Speaker 1: This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten.
Speaker 2: O'clock at h town A good morning and welcome to
a Wednesday initiation to the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
from Deptford.
Speaker 3: That's just sports talk seven out eight.
Speaker 2: Being on somesh he goes zero Sun quick real quick Center.
It's hey, rockets wind final score Houston one thirteen at
Toronto next.
Speaker 3: Nine makes him sit good. That's my that's my old.
Speaker 2: Nun got all. Oh is there not a better way
to wake up? Houston, Texas was great.
Speaker 3: I'm saying foot of bucks in the building.
Speaker 2: Let's go Manny song after nineteen seventy six, Well that's.
Speaker 3: To this week. Hey, you black off, Let's go Manny.
You know Niel Saidaka died last week when don't even
bring it? Oh no, I know. Is that believe it
or not?
Speaker 2: Today? No, we don't have believe not today, Okay, but
tomorrow we do. And you know Friday you do may
neel rest. Oh yeah you're off tomorrow. Yeah. Good morning.
By the way, lord, Hey man, how you doing. How's
that Mountain Time treating you?
Speaker 3: You're all right? Have not great, You're fine. Mountain Time's great.
Speaker 2: It's it's a great time zone. But you should be
playing back to backs against them. You're off the show
in two hours and you're in beautiful Denver.
Speaker 3: That is true. Man.
Speaker 2: You know what, And I shouldn't speak this in New Existence,
but this is a four hour day kind of content
content day, is it not. I mean, of course a
lot going on. Absolutely, we gonna cuse, We're gonna discuss
some Texans offensive lone editions.
Speaker 3: You a'll do that, you'll break that down because it'skis.
Speaker 4: Yeah, why not?
Speaker 2: It's fine. Who cares offensive? Care to protect the quarterback,
that's all. And nobody knows who these people are. Just
protect the quarterback. Let's get let's go, let's get our
mojo back. I mean, we cared when the guys were good,
when it was Dwayne Brown. Oh hell yeah, we'res Meyers,
so we need to care. Yeah, we love Eric Winston,
We did Mike Brizel if you will, absolutely.
Speaker 3: But these Jimokes ain't doing squat Hey, come on, don't
use that word jamokes. Is that a bad word. No,
it's fine, Okay, I don't want you.
Speaker 2: I'm a client and used it with it were talking
about the Celtics and he got them in trouble with
Eric in Providence. Oh, I don't need Eric and Providence
calling the show today.
Speaker 3: All right, Rossie, we.
Speaker 2: Got a lot of things to get to, I mean
short period of time. We got Brian Boguscevic's gonna join
us at eleven o'clock today. He's the debut of the
Brian Pogacevic segment. Let's go every Wednesdays primarily on here
on Sports Talk seven. Auntie, we have shut your bum
ass up today at eleven thirty. We are out at
eleven fifty five because the Astros are going to take
on I'm gonna guess the Marlins went in doubt to
Marlins and Nationals or somebody else like that. The Marlins
is correct at the Marlins. Oh, it's at the Marlins.
That's you have to uh forget about the spring training
records at that point.
Speaker 3: Next game home for the Senators.
Speaker 2: I mean, wait, National Senators, it's not it's not crazy.
Speaker 3: That's not crazy at all. And whatever Nationals.
Speaker 2: All right, Uh, let me just give you everything that's
on my little you know, I still these note patent
not steal them. They're given to me by the hotel. No,
I don't because they're for there for your use. No
stealing extras maybe, but not not stealing. Rockets beat the Raptors.
The tissues are for there for your use. But you
take a box from every place, you're stealing them.
Speaker 3: No, I don't steal tissues. Okay, you just use a few.
Speaker 2: Maybe Rockets beat the Raptors. Rockets play the Nuggets tonight. Yes,
we have Bam out of Bio scoring eighty three points.
Oh my, Gosha is split on this big time split
split split. We have what the hell happened at Dykin
Park yesterday? Italy beat the United States? Yes, even when
I started filing embrace the WBC that our American team
let us.
Speaker 3: Down, h Josh had. Some people are blaming you.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do that, Matt, But wow, what would
I What could I have possibly have done?
Speaker 3: You mean to embrace America? Great?
Speaker 2: This greatest country we live in, with the greatest state
of the country, you know, the greatest state in our union,
of course, Texas.
Speaker 3: That's the reason why I represented as well as Thenzo
and the boys. Oh Zecha Descenzo.
Speaker 2: Hey, we beat the tim USA.
Speaker 3: And now the manage you Pablo Pricioni, he's from Marcatini.
Not that we stereotype on this show. We don't. It's
one of our show.
Speaker 2: We would do this, we would the past that. As
somebody pointed out, a lot of these guys, almost all
the whole team is American born. It's basically like the
American Sea Squad beat America. Oh, we need some more
Neil diamonna get us fired up?
Speaker 3: No, no, we didn't have. Nobody's there.
Speaker 2: Nobody needs to answer yes to the question do we
need some more Neil Diamond? America loves Neil Diamond America
trade Yeah, yeah, octogenarians. Okay, So here's the problem. He's
popular in the retirement castle.
Speaker 3: So now we are.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to watch the other game today to
see what's going on, to see if the US gets eliminated.
Speaker 3: Because the run differential or whatever, it's out of our hands. Ross.
How can we live America without our w PC do
going on to the dot? How can they be three
and one and not eligible?
Speaker 2: I don't know, it happens. Probably should have done some
more homework on the w Yes, I should have.
Speaker 3: That's no. I'm putting myself on the best some for
that one.
Speaker 2: Um so I guess because Brazil is so horrible. Brazil's
owned four and great in Britain's one and three, so
you can end up.
Speaker 3: With three three and one teams. Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: Tiebreakers do count. It's like you know, it happens all
the time in the volleyball competitive world. My friend, I'm
used to this things.
Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, we have some Josh.
Speaker 2: We have a Josh hater up to get to today
on the show Lovely we have the Texans overhauling their
punting game, I guess, okay, and making Kymie fairbir I
remember when Kymie Ferber was like a top five paid
kicker about five or six years ago, and people are like,
what are you paying him? Got that crazy money? You're
paying him so much money. Now he's now the top
kicker in the NFL, and I guess for as big
of a part of an offense as he is for
the Texans.
Speaker 3: That's good, mon, He's meant right. Yeah, he's their MVP.
That is true. That is honestly the truth.
Speaker 2: All the signing of the off season, Yeah, Kymie Fairburn
might get in there, just don't put his whole name
in there. Andre Johnson, JJ Watt, cal McNair, no, no,
j wait, Bob's in there. Janis is Bob and Janis
are in there, and yes, it's gonna be Kymie Fairburn. Well,
that's gonna take him like twenty five yards of field
right or the the space. Last candidate Kerry McNair not
gonna make it. I don't think Carry's getting in.
Speaker 3: I don't think he is. I think Carry's invited to
Toro Town.
Speaker 2: It's gonna he's been excommunicated from Toro Toro district.
Speaker 3: When you have Toro Town, you have all these spots.
Speaker 2: I like using Toro district because it sounds so horrible
and dumb.
Speaker 3: Um. Yeah, I don't know if you.
Speaker 2: It's like when somebody in like high school gives himselves
a nickname and it's terrible and you keep calling him
that nickname.
Speaker 3: Like bulldogs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tubular Todd, Okay Todd, I don't know. YEA Toro
district totown sounds better. Tour district sounds so bad. I
want to keep using it. Okay, we could do that.
I'm still gonna climb a total town because if anybody
says it calls a tot town, they'll get it from me,
because nobody else calls a Toto Town except me.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right.
Speaker 2: So, uh where do you want to start? I mean,
I give you a pluthor of things. Uh do you
want to go to Bamford.
Speaker 3: Bamford bam as in b A m as a bam
out of Bible. Let's do it. Bam First, I got you.
You blipped out for seconds. I'm sorry, so Bam.
Speaker 2: Look, I didn't see any of it, obviously, because I
was calling the Rockets Raptors game and it wasn't on
national TV, because I'm assuming that Washington National or Washington versus.
Speaker 3: Miami was not available except for those people in.
Speaker 2: Those markets unless you were a like a Direct TV
NBA League Pass subscriber, and I wouldn't think that's not
even on the agenda.
Speaker 3: It is a polarizing conversation.
Speaker 2: With respected people I like in the basketball world, people
I do not respect in basketball. I've actually gone back
and forth in my opinion about it, and I had
a pull question that had a really dominant result early on.
It is such's changed since I put it out at
about one forty five this morning. I can be convinced
of the other direction on this ross, but the general
setting philosophy I have about This is two things. Okay,
one discorre eighty three points takes incredible athleticism. I mean
you're just physically on the court shooting shots, free throws,
three pointers, field goal. But it's still gimmicky, really gimmicky,
all the free throws. And on top of the fact
that Emadoka said it best last night after the game,
it's the Washington Wizards who are uber tankering. I mean,
it's the Washington Wizards are the most embarrassing franchise in
the NBA and had been that way for about twenty years.
So if this was against even like a team like
Charlotte who's playing better, or maybe a Chicago or Minnesota,
maybe you give a little more credence to it.
Speaker 3: But it's the it's the Wizard's ross and it's a
goof and they were shooting.
Speaker 2: I mean, how do you go to the free throw
in forty three times in a game without it being
largely manufactured. I saw a video that had all the
foul calls and they looked all pretty legit. There wasn't
a ton of foul bating. I mean there were some,
but I mean, if you're gonna get to the free
throw line that much, the Wizards were fouling him.
Speaker 3: And it's the Wizards things. I don't care about that either.
Speaker 2: So what the Rockets played the Wizards like a week
and a half ago or whatever, they beat him by five.
The Rockets leading scorer in that Wizard's game was albrnsching
Gun with thirty two. So he's fifty points off of
Bam out of Bio. So yeah, it's the Washington Wizards
and they're not good. But people are playing bad teams
in the NBA every single night and they're not scoring
eighty three points. So that to me is a bad
argument as far as trying to tear down the accomplishment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just.
Speaker 2: Gonna say it this, BAM's a good NBA scorer, but
he's never been considered an elite NBA scorer. Is that
fair to say? Yes, I mean Kobe putting up eighty one.
I mean Kobe's had sixty point games. Kobe's had fifty
point games. I don't have the Bam numbers in.
Speaker 3: Front of it. But how many forty plus games.
Speaker 2: As Bam had his NBA career, I don't know, such
a one off. That's the reason why to me, there's
a little gimmicky to it. One of the craziest things
would be Corey Brewer's fifty point game against the Rockets.
Like Corey Brewer could go get out of nowhere getting fifty.
This is like far surpassing that, because yeah, bam Adebayo
is not a scoring champion. You look, I mean Wilt
Chamberlain was a scoring champion. He averaged fifty points a
game that year that he scored one hundred. It makes sense.
That's what kind of makes this special to me. I
think my initial reaction was to kind of try to
tear this down. And the one big counter argument would
be that the the the heat were fouling the Wizards
at the end of the game to try to get
banned the ball back.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So again, what I cannot answer because I'm all looking
at highlights, because obviously I was working the Rockets game
last night. Was there a concerted attempt to pad the numbers?
And I don't think the answer can be known to
that there was a concerted effort to get him to
a higher number. He wasn't organically just killing it. So
I would lean rossy five this is the Wizards and
its stat padding.
Speaker 3: But again I could be easily convinced the other direction.
Speaker 2: This is special, This is an all time this is Look,
we talk about the Wizards, we can talk about whatever.
It's going into history books. I made the analogy last
night in the postgame, like you could talk about.
Speaker 3: Cheating scant all you want.
Speaker 2: You go to the history book and you look for
twenty seventeen World Series champion, it says Houston Astros there.
You look for the history book and you look for
highest scoring game, it says bam Adebayo there.
Speaker 3: And yeah, the fouling was crazy. That happened at the
end of.
Speaker 2: The Wilt Chamberlain game where both sides were fouling a
bunch to where they got him to one hundred. So yeah,
if you want to go ahead and raise a stink
and say, well, Wilt Chamberlain shouldn't have one hundred points,
and we could say that and that can be true.
The Kobe Bryant one was pretty legitimate, but they were
just getting him the ball. He was shooting up against
double and triple teams. I actually went on YouTube and
I watched the whole every basket scored by Kobe in
that game, just because I was curious, which, by the way,
if he took a if he had a step back
on a couple of long tunes, he could have had
eighty five. But anyways, I digress. So, yeah, it wasn't
within the rhythm of the game. It's never in the
rhythm of a game for anyone to score eighty points ever, ever,
unless you're hand of the ball to Reggie Miller and
he's every time the ball leaves his hands is going
to find unless it's the All Star Game. Yeah, and
I think somebody brought up like Luca's seventy points game
was pretty well in the rhythm of the game. He
only took like I don't know, or it was like
thirty shots or something like that, and he was just
on fire and made a bunch of threes. So by
like effective field goal percentage and stuff like that, Luca
the Lucas seventy point game. But we're not looking at
effective field goal percentage. I understand we uh and I'm
talking about you, Matt, But just in general, we like
to tear day things down as soon as they happened.
I was one of them. I was like, Oh, they're
fouling for it. But then I'm like, you know what
they did? It in the Chamberlain game, and nobody's gonna
score eight. Nobody's gonna be like, man, that was a smooth,
natural eighty point game. That's not gonna ever happen. Maybe
when you score above sixty five, it's gonna there's gonna
be a scent of gimmick game. Absolutely, you're gonna be
You're gonna be pushing for more. You're gonna push for seventy.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't have video of David Thompson's seventy point game.
I don't know what he did in that one. But
but Kobe was absolutely forcing shots and jacking up shots
over two and three defenders and bam Ade Bayo. They
were trying to get him the points and he got
there and there. Ever, the the Washington Wizards have played
sixty whatever games this year, and this is the first
guy to score eighty on him. This is to my knowledge,
it's the first guy to score seventy on them. Well,
it's the first time since six we got a number
this high. I mean, it's been yeah, well kobea now Bam,
all right, pull question is up, Bam. Out of Bio's
eighty three points on Tuesday, it's on my Twitter account.
Wow just wow, or it was the Wizards meth fifty
five percent say it was the Wizard's Matt forty five
percent say wow, just wow again it's up. Just just
just trying to figure it out. But it was only
made things in the NBA very interesting. It did, for sure.
Seven one three two seven ninety seven one three two
point two five seven ninety I'm here in Denver for
Rockets and Nuggets tonight, Ross Back and Houston, Brian Bogaceivic
with this is coming up at eleven o'clock.
Speaker 3: We have a Josh Hater update next.
Speaker 2: I'm here in Denver for Rockets Nuggets to night. We'll
have it for you with the launch pad eight o'clock.
Tip time is at nine o'clock an hour later tonight
for that World Baseball Classic back underway tonight. If Mexico
beats Italy and Mexico scores five or more runs, US advances,
so does Italy. If Mexico scores four runs or less,
US is not advanced. If Italy wins against Mexico, US advances.
Speaker 3: So go Italy.
Speaker 2: Yes, Ope, tark schools Okay, it was a mess where
everybody can just go home. You can get back to
spring training. Josh Hayterer update coming up in a few minutes.
Let's talk to Keso on Seve Ony Keso.
Speaker 3: Good morning to you. Good morning guys. I just wanted to.
Speaker 1: Quickly brush up on what happened last night. I think
both things can be true, where it was a historic
game and at the same time kind of gammicky with
forty six street throws against the Wizards, But at the
same time, it's an NBA team. You got to play
who's in front of you, I think or I fall
on it. It's always cool to witness sports history. I mean,
I'm a sicko. I have NBA League passed, but I
was watching the Rockets on the big screen and had
the Keet game on my phone, and once the Rockets
kind of put it away, I just kind of focused
on the heat game and it was crazy. It was
just free throw after free throw, and I thought they
were going to take him out before he reached Kobe's
but he's not Jason Tatum, so he doesn't care, so
he passed them. I thought it was great. I thought
it was you always fun to be part of history.
I'd love to hear what you guys think about it
and go off a great day, Go rockets, Thank.
Speaker 3: You, Case.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I again, it's not one of those arguments. Ross, I
came with fire and brimstone with you today. I guess
I can see both.
Speaker 3: Sides of it.
Speaker 2: Have a strong take, Matt, you have to be smarter
than everyone else in the room. All right, No, that's okay, Matt.
We're not on first take, so we're good. You can
you can be honest and fluid in your opinion, and
you don't have to just have an opinion and then
burrow with it for the rest of your life because
you're on TV.
Speaker 3: So it's fine.
Speaker 2: Really quick again, my thought is eighty three is that
is a physical achievement. It's hard to play NBA basketball,
run up and down the floor for as many minutes
to do it, and do what you do get eighty
three points. Okay, that to me is incredible. It's hard
to score in the NBA.
Speaker 3: It just is. But I do take points off of.
Speaker 2: The big board for number of free throws. The way
it got kind of super gimmicky towards the end, and
the opponent is again, I know it's an NBA team,
but it's really Ross not on an NBA team. It's
a team that is cannot wait for the season to
end and they are praying for any one of the
top five picks in the NBA draft. It's not an
NBA team, it's it's a G league team. Yeah, I mean, well,
the two thousand and six Raptors were terrible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. That's true.
Speaker 2: So I mean again, that one, to me is the
weakest counter argument. But the fouling, the fact that the
heat we're fouling to get banned the ball, that certainly
is the gimmicky part of it. Yeah, for sure. But again,
I watched this video. I just retweeted this video of
all the fouls. There's a couple of soft fowls in there,
but for the most part, he was just driving to
the basket in getting hacked, so he had to go
to the free throw line. And of course he was
getting the ball more and going for it more because
he was chasing a record. And again I will say,
nobody scores eighty points without trying to chase a record,
without acting, without outside the rhythm of the game, the
regular rhythm of the game.
Speaker 3: Nobody naturally scores eighty or one hundred.
Speaker 2: And the only thing I will say to put a
PS on this is if it was this was like,
if this was Jokic doing it, I could kind of
see it. If this was SGA, who are known for
being elite. This was Tyrese Maxi BAM's nice score. But
this is so out of norm for him, it's crazy.
Do we know what his career high was before this?
He had never broken fifty?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean again, this is literally a one off for him.
Right well, well, first of all, anybody's scoring any points
is a one off. But you get my dript on this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's been in the defensive Player of the
Year conversations. He's been all defense wasn't necessarily I mean,
the field goals were not terrible, the three point shot
was not. But again he got a lot of the
heavy lifting done at the charity stripe. Let's go to
Ryan on seven Ony Ryan, good morning, do you go morning?
Speaker 5: I mean, there's only two real accents that you can
make fun of nowadays.
Speaker 3: And I see it.
Speaker 5: Ballians, Congratulations Don Dolan and the second is New York.
Speaker 6: I hope Yankee.
Speaker 5: Dames is listening to this. Aaron Judge is not who
he thinks he is.
Speaker 6: He doesn't have a clutch bone in his body's striking
out in the ninety he's dog water and he doesn't
deserve a win. Everybody needs to go back so the
American baseball can get back the.
Speaker 5: Spring and training. And that's all I'm gonna say, because
it's be at work all day to day. Shut Joe bomb,
hass up Yankees fans. Aaron Judge a him and he
never will be in those clutch spots be here.
Speaker 3: Let me hear from your Staten Island. You're gonna let
that happen.
Speaker 2: Queens on sixty six, not bef And you wanna let
that Aaron Judge hate at the show?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was.
Speaker 2: There was a large part of America Sports ha RV.
When Aaron Judge did not come through with a strikeout.
They were necessartainly disappointed. Put it that way. Can I
say one thing? I know we're in Houston, so oh,
here we go.
Speaker 3: He was great in the playoffs last year, Aaron Judge.
He had five hundred they didn't get the crown.
Speaker 1: He hit five twelve.
Speaker 3: Hundred ops last year in the playoffs. You can you
can speak it into existence. Those are facts. I mean,
I'm just saying he was.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know we hate Aaron Judge and he's
the worst, and he's that dude. And where's our astros
fans that have been calling yord On better than Aaron Judge.
We're homers here. That's fine. He was great in the
playof last year.
Speaker 3: He just was.
Speaker 2: You did too run Homer two nights ago that people
politely clapped for Would it be fair?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 3: It felt dirty. It did feel dirty.
Speaker 2: I didn't clap for it. I just cringed and then
felt pain in my stomach. Yeah, it's like a it's
having a gasto issues, right, mm hmm. All right, Hey,
we got a Josh Hader update coming up next to
you all ready for that. It's not gonna be any
sort of breaking news. It's not even a breaking new center.
But it's a sounder for sure. Josh had after I
tell you about Uptown appliance repair ten thirty seven, Madden
Ross with you here on Sports Talk seven any time
now for a Josh Hader update.
Speaker 3: Hater update you Ross has showed had updates.
Speaker 2: When Bill his army, Well, Ross is more on the
bicep right, which I guess is part of the arm. Yeah, sure,
why not, it's on the arm, of course. Yeah, he
will not be ready to go for opening days. A surprise,
I know, I know that's okay, does Bully go?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 7: Wall?
Speaker 3: He threw fifteen pitches yesterday.
Speaker 2: Okay, what what did we got a velo update? I
believe it was at one hundred and fourteen. He's there,
aliar harm now kilometers per hour? Yeah, Joe Spot I
said yesterday the hater felt quote unquote pretty good, pretty good.
I can hear that in Joe the Joe spot of voice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, pretty good. We're it's gonna take our time. Okay.
Speaker 2: Who on the il to start the season? Yep, Brian Bray,
you will be your closer. Yes, guys like Stephen Okert,
Bennett SUSA, Brian King, Hey Wing Tang, Yes, Depth, baby, Depth.
I was on Tuesdays. What is the the Taiwanese picture's
full name?
Speaker 3: Again?
Speaker 2: You said, k Wing Tang? I think I think I'm like,
we probably should get that right. Okay of the season.
When I was on the plane back from spring training,
there was a man who came to visit and wanted
to get a glimpse of him from he was Taiwanese. Yeah,
uh yeah, I mean he's got a nice career.
Speaker 3: I think it was a sneaky good acquisition. M hm.
Speaker 2: And you you know again, bullpens are every year. One
year you love him, next year you hate him. So
we loved him last year. Well, the taiwan As people
have his back, k we Tang Tang. Yeah, and I
told him I visited Taiwan and it was lovely love Taiwan.
Did you did you guys break? Did you guys talk
about some of your favorite spots? Yeah, we were talking
about Taipei. All right, you're going back soon. I don't
know if I'm going back any time soon, but I
would love to go back. Taiwan was spectacular.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You were a big on the food, right, Oh hmm hm.
You were a little gassy though, correct during the trip.
Speaker 3: No, it was fine. Why would I no? Okay, I
wasn't in my trip report.
Speaker 4: What's up?
Speaker 3: A question is that I don't know? It's a Matt
Thomas question?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Astros yesterday?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Did beat the oil seven to six?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 3: The offense is humming? Can we he say? Is Gordy
still worried? You got ten runs and then you got
seven runs and back to back games. We're all good.
Speaker 2: Maybe to be fair, the Astros did Baltimore's plays their
spring training in Sarasota, and we talked about this last week.
Speaker 3: We don't send a listers across the state.
Speaker 2: No, we don't contextualize when it's bad, so we're not
going to contextualize when it's good. Hey, Jack Winkler had
a three run double for the Astros to give them
the lead. Jack Winkler, Cam Smith knocked in a couple
of runs. He's hitting three eighteen in spring.
Speaker 3: Now, baby, let's here. Is mister Spring? Oh, come on,
don't call him that?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean because if they call you mister Spring,
that means you're not mister anything else.
Speaker 3: Well, I like him to be mister April. Hell. I'll
take October too, other, Yeah, October sounds better September, all right?
Speaker 2: So yeah, the Josh hater situation is not a surprised
by the Christian hobber is going to take a few
days off off attendings. Is some personal matters and uh again,
don't know what that is. Joe did not want to
get Hi an explanation what that exactly is. But apparently
he will he will continue throwing while he is gone.
Speaker 3: Wishing him the best, that is for sure.
Speaker 2: Seven one three, two one two five, seven ninety. If
you want to chime in, we got a shorter show today.
We got Brian Focus of It coming up at twenty minutes.
We have shut your bomb ass uff coming up at
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program seven one three two one two five seven nineighty.
So we got into a little bit of the uh
bam out of Bayou conversation. We got into the world
Baseball class again. Apparently does Martiner. I guess Mark de
Rosa does not know the rules about the tie breakers.
He literally was playing like Paul Goldschmidt and stuff, thinking
that they had already clinched.
Speaker 3: No, Bregmant, I think the estuary too, right? Am I
right about that? I think so?
Speaker 2: Giving him a well deserved day off in the middle
of a very important once every three year event, it
seemed odd. Well, they lost eight to six and now
the fate is their fate is out of their hands.
More confidence in Team USA competing in the WBC or
Team USA.
Speaker 3: Doing something in the World Cup coming up this summer.
Speaker 2: WBC the United States is like, I think they're like
the twelfth and thirteenth best team in the world. How
are we gonna do that? Are we gonna enjoy this
World Cup? Of course we are. I know because you
were a soccerficient I know you're gonna you're gonna hate
on it because when it's like North Macedonia versus Soudan
and it's nil nil, you're gonna.
Speaker 3: Talk about how soccer's boring? Would I do that? Yes?
Speaker 2: And they also let more It's like the NCAA tournament.
They let a bunch of love of French mid may
fringe mid majors in the tournament as well. They expanded
the tournament for more money. Of course, fifas their money.
They're also corrupt, Yes, you also see's corrupt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe we.
Speaker 2: Should create a sports association of just nice people that
don't gouger lists viewers and make reasonable salaries and let
people affordable.
Speaker 3: That's called minor league sports.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you and the sport becomes about cheese, you're
gonna get some rats. Matt, did you write that? Did
you got yourself. Came up with that, Jonathan, write that
down the sports about cheese that'll bring out the rats?
Is that what you said? When you make the sports
about cheese, you're gonna get some rats.
Speaker 3: I don't think you made that up. I think I did,
just know.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe somebody's used it before, like when you
came up with Crush City and the Orioles had used
it before, So it's possible it's been used before. But
I will use that as a comp That's a fair
it's a fair comp because I didn't know the Orioles
had used it before, and thus I could have retired
and you could have You know, there's no way you're
getting retirement money out of that. There's no way. What
could I have made.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Those who don't know. I came up
with carcity Houston.
Speaker 2: And everybody just jones off of it, including a ratterie
and the Astros.
Speaker 3: And they did.
Speaker 2: They did sell some Nike shirts off of that, but
how many. You're probably getting a few cents off of
every shirt, I would imagine, And if they sold ten thousand, yeah,
you'd probably get a few g's.
Speaker 3: So not not life changing money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'd get uh, you know, vacation in Hawaiian money.
Oh god, it'd been nice, but you know, vacation, so
it's all good. Yeah, my Stuba would give me a
hard time at dinner internight dah, when's last time I
had a family vacation?
Speaker 3: I said, son, your life is a family vacation. O. Ouch.
Speaker 2: So next summer things are getting cold at the hot
dinner table.
Speaker 3: Next summer, we're gonna go to Colorado. What's a wire?
I don't believe.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: You said you're going to Hawaii this summer. How are
you going?
Speaker 2: No, because it's too expensive. We're getting an airbnb for
Carly and her mom up in near Rhode Island. So
just I like, well, Cancun, Well the king Koon's fine.
I think it's the other provinces in Mexico. Or we're
gonna have to go somewhere because some of us like
the beach, some of us do not. So we're gonna
go somewhere we've never babit force. We're gonna either gonna
try Wyoming or uh, Colorado, or you know, get one
of those houses.
Speaker 3: In the movie. Doesn't like the beach. It's kind of
boring to me.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's you. No, it's Cameron too, and Peyton for
that matter. You're supposed to relax at the beach, Matt.
Speaker 3: I don't know how to relax.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm trying to get you to relax for
all of us. All Right, you're probably right. I probably
could use the beach time rest.
Speaker 2: Listen to those sit there, and I want you to
sit on the beach. First of all, we need you
to get the sunscreen because we don't need you. You know,
you burnt to a crisp.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: Literally sit on the at the beach and just listen
to the waves, relax and breathe deeply for like three hours.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do it. You feel great, You're gonna feel refreshed.
One year from now, I'll do it.
Speaker 2: No, nobody says I'm gonna go to the beach one
year here from now.
Speaker 3: Well, this one got no. Let's plan. I'll plan a
trip with you. You bring your wife.
Speaker 2: Well, we're going to Vegas. That's relaxing, man, I'll scare
po lady. I'll bring her to all right, very good.
Hey listen, uh, we've got Texans making another offensive line acquisition.
We had the Texans paying a kicker and trading for
a punter, now what I thought would have been on
the headline scale for the Texans in this off season.
Speaker 3: But remember, uh, what do we say today, ROSSI?
Speaker 2: That Nikki is going to the Dollar General to get
some of these deals done.
Speaker 3: Is you know it's good?
Speaker 2: He's more of a like a look, everybody's shopping at
Neman Marcus and he's looking for he's scrounding for deals
at Darshals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he said he's at all Fifth right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's at the north Strom wrack. That feels fair.
Seven seven nineties. Ryan Bogus seven is gonna join us
at about eight minutes from now. Texans sign Logan Hall,
former Houston Couger, once a Cougar, always a Couter, played
in for the Buccaneers the last couple of years. Braydon Smith,
the former offensive tackle for the Indianapolis Colts, now wearing
Texans gear. Your thoughts, ross, I said they were going
to sign an in My gut feeling was they were
going to sign what did I say, triple league minimum?
They were going to sign a lot interior alignment and
he's a tackle, So I guess I get I get
an l on that but I I feel like I
was in the in the right ballpark.
Speaker 3: Well, they had to get some more bodies, so there's
just another way around it.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna win the closest to the pen competition,
but I was close. Then they re signed Kammie fairbir
and give him a two year extension to give him
big time money. He's the highest paid kicker in the NFL.
I think it's six.
Speaker 3: Point two million is what I heard. Damn that's good money.
I mean, he is the most important Texan.
Speaker 2: He has to be the less important Texan next year
if the Texans rely on him as much as they
did this past year. The Texans have not advanced in
their offensive.
Speaker 3: Any Yeah, you're right, Well we'll see. Let's go c J.
Speaker 2: Shroud, let's go offensive line, let's go David Montgomery.
Speaker 3: And then they make a trade for something called kai Kroger.
Speaker 2: Mmm, okay, punter, and I have a friend of mine
that I cannot name, Okay, to protect the innocent on
this that was like he sucks and that there was
many other kickers that would have been better for the
Texans to try to trade for. Yeah, kaiak Kroger is
now a Houston Texans punter.
Speaker 3: I guess they.
Speaker 2: You know, they had a couple of blocks punts block
last year. The numbers were not nearly as good. Who's
the not Cam Johnson's Who's the punter for the Texans,
Tommy Townsend, Tommy Townsend. Yes, Yeah, numbers weren't as good.
The hair was, the free lock of the flow of
the locks were still good, but generally speaking not as
good of a year. I don't have any opinions on
this at all except just don't screw it up. Don't
they'll get punts blocked. Yeah, I don't know, just because
as you're saying, like the net numbers aren't great, the
average numbers aren't great, the inside the twenty numbers aren't great.
Maybe there's got to be some kind of advanced punting
analytics that we're just not aware of. Well, you know,
the one thing I have found out in the last
couple of days is that kickers are trying to free
agent kickers and punters for that matter, are trying to
get indoors as much as possible.
Speaker 3: They know they can they can extend their careers. It
makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're going to see coming from the Saints Yeah,
you're going to see players take less money to kick
indoors because they know that if they're not in the
elements of Chicago or Pittsburgh or the Giants, the chance
of them missing big kicks are not having good punts
is going to be minimalized because of the dome conditions. Yeah,
and then Texans did have them in a tryout in
last summer, so maybe they liked what they saw. I
don't know one more NFL note to pass along before
go back on the phones. Did you see that there
is a thought that the NFL maybe playing a Wednesday
game before Thanksgiving? Player safety, player safety, player safety, player safety. Well,
that's an incessarily I'm sorry, you're gonna pay us how
much Prime video was? Is Prime Video Netflix? Imagine somebody
some streaming started also put those two teams on. Give
them the no. Wednesday night football is not good for anybody.
I'm sorry. There's no way to jump jump through this
mental hoop. It's not good for anybody. Oh except you
are so false? Are you kidding me? The Wednesday night
before people are going to be spending I'm talking about
the players and the organization and the coaches, and I'm
talking about the actual human beings who are going to
be in the game.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying people aren't going to watch. I know
they don't care.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, you can you will Wednesday night game
will have the two teams will play it by a
week beforehand, or they'll play the following before the previous Thursday.
Speaker 3: You they'll have six days off. They're not going to
do that.
Speaker 2: They're not going to make them practice on a three
day week. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: But then don't they then they waste their bye week.
Speaker 2: Well, you got to get it in somehow. Yeah, I
know for money, nobody's ever asked for Wednesday night football,
America is going to Apparently Roger Goodell believes that Wednesday
football is very important.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because they're gonna get a bunch of cash for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they're always trying to add to their till
have you noticed that the every year LOFL Players Association
and the union and the owners love to brag about
how much the salary cap is. There's a reason why
television dominates it. They're doing quite well munching their TV deals. Well,
they have to keep looking for more avenues for revenue,
because once you keep once you max out your your
Fox and your CBS and your streaming services, and you
max out this, and the owner is gonna come to
Roger Gondell.
Speaker 3: Say, hey, all right, we gues's great.
Speaker 2: We made twenty whatever I don't know, making up a
number twenty billion last year. We need twenty two billion
this year. We need twenty five billion in a year
after that. Let's go the resk. Is this the NBA
TV deal has the owners mad and they want their
They want the TV deal. Wenegotiate it because like, waitby
you're giving the NBA eleven billion dollars a year for
the HM we wont double that.
Speaker 3: Yep, Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: Frank, before we get to Brian Bogacevic, Frank, what do
you got this morning?
Speaker 7: Hey, hasn't done a fella good.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: I was just calling Matt.
Speaker 7: They got this room was going around on I think
it's on Facebook. A TikTok one of them about the
kid from you of A is supposed to be gonna transfer.
Speaker 3: Is that true?
Speaker 7: The Kingston kid?
Speaker 3: Uh No, he will be declaring for the NBA Draft.
Speaker 7: There will be no transferring, okay, because he already got
a deal with Mike and John right that. Well, they
was saying like he got a thirty million dollar deal
with Mike for the shoes that they're gonna do.
Speaker 3: I couldn't.
Speaker 2: I couldn't take I don't. I don't know what shoe
deals are with eighteen year old kids. I have a
hard enough time for watching these games, much.
Speaker 3: Less figure out their endorsement deals.
Speaker 2: But no, Kingston Jennings is going to be plumbing excuse me,
is going to be a top five pick in the
NBA draft.
Speaker 3: He's going to leave the University Houston this year.
Speaker 7: Well, you don't have to upgrade. I depend on you
with your u evase knowledge over there.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 7: The other guy that's on the side of you that
don't know you know about the Cougars.
Speaker 3: That's fine.
Speaker 2: He's team Longhorn, he is, I'm team Cougar. Thanks for
the phone call me. I don't everything. Yeah, let's go
Kog's Yeah, best in the land. By the way, Sunday
is Selection Sunday. How good is that? God, it's a
great day. Get your one bracket out and fill it
out and just hopefully I'm gonna do it at least
two brackets, maybe three. Okay, all right, Brian Bogus seven,
I don't want you know what chuckerbow mess up. I
had two brackets make the money in the in the
big pool I was in last year. We gotta say
about that, mister one bracket. I had two brackets cash.
I think I did okay because I had the Cougar's
playing for the national championship. So I think I did okay.
I think I made some I think you did. Actually, yeah,
I did. You want back in No, yeah, you do.
And we are so happy to have with it for
another season of Astro spring training conversation and regular season
for the next hopefully twenty six twenty seven weeks. We
saw how a Brian Bogus Eevic Space City Home Network,
bull Get's Matt Ross. Great to have you back. How
are you enjoying the WBC.
Speaker 4: Well, it's good to be back. I like it. I
think it's fun. It's really nice, especially this time of
year when the novelty of spring training is wearing off
a little bit, to see meaningful baseball and every once
in a while it kind of gets the feeling of
playoff baseball and high stakes. So yeah, it's a fun tournament.
It's obviously new compared to most international tournaments, so it's
not the same juice as the Olympics or the World
Cup or whatever. But it's fun and guys play hard,
which is enjoyable.
Speaker 2: What do you do to do you ramp down or
do you try? And you obviously don't want to maintain
because the spring training game on March the twentieth against
the Marches will not have the the zest that a
World Baseball Classic game would be. So if you were
in that locker room in that clubhouse talking to those guys,
how do they get themselves from the emotions of this
big event to getting back into Hey, we got a
regular season the counts in a week and a half
and we needed to take it down a notch then
ranch it back up again.
Speaker 4: It's hard to figure because we've only had a handful
of these tournaments, so there is really no you know,
best practices and protocols for it. I think you know
once you get if you get through it to that
point and you've played that many games at that high
of an intensity, you should be pretty much game ready
and you're stretched out. You're playing these guys for the
most part, playing full games, so you, I guess give
a little bit of a buffer, couple of days to
relax and unwind a little bit and let anything recover
that needs to recover. But then just try to roll
into it. I mean, you're not going to replicate those
kind of reps the last week of spring training, so
try to keep the timing that you've that you've gained
and kind of try to try to get your body
ready to go day one. But I would imagine that
they're there pretty much where they would want to be
coming out of spring training, so you just kind of
just kind of try to hold on all right.
Speaker 2: So let me go from the other side of things here,
what is the club like the teams? And again there's
just a few players gone here and there. But how
do you think Joe and other managers in baseball have
worked around this because they're trying for the end goal
to get their team ready for the start of the
regular season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's two sides of it. I think. I think
the first side is everybody likes this. Everybody likes, you know,
full competition as opposed to exhibition setting, and they like
the international play and it's a good tournament, it grows
the game. Everybody's on board with the tournament, So they do.
You know, they help guys out a lot. They got
some of these younger guys more reps in the first
week of spring training that maybe they would have gotten
to get them and up to speed of the WBC.
But the other side of it is is, hey, we've
got a regular season to play, and it's a long season,
and we need these guys and you're kind of just
biting your nails as they're gone and hoping that you
get them back healthy and ready to go. I mean,
that's that's the downside to any kind of exhibition tournament,
and certainly one that is happening, you know a couple
of weeks before the regular season starts is can't afford
to have any major injuries. So yes, you enjoy it
and you watch it and you want your guys to
do well and you want to grow the deed, but
at the same time, it's like, just get our guys
back healthy so we can move on to the regular season.
Speaker 2: Brian bogasvik with us here on seven and let's get
to the Astros now. The number one story conversation piece
this offseason was the congested infield and maybe the lack
of quality or at least experienced bats in the outfield
that might remedy itself early on, especially Jeremy Paine is not.
Speaker 3: Going to be ready for the start of the season.
Speaker 2: You can boom Parados to third, move over core at
a shortstop, as you've seen it over the last five months.
Talk if you can, from a macro view of things,
of how this thing has turned out, and if everybody
eventually gets healthy, which hopefully will be the case, how
does Joe Spotta navigate these waters.
Speaker 4: It's difficult because you're talking about five guys for four spots,
but it's also five of the six best hitters on
your team, guys who you want and need in the
lineup every day. And you know, I think what's happened
here early with the pain of injury is it's a
good lesson on not doing things until you have to
do them. You know, everybody all off season is talking
about a trade needs to be made and thrown around
names and everything. But over the course of the season,
things tend to work themselves out and situations change, and
we see that here quickly. Although you know, fingers crossed
it's not going to last very long into the regular season,
but you know, I think there are going to be
I think there's no one set answer, right. It's not
a at bat share at first base, it's not somebody moving
to the outfield full time. I think it's a lot
of everything. And over the course of time, you'll see
these guys, these five guys in the lineup together almost
every day, whether it's you know, being able to mix
in yourd on in the outfield occasionally to open up
a DH spot, or a regularly scheduled off day for
a Korea or a walker where parades can slide into
the corner and just just kind of enough everywhere to satisfy.
That's got to be the long term answer, because that
gets the most out of these guys who you need.
I don't think we're going to see a single set
solution to this anytime soon, and I don't think you
need to just because over the course of the next
six months, there are going to be various times when
guys are banged up or struggling, or somebody is okay
moving to one position or the next, that it's going
to be able to kind of work itself out organically.
Speaker 2: Moving to the outfield, especially on the young guys. I'm curious.
I don't know how much hands on looks you've been
able to get so far this spring, but Cam Smith
has been hitting a little bit, and what you've seen
out of Zach Cole, who's struggling some, and then maybe
somewhere in between Joey Libraffido.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think first and foremost, I think what we've
seen from Cam Smith is very encouraging. You know how
many times last year were we talking about adjustments that
he was making during the course of the season, and
a lot of it had to do with getting the
bath head out more consistently catching the ball out front,
being able to drive the ball in the middle of
the field and on the pull side. And we've seen it.
His setup is a little bit different. Kind of the
way he's holding his bad is flattened out. He's got
a little bit more rhythm in his start. And you know,
he hit a home run I guess two three days ago. Now,
that was just a bullet to his pull side, which
he didn't do a single time in spring training last year.
With all the production that he had, all the hits,
all the home runs that he had in spring training
last year, he never pulled the ball in the air
like that. So he's he's making the strides that we
want to see him make. And if he can do
that more consistently, what we saw from him last year,
he has good enough back to ball skills, he has,
you know, really good instincts in the outfield. Is he
can start driving the ball more than just pencil him
into right field every day, and we were seeing good
signs early from him. Zack Hole, he looks like he's
caught in between an approach. You know, he's the guy
who had really good results swinging the bat a lot,
and the kind of the thought was, hey, you need
to tighten up the approach a little bit to be
able to have that success continue over the course of time.
And he looks like he's caught in between being patient
and being aggressive and isn't really getting either right now.
So that's going to have to work at you know,
he's gonna have to work through that and you know
at bats and time will allow him to do that.
The question is is that is that time going to
happen in spring training, Is it going to happen in
the big leagues to start the year, or is it
going to take some minor league at bats. I like
what I've seen from low Berfdo I mean he's driven
the ball to all fields. You know, he's he had
some strikeouts early, but he's tightened it up a little bit.
What he did you know, he had one hundred at
bats or so in Toronto last year. His strikeout numbers
were way down, his contact numbers were way better. And
that was always the question with him when he was here,
was you know, we like the bat, we like the power.
Is he going to make enough contact for it to
show there are legit signs of it going in the
right direction so he might play his way into a
lot of at bats and left field to start the season.
I like what I've seen from him and Taylor Schmill
as well. He's He's kind of guy that I think
we forgot about him a little bit. But you know,
this time last year he was a guy who we
thought would maybe play a significant role before you know,
injuries derailed most of the season.
Speaker 2: Brian Bogosvik with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
to the pitching side. Can you temper my enthusiasm for
for Mike Burrows or should I just be all systems
go and get excited about his spring.
Speaker 4: I'm with you. I mean, it's not just what he's shown,
you know, on the mound, and this stuff looks great.
I mean, the fastball is as a it's a more
power fastball than I thought it was going to be.
The change ups great, the sliders looked really good. But
it's the demeanor.
Speaker 3: You know, a guy who.
Speaker 4: Doesn't have a ton of major league experience, he got
about half a season's worth his starts last year, gets
traded over to a new new team. I was kind
of expecting a guy who was, you know, a little
bit giddy and happy to be here and all that. Like,
he looks like he is all business and like, just
put some real competition in front of me, and I'm
ready to run through some teams. He has been really impressive,
and I think a guy who it was thought maybe,
oh he'll solidify the middle of the rotation, it's looking
like he can ascend to the top of a rotation.
I like everything that I've seen from him, and he
seems to be getting stronger as the spring goes on,
and just like he's chomping at the bit.
Speaker 3: We have eight million more questions for it. We'll leave
with one here before we get to next week's visit.
Speaker 2: How short of a leash going back to the outfield
do you think that Zach and Cam have And does
that mean a guy like Bryce Matthew squeezes in the roster,
playing some center film, moving guys around, and how much
you're on an alvaretz do you want to see in
the outfield at least maybe in the first two or
three weeks of the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 4: I think the leash. The leash for Cam is probably
going to be a little bit longer just because of
because the ceiling is higher, and so he's going to
get more of an opportunity to to to become that
player at the big league level. I think for everybody else,
low Baffito, call all those guys, I think it's going
to be a short leash because there's going to be
a lot of options and there's going to be a
lot of guys that can be plugged in if you're
not producing, So you know, somebody, somebody is going to
take that job over the course of the next two weeks.
But it's not going to be theirs until it's not.
You know, it's going to be theirs until they prove otherwise,
so that will be a short leash and you know
you're on. They they don't want to do it, but
it just might turn into a situation where you've got
to if that is just you know, every once in
a while at home with the small left field so
he doesn't have to run a lot, or if it
becomes a little bit more regular. I think it's something
that Look, this is not me saying I know anything,
but it's got to be something that's in the back
of their minds of like, hey, if all else fails,
we can put yourd on out there every once in
a while or you know, fifty percent of the time,
or something just too free up at bats for other
guys and make it work a little bit better.
Speaker 2: Bogey, great stuff, looking forward to our Wednesday visits at
eleven o'clock. Friend, Thanks for the time and we'll talk
to you next week.
Speaker 4: Cool. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Don't you just learn a lot from Brian Boga Sevik
plain spoken.
Speaker 2: Yes, lib just good stuff, Yes, smart articulate man, A
two lane educated man. Got he is, by the way,
enough with you all send me Aaron Wilson tweets and stuff.
Speaker 3: I've gotten out like a thousand times I've only gotten
at about one hundred and fifty in the last.
Speaker 2: Yea and I'm in the Mountain time zone.
Speaker 3: Life lessons.
Speaker 2: It happens to all of us. It just does. That's
all I'm gonna say. And don't say the name of
the prospect.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, no no no. You know,
it's a really quick story.
Speaker 2: There would be people Joel buschbaumb was a pro football
weekly writer for many, many, many decades in the eighties,
and he would go on with on seven forty when
we used to have a night show on KTRH called
sports Beat, and pranksters would try to call and give
up names to guys, not necessarily using sexual references, but
just like, tell me about Harvey Blombashlin and is he
a good tight end prospect? And Joel would in his
New York raspy voice, would say, I don't know what
that is. People would try to google, they would try
to get him stuff out. Yeah, so we mean we're cruel,
it's what it is. Terrible, all right. Uh so we
got hater, not pitch. We'll get to more of that
next week. And the roles that of the will pen
By the way, Brian mctager will join you tomorrow. Rossi
is part of the show at eleven o'clock. So we
continue our great baseball coverage. Wonderful and of course we'll
have Joe Spotta when the regular season starts in a
couple of weeks. Rockets tonight here in Denver. They rested
last night the Nuggets, well, the Rockets were playing and
then flying here to the Colorado. I always tell you
this about five times a year, every time the Rockets
by the Nuggets. I think the Coliokis is going to
be a top ten player when his career is done,
and I don't I'm not hesitating about h He might
be there.
Speaker 3: He might be there. He had some baseline three pointers
that were.
Speaker 2: His His shooting stroke is so incredibly fluid.
Speaker 3: He's incredible. He's getting better.
Speaker 2: If he just gave a damn about basketball, he'd be
even better. That's the crazy that makes it even that
much more impressive. He just wants to be home brushing
his pretty horses. He doesn't care about this game, and
he's able to be a triple double. He loves his
brothers and he loves Internet. He wants to go drinking
with the bros And then hang out with his horses.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and want to annihilate lou Door when he can.
Speaker 2: And he's scoring twenty nine a game, twelve and a
half rebounds, ten point three assists, and he's shooting thirty
nine percent from three. And they're tough threes. They're not
like those on top of the key of the side pockets.
They're just the you know, contested they're incredible. Bam out
of Bayo eighty three last night. Pretty incredible too. Look,
as a lot of people have said this morning on
the national TV shows, in twenty years, we won't remember
how many free throws he had, No, we won't. It's
eighty three is eighty three? Is eighty three? Again, like
the the g Wilt game got crazy at the end
wherever both teams were fouling and stuff like that, and
we just talked. We still talk about Wilt Chamblain scoring
one hundred. Nobody talks about that. Yeah, he made a
bunch of free throws in that game too, because he
was shooting him underhand.
Speaker 3: Actually, well, here's the thing, here's what can happen.
Speaker 2: And I can think of about four players that I've
watched play a game in my life. Michael Jordan could
go on a heater, right Labos going a heater. Reggie
Miller could go on it a Ray Allen. I mean
the perimeter guys that every time the ball touched their hand,
it leaves their hand, it goes in for three, and
maybe Shake Gill.
Speaker 3: Alexander's gonna be that guy eventually.
Speaker 2: So there is a chance ross that we will get
an eighty point game again that will be a little
more aesthetically pleasing where field goals are made and it's
not a race of the free throw line.
Speaker 3: It's not the eighty three that is alarming.
Speaker 2: It's the it's the box score, it's how he got
to the eighty three, which again, I don't know if
there's any way you can get to efficiently get to
eighty three points unless you're.
Speaker 3: Just twenty of twenty seven from the four. I know
you wouldn't have to be higher than that.
Speaker 2: Frankly, yeah, it wasn't hyper efficient, as I said related
to other games. But Will Chamberlain's one hundred point point game,
he had sixty three field goal attempts, Like if you
wanted to really have a legit, oh my god moment.
By the way, all the players around the NBA Victor
Women Yamaho. By the way, I had eight threes last
night for San Antonio. We we have to talk about that.
Let's not let's you know, I'm gonna pretend that spurs
don't exist for my own mental health.
Speaker 3: You know, we should we should have them relegated. Yes,
I like that. Put him in the G League. I
don't care it's away from us. Put him back in
the ABA.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but if you're gonna have one of those unbelievable
that was the legit eighty point game moments they got,
the guy's gonna have to go thirty two of forty
one basically with a bunch of threes in the mix. Yeah,
theys to get to the free throw line twenty five
thirty time. People gonna make fun of that, just like
they're making fun of him out of bios right now.
But we have to remember the reason he even got
there and was pushing for that, because hey, he had
thirty one in the first quarter. Oh yeah, that's that's
what was And we will have time to pull up
his boxer. But the first I have him, I assuming
the first Quarterboxer was quite impressive. He had thirty one
points on ten of sixteen shooting. He was five of
eight from three in the first quarter. That's where you
want to frame that. That's what you want to frame
That's where you end up pushing for eighty because you
have a crazy first quarter, right right?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Uh so we have to shut your bull mass up?
Coming up now, this is where you get This is
the most cathartic half hour of the week. You apologize
for your sins on Friday, and Ross has got a
list of it. I think we got four from yesterday alone.
Speaker 3: I forgot him. Well, you can save them for Friday.
Speaker 2: Uh if you want to tell somebody to shut their
bull mass up. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninetie,
ain't nobody got time for that as well? That's all
coming up. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety one again let again, Damada here again, dam dere again,
dear again again time he let again Dampa day.
Speaker 3: This will be your favorite part of the week.
Speaker 2: You will get to your phones right now and call
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven.
Speaker 3: Ninety Ain't nobody got time for that? And shut show
bum as up man again.
Speaker 2: I'm not teamed up. I'm not team Baseball World Baseball Classic.
But how does Mark de Rosa not know the rules
about the tiebreaker? A Nobody got time for that? Boys,
ain't nobody got.
Speaker 3: Time for dead? Terrible?
Speaker 2: I mean, did you know that uh MLB had pulled
down the video from MLB dot com. That's zero surprise
and MLB network they're trying to pull it off of
MLB Network two.
Speaker 3: They're hiding the video now. Yeah, I got news for you.
Speaker 2: Anything that makes a baseball association or analysts look bad
or a team that associated with MLB, they're going to
take it off. There is what do they call it,
Rossi and like in Good Morning Vietnam where they would
like to strike some of the news headlines that make
it sound censorship. Yeah, their censorship propaganda. There is a jenda,
of course, Yeah, yeah, absolutely, Jen does it get pushed?
Speaker 3: Just take the al and move along. I goofed. I'm sorry,
didn't me. I didn't I should have known. You should
have known. Anybody got time for that? Hey't nobody get
tad Rossie? What's the matter with you? This week?
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna go with people Okay, if you are
like a Matthew Thomas and you're on the fence and
you're like, I see how it's great. I see also
how it was the Wizards and there was a lot
of free throws. Like, I understand, you can go with
the yeah butt. But the people who are completely dismissing
the eighty three points from bam Adebio, I mean, get
over yourself and just stop being a complete hater. Yes
it was against the Wizards. Yes it was a lot
of free throws. Go look at the fowls. There's a
lot of fowls. It got gimmicky for sure at the end.
Same thing happened at Wilt Chamberlain's one hundred point game.
So people were completely dismissing it as an accomplishment.
Speaker 3: Chuck your bumb ass up shitchobum ass up man.
Speaker 2: To the Washington Wizards. Nobody got time for you being
hot garbage for twenty five years.
Speaker 3: Hey, nobody got to it.
Speaker 2: As I told you, I watched that two thousand and
six Kobe Bryant eighty one point of the highlights of
that or I saw every bucket and the free throws
and stuff. You can find it on YouTube that was
All Star d all Star game level defense being played
by the Toronto Raptors. It just was, so if you
want to go after that, you go after Wilts one hundred,
go after Kobe's eighty one. If you're going after Bams
eighty three, that's all I'm asking for. Okay, you're looking
for fair and balanced criticism of eighty three point games.
Speaker 3: It's be a little consistent here, and I know that's
asking too much, but.
Speaker 2: Come on now, seven one three two point two five
seven one, Johnathan, what's the matter with you?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Reading about this Max Crosby situation?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 3: All, and how you got this big?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: Thank you Raiders. You know I love you guys. That
are No, your knee was all busted up to the
point where you got released. I've never seen that in
I twenty three years of living an NFL player getting
released of injuries. At nobody got time for that?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 2: Ain't nobody got it should have been open and honest. Well, no,
he was recovering from surgery. People think that the Ravens
failed his physical just so they could get Trey Trey
hendrins Where I go I lean that direction.
Speaker 3: I think Trey Hendrickson was available, and there's.
Speaker 2: So he's Yeah, Max Crosby's recovering from surgery, and the
Ravens don't have to say why he they failed him.
They could if they think he's behind in his recovery,
or if they don't think things are setting right with
his surgery or whatever, they could fail him. But they
knew he had surgery, so he got played basically, Max Crosby.
Speaker 3: Mat we don't know. Okay, we don't know. Oh you know,
I'm to take that back. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's a it's an interesting situation. It could
have been like, oh, what Trey Henderson is still available? Oh,
we could get him at this number.
Speaker 3: Oh we're failing Max Crosby. Yeah, and we get to
keep our draft picks too, they get to.
Speaker 2: Keep our draft picks.
Speaker 3: Well to that point, Ravens, you're doing that. This is
a whole mess. Yeah, it's a mess.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: Let's see what else?
Speaker 2: Uh anything else? I can wanted to shut your bumb
ass up. The flight was Okay, that's good. NBA schedulers.
Ain't nobody got time for these back all these back
to backs down the stretch. Hey, nobody got rockets still
have three back to backs in the next twenty games.
Isn't that crazy? Yes, it is crazy. I went up
to six and a half. It was five and a
half yesterday. Nuggets, ain't worry about it. Ain't scared.
Speaker 3: Okay, No rockets to.
Speaker 2: The Big twelve who made this big, grandiose announcement about
this awesome thing that's gonna happen in Kansas City.
Speaker 3: They changed the color of their floors. Big twelve. Shit,
your bumb ass up may shit.
Speaker 2: So bum ass up, man, It's like an LED floor, right, Yeah,
it's stupid. I doess you really have something cool like
halftime activities or you know, like Kender Lamarr is gonna
perform at halftime.
Speaker 3: A generational talent that would be great like that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, pull a Serprize winner twenty twenty seven time Grammy winner.
Speaker 3: Matt just said Lamar took him to Lamar the generation
so talent. He was what I said, He's been sarcastic.
He's being sarcastic.
Speaker 2: That's okay, mister Serious, twenty seven time Grammy winner.
Speaker 3: Hey, nobody got thought.
Speaker 2: You'd be a serious, Matt. You can't be serious. You
believe me, Believe me, Please believe me. I said it
kender Lamar better than Drake. Oh, of course, ship Obam
mass up Man. Drake's Raptors lost last night by the way,
sorried Charlie.
Speaker 3: That's a shame they have no big men. Rockets took
advantage of that.
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant highly efficient, Jabari Smith awesome game men, Thompson
going the free throw line on a bunch.
Speaker 3: Yes. How about the calls last night? One or two?
Speaker 2: Definitely George Rod I think it was one that's always
feel bad that I found. I don't time for you, Okay,
don't I don't care. I mean I try to keep
him under three, which he was. Those are on two forty.
Speaker 3: That's not bad.
Speaker 2: Sometimes, I've told him. Sometimes he repeats himself. He'll say
the same thing two or three times in the same call.
Speaker 3: We love Drawid.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't talk to anybody last night. I love Gerriid
calling the post game shows. It gives me someone to
talk to, especially when they win. Now, when they lose
against the Warriors, I had like, I don't know eight calls,
but you win against the Raptors.
Speaker 3: It's just a nature of out goes. That's okay.
Speaker 2: What do you thinking about em saying all the things
he said about Bam and he said and then in
the Washington Wizards.
Speaker 3: I think that with the negativity, I don't know, I
may's I don't know. He's so he playing spoken is
not the word I would use, but he's he's.
Speaker 2: Being matter of fact. Yes, he was being blunt. A
lot of people are saying like, oh, he's hating on
Bam or something like that. The initial comment like I
didn't expect it from Bam. I mean that's everybody, and
people like, oh, he's hating on Bam, Like, yeah, he's
just because of the way Bam plays, he didn't expect
it from Bam. I think that's a that's a fair statement.
Speaker 3: Everybody is saying that.
Speaker 2: No, I want to expect if you had a list
of fifty players in the NBA to go for eighty
three in this season.
Speaker 3: Band's not making the top fifty of your list. He's
just not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think he may comments when it got
a little overblown.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you, Jim and the heights. Jim,
what's the matter with you?
Speaker 7: Well, I gotta tell you, I must be on some algorithm.
Speaker 8: Were officially known as a Dodger hater because I saw
this this video yesterday on social media, this guy walking
down the steps that had Dyke in like he's the
cock of the walk and he goes, I'm back to.
Speaker 6: Where the cheaters live.
Speaker 8: And uh, if it wasn't for the cheaters, my daughters
would have won ten World Series.
Speaker 7: Shut your boom ass up.
Speaker 8: We ain't got time for that, you would, man for
playing the bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so shut it up, no bum ass.
Speaker 2: Up, man, Thank you, Jim, Jim bringing it strong today.
I just gonna tell you all something. We're never gonna
shake twenty seventeen. It's never going to change.
Speaker 3: Just live with it.
Speaker 2: We're never shaking twenty seventeen. And I'm telling you Ross,
if it was the Rangers that did it, we wouldn't
be shaking them either. It's getting better, let it go.
It was getting better, but it's never gonna go away.
Time heels all wounds. And the twenty two was a
must was a must win where.
Speaker 3: All I was in a must win. It was a
must must win, all right.
Speaker 2: One last opportunity for you to get in on the
shut your bomb ass up, Let's go seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven nine zero with six sorr. We
got five minutes left in the show. You no, no, no, no, no,
we weren't ready for I'm sorry, that's my bad.
Speaker 3: All right, Tomorrow. Brian Bogasovic was with us today. Tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Brian McTaggart with us for a regular Thursday visit. We've
cornered the market and Brian's yeah on Friday. Yeah, yeah,
and I think we're good. Brian Bosworth fortball Columbia University
grad Brian Erickson were joining us on on Monday.
Speaker 3: Hopefully not. I mean people can hear him. We want
to if we want, you know, No, I just mean
if I'm hearing from him, that means I'm usually in trouble. Oh,
that's true, that's true.
Speaker 2: All right, Rockets and Nuggets Tonight, we've got Astros baseball
coming up.
Speaker 3: You want the lineups, by the way, absolutely, I figured
you'd like that.
Speaker 2: Uh. It is a pretty good lineup, all things considered. Again,
their home, so that kind of helps they go on
the road. It gets a little sketchy.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: The home lineup today for the Astros will have Zach
Cole eating off and playing right field. Jose at d
H today, Essach Prede is at third, Carlos Krey at short,
Taylor tremonon left, Jake Myers in center, CJ. Alexander at first,
wearing jersey number ninety one. Bryce Matthews is at second
base today, and of course, batting nine days our salves are,
he's really locking down that ninth spot. I mean, I'd
have to have a little personal conversation many look. I
know I'm in a ninth batter in an Astrol line
up in a regular sing game, but can I get
out of the ninth hole in a March game for
the love of God? But I guess the counter argument
that says, oar salves Are is gonna be who he's
gonna be, whether he gets a couple of extra looks
this spring or not.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Tatsuya Emi is going to throw today for the local Knights.
We'll have it for you here coming up in about
two and a half minutes for minute.
Speaker 5: CJ.
Speaker 2: Alexander needs some more looks because he's an zero for eleven.
That was Roley anro I don't know what Riley ou
On rose up to. Maybe they must be like a
Louisiana Appreciation Day and he's got to get back to
Louisiana for a few days.
Speaker 3: At cold two for sixteen. How two of a two
for nineteen? Are you're doing this? Aren't you? Go ahead? Great?
Running through? It's fine. How's paradis? Uh paradis? Two for ten,
Carls Gray two for nine, Taylor Tremail seven to twenty two. Whoa,
he's ready, babes.
Speaker 2: That's the epitome of a March player right there. Let's go,
sneaky snake, Jake. I'm consulting with the fan club right now.
They said, don't say it.
Speaker 3: Wait a minute. Why, Fine, it's the truth. Two for fifteen.
Speaker 2: Well, you know that spring training pitching is he's saving
all his hits for the regular season. Yes, just like
Whitney Houston was saving all her love for you, he's
saving all his hits for the regular season.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're going to go on a national
tour and belt out some big hits, you're not going
to do it when you're playing concert halls in Monroe, Louisiana,
or you're in uh Cape Girardo, Missouri. You're gonna be
in the Vegas showrooms. That's why they called Jake Myers
big time. They do call him yeah, yeah, big time.
Jake Myers, he was, he was, he was bigger when
we saw him last week or last month. Yeah, he's been.
He's adding masks. He's ready to slug some more. Sometimes
his words not our I know. Sometimes when you do that, though,
it kind of might slow you down. So who knows,
never slowing us down? As a Matt Thomas showed Ross
Ross enjoy the experience of tomorrow without me.
Speaker 3: I know you'll miss me. I will be.
Speaker 2: I'm actually crying inside right now. You if I just
don't get it tomorrow eleven thirty, sure, why not? Probably
I have another bathroom with a phone in my bathroom. Okay,
it must be the handicap thing.
Speaker 3: Or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not bad if if you fall down. I
mean I was going to use the phone back then
in nineteen seventy seven, that's true.
Speaker 3: No way, what do you mean? Just no way? And
this is how the King dies a baby.
Speaker 2: Up next, Astros Baseball. We'll talk to you tonight at
nine o'clock for the Rockets and Nuggets.
Speaker 3: You know I'm seven out