what he's working hard because he doesn't want to
be in that position.
Speaker 1: Again. I'm sure he doesn't, you know what. I actually
like that perspective from Hannah.
Speaker 2: There's a couple of really horrible games they happen to
be on the worst stage.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And what Hannah did not mention in there that she
will not publicly say is if he does it again,
I'm not paying his ass. We'll see, Okay, we do
gut feelings on Tuesday, and we can change exists almost week.
Speaker 1: Okay, after reading the quotes.
Speaker 2: Now again, quotes are just quotes, and it's a it's
a it's a nice, nice, low low, uh stress window
of the NFL calendar. It's April, right before the draft.
What does you gotta tell you? May one, he's gotta
have the fifth year option, right, He's gonna have the
fifth year option. I'll go with the fifth year option
gets picked up and yeah, no extension.
Speaker 1: That seems like the chalk play, all right. Two years
from now. Uh, he's gonna be there, guy, just a
gut feeling. I don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 2: I think it has to take, honestly, ross a complete
melt out of a season. Yeah, if he he, well,
if they, if they, if they repeat a divisional playoff
game and don't win it again. See, here's the thing.
You know what, I shouldn't even ask the question. We
don't even know what twenty twenty six is all about.
But let's put it display. Let's dumb it down a
little bit. Let's say this was the year that they
had to pay the big money. Let's say last year
was the fifth year option. Okay, what kind of money
to c J. Straut make?
Speaker 1: Well? As a free agent? Yeah? Right now?
Speaker 2: Do you think he would have gotten the fifty five
sixty million dollar deals there?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: As a free agent, of course not. Would he have
been offered forty plus to stay with the Texans? Uh?
Speaker 1: I would? She just said two games does not make
a season. I don't know thirty five to forty? See,
I don't even he would say no, he'd probably want fifty. Yeah.
Speaker 2: See, I don't know if there's a middle ground? Is
middle grounds for guys that have been moving from team
to team to team?
Speaker 1: Don't see? Because Dak didn't get a middle ground to
stay in Dallas. Jalen Hurst's made fifty, Deshaun Watson forty six,
Mahomes forty five, Daniel Jones got forty four.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe like a two year deal with like Ford
two years eighty or something, and his agent, David Molla
Goy is gonna be like that sounds cool? Maybe I
don't know you again, I but to me, and not
that I watch every dollar being spent by quarterbacks or
the NFL, it feels like to me that if you
take the guy and he is your guy, and he's
been your guy and you want to be your guy,
you go from that nice rookie contract to crazy numbers.
Kirk Cousins got that originally in the NFL when he
was with what the Commanders after the two franchise tag years.
Kyler Murray got the crazy money after his rookie deal
in Arizona.
Speaker 1: They love.
Speaker 2: Jack Prescott got the crazy money deal in Dallas after
his rookie contract.
Speaker 1: He's still highest AAV on the board sixty or year dak.
Speaker 2: It feels like to me of the middle guys are
the guys you just talked about, the guys that have
bounced around from in not in necessarily four or five teams,
but from one team to the other.
Speaker 1: Well, Sam Darnold's making thirty three and a half and
he just won the.
Speaker 2: Super Bowl and he wants that contract torn up immediately.
Baker Mayfield's around there thirty three and a third.
Speaker 1: Also a guy that's bounced around. Malik Willis just got
twenty two and a half. Okay, you're friend of the show.
Cause here I'm just letting you know.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying that the homegrown guys don't get the
middle ground deals. They go super it's such an important
year for cj Oh my god, it's it's such an
important year. It's an important year for everyone.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because once you invest that money in that in him.
I mean, look, look what a bad quarterback can do.
Arizona is a complete disaster right now to attack of
a law's money. Chris crippled the Miami Dolphin doesn't cripple everybody.
But more times than not, a bad quarterback or a
quarterback that is not worth the dollar amount destroys you
because you spent so much on him. Now, the salary
cap keeps going up and up and up. Now, does
that mean the quarterback numbers go up and up and up?
Speaker 1: Of course? M man oh man, young fathers out there,
teach your kids to be quarterbacks. M No, they got
I mean there's like twelve good ones on the planet.
So I would say, go for something else.
Speaker 2: Uh automachanic? Sure, Oh, you're always gonna need an auto mechanic. Yeah,
AI is not gonna fix your car.
Speaker 1: A pipe fitter would work too, That's good. Yeah, there too,
gear Let again, Dear, dear.
Speaker 11: Gear Let again, dear let again, Dave, Ain't nobody got
time for Ross's microphone and go, hey, wire, is this
thing on?
Speaker 2: It is?
Speaker 1: I'm good? The hell was going on?
Speaker 2: I was gonna do a quick experiment. Okay, Yeah, that's
not good that. I'm sorry, weird. So two of the
mics are messed up in here, and I'm on a
third mic. I'm on mic three, and it seems fine, nice, Okay.
I put in a hard working engineering staff at iHeartMedia
for making that happen.
Speaker 5: For it.
Speaker 1: Blamed the engineers. I just said, thank them. I didn't
you said making it happen. No, I'm not not making
it happen. I'm saying making it fixed.
Speaker 2: Making make it's not fixed yet? Okay, Well, I was
again trying to I got Jonathan, thank you, Ross, You're
going first because you're ain't nobody got half of that
is before mine. Well, ain't nobody got time for these
mic I literally have to lean down in this mic.
I have to put this chair down. It's like I'm
gonna Chat's like a child's mic. Ridiculous. So yes, Mike
went to staticky Mike two sounds pixelated somehow. I don't
know what the hell's going on over here. But also, okay,
I'm kno going to out the good people at the
places which where I live unless this situation gets worse.
But we have a gate that you click in and
you have to click out, which I like. It's extra safety.
People can't get in and get out unless they live
there and they have a clicker. Well, my clicker has
been having internute issues recently, and then I replaced the batteries.
It was still having issues. So I went to the
office to the manager and he's like, oh, i'll call
you in an hour. Doesn't call me for four hours,
and then he's like, I'll leave it in five minutes.
Come get this new clicker. Makes me come down there
and get the clicker, and I didn't use it until
the morning and it still didn't work. If you're going
to give me a new clicker, would you please at
least just test it. I sat there for like ten
minutes waiting to at the gate like an idiot. Finally
somebody came out and left behind me.
Speaker 1: Anybody get time for this heiny' nobody geta and I
got a.
Speaker 2: Time for broken clickers and antybody get time for this
guy with an attitude to be giving me.
Speaker 1: A clicker that doesn't even work. Ain't nobody get tab
for dead? Very frustrating. I parked in the guest parking
this morning. Oh really, do you think? Are they gonna
tell you?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: I hope not.
Speaker 12: So.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna go hopefully get a new clicker
after this show. Twelve oh one, I got you. I've
got three really quick ones.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: In Memphis, the do not have medium meals for the broadcasters.
Before the game, they give you a voucher to go
find something in the in the concourse, and the voucher
was supposed to be for twenty one dollars.
Speaker 1: They hand me the voucher.
Speaker 2: I go get a meat and cheese plate from one
of the restaurants that one of the concessionaires at the
fat form woman says, you will the amount of the
food was fourteen dollars with text it was sixteen. I
gave her the voucher, so that should take care of
plenty off. It's twenty one dollars. She goes, sir, you
eight dollars, I said, I got this from the Memphis Grizzlies. Sir,
it's only worth eight dollars. I said, okay, we'll cancel
it out and I'll go get another voucher and pay
for the difference.
Speaker 1: No, if you can't.
Speaker 2: If you cancel this out, it cancels out your voucher,
I said, how does it cancel my value? You you
didn't charge me for the voucher yet. So to the
Memphis Grizzlies, anybody got time for you? Giving me faux bogus?
Asked vouchers. By the way, they did apologize after the
game forgive me the wrong vouchers, But hey, nobody got
time for n'body got time for that? Did it cost
you eight bucks? I do, I wouldn't pay for it.
I just like you know, when I'm ungry, I'll get somebody.
Speaker 1: Number two.
Speaker 2: I'm pulling into the Tunder garage at Tota Center yesterday
after the show, and I'm turning left, and uh, I
am waiting for one woman to walk from one into
the garage to the other so I don't hit her.
She was completely oblivious to me on her phone talking
and typing when I could have hit her sorry, bee,
ainn'ybody got time for you walking and talking in front
of a garage where cars are coming through.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody got time for dead? I don't. Oh, go ahead, sorry,
go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 2: You first, I was just gonna say, I don't want
to be old man shakes fast at cloud. But we
gotta do something about this phone stuff.
Speaker 1: We really do. I honk five times. I have a
five minute commute, and probably five times a week I'm
honking at people on their phone.
Speaker 2: I literally come, do two lights in a right turn.
And I blame Jonathan's generation period.
Speaker 1: Yeah, blame the parent. It's everybody, because it's old people,
it's young people. It's me. I'm not me too, you
know what, shut my own bumb ass up shits obum,
mess up.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Not good again.
Speaker 2: I understand if you're walking on the street, if you're
on sawe, but you were walking in front of an
active garage, lift your head up, walk a pause, put
the damn phone down, pause, and move along.
Speaker 1: One more thing.
Speaker 2: My normal commute from the end of Toda Center getting
in my car to my house in Kingwood after games
is about forty minutes. It took me an hour and
fifteen to get home last night. Oh one hour, oh
fifteen minutes. Let's do the quick math on this, ladies
and gentlemen. They were twenty six thousand people at the
Dynkin Park yesterday. They were seventeen thousand at Tota Center.
They were all not coming out of the same exit
on the Pierce elevated fifty nine. You know that direction
heading north. I stood, and I stood, I was in
my car, did not move for fifteen minutes. If you're
a member of traffic control and can listen to this show.
Speaker 1: Please, please, please, let's get.
Speaker 2: A more fluid situation than we had last night. It
took everybody so damn long to move and get going.
It was obviously a CF out there. Ain't nobody got
time for an hour and fifteen minute drive from dyk
In Park to Kingwood.
Speaker 1: Anybody. Ain't nobody get tad no.
Speaker 2: Time for that, Sorry, Matthew, I had to listen to you.
Giro did help out with his four year welcome call.
He went about four minutes.
Speaker 1: Did he really?
Speaker 2: I didn't keep track? Sorry I should have? Yeah, yeah,
I was disappointed. No, Matt Thomas tweet, I know, Jonathan,
what's the matter with you?
Speaker 12: Uh, all right, when you're talking to somebody, and I
guess this is more for a man and man thing.
And I if we don't know each other, do not
call me buddy. Don't call me bud.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 12: I don't know you like I calls no. I called
them big dog or like you know, what's that man
or whatever. But if you're kind of me like all
here you go, Bud, ain't arobadly got time for that.
I just felt it so disrespectful, like I don't like.
Speaker 2: That, Like really, I'm gonna have to tell you to
shut your bomb ass up.
Speaker 1: But it's not a bad term.
Speaker 2: Can be Buddy is double edged if it's like all right, buddy, No,
that can be bad.
Speaker 4: If I'm going up to you and say, all right,
let's say, what is the scenario.
Speaker 1: Give us the scenario.
Speaker 12: I'm at ricks Sportings, good right, yes, Rick, And I'm
just at the cast, you know, getting my stuff out,
checking out. And he's like, is this all you want? Budd,
don't man, don't know? And I'm talking about people. I
get that's this bad? Like I don't know this is
I'm not your bud, dude, like you know what I mean?
Like all right, Bro, Bro's okay. The term bud is
not is not is No, I don't sing. You're trying
to take your side. I cannot take yourself. It can
be it can be somebody coming after you.
Speaker 1: But that wasn't the case. You subscribe, was not the case.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 1: Can be like that. Any anything can be like yeah, Bro,
like anything can be used incorrectly.
Speaker 4: You don't know me, man, you know what I know
these people that agree with me.
Speaker 2: I think Bud is okay generally speaking, Buddy is a
little stupid. But you know, all right, but no, Buddy
is definitely passive aggressive. All right, buddy, Yeah, but it's fine.
Anything else for your butt?
Speaker 1: No, that's no.
Speaker 2: If you're in the if you're at the line and
the drive at the McDonald's and you have a two
cheeseburgers over a fries and you get a coke zero
and they say, which like an apple pie, Bud, that's
not bad.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe this is generational because I'm not
seeing it. I don't either. I don't, I don't. I disagree.
Speaker 2: All Right, we gotta get a quick segment in Ben, Brent,
Kenneth James. All of you will get to your anybody.
Speaker 1: Got time for that? And shut your ball mass up.
Speaker 2: We've got astros on deck at ten minutes. The 't
ten minutes of this show for a Wednesday is yours.
It's seven one three two one two five seven ninety
Ben in pass it, get down, Diana, Ben, what's the
matter with you?
Speaker 13: Hey, Matt, great show as always.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 13: I went to Costco with my wife the other day
and I'm the drive. She said we were going there
just for laundry detergent, and then we had to drive
all the way back to go to Kroger afterwards to
get groceries. Now, keep in mind that's thirty drive to
save three dollars, and nobody got time to drive thirty
five minutes to Costco to save five bucks. And I
need some of my guys to agree with me on that,
because she was not having it, saying I don't know
what I'm talking about, so and nobody got time to
drive thirty five minutes to say five bucks on logic detarget,
you don't get it.
Speaker 1: Ben, really quick for I let you go. Did you
get a hot over a slice of pizza while you
were there?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: I didn't even get a slice of pizza man just
dead on Tome.
Speaker 1: You're man.
Speaker 2: You were doing Costco all wrong. Thanks Ben for the
phone call. You get the hot dog and a coke
for a dollar fifty.
Speaker 1: Life is good. It's not bad.
Speaker 2: Pizzas underrated too, Yeah, it's I think the pizza is
a little more expensive. It's still a great value. You've
got a whole pie for like eight bucks.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is funny. How much how much do you
spend in gas getting over there? And we got a
factor in all the costs, Matt. Yeah, because gas now
like three seventy five a gallon.
Speaker 1: I ain't cheap anymore.
Speaker 2: By the way, my four one k went up seven
thousand dollars yesterday, so I'm very happy about that.
Speaker 1: That's good. Still down about fifteen g for the month.
Thanks for the update.
Speaker 12: Hey, nobody got.
Speaker 2: Time for dead. Nobody got time for my four one cat.
It was just happy that I saw a positive number.
I shouldn't look at it. Yeah, don't look at it.
Shot my own by a bum ass up. Let's go
to the groves, brent on seven hointy Brent. What's the
matter with you?
Speaker 9: Hey Man?
Speaker 10: Good shows always Roshie, hey Man, I don't think anybody's
got time for pretend.
Speaker 5: Mister Texas that doesn't like briskett, I.
Speaker 1: Do like briskett, I do like it. If you love it,
you can go back to Carolina.
Speaker 5: He can take yours back to Carolina. Man, shit, cho
ass up?
Speaker 1: Man visited cal.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 5: I bet you're rooting for Duke when no one's watching.
Speaker 1: Brent, do you like to Hey, Brent, Brent, hold on,
do you like to have sex? Brent?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, Go Duke?
Speaker 7: Nobody get.
Speaker 1: So shut your mom ass up?
Speaker 4: Shits up?
Speaker 13: Man?
Speaker 2: Is there any team? Ross or Jonathan? Both really quick
on this. Is there any team that your significant other
would like so much that it would cause a relationship
issue as the teammate, Like.
Speaker 4: My girl likes the Blue Jays, the what yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Why why is she from Toronto?
Speaker 2: It's because Kirk the small dude. Yes, she is a
Mexican guardian. She'd be a Guardian fan.
Speaker 12: Yes, hm hm no and her words, They're a perfect team.
And I had to stopped the conversation there.
Speaker 1: Hmm, okay, well what uh? She why does she like?
Does she like because he's from Mexico? For other reasons?
Speaker 4: No, because he's from Mexico, and then she likes the
Junior and all of.
Speaker 1: Them east side Paris from Mexico.
Speaker 4: That's why I try to tell her, let's go see.
Speaker 2: Ross's is more. Yeah, I know Ross, he couldn't be
with an Aggie there. It's just not gonna not like
a super die hard like one of the one of
the bag Aggie. There's some good ones of you out there.
But yeah, yeah, I live with the Duke family.
Speaker 1: It is what it is. It's not the worst.
Speaker 2: I mean, I I don't want to I would. I
don't think I could hang out with a Syracuse family.
Speaker 1: Oh, a bunch of pompous asses. There's some good ones
of those two.
Speaker 2: No, well, there's way there's a couple Iron Eagle, Robert
Ford and no Eagle.
Speaker 1: And I think I'm done.
Speaker 2: Three out of all the millions of broadcasting people that
could frontline jobs, they don't deserve because just went to school.
They went to all right, But I digress Kenneth and
Orange Kenneth, what's the matter with.
Speaker 1: You, man?
Speaker 5: It's a Hannah mcnaire man.
Speaker 1: You really both just gold to both of them.
Speaker 5: I understand your optimistic about your quarterback and everything like that, but.
Speaker 4: It's life Man two out of three men.
Speaker 5: You out of everything in life man two out of
three years CJ.
Speaker 12: Tearing the tall pumpkin when we needed him to mot
And I'm gonna tell you, man, you got optimistic and everything,
stay right on your corner, back and everything.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you the first time you.
Speaker 8: Throw the ball or pick ships to the other team
this year, see out of that.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 6: At least with us, you can keep him.
Speaker 5: But the boo boyers are coming out, thank you.
Speaker 1: I think he was telling Hannah to shut her bumb
ass up.
Speaker 4: Shit, So bumb ass up man. Ain't nobody got.
Speaker 1: Time for that.
Speaker 2: There goes your free, free free fried cheese at in
Toro Town. All right, Uh, last but least James on
seven ninety, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the world doesn't run on free. You and Lena
Hidalgo don't get everything free. Every once in a while
you gotta open your wallet and pay for something, And
then when you do pay for something, you don't turn
around and go, I.
Speaker 7: Should have got it for free. You need to pay
me back.
Speaker 3: Shut your bomb ass up?
Speaker 1: Did you talk ass up? You and your vouchers?
Speaker 2: No that when you give someone a voucher and says
it's worth twenty one dollars.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to take him at their word. Yeah, So
I think maybe James is misunderstanding. Like when we were
gave miss undertained that Gaby are you? Are you six? Now?
What's wrong with you? As up man?
Speaker 2: I'm a long way to come and get home last night.
Oh stop, you're in your underwear. I don't want you
shot your You know what? I got news for it.
I'm not even mine, all right, shut your bum ass
up and cover your bum assum ass up man.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So when you go to a media man, of course
you get a voucher from the organization for food like
that's correct, It's very common, and I think James misunderstanding that.
Speaker 1: I don't know they take care of Jamie for something.
Speaker 2: At you, James, I give you a voucher to go
get for four hundred dollars an airfare on uh dark
priced airlines and you go, we use that voucher and
it's only for one hundred and forty nine dollars. How
would you feel, James if the voucher says one thing
and it gives you another. I'm entitled be pissed off.
Speaker 1: So shut your bumb ass up, mate, shit you bum
mess up Man Ross. Excellent show today from you. Yeah
you know what. I was amazing except where my microphone. Fraid.
I was glaid you got electrocuted there. I thought it
was on your end, so I'm glad it wasn't. Yeah,
we we were both electrocuted.
Speaker 2: Free Tomorrow, I just don't get It's at eleven thirty tomorrow, Brian,
but I Admittagger will.
Speaker 1: Join the show and we'll celebrate an Astro sweep and
a Rockets winner, Amilily walk A