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Nineteen players on the IL at one point eight starting
pitchers on the IL. I mean underperformances from guys in
the heart of the lineup for guys like Christian Walker
to Jose l TV to occasionally elinor Diez and uh somehow,
some way, even though it has been a malaise for
a couple of months, last two days they found a
way six to five if your Astros beat the Texas Rangers.
It got Harry there at the end, and you know,
Dello Santo's giving up some runs. Brian a Bray you
having to come in for a four out save. He
got some traffic on the base pads and the ninth
ninth inning as well. But your Astros secure the victory,
they win the series against the Rangers. They go for
a sweep today at seven to ten on Sports Talk
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The honeymoon is certainly over with CJ. Stroud. Astros are
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Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: Yes, last night the Astros were able to get a
win against the Texas Rangers. They were three. It was
kind of lining up for a potential disaster scenario for
the Astros in that game. You get up six to
nothing by the fourth inning, and then they had a
lot of traffic on the bas pass throughout the game.
Now they came through I think all three of their
hits with runners in scoring position. They were three for fourteen.
I think all three of them came in the fourth inning.
It comes in bunches, as they say, three for fourteen
with runners in scoring position, which isn't horrible. It's not
as bad as what the Rangers had. They were one
for seven with runners in scoring position. They should think
about firing their hitting coaches. Oh wait, they already did
that earlier this season. I guess they need to fire
the new guy too. Just keep firing the hitting coaches
until you can get runs with scoring in scoring position.
That's what the fans tell you. But anyways, I digress,
so you couldn't come through with it. Aj Blue Ball
was very good. Three innings pitched, he got you fit
fifty pitches, he got seven strikeouts. He was getting swinging
miss like crazy. We talked with Joe's Botty yesterday, like
it just looks confident out there, and confidence is very key,
especially when you get to this level of sport. It's
confidence is key in any level of anything in life,
but especially of course when you're a major league pitcher
and you're a rookie and you're trying to get outs.
So he looked confident out there. He was pretty good.
Colton Gordon came in in a piggyback situation, gave you
three innings, he gave up a run, then it was
all good. Jayden Murray's getting outs, and then Yodelo Sento's
got the first two out of the eighth inning, and
you're feeling good. Win probability for those of you playing
at home got up to ninety nine percent at that moment,
and then a bunch of guys got on base, and
then it started to get harry, and I kept on
kind of like, uh, I don't know, Like you're in
a stressful situation and you have to remind yourself that
everything's gonna be okay.
Speaker 4: That's what was.
Speaker 2: Happening to me last night. I was in a stressful
situation with the Astros and I had to keep I
was like mass hitting refresh the win probability, Like, Okay,
they're still supposed to win this game. They're still supposed
to win this game. It was like seventy It got
down to like seventy five, seventy three percent, but I
was like, okay, seventy three percent is good. They're still
favorite to win this game. But I got I did
get scared that they were gonna blow it. And the
same thing with Brian a Bray. You there in the
ninth inning, but all's well, that ends well. But you
had to have Brian a Bray who get thirty two
pitches he pitched the day before, so he's not gonna
be available in a sweep situation for the Astros against
the Rangers. But hey, go out there and score a
bunch of runs and you won't need him. Easier said
than done. I don't know if you check him out. Matchup.
Jake deGrom Is on the hill for the Texas Rangers
going up against Christian Javier so Astros underdogs today, but
they can go for the sweep and they were able
to get to win. Yourd on Alvarez if you had
not heard, unfortunately is uh, well, he's gonna miss significant time.
Here is uh, here's uh uh. This is from yesterday,
Joe Aspota speaking to the media on the This is
in the dugout and hold on, where is the cut
that I had? Why is it all messed up? Okay?
Here it is. Here's Joe Aspota And just this always
happens with the Astros. You they they don't tell you
the diagnosis, they don't tell you how long it's going
to be. But I would say listen to your context
text clues when it comes to what Joe Spota had
to say on Jordon's injury yesterday.
Speaker 5: He's got a pretty significant ankle spring. So this is
going to keep him out for for a while. Let's
not get into days, weeks, any of that. We are
going to take one day at a time. But this
is going to take some time to heal. We don't
have that many days left on the regular season, so
we are going to he's in there getting some treatment,
getting some.
Speaker 2: Work done, so.
Speaker 5: You know, hopefully it's not he's not out for long
period of time.
Speaker 2: So he starts off Chris Gordy hanging out saying it's
a significant injury and he's gonna miss some time. Then
he goes and he does the the Astros backpedal. Well,
we don't want to get into timelines. We don't want
to give you days. We don't get it. But you
can just tell us, like, hey, it's gonna take some time.
Speaker 4: Guy, if two weeks.
Speaker 2: Left in the season, Yeah, why do we not want
to get in a timeline?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 4: I never understand that, And I don't know if the
answer is injuries are really iffy. I mean, you can
wake up one day and it could feel great, and
we all understand that. Yeah, but you you just still
have a general idea that he's not gonna play baseball
in the next two weeks.
Speaker 2: So like just say that, Like, I don't understand.
Speaker 4: We're not guys, We're not gonna put days or times
on it, like okay, but we can at least put
a general speculation on it.
Speaker 2: I just watching the video. I don't know this for
a fact, but it just feels like a situation where
it's like Joe spot is like, hey, guys, the Trainers
are the player or whoever I don't know, is like that.
It seems like an organizational thing, and and Joe Spotta
knows that he has to bear the brunt of it.
Because then there was a follow up question. I don't know,
there's a cut right here. Let me see if this
has the question on it. Taylor from Chandler like, it's
a very simple beat repiter. Beat reporter asks, Hey, this
guy got injured. Is he hitting? Is it gonna hit
the il? And well, Joe's spotty didn't really want to
answer that question. Did you just hurt? What I said?
This is going to take some time.
Speaker 6: I know, I'm wondering for your rosters. We're gonna play me,
I'm sure that. Listen, one day at a time. Chanler, Okay,
I'm not gonna give you days weeks what we're gonna
do next. He's gonna have to sit down and wait.
Speaker 2: Okay, a little combative from Joe's spot of there, Hey,
did you hear what I said, Chandler like, one day
at a time. Well, okay, well I'm sorry, players hurt.
We're asking if he's hitting the IL. So he's very
basic stuff.
Speaker 4: So he's saying they're not like he's going to remain
on the active roster. They're not putting him on the IL.
Speaker 2: I guess that. So it would be the ten day IL.
It's fifteen for pitchers. I believe in ten days for
player position players, so it would just be ten days
and there's ten games left, and so I don't know,
I don't know. O Spot is not gonna say.
Speaker 4: It's always weird like that, like how much do you
want to bet? Later today it comes out you're on
alvvers to the he's on the eye. M like yeah,
So it's so weird to be like one day at
a time challenge asking a legit question, are you gonna
play a man short because he's taking an active roster
spot and you're not yeah yet exactly.
Speaker 2: So again, I will say, just my gut feeling is
it's not like Joe Spot is saying, hey guys, we
really need to keep a competitive vantage. We're not gonna
tell anybody anything. So I'm like, I don't know if
it's the trainers, I don't know who it is, or
I don't know what's going on. It's just weird. It's
just weird to say this guy. But but I think,
like I said, again, you got to read the tea leaves.
You gotta read between the lines, or you gotta actually
kind of said and plain sight the word. He went
out of his way to say significant ankle injury. So
that makes me believe he's gonna miss the regular season.
And that's that was reported by Bob Nightingale.
Speaker 4: I don't know, man, it's uh, look, the timing of
this may work out in your favor.
Speaker 2: If what's his face?
Speaker 4: Uh, parades gits back right like if he saw Paradis
comes back, he's gonna be your d.
Speaker 2: That They like to stick Jose Altuve there some they
like to use the d H spot to get both
Caratini and Diez in the lineup. So I mean, but yeah,
if Paratus is available, obviously he's been one of your
best hitters all season long. It's yeah, what a freak Injine,
Like what dude?
Speaker 4: All of Jordan's career has just been marred by stupid,
not stupid but you know, like.
Speaker 2: Well he got hit running into the way. He's got
hit running into the wall before. Uh, and now he
gets hit slide. It looked like a slipping side slide
the way his foot went on first on home home plate.
And Joe Spot to talk about it yesterday here on
this show, like, yeah, sometimes it's early. It was the
first inning, and you know that the grounds crew likes
to water down the infield to start the game. And
he said a lot of times he said they towel
it off. And I don't know if they didn't towel
it off enough for what happened, because he he's like,
we don't score a run there. Maybe they're like, we
don't score runs in the first inning that much anyways,
But they happen to score a couple of runs at
the first inning. And while he slid all over it,
I mean, is ankle. He has a significant ankle injury.
And it sounds like he's gonna miss the start of
the regular season. Okay, quick break here on the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross Chris Cordy is hanging out. You
guys can get in as well. Matt Thomas is not here.
He will be back tomorrow. We're talking about the Astros
and their victory over the Rangers. Jordan Alvarez significant ankle injury.
Can they still somehow hold this thing together with duct tape,
masking tape, bubblegum or whatever they've been doing? Houston Texans
day number two talking about their loss. How are we
feeling about?
Speaker 4: C J.
Speaker 2: Stroud? Nick Kayley's under a lot of fire on social
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talking about a number of different things going on in
the Houston sports world. In the sports sphere. Uh. I
think maybe at some point we need to talk about this.
Did you see this Tom Brady stuff where he's he's
on Monday Night Football, He's like on a headset in
the coaches booth and people are like, wait, this guy's
allowed to go and be in coaches meetings for the
opposing teams because he's a broadcaster.
Speaker 4: I think when you were out, I've filled in with
Matt and they I did this as a shut yo
bab ass up because.
Speaker 2: They relaxed when they were last yeol they.
Speaker 4: Were like, oh he get like and I'm like, dude,
pick one. Either you're an owner or or a broadcast
You cannot be both. It's that is that skews the
lines way too much.
Speaker 2: And it also feels like normally you wouldn't take that
too much into it. But when it's the most hyper
competitive like football player in the last thirty years, and
also it's a guy who's been known to bend rules
and been involved in multiple cheating scandals along with Bill
Belichick and the Patriots, that's when I would give a
little bit of pause.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just and and who there's somebody called him
out on it publicly, like you have.
Speaker 2: To pick on another owner was a cow McNair. You
cannot do that, Tom, It is an unfair advantage. Yeah,
I don't have to fight. It was a it was
a former player.
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 2: Mike Florio has got a piece up. Oh man, Mike
Florio loves hit pieces on the NFL. How does it?
How does NBC still keep him on the air. He
loves trying to undress Roger Goodell in the NFL, like
at any point, any any time he can.
Speaker 4: I think that's one where it's like you're a broadcast partner,
but you don't own like in other words, if he
was on NFL network, Yeah, Floria would have been booted
a long time ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe he would have. All right, Anyways, we got
a lot of stuff to talk about. Seven one three
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Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. We
were talking about this during the break, Cordy. You have
the Mariners on a ten game winning streak. I mean
I talked about them waking up at some point because
the lineup was good, the pitching was good. Uh, and
their bullpen's like, Okay, it's not what I mean. It's
Munos and then uh, they do have some some issues
with a bunch of reliable leverage guys. But anyways, they
kept on losing, and you're kept on. You kept on
saying to yourself, how do they keep losing the games?
This lineup and this pitching is so good, they have
to start winning at some point, And well at some
point was ten games ago, ten and zero in their
last ten games, and they just keep on churning out
the dubs and a lot of them they're making look easy.
I mean, the last two wins eleven to two and
twelve to five over the Angels and Royals. It's they're
not going away. And on the flip side, we also
talked about the Astros' longest win streak of the season
is five games. They've done it twice, but they just
haven't been consistently good enough. And now your your aos
opponent is is ripping off ten straight wins. They just
will not lose, and you remain a a half game
behind them in the American League West.
Speaker 4: And with this game tonight, if I was a betting man,
I would lean towards loss.
Speaker 2: Like you won the first two the series. Yeah, they
first of all, they've been underdogs in the first two
games of the series. But yes they are underdogs in
this one as well. Texas at a minus one thirty five.
So that's what you got to lay to win. One
hundred Astros plus one fifteen. That's what you win if
you bet one hundred. So slight underdogs in this one.
And I look, Jake de Grime is very good. They
have not won three games in a row this month. Astros. Yeah,
I knew, yeah, that would that would be Hey, what
better time than now win the Silver Boat Series. They'll
be also a DEFEATI Gordy, come on, man, and your
past performance.
Speaker 4: Up against Merril Kelly Jack Lyder, Yeah, so I mean,
Jake de gram I'm not Look, did it against their other
two arms? Six six runs from back to back knights?
Can you get the sixth night?
Speaker 2: I would say probably not unless it's gonna be against
the bullpen. But also I didn't think that they were
gonna get to Meryl Kelly. Merrick Kelly. Merrill Kelly, he said,
easily had his worst start of the season, or at
least his worst start as a Ranger. Three inning, six
earned runs, like they were scoring off of them, So
it can be done. You can put together some good abs.
It happened last night, can it happen for a second
consecutive night, But then once funny enough, Meryl Kelly's been
great and then once he gets chased. You can't do
anything against the Rangers bullpen, but it can be done.
I'm with you. I would say I'd favor the Rangers,
and Vegas favors the Rangers as well. But hey, you
were underdogs the last two nights. Go out there and
get this sweep. It'd be important to help Bury the
Rangers win the Silver Boot Series and most importantly, keep
pace with the Mariners, who just cannot lose.
Speaker 4: I'm just looking at it. The Mariners are in Kansas City.
They won last night twelve to five. This is off
of Sunday's game, winning eleven to two. Yes, Cole Reagan's
is set to go for the Kansas City Royals. He
has not pitched in a game since June. Okay, so
he's gonna be on a pitch counter. He's coming back fantastic.
And then they'll play a day game to so you'll
have a day off tomorrow. Mariners will play a day
game tomorrow against City.
Speaker 2: Which we hope it goes fifteen innings.
Speaker 4: So this thing, let's okay. So you're what, you're half
a game back.
Speaker 2: Still, yes, one in the loss column.
Speaker 4: So if you win tonight and they lose, you'll be
half a game up, and then if they come back
and win on Thursday, you will be not dead even
going into to a.
Speaker 2: Huge series late September, mid to late September, Mariner's coming
into town. Either way, even if the Astros lose to
I mean, it's it's year within striking distance, you will
be at most what two games back.
Speaker 4: At must Yeah, So let's let's let's just say, let's
just say for argument's sake, the Mariners win tomorrow and
today and you go or they come in on Friday
and you're a full game back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, win the series and you're tied.
Speaker 4: Win the series, so you would have Yeah, so you'd
have to take you would have to take two out
of three to just stay tied.
Speaker 2: They they lined it all up. I mean, you're giving
them your best shot. You get, you get the day off,
then you get Hunter Brown and fromber Valdez. And look,
I understand Frober has been extremely shaky lately, but those
are your two best guys, you get them those first
two games of the series, and then ESPN's not always right,
but they have Jason Alexander and line up for the
third game. Those have been your three best start pictures.
So you're giving your them your best shot at home,
where you've been better than on the road, and where
the Mariners have been horrible on the road, although they
didn't seem to mind being in Kansas City last night.
What's the season series that was? So I don't recall honestly, Okay, so.
Speaker 4: Let's go back in April. They took Mariners, took two
out of three. You won the series, though they came
out here for four. You took three out of four.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: So so they were two and one and then one
in three, So that's three and four.
Speaker 2: And then to start the season they lost a three
game set. No, I just I agree, I'm working from four.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: I thought you're going backwards. So they were three and four.
Then they took two out of three out of the
All Star break, now they would be four and so
that would be five and three. Five, yes, five and five,
and then and then there's this series. Okay, so wins
the tiebreaker, Yes.
Speaker 2: Big games coming up. It's playoffs, baby, yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean for anybody who's layoffs, Anybody's just like, ah,
let me know when the Astros make the postseason.
Speaker 7: All this is the postseason. Yes, this weekend is the
post season. Well, they're two and zero in the posts.
Some people are saying, this is the playoffs now, and
they're two and zero in the playoffs. And you got
a big game coming up against the Rangers today. Okay,
we got to take a break.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I guess you'd call it work caation. I don't know.
He's probably not working that hard at the broadcaster meetings
in New York. He'll be back tomorrow. Oh he schmoves him. Well,
he's trying his best to schmooze. He's getting he's getting
like a fake smiles from Mike Breen like yeah, thanks, Matt,
really love you here. You're the best. All right, anyways,
just go just please go away, all right. Seven one
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number if you want to get in. So we are
in the thick of this American League West race, and
I was kind of thinking about this now. I know
Ranger fan is more focused on what's going on with
the Cowboys this week and then bouncing back and getting
a week two win after a Week one disaster. But
if you are a Ranger fan and then they made
all these moves at the deadline and then at this moment,
you find yourself four and a half back of the Mariners.
I think they're currently out of the wild card playoff.
Speaker 4: Odds god one saying said if they lose tonight, like
they're basically they think they're done.
Speaker 2: They got to be cooked. I mean they're the Astros,
by the way, are the second wild card right now,
if for those of you who don't know, they passed
the Red Sox who lost and the Astros one. So
they're tied in the lost column with the Red Sox,
but they have one more win, two in the lost
column behind the Yankees for the first wild card. So
it's no guarantee, which it seemed like it could have
been before that they are going to play the Mariners
in the opening series. Guardians are two and a half
back of the Red Sox, so three back of the Astros,
and then the Rangers are three and a half back
of the Red Sox as well. Yeah, it feels like
the Rangers are done. I mean the margin for air
is extremely thin. As I said, their playoff odds are
at thirteen thirteen percent right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because it's basically if Boston were to fall apart,
Cleveland could sneak in there. But yeah, this is this
is very interesting. Look, I know the TV networks want Yankees,
Red Sox, of course they want more than yeah, but
I mean it kind of sucks though, right if like
this thing the division this the series this week against
the Mariners. The winner of this will be in the
driver's seat to win the American League West and possibly
host a wildcard series against that that very team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta win the you gotta win the series,
and I mean even if you don't, then you gotta
win like five out of six, if not all six
against the A's and the Angels. This just kind of
sucks because it's like, what if the Astros.
Speaker 4: What if they win tonight and then they take two
or three against Seattle this weekend, and then in two
weeks Ross we're talking about the Astros hosting a wildcard
series against the damn Mariners again.
Speaker 2: Uh, do you know what, Let's let's go to that.
Let's teleport to that that reality the Astro. How do
you feel about the Astros in that series? You feel
better because they're at home, right.
Speaker 4: But Seattle's got the edge pitching. I feel like their
pitching's been would it be?
Speaker 2: I don't even know exactly how they would order it
as far as Gilbert or Kirby. I mean, Castillo has
been good for them as well. Brian Wu. I mean,
let's just say if it goes three, I'm not feeling
great with the first two well, actually, well do okay,
I got another one for you. Let's say two. Okay,
you get two more runs of the rotation. What if
Fromber is okay? And those two runs and Jason Alexander
is good in those runs and you make the playoffs?
Can you say, out loud with a straight face, dfad
by the Age, Jason Alexander is your number two starter
in a playoff series. I wonder if they would do that,
no over Fromber Over fromber If Fromber's been shaky, they've
it was it like seven eight games in a row
he started, they lost.
Speaker 4: He's.
Speaker 2: He's he's been shaky.
Speaker 4: But I just feel like the reputational they'd even said
it with Sean a week or two ago. He's like, no, man,
I mean from with track record, So they're gonna go
on track round.
Speaker 2: Okay, you want to look at his playoff track record.
He's had some blow up starts. Yeah, in twenty three,
in twenty two he was nails. Yeah, I think in
twenty one and maybe even some other times he has
blown up in the playoffs. Of course. Jason Alexander I
don't believe has much of a postseason. I'm just saying
I'm not saying I'm just saying it's something that you know,
those one you can say, we'll come to the we'll
cross those bridges when we come to them. But it's
something that's in the back of my mind that would
just be kind of crazy to say out loud, But
it isn't the craziest thing to think that that it
could change that way. Now, if he can just go
ahead and have a good start, he's been good at
home all year long, that'd be that's a feather in
his cap all for not all year long, but for
the majority of the year. And then if you are
able to host the post season series, you would have
him at home as well. But yeah, it just it
feels like it could be a fluid situation. But when
the game and take care of business, I just hate
we're in the spot.
Speaker 4: I remember a few weeks ago, they were right there,
right behind the Tigers and the Blue Jays for best
record in America.
Speaker 2: Do you remember that? And now you're six and a
half back of Toronto. Well, everybody keeps getting hurt. Your
bullpen is it's not in shambles, but it's hanging by
a thread. And then ord On Alvarez just flips his
ankle in half. Toronto's won six in a row. The
Mariners have won ten in a row, so it is
possible to close the season strong.
Speaker 4: The A's have won five in a row. You gotta
play them.
Speaker 2: It feels like the like the Astros plane is run
out of gas and they're just trying to make it
to the to the to a soft land.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 2: The Angels have lost five in a row, but they
won two in a row. Oh yeah, the angel lost
fight with the A's. What about the A's though, I
just said they have won fire. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, Like,
just not the I'm the Rangers out there. I'm so
sick of the A's. I've had enough. I suppose of them.
They always do this. They're terrible and then their young
talent looks good and gives them promise for next year,
and then they're terrible again.
Speaker 4: Would it be something if the Rangers missed the playoffs?
The Cowboys, I don't think they're gonna make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Mavericks, they're gonna make the playoffs. I would say yes.
I would just love to see Dallas sports Cooper Flag
go back into the toy I saw a tweet Cooper
Flag's moms not letting him spend more than one hundred
and eighty k on a on a car. She's limiting
them or something like that. That's my money, mom, Get
off my big whoa. Okay, first of all, you don't
need a supercar, sorry, twenty year old. Okay, you good.
You just you need Cooper Flag. Just need something to
go to the grocery store. You don't need to pull
up in a Ferrari.
Speaker 9: Guy.
Speaker 4: Some guy yesterday in traffic passed me in a corvette.
He very quickly hit eighty ninety miles per hour and
then not even sixty seconds later was in dead stop traffic.
Speaker 2: You're in Dallas exactly your ear ear cargo. Yeah yeah,
you're coold stop. All right. Fine, if you're that insecure
and you want everybody looking at you, that's great. But anyways,
all right, we're gonna take a break on that note.
On the Matt top of his show with Ross, we're
talking to Mastros. We're gonna go to Texans mode coming
up at eleven o'clock. Anything you guys want to get to.
Phone lines are open. Seven one three two one two
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ten forty eight am. Here on Sports Talk seven ninety,
Ross Virrea with you. We've got wait, what is Wednesdays
on the show eleven thirty? I just don't get it? No,
is that Thursdays? Shut your bo mass up. See dude,
I'm terrible.
Speaker 3: This is.
Speaker 2: You don't know what you're doing in the shows. I
just show up, make fun of man for four hours
ago home normally all right, Yeah, ain't nobody had time
for that slast shut shoe bum ass up coming up
at eleven thirty earlier? I think I said, I just
don't get it. I did get my days mixed up.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: Look, I've had a couple of long days. I've done
two post games at all. I'm doing another one tonight.
I'm doing four out of five days this week, so
my brain's a little scrambled. Okay, you have my deepest apologies.
You're a little bit like arch Manning his his brain
is whoa, whoa no or no. My shoulder feels fine.
I don't need surgery. I don't know what you're talking about,
he says, it's not physical, it's just mental. What is EPA?
That would be expected points added? Let me guess the
year are you looking? Don't look at the textans EPA.
I like EPA. I think it's a good metric if
you look at normally the teams that you think of
as the best in football offensively and defensively, it it
rings pretty accurate to me.
Speaker 4: Well, arch Manning is dead last among quarterbacks out of
one thirty three EPA.
Speaker 2: Well that's not good. One three at one thirty three,
That's that's not good at all.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, dead last? I mean you started get
to a point where you go, who's the backup? Uh?
Speaker 2: It's what's his name? From Troy? He transferred over from
Troy Matt Campbell or something like that. I can't even
really remember. He came into the game on Saturday. Let
me go. I don't know why I'm talking like this.
Let me get it. They got the kid, Uh, what's
his name? The big five star coming in? And I'm sorry,
did I say Matt Campbell? Matt Caldwell? Same thing?
Speaker 4: So Matthew eric white guy named Matthew Caldwell. Yes, And
then they have Trey Owens.
Speaker 2: And uh, Yeah, some guy named kJ Lacey who was
mister football Alabama. Oh yeah, from Sarahlyn. So there you go.
Who's the guy they have comeing in next year? Da Bell?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Bell Bell had Rajah Bell's son. Yes, he I think
he got upgraded a five star. He's having a minor
procedure and he's like, yeah, I'm shutting it down. They're like,
he's done really high school football. Yeah. Apparently, they're like,
we're gonna go ahead and keep this five star in
IL deals all lined up. We're gonna go ahead and
shut down his senior year. So Dia Bell is supposed
to be coming, He's supposed to be the next big thing.
But of course Arch Manning was the next big thing.
You look at the recruiting class of that year, what
was it. Malachi Nelson was a five star, Nicol Yamlava
was a five star, Like basically everybody was a five
star that year. Has not been a good quarterback. It happens.
Speaker 4: What if? Is it a world where Arch is just
kind of averaged this year? Next year Dia Bell comes
in and beats out Arch for the starting show.
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 2: I don't care whoever it is. I didn't pay any
and il money to Arch and I didn't hype him up.
Listen to this show. I told you that I was
concerned he was that not that good because he couldn't
beat out Quinn.
Speaker 4: Yours and he did go to Newman that you know,
it's not exactly like the competition he was playing against
was all that great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people talk, but if you looked at the highlights,
I mean he was making plays. I like I said,
if anybody, even if you changed, I'm not saying place
last year is it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: He did game starter like, he looked great. Well. He
also made a lot of most of his mistakes I
felt that he made were mental this year, last year,
last year. This year, it looks mental and physical, like
if you can't pass accurately, that that's going to be
an issue. That a guy he's pulling a CJ. Stroud
That is.
Speaker 4: Waldough to be righted one thirty three out of one
thirty three. You know what else is funny?
Speaker 2: I saw some status was like on Pro Football focused
college or something, and it was, uh, it was talking
about like one of the one of the alignemen for
the Longhorns, and it was like no pressures allowed this
weekend and I'm like, wait a second, they played UTEP.
Speaker 4: I just saw, I just saw they did a post
last night. It was like sold out. Saturday Night's game
against Sam Houston State sold out. Yeah, and all the
Sam Houston people are like you all like braggett, like
this is a big game for y'all. All the same
of Houston people are like, man, we must be in
your heads if y'all are like.
Speaker 2: Oh, well, you guys are idiot. They do that every
single week. They every week that the stadium sells out,
they do sold out, they do a sold out post.
So don't feel special Sam Houston.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I will say though I brought this up multiple times.
Can you imagine if you're so? I saw somebody was
trying to resell their their tickets for the game this week.
It's in It's in like section nineteen, which includes the
Longhorn Lounge. M I was like, oh, what do you
get from that? You get a seat with a chair
back in the end zone. But in the Longhorn Lounge
it says you get to buy stuff from a cash bar,
and like, you get Nothing's include what.
Speaker 2: It used to be so Mac and Day, Mack and
mid Day When I was in school, there was no
alcohol sales a DKR and you had to well, we
as college students, we found a way, and then.
Speaker 4: This was a way to be.
Speaker 2: Like then they added the lounges, and the lounges were
the only place you can buy alcohol. But now I
believe you can buy alcohol everywhere.
Speaker 4: Right, but you couldn't go You couldn't bring the drink
to your seat back then, like I had to drink
it more.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. Okay, So I mean.
Speaker 4: I'll bring that up to say this guy was trying
to resell his tickets. He's like, it's in the Longhorn Lounge,
but he's selling for like a couple hundred bucks. And
I'm like, it's Sam Houston State, Like you're gonna pay spent.
You spent a couple hundred bucks on the ticket, and
then on top of it, you got to play for
all your drinks as well.
Speaker 2: Like all right, you got me curious. I was looking
at tickets. This is insane. The cheapest tickets to Texas
Texas ou are five hundred dollars. Oh yeah, well that's
but that's cotton ball. Yeah, but that's that's ridiculous.
Speaker 4: But the point I was making was like Texas is
home slate. I remember their their toughest game they opened
on the road at Ohio State.
Speaker 2: Their second toughest game is on the road Georgie Cold.
They went up on ticket prices this year. So like,
if you're my brother, my brother has season tickets.
Speaker 4: Your season tickets this year got you San Jose State, U,
Tap Sam, Houston State, Vanderbilt, Arkansas A, and L.
Speaker 2: You're basically paying for the Aggie game. You're paying for
the whole season for the Aggie game.
Speaker 4: Vanderbilt games looking tougher now.
Speaker 2: Vanderbilt games looking tougher too. So I mean it's not
a guarantee. I mean by the end of the season, Uh,
Texas mighty be an upset mode again that a rivalry.
Anything can happen, upset mode by the.
Speaker 4: Best games Oklahoma neutral field, Yes, at Ohio State, Uh
huh at Georgia.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well it fluctuates year to year. Whatever. Oh, I'm sorry,
I heard you. SEC was the gauntlet in every every week,
every week was the biggest game in the world in
the SEC. So I don't know, you tell me.
Speaker 4: Wait till next year when you'll have to play L
s U, Alabama, South.
Speaker 2: Carolina Surry Dub Dub Dub dub. What's up with Dia Bell? Yeah, no,
broke ass hard. Well we'll see.
Speaker 4: Uh well, this is the comment I'm going to get
to get to you. One one Texas fan said, is
it so much of an ass for Arts to just
play to the level of David Ash?
Speaker 2: Hey, Now, David David ash was making some plays, baby,
got seventy six concussions. He was battling out with Shane
Buchell back of the day. Yeah, it's it's concerning to
be sure you got one more cupcake left against Sam
Houston and then it's gonna kick up a notch and
we'll see how It's.
Speaker 4: All I need for Arts is to play like David
Ash or Case McCoy at this point.
Speaker 2: Hey, Case Case was horrible, but he won that last
game against A and M. Sam Houston state fan, glad
to know where your super Bowl? Okay, Yeah, Sam Houston
is is Texas's Super Bowl? Good call? Texas really sold
out a stadium for a poverty team.
Speaker 4: Loll.
Speaker 2: They post that every week, Sam Houston Bearcat. Every week.
I know you guys don't pay attention, and that's okay,
but every week they said, they put they post when
they sell out. I think Sam Houston's steak, so they
have to.
Speaker 4: They have their.
Speaker 2: Forty point favorites. I mean, come on, look a little
bit better. Okay, this is the thing. They beat them
by forty. It doesn't even matter. You got to go
get something done on the road at Florida and then
of course the big game against them after that. Paycheck
on it, paycheck on what do they cover? I mean,
look at the latest line.
Speaker 4: I don't think they cover.
Speaker 2: Let me look at the latest line and a half.
Speaker 4: It's a lot.
Speaker 2: That's a stay away. That's I'm keeping my paycheck.
Speaker 4: I don't think they can cover it.
Speaker 2: My paycheck small enough as it is. We're keeping that
bad boy like they beat the crap out of San Jose. Hey,
guess what I'm going to like Charles this weekend. I'll
put a bed down for you, brother. Let me know
than you give me Sam. Put your money where you
put your money, maybe where your mouth is.
Speaker 4: And they've gotten their butts kicked by Western Kentucky UNLV
in Hawaii.
Speaker 2: Hold on, you said, oh, hold on, no? Now the hell?
Yeah right, don't backpedal now, don't bag pedal now, Gordy
Sam Houston might be the worst team in college football.
All right, well, hopefully the long runs can make them
look as such. All right, quick break here on the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross, without Matt Thomas, Chris Gordy
is here. You want to get in seven one three
two one two five seven ninety. Is the phone number
seven one three two one two five seven ninety coming
up at eleven thirty. It's ain't no bodygat time for
that slash shut Joe bum ass up. And I have
an important question for you that we're going to discuss
in the next segment. How are we feeling about c. J. Stroud?
He is under a lot of fire on social media.
We'll get to that next as we start our number
two on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. But I
also have to ask you how are you feeling in
your general life?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: Number two in the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Rosbyria
with you. Matt Thomas is out, Chris Gordy is here
hanging out. And right now our weekly Wednesday Yes at
eleven o'clock, as everybody knows, is Brian Boga Sevic please
to be joined by him? Uh Bogie Uh, first of all,
actually let's start right off with this Jordon thing. Can
you explain to me why home plate was so slick
and why it looked like there was a slipping slide
down there for him to get hurt?
Speaker 10: You know what it's it's kind of always that way.
You see guys slip all the time, and you know
it's it's kind of like damned if you do.
Speaker 3: Damned if you don't.
Speaker 10: You don't want yord on sliding your risk, you know,
damming your knee into the batter's box. Batter's box is
a little bit harder than the field, you know, slide
into second base or something. But at the same time,
you're running full speed and you step on home plate
and you get You see guys slip all.
Speaker 3: The time, and that just that was a nasty one.
Speaker 10: Like there there was there was a good replay, you know,
right in on his foot and you saw, you know,
go all the way over on it.
Speaker 3: That was a that was a nasty one.
Speaker 2: We had Joe spot on yesterday. He talked about like
guys toweling off home plate or something like, can you
explain that to me? Like, is that something guys? It's
as hitters do that before the first inning or something
like that, because it's the fields all wet obviously from
from the grounds crew wetting everything to start the game.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they spray down the batter's boxes and everything, and
obviously home plates gets home plate gets wet, but it'll
get wiped down. You'll see throughout the course of the
game the Empire come out and wipe it down, or
catchers will kick the dirt off of it. It's just,
you know, it's kind of like a necessarily sary evil, right,
You've got this flat, slick, hard surface right kind of
in the middle of the action. It's not ideal. I'm sure.
I'm sure Major League Baseball has explored better options. But
you know, if you change the material and then somebody
steps on it and the cleat catches in it and they,
you know, roll an ankle or twist the knee on
top of home plate, then you're gonna have everybody screaming
about that too.
Speaker 4: All right, Boge, you're reading between the lines of what
Joe spot has said yesterday. Is there any hope of
perhaps your I mean, it feels like with two weeks
left in the season, where back in the regular season game,
But do you think possible the playoff Runny could be back.
Speaker 3: I think it's possible.
Speaker 10: I don't know if it's likely, but I mean, anybody
that's played basketball, watched basketball, covered basketball, you see these
ankle injuries all the time, and they're you know, there's
about as wide a variant variants on an ankle spring
as any injury you can have. And once once the
swelling goes down in the in the pain kind of subsides,
you know, then you can figure out more of a
timeline how long it's going to take to strengthen it up.
And you see some sometimes guys bounce back in you know,
a couple of days or a week, or sometimes it's
weeks in two months. So there's really no way to
tell right now, but yeah, I think there's probably an
outside chance that it's possible. But you know, to put
a percentage on it, and who knows these things? You
have no idea when a guy rolls an ankle.
Speaker 4: You you, as a former hitter, how much does the
ankle matter in the box. You know, obviously we're out
of the box running the bases. You got to have
a good ankle, But how much does does that affect
the swing? How much does does the ankle matter there?
Speaker 10: Yeah, actually probably more so than it does running. You know,
running is straight line, you're up on the balls of
your feet and you're kind of under control.
Speaker 3: When you're talking.
Speaker 10: About hitting in the batter's box, there's a you know,
it all starts from the ground up. There's a lot
of force put into the ground. You're digging your cleats in,
there's a lot of torque. You have to really like
break through the dirt as you turn and transfer all
that power. And if your ankles are weak, it's you know,
certainly going to affect your swing from a power production standpoint.
It's also probably going to affect you mechanically as you
try to overcompensate. So yeah, I think, honestly it will
probably It will probably be easier to get back into
a scenario where you can run in a straight line
decently earlier than you're talking about being able to take
one hundred percent, you know, full speed swings.
Speaker 2: Brian bogas Sevik was here on a sports Talk seven
ninety and that's all depressing, So let's get into something
a little bit more uplifting. Zach Cole been pretty good
for the Astros over three yesterday before that, he had
the big home run as he replaced jord On Alvarez.
What have you seen from him? And I was especially
impressed by the home run where it was the forceinger
top of the zone where pitchers like to pitch, and
he got around on that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was actually that was a good pitch.
Speaker 10: That wasn't a mistake that Jack Lader made and Jack
Ledder was in a groove and had some good stuff.
So you know, you start seeing a guy who can
get on top of somebody's best pitch at the top
of the zone, it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 3: He's got tools. I mean, he's.
Speaker 10: He's bigger and stronger. Then you kind of think he's.
Speaker 3: Twitchy and explosive.
Speaker 10: He's got really really good backspeed.
Speaker 3: He can catch up to a fastball.
Speaker 10: I think the thing that I've probably been most impressed about, though, is,
you know, the hits that he's got that aren't the
home runs, the RBI base hits, shooting the ball the
other way. He's handled some at bats pretty well, getting
down in the count, fighting back, laying off of tough
off speed pitches. You know, sometimes you think a guy
in that situation, a young a young hitter whose main
tool is power and bat speed is going to come
out there just hacking. But it's been pretty high quality
at bat which you know, gives you more hope to
maybe this is somebody who can be helpful throughout the
course of a couple of weeks and into a playoff
push and who knows next year rather than just hey,
this is a guy who was swinging a hot bat
at the minor league. Let's ride it out for as
long as we can up here in the big leagues,
you know, and then we'll move on the.
Speaker 4: Big question, Brian. We've had from a lot of folks,
you know, just bounce around town. People will go, hey,
what do you think you think you asked us make
the playoffs? You think they got any chance? All this
kind of stuff. And my answer I'm giving to them
now is this is the playoffs, right, I mean, like
with what Seattle's right now.
Speaker 2: Ten in a row is absolutely stupid.
Speaker 4: But we'll see what The Astros could complete the sweep
tonight of the Rangers. But matters will play another game
tomorrow against the Royals. You'll know where this thing is.
Speaker 2: There? You a game back? Are you you know? Two
games back? Whatever?
Speaker 4: Going into this weekend. But man, you talk about the
importance of a series, how crazy is this weekend going
to be with Seattle coming in here? Basically they're tied,
season series tied five and five. I mean, this is
the playoffs right here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the real deal.
Speaker 10: This is every pitch matters, every inning matters. There's no
you know, we spend six months talking about the big
picture of baseball and things will level out and you
just keep making the right play and you'll be fine
over time. This is like trust your gut, take some chances,
roll the dice and whatever.
Speaker 3: You have to do.
Speaker 10: I mean, you can just tell by the way the
games are being managed. This game, this series with the
Rangers on both sides, you see the amount of moves
being a.
Speaker 3: Pitching change is being made.
Speaker 10: You know, both managers playing matchups from a pinch hitting standpoint,
Guys coming in and out of the lineup on a
day to day basis. This is real baseball. This is
playoff baseball. And I mean, you know, Joe Spotta essentially
emptied the clip yesterday and did everything he could to
secure that win. It took every bit of Brian Abra
youw and you know, is he probably not available today? Yeah, sure,
but it doesn't matter because you had to get that
game yesterday, figure out today today. So yeah, I mean
it's playoff baseball started this week here in Houston.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And what do you think the mood is around it?
We know that it's been a lot of veterans in
that clubhouse and a lot of guys who've been through
these types of wars, and they did win the last
two games, but it just feels like from an outside perspective,
the hits just keep on coming. With jord On going
down the way that he did, Seattle just does not lose.
How do you think things are going there? Just in
between the guys.
Speaker 10: You know it, see, it seems pretty steady.
Speaker 2: I mean, you have plenty.
Speaker 10: Of guys who have gone deep into playoffs, plenty of
guys who have faced this kind of pressure, and even
the young guys that have come up through the organization,
they've been conditioned that this is eventually what it turns into.
This is not surprising for anybody when they when these
guys come up through the Astros organization and they think
about playing in the big leagues, they think about playing
in the postseason. So it's not really sneaking up on anybody,
but you know, it's it's a strange thing to say,
but having lost so many players throughout the course of
the season, you know, when Jordon goes down, obviously it's
a huge blow. And you could just tell by you know,
how quiet the stadium got, and everybody knew how serious
it was, But it almost felt like it was like, oh,
you know, here's another one. And it's almost like everybody's
so kind of exasperated with with how many injuries there's been.
It's almost just, yeah, we'll just keep doing what we're doing.
It's it's almost doesn't have that much of effect because
they've had to deal with it over and over.
Speaker 3: If this was a team that.
Speaker 10: Was completely healthy all throughout the season and then you
get dealt this big blow, it would be a little
bit more.
Speaker 3: Shocked than kind of what has been felt this last week.
Speaker 4: You know, Back in second week of September twenty twenty three, Brian,
there was a guy named Evan Carter that got called
up by the Rangers and got red hot for them,
was a big part of their postseason run. Can Zach
Cole be the Astros version of Evan Carter here.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think there's actually probably a lot of similarities
between the two just in terms of, you know, the
positions that they play, the kind of their game, the
power speed combinations, and it's you know, it's not uncommon
to go down into the farm system, find one of
your big prospects, guys playing well, and try to make
them the X factor. That's what Evan Carter was. It's
a kind of a different story with Zach call I mean,
he was completely off the prospect radar. This guy wasn't
in spring training. He was down you know, I think
around twenty in terms of the prospect rankings coming into
the season and repeating the level of double A going
into this year. So it's been a more out of
nowhere thing. But but yeah, certainly the same scenario of
we've got a guy who can probably help us in
some way and we're going to go and we need
every bit that we can get out of the organization.
So can it be the extract? He's already been the
X factor. He's maybe not single handedly, but been a
huge part of two wins that they really needed.
Speaker 4: And what I like about him too, Brian is even
on nights where he's hitless, he works a walk, you
know what I mean, Like he's he's finding ways to
get on base for you. And that's what this team
is needed desperately the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 10: Well they need they need people who can affect the game.
Speaker 2: And he's done that.
Speaker 10: And you know, it's been obviously the big swings of
home home runs, but yesterday he had played appearance where
he walked. He tagged up from first to second on a.
Speaker 3: Ball to right field.
Speaker 10: Then he tagged up from second to third on a
ball that was like medium depths in center field. He
didn't end up scoring, but he turned, you know, just
a walk with nobody on base into a legitimate run
scoring opportunity. And that's what they need as much as
they need a guy who can come up and provide
a little bit of juice to the lineup. Just give
me as many guys as we can in that order,
who can you know, get it rolling a little bit.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Brian bogus Sevic weekly Wednesday guest here on Sports Talk
seven Nightty Bogie. We appreciate, appreciate the time and insight
as always, Talk to you next week, all right, See
you guys all right, thank you. There you go. Good stuff,
great stuff with Brian Bogosvic as always quick break. Here
on The Matt tom Show with Ross without Matt Thomas,
Chris Gordy hanging out. Appreciate Bogie hanging with us, coming
up at eleven thirty eight. No buddy got time for that.
Slash shut Joe bum ass up. Then we got the
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Speaker 4: So the Texans just signed They signed a player to
practice squad, a tight end, Brendan Bates out of Kentucky.
Speaker 2: Brandon Bates.
Speaker 4: I don't look him up, like, I don't even remember
him at Kentucky. He's played like six years at Kentucky.
He was in the class of twenty eighteen. Well, Chris
Rodriguez was in his signing class. Chris Rodriguez been the
NFL a handful of years.
Speaker 2: So if anybody knows Kentucky football it's you because of
your wife. So I'm gonna trust if you haven't heard
of the guy. He's not very good. Yeah, he caught
like twenty four passes in his six blocking tight end base.
We're looking at okay.
Speaker 4: So but anyway, he'll be a practice squad for your Texans.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 4: They also placed Justin Watson on the injured reserve list.
Speaker 2: What oh, that's actually hurtful?
Speaker 4: Well, I guess they says they they added Brendan Bates
and then says they signed to the practice squad dv
A Johnny Carter and safety Jalen Mills out of LSU.
Speaker 2: So anyway, just some roster notes there.
Speaker 4: The Texans ross are going to face their first Divisional
opponent season this weekend when they traveled to Jacksonville take
on the Jaguars at Yes, can you name the Jaguars stadium? U?
Speaker 2: If you gave me a if you gave me something,
you gave me a multiple choice, I could get it.
I can't remember. I can't recall it off the top
of my head. Give me a multiple choice. Can you
make it up? Think I should be able to get it.
Don't worry about it. Just tell me. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, because all the other ones are going to be
obvious if I name them. Okay, here, here are your options.
My Mark Stadium, Huntington bank Field, lumen Field. No, that's
in Seattle, an ever Bank Stadium. It's the last one.
It is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I wouldn't have gotten though.
Speaker 4: I would never know the Ravens played M and T
Bank Stadium and the Bills play at high Mark Stadium. Whatever.
Just being named lambeau.
Speaker 2: Field money very very easy.
Speaker 4: But okay, I get that these companies are paying tons
of money, but you don't. Your naming rights aren't on
long enough thrust to even remember. So like you buy
it for two years.
Speaker 2: Great, well, Dyken thinks they're getting value out of it.
I guess good for that.
Speaker 4: I mean, NRG has been nrgy, but but it was reliant.
But presumably dyke In is going to be around for
years and years and year.
Speaker 2: Yes, they signed a multi year deal for.
Speaker 4: Like a year or two and then leaving. I mean
Minute Made was here for twenty years.
Speaker 2: Ish, Yeah I don't. Oh yeah, I had to be
around twenty years because obviously it was Enron and then
it was astros Field. First it was the ballpark at
Union Station. But like Okay, Raymond James Stadium. You know
what that is, right? Yeah, that's Tampa Bampo so Fi Stadium,
that's in La. Well, that's so Fi though, But that's it.
That's a sponsor.
Speaker 4: But at least it seems like that'll be so Fi
for a long time to come. Do you know where
State Farm Stadium is?
Speaker 2: I know State Farm Arena is Atlanta State Farm Stadium.
I don't remember.
Speaker 4: It's the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 2: Okay, I know that. It's just this is silly. Northwest Stadium?
Who Northwest Stadium? Do you know who's Seattle Washington Commanders?
I didn't know that. I mean again, this is just
it's Northwest. They're in the northeast.
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 2: I think Denver's the best empower field you gotta have
at mile high out there. Lambeau doesn't have anything on it, right.
The dumbest one is Acker.
Speaker 4: Sure. Come on, dude, I don't know that Heinsfield, I
got no. The hines family may have removed their name.
They it will always be Hinesfield, just like Lakers will
always play at Staples. Staples.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's a sponsor too. Now they're at what
Crypto dot Com or whatever, but nobody calls it you're
at the crypto, Well do you call it that when
you're on the broadcast? Whatever? Do you got to get
more money? Squeeze more money, Let's go anyway.
Speaker 4: The Texans will head to Everbag Stadium this week. Do
you know Ross Houston leads the all time series against
Jacksonville thirty one to fifteen.
Speaker 2: Is that like the old franchise they lead the all
time series.
Speaker 4: With It includes a fifteen and eight mark on the road,
So I mean we might as well call that NRG East.
Speaker 2: I like that fifteen and eight in Jacksonville. And now
I realize they beat up on the Jaguars over the years,
but I didn't realize it was that split.
Speaker 4: How about this, The Texas have won seven straight road
games against Jacksonville.
Speaker 2: That has nothing to do with this year.
Speaker 4: So in Jacksonville, will beat their ass. In London, we'll
beat their ass wherever we got to play.
Speaker 2: Wherever you want to get it. Jacksonville.
Speaker 4: They enter this matchup riding an eleven game road win
streak against divisional opponents. I did not realize that Texans
go into the division opponent's houses and beat the snot up.
Speaker 2: Well, the division's been terrible.
Speaker 4: It's the longest active street in the streak in the NFL.
Speaker 2: By the way, will the street gets snapped.
Speaker 4: This weekend, Houston's defense had four sacks in the loss
to the Bucks, tied for the fourth most in the NFL.
In Week two, they added six tackles for a lost,
bringing their season.
Speaker 2: Total to fifteen. So defense playing the butts off. Defense
has been good, but they were getting gashed in the
run two consistently. They gave up three hundred and sixty
six yards to the Buccaneers. A lot of that came
on that last drive.
Speaker 4: Daniel Hunter had two sacks, becoming the fifteenth fastest player
in NFL history to reach one hundred career sacks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard that over the weekend. I was like, Wow,
he's already got one hundred sacks. I mean, a hundred
sack club is like that. That's pretty elite as as one.
Speaker 4: Sean Jones will tell you it's true, and he went
to l Shuo Daniel Hunter, but he is God. He
is right there behind the line to put a jar.
Every time you mentioned LSU, you got to put money
in a jar. He's a half sack behind Aaron Donald okay,
and Aaron Donald's retired, so one more.
Speaker 2: Yes, Aaron Donald also an interior alignment. So it's amazing
that Aaron Aaron Donald got to the numbers that he did.
Speaker 4: Nick Chubb, he found the end zone late with twenty
five yard touchdown run. He surpassed the eight thousand career
scrimmage yards mark, becoming the tenth active running back to
reach that milestone.
Speaker 2: Do you think they allowed him to score? More and
more people are posting that they think they allowed Nick
Chubb to score. To me, I he was slow, thinks, well, yeah,
it looks like he was running slow. Who got mad
at me when I said that? Yesterday? Dan Matthews getting
upset with me when I said he was slow? So
you talked to him about that. I believe you said
it looked like he was running in quickset. Hey man,
come on, that was on private text. What's up with it?
What's up with you and matt snitching on everybody? Come on,
mant no, it's not republic consuming. Okay, all right, all right.
Speaker 4: What matter?
Speaker 2: I'll say he looks slow as it doesn't matter. It's
a slippery slope. It doesn't matter. I'm not saying Nick
Chubb is gonna call me, and I'm saying it doesn't matter.
I'm just saying you, that's a president. Well never mind,
it's a precedent. You don't want to say. That's all
I'm saying. People. People know that I'm right.
Speaker 4: But anyways, Will Anderson, by the way it gets Tampa,
recorded his second consecutive game with a sack. According to
Next Gen Stats, will Anderson generated a career high ten pressures,
the most by any player in a game this season.
He has totaled thirteen pressures this year, tied for the
second most in the AFL.
Speaker 2: That's good. That's how many twelve yard runs did he
allowed to his side? They got to Baker. They just
couldn't bring his ass down. I mean they did, yeah,
four second, they should have had eight. Well he Look,
this is the thing. I don't know why people are
acting like they're just finding this out. Baker Mayfield can move.
I mean, I understand he has not thought of as
the the you know, the Lamar Jackson Josh Allens of
the world. But he's got some legs on him. He does.
Speaker 4: It almost feels like to play an NFL to play
quarterbacking really in college or the NFL. Now you cannot
be a statue anymore. You have to be able to move.
You have to have some running ability.
Speaker 2: Well, she just Stroud had some rushing yards. He was
their second leading rusher, wasn't he behind Nick Chubb?
Speaker 4: Yep?
Speaker 2: Not good because some more woody marks in there, especially
because I picked them up off of waivers.
Speaker 7: All right, go ahead, one more thing. Yeah, I mean
we could. We could throw out there.
Speaker 4: Daniel Hunters post six seasons with at least ten sacks,
as tied with T. J. Watt and Cam Jordan for
the first fourth most among active players. So I mean, look,
there's a lot of good even though the wins aren't there.
Speaker 2: I'd rather they win. That would be nice. Okay, we're
gonna take quick break on that. On that note, is
there anything you do not have time for? Do you
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This can be your segment. If something's been happening this
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on this program, the floor is yours.
Speaker 4: For those who watch that show on ESPN, what is
it called First Take?
Speaker 2: I don't watch it, Nope.
Speaker 4: There was a lot of folks surprised yesterday morning.
Speaker 2: Burke mangnus of excuse.
Speaker 4: He's like one of the heads that he is, Burke Ma, Mangnus, Magnus,
I don't know one of those. He released a statement
that Molly carm informed them that she was They could
not come to a new contract decision, so when her
contract expires at the end of the year, she's gonna
move on. Molly carm just making the announcement, I'm gonna
move on, gonna gonna be done here to whatever. Well,
hours later on, when First Take starts up, Molly Karm's
not even there. Steven A Smith is there who has
to release a statement basically saying she's decided to on
effective immediately. She's not even gonna finish out the contract.
Speaker 2: Oh really, I mean this is unconscionable. Molly Carum is
leaving the program effective immediately.
Speaker 4: Steven later went on on a serious XM show to
say the details quite frankly and none of y'all's business,
only to later go on and say, obviously it was
contract related. Steven, if the details are none of anybody's business,
you're outing what the business is.
Speaker 2: ESPN could not budge on the number because they have
to give me so much money.
Speaker 4: Now I have to add on to this because the
Athletic has a story today Ross that reports steven A
Smith's new deals with ESPN and serious XM now pay
him forty dollars a year is sorry, Molly, he is
getting paid like one of the highest paid athletes in sports.
Speaker 2: Sorry Molly.
Speaker 4: But all he does is shows up, put on a
sports code and goes, quite frankly, here on my tanks.
Speaker 2: I gets mines, Molly.
Speaker 4: Sorry, sorry, Molly had to go. Wants this job for
thirty k a year.
Speaker 2: I'll take it. I'll take that paymump. All right, anyway,
thirty k.
Speaker 4: New York's pretty expensive an efficiency.
Speaker 2: I might be able to get me a broom closet.
Probably not even that. Actually, all right, well there you go.
Steven So you're saying, ain't nobody get time for Molly
Caeren or steven A?
Speaker 4: Well it was steven A outing her reason. But then also,
ain't nobody got time for steven A making forty million
a year? ESPN disagrees he is ESPN, and Tommy doesn't
even watch the games. He's like, yeah, I think that
John Elway's doing really well for the Broncos.
Speaker 2: What the sn ESPN stands for? Steven A? Everybody knows
that he's like, I think.
Speaker 4: De Shawn Watson's gonna take the Texans in the playoffs
this year.
Speaker 2: Dude watching the game, stop miss He is not that bad,
but they do ask him to the expert. Wasn't he
on their hockey coverage too?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they're gonna pull up baseball. I mean I
think Alex Begman could carry the Astros this year.
Speaker 2: Uh man, Well, I'm gonna go in the same vein
with the broadcast, but also somebody who is a broadcaster
and a team owner. They talked about the rules last
year where Tom Brady, you're a team owner, you can't
be in production meetings, you cannot be in team meetings,
you cannot I don't know, be spying on the other teams.
Then they relax those rules. Then there's video of him
literally on the headset while the Raiders are on offense.
So you're gonna tell me this guy who was involved
in Spygate, who is involved in deflake gate, who has
been known to be in the rules, who is one
of those hyper competitive people on the planet and owns
a chunk of an NFL team, is it possibly, at
least possibly gonna be doing a little bit spying on
other teams when he's in a team meetings. I cannot
believe this is still being allowed. I cannot believe they're
allowing him on the headset. You can't have it both ways,
Tom Brady. Ain't nobody got time for that. Hey, nobody
got time for dead.
Speaker 4: I was gonna throw a Diego Pavia at least his
attorney in here, the Vanderbilt quarterback. Did you see yesterday
that with some new legislation, you know, the NCAAA, they're
going to Congress and all this stuff constantly with house settlement,
all this stuff, like there's still stuff being worked only
on a daily basis. Well, apparently his attorney came out
yesterday and said, you know, Diego Pavia could challenge for
seventh year of eligibill I saw it. Diego very quickly
put on Twitter, said cap, but like, come on, just
that whole the thought of a player playing seven years
get a job, sir.
Speaker 2: Well, I kind of get what they're saying. I mean,
why is there a certain limit on eligibility if you're
in school, why can't you play for the school.
Speaker 4: It's just dude, Van Wilder. Eventually you gotta grow up.
Peter pan go get a job.
Speaker 2: The ncaa house of cards is crumbling under all these lawsuits,
and I absolutely love it. I just do so. Who
you saying you ain't got no time for?
Speaker 4: Well, ain't nobody got time for lawyers wanting to say?
What about that? Deserves a seventh year of eligibility?
Speaker 2: Lawyer? See opportunity? The lawyers pouncing on opportunities for lawsuits.
Who could have seen that coming?
Speaker 4: I just kind of threw that one in. The other
actual one I had, though, was on a certain manager
of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Okay, what he did? Dave Roberts do show?
Speaker 4: Hey, Otani had a no hitter going last night through
five innings. Dave Roberts pulls him in the sixth inning,
the Phillies put up five runs before lead, and the
Phillies are now just a game and a half back
of the Brewers for the NL one seed. I got
a Buddyho's a Burrs fan. He's like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts.
Speaker 4: We're trying to hang.
Speaker 2: On his one seed, Yeah, gifting the Phillies a win. Well,
they're trying to being no Tony back from injury from
literally he's had two Tommy John's.
Speaker 4: Dave Roberts, nobody got time for you.
Speaker 2: You know what, ain't nobody got time for you? Who
cares about a no hitter? They're trying to make sure
he doesn't rip his acl again. He's just building back
up from multiple Tommy Johnson.
Speaker 4: Dodgers have the fourth best record in the in the NL.
Remember when they signed Otani and all those big name
players are like like one hundred and twenty games a year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, they've had like five billion injuries. They have
eighty four wins. Yeah, how's all that money paying.
Speaker 4: Off for them?
Speaker 2: Well, we'll see when they get to the playoffs they
get a little bit of healthy. I ain't. I'm not
writing the Dodge off yet, but the Phillies have been good.
You mentioned the Brewers have been very good. The National League.
Thank god the Astros aren't over there, because the American
League feels a little bit more winnable. If the Astros
were healthy, I said this, like, you know what, I'll
say that anybody can time for all these injuries. The
Ashers were healthy, I would be tabbing them as American
League favorites.
Speaker 4: I would.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you had Renel Blanco Hayden was an Esky,
Brandon Walter, east Ok, Paradis, Jordan Alvarez, I mean, Josh Hayter,
Bennett SUSA. Yes, that's a stat squad. Honestly, we need
to be giving Dana Brown a timp of the cap
for for a how stacked this team would have been
if they were fully healthy. I thout, ain't nobody had
time for Yorda, I'll running through stops. Ain't nobody got
time for Well, Ain't nobody got time for Tony Paris
Chica getting stop signs ran through? I mean, it seems
rather regularly. And we talked to with Joe spot about
that yesterday and he said, hey, it's it's at the
end of the day.
Speaker 4: The onus is on the players, is not like the
new step dad that like nobody wants to pay attention to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess you're not my real third base coach
Gary Pettis is gone. I'm gonna run through the stops on.
Don't go little little Jeff Blomer in there? All right,
Jonathan Allen, what do you got?
Speaker 12: You know I got I haven't seen the hate about
CDs child, but I'm gonna tell you I'm.
Speaker 2: The main one.
Speaker 12: The main one after this, that preps conference after Monday
night's game, and you, as a quarterback leading the team,
is sitting there with your head down, talking under your breath, saying, yeah,
whi's gotta do better. Yeah, seeings that happened. Yeah, yeah,
you know, I'm sad. We love That's that's not what
you do. That's not how you're gonna win an O two.
That's not how you rally team. That's not how you
get anybody to get to get behind you. You just
seem like you're upset with yourself and granted, okay, you
can be, but that's not gonna lead anybody. And you
showing that and saying it to your team that you
really don't don't have any faith and just saying, oh,
we'll go get it back next time. No an'ybody had
time for that. If you're gonna be this qualified athlete
that you came from Ohio State, you supposed to be
this big dog to lead, and you want to be
an elite quarterback, any of these elite quarterbacks that are
above you aren't doing that. They're gonna take you on
a chant, they're rally the team behind. They're gonna tell
you what the problem is, and they're gonna go after it.
Look at anybody else that's above him. He was what
eight ran before the season started, Yeah somewhere around there,
you know, Like I just it just bugs me really bad.
Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, CJ. Stroud hater number one. I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 12: I'm critical because I really feel like he should be
If he's that qualified, and I know he's that good
an athlete, you shouldn't be doing that.
Speaker 2: He should be better. And we're gonna bring some numbers
coming up here in a little bit to make it
even worse. All right, those in your hold, we'll get
to you. You guys, got something you want to get off
your chest? Eight nobody got time for that? Slash shut
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No body got time for that. Slash shut yo bumb
ass up Ray in Miami is next up? What's up?
Speaker 3: Ray?
Speaker 1: It is?
Speaker 13: Spot up?
Speaker 3: Shut yo bum midd ass up.
Speaker 13: If a kid asks you a spota about a time table,
so you have never seen an ankle mess up in
your life, you can't give any time timetable. It's spot up.
Shut your bum ass up, and I can't wait till
we get rid of your mid dass.
Speaker 4: Shit, your bum ass up.
Speaker 2: Man. Okay, there was a lot. There's a lot of
funny things happening here.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: First of all, is Joe spotted particularly short? I don't
think of him as particularly short. I mean he's like
six foot right, is Joe? Is Joe a spota here?
Joe aspota height? Let me google this by the way.
You want to follow that you can seven one three
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I think of him as around there. I don't think
of him as short. He was rocking a new look
with the glasses he's been he's been going with the
glasses lately, keeping the eye sharp. I'm okay with that
number one. That's funny that he's calling Joe's spot is short.
I'm okay with the criticism of him not it was,
it was. It was bizarre for him to act surprise
to get asked if jord On Alvarez was going on
the i L. But also my second favorite part of
that was him calling Chandler Roma kid. When a kid
with a kid asks you about someone going to the IL,
Chandler Rome, I don't know how how old is Channeler
roam these days? Early thirties?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, well you should know, aren't you guys
LSU alums and whatnot. Yeah, but we didn't we didn't
graduate together, Chandler Roam age. Oh this is not really
readily available. I mean, yeah, he looks like a young man.
I'm gonna say, are you gonna blind guests thirty three
years old? For Chandler Rome?
Speaker 4: Won't you text him? Your text buddies with him?
Speaker 2: That's true? We text every now and then. Uh, Chandler,
if you're listening, how old are you? Apparently ain't nobody
got time for for? For Joe Espada, all right, seven
one three, seven ninety If you want to get anything
else from anither of you guys, anything else you ain't
got no time for?
Speaker 3: Hmm.
Speaker 4: I was uh, I was gonna do that. I don't
want to beat up on the textan, see do it
more than we should do it. I mean, Nick Cassario,
you got time for your reworking. You supposedly reworked this
offensive line in the off season. Look better to you.
Speaker 2: I was actually did look a little bit better in
week two than it did in week one. I could
say that nobody is that something. I just don't know
how you look.
Speaker 4: They look so sharp those first two drives, and then
you seed to go punt punt, punt, punt punt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you had Woody Marx catching, Yeah, you got the
you you had that big you had that big touchdown
for Nico Collins. Then Woody Marx is catching like thirty
five year old thirty seven yard screen passes. You're like,
oh my gosh, they're gonna use Woody marks. They're looking good.
It's like they got an inventive game plan. Things are
going well well, and then they faltered. Anybody got time
for that? Texans? Oh and two? Now, of course, uh yeah,
you can go ahead and fay the music down if
nobody else wants to get in appreciate you, Jonathan. Oh
and two, Now, how much solace do you find in
the fact that both of the teams you lost to
are probably going to be division winners. Yeah, but I
don't know. I mean, the NFC South sucks. So the
Bucks winning that, the fountains are looking okay, Buccaneers beating
them on the road.
Speaker 4: Did I give you the two stats yesterday? The Bucks
have never had never won in Houston before yesterday.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that. How many times have they played
in Houston? They were oh and five? Okay, so then
you're out one and five.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 4: Baker Mayfield was previously one in seven in his career
on Monday Night football. He's now two and seven.
Speaker 2: He's mister clutch. Came up clutching that game. How many
good teams that he'd been on in those scenarios too, though,
he've been playing for the Panthers and the Browns. Then
he was a backup for the Rams.
Speaker 4: Right, if you're on Monday Night football, though presumably you're
doing some right.
Speaker 2: That's true, you're probably a pretty good team for a
Monday Well, there were some lean years on Monday Night football.
Then he has Pano was like, hey, NFL were cutting
you this check. We need to get some more marquee matchups.
And the NFL's like, well, how do we do that.
Let's see, NBC wants better matchups, Prime wants better matchups.
ESPN wants better matchups, more games. Let's go that's what
they're doing.
Speaker 4: What's crazy too, just a quick college football NuGet I
saw Did you see two coaches got fired already?
Speaker 2: Virginia Tech, yes, CLA Yes. It talked about.
Speaker 4: Three weeks into the season. Pete Dammle tweeted this out.
He said, last year, the first in season firing didn't
happen until after week eight October twentieth.
Speaker 2: This year it's after week three. They're getting to like
it's getting more and more like soccer managers. They fire
those dudes like every three weeks and then they just
well lose a few games all time to sack the manager,
as they call it. And it feels like increasingly, even
the last I don't know, twenty years, it feels like
i'd be curious to see at the end of the
year how many head coaches were fired year by year
by year. Maybe it's always been like this and I
just don't remember, but especially like you said, early season firings,
in season firings, it's just everybody's on a shorter fuse.
It feels like across all sports and now it's as
you mentioned, it's happening in college football. First, that's really
what we should have done. Shut your bump mass up.
Speaker 4: The fans that are out there going Demiko ryans ain't him?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there's people doing that. Come on, I think
yesterday calling Demiko Ryan's mid.
Speaker 4: It's okay, Like if you want to start questioning CJ. Stroud, okay,
but come on, like to say to completely throw him
under the bus at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I think he's a good head coach, and
I think sometimes the attention to detail stuff can be off,
like procedural stuff like I brought it up yesterday. I
think the like the end of the game where you
have six seconds left, like have a plan. They had
no plan. They didn't run a play where they tossed
it back fifty times. They didn't tell him to get
out of bounds and try to do a Hell Mary.
They just ran out the string like the game was over.
That's bad coaching to me. All right, Well on that nough.
We're gonna take quick top of the our break. Our
number three of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross without
Matt Thomas is coming up. Chris Cordy is hanging out.
We're gonna get some Texans. We also have the News
at Noon coming up next, all the top sports news
items of the day coming right jack, right at you.
After this quick break, our number three of the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross without Matt Thomas. He will be
back tomorrow. Chris Gordy is hanging out. We'll have Adam
Clanton in the fold as well. We got a lot
of stuff going on in the sports world. That's means,
that means we have to get to the news at noon,
all right, a lot of stuff to get to here.
All the news at nude Chris Gordon. We will lead
off with your Houston Astros going for a sweep today,
seven to ten. First pitch as it'll be Jake de
Grom versus Christian Javier. Six o'clock Astros on deck, coming
your way with yours truly. Yesterday they were able to
get to win. They got up six nothing. You're feeling good,
They're gonna cruise. Everything's all right. We're gonna run scored
by the Rangers in the fifth, then four runs in
the eighth. Brian Braid, you had to come in in
the eighth put out the Fires. Also got into some
trouble in the ninth, but was able to get out
of it. He not just his seventh save this season
for the Astros and seventh since Josh Hater's gone down
thirty two pitches for him yesterday, however, fourteen or twelve
I think maybe the day before. Likely unavailable for the
Astros today, but he got to the save and back
to back games, two saves, two wins against the Rangers
in the first two games of this pivotal mid September series.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just like we all predicted that Aj blue
Ball and Colton Gordon would be holding things down for
the Astros pitching staff.
Speaker 2: Is Aj blue Ball going to get built up and
start a playoff game for the Astros?
Speaker 7: Well, he threw three innings yesterday, fifty stout seven k
is very nice.
Speaker 2: I mean I think like.
Speaker 4: He'd be like a candidate to pitch an inning or two,
but you see, like start, is he like an opener?
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, you get to go to a piggyback situation.
I mean you could do basically what you did yesterday,
go with blue Ball for three Colton Gordon for three.
I mean, you definitely are gonna have some options elsewhere. Unfortunately,
the Mariners trounce the Kansas City Royals. Ten games in
a row the Mariners have won. They remain a half
game ahead of the Astros in the American League West.
The Mariners just will not lose Gordon.
Speaker 4: They won't. And I hate it, and I hate everything
about the Mariners, and I hate that we're gonna have
to play them in basically, oh win or take all
playoff series this weekend. And I also hate that this
could also end in the Astros having to go play
a wild card series in Seattle against this very Seattle team.
Speaker 2: How raucous and loud are those crowds going to be
in Seattle? Yeah? Sure, out there.
Speaker 4: Time for the playoff series. And I will give them credit.
I mean it got loud. That that's a that's a
fan base that has been in the desert for so long.
They are hungry for any kind of success from their
baseball team.
Speaker 2: Absolutely are hungry to get anything going.
Speaker 4: Crickets.
Speaker 2: Did you eat them? I thought they're oven roasted? Whatever
they are they deep fried? They bred them?
Speaker 4: No, because it looks like crickets. Maybe they're just oven.
Speaker 2: Bakes, all right? A couple of NFL news and the notes.
We will get to some more on CJ's trout than
the Texans coming up in the next segment. The Jets
have ruled out just in fields for their game against
the Buccaneers. Sounds like the Buccaneers are going to start
off three to zero. Tyrod Taylor the backup for the
New York Jets. Texans great, So let's see starting quarterbacks
in week number three. Already We've got Jake Browning, We've
got Mac Jones, We've got Tyrod Taylor, we have who
is it again, that's started Carson Wentz in Minnesota as well.
Speaker 4: For multiple games. He's gonna start Jake Browning basically for
the next three months for the Bengals. I've said this before,
the NFL has got a backup quarterback problem. And the
stars are great. But when the stars get hurt, and
they inevitably, inevitably do every year, we have five to
ten huge name quarterbacks that get hurt missignificant portions of time,
the backups are not great. It is a problem in
the NFL.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you got all those guys starting as backups,
Russell Wilson remaining the starter. He had a good start,
but I mean, I don't feel like he's very good.
Bryce Young, to a tongue of a low, is not
very good either.
Speaker 7: Who's the best backup in the league, the most competent backup?
Speaker 2: Hey, it might be Jake Browning anytime he goes in
for Cincinnati, he's very good.
Speaker 4: Like, I'm just trying to think of a guy Marcus
Mariota if he had to start, Yeah, Mariota might go
for Jadon Daniels.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Garoppolo, Davis Mills. I don't feel like any of
those are very good. So yeah, definitely some quarterback issues
in the NFL. Also in the NFL, some news, not
necessarily news news, but Raheem Morris, who says himself not
prone to hyperbole. He said by Jon or Now Mike
Urico said, it's back to Bjeon. We went from Bjeon
to Bajeon. Now back to Bejon. According to Mike Ico
on Sunday Night Football, Bjeon Robinson, Well, that's what Bjeon
said it himself in a press conference in the offseason,
and then they recorded not.
Speaker 4: Correct people from when he was at Texas. Hey, this
is how you pronounce my.
Speaker 2: Name, you know it happens. I mean Rowe roy Oswalt
was going by Oswald for years. Who else? There were
some other ones recently.
Speaker 4: Well you mentioned earlier Tyrod Taylor temporarily.
Speaker 2: Was It's very confusing. So he's Bjon back to Bejon
back to Bijeon is the best player in the NFL.
He's definitely the best player in football, without a doubt,
Morris saying on Wednesday, He's unbelievable. I love the kid.
I love everything about him. I love watching with the ball,
I love his confidences, demeanor, his mindset, leadership, everything about him.
Speaker 4: Well, he's the best.
Speaker 2: Player in football.
Speaker 4: He's not even the best rusher, Jonathan Taylor, Travis Atia, Dark, James.
Speaker 2: Longhorn, legend, Bjeon Robinson the best player. I mean, is
he better than Josh All NFL? Well, according to Raheem Morris,
he is Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson I think is actually
the best player in football. Have you seen he is
the alt the all time passer rating leader in NFL
history at the moment is Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 4: I like Miles Garrett basically falls out of bed and
racks up two sacks a game.
Speaker 2: So Miles Garrett's pretty great. You're starting a franchise with anybody.
I'm going Lamar Jackson though, Oh fuck, Mahomes, how do
you deny him? I guess I forgot about that guy.
He's pretty good, He's pretty close. Yeah, doesn't suck. I
totally agree with that all right. Elsewhere in the news, Gordy,
are you familiar with Taylor Townsend, the tennis player. I
was thinking of Tommy Townson. No, what about Touchdown Tommy
Maddox American that tennis starred Taylor Townsend apparently having to
apologize to the entire country of China for making some
comments that people found offensive about Chinese food. She posted
videos of local dishes, including bullfrogs and turtles, and joked
that she would need to talk to hr about the
quality of food. Clearly, of course, I don't know how
she didn't anticipate this. There was going to be some backlash,
as she took to Instagram to apologize after facing backlash
online in China. I just wanted to come out here
and apologize sincerely from the butt of my heart. Oh God,
said Townsend, where she had to say she understood how
privileged she was as a professional athlete, to be able
to travel around the world and experience cultural differences. It's
one of the things I love so much about what
I do. And I've had nothing but the most amazing
experience in my time here and at the tournament. Everyone
is so kind and gracious, and the things that I said,
we're not representative of that at all. I wanted to
truly apologize. There's no excuse and no words, and for me,
I want to be back.
Speaker 4: That's a shut you open mess up because you're that's
not normal to us who follows her on social media.
It's mostly Americans, right, so your audience, this is weird.
You don't have to go and apologize after it. She says.
Speaker 2: Have you with the hell turtle and bullfrog at the
dinner table as wild?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: Too many of us in an America. That's weird.
Speaker 2: You ever eating bullfrog? No, Gordy, I'll bet frog legs.
Have you had You've had turtle soup? You're from New Orleans.
I had some gator over the weekend. Yeah, and a
lot of gator, had a lot of frid gata at
the barbecue gata.
Speaker 4: But I just to see that's the stuff where it's
like when we go out of the side of the country.
It's the same thing when like Europeans come here, they go,
oh my god, look at this. We're not like you
better apologize right now. No, it's different for them, different cultures.
You're experiencing different things. It's okay to have an opinion
on it, though.
Speaker 2: Yeah. When I went to Korea, I had some stuff
that I don't normally. Had had some chicken feet, which
I didn't really care for. Quite grissly, I had kidney
And did.
Speaker 4: You post on social media? I respect this liver and
the culture of you eating liver.
Speaker 2: One of them the translation said chicken ass. I did
post that on Instagram.
Speaker 4: That's fine.
Speaker 2: I didn't get any backlash. It's no one on there
and tried it. It's different for us, that's all it is.
That's true. All right, Well, that's the news. At noon,
we're gonna take quick break, We're gonna come back. We're
gonna talk some Texans. We're gonna talk some unfortunate stats
for Nick Kyley, unfortunate stats for CJ Straud. How are
you feeling about that Texans offense? We'll talk about that
next here on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross twelve
twenty pm here on Sports Talk seven hinty cross the
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Seven one three two one two five seven ninety You
gotta stretch out. That is very important. Texans oh and
two on the road against Jacksonville in week number three.
Jacksonville did lose to Jake Browning last week, but they
also won in week one. Texans have lost two games
by one score, both too probable division winners. They are
underdogs in this upcoming game by one and a half.
Oh total is it forty three and a half? I
thought I saw a little tick higher than that earlier
in the week, But anyways, forty three and a half
is the total in this one one and a half.
Texans are dogs to Trevor Lawrence and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
So I was looking at a couple of things as
far as there's a lot of guys that I follow
the dude data and stuff like that, and mostly I
follow them because of fantasy football. But there's a guy
named Ben Baldwin who puts we were talking about EEPA
where he uses adjusted EPA for pass protection, receiver drops, interceptions,
fumber recoveries, stuff like that, and then he blends it
with Pro Football Folcus's grades and then it spits out
a number and it ranks all thirty two quarterbacks right now.
Top five quarterbacks in football Dak Prescott, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson,
Jordan Love, Matt Stafford by these metrics. Where do you
think Chris Gordy Just a blind guess. I'm gonna give
you a hint. It's in the bottom half. Yeah, where
do you think c J. Stroud is? I was gonna
say last twenty eighth?
Speaker 4: Geez.
Speaker 2: There are thirty four quarterbacks rated by these metrics. Boone
Nicks and JJ McCarthy are last two, Tounguevalo, Aaron Rodgers,
Gino Smith cam Ward, and then CJ. Stroud behind Joe Flacco,
Justin Fields and Trevor Lawrence and Bryce Young. That's where c. J.
Stroud is right now. And this is a guy we
talked about in the off season that is a top
ten type quarterback. He talked about himself being like remember
he was going in podcast after his rookie year, like hey,
I needed to be in the MVP conversation, putting himself
like top five ahead of Josh Allen and others, and
it felt it felt warranted, it felt good. It was like, yeah,
this guy's confident, he's got all his swag and then
here we are right now to where c J. Stroud
is by these metrics with jarn and will be all
but they're not good. Twenty eighth in football twenty eighth.
Speaker 4: What what is the issue is it? I mean, is
it the O line, is it the OC or is
it CJ himself?
Speaker 2: I think it's a little bit of everything. Honestly, I
think I think the biggest problem not the biggest problem. Yeah,
I'll say it, the biggest problem. If Joe Mixon wear
was back, I would feel so much better about this offense.
I would feel so much better about where c J.
Stroud was. And Joe Mixon was here for a lot
of the season last year, but he did miss some
time with some injuries. And that was also around the
time Stefan Diggs and Nico Collins were getting hurt, so
you basically you need I would say the biggest help
to see J. Stroud is both a healthy Nico Collins
which you have right now, thankfully, and a healthy Joe Mixon.
And when is he coming back? When have we heard anything?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: I think Woody Marx needs to get some more looks.
He looked good in a couple of reps of pass Pro.
Looks good catching the ball, looks good running the ball.
I want to see a little bit more Woody marks.
I know Nick Chubb did have that long touchdown, but
I just I still don't have confidence of him as
far as somebody who can be a game breaker, somebody
who can can go out there and just be better
than the other guys and more talented in the other guys,
because that's how you win a lot of games in
the NFL. Of course, you win with scheme and coaching
and all those types of things, but a lot of
times it's like, hey, that guy was just dominant. There
was nothing we could have done to stop him. And
Joe Mixon did that a lot where he's turning three
yard losses into three yard gains or five yard gains
with his patients, with his vision and going out there
and just being a good tass catcher and all that
stuff and being a complete running back. And you don't
have that and that's huge when you have an offensive
line that's not very good, so you can't pass protect.
You need to have some semblance of a run game
for the other team, and you don't have that right now.
Speaker 4: The I googled Joe Mixon just to see and there
is a story from two days ago USA Today entitled
when will Joe Mixon return, Texan's running back injury Update?
So you would think an article titled that, yes, we're
gonna get some kind of clarity here, probably not first sentence,
when will Joe Mixon return from his injury? As of
the time of this writing, Mixon's eventual return date is
not clear. Why in the hell would you title an article.
Speaker 2: Because you got your click? That's why they got your click.
What outlet is this? This is USA Today? The USA
Today is doing boarding news. SI. You can't trust any
of them these days. It's it's horrible, all right. And
then here's another another data point. They came across my
timeline again. It's it's from Fantasy Points Data. It's his
fantasy website and I follow a lot of fantasy stuff
because I like fantasy football and multiple leagues. Most off
target throws by a percentage since twenty twenty three, Will
Levis number one, then Caleb Williams, then Trevor Lawrence, then CJ. Stroud.
Actually they have Lawrence and Shroud tied at twenty one
point seven percent highest off target rate. Other quarterbacks on
this list include Aaron Rodgers, Josh Dobbs, Desmond Ritter, Aiden O'Connell,
mac jones, and Bryce Young. The Bryce Young thing is
he's regressed again. Uh yeah, well he ended up with
three touchdowns, but he threw the ball like fifty times
this past weekend. But yeah, he wasn't very good in
week one, So that's concerning for me.
Speaker 4: Trevor.
Speaker 2: I keep watching Trevor Lawrence and and I know I
picked him on my fantasy league because Brock Perdy got hurt.
But it's like he misses open throws far too often.
And same thing for CJ. Stroud. The only two guys
ahead of you on this list are Will Levis and
Caleb Williams. That's concerning how does it get better? When
does it get better? And here's how is he so
good his rookie year? And then now we're sitting.
Speaker 4: Here and here's the thing is like these days, if
you get even an average quarterback.
Speaker 2: You gotta lock him up, you gotta pay him well.
I mean, Caleb Williams is the number one pick on
this list. Trevor Lawrence makes a ton of money. He's
on that list as well, and then it's like a
bunch of backups and unproven guys. So yeah, I'm concerned.
I'm concerned about where we are right now with CJ. Stroud.
And we know it's got to be complimentary football, but hey,
it's the NFL. You're not gonna have perfect pockets every
single snap out there. It just does not happen. This
is not This is not Arch Manning sitting back there
for eight seconds against UTEP. This is the NFL. The
other guys are paid to You gotta figure something out
and they have to be better, and CJ. Stratt has
to be better with you. I just I don't know
what the major problem is. And somebody tweet this out yesterday.
What do you think about this theory that CJ hasn't
looked the same since Tank Dell went down? That's true.
I think that's a good point. That was his kind
of sake. Oh yeah, you could. You could count on
him to beat man coverage. You find zones soft zones
as well. You could also get some easy screens and
stuff like in the round, stuff like that that like
the teams had now, even though of course he's as
short and little as he is when he's on the field,
teams have to know where Tank Dell is.
Speaker 5: He is.
Speaker 2: He was a dynamic athlete, and goodness knows if and
when he's ever gonna come back. You just have to
operate under the assumption that he's not coming back, and
when he does, he's not going to be as effective
as he was because of how devastating that injury was.
That he's so you still have Nico Collins. You at
least got him the targets. He got nine targets I
think in the last game. But you gotta have more
catchable targets to continue to get him involved in the game.
All right, quick break here on the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross. Where you at on CJ. Stroud? I just
told you by the by EPA and Pro Football Focus rankings,
he's twenty eighth in football. I gotta believe he's better
than that, but those numbers say what they are. How
does he continue to improve and go up from there?
Seven to one to three, two one two five seven
ninety is the phone number if you want to get in.
Seven to one three two one two five seven ninety.
Feels like there's a lot of blame to go around
with the Texans offense. Do we go to the quarterback?
Do we go to the offensive coordinator? Do we go
to the offensive line, do we go to the run game?
Do we go to the pass catchers? And it feels
like yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes it is
not being good now a good week against it is
the week to week league. I was feeling pretty good literally,
like the first quarter of the game where they scored
against the Buccaneers. Nico Collins catches that spectacular touchdown in
the right side of the end zone. We're feeling all
good in the neighborhood. And then what basically the rest
of the game happened, and they get held up in
fourth down in goal to go situations, and they just
couldn't consistently score points, and then the defense couldn't hold anything.
Speaker 4: This is what's wild, Nico Collins. Nico Collins to start
the season off last year ross Week one against Indy six,
catches one hundred and seventeen yards he was targeted eight
times Week two against Chicago, targeted ten times, eight catches,
one hundred and thirty five yards in a touchdown this
season through two weeks, twenty five yards and fifty two yards.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's been he's been targeted a lot, right,
he's been off target. Uh, like target five times a week,
won nine times this week. Okay, So yeah, fourteen targets
two games. Not terrible. They're trying to get him just
saying it was eighteen through two games. Last year. He
had two hundred and fifty yards through two weeks. He
should get more catches. I wonder what the catchable targeted rates. Well,
I just read you the number who has the most
off target throws in football. He's tied for third is CJ. Stroud.
This is since twenty twenty three most off target throws,
highest rate, tied with Trevor Lawrence, behind Will Levis, who's
been benched. And I don't where is will Levis even
Oh he's out for the season. Right, he has shoulder injury,
I believe. So he was benched and then had a
shoulder injury. And then Caleb Williams, who I like, he
has a big arm, but Caleb Williams misses a lot
of throws as well. I mean that those numbers sometimes,
you know, you have to take data with a grain
of salt and you have to be like, all right,
I don't know if I actually believe that, but Will Levis,
Caleb Williams, Trevor Lawrence, and CJ. Stroud being the most
inaccurate or most off target throws in football where they
filter out screen passes, that makes a lot of sense
to me. It just does.
Speaker 4: Brandon Allen, by the way, the backup to cam Or
didn't Tennessee who Brandon.
Speaker 2: Allen not familiar with his work quarterback? Okay, I'll take
your word for it. You could have just made that up.
Brandon Allen not familiar with his work at some point,
Kyle Allen, Brandon all Right, Josh Allen.
Speaker 4: Brandon Allen spent a season with Denver, three seasons at Cincinnati,
spent last year with the forty nine ers.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, man, everything can feel better with a good
weekend against the Jaguars who their their defense is not good.
Their their their defense is not very very good. So
but how are we feeling about this weekend? One and
a half point dogs on the road against the Yax
and Wars. Yeah, they're underdogs, oh one and a half points.
That's pretty crazy though. I would have thought, I mean
what I spotted off those stats for you earlier about
how the Texans are eleven and five in Jacksonville all
the time, Like they that doesn't matter. Vegas didn't care
what happened in twenty sixteen. It's about twenty twenty five.
Let's rosters turnover, I mean a year to year really
in the NFL. I mean, I hope, I hope you
can get some points against Jacksonville. In their defense, Trevor
Lawrence has been prone to giving up and turning over
the ball. I just mentioned him on the Inaccurate Passers List.
They're all upset, you know, if we're doing Jacksonville radio,
which thank god we're not. We live in beautiful, wonderful Houston, Texas.
You're talking about how Trevor Lawrence came to get the
ball accurately to Brian Thomas Junior, who had a breakout
year last year.
Speaker 4: They think calls over there, You think people call the
radio station. I think, so, hey, guys, we'll talk. We'll
talk Jags.
Speaker 2: I think you do get some talk on Jags ten
ten XL with Rick Blue, who's been our guests a
number of times throughout the years.
Speaker 4: It's just when they for them playing all those games
in London, like I feel like they just don't have
a passage.
Speaker 2: Do they get more calls from dudes in London? Yeah, Hey,
Cherry out want to talk from jagualls football. Let's go
to Mike in Manchester. Hey, I know jents evening, Gov
knows it's uh, it's midnight Elvia and I'm quite schnukeld.
Could we get better protection for Trevin Lawrence? Terrible? The
worst English accent you could find anywhere right here on
Sports Talk seven ninety. I don't know who's doing Jags talk,
but if we were doing Jags talk, we wouldn't be
very happy either. At least they've won a game. Though.
What happened with.
Speaker 4: Brian Thomas last week, Like it's almost what those things
he had like a mental block.
Speaker 2: Well, how about Liam Cohen coming out after the game
being like, yeah, guys, he's been dealing with at risk injury.
You know, he's just not one hundred percent. And then
everybody's like, uh, you know it's illegal to have somebody
with an injury and not be putting it on the
injury report. So Brian Thomas Junior wasn't on the injury
report last week with the risk injury. Now all of
a sudden, he's listed this week. Is questionable with a
wrist issue. Yeah, oh, I think you're not supposed to
do that. You're not supposed to do that, Liam, You know,
I supposed to have players who are dealing with injuries
and not list them on the injury report, and certainly
don't go in the postgame presser and then mention it
is he has. The NFL launched an investigation on that
at all. I don't know. So Brian Thomas Junior is questionable.
I wonder if we're gonna see Derek Stingley did a
pretty good job of shutting down Mike Evans. He didn't
get a whole lot of targets, a lot of PBUs
was able to stick tight with him, and generally in
years past, the Texans have not gone with shadow coverage.
They've used Kamari Lassiter of course, depending on whatever are
who well whoever else is on the other side, But
first two weeks of the season they've done a fair
amount of shadow covers. Derek Stingley. I wonder if you're
going to see the same thing with Brian Thomas Junior.
Speaker 4: I think so. I think he's because I was curious,
so were they going to have him just play aside
or follow Mike Kevivitz around? And he followed mikevins around
and look a mecha Abuca was the better for it.
Speaker 2: They've got this guy. For those in fantasy circles.
Speaker 4: You know this name that's emerged the first two weeks,
is it Diami Brown?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Diami Brown's he was He had some big catches
for the Commanders last year and was kind of falling
under the radar, and then now he's been catching touchdowns
for Jacksonville.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I was not familiar with his work, but he
is kind of emerging here and as a as a
number two threat for the Jags. It's kind of weird
because you would think Travis Hunter that they would be
force feeding him to get him involved for where they
drafted him.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So it sounds like Christian Kirk is supposed to
be back for the Texans this weekend. How much do
we feel like that can have a positive impact on
the Texans and what Nick Kayley and then want to
do revenge game, right, did that's true?
Speaker 4: Did you play for the Jags?
Speaker 2: Yes, he did, and he was hurt a lot and
well when he was signing the offseas like, yeah, I
like that signing. He's really productive as long as he's
on the field. And then he misses the first two
games with a hamstring injury, now expected to play week
three according to Demico Ryans. So I mean, can that
give you a bit of a boost all.
Speaker 4: These Aggie wide receivers Mike Evans, Christin Kirk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they seem to have a lot of good players,
they just don't ever seem to win, although they're winning
right now with a big win over Notre Dame over
the weekend. So I mean, can we say that, Can
we say, hey, you're going against the Jaguars. Their defense
isn't the toughest in the league, although they have had
a good first couple of weeks. But I mean they
were giving up points to free in Drake Browning. I
think did Jake Browne He had like four touchdowns in
that game or something like that, Right, So okay, Jake
Browning's carving him up. CJ. Strow can possibly do it.
You got the offensive line intact. We're a little bit
better in week two. Can you follow that up even
though you're on the road with a better Week three?
Maybe how about this all right, I'm gonna paint a
positive picture for you. Christian Kirk is back, Nick Kayley
gets another week of play calling under his belt. You
have a more stable offensive line, maybe some more woody
marks helps the run game as well, and the Texans
can sore some points this weekend. Can you buy what
I'm selling there?
Speaker 4: I could buy it. I mean I think they should.
This is this is your home away from home. This
is a place where you you have you have played
very well over there in Jacksonville. So I think the
Texans get their mojo back this week.
Speaker 2: Hmm. I like that. I predicted that on gut feelings yesterday.
I'm gonna stick with it right now.
Speaker 4: Kids have won seven straight road contests against Jacksonville. We
can't say in Jacksonville because wasn't one of those in London.
Speaker 2: Visit a first win game for the Texans falling oh
to three, oh and three, especially with the Colts right
now sitting two. You know, did I see too?
Speaker 4: I think it's said it was a stat so there
have been teams that have started oh and two and
gotten to a super Bowl but never won a super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, the Texans are getting to the super Bowl.
I'm really worried about that.
Speaker 4: You don't think the Steam won a super Bowl two weeks?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Have you have you been watching the same football team?
Speaker 14: I am?
Speaker 2: Have you been watching the Well, the Chiefs are oh
and two.
Speaker 4: If you're though this was supposed to be here, they
take the big step.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. I predicted, well, I stupidly predicted
eleven and six. I should have stuck with ten and seven.
Even that feels optimistic at this point. But I mean Bengals, Well,
we'll see what happens with the Joe Burrow how long?
How much Joe Burrow? I mean Jake Brown and can
hold it down with Joe Burrow out, But it starts
with the Bills and the Ravens and the Chiefs. Chargers
are two and zero. You're worse than them? No? No,
not feeling it right now?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Can you buy what I'm selling? Another week of Nick Kayley,
Christian Kirk comes back, more Woody marks CJ. Stroud improving,
scoring some points against the Jaguars. Can you buy that
at all? So it looked like it could be a
clear picture for some offensive improval for the Texans. What
do you think seven one three two one two five
seven ninety is the phone number you want to get
in seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
It is the Matt Thomas showed with Ross. Without Matt Thomas.
He'll be back tomorrow, Adam Clinton'll be joining. Chris Cordy
is here in the fold right now at seven one
three two one two five seven ninety. I think we
retire that one timely stuff there went to the last
time Mike Pires pitch for the E's, although I do
appreciate that was the seventeen or something the Matt Thomas
rejoined old players. I do like that. My favorite was
I was so mad we got rid of the Royce
White one. Hey this is Royce White. Thanks Royce. Yeah,
he last pitched for the A's in twenty twenty one.
Did Mike fires he is fired up for some Astros baseball. Hey,
he threw no hitter the Astros never forget. And then
when he got tagged up by the Astros in like
twenty eighteen or nineteen, he went ahead and leaked that
they had been cheating for many years. And then they
became the face of a league wide scandal and we're
escapegoaded by Rob Manfred. And then they won another championship
in twenty twenty two, and now in twenty five they've
had a billion injuries and they're still winning. They're still standing.
Speaker 4: Baby, there's gonna be some like five ten years from now,
it's gonna be somebody that's gonna come out on.
Speaker 2: The Yankees and the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: Look, hey, we were doing this, and they's gonna get
brushed under the rug.
Speaker 2: The friggin Red Sox got dinged for using Apple Watches,
and then they had another scandal, and nobody talks about it,
didn't They hired back their manager. There was also the
mastermind of the Astro scandal. Nobody says a word. Oh,
that was the funniest part.
Speaker 4: When we were in Boston a few weeks ago, we
were up by the Green Monster and these two dudes,
these two Boston guys, like having fun, was.
Speaker 2: Like, hey, sorry, so you were kicking yeah and.
Speaker 4: All this stuff, and then one of the guys, you know,
one of guy's like, yeah, you get cheetahs and we're like, dude,
you realize, like you say something to a manager, was
the architect to that? He was like yeah, but yeah,
he's not doing it here.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh man, they got did they? Oh man?
I would have loved to have been there.
Speaker 4: Oh then we then we started the whole Yeah. But
in seventeen we beat the Yankees. You didn't want us
to beat the Yankees and not like the Yankees probably
would have won the World Series.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, you're probably right, Okay, it's good. Yeah, guys
are friggin idiots. Everything crumbles under like five seconds of
some semblance of logic with these people taking me upset.
Speaker 4: We went to a bar and there were these like
blue collar dudes that did construction, like twenty two to
twenty three year old dudes. It was like type a
casting out of a movie for a bars in Boston. Hey, Johnny,
you see the socks. I'm like, there's no way this
is real. This is like a movie. It's like a
play or something. Yeah, wicked. Wicked is a term for
wicked awesome. Yeah, how was that movie? Ross?
Speaker 2: It said a very good wicked Wicked. It was wicked good.
I've only been to Boston once, and it was basically
for a weekend for a wedding, so I didn't spend
a whole lot of time about town. This girl was
looking at a photo of somebody.
Speaker 4: She goes, hey, hey, uh, Dawna, this guy looks wicked familiar.
I was like, that's they like use it in common sentences.
Speaker 2: Uh, that's pretty funny. Scott river Oaks has been waiting,
So Scotton river Oaks, we shall go. What's up? Scott?
Speaker 15: What's going on?
Speaker 3: Ross?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 15: So I'm glad y'all switched over to the Astros for
a minute. So I wanted to hear.
Speaker 8: Your thought on something. I don't know if you remember
about a month month and a half ago, when the
Mariners really started getting close to us, Matt was freaking
out because it was the first time they had been
within a game maybe at that point in time.
Speaker 15: So I called in trying to calm his alleviate his fears,
which he said I did a poor Java agreed with me,
and my point was being the three seed division winner
and being a wildcard team. There really isn't that much
of the difference between the two. And you look at
it right now, if you're asking me my opinion. Would
I rather host Seattle or Boston at home or go
to New York and play the Yankees. I'm not saying
we manipulate game. Of course, we're going to try to
win all the games we can because you never know
what's going to happen. But I think I would rather
go to New York. The pressure would be completely on them.
If anything starts going our way, they're going to be like,
oh my goodness, we can't beat these guys again. And
if a very quick series versus Boston, who swept us
this year, came into Houston, scored fifteen hundred runs in
one game in Seattle. Who knows our pitching staff backwards
and forward? Not to mention, I think we've lost like
six or seven home playoff games in a row. So
if it was up to me, I actually think I'd
rather go to New York for a Wildcard series than host.
Speaker 2: I mean, I understand your logic, but to me, it's
all kind of a wash. I mean, going on the
road either way, I would. I would prefer either way
for the Astros to be at home than on the road,
no matter who the ponent it is. I mean, if
you put radonan freed in games one and two and
whatever order they want to do them. That that's going
to be a pretty stiff competition. Same thing for the
Mariners at pitching, and they'll have a number of options
for one and two, whichever way they want to go.
I just want the Astros to win, and I would
rather the division. That way, you can guarantee yourself home
home field.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I hear that, I think to your point. Additionally, further,
the most important thing is, please let's not have any
more injuries. Although that it doesn't seem either.
Speaker 2: They don't listen to us.
Speaker 15: There's just a curse going. Yeah, there's just nothing we
can do about that and just have some semblance of
playing well. The final thing specifically about New York that
I forgot to mention that if we want to talk,
if we want to say we're cursed with injuries this year,
which is true, there's just something about being in New
York where Jose LTV and Carlos Terrea turned into different players.
So if that's where we had to play those first
three games and got to knock them out one more time,
I wouldn't mind it at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, technical, yeah, that would be nice. There there is
some magic for the Astros at Yankee Stadium. But still
I would rather be at the home stadium, no matter,
no matter who the pony it is. If you if
you're taking on the Yankees or the Mariners or the
Red Sox or whoever, it's going to be difficult and
I'd rather. I'd rather than be at home. We'll see.
It's not up to us. It's up to those guys
out there on the field, and up to those guys
in Seattle who seem to not want to lose, as
they've won now ten in a row.
Speaker 4: They did win two out of three in New York
last month. But I guess I don't want to tempt fate.
Not me either, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Brian is next up on the phone line. What's up, Brian?
Speaker 3: Hey, what's up?
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 2: Gotta have Gordy on there.
Speaker 14: Man got a lot of knowledge on the phone, right
or Hey.
Speaker 10: I've never heard of that guy, go Gordy.
Speaker 3: Hey check it out. Guys. I'm with the other caller.
Speaker 14: Like you where you go to go to Yankee Stadium.
We are a different animal, uh, you know, we go
out there and perform because all the booze. I wish
bus every single stadium like they do.
Speaker 15: We win every game.
Speaker 14: I think, you know what, two we would have sixty
home runs. But going back to the Texans, I think
that Shroud has seen ghosts out there.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 14: I think he's been hit so hard so many times.
He's got that David Carr effect. Man, And when you're
running for your life most of the time, and you
know the results are not going to be there, just
throws are going to be off your timid. You can
see his feet moving, you know, a little bit more
than it should. You know, he's not settled in and
you know, and quite frankly, i'd be running for my
life too, but three Hundretown guy running after me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does seem a little bit like I kind
of pushed back on that last year. I was like, yeah,
maybe he looks a little snake bit, but he just
seems a little off. It does seem, especially the first
couple of weeks where he is kind of bailing on
plays a little bit early. It was better for him
in week two, especially early on, And hopefully he can
continue to settle because I do think it is it's
kind of a mental battle for him to try to
make sure he's not seeing ghosts. He's not running back
words into plays and taking more yards on sacks, which
he did a better job of in week two.
Speaker 4: Can I also bring up remember him as a rookie
everything we heard about, Oh, he's just he's he's in
the lab, he's doing film work. He's putting in all
this work and all this stuff. Like he he was
a grinder his rookie season. All the hard work paid off.
And then what did we see the next offseason? He's
playing in the All Star Game, celebrity game, he's playing
in the home run derby, he's doing this. Is he
dating that chick? What's her name? You know they gave
him a ride home from Oh yeah, Amber Roads, Amber,
Like all these stories, all this stuff, and then last
year it wasn't It was a little bit of regression.
And then we're going, oh, it's the old line. Ah,
it's this, it's that. Is it fair to say to
question is he putting in the hard work that he
did as a rookie, because I did it?
Speaker 2: You know this, Patty, he talked about that. He talked
about going on podcasts and he said he didn't do
any of that. This this off he was quiet, this offseason,
he was working and he knew that there was criticism
of him doing all that type of stuff, so he
had the I'm locking in off season, and well, two
weeks in, it kind of doesn't matter. Your offensive line
isn't working and you've got you've got a new offensive
coordinator and you've got no run game. It kind of
doesn't matter how much you want to lock in. Yeah,
it's tough. I'm just I'm just putting it up out there.
Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe he is. I'm just saying, is
there something in there that maybe he is? You know,
you get that fact check, you start driving the fancy car,
you got all the clothes, you got the nice pat
I've arrived here.
Speaker 2: Work And I think he talked about that and how
he's not really just he's not doing that this offseason.
And I know the results aren't there, but I do
believe that CJ. Stroud is putting in the work until
proven otherwise. All right, top of the hour break Here
our number four, The Matt Thomas Show with Ross is
coming up. Gordy, appreciate you hanging out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2: You can pass the baton to Adam Clinton. He's gonna
come hang out for a little bit. You guys can
we'll get in. We're talking about CJ. Shroud. Where are
you at on him? Is he too full of himself?
Or is it just a function of everything is dysfunctional
with this offense? And they got to get on track
this weekend against Jacksonville. Also, of course, talking about the Astros,
where do you want them in the playoff race? How
we're feeling about them in the playoff races. They go
for a sweep against the Rangers seven to ten. First
pitch here on Sports Talk seven ninety anything you want
to get to phone lines open seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three, two one
two five seven ninety is the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross Our number four of The Matt Thomas Show with
Ross Without Matt Thomas. He will be back from his
vacation in New York City tomorrow. I'll have to ask him, Uh,
he put his name on it? Now? Of course, Jonathan,
you have learned the distinction gut feeling is like something
you feel in your gut. When Matt says he's putting
his name on something, he said, no chance, no way,
how it's not gonna happen. I believe he did that
for saying that the Astros are going to win the
American League West. So we'll get an update from Matt
on how he's feeling on that tomorrow. In the meantime,
Adam Clinton should be here shortly. You guys can get
in phone lines or open at seven one three two,
one two five seven ninety seven one three two, one
two five seven ninety. So the Astros win yesterday in
I mean, do you call it a thriller, a nail
bier and avoided collapse, however you want to describe it.
They were up six nothing, they ended up holding on
and winning six to five. Mariners continue to win and
win and win, so you're still a half game back
of the MS. They will be facing off against the
Royals again. The good news is Kansas City slight favorites
going up against Bryce Miller with Cole Reagan's who was
making his first start for in a couple of months.
Although you know Regans has been well, actually not great
this year, and then he got hurt. But anyways, Kansas
City's favored, so hopefully that plays out. But also you
are underdogs with Christian Javier going up against Jake de Gram,
but it'd be nice to just win the games in
front of you. And I don't think the Astros are
just like overly scoreboard watching or anything like that. They're
focused on the task at hand. We saw that with
them getting the wins the last two games with jord
On Alvarez going down with a significant angle ankle injury
as it is described by Joe Aspada. So you got
the two wins, but you want to win the Silver
Boots Series, you want to win the tie breaker, you
want to keep pace with the Seattle Mariners. So it's
very important for the Astros to get the win. Tonight,
seven to ten, first pitch, six o'clock, Astros on deck,
coming your way here on a Sports Talk seven to
ninety phone lines open. As I said, it's seven to
one three, two, one, two five seven, And it feels
a little bit like where we were in the middle
of June, where the injuries kept on piling up and
up and up, and the Astros just kept on winning games.
Like you get jord On out of the game on
Monday and then Zach Cole comes in and does his thing.
Then he's not in the linet. But all yesterday either
and you get the six early runs, you hang on
on the wind. So can we say hopefully that can
happen again to where the Astros can wave their magic
wand and we're like, yeah, you got Christian. Javier hasn't
been very good or up and down at the very
least going up against Jake de Gram. Somehow, some way,
can they sweep the Rangers today? That would be pretty
nice to see. Merril Kelly had a horrible start for
the Rangers yesterday. I think it was at least, at
the very least's worst start in a Ranger's uniform. You
were able to get him. He was chased off after
just three innings, giving up six to six earned runs.
Maybe the Astros can get to Jake the Gram a
little bit, score some runs and get to sweep against
the Arlington Rangers. Jake de Grom, Yes, sir, he's had
a like.
Speaker 3: A r Hi.
Speaker 2: How are you? Thanks for hanging out? Sorry, I'm allreciate you.
No short notice, okay notice.
Speaker 9: I was like, all right, let me see if I
can squeeze all the things I need to.
Speaker 2: Do before I did.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I've been pleasantly surprised because they they looked like
they were. I mean, this is like, okay, this is
finally the death blow. They're down and out, They're finally
gonna pack it in, and then they're just like, no,
we're gonna keep winning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna go ahead and win like clutch winning,
just kidding. They almost blew it last night. Well, well,
Brian Brady was clutchingough. I'm sitting there in a heart attack.
Are you okay? I worry about you and your blood
pressure during these games.
Speaker 9: I'll tell you what. I'm gonna a little tease forward
for the eighteen today. There was I thought it was
coming today. I thought the heart attack that was gonna
be coming.
Speaker 2: Have you left me anything in your will?
Speaker 9: No, I don't. I don't even know if I have
a will. I should probably get on that forty four.
You're fine, it's fine. It was before eight am and
my blood pressure was way too high.
Speaker 2: Let's put that way.
Speaker 9: I'll explain on the show. It's a segment's worth. I'm
sure WEX will love that segment today. Okay, but yeah,
like this is just this is a formality, or I
guess I should call it the appetizer. You you have
to win this game because the Mariners are never losing
a game.
Speaker 2: It's they must win game.
Speaker 9: For the Astros tennis what you're saying, but they like
it's nice to put the distance between you and a
team that really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 2: It's true, but you can lose and the Mariners can
win the next two and you're still just two games
back of the Mariners. You have to take care of
business this weekend. You have to, That's what I'm talking about.
You have to.
Speaker 9: You have to make the Mariners feel the pain that
is their road record this season, like you have to.
You have to basically keep up with the Joneses because
everybody else has. Whenever the Mariners come to town to
their their gym, they beat them. It's when the Mariners
are at home that they're like indestructible. Now lately they've
been winning everywhere. But the Astros, with everything that's happened
and particularly the injuries to pitching, have to somehow. The
best part is you have your two best pitchers going
in this series. Like if this was somehow a rotation
where Hunter Brown, Yeah, that's actually true.
Speaker 2: Jason Alexander, you three your three best.
Speaker 9: Jason Alexander's like, screw you, ac, I don't know what
you're talking about, but like you know, he's been more
consistent than fromber of late. So yes, but if if
you also has a doorknob, well, if you get the
best of those three, you just have to find a
way to scratch across some runs. It's not like the
Mariner's rotation is like completely invincible.
Speaker 2: Like a year ago, they were awesome. You're good. Yeah,
it's good. I don't know how it's lining up for
them exactly. I'm trying to go to uh MLB dot
com probables because that's better than ESPN's. They're at least
four deep. No matter what I mean, you're talking about
Gilbert Wu Kirby, who's the other one? I never can't remember.
I can't well that good but uh yeah, but.
Speaker 9: Logan Gilbert though, the funny thing about him is he's
always oh yeah, the guy they traded for that was
the big the big acquisition.
Speaker 2: Uh Logan Gilbert is like he gets owned by the
ash recording the ESPN, which can be off. They've got it,
Wu Kirby, Gilbert.
Speaker 9: Now Kirby for real analysis here are you ready for it? Seriously?
Speaker 2: Punishable face. He destroys the Astros. Now, he's been not
this year. He's been shaky the last few times he's
gone out. He didn't destroy anybody this year. How long
have you how many times have you heard this guy's
been shaky? You know, he's been not being good and
then he comes out and throws like seven innings a
one run ball against the Astros.
Speaker 9: Well that, yeah, but to be fair, when that happens
to the Astros, it's always a no namer with like
a seven e ra. Well it's four forty six for Kirby. Yeah,
he's uh, he looks like he's been hurt half the year.
Speaker 2: That's what he looks like. Okay, Well, coming back from Andrey,
I hope you're right.
Speaker 4: I have to be here.
Speaker 2: It's over. Astros need to win two out of three
at the minima of course coming up this weekend. But
I mean, it feels like they could have continued to
throw in the towel and I will I will bang this,
continue to bang this drum as well. If they win
this division. Joe Spottan needs to be your American League
Manager of the Year. Is hard to beating that drum.
Speaker 9: I'm just saying, I just nineteen guys on the eyel
at one point, nobody cares about the Astros.
Speaker 2: Do you've got no Josh hater, You've got on Alvarez
I paratus, But you're not.
Speaker 9: You're talking to a whole East Coast bias voters. They
hate the Astros already. If they're healthy, they're not going
to give He might get like a get, he'll get
a vote from like tags, somebody local.
Speaker 2: Well he's got my vote, that's all that matters. And
I'm sure he appreciated. They're six and a half behind
the Blue Jays right now, who are leading the way
in the American League. But I mean, come on, man,
it's just I don't even know how the heck they're
They're even winning the last couple of games the Astros.
Speaker 9: Yes, I mean I was at Monday night's game and
I said this yesterday to Wex, like I would vote, yeah,
But I was like, you know, and I don't think
this necessarily applies as much to baseball because nothing applies
traditionally sports wise to baseball. They are up to nothing
on that that scored run by Alvarez where he put
his leg on that were but like that's the first inning.
Speaker 2: Okay, he just goes down.
Speaker 9: You see him go not only do the dugout, he's
going to the clubhouse, and you know it's bad.
Speaker 2: Had to be helped out to the clodhouse. And then
they like two innings later, they were down three to two.
How the team, how's the team going to respond to this?
You know, because that's the guy that came back. It
was like three best, you know.
Speaker 9: Not there's whispers that mister Perettis could be back this weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all the time. I'm not super confident that.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 2: Dana Brown's comments on Sunday where DH were it's a
long shot, but we're targeting this weekend, like okay, we'll
see you guys. He phrased it, like outside chances this weekend.
He said, long shot, Yes, long shot. He said they're
targeting the Seattle series. But it's a long shot. I
don't know. We we know Dana Brown can be optimistic
in these situations we know, which I love, but also
he can fall short of those expectations when he's always optimistic.
Just saying yeah, I'm not saying I'm just saying, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: The thing is like I know cal Rawley's hitting on
all these home runs. I've never once been like ooh,
se yeah. You know there's teams where you just deep down,
you might not say it publicly, you might not say
it out loud, but they worry you.
Speaker 2: Oh Cattle has never ever ever worried. You can say
they don't worry you. They're leading the division. They've won
ten games in a row, and well, and that's pretty
much all you need to know.
Speaker 9: Theyad earlier this year to a team that was basically
field at half of Sugarland Cowboy at Space Cowboy.
Speaker 2: And they've scored twenty three runs in their last two games. Well,
who have they played? Uh? Well, the Angels in the Royals? Woh, okay,
well Angels, Yeah, I mean guess, oh to the Angels
in the A's and then the Astros lose to them.
Speaker 9: Let me guess the Braves before that where they piled
up a bunch of runs on them.
Speaker 2: Was the Cardinals. I thought they played in the bravest
Braves before that. Yeah, I got swept by the Rays
before that. But they're on ten game win streak. Ashros
have played bad game, you know, the longest win streak
they've been in all season for the Astros. Five to
five is correct five twice. That's what happens when you're
a five hundred team. So they've played a lot of
bad teams.
Speaker 9: They're five hundred. Outside of the month of June where
they were awesome, that's where the ashes have been. And
that's why I'm gonna say I'm a little bit concerned.
I still think they can win. I still think. Man,
it's hard for me to.
Speaker 2: Say they will with yord On down now, but even
it's the two days ago, I was like, Yeah, they're
still gonna win the West. They're still gonna win it. Now,
how many more hits have to keep coming? Where I'm
losing my confidence? I think they're won away.
Speaker 9: For the CLB record, which was set by the Yankees
in twenty nineteen of nineteen guys on the IL, I
think it was a record.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had nine up to nineteen. I believe at
one point eight starting pitchers. I don't know where exactly
what the numbers are. I think about this.
Speaker 9: If they put yord On back on the IL, I
don't know if that counts because he's about that. Oh gosh,
what was that about yesterday?
Speaker 4: Let's get it.
Speaker 2: Can we play that when we come back? Play that
when we come back. It was here at Joe getting
a little upset with his good friend Camp. It was
good or I was one of our callers called getting
upset at that kid. Chandler Rome as a caller, said
all right, Larry, we'll get to you. You guys want
to get in seven one three? Oh you know how
old he was? I guess I called him twenty seven,
and he's like, I'm thirty one. Okay, Well I guessed
thirty three earlier on the show today. All right, he
is thirty one years old. He is not a kid.
But it was an interesting exchange with Joe Spottle will
play that when we come back. You guys want to
get in, you can seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven.
Speaker 5: Ninety Did you just put what I said?
Speaker 2: That this is gonna take some time. I know I'm
wondering for your roster.
Speaker 4: You're going to play me.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that he listened one day at a time. Cha, Okay,
I'm not going.
Speaker 5: To give you days weeks when we go what we're
gonna do next, He's gonna have two seat down and wait, okay.
Speaker 9: M are you like me and listen. I wasn't standing
there and I haven't seen a video of this. It
just felt unnecessary in that moment.
Speaker 2: There's a because there are a couple of things at play.
Speaker 9: Go ahead, the the Astros first of all, First and foremost,
the Astros bring this on themselves with the way they've
talked about injuries for the past I don't know decade. Secondly,
he asked a perfectly logical question. He didn't say when's
he coming back? He said, is he going on the il?
That's important because it means the difference between do to
do or ten days fifteen days into the season in
that case, or if.
Speaker 2: You're listening closely, you can hear Chandler say, yeah, I'm
just trying to see if you guys are playing a
main short Yeah, I mean because then.
Speaker 9: Okay, if he's not playing for a significant amount of time,
I mean, I know they don't have exactly the best reinforcements,
but why is he taking a roster spot exactly when
you're trying to win the division here? You're it's it's
just odd. I don't know why they're so weird.
Speaker 2: Very practical questions much are weird? Somebody gets hurt, you
ask if they're going on the IL and Joe's spot
is like, listen, we're not gonna do that. We're gonna
go or today, we're taking it one day at a
day time. So I guess we'll see if if jord
On Alvarez is going to hit the iel or what's
happening with that, or if they're trying to give it
a couple Maybe they're going to try to give it
a couple of days, see how he's feeling, and then
make a retroactive eyel move. That's what I would figure
is going to happen.
Speaker 9: Like can we think about a scenario because it's very
real and it's actually probably going to happen, so we
might as well go ahead and do this. You know
that both the Astros and the Texans are now weird
about injuries because de Miko's Yes, they are like, yeah,
ask about Joe mix and see how that goes for
your day. But when, not if, but when Kevin Durant
is on the shelf with some nagging ankle, knee, whatever injury.
Because it's gonna happen this year, I fully expect it
all right. That's why I don't expect to see him
in any preseason games. John, Okay, with how do you
think e May will handle that? Because I think that
e May. You know, he's such a he's like a
man's man. He's a he's a straight shooter about every
very straight shooter.
Speaker 2: Love having him on interviews, not that Joe Joe Spot
is very good, tough, Yeah, with no he mad, it's easy.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, I thought you were saying.
Speaker 2: I'm being serious. You can ask him anything. He didn't care. Yeah,
he does not take an answer to exactly. Like You're like,
you're sitting there, you know, you know how this is.
You're like, okay, we have to ask this squo. What
was it? Last year was like Cam Whitmore came out
and said a bunch of crazy stuff and I'm like, well,
I don't know if he May is gonna get mad,
but we have to ask this question. You ask him
about it and he's like, yeah, I saw it. I
don't know what the heck's going on. Like he'll just
answered he didn't care very matter of fact. It's awesome.
Speaker 9: You know who was kind of like sneaky difficult. I
don't want to say difficult, but I can't really put
my finger on what the word is that. Uh that
that interview we did with rafel Stone was he was
he was fine, gave great answers, but it was just
it was he was a little bit of like it
wasn't like pulling teeth. But it certainly wasn't a free
It wasn't Daryl Morey that diplomatic with Daryl Morra.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kevin Durant's and we obviously like what he brings.
Speaker 9: The go in the other room and call in on
a phone. So it sounds just like him. It's insane
and I still can't do I think yours is better
than Gordy at this time.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's not a competition. I'm not here
to compete. I'm here to just get well, not here
in twenty twenty five now that he's long. I'm here
to give good content anyway, Thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah,
some guys are more forecoming than others. And that's just
in personality. That's people you meet in your day to
day life. It just is what it is. And some
guys are gonna be more guarded. For example, Dusty Baker.
I mean anytime you know, you would ask him just
say hey, I remember being like, what does remember the
whole Gyanardeas versus Martine Maldonado thing. I was like, hey,
what does Justy's last stand? What does Yanardys need to
do to more earn more playing time? I mean, I
put it in a very diplomatic way, and he's like,
I think I know more than you guys. And I'm like, okay,
well to relax, Dusty, like, obviously you're all you're going
into the Hall of Fame. You got two thousand hits
or twenty five hundred hits, whatever it was, World Series Champion.
I'm just asking you a question that he needs to
be asked, like, don't be so offended. And I don't
think Joe. Joe really gets offended. He doesn't normally, and
so that's why, I mean, especially somebody he works with
every day, with Chandler, it was kind of a little
bit surprising to hear Joe take that tact with with Chandler.
Speaker 9: Rome there, Yeah, I don't, it's it's not it's not ideal.
And Chandler, to his credit, he's a lot like he
may he just does not care about anybody's feelings. He's
trying to do his job and he feels like you're
making his job more difficult. He's gonna say, now, I
don't think that was this situation. I don't think. I
think for all intents and purposes, I think he has a.
Speaker 2: Good relationship with with Joe Spata, But it is.
Speaker 9: I know it's been trying at times, and particularly with
the medical staff. By the way, I'm sorry, but like,
can we just hit the reset button in that aspect
of the organization this offseason? Is that too much to
ask for? M I don't know, Jeremiah, I don't know
the staff. I'm not even trying. I'm not sitting here
and to get people fired. But come on, dude, yes
you are well. I mean, how many injuries do we
need to have of the head scratching variety?
Speaker 2: Like how does this happen? I'm gonna say something crazy.
I'm not a doctor and I don't know. You're right,
it looks suspicious for sure on the outside. Either one
of us are not having a medical degree, not looking anything.
It seems like they're rushing guys back and or misdiagnosic.
Speaker 9: If one pitcher came back and then left with elbow
inflammation after a years long rehab. That'd be one thing.
We've had multiple guys have this happen this year. Spenceria
Gay's back, just kidding, he's gone. Luis Garcia is back,
just kidding, he's gone. Lance mccullor is his own category again.
Speaker 2: I will say, I'm not a medical doctor. On the outside,
it looks bad, but that is a very uneducated opinion
on my part, and I understand, and we can all say,
we can all have our opinions, but we truly don't know.
And yeah, I wouldn't be shocked at all if there's
some sort of uh changing of the guard with training
staff or and or strength and conditioning staff and or
hitting coaches. When we talked about a lot, especially depending
on what happens. I mean, the pressure is on in
these last ten games or so for everybody in the organization.
I know what I would do if I own the team.
What would you do?
Speaker 9: Well, it's besides that I would bring back aj Hinch
in a heartbeat.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's not happening. Oh really, you want to make
a bet right now?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: What do you want to bet? What do you you? Okay,
you think it's gonna happen. Aj Hinch is coming back
to Houston win before his career is over. I'm not
gonna say, Okay, before his career over over, I wouldn't bet.
I wouldn't necessarily bet against that. The Tigers the World
Series in the next two years. Why would the Tigers
let him go there? They aren't they about to win
their division? Okay, what if he wants to be here?
Do you ever think about that? Okay, that's possible.
Speaker 9: Put it this way, if tomorrow Jim Crane was given
the choice, you can bring one back, but only one,
Jeff Luno or Aj Hinch.
Speaker 2: I would imagine it would be Hinch. Luno has been
out of baseball for a while and he sued you.
This isn't about Jim Crane wanting to or not. He
doesn't want to bring back Jeff Luno. But I think
it's a mutual interest. It's based on what I've heard,
I could see that. But I mean, what are you
gonna do? Trade for him? You might not have to.
Who was the last manager to get put traded for
Ossie Uh? I think he was traded to the White Sox.
Trade for him to Miami. I think they traded him
to Miami. Oh, I think you're right. I forgot about that.
I forgot about his his Miami chapter of his career.
I would have to go back and look at that.
I mean, okay, I'm not gonna I guess I'm not
gonna say it's the craziest thing. But I just think,
I mean, that's gonna cost you. Why would the up
and he's a free agent? Is his contract it's not
after this year.
Speaker 9: I know that, but I don't I don't know what
the stat I just know that it's not after this
season because he signed an extension. Like fairly, I say,
I want to say, like after twenty three, maybe.
Speaker 2: There could be mutual interest, but it feels like that
that would feel like a long shot to me. But hey,
clearly you know more than I am.
Speaker 9: Matter Anyways, I would absolutely back the Brinks truck up
for Jeff Luno if anybody could fix this mess at ten.
The roster is a mess. Think about after this season.
Think about where they're at. They're a mess. They got
to trade somebody on the big league roster just to
figure it out. You can't just move pieces around.
Speaker 2: Or you figure out some second base with either a
one of Paradis Correa or Pina.
Speaker 9: Okay, so Josel Twove is your everyday left fielder and
jord On your everyday dh.
Speaker 2: Oh you you you would mix them? Yeah, slip them. Yeah.
They've been playing or on more in left field than
I think they anticipated when he came back. And that's
because because Josel Tuve. I mean, don't look at the
advanced mastrics for the worst second basement in foot baseball,
and don't look at the advanced metrics for the worst
left fielder in baseball. At least last night was productive.
They're gonna see one guy on there twice. It's not
I hate it, you know what. He was scalding hot
for a while there with a bat. Yeah, I'm just
talking about in the field, but in the field. Yeah,
it's that's that's the whole reason this is even all right.
We got to take a break here at the bottom
of the hour here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
When we come back, good conversation with Brian Bogasvic that
is coming your way. We're with you until two o'clock,
so make sure you get some more astros talk coming
your way next here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
A great conversation earlier today with Brian bogas Sevic Wednesday
guest here on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross, So
I wanted to bring you guys some of that. You
can find the full conversation sports Talk seven ninety dot com.
But here is Bogey earlier today with myself and Chris
Gordy talking about your Houston Astros, winners of their first
two games in the series against the Rangers.
Speaker 10: You know what, it's it's kind of always that way.
You see guys slips all the time, and you know
it's it's kind of like damned if you do, damned
if you don't. You don't want jord on sliding your risks,
you know, jamming your knee into the batter's box. Batter's
box is a little bit harder than the field, you know,
sliding into second base or something. But at the same time,
I'm you're running full speed and you step on home
plate and you get.
Speaker 3: You see guys slip all the time, and.
Speaker 10: That just that was a nasty one. Like there there
was there was a good replay, you know, right in
on his foot and you saw, you know, go all
the way over on it.
Speaker 3: That was a that was a nasty one.
Speaker 2: We had Joe spot on yesterday. He talked about like
guys toweling off home plate or something like, can you
explain that to me? Like, is that something guys? It's
as hitters do that before the first inning or something
like that, because it's the fields all wet, obviously from
from the grounds crew wetting wetting everything to start the game.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they spray down the batter's boxes and everything, and
obviously home plates gets home plate gets wet, but it'll
get wiped down. You'll see throughout the course of the
game the Empire come out and wipe it down, or
catchers will kick the dirt off of it. It's just,
you know, it's kind of like a necessarily sary evil, Right,
You've got this flat, slick, hard surface right kind of
in the middle of the action. It's not ideal. I'm sure.
I'm sure Major League Baseball has explored better options. But
you know, if you change the material and then somebody
steps on it and the cleat catches in it and
they you know, roll an ankle or twist the knee
on top of home plate, then you're gonna have everybody
screaming about that too.
Speaker 4: All right, bug, you're reading between the lines of what
Joe Spot has said yesterday. Is there any hope of
perhaps your I mean, it feels like with two weeks
left in the season where I can see back in
the regular season game. But do you think possible deep
playoff Runnie could be back.
Speaker 10: I think it's possible. I don't know if it's likely,
but I mean, anybody that's played basketball, watched basketball, covered basketball,
you see these ankle injuries all the time, and they're
you know, there's about as wide a variant variants on
an ankle spring as any injury you can have. And
and once once the swelling goes down and and the
and the pain kind of subsides, you know, then you
can figure out more of a timeline how long it's
going to take to strengthen it up. And you see
some sometimes guys bounce back in you know, a couple
of days or a week, or sometimes it's weeks in
two months.
Speaker 2: So there's really no.
Speaker 10: Way to tell right now. But yeah, I think there's
probably an outside chance that it's possible, But you know,
to put a percentage on it, and who knows these
things you have no idea when a guy rolls an ankle.
Speaker 4: You, as a former hitter, how much does the ankle
matter in the box?
Speaker 2: We know, obviously we're out of the box running the.
Speaker 4: Bases, you gotta have a good ankle, But how much
does does that affect the swing? How much does does
the ankle matter there?
Speaker 10: Yeah, actually probably more so than it does running. You know,
running is straight line, you're up on the balls of
your feet and you're kind of under control. When you're
talking about hitting in the batter's box, there's a you know,
it all starts from the ground up. There's a lot
of force put into the ground. You're digging your cleats in,
there's a lot of torque. You have to really like
break through the dirt as you turn and transfer all
that power. And if your ankles are weak, it's you know,
certainly going to affect your swing from a power production standpoint.
It's also probably going to affect you mechanically as you
try to overcompensate. So yeah, I think honestly it will
probably It will probably be easier to get back into
a scenario where you can run in a straight line
decently earlier than you're talking about being able to take
one hundred percent, you know, full speed swings.
Speaker 2: Brian bogus Sevic was here on a Sports Talk seven
ninety and that's all depressing, So let's get into something
a little bit more uplifting. Zach Cole been pretty good
for the Astros over three yesterday. Before that, he had
the big home run as he replaced Jordan Alvarez. Uh,
what have you seen from him? And I was especially
impressed by the home run where it was the forcing
top of the zone where pitchers like to pitch, and
he got around on that one.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that was actually that was a good pitch. That
wasn't a mistake that Jack Lader made and Jack Ledder
was in a groove and had some good stuff. So
you know, you start seeing a guy who can get
on top of somebody's best pitch at the top of
the zone, it's pretty impressive.
Speaker 3: He's got tools. I mean, he's.
Speaker 10: He's bigger and stronger. Then you kind of think he's
twitchy and explosive. He's got really really good batspeed, he
can catch up to a fastball. I think the thing
that I've probably been most impressed about though, is, you know,
the hits that he's gotten that aren't the home runs,
the RBI bas hits, shooting the ball the other way.
He's handled some at bats pretty well, getting down in
the count, fighting back, laying off of tough off speed pitches.
You know, sometimes you think a guy in that situation,
a young a young hitter whose main tool is power
and bat speed, is going to come out there just hacking.
But it's been pretty high quality at bat which you know,
gives you more hope to maybe this is somebody who
can be helpful throughout the course of a couple of
weeks and into a playoff push and who knows next year,
rather than just hey, this is a guy who was
swinging a hot beat at the minor league. Let's ride
it out for as long as we can up here
in the big leagues, you know, and then we'll move
on the.
Speaker 4: Big question, Brian. We've had from a lot of folks,
you know, just bounce around town. People will go, hey,
what do you think that the Astros make the playoffs?
Speaker 2: You think they got any chance?
Speaker 4: All this kind of stuff, And my answer I'm giving
to them now is this is the playoffs, right, I mean,
like with what Seattle's doing right now, ten in a row.
Speaker 2: Is absolutely stupid.
Speaker 4: But we'll see what The Astros could complete the sweep
tonight of the Rangers, but matters will play another game
tomorrow against the Royals.
Speaker 2: You'll know where this thing is.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 4: You a game back? Are you you know, two games back?
Whatever going into this weekend? But man, you talk about
the importance of a series, how crazy is this weekend
going to be? With Seattle coming in here? Basically they're
tied season series tied five and five. I mean, this
is the playoffs right here.
Speaker 10: Yeah, this is the real deal. This is every pitch matters,
every inning matters. There's no you know, we spend six
months talking about the big picture of baseball and sing
will level out and you just keep making the right
play and you'll be fine over time. This is like
trust your gut, take some chances, roll the dice and
whatever you have to do. I mean, you can just
tell by the way the games are being managed. This game,
this series with the Rangers on both sides. You see
the amount of moves being made, pitching.
Speaker 3: Changes being made.
Speaker 10: You know, both managers playing matchups from a pinch hitting standpoint,
Guys coming in and out of the lineup, on.
Speaker 3: A day to day basis.
Speaker 10: This is real baseball. This is playoff baseball. And I mean,
you know, Joe spot Up essentially emptied the clip yesterday
and did everything he could to secure that win. It
took every bit of Brian Abray you and you know,
is he probably not available today?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Sure, but it doesn't matter because you had to get
that game yesterday figure out today today. So yeah, I mean,
it's playoff baseball started this week here in Houston.
Speaker 2: There you go, Brian Boga Sevic with some conversation. You
can find it in full Sports Talk dot Com. Great
Stuff with Bogie every Wednesday at eleven am. Appointment Setting Radio.
Don't forget all right, quick break here all the bat
Tabas Show with Ross, Adam Klinn is hanging out. Matt
Thomas will be back tomorrow. Final segment of the show
is coming up after this quick break, playing some of
Adam Clinton's favorite music. Coming back from break here, I sun,
I like millions. Do you ask why are we playing?
Speaker 9: My gosh, you know how I found out about this
this morning. I heard it from the other room as
my wife discovered it. Oh my god, go ahead, Cardi
B's knocked up by Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 2: Congratulations to Stefan Diggs and Cardi b can have no chance.
They are expecting a child. All the best to them,
and well the child should at the very least be
financial stable. Maybe you would imagine why not. I don't know.
Speaker 9: People that may a lot of money spend it all
all the time. Look at Antwan Walker gotta make a
gajillion dollars broke as a joke, and he's just one example.
Speaker 2: I'm yes and one Walker. That's a random pool. But
I just remember him being like because he was one
of them. More he had a massive gambling problem and
he he owed like fifty million dollars for blackjack debts.
I mean, Charles Barkley has a massive gamble like Bruno Mars.
Isn't who which which casino is holding Bruno Mars hostage
because he's in a big debt with them? Was it the
was it the MGGM. I think as the MGM he
owes them.
Speaker 9: He's like having to like work it off with performances,
Like think about that, I.
Speaker 2: Do like three hundred cons and I get back out there. Bruno, Yeah,
like no, buddy, think about.
Speaker 9: If you got in big yo to whoever, and you
couldn't sing or dance or whatever he does? Well, didn't
they crack your knees? Yeah? But that you have always thought
about that? And since you and I love mobster movies,
yes we do. Well, what is it really accomplished? Though
it doesn't get them the money they need, it sends
a message to the others if they don't pay. It's
about making an example the money I want the moneys.
You gotta make an example out of him.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 9: You remember the other day when I tagged you in
that thing on Instagram? Yes, Joe Pesci, Yes, he told him,
what if I were to just put your head through
that hole in the glass right there?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 10: That?
Speaker 2: Oh wait was it that one? Yeah?
Speaker 9: And then magically the money appears out of his left
coat pocket.
Speaker 2: Oh yea yeah, yeah, I know it's yes, that one
when he's collecting I got chucked.
Speaker 9: I've never seen a guy that's like four foot seven
be so intimidated.
Speaker 2: That's from Casino, which is underrated by the way. She is.
Speaker 9: A looks amazing in that movie. B is completely psychotic.
She's every guy's worst nightmare of like the worst case
scenario could happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but see that was a th Rostein's fault.
Speaker 4: Yeh.
Speaker 2: She created that mom she told him he didn't want
to get married.
Speaker 9: I mean, anybody that is going to still be sneaking
around with James Woods behind your back probably not the
marriage material you're thinking, Lester.
Speaker 2: They're at their wedding and she's calling him in the
other room crying on the phone. Ah. Man, what a
great movie. Yeah, what a great film. And guys heads
were putting vices, I mean all sorts of stuff. Yeah,
it was good with the Tony spilatro way, Tony Spilantro
was the real guy and his name was what in
the movie? I forget.
Speaker 9: But the best part of that scene is he Joe
PESHI can't believe who he basically got his eyeball squeezed
out for.
Speaker 2: He's so mad about Johnny. Yeah, that's great, so great.
All right, what were we talking about. Congratulations to Stefan
Diggs and Cardi Ba. They are expecting a child and
I am wishing them the best in all of their
future endeavors.
Speaker 9: Texans legend Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 2: Texans absolutely put him in the season, put him in
the Ring of Honor. Why not? One of the all
time great the bars low? How low is the bar?
It's two people, right right, A player and a former owner,
JJ Watt and Andre Johnson. I mean players.
Speaker 10: What?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 9: Andre is in there. Andre was first, wasn't he? Yeah,
he was the first one. And then now it's Janis.
Oh that's right. They did add No the Janis?
Speaker 2: No, No, they did, they did, Robert c Yeah, Janis
might be next. I would imagine Kerry mcmahir probably not
going to be put in there.
Speaker 9: Fifty percent of your four members of the Ring of
Honor are former ownership.
Speaker 2: That's Texas going to go in there. I mean, after
twenty five years, shouldn't you have more than two players?
And Demiico Ryans could make it in there? Well, maybe not,
things keep going the way that they are. I don't
know if he's going to be able to make it
in there. Do you still just come on in? Who cares?
So you still bring still believe in Tamiko Ryans's over
at Big City Wings, Big City Wings. I believe he's
a good defensive coach. Yes, I still believe in him
as a defensive coach. But when you give up twenty
five first downs and your offense can't do jack, your
defense is going to wear down at the end of games.
Speaker 9: Well, let me ask you, this is this kind of
like the situation where remember Mike D'Antoni was an offensive genius,
but he had to hire Jeff Bisdelic as a defensive coordinator.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's like the opposite of that. For the Texans. Well,
it's like, you know, Andy Reid is the offensive guy
and then Steve Spagnolo is a defensive guy. You I mean,
you're going to.
Speaker 9: Bring in an offensive mind. It needs to not be
the two jimokes that have been here since he's been here.
Speaker 2: Well, while Bobby Slok wasn't a Jimoke the first year
he's here, he was a genius and he was getting
all these head coaching nods and all that stuff. You
need better players, that's because their offensive line was better.
Nick Cayley looks a lot smarter when you can actually
hold the offensive line, can hold pressure, when guys are
actually getting on the same page, and when you can
have a running back that doesn't have seventeen knee surgeries
and his knees are held together by bubblegum. And his
name is Nick Chubb mcguiver got ahold of him. Yeah,
it's paper clips and duct tape and bubblegum holding Nick
Chubb's knees together. And you don't have much of a
running game. You don't have any pass catchers outside of
Nico Collins. He scored a touchdown. Uh, and your quarterback
has been shaky and inaccurate, and you got a first
time play caller. Other than that, things are going great
off the Texans.
Speaker 9: Of course, the line had to part like the Red
Sea for him to get that opening.
Speaker 2: It's so bad that people are saying that they let
him score on purpose. Yeah, that was I'm not there's
a lot of people saying it. I'm not saying it.
I'm saying I don't, yam. But Bay gives up the lead, yes,
and that purpose At that point there was two minutes left,
they were they had all three timeouts.
Speaker 9: Right, and they had been stopped on the previous eight
or nine consecutive drives on offense. Yeah, but they should
have been again because Baker Mayfield was allowed to I understand.
Speaker 2: I don't think it happened. That's complete nonsense. Who really
believe your running back is so bad that people are like, wow,
he got that free. They mustn't let him do that.
That's how bad it's been. Anyways, thanks for hanging out,
Missus James in season's over. Oh well, it's gonna be
three games in if they lose this one. But anyways,
I digress. Thanks to all of you for hanging out.
Thanks to Adam Clinton for hanging out. Thanks to Chris
Cordy as well. Thanks for Jonathan Allen and being here
for the duration. Thanks to Brian Bogusvich. Thanks all you
called tweet. I got involved in the show directly. I
do truly appreciate you. I'll talk to you folks coming
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