Speaker 1: This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten oh two, Nahetown.
Good morning, and welcome to a Wednesday edition of The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This is Sports Talk seven ninety.
You know, rossa, they don't make instrumentals like they used to.
I don't even really watch this show, but I love
this song. I have very little context for this show
or this song, but I mean I was gonna go
with thanks up being a friend by the Golden Girls theme, Okay,
I know that one. I mean we could pull a
way more Golden Girls that had did Miami Vice. Can
I just tell you what can happen sometimes at the house,
Like if you're looking, like, for instance, last night, the
Astros had finished about what eight thirty five, eight forty,
and you're like, you need an hour to kill before
the news comes on, if you were to watch such
a thing. Okay, so I'm flipping around and I already
watched my story so that I couldn't you watch those
Yankees Rangers and was on? Uh you know, I did
not even take a look at that. I should probably
should have because you could have hate watched the Rangers.
But that means you love watching the Yankees so it's
a tough spot. Look, I listen. I hate listen radio.
I can't hate watch TV. I hate watch The Rangers
all the time. So you can flip around and I'm
I mean, there's a damn Golden Girls on the Hallmark
channel or whatever, and I mean you can laugh your
ass off. I don't know how it's been able to
stand the test of time, but obviously, I mean they
play like multiple hours of the show. It's it's really
for a show that wasn't meant for It was meant
for a certain demographic. There are like twenty year olds
that think The Golden Girls is hystericois it's a timeless classic, Matt,
I disagree with you.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I watched the episode in twenty years. Okay, I get it,
but I mean, it's just it's basically, it's like it's
like a frat house for women. You have the slut, okay,
you have the naive girl, and you have the one
that tries to rain them in, and then you got
the mother who's just kind of overbearing. It's it's a
really damn funny show. And that's how we introduced to
you a Wednesday ed issue of the Matt thomashell Ross
Rossie a little under the weather. If you need to
go home at any point, I'm not gonna begrudge you
because it's looked like to try to stick it out.
You looked very you, at least from your tweet last night.
You were very cranky on the Old tenth Dy Show. Well,
a peek behind the curtain, I told you I had
kind of some soreness throat. You know, you could kind
of tell the colds coming on. Absolutely, you get throat
soreness the day one and then it worsens day two.
That's why if you get drainage today that I got
drainage and soreness. Well, that's why I'm not looking at you.
So for one, I don't get the germs and two
shahaties on and I need to wipe this whole thing
down for Adam Weixer about two o'clock. Don't let me
forget okay, apologies in advance, And if Wax was listening
to show, which he probably isn't, he didn't even knowing
this viruses and or bacteria. So yeah, I'm gonna try
to make it. I'm getting my coffee. I'm a little
fatigued for sure. It might have to do like a
little uh cherry cherry on top, extra cup of coffee.
Get going today, but I'm gonna power through. I think
Matt okay, Tomorrow, we'll see okay. So I gotta rest
up for Talied Oh Friday, Wei gonna be Italian Brewing.
I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna buy you a paddle
ball of beers. I've been saying paddle all week. Why
am I saying? Because I'm thinking about the paddles. What
I'm thinking? And there is a game. It's a pick
a ball paddle and yes, there is paddle ball. Is it?
Is it comparable to pickle ball? Isn't paddleball the one
you play up against the wall. No, that's racketball. That's racketball.
What is paddle ball? Did I just make up a sport?
Is it like ping pong? I don't know. Point we're
gonna be. We're gonna be a Talire Brewing. Everybody's got
to get a paddle of pickleball, paddle of beer to
enjoy while we do the show on Friday from ten
to two and then the Astros played at six. It's
an Apple TV game. So if you don't have apple.
You can stay there and have a couple of pints
in there yourself. I might just be sick and get
out of there. We'll see fair enough, all right, So
back to your your aggravation. Can you read your Twitter police?
Oh would you like me to context play at sports RV?
So I was tweeting about the Astros, and then of
course I did one of my kind of favorite genres
of tweets that I put out met is when people
say stupid stuff for a long time and then they
get proven wrong. I like to say tough day, tough
couple games. Love it. So yesterday I put tough couple
of games for Fire the hitting coaches guy a lot
this year, Fire the hitting coaches guys having a couple
of rough games because the hitting is looking pretty good.
So then people are arguing with me about, oh, it's
just the Marlins. Who cares, It's just some marlins. And
this is the same fan base that when they the
Astros play against bad teams which they had a winning
record against by the way, they they normally win, but
if they look other harm but it's the worst thing
in the world. They can't beat bad teams. And then
when they beat bad teams, which, by the way, this
is another discussion for another time. The Marlins aren't a
bad team. They just finished sleeping the Yankees. They won
nine over the last eleven. They're one of the best
teams in baseball since June. They're not a bad team.
And then multiple people going to me on Twitter egenasing.
Speaker 3: The Marlands up, conversation malands e victory, limping the Morlands,
shut Oba mess up.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody got time for any other If you're gonna
get all mad when they lose the teams below five hundred,
then we can celebrate a win against anybody. And again,
do your research. Take five seconds of paying attention to
current baseball right now and know that the Miami Marlins
are not a bad team. I like your droopy dog.
I could do a duopy dog too. As road we
eat the Morlands, tu story games. Can they win in
South Florida three east straight?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: If they win that, they're probably gonna lose the series.
And Bill Bronx, that's fantastic, man, ten out of ten.
It was great. I'm really happy. Listeners are really happy
you did that. So anyway, Grouchy RV is in the house. Today.
I love this. I'm not gonna take anything you say
it to me personally today. Good you shouldn't ever. Actually
you know, I respect and I love you. There you go.
Funny that So my tweet is funny that the same
sector of the fan base that laments the Astros can't
beat bad teams is saying, who cares about these wins?
It's the Marlins Christ some of you are insufferable and
that how that go over?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Two hundred and fifty nine likes most people? Twenty seven
replies most of them, if not, no, not all of them.
I would say, of the twenty seven replies, like, twenty
three of them are supporting me. And then there are
some people like it's just the Moon's just horrible. And
then there's this guy, Randy. I want to be nice.
He's normally nice, and he always complains about the hitting coaches.
So when I put out tough games for higher fire,
the hitting coaches guy, he always responds he thinks that
Troy Snicker and Alex Santron are these bumbling fools, even
though they've both been at the Helm since twenty nineteen,
and since then, the Astros have been a top five
offense in baseball over that span. They're like ten to
oh ps this year. And that's with your not Alvarez
missing the entire season most of the year, Yanar Diaz
underperforming alongside Christian Walker as well up and down season
from Jose Altuve. And they've still been, i mean, a
very good above average offense for the balance of the season.
How stupid can these people beat? And this is the
problem that I run into, is that we can never
Almost everybody who's an Astros fan has been an Astros
fan for multiple years unless you're like six years old.
So can we have a little bit of of watching
one hundred and sixty two game season and writing the
ebbs and flows and not overreacting to every little thing
that happens. I'm gonna ask you a question, and it's
you don't get involved in it because, Okay, we want
to take some time. I'm drinking some coffee. Yeah, we
take ourselves out of this. So we have to paint.
We have to walk a slippery slope. You heard that
phrase before? Yeah, yes, Well, slippery slope is like when
one you're giving someone an inch and they take a mile, right,
Like our geopolitical systems aw about this, we walk a
fine line. Oh that's even better. You walk the line
like Johnny Cash exactly. Okay. So our jobs are to
talk to the people of Houston, Texas, and if you
take the opportunity to talk to us, we filled honor
because you have alternatives. You could talk to another radio station,
which you're gonna talk astros emails forget about that. Secondly,
you could talk to your neighbors. You can talk to
the online community. Right, You've got avenues to go besides
the airwaves at are seven ninety am. So we really
do appreciate the fact that you've chosen us as your
place to give us your commentary. Now here comes Here's
where you walk the line. The line is the commentaries
that we get. Sometimes you just and I brought this
up the other day. You want to bang your head
against the wall because it's alarming concerning both A and
B that there are some people that just have horrific
baseball takes. So that's the line we walk here on
the Matt Thomas shol Ross, it's the line we walk,
especially when we do the tenth inning shows what you
did in the last two nights and I'll be doing
tonight after hopefully the asteris sweeping, might be Miami Marlins.
So what so what are we supposed to do? If
I said only smart baseball calls come in, then I
would only then it would limit the number of people.
If I said anybody can call any in, which we do,
then I'm supposed to I'm going to be mad and
yelling people, and I probably yell at one person. Pretend
any show. I think I was a two. This good
for it? Because the Red Sox were sweeping the Ashtros.
It tends the number goes up if the Astros lose. Right,
So here's my question that I will throw out. We'll
do this a couple of times. But I just thought
about this as you were rambling there, m Hey, not rambling,
you were ranting. Come on, man, okay, one to ramble?
What do y'all do when we're not here? Like if
there's no tell on Facebook? You woke up this morning
at eight o'clock and had a cup of coffee in
English muffin, and you were sitting with your family, or
you were on a conference call with your office, or
your bros got together on a on a group chain.
How do you do it, smart Houston fan? How do
you do it when you have a dumbass on your
group chat, in your Facebook group, on your phone, on
your zoom or unfortunately, maybe in some situations sometimes in
your home. Oh that's true, some bad fanom in your
family sometimes. So let me ask you this not mine,
not mine, well my old it's got some questionable takes.
How do you do it? How do you do how
do you have a conversation when the term the astra
need to bunt more comes into play, or you hear
the astros have to fire the hitting coach or the
astros have got to fire Joe Spot. How do you
handle that? Because you know what I've been doing this for.
You're we in twenty twenty five. You've been in a
business for four years. Yeah, thirty four years. I've been
in around radio. That's a long time. That's a very
long time. Matt, very proud of you. So I think
I know how to do it. But the key to
being thirty five, thirty seven, forty years is always adapting
to the new ways that a business has created. Uh huh.
So I want to know from you, the great people
of Houston that have chosen to listen to this show
for entertainment, sports, whatever you whatever we can give to you,
how do you do it? Because sometimes, like I'll be
at the Kingwood Home Studios doing the tenth Inning Show
and I'm yelling at people and my wife wont sentence.
Is everything Okay, She's trying to go to sleep, she's
trying to catch on th she's like the latest season
I need. Yeah, she's watching the Real Housewives of Said
City and it's interfering with her because I'm yelling at people.
You're yelling more than the women on that show. That
is true. So the question I have is how do
you do it? How do you how do you handle
a situation where you have the smart baseball take and
the person you're having a conversation with is having a
dumb baseball take. Because unfortunately, even though we are in
twenty twenty five, and even though the Astros have been
so uber successful, are baseball like you, especially in the
Astros Twitter verse, is real really really really low? Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
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some advice? Was giving you advice? I'm gonna take something
from me all this morning. Seven one three two one, two, five, seven, Auntie,
it's a Matt Thomas should ross at ten to sixteen
here on Sports Talk seven ninety along with the Entrepreneur
Sports RV. I'm Matt nice, have you with us? So
the Matt Thomas shield ross. So just my last point
about this and we'll go down to some more important
things like the Astros winning yesterday. That's the most important.
They won two games in a row, folks, Lauren, Ah right,
can you for five seconds for what? I need? More
than five seconds? Probably? Probably not? That's true? All right?
Oh god, if I turn right, I'm gonna get sick.
If I'm a turn left. Hot looking at me. Put
on some match game or something. You know, Soccer season
is coming. We got a day game at noon. We're
going to get soccer season back pretty soon. World Series
right now, these boys going crazy. Premier League's coming back
in like a week and a half. We got a
new I got a new baseball game too, so we're good.
I just in the heat of the night is on?
No little oh three is company? Oh that's not good either.
That's back and what makes you rest? All right? So
American pickers, that's a good one. All right? Back to
it so uh. I had to call her Allan that
called the show. UH want to say, uh, Sunday okay,
and he's he was so nice. He ses, I listen,
thank you very much. I appreciate it, like so nice.
And then he says, he says, you know, this coach
needs to bunt more. And I said, and I'm paraphrasing
he because I'm taking look reading off my tweet. I said,
it's the manager and not the coach. And by the way,
you shouldn't. He's giving away outs for a team that's
offensively at times challenge and he goes, I'm not talking
about the manager. I said, coach Mauricio Dubon tried to
bunt last night and got thrown out. Tried too, I
got some I got a bun hit in this series,
so that's fine. I mean, there are some guys that
can do it. And I'm not saying that bunting is
a completely lost art decision should not be a preferred art. No,
I don't think you want your number three hitter, which
Alt is, and he goes, Rowe generally just and he
kind of look, he's he's bunting is his base, right,
He's a made man. He can do whatever he wants.
So so Alan says, I'm not talking about the manager.
I said coach. I said, well, of course, which coach?
And he says, I don't remember his name. Now do
you think Omar Lopez is calling this and as the
bench coach? So what I figured out after I talked
to him, after I yelled, and my wife Randon's like,
you know, you're interrupting my Real Housewives of Orange County,
which I said is gretchen On because that's my girl.
Oh did I get you sick? Hey? Folks, all right,
follow me on Instagram? At no, if you follow him Instagram,
you're gonna get sick today. That's what it's sick. It's
not uh, the disease is not commutable through the internet.
I believe it can be all right, So I think
our caller, Allen got the general manager confused Dana Brown
with the coach, who is Joe A. Spotta, who all
of you know is the manager. Okay, So I'm just
that's where I think the confusion came into play. But
it was just it was aggravating and I'm just after,
you know, look, we still have to fight the wave here.
It's been rareer. I think maybe wavebusters might actually be working.
Thank you to all of you that follow me on Wavebusters.
Wavebusters h o uton is the account hashtag burner account.
Oh it's a burner for sure. Although with all the
people that blocked me, I don't I don't have to
worry about going to that wave Buster's account to see
their stuff because that's I can just see it on
my own stuff. It just says this person's blocked. But anyways, anyways,
so and I think we've got to finally do this
next year. We need to have a Wavebusters ho United
the astrosk can, don't you think? Oh with the getting
the shirts printed up? The shirts printed up will get
you got to get an entire section, the entire section.
Now you're going to give these tickets away? No, they'll
pe aple have to pay for I don't you get
a group discount?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, some money. Once you talk to your boy Jimmy C.
I don't call him Jimmy C. What up. I've called
him jim before, but I never called him Jimmy C.
Maybe he insists you call him JC or how about
He probably would say mister Crane's better, which is fine.
I call him mister Crown. I don't care. Call him
Big Game James. That's what I call him, all right,
So we'll get the whole section together, and so we'll
do it during the summer time because that's when the
wave is in its most popular. Yes, and George guy
is going to be miserablecause he's going to see one
whole section of the stadium not moving. George are coming back,
by the way, No, they're not with a certain sector.
What sector would that be, Broski, Oh my god, I
know things go cycle in cycles. I don't know. The
mustaches came back. It was remember it was the short
shorts in the eighties and the long shorts in the nineties,
and now the short shorts are back. Short shorts have
been back for a while. The Georgs, I just can't.
I I just don't get it. I don't get that
at all. Okay, I don't know. You haven't wanted me, No,
I haven't. I am very out of fashion everything. I
warn I've bought something like twenty eleven, well twenty eleven things.
You got no problems, shah, thank you? All right, it
was a cycle back. What you're wearing today, Yeah, it's
probably sweatfans. Sweatpants and a T shirt never goes out
of style. Look what I'm wearing today? Seven one, three,
five seven. So the Astros did win yesterday, Yes, dang it,
Jose stop hitting home runs? Why would he do that?
Why can't he just bunt? This is a couple. Then
this real quick on bunting. And I said this, I
think yesterday, when were you out? What's today? Today's Wednesday? Wednesday?
And I was out Monday, and I just basically did
another PSA. Folks, you have thirty teams, they all have
analytics teams, they all have people who are in research
and development. You're talking about millions and millions of dollars
spent on a maximizing win probably and doing the absolute
best of what is going to help them win ball games.
So you're talking about these thirty teams. Over these thirty however,
many years since bunting has come out of vogue, have
spent all this money and time figuring out how to
the best way to win games. And they figured out
that bunting less is good. So you need to take
five seconds of critical thinking and realize that they know
better than us. Thank you. Okay, So back when I
was saying, so Altube went deep yesterday, which is fine,
better bunted, but no, I would have taken a single,
double triple. Yeah, your Diaz went deep again. He's only
three off the home run lead. Let's go remember that's
an all timer. If I know, it's not an all time,
it's a gut filing that I don't put your name.
If you to put your name on it, I know chance,
but it's a gut film that I will. I will
let you remember the rest of our adult paradus. But
uh yeah, was he got sixteen and al Twov has nineteen.
Jordan has been out the entire year. Walker's been trash yep, Okay,
he hasn't been trash, but no, but he's got fifteen.
By the way, I don't look like you're past Walker
for good. Al Tuo Bay's ops now at the eight
oh four. He's oh yeah, he hit like he's in
like over three point thirty. For the last month and
a half, we haven't really been talking about it doing
pretty good. Can we say that again? We're talking about
to you. Can we imagine we have to do this
when we come back. Can we build a lineup with
the Ordon back. It's sexy as hell. Okay, are we
building the line He's coming back? Are we building it
with Jake Myers too?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: If you want, Although it's probably the e's a pretty
easy interchangeable.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think Jake Myers, Taylor, Tremmelle, Dubon are gonna be
running around. Sorry, even though Jake Myers is having a
better season than everybody. We're gonna go to God's Country, Lubock, Texas.
Talk to Bob God's Country. I love Lubbock, Okay, God's Country. Yeah,
and I just nacadochess. Why does he blessed them with
raider rash? Just the cornfields down there?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Have you been to Love lately? What was the year?
I think it's hsvast country. It's it's got a PF
chains now let's go oh wow, and a cheesecake factory.
I heard the Walmart was upgraded to a super Walmart.
And by the way, you can drink beer in Love
at County whatever.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 2: Oh.
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seven pointy seven one three two one two five seven
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Thomas Show with Ross seven to one three two one
two five seven eleven thirty. Today we're going to tell
some people to sh shut their bomasses up? How about
that sports RV? By the way, big story today on
the Today Show this morning the amount of fast food
restaurants spicy up their menu. I was just looking at
the Rendy's commercial, okay about adding taki to their burgers
and stuff in the efforts to make things spice. No,
I was that was a lie. Yeah, but they make
it fast food spicy. It's not ever really really spice.
I mean, there's now a good tay food or Hey, Jonathan,
you go to Rick Ronald's. Do you get have you
got any spicy McMuffin yet? Spicy McMuffin? Yeah? Oh that
sounds horrid. I'll get this spicy chicken though. Oh that's
a good eat. But we like spice now who America?
Oh okay, yeah, it's not real spice though, but you
know what I mean? Yeah, it's like go ahead, white
people spice go and you were gonna say it knock
it out. I was, I think trying to think of
a more diplomatic way to say white people spice. That's
what he said. I didn't stutter either. I knew upset.
You read my mind fifteen years ross. Come on, now,
let's go to the phones and talk to Bob and
love Bob. Good morning, h this is Bob. I'm in Houston.
Well it says Lubbock, so you must be in Lubbock.
Speaker 7: I spent a month there, and it's like Katie.
Speaker 6: That's what it's grown into.
Speaker 7: It's about the size of Katie, same type of h
you know, retail places.
Speaker 8: But uh, anyway, Uh.
Speaker 7: Matt, you know, I'm going to paid time off and
I listened to a lot way too much sports radio,
and I you know, I was listening with that cat
called and didn't know the difference between a manager and
a coach. And I guess when I was in a
little league, we call them coaches.
Speaker 9: I think that's what it was.
Speaker 7: But maybe maybe he was just.
Speaker 8: In a time war for something.
Speaker 7: But Matt, you know what, dude, your screeners aren't helping
you out after in attend any shows They're allowing a
lot of inebriated callers through, and I think it just
makes your job more challenging. I don't understand just because
they're Astro fans that.
Speaker 2: They have act says to you.
Speaker 6: I mean, if they're drunk, they're drunk.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what we do the show, yeah, Bob. Unfortunately,
we can't check blood alcohol levels when people call it.
So I mean, have you ever been on the phone.
I don't know. Do you drink or Bob, you're on the phone.
You've been drunk before.
Speaker 7: One time I waited four hours for an Oilers before
an Oilers game, and I drank my ass off. I
was so drunk for when I got on the phone.
Speaker 1: But you know that was then and this is now, right,
I know, I know now you've you've matured in everything.
I understand. Hey, Bob, thank you for the phone call.
Go ahead, you finish your point. No, that's it.
Speaker 10: You do a great job.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you for nice to hear for you
from you when I was a kid. My mom's at home,
so she's resting, hopeful, she's doing okay. I talked to
her this morning. Uh when when when you would she
would call you it's when cell phones were first and
plane you had too many pops. You could sober up
on the phone, could you not? You could try to
an extent. Oh, let me tell you. You don't pick
up the phone. I want your mom. But I mean
if you if she's dolling you multiple times, you go, okay,
deep breath. That was one with us too, Hi mom?
You know and you're you're like, you've had nine butt whitzers,
so you know you're in an you're in tough spot.
M hmm. But I mean you've so you've had to
sober up for your mother before I guarantee you in
Rossfelt Oriol's forty years of life, you've been on the
phone with your mother and you've had too much a
drinking now guarantee it. I mean I've had to step
out of Bible study. But that's really about it. H
good line. I will say I don't mind drunken, dumb
callers on postgame shows because I've done a lot of
postgame shows of zero callers.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the here's that we would and I'm in
made this in all sincereto. We'd rather have you than
not have you. Yes, but we now have a little
more guidance to say, if there's nobody calling, we're gonna
end was We're not gonna sit there and talk to ourselves. Uh,
we're all stretched here at the radio station, some of
them more. Yeah, Matt is very stretched out. Matt, you
aren't even gonna say that, were you. I didn't say
stretched out. I just said stretched. Yeah, you see, just
trying to incite stuff. That's fine. He's in the sickness.
He's always trying to start stuff. So we're not going
to go longer than we have to because people want
to hear their Ben Mallar at night. But yeah, in general,
on postgame shows, I give a massive leash because I
I've done dozens of mostly rockets and but the occasional
astros and Matt. You know this back in the day
in twenty thirteen, fourteen, where nobody cared and nobody called
so and and honest, the another honest reality of it
is the postgame radio call in show is not nearly
as popular as it was even five or ten years ago.
That's right. So if you take the time to listen,
and you take the time to call in, yeah, yeah
you're drunk, Yeah you got a bad opinion. Let's let
it rip and just know that we're going to make
fun of you and it's something personal. And then a
good host like for perhaps a Matt Thomas or I
would like to say myself, can make make it fun. Oh, absolutely,
and make it entertaining. Generally, sometimes you got nothing to
work with d like for tonight, I mean at ten
point fifteen, if somebody's calling with black ass takes, I'm
just gonna end the phone call. I I if I
was a young of a nubie doing this, like look
at the host of Post Game Show, and then I'll
be talking to anybody. I can get better stuff to do. Yeah,
you can make it entertaining. You can make it fun,
and also dumb callers make it easy for me to
look smart. It does. We come across the geniuses, and
if you've many the one of us, well, Ross is
someone educated. And I don't know how I got through
you of age, I don't know, but oh you bribe
your professors. That is accurate. Just one okay, and it
was a big bribe. Two it wasn't cash. It was
sports tickets. But those of you that are O g's
know the show seven one three two one two five
seveninty seven one three two one two five seven eight.
I would to talk about a j blue ball hitting
ninety eight of the gun over and over. You are
we like? You like his arm was worried about his
arm dropping off. Uh, well, we'll see. He was just
letting it rip because he knew he was the ope
of the headliner to the opener. I'm keeping pushing that.
I'm pushing the headliner agenda, Matt, and I'm not going
to stop on it. What you say? And I need
a ruling on this. Uh are we going to go
with the blue ball jokes? Or are we going to
be mature? We already know. Hognuts started talking about blue
balls last week. That's how this whole thing started because
that was his that was his nickname on the track
squad blue balls blue but just blue oh, but it
was short for yeah, you know guy, he's cool, proper,
you know, you know. And then his mom calls him
little hog nuts, but I mean calling Cashew, So I'd
say that for sure. Hey, just know, a jock stop
is very comfortable. I'm wearing one right now. I see, Look,
you're you know game, I mean, you're telling me today's
youth are walking walking around wearing jockstraps. Mm hmmm, No,
I used to know speaking of that. You see what
happened the WNA game last night? Again, No, the third
one of those things came out and it hits Sophy
cutting him and she kicked it off the court. I mean,
are people getting arrested for this? One person has been found.
The person that did the first drop has not been found. Okay, Andy,
what a year for the WNBA media wise? I mean
it is they've gotten more. Don't you think that they've
gotten more attention this year than they have in the
previous twenty years, Sagan, The w NBA has gotten more
attention this year. Yeah, and the previous two year. Yeah,
the last two years ever since Kaitlyn Clark came in
onto the scene. Yeah, not all it's good attention. No, No,
it's it's yeah. But hey man, any good any publicity
is good publicity. I disagree. I know that. That's why
I said it. I know, And you were just trying
to poke the bear. Ten forty five Sports Talk seven
NINTI seven one three two one two five seven Natties
Texans are back on the practice field a quote unquote
light workout. I'm reading tweets some legitimate media that are there,
not the ones that are tending to think their meeting
because they have a YouTube page.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb not practicing today, says Jonathan Alexander Damon. Damian
Pearce has gotten all the first team reps. Oh, good
for him. Cam Robinson is wearing a jersey and it's
a participant today. Christian Harris and how he's I'll shut
ear also working out what it's all coming together. Joe
Mixon isn't throw That's okay, don't care. Veteran by the way,
he would didn't he have an ankle or foot issue
or something last year? Not that he was expected to
be there. I'm just I'm just throwing that out. And
then he ran for like one hundred and fifty yards
in the first week. It's the Colts, so you're gonna
drave him in your fantasy drafts. Would you tell me
he's sliding on my board? Okay, that's fine? Real quick
that you know the Texans playing week one? Right? Have
you forgotten already? Sure?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 1: Close? Rams? Okay, Rams, Matthew. This is from Ian Rappaport
four hours ago. As you woke up this morning. Matthew
Stafford dealing with an aggravated disc and has received an
epidural to help him deal with it. Yeah, they're talking
about he's hurt and basically like he's gonna play all
season hurt or something. Is not the sport you want
to play with a back injury. Of rams are calling
him week to week being cautious, but with plans to
him to be ready in week number one? Are they
the ones with Garoppolos the backup? It is correct? Okay, Now,
what Garoppolo has left in the tank, my guess is
not a whole lot. But if you were to go
to a battle of backups, would you rather have Davis
Mills or Jimmy Garoppolo? I get I guess Jimmy Garoppolo,
But ask who is the he named wide receiver they
added over the off season. Davante Adams. Remember that movie.
In that movie, the video of him like I don't
want to be here anymore, And it was because Jimmy
Garoppolo was his quarterback. Let me ask you this what
happened to DeVante Adams? Remember he was the most feared
guy in the league. Now all he does is bounce
around from teens early thirties. I mean, yeah, you think
it's because he doesn't like people or he gets in
trouble with He'm not in trouble, but like relationship issues
with teams. He's thirty two. Is that what NFL receivers
do at thirty two? Well, unless your name is like
Jerry Rice. Yeah, well he bounced around too, Yeah, but
he was. He still was turning in like thirty one
thousand yard seasons when he was like forty. But I
mean like Raiders, Packers or Alseo, anywhere else did you
go to use all the packers? And then when he
turned thirty, he got a gigantic deal with the Raiders
and then he got traded to the Jets because Aaron Romember.
He did catch touchdown against the Texans, right, yeah, oh
I forgot about Yeah, I didn't forget about that. Actually, Uh,
I wonder where he is on the all time receiving
yards list. He's got over he's got close to twelve thousand.
So do okay, So not that our audience cares a
whole lot about Diva, dont am let's put the over
under a twelve hundred yards this year? Well under under okay?
I mean, you got pookin a coop over there? You have,
uh who else that tight end? It's really good. Tyler Higbee. Yeah,
I like him. Okay, he's a right. Yeah, you got
pooka a Longhorn legend. Jordan Whittington to to at well,
Devanta Adams Universitas. They're gonna they're gonna run the ball
a lot with Kayan Williams. They just gave him a
big deal. Right, But Matthew Stafford getting an epidural. I
thought only pregnant women got epidurals. Clearly a mistake. Clearly
you're mistaken. H Davante Adams thirty third on the all
time receiving yards list, just behind Michael Irvin and just
head of Antonio Gates. Okay, Gates was a tight end,
so I'll kick him into the curve. Okay, just ahead
of Don Maynard, Maynard Maynard, Yeap Charge and Calvin Johnson
and Moosen Mohammad. Okay, So Calvin Johnson, Michael Irvin, Devanta
Adams rank him one, two, three, Calvin Irvin Adams all
three legendary. Yeah, Calvin's the greatest wide receiver I ever seen.
Speaker 2: Colvin.
Speaker 1: He's only there because he quit when he's like twenty nine.
Let me tell you it's it's a strange one. Get
I got. We're going to Toby. I swear the two
of the greatest players of the NFL retired early, and
they retired from the same team because they were tired
of losing. Different times. Yes, but Barry Sanders to me,
was the greatest running back I've ever seen playing. Agreed,
agreed in person. Uh, Calvin Johnson was unguardable mm hmm.
And he's just like, I can't do this anymore. I'm
tired of losing. Yeah, game is the exact same thing.
He was racking up two thousand yards of like John Kittna. Yeah,
it's pretty good. I mean he had like Daniel Lawski
throwing passes to him. Tell me on seven ninety, tell
me good morning and thank you for holding Oh man,
not a problem.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 9: You the guys working. I'm enjoying Monday off, so I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, I'm waiting around.
Speaker 9: I kind of went the way in a little bit.
I was, Uh, I was listening. I'm driving on the
way home, and uh, y'all were talking about being the
guys to do the postgame shows and having to do
with drunk callers and everything like that and got me
to giggling. I've been I've been blessed to have been
listening to sports radio talk talk shows.
Speaker 12: Man.
Speaker 9: Literally since like the early nineties. It seemed like every
office I ever shared at the job that I'm at
was somebody who digged listening to a sports talk radio
and everything. And well, of course, you know, back in
the day, man, you know, it seemed like the other,
the other sports radio station in Houston was the one
to listen to. But over the last couple of years,
I've really been enjoying what the format that has done
at y'all station. I noticed a sacrilege to sit here
and say this in the state of Texas, but I'm
not exactly the biggest football fan. I don't have anything
against it. I'm just not the biggest football fan in
the world, and I get bored and listening to NonStop
talk about it. So one of the things I really
enjoy about y'all station is the fact that y'all are
not afraid to talk about the rest of the franchises
in the greater Houston area that have actually won championships.
So that's just something that's a caveat there also as
somebody who has a little bit of a smart absence
of humor as well. I get real tickled it listening
to y'all having to dissect, you know, some of the
people that just call in, myself included. I'm not going
to sit there and say that I've been the perfect
orator every time I've made a phone call, but you know,
it is it is fun to sit back and listen because,
you know, man, personality goes a whole lot away, and
that I think it's really cool that the shows that
I've that I that I enjoyed listening to on this station,
it seems like everybody does have like that onederful dark
sense of humor, a whole lot of wit.
Speaker 4: So I mean, it is, it is.
Speaker 9: It's a lot of fun. This is a fun radio station.
And I just I just wanted to call in and say,
man that you know, hey, I dig what you guys do,
and you know, and that's about it.
Speaker 1: Much appreciated, Toby, thank you very much for the phone call.
First of all, we're never gonna talk about one sport
all day long. That is wretchedly boring. Number two, we
are all incredible smart asses. I might be the worst
of the group. Might but I didn't ask your opinion
over there. I would just make sure that the book
coverlor you want to use that, Okay I am I
am the biggest smart ass of the group. But I
love all my Cope. I don't love all my coworkers.
I like most of them. Okay, some might tolerate someone
confused by but that's a different issue for a different time.
We have a good time, we do. And yeah, this
show will never be twenty four hours of astros. It'll
never be twenty four hours of rockets. Now, if they
win championships, then we're going to go with that, but
it'll ever be twenty four hours of text and we're
gonna make it all up. We got some other things
to get to, including Brian Bogocevik cool join us. Next,
I also want to get into what ESPN's been doing.
Do you see what ESPN did yesterday with two big moves? Yeah,
I saw one of them. You're gonna see it. There's
another one came out this morning. Two major moves by ESPN.
Brian Bogacevic. Next, after Ross tells you about Center.
Speaker 12: Jeck's The Matt.
Speaker 1: Thomas Show with Ross ross Is stepped decide for a
couple of minutes. So it's gonna be me and Bogey
for the next ten right here on Sports Talk seven
ninety Bogie is We've talked about for nine million times.
The baseball season can be a roller coaster ride. You
go up to Boston, you watch them lose three games.
You go to Miami and the Marlins beat the Yankees
three straight in their home field, draw huge crowds. The
next two nights, the Astros come in town and the
Ashers have beat them up pretty good. This season has
not made a lot of sense for many reasons, and
I think this last five days is a great example
of that.
Speaker 13: No, I totally agree.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 13: My first kind of thought and reaction to, you know,
the last week, week and a half is kind of like,
let's not get too high on, you know, beating up
on the Nationals and the Marlins. But if you look
at what the Marlins have been over the course of
you know, a good chunk of six to eight weeks,
and what they were doing coming in to this series,
you know, yeahs they looked pretty good against a team
that's been playing really well. And I think it's the
way that they've looked. It's the offense. It's you know,
kind of a different looking team post trade deadline than
than we had seen throughout the course of much of
the season. You know, some of that is additioned, some
of that is, you know, Paya coming back healthy. But
I think it's kind of rounding into form. It's certainly
not the team that you think of when you say, okay,
what's our best, but it's definitely a team that is
different for the better than it was maybe three or
four weeks ago.
Speaker 1: It is amazing to me. Look, this team, I would
say more times than not, has been offensively challenged. But
there were a night in particular in Boston, we get
fourteen hits, and so that's supposed to win you baseball games,
and that just didn't happen. There's one thing about getting
on base, another one getting into scoring. There's really no
rhyme or reason to why that is except for, you know,
sometimes your heard of the line up guys don't come through,
and sometimes your seventh, eight, nine guys come up with
the worst possible times. What is your take on how
this team at least gets sophrenically The last sixty days
has been so up and down offensively.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean when you look at the runners in
scoring position numbers, whether it be for an individual player
or a team or whatever, I for one I do
not I try as hard as I can to not
diminish hitting with runners in scoring position because it's not
the same as every other at bat.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 13: A pitcher is not going to pick you the same
with runners in second and third and one out as
they are with two outs and nobody on.
Speaker 8: That's a given.
Speaker 13: You have to be a better hitter to hit with
runners in scoring positions. However, when you're looking at over
the course of time, over the course of the season,
the greatest predictor of can you hit with runners in
scoring position is just can you hit?
Speaker 10: In general?
Speaker 13: Are you a contact oriented hitter or team do you
hit for average as a team or as an individual hitter.
Speaker 1: And when you have.
Speaker 13: Situations where you know you're racking up a ton of hits,
you're racking up a ton of base runners, and maybe
for a game or a couple of games, you don't
drive those runners in. That can just be attributed to
it's just baseball. Time to hit a line drive at
somebody with two outs, and you know you don't score,
but over time, if you're doing the right things, eventually
you will hit with runners in scoring position and therefore
score a lot of runs. So when I look at
a team, this team post trade deadline and what the
lineup has been doing in terms of just volume of
quality at bats, volume of guys on base, I think
it's a better a better option, a better chance of
scoring a lot of runs consistently than it was.
Speaker 9: You know, not that too far in the past.
Speaker 1: Brian Bogosovich with us here on seven hunty for his
regular Wednesday visit Bogie. You played with jlse for a
very short time, very young part of his career towards
the end of yours, and then you've watched him as
a broadcaster and as a guy that goes to the
ballparking season first hand. He's still racking up hits. I
think he's gonna get to three thousand hits. It's gonna
take a lot of work, but I think he's going
to get there. But just when people want to all
of a sudden say all right, here comes a significant
downturn and maybe Jose has had that defensively, but is
above eight hundred. Yet again, he's hitting home runs. He
walks into the ballpark with two hits per night. Have
you noticed anything about his swing changing now? Obviously it's
probably slower than it was as a rookie, but he's
still getting on base, he's still making solid contact. Is
there any noticeable difference than maybe even seven or eight
years ago, the wholesale two of a swing that you
see now.
Speaker 13: I think maybe the one thing you could say is
that when he's, you know, hunting for power, he has
to become a little bit more pull dominant than he
was in the past, and in order to do so,
maybe have to have to guess or cheat a little
bit more. But that's I mean, that's a very negligible thing.
Nothing with the swing, nothing with the approach, you know.
I think at some point, especially when you're talking about
this lineup functioning as a as it should, you know,
with everybody back where it should, and he doesn't have
to be a power hitter type of guy, or maybe
later in his when he doesn't have to be that
he still has the ability to rack up a ton
of hits. He can still if he wanted to just
spray balls the other way and get base hits, he
could he could easily do that, but he's trying to
be more of a complete hitter or trying to trying
to hit for power, trying to be in the middle
of the lineup guy. So maybe he has to sacrifice
a little bit of risk of swing and miss in
order to do that. But I mean, that's just hitting.
Sometimes you got to give a little bit to it,
a little bit, and I think that in terms of
just pure hitting ability, he's still every bit as good
as he ever was.
Speaker 1: Buggie. We saw the Astros go with an opener yesterday
and then we saw aj blue Ball get his second
appearance in a major league uniform, and I mean, he
was hitting ninety seven ninety eight of the gun and
I don't know if that's going to be a regular
thing for him. But for a guy that goes from
his first start many months ago to a guy who
got passed up by at least two pitchers, if not more,
to get this opportunity again, it looked like he was
just very comfortable well the way the world was off
his shoulders and he can just rear back and get
people out.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, a lot can happen over the course
of whatever it's been three three months down in the
minor leagues and getting working. And he's pitched a lot
of innings down there, and there have been, you know,
tweaks made and adjustments made. And you know, if you're
sitting when you're sitting down on triple A and you're
seeing guys get called up, get called up, get called up,
and it's not you, and it's not you, and it's
not you, it'll create a sense of urgency and it'll
it'll you know, kind of push you to get better
and kind of push you to when you do get
that opportunity, try to make a good impression. And I
think he certainly did that. From a stuff standpoint, I mean,
you can, you can go a long way with high
end stuff when you's you know, there's a lot of
room for error when you're pitching when it's ninety seven
ninety eight miles an hour, and it's certainly different than
a lot you know, a lot of guys that we've
seen come up it's been lesser stuff, but more of
a plan, more of an approach for pitching it. You know,
having a guy who can come up and say, hey,
we need you know, two three, four innings where somebody
can just go out there and try to blow guys away.
Here's our option, and differentiate yourself a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that you knew that. You probably in the
back of your mind thought the transition for Carlos going
from short to third base would be a piece of cake,
and it feels like it certainly has been.
Speaker 13: Yeah, when you're that talented at shortstop, I mean there
are some nuances to third base. It's a little bit
different footwork, maybe a couple of different arm angles on throws.
But I mean, if you can play shortstop at the
level that he plays shortstops, you can slide right over
to third base and honestly, probably pretty much anywhere else.
Speaker 1: In the Diamonds, Urius gets an opportunity. Make the most
of it. You've got now, I think, another additional utility guy.
Not so much pressure on Dubond to play every single day.
It feels like the lineup is coming together clearly because
guys are back, and noticeably Jerby would be the first
one on that list. Ross and I want to do
this in a few minutes, and we may have time
to do so. We're hoping that at some point Jordon
gets into play on this and if he does, that's
a missing piece to this lineup being filthy one to seven.
Speaker 13: Right at this point you think, oh absolutely, I mean
he as good as other guys have been, as nice
as the additions are. Jordon coming back healthy and being
the hitter that he is. Everything then revolves around him.
You build your lineup around him. You know, team's game
plan around him. It's also you know, another left handed
bat that has to be accounted for, and now you're
looking at the top half of the batting order being
righty lefty, righty lefty. So you know, looking down the
road to a seventh, eighth, ninth inning, playing matchups, it
makes it really difficult for opposing managers. So yeah, I
mean you're looking at a lineup that really, at some
point is going to be you know, one through eight,
one through nine really solid because you know you've got
guys who, for a good chunk of time we're hitting
you know, Te Schmeil hit a bunch of leadoff, He's
going to be maybe your nine hole hitter. You got
you know, Cam Smith sliding into the seventh hole when
he was hitting fourth for a good chunk of time.
Victor Carrottini when he's in the lineup. He was their
best hitter for nearly a month during the course of
the season. So yeah, you're looking at some real lengths
and you know Theiners getting it going, So all of
a sudden, you're looking at a lineup that's really deep
and really dangerous in every spot.
Speaker 1: Last question, Bogie. Last night, it happened in back to
back innings, once for the Astros and once for the Marlins.
There was massive miscommunication between the two teams centerfielders and
the right fielders. You have played outfield. Take us to
the protocol on that, and why was it strange to
you that it had happened in back to back innings.
Speaker 13: I think that's just a flukey thing. Look, I've played
down there in Miami. I don't think it was a
function of the crowd being too loud.
Speaker 1: Ye guy's not.
Speaker 13: Being able to hear it right. So here, here's the protocol.
Right centerfielder has priority over everybody on the field, and
then outfielders have priority over infielders. And when you get
into that little Bermuda triangle where there's a center field
or a right fielder and an infielder going.
Speaker 1: Out, you've got to you know, you've got to be loud.
Speaker 13: So that you know the other players can hear you.
But also you've got to know who's calling it, right.
If you're the right fielder coming in and you hear
I got it, you've got to know if that's your
second basement or if that's your center fielder, and whether
you need to call him off or lay back. And
you know, you've got some guys in there who you know,
Doobie hasn't played a ton of center field, or you've
got Urias who's not used to playing with other guys.
So you've just got a little bit going on to
where guys aren't totally comfortable. But yeah, it's one of
those things where it's difficult, especially on a ball that's
just on the edge of range where you're not going
to be camped underneath it and you're comfortable to take
your eyes off the ball and look down and say, Okay,
is my second basement camp or is that my center
fielder coming over? When everybody's looking up and you just
have to listen and know the voices of who's calling it.
You kind of need to guys who you know their voices,
and it's just one of those things where they haven't
worked together a whole lot.
Speaker 1: Last question, I don't know how many times you played
a Yankee stadium over your career because you were a
nationally guide primarily. But let me ask you this. You've
got a bunch of young men that'll be going there
for the very first time, and it feels like to me,
especially if the Rangers continue to beat up on the Yankees,
that the crowd may be more angry at the Yankees
and they are at the Astros because they are in
a massive slump. What advice would you give when you
go to a hostile facility like that for some young
men that may not be at Yankee Stadium but maybe
for the very first time.
Speaker 13: Yeah, first of all, I think you hit it on
the head like that. That team is really right now,
So know that there's a heck of a lot more
pressure on them to perform in front of that crowd
than there is on you to perform in front of
that crowd. But anytime you're going to you know, one
of those historical stadiums, or you know, guys who are
in the big leagues for the first time going to
a new stadium, I always get out there early first
day that you're there, go out, even if you're not
doing early work. Walk around the stadium. Just get comfortable.
Look up into the stand, see how high the third
deck is, to take a look at lights. Just get
familiar with your surroundings. You know, be in awe at
two o'clock in the afternoon, so that at seven o'clock,
you know, it can turn into somewhat of just baseball,
even though you know, first time in Yankee Stadium, first
time at Fenway Wrigley, it is a little bit different.
But try to get all of that out before the game.
Speaker 1: Gray seff as always friend, talk to you next week.
Thank you for the time. All right, cool? See yeah.
Brian Bogosivik with us every Wednesday at eleven o'clock here
on Sports Talk seven ninety we have shut your bum
ass up coming up at the bottom of the hour,
Shut your bum ass up, and ain't nobody got time
for that. But when this radio program returns. ESPN made
two major acquisitions in the last twenty four hours. One
of them might affect how you watch the world's most
popular sport. Well that no, America's most poplar sport. I
correct myself. Eleven sixteen. It's a Matt Thomas show a
Ross shut your bum ass up in fifteen. Here on
seven ninety eleven twenty Madden Ross Sports Talk seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven ninety Ross
was eating four bowls of oatmeal during that last segment.
He's like, Matt, you can handle the you and bogie. Yeah.
It was the best Bogey conversation we ever had this year,
for sure, good questions. What do you rip artee? Well,
I think one of those things maybe was true. Okay,
all right, so you went to bed last night hearing
about ESPN, Yes, and the NFL network. Thing that is right,
ESPN is selling Uh let me get this right, The
NFL is selling their network, selling the red Zone, Yes,
selling some more games to ESPN. Okay, okay, and there's
some other digital platform kind of stuff in return. The
NFL now owns ten percent of ESPN, isn't that in saying? Okay, so,
I mean that's wildly insane, right, ten percent of ESPN
of Well, first to shows you with the value of
the NFL properties. Are We're talking about four regular season games,
red Zone and the NFL network. Okay, And apparently the
NFL network is still gonna be run by NFL people,
but ESPN's gonna probably have some sort of you crossover.
There better be Scott Hansen. Probably Scott Hanson from a
cold dead Hands. He's all locked and loaded. People were
asking about that. Oh thank god. So the number one
thing is wow, that's crazy. Number two is that, you know,
Roger Goodell has has always walked this very fine line
about how the NFL feels about gambling. The NFL, ESPN
has a very strong gambling presence, I e. ESPN Bet,
and now the NFL owns a piece of a company
that has a direct tie to a gambling Yeah, ESPN
Bet is done through I believe pen gaming. Point being
is this NFL now owns part of ESPN that owns
ESPN and bet. That's over the case. So there are
people a little bit wigging out about this. There are
also people that are wigging out about the journalistic integrity
and how can if Adam Schefter finds out something that
he shouldn't be reporting because the ESPN owns ten percent
of it is very valid.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 1: My reality reaction to all that was ROSSI and you
can certainly have a different one than I have. We've
lost and I don't know about the political game because
I don't follow politics like that. The plot is lost
there too. But we have lost sports journalism. Well, yes, okay,
that's just the reality of it. You have team controlled websites,
you've got team controlled access, you have networks that employ reporters,
you have networks that don't want to anger the television
partners in the league because they're the ones that are
giving out these contracts to say broadcast. I mean, the
reality is is, even before this deal came through yesterday,
Adam Schefter got something so juicy, He's gonna probably a
lot it to the commissioner first before he does anything.
Because there's a very strong relationship between ESPN and the NFL.
Now it's even stronger because the NFL owns ten percent
of the network now, so the days of there is
a line between partnership and journalism that has long been eroded.
So I wasn't nearly worried about that, and I'll I'm
not worried about any of this because again, it's not
impacked our watching of sports. It doesn't necessarily matter. But
I will just say just Adam Schefter is a made man,
and maybe that's a relate You can never get rid
of Adam Schefter if you're ESPN. But I will say,
what if there's somebody that's up and coming that wants
to break a big story, they're scared to break a
big story, or if they're there somewhere else in the
ESPN realm and and they don't want to do it
because they have to kind of bow down to their
NFL overlords. Adam Schefter didn't really have to bow down
to anybody. No, But I think he's probably played well.
You probably the wheels. Yeah, So I don't know if
the general public all of a sudden cares about this.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 1: To me, the only shocking part is again, ESPN lives
on the gambling aspect, and the NFL has tried to
be as careful as they can not to cross over
the gambling world. You can't cross over. Now. When ESPN
bet is a huge part of the ESPN family and
you now own ten percent of that family, you've now
gone full throttle into the gambling world. Now, the NBA
doesn't care. The NBA is like, yeah, you what you want,
just don't bet on our sport. If you're a player,
Major League Baseball makes it very clear you can't bet
on the sports. But they're not still doing it. But
they're not, but they're not running into a lot of
those issues. The NFL has tried to at least say, hey,
we need to make sure we separate ourselves. And there's
no separation. So that's that was interesting. Point number one.
Then ESPN late last night and you may have been asleep,
they're going to give They're gonna yes these special events
that the WWE has, that's the Summer Slams, which just
took place this weekend, Summer Slam. That's WrestleMania. And they
have a phrase for it, and I'm sorry, I can't
think it's it's a marque. It's an mL E or
something like that. It's like a premiere event. There's like
sixqu what nothing good? Sorry you said mL E mid
level exception. It's not a middle nothing at the WWE
level is mid level pl premium live event. Okay. They're
selling the pls to ESPN. Okay, so now ESPN is like,
we're gonna give you the chance to watch these pls
as part of our new bundling service in twenty twenty six.
Everything's bundling now. So now in two thousand and two.
I have Peacock and I watched I watched Summer sum
this weekend on Peacock. Okay, twenty twenty six, it's going
over to ESPN, which means if you want the ESPN bundle,
which will be your ESPN, your ESPN Plus, your ESPN two, ESPN,
U SEC Network, anything tied to ESPN, you're gonna get
that plus these ples. But you're gonna be bundling your
twenty seven dollars a month. Twenty seven dollars a month. Now,
I have a Disney Plus package, which gives me Hulu,
ESPN Plus and Disney Plus. I don't know if my
pl e if I get the ww stuff or not.
I'm not paying lit, but it feels like i've I'm
already ross stupid Wazoo for extra. Programs are on Apple
TV and Peacock and Amazon, and it's horrible. So what
I want to know is who's running the ESPN checkbook? Disney.
Does Disney have more money than God?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: I mean seriously, I think they're gonna pay I got
to see the story here. I believe they're going to
pay two hundred and twenty five million dollars a year
here it is. The five year deal begins in twenty
twenty six. It includes the US streaming rights to all
wwepl the events it will air on ESPN, and we'll
see the Disney owned company pay three hundred and twenty
five million dollars per year to the WWE for the
broadcast rights while WWESPLD offerings s at the debut on
ESPN streaming service, which is planning to launch later this
year and will cost oh I said twenty six, it'll
cost you twenty nine to ninety nine a month for
the ESPN package of channels. Let's see Disney owns Disney, Hulu, ESPN, Fubo, NHLtv,
Lifetime Networks, A and E Networks, History Channel, Discovery Fox. Wait,
are they Twentieth Century Fox is on by them too?
Is that true that? I can't effects. I think so.
National Geographic. Of course, they have all the Disney Uh yeah,
twentieth Century Fox like pictures, Disney Online, Disney Mobile. I'm
just scrolling through stuff, even Smith Disney Parks. Yeah, they're
doing they're doing. Okay, God, It's it's just incredible to
me that and they're the ones paying out these incredible
contracts of these network. I mean they bought the SEC
all Oh, the Marvel Universe. Oh they're doing all right, Oh,
lucasfilm in Star Wars. Wo Man, Walt Disney's like, man,
I was born way too late. He did okay for himself,
and he did okay. But it's just I just so.
ESPN got super, super busy in the last thirty six
hours selling off ten percent of their network to the
NFL getting the red zone, you know the reds. Are
they gonna put commercial in the red zone? They better not.
There's no way you can't. They will. There's more, There'll
be more sponsorships they already have, like the you know,
the Fedeggs Carry of the Day, right, whatever, right, right,
they can do more of that. But I mean, you know,
there I will write in the streets. I'm just I'm
telling you I don't like I bought Peacock. I didn't
get it for the WWE, so I got it for
a variety of things. I thought your son bought it
because of Premier League. That's the primary reason I didn't
want to bury the headline on that. But that's fine.
Emier Leagu's coming back next weekend and it's gonna be
the home of sixty six NBA games. Love it with
the theme is are they reworking the theme? Are they
revamping the theme, or they're gonna go back to but
they're gonna probably, you know, add a little little pizazz
to it. Let me get you. Kendrick lamartis in the
lyrics of it. I'd be good. I mean when a
bill understand ward, he said, But that's a different sture
for a different time. I love it. Greatest Lyricists for
All Time eleven thirty one. You already to tell somebody
to shut their ballb masks twenty two Grammys to Barry
Manilo's one. Are you ready to tell somebody to shut
their ballasses up? Let's do it here. It's seven one
three two one two five seven ninety all right, it's
my favorite time of the week. It's your favorite time
of the week. It is time for if somebody's been
bothering you and saying some stuff that's out of pocket,
maybe they've been gossiping behind your back, you say shut jo,
bomass up.
Speaker 2: Man, shit jobam ass up man.
Speaker 1: Or maybe if somebody is I'll cutting you off in traffic,
or something's been happening or you had to wait in line,
or there's some waiter or waitress getting mad at you
and they're doing stuff that ain't ain't right, you say,
ain't nobody got time for that? Ain't nobody got time?
Ford seven one three two one two five seven ninety
is the phone number if you want to get in
seven one three two one two five seven ninety. I
will go ahead and start. And I kind of did
this when, uh, what was calling me grumpy? I grumpy
RV or something that It wasn't grumpy it was I
can't remember. It doesn't matter. I'm a little bit sick
cranky RV. I think maybe that's it. I'm a little
bit under the weather, and I was, you know, I
tried to be on social media just because I have
this job. Go ahead and follow me at sports RV
on Instagram. People do have time for that. Trying to
put more stuff on there. I would appreciate the support.
I was talking with somebody yesterday as I was putting
out about the hitting coaches and just making jokes on Twitter,
and then people, multiple people are all like, well, yeah,
it's a Miami Marlin, so like it really counts. These
are Major League Baseball games. You've been a fan for
years and years and years, so and you always get
mad if they lose to the A's of the Washington
Nationals and talk about how they never beat bad teams.
The Marlins, by the way, even though they're under five hundred,
have been one of the hottest teams in baseball for
over a month. So if you want to be the
guy that complains about them never beating bad teams and
then when they do you act like it's what they're
supposed to do, you can't have it both ways. Shut
your bum ass up.
Speaker 2: Shit your bum ass up, man.
Speaker 1: Jonathan, what you got? I wanted to I've been waiting
for this because this weekend, you as championships over for
a track and field was this weekend and the two
undimeter finals came in and I know, you guys know
who No Allows is. If you don't, that's the guy
was Yes, Yeah, he's getting his staring down right. Yeah,
so that's what his thing. He doesn't stare down whatever.
He's cocky. No one likes him even in the track
world that we really don't. We can't stand up, okay,
And so what happens is he key ban Eric and
Noela has had this rivalry going on since the twenty
twenty Olympics for Tokyo and everything, and they've been going
at it. Keny Baneric and started the races, you know,
beating him, dad him and no allows us. His thing,
catches him, looks him down and after that, well I'll know,
before he could even celebrate, Ken't even Derek pushes the
shoves him mid sprint trying to slow down, like, shoves
him and starts yelling at him, da da da da. Oh,
you can't do that to me, you know, just just
being ugly, just being ugly. Just I'm trying to get
to the point because what happens is is just it's
a big unsportsman like thing. This a couple of years
ago with so who is more out of line? Yes,
Kiman Eric pushed him and shoved him, and then afterward
went to me saying, you can't do that to me.
I don't like that. You can do it to anybody else,
but you gotta respect me. But you got you lost.
That's the thing in track. You got one race and
you got you gotta beat you lost championship.
Speaker 9: That's it.
Speaker 1: No other sport does this, and this is why track
athletes get dispected. This is why we don't get respect
that we want like we want. And this is why
there's no eyes on track because it's just divas. Oh
you guys, don't you just run this is and this
and you show that you can't even take a loss
how you're supposed to and you congratulate. So no one
got time for that. Anybody got time for that? Just
get to the point this is. This shouldn't need a
place in track. Ain't nobody got time today. You didn't
think you were getting tracks back today, did you. I
that was not on the bingo board. I saw that. Yeah.
So even though nobody likes Noah Lyles, you're defending him here, Jonathan.
I like that about it, because I mean, I can't
all right, how about this one. No one likes Stephan
days and when he does outside of the outside of
I think he does great outside of the off the
field on the field, but a lot of people okay,
when he's on the track, you gotta respect him, exactly, Saton.
Any controversial good player, like we were talking about Aaron
Rodgers yesterday, Exactly. He goes on podcasts and talks about
doing a bunch of drugs and whatnot. I don't really care.
Think he's one of the greatest quarterbacks I've ever seen. Okay, uh,
I don't like scratch off tickets. I think they're a
ginormous waste of time. M okay, sounds like somebody who loses.
But we had some extra scratch off winners in our house.
We were doing some cleaning and we found about ten
to twelve. That's good, okay. Oh, I know it's gonna happen.
So I take him to the convenience store and the
guy says, you need to scratch this little barcode area. Yes,
which again is just basically adding extra aggravation. So I said,
you have a coin. He gives me a coin and
I start scratching it. He then tries to put it
into the little reader. He says, you scratched him too hard,
and he couldn't give me any of the money for
any of the tickets. See, you know what, I told him, what.
Speaker 2: Shits your bumass up? Mane shit your bum ass up man.
Speaker 1: That's why I hate lottery tickets. Yeah, man, that's rookie stuff. Though, Matt,
you can't. We can't scratch off that barcode. You know
what some people do. Tell me. Some people get scratch
offs and they don't even play the game. They go
straight to the barcode. This is real degenerate. Really, it
doesn't scratching off the other part. It doesn't nothing, It
doesn't matter. You can go straight right to the barcode. Yeah,
you can go straight to the barcode. Which makes it again.
Anybody got time for scratch offs? I saw somebody do that.
You're kind of the saddest thing ever. Saw y'all just
taught me something I did not know this West. I'm saying,
you don't, first of all, stay away from them. You're
gonna if you're gonna spend a lot of eat well,
I mean we give them out like we put you
put them in a stocking creak Christmas like we did. Yes, Yeah,
I just good stocking stuff. Really pissed off because I
didn't realize russy I had to be a delicate little
scratcher of the the part. Do you we were putting
a roll in your sleeves up man, No, like a
regular normal ass grown ass man. Scratch scratch scratch, scratch
scratch scratch. Yeah, you ran, you did. He should have
told you. I understand you're you're not deep in the
scratch not that I'm deep in the scratch off game.
Like I said, I'll get a couple of deep in
the scratch off degenerates. Oh that's terrible. The same guy
buying a pack of Marble or a carton of Marble rids.
All right, seven one three, two one two five seven
on eight. So I we buy them for the Christmas
kit And that's the only time of the year. I
will never, and I mean ever buy a scratch off
ticket unless it's just un December twenty third, twenty fourth,
I won five bucks for one on Christmas. I was
pretty happy about it. Can I buy you a twenty
for your birthday? Sure?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: Why did just give you the cash? Wouldn't it be
easier that way? Uh? Yeah, it's fine, Okay, I'll take
the cash and then I'll go buy twenty scratch off. Yes, okay,
what however it works? Jake on the mobile line, Jake,
what's the matter with you?
Speaker 6: Hey?
Speaker 5: Last week got called questioning uh Astro's rockets Twitter into
like question about speaking Korea into existence. So I'm here
to self report. I ain't nobody got time for me
questioning or shut by bomb ass up. Sorry Bonda, Sorry Schwab,
Sorry Anither who.
Speaker 1: Are those people? Thank you for the phone call, Jake,
appreciate it. The reporters in this town are Chandler Rome,
Brian McTaggart, and Matthewa. You didn't follow me on Twitter,
I thought, I mean, those are the guys. They get
some stuff right and they get some stuff wrong. I
believe one of them, said Schwa said, I don't even
know who it was that Cease was on the one
yard line and that was going to be a done deal.
Night Gales said the COREADI it was all but dead.
And then he and then douchebag John Hayman's bragging about
how great Bob night Gil's coverage was on Korea, Well
it could have been all but dead, you know, because
I think Jailer Rum said the same thing. J John Hayman,
don't give it. Not giving credit to Brian mctagger shuts
your bomb ass up. Make mctagger was first on it, right,
Yes he was, and uh Hayman gave mcuh Nightingale all
the credit. Terrible. First of all, we shouldn't be giving credit.
Who needs credit for anything? No, I think it's proper
journalistic journalistic practice to give credit to whoever broke the news,
then you better do it the right person. Then, come on, Matt,
you didn't go what I guess you were. It's not
really journalism school. No, I didn't go to get I
went to school of mass communications. Yeah, in my world,
shut your bow ass up. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety eleven forty three. It is the Matt
Thomas shoel Ross. Have you got somebody you want to
tell them to shut their bomb asses up? Let's go
seven one three two one two five seven ninety eleven
on the Matt Thomas Show with ROSSI, I'm gonna give
you an anti shut your ball mass up and ain't
and an anti anybody got time for that? I got
plenty of time for this, and I don't want this
person to shut his b mass up at all. Okay,
Adam Wexler is going to do the tent th Inning
Show tonight because I goofed on the time.
Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Today's a three forty first pitch. Yes, I thought it
was a five to forty first pitch. Okay, my daughter
has a volleyball meeting today at her high school. And
my wife is like the team mom and she needs
my help tonight. So I'm kind of meeting kind of
like here's the season strategizing. No, it's parent it's a
parental meeting. You could miss that. No, I can't. I've
been told I need to be You know what I'm saying,
saying you get the whip cracked on you. So my
favorite co worker, Adam Wexler is is going to do
the tenth inning show for me? Are you gonna hold
off on making fun of him for not doing post
games for a while? How long do I have? How
long can I do that? This bottom of a month
till September the sixth. It's a long time. Okay, you
know what is is right? No shots at me tanking
that wex doesn't put the time in until September. But
Adam Clinton's free, Adam Clinton's free reign exactly. So in
seven nineties, employee of the day is Adam Wexler. I'm
about to put that on on Twitter. Okay, thank you
very much, Adam Uxer, because I don't want to put
you in anymore because you're trying to get over whatever
this show becaus and you're gonna get it zoin right now.
Speaker 6: M h.
Speaker 1: I could have done tonight, but I offered, no, you
did and I appreciate it, and you were the backup.
But Wex is going to do it and it's going
to be kind of in his timeslot anyway. So yeah,
i'd been three in a row for me. That's too many.
Let's go to the phones. Talk to Matt in Spring Branch. Matt,
what's the matter with you?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 10: So, you know, I was listening to earlier today in
the show and heard you talking mess about Ashros Twitter
and how unhinged some of the Astros fans are.
Speaker 8: You know, I got on behalf of Ashros fans. I got.
Speaker 10: I got to push back a little bit and play
Devile's advocate here. You know, I got measured and met
her and every other capacity in my life and my
family's health and my investment at work as a father,
et cetera, et cetera. But sports are my one outlet
where I can be completely unhinged.
Speaker 1: And interrational and just ride the.
Speaker 10: Wave of emotions, you know, so up and down, bipolar
and call let me be crazy. It is my one
outlet to be just completely irrational unhinged. So to Matt
and Ross lamb basting astro Twitter, I gotta say, shut
your bumb ass.
Speaker 1: Up shit, Jo bum ass up man. We were told
there are three games in first place. At one point
they had eighteen people on the IL. At one point
they had eight starting pitchers on the IL, Joe A.
Spot and Dana Brown and the players who did fill
in were like working miracles that they are where they are,
and if you want to go all unhinged, you can
do that, but we also reserve the right to call
you stupid or uneducated fans. So shut you out, bumb
ass up shit, Jo, bum ass up man. Ain't nobody
got time for unhinged fans. One hundred and sixty two
games season, Hey, nobody got tapped, buddy Love, You appreciate
your name us Matt. His name is Matt's a great name, Okay,
great friend of the show. Always welcome to call. But
remember you get unhinged, we come back at to have
a great day, Matthew, I'm unhinged four hours a day
at least. Speaking of unhinged, Geo, what's the matter with you, Geo.
Speaker 12: Geo?
Speaker 1: Oh, Geo Geo? Anyway, I got time for you not
to be there. Ain't nobody got time today?
Speaker 14: Oh there he is, Hi Geo, Hey guys, sire Ben,
so I gotta ain't nobody got time for that?
Speaker 9: And shut you but mess up. So I work for
a trucking company.
Speaker 14: I'm I'm a truck driver, right. Uh So, I just
want to say to all the companies out there, to
all the superviarss, all the managers that love to micro
manage their employees.
Speaker 1: Shut about mass up.
Speaker 14: Anybody got time for you micro managing me while I'm
trying to do my job?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 2: Shit, Obama mess up man is.
Speaker 1: The worst mm hmm to the match. Game producers, host
writers and fake celebrities are on that show. Shit, yo,
bum mess up. You ain't funny?
Speaker 2: Shit, jo bum mess up man.
Speaker 1: You're so funny. You're funny. I am funny. You bring
more game show takes to this anybody, anybody Houston history?
Is that your dream, Matt, to be on a sports
Where have you been? No, I'm this is a genuine
question asking I didn't you know? Sounds like he's rubbing
it in. No's I would quit everything to be the
host of the Price is right?
Speaker 9: You hear me?
Speaker 1: I've been trying to get you the job, they won't
call me back. Hen't work. You've been trying to get
me to be a ring announcer that hasn't worked out.
You even trying to get me to be the host
of the Prices right, hasn't worked out. What are you
good for? Making funny? That's true?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 2: Steven?
Speaker 1: And the allright' Steven? What's the matter with you?
Speaker 11: Hey?
Speaker 15: I was I wanted to get back up the glass
caller because he's probably one of those who calls the
Astros WII and acts like he's part of the team
when he probably peaked in high school.
Speaker 8: So I ain't.
Speaker 15: Nobody got time for that.
Speaker 1: Nobody got time for Okay, Steven, it's getting personal hair,
all right? You know how I feel about We's. Yes,
if you're employed by the team, you can call yourself WE.
If you went to the school, you can call yourself
a week. If you're a fan of the team, that's
at a little bit of a mix. That's now. Granted,
I've been an Astro fan since nineteen seventy nine, but
I don't usually typically say WE on the show. I
don't really care. I might like to make fun of
people that do it. But it doesn't matter. I have
been a Rockets employee. This would be my tenth year
calling games. Yes, I don't think i'd done we but
maybe once or twice. I don't do it a whole lot.
You can say we are the champions when they win
it all all hells. Yeah. By the way, you think
Sparks went nuts in the clubhouse, you put this guy
in the clubhouse with the Rocket players. Oh baby, huh,
we're gonna go viral. I'm gonna get that Twitter gap
eye like you did back in the day. You don't
know that story to your job. Look at that.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: It's not that deep of a cut. But I don't
know how many of our listeners got that deep. We
got time for it.
Speaker 2: I think we do.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 1: Let's get Gary real quick, all right, real quick? Uh Gary,
what's the matter with you?
Speaker 9: Alrighty?
Speaker 6: I got two of them here real quick, and they're
both aimed at one. Matthew Thomas. All that list, that
list of God's Country, Lubbock, Texas is not even on
the first page, maybe page two or three. Number one
on God's Country is the hill country with all the
lakes and the rivers, And then The second one is
I was watching the Astros in the Red Sox, and man,
that way they had going was so pretty. So you
can't be telling people what to do and how to
have fun when they're spending their money at their ball game.
So Aim, Thomas shuts you, obam by myself, Man, shut.
Speaker 1: You, obam, mass up, Man, Gary, put your teeth in
the next time you call the show, Oh hmmm, love Gary.
Gary just calls in and crushes you. He's honestly my
top three favorite call. Every time you and Gary been
having beef. Fine, and he called you a clown. Yeah,
but then they all made up kissing. It's fine. He
don't bother me. That's fine. But I mean, you come
after me. I'm gonna come after you. I am way
come after me. Yeah, I am way more saltered than
he is. All right, don't you think? I mean I
made fun of the fact that I don't think he's
got teeth. I thought Gary brought it. Oh, as you did.
I'm sure you did well on seven on he Well,
what's the matter with you?
Speaker 8: Oh man? Oh yeah, I ain't got time for the
guy who stole all who stole my and left my
car sitting up my brand new twenty twenty five sitting
on bricks. I walk out side.
Speaker 1: I have no time, no reals in my own My god,
where was this? Where where were you time for that?
Speaker 13: I was?
Speaker 8: I got a call from the guy who's the man
in my republic. I had a boyemail and said in
my card, been down the list. I went out fast,
and my car was sitting on bricks with my window buster.
Speaker 11: Do you live.
Speaker 1: Do you live in all day? Where do you live town?
Speaker 8: It'spring when it's spring branch. I ain't got no time
for a guy who stole my time to lim the
guy who has stalled my speakers in my car three
days later, my time's are mission.
Speaker 3: Damn.
Speaker 8: He's the only person who's ever been in my car
on and he's the only person who could have possibly
known where the key to my little well which within
my glove box, and he my window was busted on
the path side by the glovebox bill and the glove
box was open. He had the only person on the
planet who could have profitably known that it was in there.
For he's the only person who has ever been in
my call Loan.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry for that. Will thank you for the
phone call. It's a prime suspect, folks. At least he
put the car back on the bricks, right, That was
at least the courteous thing you did. Correct. I guess
how much waken these bricks hold? I don't know really quick, uh, Jonathan.
When I was a young reporter, uh, probably about your age,
I went to go cover a Rocket's locker room after
a game, and uh, it was the summit and the
locker room was super tiny. So I took my recorder
and my microphone and I went in the area and
I thought, well, i'll get I'll sneak around this one
area and I'll get into catcher stance again, you know,
because it was really tight quarters. A certain player dropped
his towel and I was staring at it. Why are you?
I mean it was in his face, my two eyes
with That's why I always say, Matt, I it well not.
I was eyes to eyes and it was like it
was yesterday. Sadly, Matt, we'll never forget if I mentioned
who the player was. Yes, I'm gonna do it again.
Are what go ahead? No, I'm not gonna do it.
R Am right, No, s s F. Stevie Francis no,
it was not Steve Francis earlier than that.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I'll let y'all figure it out. The News at noon
is up next little Miami vice to get you celebrating.
It's also coming up today at one fifty is believe
it or not, all things Howard's stirring about to get
canceled Serious XM making a good run. He's got to
be a billionaire off of one hundred million dollars a
year for working like thirty thirty weeks a year. Every
time I turn on his station, it's never him, even
when he's supposed to be on seven one, three, two
point two five, seven ninety six, number three of the
mats of this show with Ross and let's just go
straight to Hello Loose at noon. All right, Matt, you
heard the highlights there of the Houston Astros getting their
second straight win against the Miami Marlins, exploding for eight
runs in game number one of the series, scoring seven
runs in game number two. Fire. The hitting coaches guy
is in shambles, but I'm sure he'll be right back
at it if they are not successful in scoring runs tonight.
But that's okay, by the way, it's a three forty
first pitch. Yeah, I know, which I didn't. I know,
I didn't know. Yeah, I know, I'm a goof. That's fine.
We gotta work on your punctuality and your scheduling. You
know what A little bit?
Speaker 11: What I mean?
Speaker 1: Someone? What else did I get wrong? You just I
don't know last week, Ross remember that, He's just I
don't know. It's time. Yeah, I remember. Yeah, men shut
you out. Messes up a j blue ball, touching ninety
eight on the gun on baseball, some mon said as
a four seamer, but he had a little armside run,
I thought, Matt. But anyways, seventy pitches for him, five innings,
pitch a couple of solo shots, giving up five strikeouts.
He picks up the win. He also picked up in
the post game the Pitcher of the Game championship belt
that the Astros hand out, which comes with a speech.
He said, he kind of stumbled through it, but he
made it quick. Question. We have our fantasy league, do
we need a belt? No? Oh, you want to finance it?
How much those belts cost?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't want a cheap belt if we're gonna do it,
But bro, I can't all around money goes to charity. Anyway,
let me see two hundred two hundred for a belt,
A good one. You can you can go for fifty
dollars ones, but I don't want to figure one two
hundred probably the quality. We should cut promos too. Okay,
you know what promos are. Yeah, I mean I understand. Okay, Okay,
I'm getting a bunch of sponsored about two hundred bucks
one seventy nine. It'd be cool and put your face
on it crying because you don't win the championship. It'd
be nice. Why would be nice about that? What do
you mean you want? You want a belt with a
picture of me crying across your chest and waist. I
do have the belt three straight years running. I gotta
rub it in now because there's no way I can
win four straight. There's no way. Hell, this league has
been rigged since day one. You noticed it. As I
became commission I won like three out of four. Yeah,
I think I won four the last six. We've absolutely
noticed every single year. I mean, look, you can uh,
all the moves are transparent. It's fine. What else we got?
Let's talk about me winning three championships? Oh, I want
to keep remaining audience. We have left. Sorry, all right, Matt,
there wasn't actual Oh that's right. The ESPN story they
are going to get NFL network rights to Red Zone
for an equity steak in a blockbuster deal. The NFL
getting a ten percent equity steak. I mean that is major, Matt.
I know ESPN ain't what it once was, but a
ten percent steak. Are there any blurred lines or does
the average person go, don't care? Aver Fresson doesn't care,
but the lines are blurred? Conflicts of interest abound. I
feel like, yeah, I get it with reporting, with coverage,
with you know, spinning certain narratives certain ways, and maybe
not even direct pure pressure. There's implied pressure. I'll tell
you there's implied pressure with us being partners of the
Ashers and Rockets. No, it's not necessarily direct. No, And look,
I have to walk at line myself. But when the
Rockets lose, I don't come out here and go, well,
at least you know Jay Chon Tate played well. I
don't do that, but I have a greater rooting interest
for the Rockets that do. Let's just say, if we
were partners of the Texans, I wouldn't be doing my
cal McNair impressure in the way that I do. No,
but I haven't changed. I think we are going to
be good this year. I mean, look, I'm not a
fan of the Texans. They wouldn't force me to be
a fan of the Texans. But would I have a
little more I get to know them a little bit better?
But yeah, maybe be less of a Texans hater. I'm
not a hater. I just my minded soul doesn't have
any more room for losses. Well, they're going to keep
Scott Hanson, which they need to. We'll see what kind
of ramping up of advertising. The guy that was better Ceciliano. Yeah,
he's the voice of the Cleveland Browns. Well he is, yeah,
the radio voice. He just got a good voice. Yeah,
san Antonio guy. I didn't know that. Yeah, he worked
at Santonio for a while. Anthony Siliano not Anthony oh
to Andrew Andrew Ciciliano. Yeah, okay, good for him elsewhere
I'm at. Unfortunately, it keeps on happening. A latex phallic
device was thrown onto a court. Is that we're calling
it for on radio? Because as soon as we say
it's a sex toy, I mean you can say dil
do right, Well, you said it, I would rather not.
Speaker 6: That was Matt.
Speaker 1: Hi, my name is Ross. That was Matt that said
that we're not doing a show for kids. Everybody knows, well,
I'm in theory. I would say the very least is
the PG thirteen show. We do have people who are like, well, okay,
talking about that mon kids and the call or well,
we don't do a kid's show. If you want to
go to listen to Mickey Mouse and Friends, No, we
don't want to listen to a kid's show. This is
not a kid's show. Yeah, but I mean everybody is
putting again. I don't want to use the word a bunch,
but everybody on social media, they're not calling it what
you call. They're calling it a dial Though our target
demo was not thirteen year old children. No, I mean
we like thirteen. We have our young man that listens
to show. We appreciate him, appreciate you, but get you
buying power up.
Speaker 2: Son.
Speaker 1: We need you in demo. We need you twenty five
to fifty four, sir, We appreciate fifty five plus, but
we really love you twenty five to fifty four. Continue on, Yes,
a toy landing near Indiana's. Yeah, let's do it for kids.
A little toy landed near Sophie Cunningham. Oh is she
kicked it quickly? Yes? And the as the Los Angeles
Sparks were playing the Indiana Fever on Tuesday night. It's
the latest incident to happen in WNBA game in the
past seven days. How are three such incidents that? How
are people getting them in the building? Are you putting
them in your pants? Because you can't carry a package
in without somebody going, what is what's in your package? Oh,
it's a sex toy. I'll let you use your imagination
on that one, Matt, And that's going to do it
for the news at noon. All right, Texans update and
a high I, highly thought of Major League Baseball rookie
gets a new deal today that could impact what the
Texans can do with Cam Smith in Texans the Astros
can do with Cam Smith. Both full stories straight to
hit here on seven nine. Where with you today until
two o'clock We've got believe it or not one fifty
If you missed our conversation with Brian Bogacevic, it was outstanding.
The questions thrown on him today were probably the best
we've had in quite some time. Brian Bogacetic replay coming
up at one thirty today seven one three, seven nine.
If you want to join us right now, we're kind
of an open line situation. The Astros made Hiroster move
aj blue ball through every pitch he could as fast
as he could for a reason. He's gonna be getting
a fly. Well, he's gonna probably fly back with the
team today, but he'll be going to sugar Lane and
will not be staying downtown. You'll get on the connecting bus.
Do you think it got a separate shuttle for him?
You think he gets his own black car? Hmm. Now,
if they travel like we do, we park at the
FBO and that's a term for like a private air terminal. Okay,
And he's the same plane, don't they. Yeah, And let's
until it's our turn and then they get they get
this up like anybody get time for you flying somewhere.
But point being is that, yeah, I mean, I'm they
have their cars there, and my guess is he probably
still has an apartment in Sugarland or some sorry, I
mean that's where he's You know, you could drive from
Sugarland to Dyke and park every day. He's like bucking
bunked up with UH. I don't know JP France or
somebody or that Miguel Uliola, Miguel Uola. I better get
that down, you better. He's gonna be in the rotation
next year. I got romon urias all taken care of.
Knock that out, Yes, beautifully, that's wonderful. So blue balls
going back to sugar Land. Yes, strong with that. Well,
it's just tough. You go to Miami Indoor Stadium, five
star hotel, you fly home. You're not only you're going
back to the minors. You're in the same city, so
you're gonna see the astro stuff all over the place
and you're outside playing. I mean, it is professional baseball.
He's still getting paid. So there's worse thing to do
in life. Yeah, I don't feel bad. Well, he's gonna
be fine. But he was used and used very well yesterday.
Hey pitched well. Seeing sugar Land or I don't know,
Reno or Sacramento or wherever they are, I don't know,
but oh no, I think they're home tonight. Are the
Space Cowboys?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 1: If they are, you should go to UH our friends
over Tyler Brewing, which is right next door. We're gonna
be there on Friday from ten o'clock in Yeah, what
are we going to be doing, matt uh? Four hours
of amazing sports talk? Okay, don't lie to the people.
Brian mcaggle will be on the with us on the phone.
Oh he's not gonna be there. Channel Rome may come by.
Really he was thinking about it. Okay, and then the
Astros pull the Yankees at six. It's a rappele rev game,
which means if you don't have rapple, you are gonna
be in a good spot rapp rev. Mmm. Okay, well
I got the free trial last Friday. When is it? Yeah?
I just come to the house. We we've got every channel,
will that you can come. Just give me your logging.
I'm not gonna do that. Why not just come to
the house give me your ugging because you're gonna want
up passing it out to your brother and your sister
and your mom and your dad and your cousins and neighbors.
What makes you say that? Because you're because you're a
passer honor. That's not true. All right, other things going
on today, So again, we want to see you at
Talier Brewing. This Friday in Peria Boulevard in Sugarland, ten
o'clock until two. Ross be wearing something Texas related. I'll
be wearing probably you have h gear. I'll probably be
wearing a seven ninety polo like I did last time.
A couple of those. I only got one. I've been
here like fifteen years and got one. That's not true.
I'm just saying you got a pack of those Kobe
Stevens ones. Well, that's true, thanks Kobe. Yeah, stop lying.
It's Dan's guy. Yeah. I heard Dan talking about it
today as a matter of fact. Okay, So at the
Texans practice, Cam Robinson was wearing a jersey. Am I
supposed excited about that? Yeah, he's supposed to suck right. No,
he's supposed to be the placeholder for whom Arianta ERSII.
I thought he was at right tackle. Yeah, but okay,
he's the left tackle placeholder. He's the heir apparents of
left tackle. Is Come on, now, do you think people
get do you think this is a loaded question? Does
the average fan could you name the offensive line left
or right? And do they really even care? I don't know,
I don't know, man. Okay, let me continue on. Well,
the Nick Chubb did not practice today. Damian Pierce got
first team reps. It sounds like to me of what
they did in West Virginia was just a bunch. They
didn't go through full GARB. They just walked through a
bunch of things today, so it sounds like it was
pretty light. They'll have a full workout tomorrow and then
they go to Minneapolis on Friday and play the Vikings
on Saturday. I'll put it this way, if the if
the Texans had one of the best offensive lines in football,
I think the more the average fan would be able
to name. I'll give you an example. Who's talk about
Laken Tomlinson and Juice s Gruggs. Right when the Texans
had an awesome line, Remember when they won the first rate.
We knew who Mike Brizell was. We knew who Eric
Winston was. We knew who Chris Myers was. Give me
a couple others. Dwayne Brown, Dwayne Brown. There's one more
missing we missing the wait not ed Wade urom the Chiefs.
He was uh Wade Wade Wade wa Wade Miley. No,
it was not Wade Miley. This daughter plays volleyball. Wade.
Oh god, Wade Smith. Wade Smith, we knew those guys. Yeah,
m hmm. But if you suck, we don't really care
who you are. Just get out. No until you like
really suck and you're you're getting well, you're getting destroyed
for three sacks and then they know your name. That
is not a good way. Just who we knew more
than anybody else last year Kenyan Green Well, we knew him,
and we also knew Laramie Tunsil one because he's selfish too.
He's on a real team, captain number three. He doesn't
go to mini camp. He's voted by the players. But
the players were that was ridiculous. They they that was
that was they were forced to pick him. No, players
aren't forced to pick Oh my god, Larmi Tounsil walks
room and says, I better be captain. Oh hell yeah,
that's what are they gonna do. He's gonna get even
he's gonna miss even more practices. He said, I'm gonna
go false start every play if you guys don't vote
the captain. So a captain actually could have happened. So
a captain doesn't show up to ota is a captain
showed a mini camp. But captain doesn't show up and
creates problems in the offensive line room. Bulloney, he wasn't
a captain. You may have gotten it, but he wasn't
a captain. Got his ass out of here. Good for you.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm a Texans fan, because at least because
at least to me, got realize you gotta get rid
of the bad seeds in there. Cam Robinson probably a
swater fellow, but he's not a good enough player. It's
all about Texans culture. Okay, culture is all cool until
Miles Garrett's on the other side. Oh God, don't bring
that up. Texas with the Cowboys this year. No, So
we don't think so my comparison is ever going to
show up again?
Speaker 9: Or is he is?
Speaker 6: He is?
Speaker 1: This has been one long negotiating ploy.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones said it's not likely he's signed, right, I
don't know. So, Like you know, in the world of wrestling,
they call it a work, or they create a storyline
that's not really a storyline. Could this be a work
between Jerry Jones and Micah Parsons? To what end that
he shows up, signs a contract and it's kumbayao. He's
going to get the fans all revved up excited. I
don't feel like that's the case, but I'm just throwing
that out. Okay, I'm gonna say I don't think so.
I don't think so either. I think I think he
wants his cash. I wouldn't get that that would be
and I just don't get it. I guess if you're
trying to drum up interest and keep the Cowboys on
ESPN every morning, I guess that does work. Are the ESPN?
Are the Lakers and the Cowboys and Lebron ever gonna
get off of ESPN? No? You know what, because people
watch it. That gets them the most ratings. People always
complain about the content. Guess what, Like if you put
on ESPN between six am and ten am, how much
baseball are you getting? Very little? Very little? Like the
Stephen A. Smith talking about inside out swings like who's
the hottest semen baseball right now? And has been for
about a month two months now? R Lens No, oh,
the Brewers Brewers. I can't imagine Stephen A. Smith getting
into a deep dive in Milwaukee Brewer baseball. I would
say that is very very unlikely. Matthew. It feels like
to me, in the last two years of watching those
morning shows, it has been Aaron Rodgers, Lebron James, Cowboy
related and Jets related. When Mike Greenberg hosts the show.
Other than that, be damn with everybody else. Oh, Pat
Mahomes gets probably quite a bit of run too, right, Yeah,
those are you stick with those five topics. You've essentially
given you ESPN's programming for ten months a year. That's
what they keep doing, that's what keeps getting them rating.
But it's all about the change. Because Kevin Durant is
going to be wearing rocket gear, and again I call
that short sighted. You have to build things out. You
have to make the fans care about Steph grow because
you know what I got news for you. Y'all know
this that are good baseball fans. We're gonna have the
most may not be the game to me, the big greatest.
We're gonna have the most uncertain postseason and maybe ross
the history of you and I doing a show, I
you could name four teams in the National League that
can easily win it. You could name six teams easily
in the American Think that can win the World Series. No,
I think it's the Astros. Well, I mean, I hope
it's the Astros and it's everybody else. I like your
positivity as long as you are on sealthy. All right.
One Boston rookie gets a big contract. How does that impact?
Cam Smith will tell you about that after I tell
you about Uptown appliance Repair. All right. Roman Anthony Ross
you knew who that is? Yes, was one of the
top prospects in baseball. He's an outfielder for the Boston
Red Sox. He has played forty one games this year.
Forty six games for the Boston in Red Sox OPSKA
twenty eight. His b WAR is one point eight. That's
pretty good. Explain the audience what a b war is.
There's different types of what wars wins above replacement. There's
b war, which is done by Baseball Reference that's more
tailored to on field results. F war is kind of
I would say, that's fangrafts war. That's more of like,
more about batted ball than actual results and stuff like that.
And there's also a Baseball perspectives war, which is purely
on It throws away any sort of outcome of anything.
And I don't know if that makes sense for example,
if a guy has a really high XBA or something
like that, he had good expected outcomes, you're going to
be ranked the highest probably on baseball perspectus definition of war.
They try to make it per I don't know too much.
You did, you did? Okay? Thanks, that's a good So
his b war is one point eight? His opsa twenty
eight nine? What aps? Ops? I don't care what b
war is. OPS is a twenty eight. Yeah. If you're like,
if you get a war of like seven or eight
and one of the best players in baseball, Okay, so
two and forty something games is very good for a
young player. He is getting a contract that will start
in twenty twenty six. This is according to I'm gonna
mention it is includes significant escalators that could make the
maximum value of the deal worth two hundred and thirty
million dollars. So they're buying out many years of arbitration
and probably what three or four years of his free
agency period. Yeah, I don't know if it's exactly how
long it is. Okay, same class as Cam Smith? Yeah,
depending on where you look, he was either the number
one or number two prospect in baseball. Cam Smith is
twenty two years old, so it's a year old er
that that makes a big difference. OPS is significantly different.
It's seven oh two in his b war in ninety
eight games is one point seven, so you are slightly
down the op OPS is significantly smaller. Yeah, and if
you've played double the amount of games, the theory if
you're with one guy be size right. Yeah, so he
should have accrued if he was on pace, he should
have accrued double the amount of war that he has
because he's gotten about a double the amount of games.
That's that makes sense. It's not a great indicator then,
So I guess what everybody's trying to do. The Baseball
War is trying to connect. Do the Astros do something
close to what Roman Anthony is getting from the Red
Sox And we don't have come in that because again
I'm terrible when it comes to numbers. I don't want
to get no stop what it's got two years left.
I'm not talking about Jeremy Hearn from my camps. Eight years,
one hundred and thirty million dollars. That's all the arbitration
in two years, a couple of years of free agency. Well,
if it's after next year, then yeah, then it's three right,
three years of free agency? Yeah, yeah, starts twenty six.
It's eight years because you got your be a six
year player. Yeah, eight years, three years of freegency, eight
one thirty. I mean those last three years are gonna
look really nice on the on the bottom line, but
you are way overpaying for what his number would be arbitration,
at least during the arbitration years. Just throwing it out there.
If he's if his OPS is what I tell you
is in the middle A twenty eight and Cam Smith
is seven of two. But Camps, if I'm Cam Smith agent,
I want to eat one thirty. Well, good luck not
thought of as a prospect and not having the results,
but the Astros if he has that breakout season, because
he's gonna get past all this freshman I played a
lot of games that would then come into play where
I mean, do they do they think camp Smith's gonna
be a good player? They think is Cam Smith a
cornerstone right fielder for this team? Or could he be
a cornerstone third basement Ultimately defensively, yes, I would say
I don't think he's gone. I mean, we'll see, but
he's been right field has been fitting him like a glove.
It absolutely has. And here's the thing. He can fill
this position. And you need a really good arm in
right field. You need your best outfield arm, a third basin.
There's nobody in the ASTROS organization. I don't think Jacot
Melon's considered to have a prime arm.
Speaker 6: Is that right?
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 8: On that?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. He's the athletic. He can run
and chase stuff down. But Jake Myers doesn't have a
good arm, chas McCormick doesn't have a good arm. He
sus Sanchez throws the wrong base. But other than that,
come on, man, okay, well, just throwing out there eight
one thirty for a guy who's ops is one hundred
and twenty five points a ze point eight ward forty
six games is pretty insane. Actually, so money well spent well,
who knows TBD the the Red Sox. It's for both sides.
On Anthony, Good morning, Good afternoon.
Speaker 4: Hey, good afternoon, guys. Hey, I do have an ASTROS
question for you all. But first I wanted to comment
on the ESPN the national shows you guys were talking about,
you know, six or seven years ago, you know I
would wake up the first thing I would do is
turn on first Take. But these days, like, I mean,
you got these guys, y'all disagree on everything, You'll have
to yell and vicker about everything. Everything's a hot stakes.
How many years do I have to listen to Dan
Orlowski rank Justin Herbert in the top five quarterbacks just
because he plays for an LA team?
Speaker 9: Like these shows are are are garbage these days.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry if you guys like watching those, but it
all feels scripted. It all feels like we have to
argue about everything and it's all LA New York and
Patrick Mahomes walks on water. I mean, I'd much rather
listen to you guys, or Sean or the Adams. But yeah,
those shows are not what they used to be. But
my Astros question is, Matt i Astraw yesterday, you know
what you thought, who would play where? If the Astros
get healthy today? I want to ask you with what
they have right now, and I would like to include
Christian Javier and that because we know he's coming back.
With what they have right now, do you guys think
that this team can win the ALCS and make it to.
Speaker 1: The World Series. We'll answer that because we owe the
audience the lineup with with Alvarez. Okay, oh yeah, we're
supposed to do that. I don't think I can do that.
I'm doing it.
Speaker 8: You do it?
Speaker 1: Can I disagree with you or disagree with you?
Speaker 13: Sure?
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 1: The question was posed to us just a minute ago
from our good friend Anthony. Can the Astros win the
American League Championship if every but he gets back healthy?
All right, we're about to pose the lineup for the Astros.
Ross is gonna do it. I'm going to be a
conscientious objector to this. Yeah, why because when you get
so sore?
Speaker 8: Man?
Speaker 1: Do you know my reasons? Hey, come on, we can
run through the lineup. I don't know why I'm talking
like that. Why are you on sixty six?
Speaker 10: W whiff?
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge needs to get Timmy John stupid ass Yankees.
Freddy has been transferred to the sixty day injured list.
It's just paperwork.
Speaker 6: It's fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's okay. He's not playing again this year. He might,
it's my gut tells me. No, I think I think
I'm I don't feel care about this. CBS announcer announcer
Cruise for the first three weeks of the season. Week one,
Texans at the Rams, Kevin Harlan, Trent Green and Melanie Collins.
Kevin Harlan, Kevin the Goat arln that said, oh hell yeah,
Trent Green's fine and Melanie Collins is fine. Are you okay?
All right, let's do the Astros lineup? Play quick Week
two Monday Night Football, so it'll be uh traitman, uh
Joe buck in the Gang. Week three, Texans at Jaguars.
You get one. Guess Spa Sparadidas exactly, Adam Marchletta, there
you go, you got it. I think just have real
estate here at this point, poor Spiro, he's done more
Texans Jaguars. Yeah, he's gonna make the Texans and Jaguars
Hall of Fame. Yeah, he's gonna have your jerseys, both
of them retired. Put him in the Ring of Honor
next him and Foster him, Andrew Catalan and Gus Johnson
before he became big. That's all the three guys at
the game. Steve Tasker, former friend of the show, All right,
Ross time for you, is that me as a conscious
subjector to create the beautiful Astros healthy lineup? Go okay,
Matt leading off at short It is Jeremy Pania batting
second for the Houston Astros at second base. If it's
not from Ervalde is a heavy ground ball pitcher, it's
gonna be Jose al Tuvec batting third, designated hitter, your
Don Alvarez batting cleanup. At the hot corner, it will
be Carlos Correa batting fifth. At the cold corner, it
will be Christian Walker. Okay, batting sixth, depending on the
handedness of the picture, but we'll go with theiner Diaz
could be Victor Karattini in the spot. Are a little
bit of shuffling. He will be a catcher batting seventh.
Jesu's Sanchez in a left field, batting eighth, Cam Smith
in right field? Is nice, isn't it? And then batting ninth,
it'll be your center fielder Jake Myers, Mauricio Dbaud, Taylor Tremmel.
Depending on the handedness of the picture, is the ninth
is to be determined. Yes, that's a sexy ass lineup,
isn't it. Cam Smith in the eight hole? Now if
alto if they don't want al Twove at second, you
stick him in left and then you go platoon between
Sanchez and camp Smith depending on what's happening there, and
then maybe you fit in. Ramon Yirius Ureus. You got options.
It feels good. Okay, let me just be gonhead. It
sounds spectacular, dude. It sounds like to the previous call, Anthony,
you can win the American League with that absolutely Hunter
Brown on the mound in that lineup. I just read
you a Dubs go in and run. Run that four
man rotation for the playoffs, by the way, that will
be Hunter Brown, Farber Valdez, Spencer Arraghedty, and Christian Havevier.
You know the guy that was part of a World
Series no hitter. That guy got the rise ball el reptile.
Unfazed by playoffs unless it's Game seven against the Rangers
and he's out in like two innings. Forest to be determined. Okay,
So what you got options, Luis Carcia, how about it?
I got a wildcard for you, Brandon Walter four while
bullpen game. No, it's not gonna be a bullpen game.
You can't win, you can't want to. You can't win
a playoff with one of your guys being one of
your games being a bullpen every time out. Now, the
Astros did win a bullpen playoff game before. The Detroit
Tigers won a bullpen playoff game before. I certainly did.
But you're but you're you can't win multiple bullpen guys.
It's happened. Guys got a bull They've got a bullpen games.
And I mean, I'm sure I can find some some
history for that if we did enough digging. It's not ideal, Nope,
but the Astros have options. I think we'll see what happens.
Of course, the health of the team on August sixth,
Let's just be honest, it's not gonna be the same
health of the team come October sixth, because we're presuming
that every single player that is is now healthy and
that no one's gonna be no one else is gonna
get hurt. Yeah somehow, Yeah, what what's what these deep
size I just gave you a lineup where the ninth
place hitter is hitting like three oh seven with an
OPS comfortably over seven hundred. He's got speed, he's getting
a lot of contact. He can turn over the lineup
and then get on base for penal twove Alvarez to
keep the ball rolling. Now, personally, I can't even put
Alvarez in the second spot. Actually I am. I am
pleased with your lineup. I think there was a reason
why the Astros went for starting pitching. Don't be scared, Matty.
Who's your scared? Who's your second right handed reliever? Who cares?
All these lefties can get right? He's out. I can
go bring up the platoons, fits all of them. Now,
that's maybe a blanket statement. That's not true, and I'm
being flippant. It sounds good, yeah, but I can say
with confidence and then pretend it's true. It's twenty twenty
five out one for you. If you need another right
hand reliever? Do you want calib ort? Do you want?
Don't even say it? You better not say where I
think you're gonna might say, all right, I won't say it.
Doesn't buy in messy. Oh come on, he just got
dfayd Astros apparently corner Bob Night and Gale. We're kicking
the tires. I'm sure the tires are being kicked on
League minimum. I'd rather have Hey, hector NAIs now he's
gonna be gone. He can be gone. You'd rather look
Hector Nara's got DFA two. Ryan Presley was literally let go.
He's not good. He's thirty six years old. He was
slipping when he came here, and he's done slipped off
the rock, asked the Chicago Cubs can a Jay blue
ballby my second reliever? You're a second right handed reliever. No, look,
I'll bring up the platoon split to everybody. But it
feels like Susa and ochred are have been very good
at getting right. He's out, and that's just that's just
my gut feeling. I can get the actual numbers, Okay,
I'll go with it. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven ninety ross. What is today's edition? To believe or not?
Coming up at about fifty five minutes from now? Okay, right,
he's our hitting Bennett Susa a little bit, let me
go Stephen Okert, No, you're all right? Six ninety one
opponent ops. Not great this year against righties, Stephen Okert,
five twenty three opponents opponent ops four forty one against lefties,
five twenty three against righties. Okay, okres my second righting,
what's up? We're done? Lineup is set. Who's gonna be
the one that tells Lance mccullor is not in the
UH playoff roster, Joe A. Spottom had better be. I mean,
this is even and on the eve is even on
the forty man come playoff time doesn't matter, you don't.
As long as you're in the organization, you can be
And so you're saying you'd be flat out read just released.
By the way, just for those who know, September first.
As long as you're in the organization by September first,
you can play on in the playoffs. Doesn't matter if
you're on the forty men or not. As long as
you're in the organization, what what matter? You give me
a sturty look. Brian King versus right, he's five ninety
two appointed ops versus lefties nine. No, that's made up numbers.
Make this up. Ross is making up numbers. Twelve fifties
of Brian Kingen your right, he's out too. Sports Top
seven ninety Final Hour, Believe it or not. Brian Bogus
evinc Brian and friends would and you seven one three
two one two five seven ninety one O three on
Sports Talk seven ninety It is a Matt Thomas show
with Ross. I know Ross so well that when he
tells me things I can read him beautifully, like, oh
that's gonna really gonna happen, or that's no chance, no way.
And you see, we just had an argument about something
that I know I'm going to be right about. And
a new day, it's a new dawn, and we can't
discuss what it is life for me. It's just you know,
like Jonathan, if you were with this more than a year,
we'll probably feel the same way about you about a
variety things. But I've been working with him for fifteen years,
so you just know somebody, all right, ob how was
ross when you first met him? Twenty four? How twenty
four know? How was how was well? How was I? Polite? Nice, respectful,
a lot more optimistic? This business has sapped the life.
It feels like his life is over as a professional.
Oh my god, man. I've tried to get him too places.
I tried to get him jobs in like Columbia, Missouri
said bad thing, Vermont. You couldn't even get me a
job in Minneapolis. That's when I knew you were just
telling people behind my back that I was no good.
I couldn't send you to Minneapolis. It's too cold, too
cold for you. Yeah, you're right, thank you, Thanks Matt.
I didn't realize. Now I knew Brian. I thought Brian
King was pretty good of getting right he's out, but
I didn't know he's so bad at getting lefties out.
In the two years is the Astros seven to fifty
seven ops against against lefties? They called that reverse platoon splits, folks.
I understand what they call it.
Speaker 9: I know you do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a ounce or not. We Brian Kings
are getting rights out. It's all good. Brian King and
Oker can get right. He's out. So you want no Presley, No,
you don't want playoff Presley, playoff press. He has been
very good, but that was a long time ago. I'm
sure Dennis Eckersley was great in the playoffs. They're not
gonna go sign him up. Okay, I would agree with you,
but I'm just saying he's gonna be No, he's gonna
be thought of. If Nightingale says the tires are being kicked,
the tires are being kicked, Yeah, I'm sure he's probably
boys are Jim Crane, and Jim Crane's gonna make it happen.
By the way, pitching rotation has been set for some
of the series against the Yankees. Friday Hunter Brown versus
Win Cam s you say his last name Robinson, No Cam,
the Smith, no of the Yankees? Uh what go ahead?
And you said go ahead? Litter schlitter Cam schwitter. Okay,
So it's Brown versus the it's brown and it's brown,
brown and slitter. Hmmm. Saturday Valdez versus Gil Sunday, it's
TBA versus Max Free. Don't call him Friday, So Brown
shwater on Friday? Huh happens. You're such a child, you'll
be embarrassed. I learned from you. I didn't take you anything.
Speaker 11: I think.
Speaker 1: I haven't say it that way. You wouldn't even say
his name as some boy used to him by the Texans.
By the way, he's rising to the top. That boo ooh,
you gotta boo from him. I get booze from him,
like weekly. Come on, now, that was that? That was
the easy pickings, got it? You gotta thing. We're clever
than that. Yeah, that's how he's doing. Oh is that
a I didn't even realize. Hey, that's my funny. Brian
and friends would at what six? Brian, thank you for
joining us in this show. We call them. Mount Thomas
showed Ross. How are things?
Speaker 8: I'm great? How are you good?
Speaker 16: I was just giving you guys a call because I
had some thoughts on our prospect down there in Sugarland
and Miguel you all up. I just was wondering what
his availability would be in the back end of our pid.
Speaker 1: Well, he's a starting pitcher now. The difference is and
thank you for the phone call, Brian. I looked at
some of his splits. He doesn't go deep in games.
They don't normally do that for minor leaguers. Yeah, no,
And whether they're preserving the arm or they don't want
to stretch him out, I don't know what they're anticipating
him being. But he has started the entire season for them,
or most of the season. I've got some five inning starts.
I'm trying to pull up his home and Rode splits.
But he's got pretty good numbers. But he would be
what the fourth different guy if if the Astros brought
him up at any point this year, he'd be the
fourth different guy come out of there. No more than that.
More than that, you got Walter Gordon Gusto blue ball.
That's four in front of the show Jason Alexander, Jason
Alexander at home. Miguel Uyola has great numbers. Nine games,
eight starts, one point seven e R. How many innings
in those eight starts? Thirty seven in nine games, so
he's going about fourish. That's yeah, that's I don't know
that that that the numbers don't drive to that. Yeah.
On the road, ten starts five to eighteen e R
whip a one six, five six. How many innings in
those ten games forty one? Oh yeah, he doesn't go
deep at all. That was That was just a generic
baseball terminology. Last time out, he went five and a
third innings against the Tacoma rain Years and gave up
two urn rents. Okay, you know what, you know what
this team ROSSI I'm not kidding when I say this.
Uh sorry. The Astros need somebody that's gonna go seven
and not sweat it out at all. And that's why
Frober is so valuable, and that's why Hunter Brown is
so valuable, because they're the only two guys. You don't
think Ragetty's gonna give you seven inks to There's no chance,
no way, no how last three starts, Uolas walked five
guys each start ooh, pitches eighty six, eighty nine, ninety two,
ninety one. He's been throwing ninety pitches that got up
to ninety eight at some point, so the pitch nown's
been getting up there, so he's a little polished. He's
only twenty three. Yeah, I don't Yeah, just turned twenty three.
I don't think I've heard any rumblings of him being
on the CUSP. Yeah, sounds like control issues a little bit.
The name that was probably brought up more this off,
this pass off is anybody else was blueball and he
just been only given two opportunities, and as we talked
about before, he got passed up a couple of times.
It was good last time out, got rewarded by throwing
ninety seven a bunch last night. But the trip back
to Sugarland right out for the game, Yeah, and the
team plane probably not on the team plane right because
somebody as somebody was tweeting because they're going to New
York where they get the day off, and I forgot
about that. He's flying commercial back. They're going to New York,
are gonna pick him up?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 1: I wonder miguelu Yola, because if you are a And
these are the things I've never asked. I need to
ask a travel the traveling secretary for the team. If
you're hurt and you fly commercial, you're gonna fly first
Classic can't. But they're not putting yourd on alborizing coach
between Houston and westbaum Beach. Doesn't it depend all?
Speaker 8: Though?
Speaker 1: Also, like what injury you have? Like, can't you if
you have some kind of different injuries you're not supposed
to fly because of the pressure change or something. Well,
how's he go get to how's he gonna get from
Houston Westbaum? I'm not thinking too much about Deshaun Watson
and has punctured long and how he had happening to
any other injury. No, I can't guarantee, but me either.
Pause this way. The only way Jordon went from Houston
to Florida is either first class or on a crane
private plane. Well, he's on a plane with the father
of a listener who says he's got a fracture and
he's going to be missing time. Remember that false report?
Oh well, I mean I still have been seen yet.
I don't want to crush the kid. He's only he's
only being reported what his dad told him. But yeah,
so if you get demoted, you have to go back
and coach. I guess that's what it's what the team.
I guess what teams spent on. I've probably giving him
first class or maybe he using miles. You can get
him boomed up, Jim Cranes. He using his miles maybe
you know, maybe blue ball. You know, and since you
did pitch him way or Shirre, we'll give you a
economy plus. Uh, you should not travel via plane if
you've had a recent fracture. So he's okay. So there's
no way Jordon is taking a car or a train
to Florida. Any recent injury where trapped or air or
gas may be present in the body. That's daily for me.
Chest or abdominal surgery, Nope, not an issue, eye surgery,
sore hand, that's what he's got.
Speaker 6: Ross.
Speaker 1: That's it. Unresolved neumo, thorax. Let the man gets get
down to Florida safely, comfortably. I don't care if he
takes a bus or a plane, as long as he's
getting his hacks in. Well, he's as they as the
as the term is being used, he's getting he's going
through a hitting progression. Yes, Jake Myers is running on
flat ground. That sounds like a good thing. I don't
know why he's got to go uphill taals Hill's gone,
but he's on flat ground. Who we see in first
of the three jordond On Jake, Jordon Paradis Jordon promise
you'd put them in order. Predes we're gonna see in
March of twenty twenty six on the astros are somewhere else.
Not that you are ready for that question, was it?
But I'm gonna say, well, if you trade it, If
you trade him, he'd have to have the most thorough
physical examination by multiple dobviors. It would be contingent on
passing a physical. Yeah, but he's been traded twice already,
So it's not like it's it's you got a friendly contract,
still has years left and be a gut feeling hit
for you, And it would be, and you have it,
and you've got a logjam in your twenty twenty six infield,
somebody's not gonna be here. Hell do you do? You
move Bryce Matthews Because prospects are prospects for a starter,
for a starting picture or starting pitch, just throwing it
out there. But do you even need a starting pitcher
next season? If Garcia and or Hobvier and or arrogant
starting pitchers this year, well you, yeah, you need a
starting picture because you're already losing. Frommer, We're down. We're
down to about oh, come on, eight starts left for
Farmers an Astro plus playoffs. I want him to be
good in the playoffs because he said some playoff meltdowns,
we'll just bunt towards his way and he fortune can't
fiel his position. Jimmy Williams, former aster manager, would just
lose his mind when his pictures could not feel their position. Well,
then he wouldn't like Fromber about this, and he was
a cranky sob gott I hate it. He would love
that crinky oh for sure, gold Glove guy absolutely all right.
While one fourteen on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
seven one three, two seven, we have Brian Bogus seven
coming up in fifteen minutes. ROSSI was Sady's edition to
Believe or not? Oh my god, are we still doing that? Yes,
we've done it for the fourteen plus years. I don't
know who dies. Let's do Lonnie Anderson Part two, No
we're not doing eight more. Helana Anderson questions, why not
trying to think who what's the most again?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 1: Red Zone? No, wwe No, Howard Stern is losing his deal.
That's serious, believe it or not, Howard Stern. No. I mean,
how many have you listened to a long term Howard Stern.
I used to watch that show on E. I listened
for those long term interviews, but I don't listen for
just a Burke show and that Howard Stern show back
to back on E. Those some good times. Really?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Are you alone?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: You aren't. Oh, it's even better. Was that the bar?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 1: No, that's that's a lie. Here's you were at home
in front of your couch one fourteen seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven one twenty one on seven and
he will visit with Brian Bogasva coming up in about
ten minutes from now. Congratulations to a young lady by
the name of Jen Powaul p A w O L.
Would that be? How you pronounce it? Rossie Powell? Maybe?
Speaker 9: Sure?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 4: Sure?
Speaker 1: Why not? She will be the first Wall not Paul
Walls Champ Powell a chain lighter go like a lamp
because he's back with the camp I don't know what
any of that means. We'll make history this weekend and
she's the first woman to be an umpire and a
regular season MLB game. She will be working the Marlins
Brave Series in Atlanta this weekend. Congratulations. Been in the
minor league since twenty sixteen. Boy, I'll tell you you
think it's hard being a major league getting up to
the big leagues. They've no minor leaguers. There was only
a handful of jobs open per decade. Really, yeah, those guys.
Once those guys get in. Look how many years did
it take finally for Angel Hernandez to get his ass fired?
Long time last DS sucks, always has Ceebee Buckner sucks,
always has those probably others. Uh huh. Those guys get
to get their jobs. Twenty six years for last DS
and twenty six years of miss calls. He went to
the Harry Windelstet Umpire School in nineteen ninety one. Do
you know that he and I could have been made
last mates. I was gonna go to the window set school.
You were where is it? It's in Florida, But you
got denied. No, I just don't have to sit in
an audition video. That's how I would do it. That's
like a shrug. So it like getting into Juilliard school.
You had to tape yourself. I did. I would have
a great strike. Call. Ah. Now, how does one get it?
You just pay the fee, right, pay the fe Okay, Yeah,
I was wondering. There's no there's no denying. Now if
if the camp fills up, they're not gonna put nine
thousand people out there. But if the camp fills up,
you don't get in. But you have to, you know,
but you get waitlisted. I graduated in in the Mayo.
Where'd you say? It was Saint Louis, No in Florida, Okay,
June of nineteen ninety and I should have gone. I
think there's also a camp in Arizona, two different camps.
They have them during spring training. No, they do them
in the off season. Oh, they do them in the
off season.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And of like cold, of like a hundred people that
probably go to these camps, they maybe grab two or three.
I mean, it's it's tough. So I just should keep
going every year to try to keep making it in. Yeah,
and who does the hiring. There's like some wed guy
from like the PCL stat or somebody else that runs
a will say these umpires are worthy of hiring, and
Major League Baseball will Minor league Baseball will say, yes,
we'll hire them. I don't know if there's a direct connection,
but there is a who do you have, We'll take them? Okay,
let's say, and then let's say you're a minor league umpire.
Do you float around the same league? You stay, stay
in one stadium, you know, you stay, you stay in
one league, one league. Just it's just like them. It's
just like baseball players. Single, a double, a triple A Okay,
And she's been doing it since twenty sixteen. She was
a triple empire in twenty twenty four, crew chief this
past year, and she now gets a chance to do.
Oh good for her. Yeah, So it's tough, especially we
got sucky umpires in front of you waiting, yep, because
Father time goes a lot slower for umpires. You got
fifty nine year old umpires, get you don't have fifty
nine year old players, That's true. So it's it's tough.
Joe West was waddling out there for a while Jesus
so out of shape, terrible umpire screwing Josel Tuva in
that playoff game. But I don't I'm not bitter. Andrew
on seven on A Hello Andrew, Hey, how's it going good?
Speaker 8: Hey?
Speaker 12: Uh so, uh, thanks for taking my call a long
time listener, first have callers. I just wanted to play
Devil's advocate on something. I hear a lot of the
rumblings about injuries and potential mismanagement by training staff, and
I tend to take the view that I'm a layman
and I don't understand, you know, even as big of
a fan as I, I don't really understand fourth injuries
as well as someone on a professional staff might. But
with the you know, the incredible amount of injuries we've
seen this year out for the Astros, I understand the grumblings,
but I have a question on whether or not it
might be good strategy to keep injury injury news on
the download in terms of a strategy for opposing doug
out not knowing what's going on.
Speaker 1: And answer of the air, what player are you talking about?
Speaker 9: Player in particular?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Is there any player in particular?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 12: Uh, the the way that the ALBA is injury has
been handled has me questioning my take on whether or not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's say that's there's your classic. There's your answer
right there. Andrew, thank you for the phone called me
to do that to you, but I had to do
it to you. No, you you've hiding injuries. Makes you
think you're the smartest guy in the room. It just
makes you sound foolish. I mean, the askers have been
crushed for two years public relations wise because of their
being not very forthcoming, and they've certainly in the last
two months change that they've done it a lot better. Yeah. Yeah,
you can't take a lot of the pressure off of
Joe spot It and Dana Brown. They don't have to
ask all the answer all these questions every single time
they're in front of people, and it also takes pressure
off the player. If you just tell the truth of
Kyle Tucker's injury would have been reported the way so accurately.
To begin with, we would be going, well, what is
Kyle Tucker's which it was? Some people worry kJ on
seven ninety Hello, kJ.
Speaker 8: What I bet as usually aunt man, my typical greedings
blood so always listening, even if I don't call it
had a quick question for you. I'm typically a realistic
situations in regards to what we're seeing on the field,
but I'm gonna put my optimistic hat on today. I'm
getting I genuinely.
Speaker 11: Understand the concern that a lot of people have with
the way the defense has been dog walking the offense
as far as training Captain's gone so far. I'm looking
at it like this, and maybe I'm being a little
bit too optimistic, but my take on it is this,
I genuinely believe that Texans will have a top five,
if not number one type defense.
Speaker 8: That's coming season.
Speaker 1: What do you agree that sounds good?
Speaker 8: Okay, if you're.
Speaker 11: Going against a defense like that on a regular basis,
on a day and day out basis, you're not going
to face a team with a with a Daniel Hunter
and a Will Anderson on each hand every game, or
Kamari Last or Derek Stingley on a on the outside
backed up with a CJ. Gardner, Johnson and Petrie every game.
I mean, you have literally all three levels on defense,
you have all pro players, and you're just not gonna
see that, uh, maybe two or three times over the
course of the season this coming year. So when when.
Speaker 1: If that's the.
Speaker 11: Case, you're basically setting your offense up to Yeah, they're struggling,
but they're not going to see those type of defenses
on a regular basis. Of My hope is, and I
use the word hope loosely, my hope is that because
they're seeing such a strong defense that when the season
opens that they're not seeing those type of defenses, the
offense will be better prepared for us. And I had
one take a question. I wanted to ask you guys
in regards to the Astros. What is the contract status?
I asked you yesterday Ross about Pina and you clarified
that one. For me, what is the contracts contract status
for uh Yana Diez, Paradees and Christian Walker? Because I'm
the well because I'm trying to see how long we're
gonna be able to keep this infield together, because I
see us having the best defensive infield in baseball next
year if everybody is healthy or not included. But I
still want to know his contract status because although he's
part defensively, officively, he is above average at catchers. So
I just wanted to know the contract status on the
nfield moving forward. Thanks Man, the show guy c.
Speaker 1: kJ Real quick Walker has two years left, Diz has
still got arbitration years left. Correct, three or three years
after this year, And as far as the first part
of the question, two more years, the Texans defense will
be top five. But there's also a lot of good
defense in the NFL. You need your offense to show
some signs of success against your defense, and the way
the rules are, you are going to even the best
defenses going to give up unless they're like mega elite. Yeah,
you're you're gonna give up points unless you're like all
time elite. But I mean even the reports the first
two days out of West Virginia are like sack sack, interceptive, fumble,
overthrown minus three. I mean not great. No, I would
have been significantly discouraged. But again it's just turning camp reports.
Let's see what they do Saturday, and it won't even
be the full first team versus first team out there,
but I'll give you a Lisa sign of where the
team is depth wise. Brian bogus Sevic on the Astros
run last night one thirty one on Sports Talk seven
ninety Earlier today, I had a chance to catch up
with Brian bogas Ievenc we're gonna play a part of
the conversation for you right now, And I asked him
about what it was like watching this Astros team struggle
against the Red Sox, losing three games in Beantown. They
fly down to Florida play the Marlins, who just finished
sweeping the Ranger or the Yankees, and the Astros go
in there and win the first two games of the
series against the Fish.
Speaker 13: No, I totally agree.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 13: My first kind of thought and reaction to you know,
the last week, week and a half is kind of like,
let's not get too high on, you know, beating up
on the Nationals and the Marlins. But if you look
at what the Marlins have been over the course of
you know, a good chunk of six to eight weeks,
and what they were doing coming in to this series,
you know, Yeah, so they looked pretty good against a
team that's been playing really well. And I think it's
the way that they've looked.
Speaker 1: It's the offense.
Speaker 13: It's you know, kind of a different looking team post
trade deadline than than we had seen throughout the course
of much of the season. You know, some of that
is additions, some of that is you know, Paya coming
back healthy. But I think it's kind of rounding into form.
It's certainly not the team that you think of when
you say, okay, what's our best, but it's definitely a
team that is different for the better than it was
maybe three or four weeks ago.
Speaker 1: It is amazing to me. Look, this team, I would
say more times than not, has been offensively challenged. But
there were a night in particular in Boston we get
fourteen hits, and so that's supposed to win you baseball games,
and that just didn't happen. There's one thing about getting
on bas another one getting into scoring. There's really no
rhyme or reason to why that is except for, you know,
sometimes your heard of the lineup guys don't come through,
and sometimes your seventh, eight, nine guys come up with
the worst possible times. What is your take on how
this team at least getsophrenically the last sixty days has
been so up and down offensively.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean when you look at the runners in
scoring position numbers, whether it be for an individual player
or a team or whatever, I for one I do
not I try as hard as I can to not
diminish hitting with runners in scoring position, because it's not
the same as every other at that right, a pitcher
is not going to pick you the same with runners
in second and third and one out as they are
with two outs and nobody on. That's a given. You
have to be a better hitter to hit with runners
in scoring position. However, when you're looking at over the
course of time, over the course of the season, the
greatest predictor of can you hit with runners in scoring
position is just can you hit?
Speaker 1: In general?
Speaker 13: Are you a tech oriented hitter or team? Do you
hit for average as a team or as an individual hitter?
And when you have situations where you know you're racking
up a ton of hits, you're racking up a ton
of base runners, and maybe for a game or a
couple of games, you don't drive those runners in, that
can just be attributed to it's just baseball. Sometimes hit
a line drive at somebody with two outs and you
know you don't score. But over time, if you're doing
the right things, eventually you will hit with runners in
scoring position and therefore score a lot of runs. So
when I look at a team, this team post trade deadline,
and what the lineup has been doing in terms of
just volume of quality at bats, volume of guys on base.
I think it's a better a better option, a better
chance of scoring a lot of runs consistently than it was.
You know, not that too far in the past.
Speaker 1: Ryan Bogasovich with us here on seven hunty for his
regular Wednesday visit Bogie. You played with Helse for a
very short time, very young part of his career towards
the end of yours, and then you've watched him as
a broadcaster and as a guy that goes to the
ballparking season firsthand. He's still racking up hits. I think
he's gonna get to three thousand hits. It's gonna take
a lot of work, but I think he's gonna get there.
But just when people want to, all of a sudden
say all right, here comes a significant downturn and maybe
Jose has had that defensively. But his OPS is above
eight hundred. Yet again, he's hitting home runs. He walks
into the ballpark with two hits per night. Have you
noticed anything about his swing changing. Obviously it's probably slower
than it was as a rookie, but he's still getting
on base, he's still making solid contact, Is there any
noticeable difference that maybe even seven or eight years ago,
the wholesale two of a swing that you see now.
Speaker 13: I think maybe the one thing you could say is
that when he's, you know, hunting for power, he has
to become a little bit more pull dominant than he
was in the past, and in order to do so,
maybe have to have to guess or cheat a little
bit more. But that's I mean, that's a very negligible thing.
Nothing with the swing, nothing with the approach, you know.
I think at some point, especially when you're talking about
this lineup functioning as a as it should, you know,
with everybody back where it should, and he doesn't have
to be a power hitter type of guy, or maybe
later in his career when he doesn't have to be
that he still has the ability to rack up a
ton of hits. He can still if he wanted to
just spray balls the other way and get base hits,
he could he could easily do that. But he's trying
to be more of a complete hitter, trying to trying
to hit for power, trying to be a middle of
the lineup guy. So maybe he has to sacrifice a
little bit of risk of swing and miss in order
to do that.
Speaker 1: But I mean that's just hitting.
Speaker 13: Sometimes you got to give a little bit to get
a little bit. And I think that in terms of
just pure hitting ability, he's still every bit as good
as he ever was.
Speaker 1: Boggie. We saw the Astros go with an opener yesterday
and then we saw aj blue Ball get his second
appearance in a major league uniform, and I mean he
would hitting ninety seven ninety eight of the gun. I
don't know if that's going to be a regular thing
for him, but for a guy that goes from his
first start many months ago to a guy who got
passed up by at least two pictures, if not more,
to get this opportunity again, it looked like he was
just very comfortable that the way the world was off
his shoulders and he could just rear back and get
people out.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, a lot can happen over the course
of whatever it's been three three months down in the
minor leagues and getting working and he's pitched a lot
of innings down there, and there have been, you know,
tweaks made and adjustments made, and you know, if you're
sitting when you're sitting down in triple A and you're
seeing guys get called up, get called up, get called up,
and it's not you, and it's not you, and it's
not you. It'll create a sense of urgency and it'll
it'll you know, kind of push you to get better
and kind of push you to when you do get
that opportunity, try to make a good impression. And I
think he certainly did that. From a stuff standpoint, I mean,
you can, you can go a long way with high
end stuff when you's you know, there's a lot of
room for error when you're pitching when it's ninety seven
ninety eight miles an hour, and it's certainly different than
a lot you know, a lot of guys that we've
seen come up it's been lesser stuff, but more of
a plan, more of an approach for pitching, you know,
having a guy who can come up and say, hey,
we need you know, two, three, four innings, where somebody
can just go out there and try to blow guys away.
Here's our option and differentiate yourself a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that you knew that you probably in the
back of your mind thought the transition for Cardlos going
from short to third base would be a piece of cake,
and it feels like it certainly has been.
Speaker 13: Yeah, when you're that talented a shortstop, I mean there
are some nuances to third base. It's a little bit
different footwork, maybe a couple of different arm angles on throws.
But I mean, if you can play shortstop at the
level that he plays shortstop, you can slide right over
to third base and honestly probably pretty much anywhere else.
Speaker 1: In the Diamonds Uryusk gets an opportunity, makes the most
you've got now, I think another additional utility guy. Not
so much pressure on Dubond to play every single day.
It feels like the lineup is coming together clearly because
guys are back, and noticely Jerby would be the first
one on that list. Ross and I want to do
this in a few minutes, and we may have time
to do so. We're hoping that at some point Jordon
gets into play on this and if he does, that's
a missing piece to this lineup being filthy one to seven.
Speaker 13: Right at this point, you think, oh absolutely, I mean,
he as good as other guys have been, as nice
as the additions are, Jordon coming back healthy and being
the hitter that he is, everything then revolves around him.
You build your lineup around him, you know, team's game
plan around him. It's also you know, another left handed
bat that has to be accounted for, and now you're
looking at the top half of the batting order being
righty lefty, righty lefty. So you know, looking down the
road to a seventh, eighth, ninth inning, playing matchups, it
makes it really different cult for opposing managers. So yeah,
I mean you're looking at a lineup that really, at
some point is going to be you know, one through eight,
one through nine really solid because you know you've got
guys who, for a good chunk of time we're hitting
you know, Te Schmell hit a bunch of leadoff, He's
going to be maybe your nine hole hitter. You got
you know, Cam Smith sliding in the seventh hole when
he was hitting fourth for a good chunk of time.
Victor Carrottini when he's in the lineup, he was your
best hitter for you know, nearly a month during the
course of the season. So yeah, you're looking at some
real lengths and you know theiner is getting it going.
So all of a sudden, you're you're looking at a
lineup that's really deep and really dangerous in every spot.
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