Speaker 1: Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten oh one
in ah Town.
Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome do a Tuesday edition of The
Matt Thomas Show and Ross.
Speaker 1: This is Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 3: By Houston Astros explode for eight runs, more than enough
support for lancemac Fuller's junior who was brilliant as the
Astros to beat the Red Sox eight.
Speaker 1: To one to win their third rate game. Is there
not a better way to wake up on a Tuesday
morning than having Astro highlights and share? I dare you, Houston, Texas,
to find a better como than that?
Speaker 2: Right there?
Speaker 1: I dare you, Uh, how far do I go of
making fun of this song and making fun of you
before you out me?
Speaker 2: You can do it right now, I don't care.
Speaker 1: Let me. Let me just tell you because it was
my suggestion.
Speaker 2: But okay, this is cheesy, so good.
Speaker 1: But if you jumped, I was like, what about your
team back to go ahead?
Speaker 4: It fits?
Speaker 1: It does so I could be mad at myself for
even suggesting us so good. It's like I asked a
bear if we should go eat salmon? Should we go?
You want some honey?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Exactly, man, you wanted some share? Should we play?
Speaker 6: Share.
Speaker 2: All right. Now she's super old.
Speaker 1: Now, oh, here we go. But for about forty years
she's was just the sexiest thing alive. I mean just
super super hot, sang, acted funny.
Speaker 2: And just oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe I just missed her prime too hard,
because that's an uh okay, I'll take your word for it.
Speaker 2: Uh okay. I'll just say this.
Speaker 1: I may be one of the only heterosexual men in
the world that loves share like a share.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I know you saw her in Vegas.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 2: I did go see her in Vegas. I was given
a ticket and.
Speaker 1: Then I was like, oh, you guys are going to share, like,
yes we are, and we had a great time. That's
wonder time.
Speaker 2: That's important. That's what's important, man, that's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm trying to think if I want to give
you a video of her on Sunny and Share, that's
like nineteen seventy four. She can't appreciate that. Maybe like
Share eighty two eighty three, when she started becoming an actress,
I still wasn't born. But that's just Brime. I'll take
your word for it. I'm not calling you a liar.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate that very much. Good morning everybody,
Han Ross.
Speaker 1: I'm doing great. The Astros are doing great. I'm in
a spectacular mood. Can I say something to any Astro fan, Yes,
any Astro media, any Astro observer, this is outstanding. What
happened last night amazing. But just it's like I would
tell you if the Afters had opened the season one
and four. I just we have to just it's a
sample size. No, nope, nope, nope, Si mcculors, let's go
al two. Tweet out you two home runs? Oh you did? Yeah,
I didn't see that. Uh, Jordan Alvarez, he's mashing the ball.
We're all good, baby, I mean, it's nice. It beats
the alternative new hitting coaches had a slow start, but
the new hitting coaches got Jose L two A two
home runs. Let's go.
Speaker 2: You know what, you're going to start speaking out in existence.
Speaker 1: I'm with all those people are gonna call the show saying, Ross,
we used to call you for months on end and
talk about how they need to be a change in
the hitting coaches, and you were poo pooing that. Yeah,
they taught Jose to L two A had a hit.
It's great. He's being more patient. He's working walks. I
love it well the way Ranger Suarez a runhead not
good yesterday. Uh helped Venezuala when the WBC. Yes, he
did he throws. Did he unload some of the bullets
too early? I don't know, because apparently when he got
back from to Fort Myers where they have spring training,
he was lousy and then he was obviously the first
start of the season yesterday for him was loudy. That's
a question for him and his trainers and his uh
metrics and what.
Speaker 2: I'm bull Sox Talk. Let's go to Pawtucket, Raphael, you're
on paw Talk. Oh, it's funny.
Speaker 1: Carly's school, my daughter's school, University Hode Island is about
twenty five minutes from paw Tucket. I'll be going to
some Red Sox minor League games. No, you're not having
some wicked chatta I have. There's no there's no chance.
Do you think if I go up there for links
the time, I'll come back with it like a New
England accent. No, you're not going to it will be
kind of fun. You're gonna call everything wicked awesome? Yeah,
okay in Dorchester, Yeah, Doutchester Man.
Speaker 2: The Patriar Providence, the Patriots.
Speaker 1: Great Craig May, Mike Vrabel, Celtics rule the building, in
the entire NBA. I missed the God Jason Tatam Player
of the week. You're doing good?
Speaker 2: All right? We have a busy show today, RUSS Sports.
Speaker 1: Are you okay?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: So we have it At eleven twenty today, Gretchen Sheer
is going to join us. She is the president of
Love It Business Operations, the Houston Rockets and Houston Comments.
So we'll talk to her about the team of getting
the WNBA back in our city. Got Feelings at eleven
thirty today, and the season premiere of The Joe A
Spotted Show at twelve thirty today. I'm so happy it's
gonna be easy because we can't screw this one up.
We always like to have Joe on when things are
going well, Yes, or Emai Udoko or anybody, anybody. Yeah,
So this is a nice time to have Joe on.
Three in a row, Lancer Colors Junior doing his thing,
seven innings of one run ball getting swings and miss
And by the way, we.
Speaker 2: Are done making predictions. I think No, I'm not done.
Speaker 1: I'm done because we had extraordinarily limited expectations of the
astro starter yesterday, and he, by the way, has the
now the teammates.
Speaker 2: There's always a wide range of outcomes in.
Speaker 1: Anything in life, Matt, and sometimes we're right, sometimes they're wrong.
We go every time every year, we go and look
at our Super Bowl predictions from week one.
Speaker 2: They're way off, not good, because life is hard to predict.
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone had seven innings of one run
ball with nine k's and only one walk on their
bingo board for Lansmacullors junior. He did it. Let's look
at that box score for him. Okay, did anybody have
seven innings?
Speaker 2: Raise your hand? No, going on? I had the over
three and a half, four hits. You probably could have
put that on the board.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one run possible, but probably not likely. One walk possible,
not likely. Nine freaking strikeouts. I wrote down a prediction
for his thing yesterday when we were doing over unders. Yeah,
I said four and a third, two earned runs, five strikeouts,
three walks.
Speaker 2: Not particularly close.
Speaker 1: But that's okay, dang, but that was about what And
this is the thing too, when you pay it towards
every other starting pitcher nobody else got it out in
the sixth inning. I'm sorry, no, uh Pat, nobody got
towards the six inning. My borrows did five and two thirds. Sorry, yeah,
And everybody else was bad to worse. So Hunter Brown
didn't give up a run but labor. He threw one
hundred and two pitches. He was efficient, he was getting out,
he was getting swings and misses, he was getting double plays,
he was getting out of jams. It was awesome. I
didn't believe what I was seeing. It was amazing. It
was and I don't mean to be uh too grandiose
on this. It was like twenty eighteen. It was eventually performance.
It was awesome. That's what you signed him for five
years and whatever the dollar mount. And this was a
guy man. We were in front of him in spring training.
He sounded like he was had one foot out the doorway.
It's like, I is I pitch good? It'd be great
if not. I've left it all on the family. I
love my family. Maybe I'll just start servicing Mark coffee.
Maybe I'll take care of some more pets. I mean,
he's on all those things. He was introspective and emotional,
and it just felt like you know he was making
his last stand, so for him to go out there,
and we talked about this throughout spring training. He is
mister Bury me in the h twenty seventeen Astros holdover
with al two ve both of those guys performing last night.
That was awesome. Yes, it's it's a March game against
the Red Sox, but it was as special as a
March game against the Red Sox can get. And if
we talked about this far, they're one of one sixty two.
You can't take this one away, you can't. I was astonished, awesome. Oh,
by the way, you're OPS leader now, jose L Twove
with an ops of almost fourteen hundred.
Speaker 2: Let's freaking go. I love L two leading off.
Speaker 1: I got zero problem with Jordon Alvarez betting second and
three through seven. Figure out the way you want to
do it. Let's go. I'm on board. Gordon Alvarez, dhing
whatever Bryce Matthews and left with and went not a
cheap shot four hundred and thirty four feet one eleven
off the bat. I know you love exitblo, Mattie. I'm
a big exit blow guy. Uh did you know I'm
gonna make sure this is accurate. It was accurate as
the last year. Josel two has not hit a ball
one eleven in his life. So Bryce Matthews showing some power,
Bryce Matthews, that was a as the kids will say,
a tank job.
Speaker 2: Yes, well literally to the gas pump.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think gas pump is cheaper than getting
the gas in the in the neighborhood. I don't think
it's connected to anything. I've always been I've always brat
about how Kingwood Gas is cheaping everybody else. Man, we
are we are three fifty nine now, Yeah, what are
you paying in the city? I don't know.
Speaker 2: And so you felt up your tank once a month.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's five minutes for me to get here. Don't
just don't do that. Don't give me your evil eye.
I chose where I wanted to live, so I live
close because I got problems waking up sometimes. It's fair.
So well here from Lance mccallor is coming back all right?
Hodel two have hit a ball one twelve in twenty eighteen.
He's never hit a ball one eleven any other time, though,
Stop not giving stop giving out of Ronie's information.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm going to think of think of a breakmant.
Speaker 1: All right eleven twenty you Gretchen is gonna join us
in the rockets and comments eleven thirty. Gut feelings with
the news at noon, we Joe Spotty twelve thirty Believe
it or not? One fifty and we have Anthony Edwards.
We'll discuss all that today. What happened with him? You
impregnate somebody again? You've not seen it? Good ten thirteen
on Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 7: Ninety ten nineteen on Sports Talk seven ninety It is
Matt at Ross with you here on this Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Good afternoon, everybody.
Speaker 1: We would love for you to be a part of
our radio show today if you'd like to join us
throughout the course of the show with a variety of
topics we have put together on our list seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven nine zero. We'll hear from
Lance mculor is coming up at the bottom of the
hour after his uh, I mean startling, I mean I
what do you want to use? The term? There is
if you were to say one starting pitcher to the
first turn of the rotation was going to give you
one run over seven innings, there was no one, and
I mean no one would have guessed Lance mculor's. He
would have been the last guess. Yeah, and it's awesome,
it's great. It's I'm like I've been saying, I'm rooting
for him, like it's a consistency.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, but it was.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: Highly enjoyable. Good for him.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know what, uh, being an that Look,
here's the reality of it. Being an athlete's tough. It
just is to be really Now granted, if you're really
good at your job, you make a lot of money,
and then once you make a lot of money, you
got to back that money up. And so not that
not everybody knows what everybody makes in life. But when
you're a public figure and you are attached to your
dollar amount because your team has a budget or you know,
has to work with the perimeters of a salary cap,
every dollar matters. And the reality is the money that
it's been spent on Lance mccolors over his major league
career has not been good because it didn't want to
be good, just because he wasn't good because no, ninety
percent because of injuries. Yea, his body has been failing.
I mean, he wants to be out there and he's
just got all this hate and I think we talked
about it the last couple of weeks, and even last
night I was tweeting about how great he was going to.
Oh well, I'm waiting for him to get hurt. Okay,
shut up, you shut your momb ass up. Okay, the
sligh enjoy the moment while it's happening. Maybe he'll get hurt,
Maybe he won't. Who knows. I got news for you.
Historyes athletes get hurt, yes, multiple times. Actually, so it's
it's I don't even know what else to say. It
was that we were turning back time. Yes, two hitting bombs.
Mccullars is out there dealing krls. Korey is making blue
Star play, is running into right field tossing and throwing
guys out. Lancemccullers Junior is going, that's my boy. Oh like, oh,
this is so great, this is amazing. Nostalgia was hitting
last night watching the Astros. That's right, and that's why
it's awesome to turn back time. And we need to
play more share songs.
Speaker 2: Than a show.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow's just that's it. I guess you know what, if
they win tomorrow, we can play believe? Why share? Why
then we actually we hit a quota. There's no quota
per month, once per month, Jonathan, turn back time? Do
you like it?
Speaker 6: I mean?
Speaker 1: Who doesn't like share? Though?
Speaker 2: Thank you me? There are two adult men who are
heterosexuals that like share in this office.
Speaker 1: All right, you're not to qualify it. Yeah, sometimes you
got to qualify things in life. I feel like share.
You like share, Matt. It doesn't matter. Yeah, but as
soon as I say you like started a snicker. I
didn't snicker. I've known you like share for twenty years. Yeah.
Wait a minute, it's way worse. Let's stop. We never
did a believe or not? Nil sa daka?
Speaker 2: By the way, may he right he died? Yes? He
did last week?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 2: Yes? Well I'm sorry. Well it's laughter in the rain
and then what bad blood?
Speaker 1: Not familiar? No, we're not playing it. Stop calendar girl,
calendar girl. Yeah, I love my love, my love, my
calendar girl.
Speaker 2: It's before my time. But it's a song he had
and it looks like you love that one.
Speaker 1: It's fine.
Speaker 8: I don't.
Speaker 2: Is it on my phone? Yes or no? I'll say yes, no,
it's not.
Speaker 1: You want it on there? Though? I have think about it. No,
I don't seven one three two one two five seven.
Nintie seven one three two one two five seven NINTI
your astros win looking for another victory. This will be
three go looking for four in a row today and
we'll talk to Joe spot Up everybody, y'all. Y'all put
your log alarms on your phones. Twelve thirty Joe spot
I joined the show. Okay, that's your alarm set. No,
I don't want it to go off in the middle
of the show. That'd be fair, that'd be weird. Steven
in Los Angeles at ten twenty three Steven, good early
morning to you.
Speaker 9: Hey guys, I hope you're doing well today. Obviously, he
was watching the Actress game last night, and to say
that I was stunned by what I was seeing out
of Lance the Colors as on an understatement it was.
It was really just a marvel to watch how well
he was pitching last night. And I think one of
the things that was most surprising and the most telling
was that his walks were almost non existent. I think
he had one last night, And even when he's been
an effective pitcher in the last few years, that he's
actually pitched He's always been prone to walk guys, you know,
a handful of guys. So to see him, you know,
I think what worked the best last night, or that
was helping him the most, as far as my opinion
goes with, is that he was able to command his basketball,
you know. And and obviously it's it's not his most
effective pitch, but I think when he was struggling so
much last year, he was just throwing his fastball and
he had no idea where he was going, and then
everybody was just you know, sitting on his off speed stuff,
and and it was just it. It just made for
long at bats and long pitch counts and things like that.
And he just had everything working for him last night,
and it was really just a joy to see to
see that. And the last thing I'll say is if
we could all just say a little prayer and to
the baseball gods, let's let's please get one hundred and
fifty games out of Jordan Alvarets this season, because my god,
I mean, it's a small sample size, but I think
in five games, you just you can see how much
she impacts this line up. I mean, even his outs
are have been loud, you know, so far, so a
lot of good stuff. No complaints on my end. Thanks guys,
I'll hang up and listen.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: He is patying to play one sixty two, Yes he is.
Speaker 1: And uh there were some people worried about his spring
training numbers. Oh you know on never mind, I thought
that was that was a Cole in there. Not Cole
was schmish morty, oh smish. He also wanted Jason Alexander
in the starting rotation. Your favorite Space Cowboys go, they
pick mondays off right. Well, by the way, do you
hear about Zak Cole got y? Yeah, hurt foot, gonna
be out a while. Yeah, you got hit with a pitch.
He broke a toe and just put some tape on it.
Wrap that bad.
Speaker 2: Boy, imagine. But also why push it?
Speaker 1: It's like week one of the Space Cowboys season and
they're loaded with their stocked But if you get that
over under a one hundred and three?
Speaker 2: Yeah, how'd you a little concerned about that?
Speaker 1: That fine?
Speaker 2: Next man up, baby, I got belief in my Space Cowboys.
Yeah you should talk. It's the first pitch of the
Space Cowboys game.
Speaker 1: I should. Everybody's be like the hell this guy? Ladies
and gentlemen, now on the mound from the Sports Talk
seven ninety one, half of the Mount Thomas Old Ross,
It's Ross. Would you raise your hand and say, hey,
how are y'all doing? Yeah? I would do the double
peace signs running like Richard Nixon. Like Ringo, startist too,
What are you trying to? Ringo does it every time,
and at least ten times per concert aboutopus.
Speaker 2: Ringo one of the greatest drummers of all time.
Speaker 1: Just keep the meat, Ringo, Let John, John and Paul
do their thing in George too. You got one job, brother. Okay,
he's fine, because some drummer nerds gonna call.
Speaker 10: Up what is disrespecting Ringo? If you listen to his
fills on something, you're really gonna hear something special. And
he's playing with the band. He's not taking over, and
that's what's really great about Ringo.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine. I kind of said it better myself.
Speaker 1: Again. The line last night for Lance mc college Semoning's
four hits, one one run, it was earned, one walk,
nine k's it's the victory through ninety six pitches.
Speaker 2: That's what we were.
Speaker 1: Expecting, not every single time, but much more over the
last couple of years than we have received. Astro's got
an outstanding performance of him. Ryan Weiss gave you two
innings last night with three ks, and I spounced back
for him after a rough debut. Astros hit not one,
not two, not three, but four home runs crush Ranger
Suarez and the Red Sox and the Astros have now
one three consecutive games. We bring you back here at
ten thirty two here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Ryan Weiss looked really great, and of course we know
mccullors did as well. Let's hear a little bit from
him in the post game first of all, just on
his outing and how he was feeling out there, as
the results were pretty darn good. Feel good.
Speaker 11: You know, I know the Red Sox are an incredible team,
so I've known for you know, two weeks or so
that I was going to face them in the first game.
So just what the you know, coaching staff has apprecied
to me since spring.
Speaker 1: Just got to be in the zone. You know, just gotten.
Speaker 12: Reports are all good and everything.
Speaker 11: Like that is good, but we gotta we got to attack,
and we got to be in the zone, and we
got to force it. So I did that early and
then my defense, you know, some unmlievable plays behind me.
Speaker 12: Offense was incredible. So it was a it was a
good day.
Speaker 1: It's a good point or was a team effort. Defense
was good. Yeah, getting out to a nice early lead
builds confidence too. You feel like you can not necessarily
get away with a mistake, but maybe take some chances
that you would hope that you build to, especially if
you got a little bit of a cushion mm hmm,
you know, for for a Monday night game after the
you know, the pomp and circumstances opening weekend, you kind
of It's funny. I've brought this up up many times
that I apologize I've heard it before. I don't think
there's a bigger drop in elevation of a first game
of a season in baseball to a second game, more
than any other sport, And so I think it kind
of comes with the opening series. You go through the
you're on your first road trip, you got a new
team coming in even second series on a Monday, that's
kind of a drop off to low pressure situation. It's
the Red Sox, but I mean it's not like you
know their World Series contenders, No, right, not at all.
I mean, it's it's Bregman's not wearing their gear anymore, Sosig,
the sizzle of him being back in town. So yeah, I.
Speaker 2: You know, it's early, but it was awesome.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna put any more into it than except
to say it was enjoyable. And I like the bats
of the third straight game. I mean high high production
for three straight games, so win. Putting things in perspective,
when the Astros score with three runs over a six
game stretch, I don't want to hear about the betting
coaches not doing their job, because right now, the betting
coaches are outstanding. I almost said, I almost said, no,
people are going to be smarter than that, but no,
and and look, I wish Astros shorter was smarter. It's
just not it's the worst. Everybody Twitter, but it's the worst. Yeah,
somebody has me the worst. Low Rockets still fire, Udoka
Chagoon one Rockets too. I'll give you credit. Texans Twitter,
you're okay. Individual college twitter is really bad. I would
say so, but I don't know. It's Uh, it's a
real tight race, oh one two between Astros Rockets. It's
such a significant it's a real Oli Frasier. That's so funny,
all right, seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five s anything
else from Lances, we want to wait for a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go. Let's here's what he had to say about.
Speaker 1: Uh, you know, obviously it's been a long road for
him with the injuries and the spring and all that
type of stuff. He says he's not trying to focus
too much on his past.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I've just been trying to, uh not put too
too much stock into the past or the future, honestly,
just try to be president and just try to go
out there and compete really honestly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think last year.
Speaker 12: Was obviously tough, and uh, I.
Speaker 11: Think I just carried the weight like every start, you know,
and so this year I've just been just really focused on.
Speaker 12: It's just trying to.
Speaker 11: Not worry about the past or the future and just
enjoy the moment and go out there and compete as
hard as I can.
Speaker 1: He's so measured, introspective, measured, and you know, honestly, that's
the way he's supposed to be, because if you were
if he was to come out and say, man, I
am back I am nationwide. I look out, here comes
a brain new Lance Colors at twenty twenty six. And
then all of a sudden something heart or gets beat
up or blasted, and then people jump on him again.
He and me. Let me tell you, Lance knows, lanceman
I having a Twitter or a Facebook or a TikTok,
but he knows. He's not naive. He's not gonna come
out there and cut a promo and the Red Sox
got another thing coming. Majella. You something you thought I
was good Monday night. I get on the road and
I'm gonna shut you down. A's and Mariners get out
the way. LMJ is back. How you like that, sucker?
I said, bury me in the h but we're gonna
bury them on the mound when I come out. He's
not gonna do that. No, be great, Lance, You just
want your nineteenth game year. Well, I'm very excited about this.
I get that twentieth one will be great. And you know,
I'm just put a lot of hard work in and
it's almost not someone it's not belichecking, but it's so
it's I mean, I think he just has well, he's
had a lot of time to gain perspective, and I
think it's the right perspective. Live in the present moment.
The pass will haunt him the future. Don't you want
it to come on and go? See I told you
i'd be back.
Speaker 2: You counted me out, bitches.
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll do that. No, but that I
like it. I'm cool with it. I love it, especially
as someone who's trying to, uh, you know, be more
in the present moment myself, Matt, were you in.
Speaker 2: The past before?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just have an anxious, anxious mind
overthinking things. Just be in the present moment. Everybody needs
to relax. It's all good. I appreciate that. I need
you to push some of that to me. I got
three games this week and four more three and a
half shows with you a herculean effort. Last night, didn't
dream much. I'm trying to think if I had anything
was memorable. I think the answer to that is no. Okay,
by the way, if I ever bring up dreams on
the show, you got to almost have like dream Weaver
standing by okay, by Gary right by the way, or
mister Sandman or mister Sandman Works or inter Sandman. No,
that's that would probably send me into the bad dreams. Okay,
well it's been a dream for Alanscepa Collor's junior. That
was nobody. Nobody saw that coming, not even him. He says.
The numbers in spring were pretty good. I mean he
was getting better as the month was progressing. And again,
I don't use spring numbers as any indicator one way
the other except you're fighting for a playoff. For us,
he was getting a lot of whisk, but a lot
of it was out of the zone. But I mean
that just means that he had the Red Sox fooled.
So I'm just gonna go on that and and we're
gonna hope that he's not gonna do that every time out.
But it's a nice building block and you couldn't be
more encouraged. And we got an ABS victory last night,
which we haven't had one of those. Yes, thank you,
thank you. L two with you see how small that
strike zone was that they put on the on the TV.
By the way, the Astros will enter play. I'm standing's
watch okay, are you serious? Stop? Half game behind the brinker?
I said stop, and you didn't stop. Right now the
Rockets standings watch is fine. Rockets are the Astros are
half game out of first, and they would be the
second wild card at the season end of the day.
Season does and end today, Matt, It's March thirty first.
By the way, got a ruling from our friend Alex
to just send us a tweet. I can use share
next month. I see. I that popped in my head,
but I wasn't gonna say it out loud because that
would have been a good line for you. Well, good
thing is next month is the first you're telling me
I can use one share song per month on the show. Uh,
that's the rule. That's no, it's a thirty day there's
a thirty day moratorium. That's fine if you want to,
you know what, use all the share you want. Let's
go No, nilsadaka Share, Barry.
Speaker 5: Manilow, Kendrick Lamar, we can play. We'll play Kendrick if
we want. Let's not put Barry Manilow in that list
of people. Okay, Hey, Barry's fighting cancer. Hope he gets
throw it over to see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh Man to cancel some shows, but I think
you're starting to re adjust the schedule to add some
shows back.
Speaker 2: So do you know what kind of I'm just curious.
I don't actually don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, I hope he's all right, all right, seven on
three two one two five seven seven one three two
two five seven, And we are gonna get a little
NBA chatter coming, and we get the Rockets and Nicks
coming up tomorrow tonight Stage one. Lung. I don't know
if Berry was a smoker or not. I don't I
don't know if he was. But you don't have to
be a no. There's a lot of people getting lung
cancers don't have never smoke. Yeah, And I went to
a download and really quick. Fine, stay in the present moment,
enjoy the now, see, because who knows what's gonna Happenrow,
start taking your own advice. I'm trying. It's hard. Life
is hard, Matt. No, but at least we have the
tended to uh fantasy world that we which we live
in here every day on this on this show. All right,
let's see what else going on baseball wise, Uh, the
Mariners finally got something on cal Raley that was good
for him. I guess is that what we want? No,
By the way, everybody's complaining about the new TV package
that MLB is going through just like the NBA was complaining.
Either there are some games on Peacock, there are some
games on Apple TV. And I thought about the yesterday
and it's not easy. It does take work and it
also takes more money. But we figure out a way
to watch our college football teams. That way, hell, you
of h this year was on FS one, TNT, ESPN,
ESPN two, ESPNU. Now granted those are all cable quote
unquote cable stations doesn't require you to have an extra fee.
And when they were one gay I think they were
on CBS Sports.
Speaker 2: Network one time.
Speaker 1: My answer to it to all of you that criticized this,
and a lot of people tend to do this on
social media more so than just running into you, is
I get it. It's it to watch sports. Just to
watch it is significantly more expensive than it was ten
years ago. You could not. When I was a kid,
you had even if you didn't have HSC the cable channel,
you had eighty games on Channel twenty and that was free.
Speaker 2: Didn't cast you a darn thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder what they're doing is they're saying, we're
die you and I are diehards. We're gonna watch Astros
wherever they're on. They're trying to get people who are
not who are browsing Apple TV, who are browsing Netflix,
who are browsing Hulu, who or whatever, and like, oh, okay, well,
I guess I would disagree with you. I think they're
doing it just for the check. Because the regional TV
networks are going away. You're getting no money. So if
someone's gonna offer you a check, does or like Apple,
But I mean more so, they really don't care if
they're they don't They honestly don't care if an at
if a Seattle a resident is gonna watch the Astros
an and it's the plan. Of course. Plan one is
the check. I know that I'm not saying they're not saying.
I'm not saying they're saying, we're gonna do this for free.
But that's got to be the only reason they can
try to do that. They're trying to spread things around
and try to gain I don't know, more casual fans
or something. That's the only thing that makes sense to me.
See as a diehard Astro fan, you would have had
a chance to catch me watching Giants and Yankees on
opening day if it was on the ESPN. But because
it wasn't and I was on the road, and I
could have gotten Netflix in my hotel roomance not very
difficult to do that. But you're also assuming that I
have Netflix, and you're also assuming that I have on
my phone. I just it's you're just adding a few hoops.
And generally speaking, the football, the baseball, and the basketball
folks are like, we don't care. If you want it
bad enough, you want to see your team bad enough,
you'll figure out a way. Yeah. I just wonder because
Peacock is still losing money. I know you just had
this big merger. The long term financial ecosystem is interesting,
intriguing to me. Well, I think it's a direct correlation
to the regional TV networks that are going away. You
have half the teams in Major League Baseball. Their TV
networks are gone. They're either producing their own stuff or
Major League Baseball is producing it for them.
Speaker 2: They're getting no revenue. Local television dollars are going away.
Speaker 1: Why is that? Because they just the business model was bad.
They were trying to directly, they were trying to go
to these cable companies and these satellite providers saying, hey,
you need to pay us for the have this channel,
and they're like, no, we don't want to pay it. Yeah,
we're good. Yeah, so again we're lucky here. Space City
is on just about everything I think. I don't think
it's on YouTube. I think it's on everything else. It's
not on Dish, I don't think. Yeah, but Dish doesn't
care about sports. So if you if you're a Dish subscriber,
you're you don't like sports?
Speaker 2: Am I right?
Speaker 1: Well shut out my dad, dad, dad Villa realite like sports.
Let's go get off the Dish. I know we've been
trying to tell them that for fifteen years. Yes see,
how's it worked? He doesn't listen to us. So is
is he called complaining but not having the Astros games? No,
well that's a nice guk. He just catches them more
than our own. Now you can catch a lot of
games on streaming services in national TV. Yeah all right,
let's uh get a little rocket chatter coming in next. Plus,
Anthony Edwards did not start last night's game for Minnesota.
Why not? You'll find out next ten forty five on
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one three two
one two five, Steve A ninety it's how you reach
the show seven one three two one two five seven
ninety Rockets are down to eight games left in the
regular season. Sports RV forty five and twenty nine. There
mark they are twenty five and ten inside Tota Center
where will be tonight for the Rockets and the New
York Knickerbuckers. It's a big one. Try to get Mike
Riko on the show today. You did, yes, pr person
said he was slammed. It's gonna happen. He's very busy,
very busy traveling all those things. See what crapping is
it going with Charlie seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven nine zero. Last night Minnesota played. They have a
half game in front of the Rockets for the five
seed in the West. They were in Dallas against the
Mavericks last night, and uh, they did not have Anthony Edwards,
who was coming back from his injury. Read the starting lineup.
I thought he was supposed to start. Well, he was
supposed to start, he didn't. What happened, Well, we'll let
Anthony Edwards address that. When the postgame mediate scrum after
they dominant went over the Mavericks last.
Speaker 4: Night, Well happened to you for the person I was
taking a oh yeah, but yeah, like I said, Mike,
hold it now from here and also to China.
Speaker 1: Conley, believe him or not believe him? Really one hundred percent?
What makes you think he wasn't? I don't know. It
just seems like something he would say if it was
anybody else. Anthony Edwards likes the trol. He likes to
mess with the media. He likes to say crazy stuff.
I think he could have been just late to the
arena and he's just saying that. I don't know. I'm
just no, We're just two people. That wasn't like he
was late of the building. You don't, you don't, you
don't enter thee Ever in the history of the NBA,
In the history of the NBA, have you heard of
anybody that has missed the start of a game because
nature called that's why listen to what it gives me, Paul,
listen to me, O g Rocket fans. There was somebody
with the Rockets, I want to say, fifteen sixteen years ago, Okay,
that missed the start of the second half. I've heard
of that. That sounds familiar. I don't remember who it was.
I don't either, but somebody missed the start? Was it?
Speaker 2: I don't want to say it was it Dwight. I
won't think it was Dwight Howard?
Speaker 1: Was it? I think so? I know what you're talking.
That sounds vaguely familiar to me too, if somebody could
alert us. But but let me let me give you
some more context. Okay, former rocket Ryan Anderson. You know
when you if you go to games, you see the
pregame hype when they're in the hallway before they run out.
Uh huh. When Ryan was a rocket, they could not
do it until he got his out of the way.
What do you mean he would time it to make
sure he had his restroom experience just prior to walking
out on the floor.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean maybe he's right. How many minutes did
he miss? We'll go look at the box squard.
Speaker 1: What is he eating? Is everything all right? I mean
it could have happened. If you know what, maybe I'll
back off. He could have had a bug, he could
had a stomach bo he played well, you think you're
do you think you're done, you think you're over it,
and you're like, all right, I just went twice that
should be good and then booming. So if he had
like a stomach virus, I mean it's possible. I don't
think he had a stomach virus. I think he just
take a look. Let's take a look at a stat
line here. How many minutes did he play off the
bench last night? He played twenty three minutes? Okay, Now,
remember he's coming back from injuries. Missed a lot of time.
Seventeen points, seven to thirteen, shooting two of three and
uh two rebounds, four assists, three turnovers, and two fouls
twenty three minutes. I under the game of believing or
not believe him, I will say maybe, who knows. I'm
just discpting just because he's such a character. Don't you
have to time things out yourself. He's such a character. Yeah,
I do. I can't. I have the time mine? All right,
play it again. I think he sounds sincere on this.
What happened to you for the person?
Speaker 13: Okay?
Speaker 1: I was taking it?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, but yeah, like I said, Mike held it
down from you, Jonathan.
Speaker 1: Believe him or not? Okay, I'm I'm leaning towards with Ross.
Speaker 5: I think I think something else happened and he's just
like and he's a troll.
Speaker 1: I can't really trust that. Yeah, he's kind of a
trolling guy, but he's always so honest and open so
that it could be true too. So it's to choose
your own adventure before a track meet Jonathan, Yeah, did
you time it out? Honestly?
Speaker 5: You you're gonna want to but you got to keep
that in because you need the energy.
Speaker 1: So oh really, but I thought you want to be lighter.
What do you want to run light?
Speaker 5: Because the thing is, you think so, but then all
that energy and all the things you have in there.
Oh oh god, so you're gonna be feeling weak when
you wow.
Speaker 1: So and then if.
Speaker 5: You do go, because you're gonna want to go, you
got portapies and you don't want to risk it's calling,
you know.
Speaker 1: Is that true for a one as well? No, you
want to let that out because I mean, you'll give
you some urgency. No, that's one of the hardest things
to do is run like that. Oh you don't want
to leave you hold on, forget about the track. You
don't want to run period when you have to go
to the bathroom, unless you're running to the bath or he.
Speaker 5: Just said, well, you want to, you want to hold
it in. I was just saying, like you want to
keep that in there?
Speaker 1: You want to?
Speaker 2: I don't do you want the sense of urgency?
Speaker 5: No no, no no no no no you but like if
you if you don't have to, you're not gonna go
and like go do it?
Speaker 1: You get what I'm saying, Like you want are you
sure all you track athletes believe this exact same thing?
Speaker 2: I know this has been discussed.
Speaker 1: This is this is this is a topic. Yeah, I
mean one of the top.
Speaker 5: Look when you go to nationals and you see these
top athletes and there's some guys these skills, you think
that was like you.
Speaker 1: Say, bolts trick. See wait, it's the last possible moment.
Speaker 2: Think that's how mister free is one of those runs
in Atlanta.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, It's not if it's coming out.
It's coming out, But you know you got to hold
it though, Like you know what I mean, Like what
if you're like walking.
Speaker 1: Up to the blocks, There's no chance. I'm sorry, John,
I'm calling BS on you. There's no way you If
you have to go, you are going to take it
with you.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 5: I want you to look up pictures of how many
people go on themselves, even like eight hundred mile runners.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's that does that happens all the time? Oh?
Speaker 2: Gross tracks a brutal sports hm hmm.
Speaker 1: On that note, we'll get the second hour start of
the show coming up in a half an hour. We
got gut feelings to get to seven one three two,
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven nine zero. I stand with Anthony Edwards, Frank,
I empathize with him one more time, one more time.
Speaker 2: I emphasize, I empathize with him.
Speaker 4: What happened to you?
Speaker 1: For the person I was taking a.
Speaker 13: Yo.
Speaker 1: There is a slight element of trolling on that, because
he could have just said I just was I wasn't
feeling well. He knew he was gonna get he dead.
I'm watching the video. It's like a dead pan like
he looks like he could be He doesn't smile. He
looks like he could be he he could be trolley.
I don't know how we're gonna find out. I like Anthony.
He's a great player, and he he's a character off
the court. Oh he throws a little smile and after
you know he was with a. It was an NFL
athlete at the Wolves game with the othernet that I
was at, and uh, I got into a picture with
those three and him Edwards and me. I saw that
you're not You're in the picture, but you photobomb it. No,
they were waiting for me. No, they weren't. You look
very upset. Yeah, because the Rockets had lost a point
in overtime. Oh, it was after the game. After the game. Oh,
I didn't know that. I was like, man, it looks
like Matt like had to send back his soup at
the at the deli or something. You can fike a
smileless face. You didn't know. I guess he didn't know
his beer photograph. I had no clue what you said,
go go find it, go retweet it? Did you?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Why not? Because I was in there. I'm not in
their business. Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross four
Sports Talk seven ninety Man and Ross with you here
to celebrate the Astros win.
Speaker 2: Man, y'all never call when their things are going good?
You ever notice sad, rossy.
Speaker 1: Grumpy can't call fast enough. It's okay, it's human nature.
It is human nature. How many times you go to
a restaurant. Oh man, I had a great steak in
that sou Flay was amazing to many people. You tell
handful that steak was well done and the Sue Flay
didn't rise. You complain in the whole world, but you
can't run to your Facebook fast enough for it. Yeah,
I'm always complaining about Sue Fleay on my Facebook. It's
on me too. Same. SI's seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety So if you're happy about the Astros,
and I believe you should be, I'm feeling happy after
two light clusters games against the Halos, two nice comebacks
and then just a good old fashioned throttling of the
Boston Red Sox last night. And Ranger Suarez, by the way,
a client of Scott Boris in town yesterday to another
client in Jose L two Bany and Jose rocked him
two home runs for al two bank, approaching twenty four
hundred career hits. Yes, how were feeling about him? And
I mean, what's our overall feeling about Lance mccolors junior.
Start here in no particular order. First of all, awesome,
Second of all, good for the team because the starting
pitching had been shaking. The bullpen needed a little downtime,
and they got it yesterday with only using Ryan Weiss
and that was it. But third, and this is logically
thinking about Lance, Let's see how he follows it up
five or six days from now. Yeah, that's the unfortunate part.
I don't want to be in a position where I
am saying to myself, when is the other shoe going
to drop? Because the result that we got was spectacular.
The stuff was good, right, the fact that the everything
went perfect, only one walk, a ton of whiffs, the
stuff was moving around. He got some great defense behind
him as well. But you add all that up, it
was just spectacular. It was just to watch. And for
somebody who has poured his heart and soul into this
city and has always wanted to be out there and
got a lot of undue hate on social media and
from the fan base, I feel like there's a lot
of people who support him, but some people just waiting
to attack him for whatever reason. For somebody who loves
this organization, it was awesome to see. Well, I want
to contextualize a little bit here on the hate. It's
not about Lance the individual because you can hate an
individual for being crazy, comments, insulting, throwing people under the bus,
adversarial with the media. Maybe he has issues with teammates.
He was just.
Speaker 2: Criticized because of the numbers, the appearances or lack thereof.
And that's hard for an athlete to understand that because
lancem color is in his mind thinking I am a
good dude, I'm involved in the charities, I'm a huge
Houston guy through and through. But yet nobody cared about
that when he was pitching once every two years. Yeah,
but still, like, it's not like he doesn't want to
be out there. That's what I didn't get from all
the hate that he was getting. It's like he he
wants to be out there.
Speaker 1: He's a competitor. He wasn't hate from a lot of people.
It was a running joke. I think it was. I
think it was a lot of hate for me, get
this guy off my team and stuff like that. Absolutely
he got that, but it was a running joke. Yeah, Well,
I'm wishing it. It happens all the time with athletes.
It's not just him, it's everybody. His absolute dream start
and I hope it continues and for him, you know,
The reality is this, he this is a contract year
for him. Whether he wants to continue pitching or not,
that's certainly up to him. But if he wants to help,
because this team could certainly use it. Look, Emi, we
don't know. I mean, look all the stuff says an
email is gonna be a dynamic starter for this team,
but he's also seeing major league pitching for the first time.
Hitting you hitting, Uh, Hunter, I'm not worried about We're
not sure on Christian Hovere. Frankly, we're just not so
Even though we have so many different options, the Astros
have so many options, it isn't a guarantee that everybody
that pitched the first five games of the year is
going to give you a quality start every single time.
And there's no guarantee to spends Herrogetty when he becomes
a six member of this rotation, is gonna come through
the take take this opportunity, Lance kind of step up
and help out this team when there are still some
question marks even though the team's depth chart but pitching
is pretty good at this I'm still optimistic. It's still
one turn to the rotation. Hunter Brown's still going to
be an ace. EMI's gonna tinker with his repertoire. He
talked about that Burrows has a little more pressure and
not playing for the Pirates. Yes, that's fine. I'm not
that worried about that. And yeah, em will be an
interesting case because he's coming straight over from Japan and
that's going to be an adjustment period.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't think you annihilate the starters for not doing
their job. And I don't think you put side my
colors on a pedestal because of the let's go. I'm ready.
I'm ready for it. I don't think Major League Baseball's
Comeback Players of the Year are most improved.
Speaker 2: I think it's more of an NBA thing. Recently did
they start doing that?
Speaker 1: They really added it, But I mean, look, that's the
award he could go for. That means the Astros and
for Lance personally, he benefits from that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, they've done it. They started it in two towns.
Speaker 1: And I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have an award. Okay, Well, there's a leader
in the clubhouse for that.
Speaker 1: He's got the song and he's got the Comeback Player
of the Year award already locked and loaded.
Speaker 2: At least you're one start Roger on seven on a
Good Morning.
Speaker 14: Roger, Good morning, Matt uh So on the Astros. Yeah,
I thought it was gonna time warp yesterday. It felt
so good as I was constructing, constructing mind Chili Body,
I met hused hot Dog on the top of the
artis and Bunn just so nice have all that and
one and one motion one.
Speaker 15: In one moment. It was nice, you know, uh putting
the the cherry on the Sunday with the home runs,
and then you know, jord On extending the arms and
then got Lance just doing the Lance thing with the
fire and the brimstone that he's known for back in
the day. It was just so nice to see. And
I just hope that that continues. I see that the
more patient at the plate. Yeah, a couple of guys
are still frilling away, but I'm hopefully it's contagious, just
like it was contagious negatively last year where they were
just swinging at everything and not having an idea of
what the strikes all was looking like. So yes, hopefully
this continues. And there was and the first two then
there was still patients too. It was coming It looked
like it was coming out. I wasn't gonna you know,
didn't think they're gonna come back from a six oars deficit,
but they did, and you know, they went in con
rissy fashion. So let's just keep it up.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 15: My my question you on the rockets and more specifically
opening the shanguin.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 15: He had this in the first game of the season.
He was stroking. He looked like it was going to
be a part of his game. It looked like he
unlocked something that would get to space the floor and
we're just going to be just a better team. And
then it went away. And now usually when he does
that top of the key, he'll fake it and and
he'll fake it and like nobody buys, nobody, nobody buys
for that stuff. But he does that, And I'm thinking
maybe he just got tired of doing that or you
see that, you see him in practice, you see him
on a daily basis. What what do you think it
made him say, you know what, I can do this
because we need that.
Speaker 1: Like, well, I think and thank you Roger for the
phone call. It's the next level to his development. If
he's going to take his game to the next level,
is being able to pick him pop threes.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he did it a lot overseas. He did it
for a lot of the first month of the year,
and then it wasn't falling for about a month, and
the Rockets basically said stop doing it now. I don't
know if one game changes things around. It was crazy.
It was crazy that he made five of them. They
were they weren't even there. We're just like swishing in too.
Oh yeah, and then he puts he has a little
that little what's that bird that has the one leg
in the air all the time? The flamingo, the flamingo
shot that was falling for the most part yesterday or uh,
he was just on and it was great to see.
I I don't want to overreact to one game. I
still don't think he's going to develop into a three
point shooter. I don't think I would like for him
to be in the thirty three thirty four percent range
right now. He's at twenty eight at least enough to
keep honest to at least actually, yeah, defend it a
little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, after that.
Speaker 1: Game, he's up. Is this correct?
Speaker 2: He's up to three or thirty point five percent as well. Okay,
let's see, let's take a look.
Speaker 1: After I mean the one game five or seven because
he doesn't take a lot for thirty point three or five,
so essentially thirty one percent. Yeah, but his career two
to eighty. Yeah, this is his fifth year. Normally, guys
aren't just gonna it's I think it's a one game.
I honestly don't you know. We had Emai Doka on
talking about Russell Westbrook making threes. He's like, we like
when those guys make threes because then they get confident
about it. Well, it worked out in that game.
Speaker 2: So let's see.
Speaker 1: Let's just like with Lancer to Cross sports here, let's
see a sustained success of this.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't I wouldn't bank on it. I wouldn't either.
Speaker 1: All Right, the comments are back in town. We'll talk
more about that coming back in a month. Let's got
thirteen on Sports Talk seven Hunty matten Ross with you
at seven one three two one two five seven seven
one three two one two five seven NUNTI. The announcement
yesterday coming out publicly that the Houston Rockets have agreed
to purchase the Connecticut Sun and we'll be bringing Houston
Comets WNBA basketball back to our community not this year,
but one year from now and we're getting you back
on the call. Baby, Well, we would't discussed that yet.
First things first, let's get the team here to tell Okay,
all right, fine, let's say hi to our friend. This
is an awkward gretch and Sheer, the president Business Operations
for the Houston Rockets, and comments Gretchen, good morning to you.
Speaker 16: Good morning. I was like, are you putting me on
the spot asking me a job for a job.
Speaker 1: No, No, that's one hundred percent. I'll take the blame.
I'll take the blame.
Speaker 2: Blame me.
Speaker 1: You guys been working on this, obviously behind the scenes
for quite some time. When the final announcement came through
and everything was agreed upon. What it was it like
for the family, for yourself now with a new project
here bringing the comments back after.
Speaker 16: A long absence, Yeah, it is, it is.
Speaker 17: It is so excited Tilman. Tilman is very excited. Obviously
is is far away, but has been so engaged and
passionate about about this process. And Patrick and Page and
the entire family and our our organization and the fans
and the community are just over the moon.
Speaker 16: So we're very we're very excited to get this across
the finish line.
Speaker 17: Get kind of the official approval and and go from there.
But yesterday's announcement was a big first step for us.
Speaker 1: It is amazing to me new television deals and look,
you know this from the NBA world television deals make
the world go around, having stars, having the ability to
use social media. That BNBA it's a different animal than
it was, say twenty years ago. In this team in
the city we're had.
Speaker 18: One, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 17: I mean the growth has been exponential and it's been
steadily growing for years and then over the last couple
of years it was a tipping point where it just
you know, kind of exploded exponentially. But like anything, I mean,
the WNBA has always had very strong passionate fans. It's
a phenomenal brand of basketball. But if it's not accessible
to the general public, it's really hard to grow new fans.
So just the media and the television exposure that you've
seen grow over the last five to seven years has
been gigantic, and you've seen it and the growth and
the popularity.
Speaker 16: Of the sport.
Speaker 1: Gret and Sheer, president of the Rockets, and now comments
joining us here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
You know, Cynthia and Tina and Cheryl. I mean, how
much will you try to integrate the pass to the
future of the Houston comments.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean that's super import right, So the legacy
is important. I think that I am so I talked
to you know, I was able to call it Tina
and Cynthia and Cheryl and obviously they've been supportive through
this whole process and Van Chancellor and I was able
to talk to them Friday afternoon after you know that
the news started to leak, and I'm just personally, I'm
so excited for them.
Speaker 16: I mean, they were they built.
Speaker 17: You know, they were the foundation that helped build what
is the WNBA you know today thirty years later, and
when it's not live in your market, you know, it's
it's they're not always front and center. So the fact
that the legacy and how talented and just legendary those
players and coaches were, that that's brought back to the forefront.
Speaker 16: Of this game. I'm so excited for them.
Speaker 17: So right now we definitely are going to be celebrating
them and the history that they built and the return
of that legacy in the.
Speaker 16: Dynasty and as you know, as we get to you.
Speaker 17: Know, completion and the season starts, will certainly be celebrating
the game where it is today and educating fans new
fans on just the growth of the deba the NBA
and what they had to look forward to in twenty
twenty seven when this team comes to Houston.
Speaker 1: You brought up the history, so it kind of made
me wonder, is this going to be like a Cleveland
Brown's situation. What's going to happen with like team records
and all that stuff with as it relates to the
Sun and the Comets.
Speaker 17: You were asking questions that I cannot answer.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, well you can blame me again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all part I'm over too.
Speaker 17: All part of stuff that yeah, all part of stuff
that we will that we that we're working with the
WNBA on as we as we finalize and complete this process.
Speaker 1: Gretchen share with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
and just overall your thoughts, Grettion, of what you've seen
as a woman, of course in a male dominated space
and in men men's sports, the growth of women's sports
and what we're seeing with the NBA and I mean
a volleyball and really all over the country in women's
sports in general.
Speaker 16: Yeah, game is.
Speaker 17: Game, right, So I think with the increased exposure, you know,
the world is recognizing how talented these women are and
what they bring to the court or to the field
every single day. They're getting the respect and the pay
that they have earned and built, and you know, a
lot of that is due to not only the media.
You know, obviously the media exposure, but the media exposure
wouldn't be there if the fans weren't there.
Speaker 16: And so I'm just proud of the world.
Speaker 17: I am proud of sports fans for supporting women's sports
and helping grow the game. And we knew, you know,
as we started looking through this process about and about
bringing the WNBA back and bringing the comments back, you
could just feel the excitement from you know, fans of
the team from the past and fans from the WNBA today,
the business community eager to support women's sports fans like
you could feel it bubbling up under the surface. And
yesterday when we were able to make the official announcement
and launch our deposit campaign, we had some pretty high
expectations and exceeded Yesterday exceeded all of our expectations. And
you know, us, we're pretty aggressive and pretty competitive.
Speaker 16: So we feel we feel really.
Speaker 17: Good about where this team is going to be when
it launches in twenty twenty seven, and we're going to
need everybody listening to make sure they put their deposit
down and come out to support this team as we
relaunched this franchise.
Speaker 2: And I'm assuming call in the office. Is there a
website or what's going on socially in terms of farming.
Speaker 17: Yeah, Houston Comments dot Com is live, So Houston Comments
dot Com is kind of the central hub of where
we can have everything that we're able to have as
we as we complete this, complete this process. But the
deposit is there. There's some retail that's there celebrating the
WNBA's return to Houston. That's where you can find kind
of upcoming stuff on where to follow us on social media.
There's a Facebook page, there's an Instagram page, there's an
x page already ready to go. From the comments obviously,
having the partner brand right in the Houston Rockets, you know,
we're able to amplify that message while we build the
Comets independent fan base.
Speaker 1: And the schedule is going to expand, right, There'll be
more games in the future years correct.
Speaker 16: There will be more games. You know, the terms the.
Speaker 17: Agreed upon has been done by the CBA. The league
is papering that right now, and they'll be expanding by
a handful of games.
Speaker 16: Over the next several years.
Speaker 17: Exactly how that plays out each year, I think they're
finalizing in those terms, but they'll play.
Speaker 16: It looks like they'll get up to fifty.
Speaker 17: In in the next few years, which will be twenty
five home games, give or take.
Speaker 1: Gretchen. There's a lot of new expansion teams. Last year
Golden State Toronto's going to have a new team Portland.
Have you been able to bug them about what to
do what not to do in terms of trying to
build a new franchise in a new city, especially in
some of those cases that are bringing back basketball.
Speaker 19: Yeah, we have.
Speaker 16: And then Cleveland.
Speaker 17: Cleveland is twenty eight, and then Detroit and Philly will
be added as well. Yeah, I mean, that's that's the
great That's the great thing about having the infrastructure of
the NBA and your colleagues is that we can learn
people's best, best practices, we can learn from people's mistake.
I mean, we're in a bit of a different situation.
Speaker 16: We have a year to.
Speaker 17: Do this, whereas many of them have several years to
do it. So we are doing it. Put on the gas,
no break to get ready for next year. So we
certainly will take some lessons learned and some best practices,
but we're going to have to do a lot of
this on our own as well, given given the timeline.
Speaker 1: All and again reminding folks, it's the comments Houston comments
dot Com. You can also call the office and all
the Instagram and Twitter for information about those tickets. Correct, yes, sir,
All right, well leave it at that. Congratulations on you
guys work on this for a very long period of time. Uh,
and look forward to seeing By the way, do you
maybe on avan answers? Do you own the logo and
all that good stuff or what's going on with like
the old school stuff. Do you want to create a
new logo? What's what's the works on that?
Speaker 16: Yeah, we're working. Yeah, we're working through all of that
process right now.
Speaker 17: I think it's really important to honor the legacy of
the brand and the name that elicits so many amazing
memories for fans, while also making sure that we're stepping
into the future and we're creating, you know, a look
and feel that matches the next decades as well.
Speaker 2: Awesome, Gretchen, thanks for time, and we'll see you tonight
at the building.
Speaker 17: Thank you.
Speaker 2: We'll see later.
Speaker 1: Gretchen Cheer, president of the business operations with the Rockets
and the Comets. As Houston will get WNBA basketball back
in our city in twenty twenty seven. My daughter's very
excited and a matter fact, we're talking about that last night.
So because she doesn't, she has no idea what the
old school comments are.
Speaker 2: No, they I mean they took over the city for
a while. They were great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there were some lean Rocket times and
the comments thankfully took care of the basketball first a
little bit. And they still have those banners and the
retired numbers up at the Toyota. So yeah, and I
have a couple of championship bringers for the first time
I watch this, I did you Okay, Yeah, we're gonna
put me on the spot there whether in the games.
I didn't put anybody on the spot. I made a joke.
Speaker 2: It's fine, I'll hear about it. I'm sure. Okay, what
is my fault. I'll take all the blame.
Speaker 1: I've been taking the blame for years I'll still do it.
It's fine.
Speaker 2: I love in twenty seven on Sports Talks.
Speaker 1: I got to get the history back, right. I mean,
it's got to be a Cleveland Brown situation. I guess, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
all right, eleven twenty seven Sports Talk seven and it's
se for gut feelings, Ross. I don't even know how
what we did or how we did. I think I
we did bring up a question about the Rockets Midwest
road trip, but I don't think we're gonna get win
on that one. But if you have any gut feelings,
if you have an opportunity to have a couple of
sports opinions that you would like to tell us about
right now, and you want to put your name on it,
make it a gut feeling, you can do that right now.
It's seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven to one three two one two five seven ninety
gut feelings. We want your sports predictions. If you get
them right, you call us back in future weeks and
brag on them. If you get it wrong, as long
as they're not preposterous, we won't make fun of you.
Seven one three two one two seven ninety listen up, boys,
So appealing, wasn't that, Tomman.
Speaker 20: You'll they got a good dealer.
Speaker 1: This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas Show
seven one three, two one two, five, seven nine, And
you've got sports predictions. Were going to hear from you
right now. Seven one three two one two five seven
nine zero Ross, How did we do last week? Well,
I'm glad you asked, Matt because I got a school
down and I'm having some computer issues. But it's gonna
be offering me on Twitter, and all right, I'm good,
thank you? All right, last whoa, we gotta host some whoppers.
We've had a lot of predictions. Rockets finished road trip
with three wins.
Speaker 2: Did not happen.
Speaker 1: It's fine. Astros win three out of four of us
is the Angels did not happen. Cam Smith with the
season over seven twenty five ops.
Speaker 2: I will look, it's early.
Speaker 1: You don't have to look. All right, he's not there.
I mean you can it's only five games. He's got
some hard hit contact. Thank you. You'll be all right,
all right? Feeling good about five star catches in the field. Yeah,
it's gonna be fine. Uh, Zach Cole fewer than seventy
five games than Astro. Well, he broke his toe, so
you're off to a good start there. I almost don't
want to read this one. Oh is it?
Speaker 2: How bad?
Speaker 14: Is it?
Speaker 1: Go ahead? Do it? You've set it up. You have
h Cougars to the final four. I think I also
had Produce beating Texas, but that doesn't mean much. They
were favored. Uh and Tatsuya e My finishes second in wins.
Oh Sastro season.
Speaker 2: Okay, just one start, just one, just one start.
Speaker 1: It's all good, all right? Oh no, did I write
this down? I said rockets out in the first round.
That's rude. M Oh, this is off to a bad
start in a good way. I'm happy to be wrong.
Spencer Arraghetty more starts for the Astros this season than
Lance mccullor's junior. Well, so far it's one nothing Lance,
and probably gonna be two nothing. First Astro to hit
a home run, jord On Alvarez. That was correct, Yes,
you hit that one, nicely done. Should have had action
other one. No, I'm sorry, this is sorry. End of
the season. I'm sorry. And then I have walker second.
I misread. Okay, I said Space Cowboys PCL champions. That's
still very much in play, even though they've got Zach
Cole out for a while. I said, Cougar's in the
final four. Sorry, I tried it happens and I said, uh,
Brown first and Victories Burrows second. Correct now Lance mccullor'
juniors first. He's the cion Canada among the five. Yes,
all right, Jonathan Allen kept it short and SWI six
seed for the Rockets, which right in hou is where
they are. Hey, they're only a half out of five, man,
it's fine. Actually that's not true. Uh No, it's a
half out of half out of two out of four. Yes, okay,
very very tenable for sure. Yes, and there you go.
Oh Brad Miami said tattoo Emi was gonna be the
best picture on the staff, okay, and could easily happen. Still, okay,
there you go. There's some gut feelings.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero gut feelings, baby, Jonathan,
you're going first this week.
Speaker 2: We always wait for you to go three. You're going
first this week.
Speaker 1: Give me the three win homestand for the Rockets, they're
gonna sweep the home stand that's Nicks. Bucks Jazz's easy easy. Well,
Bucks Jazz will be a piece of cake the next
and I will be difficult. That's still there's no pieces
of cake. Have you seen this Rockets team? Hey, let's go.
I will join you in that Rockets when the next
three and Rockets two and one and get out of
the six spot this week. Okay, m I just I
just don't know what to expect this. I know, Hey,
the the the talking to that the Rockets had a
couple of days ago.
Speaker 2: Obviously worked, momentum is building.
Speaker 1: Yeah. You know when you hear a team only meeting,
our players only meeting, that's when you know that the
arrow is trending upwards. It works so far, team meeting
in Memphis, Memphis win, New Orleans win, boom, So get
out of a six in a good way? Has it improved? Yes? Yeah,
because Phoenix keeps one and two. By the way, I
know where how they're they're the cushion seven is good.
I'm going to give you a Texans draft prediction. Really
they are out of the first round. Yeah you think
you said that a few Okay, so make sure they
are tradeable. They are trying. I put my name on it.
They're going to trade again. Okay, pushing again. They are
trading out of the first round. Sure, guys here at
twenty eight. Now if they go to thirty three, thirty four,
thirty five, thirty six and then get some extra compensation.
Nick Casserro likes doing that. He just loves to make
trades on trade day, on draft day, he did. That's
just just in his DNA. He likes to trade. He
likes to make moves. That makes sense. Yep, all right,
Hunter Brown. It would be easy to say quality start
and going quality start plus. Explain that with it. Two
or fewer innings six or more. I'm sorry, two or
fewer runs to a fewer innings would be bad. Six
or more innings Quality start plus. It's a metric I
just made up. Wait a minute, you there's no such
thing as quality start plus, no better than a quality start.
That's the dumbest thing I've heard since soft sweep. A
soft sweep. Words, Yeah, a gentleman sweep. Gentleman sweep is
in play. Lose the first one, then win the next few.
I've heard a gentleman sweep, folks. He just came up
with a metric, quality start plus yes, Now, you're not
going to create like quality start plus plus, are you? Well,
we'll see. I mean lancem color Junior last night, what
did he have a quality start plus or a quality
Shart plus plus?
Speaker 2: All right, here is one for next year.
Speaker 1: They're gonna take Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith off of
the NCAAA basketball coverage.
Speaker 2: That's probably not mc kenny.
Speaker 1: Maybe Charles is gonna be there unless he doesn't want
the check. I think they're gonna have to overhaul that
entire studio show because Nate Burlson was awful that the
talking basketball was an embarrassment. I don't know how much
they care, as long as you know, the answer to
that is they don't care. Yeah, because if you're doing
a studio show and you are putting on the brightest
basketball minds NBA Chuck can talk about. For the most part,
he can't talk college basketball at all. Not that anybody
particularly cares, but certainly CBS doesn't care because they're putting
them on there. But I just thought it really got
annihilated this past year. And Charles is gonna have some
sort of I mean, he's gotta have some ego to go, man,
I know, people.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know squad about college basketball?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do they call it when it's like a
test audience and they get a a test audience whatever.
Whatever Charles has he does well? Oh like a TVQ rating?
Like how a Q score?
Speaker 2: Q score?
Speaker 1: People love Charles Barklay. He's got a very high Q score.
And I got news for your friends. Stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith has a high Q score too.
Speaker 1: There wouldn't be a reason why they've been paying him
twenty million dollars a year and having on all these
shows if people didn't like generally speaking like them now again,
social media is the first one to go run to
you much. She hates him, but people still watch him.
Speaker 2: I don't get it, but they do.
Speaker 1: I will say, m Michigan wins at all. I got
Arizona winning at all. Okay, Jonathan, you want to get
in a national champion? Uk Baby? I see, I knew
he's he loves the he loves the underdog. But Yukon's
good like Dan Early. By the way, who does nobody
you said? Zona? Here's one for September of this year,
Week one, starting quarterback Cleveland Brown's Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 2: Okay, wow, you see what I'm trying to do folks.
Speaker 1: I'm putting gut feelings out there to get you guys invigorated. Yeah,
I'm I mean, I'm inspired. You should be, so I'll
give you another one. Yes. Uh now ex Astro's home run,
Christian Walker, well, he's getting close. I know all those
doubles he's been hitting. I know he's ready. Baby. Brian
bray U's era at the end of the month, Oh,
I got one more hold on?
Speaker 2: Oh, go ahead, north north of four. Yeah, it's good.
By the end of the month, of course, and the
end of April April still north of four?
Speaker 1: Yeah. Probably, it's gonna take a while to whetle that down.
Was it like twenty seven? I mean you can change
in a heartbeat. All right, what's you are? The one?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 1: Jord On Alvarez over one hundred and thirty games this year.
I'm feeling good after this first week. We only got
one hundred and twenty six left to go. Let's go, baby,
let's go. How do you feel about his left field
work in DH? Believe it, it's a good ballance, it's
a good balance. Was it three of DH and two
and left? Yeah, that's great. Playing every day like it,
love it, and they go on the road. It's probably
more dhing correct. Yeah, you gotta take advantage of the
at the home ballpark for sure.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. If
you have any got feelings, don't be afraid, well we
won't bite. Seven one three two one two five seven
nine zero. Any sports predictions you want to get to,
we will take them. Next as the Matt Thomas old
Ross continues, Joe Aspata with this at twelve thirty today, Ross,
what is today's edition of Believe It or Not? At
one fifty Lance mccolor junior. You could we could got
out of the guy, I think so. We could also
about failed h WBC pitchers that play for the Red Sox.
Run head he got lit yesterday. My goodness, that's a shame.
Really hate to see it. Seven one three two one
two five seven nights.
Speaker 2: All right seven one three two one two five seven onty,
we need your gout feelings.
Speaker 1: Let's get them in right now. Seven one three two
one two five seven onety we go to guard Noaks.
Just talk to you know who yours James and God
knows James.
Speaker 2: Good morning to you.
Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you for taking my call. Fellers, Thank you,
Governor Thomas. Listen, I'll get to it. That guy that's
working over there, Jonathan, he's got tremendous promise. I'm predicting
that he's gonna take one of them high profile spots
from one of those two cats in the morning, if
not both of them, they need to replace them. Let
Johnathan get them play in the morning and I'll get
to it. I got the Knicks in a in a
in a in a dog fight, beating your rockets. I'm sorry,
I'm not It's not the popular vote on that, but
I just feel the Knicks, you know, gonna pull a
rabbit out of a hat. And also I'm also predicting
that the Astros are gonna take at least two out
of three, if not sweet them that was over there
in Boston. And then to make this other thing that
I'm pretty strong on it, I think ours is really
going to have a breakout yere this year. He's gonna
give Judge all the all the you know money, uh
you know that's in the running and everything for it.
And also I still got Connecticut, even though a lot
of people don't believe it. I think Connecticut is going
to play Arizona and it's gonna be a dogfight, but
I think Connecticut can pull it off. Thank you for
taking my call.
Speaker 21: Fellas, Jonathan, you got your future there.
Speaker 1: Leave those boys alone their handle. They're doing their job
in the morning. Fantastic. Yeah, you'll hear it in the
morning Drive The Morning Drive with Dan and Cole. Dan
Matthews and Cole Thompson here on Sports Talk seven I
Cole will have astro ZOOTI to night Over on seven
forty and you're doing the Rockets on the side of
m okay. Shout out Cole. He's stepping up. Yeah. I
appreciate him way more than Clinton. He took a gay
way more. He took a game from me last Friday.
He's been willing to step up. Team player. Yes, I
wish we had more of that around here. Seven one three, two,
one two five seven doinety seven one three two one
two five seven nine zero last call for got feelings?
Anything else?
Speaker 6: Form you?
Speaker 1: Uh no, But Rockets are one and a half. I
was surprised to see there one and a half point
dogs to the Knicks. Hmm, Nicks are good. How are
you going to stop Clint cappella. You know, I'm just
doing my staff ordering. Fourteen rebounds, Yeah, against unstoppable clin Capella.
Is that what you're going with? How could they be
underdogs when the Rockets have click Capella?
Speaker 2: Hey, fourteen rebounds, Clint, let's go.
Speaker 1: I like Clint. He's got a lot of pep in
his step. Big fan by the way, Aaron, nothing, you
all care about this, but it's for one second. So
on an NBA statue, you get plus a plus minus.
It's one very small metric. It's probably more time deceiving
more than that. But when you're on the floor and
your team scores points, you get plus. If you give
up points, you are you did get deducted ducky. Yeah,
it's better in like hockey with goals and stuff like that.
So let's go through some of the numbers. Jabari was
a plus sixteen, Kevin Durant was a plus one. Apper
was a plus twenty six. Aman Thompson a plus thirty two,
and that's in thirty five minutes to play, so it
was on the court a lot. Reed chepperd was a
minus ten. Aaron Holliday played twenty five minutes against the
Pels on Sunday, he was a plus forty one. Aaron
freaking Holiday, let's go Jay. Sean Tait was a plus
twenty seven and thirteen minutes. That's pretty damn good. Beat
that Pelican ass. So so as you did take that Pelicans
pells Taris and by the way, back to back fifteen
point games. I'm buying some and Tari how'd that stockh Okay,
it was very low. I bet it was. Get down
the good value. Now, it's just not the same Roger
they called earlier, is it is a different Roger, hopeful thing.
We can't take two calls in the same show. Yeah,
he pre prize hordes them there you there, you go, Roger.
We let you prize horder on the end. We can't
let you come in twice of that. We appreciate your material.
We appreciate you. That's right, we just got We've got
a evil spice little variety for listening, and thanks for
the support. Thank you Roger very much. Seven one three
two one two five seven And that will include gut
fillings for today. But yeah, okay, one may ask as
I mean, I'm already I'm already out of my gut.
Matter of fact, let me go to uh, Anthony Edwards. Anthony, Uh,
do you have tame of gut feelings? Or did you
miss the segment earlier? Why did you miss it? By
the way, just curious asking for a friend. Hello, and
we're gonna get to Anthony. Just give him a second,
all right, we need one of those. Maybe Anthony's a
little late. In the old days, we'd.
Speaker 2: Have a little button the old button bar that had
all those liners for us.
Speaker 1: Well, it sounded like a leaf blower, okay, And I
think we put it out to retirement. I was taking it,
but I think Matt just wants that drop. Think I
just snorted that on the air, taking a bleep. You
really love that. Could you imagine telling your boss that, hey,
what happened? What happened? You missed the first five minutes
that meeting. I was taking it. Do no other professionals
that to happen? A man probably does. Nature calls you could,
but he could have said I was in the bathroom
and we would have been able to interpret it properly.
Speaker 2: He just let it out right there. He just there's
no room for interpretation on that.
Speaker 1: Saint Edward, for you, he's a personality, He's a says
he doesn't want to be face of the league, which
whatever that means, such a stupid phrase. No, I think
I understand what it means. I understand what it means.
But I think people it's like, first take every every week,
who's the face of the league. Who's the face of
this league? Who's the face of that league? It does
it matter? Let's just enjoy these players and we don't
have to. When you say that means who you put
on the cover of a video game, that's all. It means.
Lebron James. Well, Lebron James is the face of the
league for fifteen years at least. So I mean, like,
who's the face of the league. Now you'll get my
answer next victim Wimbinam. Don't say that.
Speaker 2: I don't want to say it.
Speaker 1: Don't say that, all right, So I say I'm gonna
take out the phrase, must the face of the league?
Speaker 2: Who's the must seed player in.
Speaker 1: The league right now? Yeah? People, I mean, look, Anthony
Edwards is awesome, but people don't pay to go see
Anthony Edwards. They won nine in a row. Say I
don't even go they don't even go to see If
they don't even go see nicolae Okicic the Spurs could
win like sixty five games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I'm very well aware of that. Here
that I'm playing, people want to go see whimby play.
Speaker 1: Now. We hope that he is much like other seven
foot guys north that have injury issues. Not that you're
praying for injury issues, but it's there is a tremendous
history of that in the NBA. Okay, they can only
win sixty four games, but they're gonna win sixty. Rockets
have done that how much in their history once or twice?
I don't want to talk about. It makes me sad.
In the history San Antonio Spurs are gonna be not
only they're gonna win six, they're gonna be the number
two seed. And I said, I think they're gonna beat
the thunder twenty eighteen they won sixty five. I know
that for sure. They had a sing And was it
ninety four a sixty one team? No, ninety four, fifteen
to twenty four. I want to say, do hoem me too. Wow,
don't know, fifty eight and twenty four, You've nailed it.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 22: So.
Speaker 1: In the history of the Rockets French it was it
was one of James's teams. Right, Yeah, they won sixty
five and eighteen. Like I said, they've done it once
in fifty nine seasons, and the Spurs are about to
win sixteen regular season games. Are overrated? Okay, I'm ready
for a break. I'm ready to hear some share. Oh great,
you know what. This is my fault, so I can't
even complain. It's not your fault. It's your ex it's
your excellent thought. Last second, Hey, what can we add
to make production value the show? Yeah?
Speaker 2: And it's paid off because the people love it so far.
Speaker 1: On the show today, I don't think a single person
has mentioned they love it. Well.
Speaker 2: I had two people tweet me about it, so that
believe me does for me?
Speaker 1: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
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Speaker 3: Ninety's The Matt Thomas Show with Ross the Houston Astros
explode for eight runs more than enough support. That's with
Butlers Junior, who was billion as the Astros to beat
the Red Sox seat to one win their third Street Beat.
Speaker 2: When the Astros put up a new banner for the
American League West Championship, an American League pennant, and then
ultimately another World Series flag.
Speaker 1: Wow, this song needs to be put out there. This
is the theme song for two tho twenty six. If
you can turn back time, Christian Basquez is back, turning
back times. True mccolors. Mccolors a tuve correa. Yes, Alan
Ashby he's not there. Oh, he's not there.
Speaker 2: Kevin Bass is not out there, says our Sadanio.
Speaker 1: There's a bigio in the system. Oh, you brought a
bigio back, turning back time. That was beautiful last night.
This is awesome. Forty thousand people at Jonathan Chairman back there.
Speaker 2: He'd loved his song.
Speaker 1: Did you think I was lying? Did I say it?
I'd like Share?
Speaker 22: Doesn't like sharing?
Speaker 1: May this is fine? Believe is offensive? That song bleeds
my ears. That's what you play. If you're trying to
interrogate terrorists and try to get them to break, you
put Share Believe on a loop. They will break within
six minutes.
Speaker 2: No, that's not the song.
Speaker 1: You've got to ignowledge great in this when you hear it. Okay,
this is fine. I mean some of the stuff with
Bono before he ran into that tree is pretty good.
Stop what that is? That is as rude as it's Bono,
not Bono number two. Bringing up the tree is wrong.
No wonder people hate you?
Speaker 11: Do you know?
Speaker 1: I'm scared to ski because of Sonny Bono? I would hope.
Speaker 19: So what happened?
Speaker 2: He was skiing and uh colode with a tree and died.
Ooh yeah, I got one for you.
Speaker 1: One better.
Speaker 2: I don't want to go on on a horse because
of Christopher Ree breaking his neck and dye.
Speaker 1: You've ridden a horse though before?
Speaker 14: Right?
Speaker 1: Ever in your life? Maybe as a kid, maybe as
a young but I was so portly. I don't think
he would have put a fact guy on a horse,
I fact killing a horse, I don't think so. Sorry,
I'm trying not to put that last. Try to be.
Speaker 2: Jonathan. Go look at Share nineteen seventy eight and tell
me you don't have feelings.
Speaker 1: All right? No, I saw her. I think it was
last year, the Victoria's Secret thing. She performed with her
a little like you know, she's old, but Hey, I know,
if you're gonna be with somebody's seventy plus, it's gonna
be sure.
Speaker 2: Old a share.
Speaker 1: She's seventy nine, Okaya, believe.
Speaker 13: It or not.
Speaker 2: Share, Believe it or not.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's a lot of work done, but she looks good.
Type of work done. She is eighty five percent plastic.
It doesn't matter. She's funny. I guess she can sing,
she can act. I guess it's just and I don't
get it, but I'm wishing her the best. All right,
let's get to what year she has left. All right,
Charlie wants to talk about the Astis, but first let
Astros both. Let's first get to the news at noon. Yes,
mathview the news at noon. Has a number of different
things to talk about, but we'll lead with the Astros
turning back time at dyk In Park last night. I mean,
how does this sound for around two thousand and I
don't know, nineteen ish. Lance mccullor's junior dazzled, jose L
Tuve hit two home runs, Jordon Alvarez had a home run.
The Astros offense exploded for eight runs, and they beat
the Boston Red Sox eight to one to improve to
three and two on the season. Lance mccullor's junior has
been a long road for him. Injuries after injuries, and
of course the past and all those things.
Speaker 2: He says he's not trying to think about what happened
in the past.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I've just been trying to not put too much
stock into the past or the future, honestly, just try
to be president and just tried to go out there
and compete really honestly. Yeah, I think last year was
obviously tough, and I think I just carried the weight
like every start, you know, And so this year I've
just been just really focused on just trying to not
worry about the past of the future and just enjoy
the moment and go out there and compete as hard
as I can.
Speaker 1: Staying in the present moment. Lance mccullor's junior seven innings,
pitched one earned run, four hits, one walk, nine strikeouts.
The dude was dealing. That's got to be one of
the literally most efficient starts ever in his career. He
would take that in the prime. Yeah, mcculors. Yeah, got
a lot of whiffs, got a lot of swing and
miss and didn't walk a lot of guys and Astros
three and two. Matt new hitting coaches, how were feeling.
That's six hundred ball. Astros plays six hundred ball the
rest of the year. They will win and dominate the
americanly West. There, I said it, Okay, Well, I don't
know if that's going to happen, but let's move on.
Let's go to the New York Knicks in town against
your Houston Rockets as they settle in for a three
game home stand, which means Matt Thomas settles in for
a three gun home stand.
Speaker 2: So that's good.
Speaker 1: So you have the Knicks to night, then tomorrow on
another back to back, as they just continue to pile up,
they will be taking on the Milwaukee Bucks. Friday, they
take on the Utah Yeazz on the road for a
couple in Golden State and Phoenix, and then they finish
out on home at home Philly, Minnesota, Memphis. Three of
these games on Peacock, by the way, and a lot
of people one on Prime Video.
Speaker 2: Tonight's an NBC.
Speaker 1: By the way, Tonight's on NBC slash Peacock. So if
you want Houston rock if you want a Houston flavor,
it's me, no Ryan, no Corig Novanesha tonight. Okay, make
sure you stay tuned tonight here on Sports Talk seven
ninety we have the astros on news radio seven forty
k tr H. It's that time of year. If you're
looking for one of the other, just go to seven
ninety or seven forty and you'll find whichever game looking for.
So just make sure you st tuned. It's gonna be fine,
all right. Else, so we're mat I don't think we've
brought this up yet. Tiger Woods, of course, as you know,
over the weekend, had a crash, a GUI crash, as
he was arrested on Friday suspicion of misdemeanor GUI with
property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test.
He says he was looking down at his cell phone
and changing the radio station in his SUV, which caused
him not to see a truck slowing down before his
rollover crash last week on Jupiter Island, Florida. I do
not believe him, Martin County Sheriff's Deputy Tatiana Elevenar wrote
in an arrest Affidavid the Woods was quote sweating profusely
and his movement was quote lethargic and slow while she
interviewed the fifty year old Tiger Woods.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he might have been changing a radio station look
at his phone, but he was also probably high as
a kite.
Speaker 1: Seven back surgeries, twenty operations on his right leg, which
he is severely injured in a car wreck of course
outside Los Angeles in February of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: He never should drive again.
Speaker 1: If I and I don't think Tiger takes advice from anybody,
because I think Tiger thinks he's better than everybody else.
But police, Tiger, never drive again. You are worth a
billion dollars. If you have to have some d ature house,
sleep in a spare bedroom. Just if you want to
go get a little rock orel at one three in
the morning, have him drive you. It'll be okay. Stop driving,
you're not good at it. Well, he says he doesn't
want a driver because he doesn't want people in his
personal business.
Speaker 2: Too bad, you're about to go to jail.
Speaker 1: Did you see that the Yankees beat the Mariner or sorry,
loss to the Mariners two to one on Monday night?
Speaker 2: Hate to hear that. How did Aaron Judge do well?
Speaker 1: I wanted to say, hey, how Aaron Boone did Aaron
Judge ops under eight hundred right now? I mean, he's
one of the best hitters on the planet. I think
he'll be fine. Luis Castillo tossing six scoreless innings. But
what Aaron Boone was upset about? A perfect five for five?
The Yankees hitters had to go on abs challenges, Boone.
Really good job by the guys when you had that
kind of success rate. It's not going to be like
that every night. But I thought everyone was obviously warranted
in a couple of key spots to give us a
chance to build an inning. We weren't able to build
much offensively last night.
Speaker 2: It's working good. I'm glad it is Gateway drug in moderation.
Speaker 1: Kate Weight drunk. All right, let's go to the phones.
Next twelve thirteen, Joe a spot at bottom of the hour.
Right here on Sports Talk seven ninety A couple of
coruiter updates for you, presented to you by our friends
of the Drank Chiropractice. They are the official chiropractor of
University Houston Athletics. Chris Sanak still weighing his decision on
whether or not he wants to return to the Cougars.
Next year or declare for the NBA Draft that according
to his father, he should make its decision within the
next two weeks or so. It feels like from what
I understand, he's probably back half of the first round
if he so chooses. But that you know, he could
also go declare, go to the combine and pull back and.
Speaker 2: Say, hey, I'll go back to play U of H
for one more Yeah, I just can't hire an Asian, right, Yeah,
and some sad news.
Speaker 1: He delay. I will say more than anything else, Kelvin
Samson will not be going into Basketball Hall of Fame
this year.
Speaker 2: He did not receive enough votes.
Speaker 1: It sucks.
Speaker 2: He deserves it. Eight hundred wins, forty a coaching career,
multiple final fours, took what Washington State, Oklahoma, Indiana, and
Houston all the tournaments. I mean, pretty good career and
he'll get in. It's just gonna have to wait a while.
Speaker 1: Very good career.
Speaker 2: Thank you Ross seven one three two five seven ninety two.
Speaker 1: Time AP Coach of the Year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, excellent.
Speaker 1: Seven one three one two five seven ninety Let's go
to Charliet in Rice Military on seven. Ay, Charlie, thank
you for wainning a good afternoon.
Speaker 18: Hi, Matt hi Ross.
Speaker 19: Do you guys know this?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, go ahead, thank you for winning.
Speaker 18: Yeah, headed headed from Rice Military to Kingwood to play
some golf this morning or this afternoon.
Speaker 2: Good for you.
Speaker 18: I agree that. I agree that Jonathan's probably going far,
maybe take over the morning show at some point. I
do like Dan Matthews in the morning.
Speaker 13: But I think if.
Speaker 18: We were playing a drinking game and every time he
said also too, we'd probably have a bit much to drink.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 18: I was at the Astros game last night, and I also, Matt.
I love going to Astros games with your father in law.
Oh really, very classic, knowledgeable guy, Yeah, very classy knowledge Have.
Speaker 2: We ever met before?
Speaker 1: I have we ever met? I don't even know.
Speaker 18: I ran into you once at Costco and Kingwood, but
are in Townsend. But well, my wife used to teach Cameron, Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know who you are. Okay, I got you,
and I'm putting two and two together. All right, very good? Well,
so the game you went the game last night and
everything was good. He had a good time.
Speaker 18: Yeah, do you know he's now too, Bay? So he
was four for four the heat has he still never.
Speaker 13: Hit five for five?
Speaker 1: He has a game.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 18: Yeah, anyway, love your father in law. I'm a military guy.
I know I think he was as well. He was
San Antonio. I'm from San Antonio. Love the Spurs, love
the Cowboys, love the Astros and Duke, and I can't
believe you coned beat Duke.
Speaker 2: I know we're all said, thank you, Charlie for the
phone call. I actually was allowed to sleep in the
house last night. I was very pleased.
Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah, she used to Duke choking at this point, right, ooh,
back to back years. Why didn't you send her a
voice text I'm good, No, I got and I'm been
cussed out by your wife enough over the years. By
the way, most four hit games without ever hitting a
five hit game getting a five hit game in Major
League history? Is it Jose?
Speaker 2: Don't say who it is.
Speaker 1: I want to try to guess it's Jose second with
forty one A right, Can I have a hint on
who was first? You're the one that wanted to guests.
You're already asking for a hint. It's a hall of famer,
and it's a hall of famer that hadn't played I
don't know over fifty years.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, we're talking about a guy that played
the end of his career in the seventies.
Speaker 1: When you're when you're listing one of the greatest players
of all time, he will come up probably within the
first tennish.
Speaker 2: Okay, So a guy that retired in the seventies, no
way before that.
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, he hasn't played in the last I mean,
you know you're making me do math Mantle eight years,
Mickey Mantle. Luke Garrett, oh man, he.
Speaker 2: Hadn't played at least fifty year? How about it didn't
play at least ninety years or whatever.
Speaker 1: I wasn't exactly sure how long he held on he
played the thirty nine Do you think Luke Garry played
on nineteen seventy one? Nineteen thirty nine? No, I didn't
think he he was on the last Senators team. Well,
I was gonna say seventy years. So I just walked
it back.
Speaker 8: I got you.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Robert on seven ninety Robert, good afternoon.
Speaker 13: Hey guys, last night's game was Man, that was one
of the best games I've seen in a while at home.
You know, last year we could win home, and I
really am glad to see them hit. The reason I
called was the.
Speaker 20: Questions.
Speaker 13: I mean, when you could question a call the is
is it the pictures, I mean the batters. Is it
separate from a question on a call like that tag
out or is it all to say no, no, no.
Speaker 1: This is ABS involves the three people, the pitcher, the catcher,
and the hitter, and it's directly about balls and strikes
nothing else.
Speaker 2: Those are separate from the game challenges.
Speaker 13: Oh okay, okay. And then I was also thinking, since
they're doing that the ABS, it might take a lot
of stress off of pictures. You know how they get
frustrated when they're not getting calls to thinking that, Well,
you know you have the right to question a call
and you know so you might as well get over
either the catch is going to question it or or not,
So no use getting all frustrated over the umpire, you know.
So I'm thinking it might take away a lot of stress.
I don't know, how do you feel about that?
Speaker 1: Well, if you run, if you run out of challenge,
is the stress level pipes up again? Because if you
want to be able to challenge a call and you
run out, you're done. But yeah, I would say there's
no need to really get aggravated.
Speaker 20: Now.
Speaker 1: The only time you'd biny to get aggravated is if
your manager says, hey, we have one challenge left. We're
not using until later in the game. But if you
start out on a good starting, you're challenging, and you
continue to get it right, you still have the two
challenges left. Yeah, it probably makes it a stress free experience.
Oh wow, Baseball Savant has a page. I'm going to
be checking this all the time and it is all
the all the season data so far. Fifty five percent overturns.
As I said before, that's a good number. I think
if you gets if you get north of sixty, then
it's going to really brew some If on fire, you
go no, because again, and I watched a handful of games,
we have a lot wored a lot longer and ago.
But ROSSI the average missed pitch, we're talking about wars
one inch two inches. We're not talking about a foot
out of fraction of inch, fraction of in inch. Yeah,
we're talking about Mike microscope. And again, ninety five milli
hour fastball come in your way. Yeah, let the machine
get it.
Speaker 2: Maybe, so fifty eight percent overturned I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Fifty percent from batters, fifty eight percent from it's just
his fielders. Well, I want to catchers numbers, Oh, here
we go, fifty nine percent catchers pictures are two for six,
So the pictures aren't doing don't do it. I wouldn't
let a picture do it. I think Joe Spotted told
us that two months ago. Yeah, emotional makes sense. Speaking
to Joe. He'll join us next year on Sports Talk
seven ninety. If you want to join us right after
the skip seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety
with us, we are gonna look forward to talking for
the next twenty six weeks. I like it to be
thirty two weeks or so with a manager of the
Houston Astros, Joe Spot at twelve thirty tuesdays here on
seven nice skip. It's Madden Ross, happy season opener, happy
three game winning streak.
Speaker 2: How are your friend?
Speaker 20: I'm doing well man, How are you guys doing?
Speaker 1: No no complaints? Hey, a little old school. Last night
you got uh al tuove with a couple of home runs.
Lance gave you a seven. I mean.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like twenty nineteen all over again.
Speaker 20: Yeah, Korea, I'm making those plays that sure, let's not
take away from that bomb that you're done. Hid glad
that this one did not hate the roof almost you know,
he almost looked like it was going to hate the roof.
And getting also contribution from some of the young players man,
you know, Bryce Matthews, just just everyone putting, putting a
little bit in there, just to contribute and help us
win some games with really happy the way we are
we're playing right now, Lance the Colors. My goodness, how
phenomenal he was last night, really pick us up. We
really needed an outing from him like that, and he delivered.
Speaker 1: You know, we were down in West Palm with you
in February. He was very reflective about his season ahead,
his fit as past, and his future.
Speaker 2: What has it been like watching.
Speaker 1: Him in that month of spring training gaining the confidence
for you to put him in that opening starting rotation.
Speaker 20: Uh, you know what I think, Lenz all the stands
the pitcher he is today right for him to have success,
he needs to be the guy that controls the game
from the very first pitch. And how you do that
is attacking the strike zone. It's when Lance's attackes out
the zone like he did yesterday. He's able to command
the a bat, He's able to control the game. I
uh fast both for strikes, really good, change up the
sweeper effective because everything was looking the same right, everything
was coming out from the same lane, executing pitches, heading
the count ef fishing from the very get go. I
think he knows that that's the picture he needs to
be to be successful, and he's not running away from it.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 1: One of the reasons I really Roofer Lance is obviously
because he's been here for so long and part of
these championship runs. But just to me also seems like
such a great dude and teammate. So if you could
just expand on that and just give us your thoughts
on what type of person he is.
Speaker 20: Yes, and you know, we all we're all rooting for
him because what he what he's done for this organizations,
what he's done in our community, and what he means
to to the club. Now, you know, great teammate, great
father man of faith. This guy's packed some big games
for us. I've been here for nine seasons right now.
This guy has been in the biggest games uh this
organization has had since I been here. And also I've
seen it from the other side when I was with
the Yankees, how he dominated in the LCS. So he's
still in there. That guy's still there and just getting
that out of them. Uh, because he's fully healthy and
he's frame of mind is such. It's a really good
place that I think he's going to help was winning
now is you know, building from this hour thing right,
not try to do anything different, right and get ready
for his next start and build from this and because
the stuff is there.
Speaker 1: Astro's manager Joe spotted us here on Sports Talk seven nine.
Let's go to the other holdover from the twenty seventeen
championship team, Jose Al two. A couple of home runs.
I mean, obviously we've talked about a lot about him
over the years, but just at the play to approach,
seems like some more patients from him. How much of
is it is it the same old Josel tuove and
how much of is it kind of a new slant
on things?
Speaker 20: You know, I think it's the new slam zone things.
I think, you know, patient, you know, we've been seeing
a lot of pitches here the last three games. I mean,
that's been something that we highlighted in the off season.
We're preaching to our hitters, let us control the bat
like forcing the pitchers to make pitches. We know our strength.
Stay within yourself. We have a really good lineup. If
you don't do the damage, the guy behind you will
do the damage he didn't if they choose not to
pitch you someone we are capable of having enough definitely
not lineup that the next guy is going do it.
And that has been the theme here for the first
few games. Contribution from the guys in the bottom. So
when al Tuobek comes up to the plate and Jordan
comes to the plate, there's traffic on the basis, there's
people on the basis, and we've been carrying out our
game plan very very well the last couple of games.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. You know about Jeremy's finger,
and you've used him a couple of times day off
here and there. What have you been told. Do you
visit with him on the daily. How much does he
want to test it? How much do you want to
see it tested at least early on?
Speaker 20: You know, we all want to see Jeremy in there
every single day. He wants to be out there every
single day. But we're doing what's best for Jeremy and
our club right now. We want to build his body.
You know, this is not about the finger right now,
it's about his full body. You know, his legs, he's
you know, he's all for body. We want to make
sure that heating really had a long like it's springs
training to really build off. There was a little poss
even though he was on the basis, he was in
the weight where he was taking ground balls, but he
didn't really have a big build up towards the NF camp.
So we want to make sure that we do that.
We were hampered by injuries last year guys, and I
want to be really smart about you know, the volume
of games that this guys are getting. And also we've
been playing some long games see in the last few days,
So we want to be smart to make sure that
these guys stay healthy throughout the season.
Speaker 1: You mentioned a long games. I don't mind long games
when you've had back to back games where you've overcome deficits.
Speaker 2: The reality is this.
Speaker 1: That's something Joe, you hopefully can use in your back pocket,
is that if a team, your squad falls behind four
nothing or gives up a four nothing lead like a
day the other day that you have the comeback ability.
That is something that is not you're not stopping the
game and yelling the guys in the middle of the dugout.
Where does that come from?
Speaker 20: Absolutely not, absolutely not, absolutely not. And you know, I
think what's what's very really important to recognize is that,
you know, we we have we had gotten some of
their starters that we face. They're being out of the
game before the fifth end. Now when you do that,
that triples down and pushing a really good spot for
game two, Game three, other series. Right, it's showing the
Angels who lost the first two. So Rihanna went out
seven innings first game, and then we started, you know,
having some longer up bats. We're starting, you know, passing
the baton further down the further down the lineup, and
now all of a sudden Game three, Game four, the
same relievers that pitched Game one, their stub was not
playing the same because they've been using twice maybe three
times doing a series. And I think that's something that
we are we are talking to the guys in points
of it. It's when our lineup, it's does that it
helps everyone in the lineup and also allow us to
to win games and win series.
Speaker 1: You've had now five games of live action games that
count with the ABS system. How are you liking it?
Speaker 13: We don't we like it.
Speaker 20: We I think, you know, every seemed the umpires really
locking it in and really trying to get every call
right right. That's the point that we are. We're making
awareness of, Hey, this system is here to help everyone
get every call right. Conversation with the umpires in between
innings and the eaters. You know, it's been it's been
really good. The system has been good. We haven't been
very successful early on, but we always you know, looking
over our decision making when it comes to what to
use the ADS, just to make sure that we're using
at the right time. Not only just you know, we
don't want to be you know, we haven't not been suscessible,
but we want to make sure that we are successful
using it at the right time. So when we have moments,
especially relating the game, we still have some of them
least so we can execute last.
Speaker 1: One from us skip a brave you second performance. The
velocity was down and and I'm trying to make too
much of that because it could be a gun. It
could be the tired arm you were quoted as saying,
and like you'd interpret it for us a little bit
that it's more of a mechanical than it was about
just the arm. So where where are you with him?
And what was that mechanical adjustment you think he's going
to make? And I mean, you don't tell us, but
what is it right now?
Speaker 20: Well, so I'll have to share that with you. You know,
in a post game after he's got outing. I had
a conversation with very my office it and I wanted
him to be handed with me. You know, it's a
are you healthy, it's a it's a skip. I'm healthy,
I'm one hundred percent. But right now I'm battling some
mechanical issues. And you know, Briana Brew is a huge
human being, and you know next overbody lower half, there's
got to be coordination and there's got to be You've
got to be uh, the secret needs to be right
right before he's delivered to be working out in front.
Right now, he's opening lower half too quick, arm size
dropping and he's yanking everything. You don't really see Briana bread.
When Briana Brew is making gloss side, that's that's a
sign of he's spinning too quick, he's opening too quick
now when he's missing armside right when he's heart ninety
eight to the top of his zone. Now he's finishing
out in front. So he was walking me through that.
He knows what he needs to be working on and as.
Speaker 22: Coaches, and we're going to help him through that right
through videos, you know, through blackground and but but it's
I'm not concerned at all.
Speaker 20: It's it's just it's what happens early in this season,
like just so I could hit her. My timing is
not down, it's not quite there yet, and you need
to continue to give him opportunity because we know how
good he is. We can't win without Brandon Brother. That's
just the bottom line, no.
Speaker 2: Question about that.
Speaker 1: Joe, Thank you the visit, looking forward to a lot
of these every Tuesday, and good luck tonight and trying
to get this series win against the Red Sax. All right, fellows,
thank you, thank you for show a spot of Manager
of the Astros with us here on its Sports Talks
him and you and I could talk to him.
Speaker 2: We mentioned this during Astrofest. We could spend hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, we got to be fair he
should bring some questions us. Hmm, No, I don't think
he wants to like No, just in life in general,
life in general. Now, let's tell baseball. Okay, we beginning
for ten minutes a week when we're very bluck. Yes,
we have to get to spend our time one. I
always you know, I was thinking about the the first
two games. I was like, oh gosh, they need to
turn this around, just because I like the interviewing well,
we like him in a good mood, we like the
Astros winning well, hanging fruit. That's it's early season. Life happens,
that's true. But it's much better to be talking to
them three and two than more than can you crush
the Red Sox? You back to back, come from behind victories?
M colors, mcclors, we'll get to by. We got to look,
we got twenty five more weeks of these bad boys.
So well, we will make sure to get everybody in
on this. Yes, it's kind of nice. We're not spending
a whole lot of time talking about injuries. And I
do believe him on the bray. You, I think mechanics
can come into play and the reality is this, if
you're and this is the gods on the truth. If
you're a member of the Astros medical staff, with everybody
having the microscope on you, if there is something wrong
with I to bring you, they better figure that out
really fast. And I think they would have done that,
I hope, So I would tend to believe that when
he's telling us it's more mechanical than is anything else
about arm slide pitching and whatnot.
Speaker 2: I want to believe. I have to believe me.
Speaker 1: He and the athlete has to tell that to Joe
because they've already got one picture down. They don't they
can't afford to have the double high end relievers out.
Oh Joe has me feeling confident. Yeah, so it's just mechanics.
He's gonna be all good, all right. Twelve forty three
on Sports Talk seven and All Things Share on today's edition.
Speaker 2: To Believe or not, it's going to be awesome. Can
we play share music behind it?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 1: All right? I mean if you want no, no, never,
You're fine.
Speaker 2: You're you're a bigger part of the shows. Anything.
Speaker 1: Jesse James.
Speaker 2: We wouldn't play Jesse James or Jesse James Bankers. Yeah,
not familiar, all right. Just was a disco Phenom two
for a while too.
Speaker 1: Okay, take me Home was a disco head of hers
back and then take me home tonight that he that's
not her, that's not her, that's somebody else.
Speaker 2: Nope, that's a rock band. Oh all right, twelve forty four.
Speaker 1: If you want to comment to anything that Joe had
to say, let us know seven one three two one
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five seven ninety Now normally Thursdays at eleven thirty we do.
Speaker 2: I just don't get it, but I just have to
get this out.
Speaker 1: Today, Rossy, there was a you know, the NFL owners
meetings are in I think Phoenix, Yeah, they're in Phoenix.
They took a lot of time yesterday at the NFL
Owners meetings talking about.
Speaker 2: Flag football.
Speaker 1: How the NFL is going to back a league of
flag football for both men and for women.
Speaker 2: I just don't get it. What's the endgame on that?
Speaker 1: No, well, they're going to try to make money, get
people interested in it. You don't get it, really, I
really don't get it.
Speaker 23: No.
Speaker 1: Look, flag football it was great in college when you
were playing dorm versus dorm and the losing dorm had
to go buy a beer after. I love that flag
football was cool when you were not athletic enough to
play football because your mom wouldn't let you. Some of
these guys are pretty crazy, crazy athletes. If you watch
have you seen that like a like professional tag, like
to start and stop and the the agility. It's actually
not bad. I do believe there are athletes that are
doing it. Yes, I'm not saying that it's at it's
not fat guys with cigarettes in her mouth playing. Yeah,
but I I'm never gonna consider it to be legit. Well,
you need star power. I don't know how much star
power are you gonna get. You need the Probably, yeah,
I think it's it probably would could possibly blossom as
some kind of niche sport. I don't think they're trying
to overtake, you know, the NFL or anything like that.
Sean Payton said today he would be quote surprise that
there are any NFL players on the United States team
in the near future playing flag football. Earlier this month,
he coached the Founder's FFC team, made up of current
and former players, captain by Tom Brady. Ironically enough, HM
Founders FFC lost both games in the tournament, including a
forty three to sixteen defeat to the current.
Speaker 2: Existing USA team.
Speaker 1: Flag football will be an Olympic sport in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2: I just don't get it.
Speaker 1: These dudes are crazy. I'm just saying, like, if you
watch some of the highlights. Now, I haven't sat down
and watched a whole game or anything like that. Here,
I'm about to retweet this one from go find it
at sports RV on my Twitter. This dude, Velton Brown Junior,
Like he's making moves like I said, the start and stop,
the agility, the bend. It's crazy. Not saying I'm gonna
sit down watch and it's gonna overtake the NFL. It's
not gonna overtake Super Sunday. Here's what we're seeing. We're
seeing anything that we ever did as a kid. Somebody
is saying, I want to make it a professional league.
Like there's pro pickleball. Yeah, I was just about to
bring that up. Yeah there's pro Yeah, exactly, it's pro pickleball.
Gonna be pro ping pong, yeah, pro table tennis, pro volleyball.
They're going when they're starting up women's.
Speaker 2: Leagues, yeah they are. But volleyball.
Speaker 1: And basketball, I mean those are tried and true team sports.
Big three is charted. How about what would Big three be?
The more a parallel? That's a great comp I went
to go see Big Three personly in Dallas and Ryan
Hollins was playing Would you like it?
Speaker 2: I hated it?
Speaker 1: Oh, it's funny because I was. I was getting my
beard trim today, my shave at the at the barber.
I was thinking that the first segment and he and
my barber said, hey, do you watch college baseball? And
I said, I, you know, I've called some college baseball,
but I don't regularly watch it because the reality is this,
so I just can't watch everything. I am super vested
in the Rockets, supervested the answer, supervested in the Texans
and the NFL and my Cougars. I got to have
some time away from a television in a way, and
just college baseball is just not going to.
Speaker 13: Do it for me.
Speaker 2: But maybe less a product is obvious. I mean it's obvious.
Speaker 1: It's just not as good, right, wasn't? And if the
answer is yes, please correct me. Was America thirsting for
competitive flag football? I don't think so. Again. Last time
I played flag football, I swear to god, it was
probably November nineteen ninety one, I was nineteen years old.
I was playing in a flag football league in at
the University of North Texas and Denton. I sacked the
quarterback in my greatest flag football accomplishment.
Speaker 2: Really yeah. I was also the off of Mississippi where
I was the offensive coordinator as well.
Speaker 24: You were.
Speaker 1: Okay, there's fun drawing up place. Okay, they put people
in motion left and right. I mean it's fun. But
I never thought when I was nineteen years old, Man,
I can't wait for a professional flag football league to
develop thirty years later. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now I see why some people are doing it.
Speaker 1: The chance of getting injured or is dramatically less less
two percent compared to fifteen football. I get it. But Man,
coming to you live. We're in Dallas at Jones Park today.
It's the Houston Houston Flash against the Dallas Mighty Bumpkins. Bumpkins. Now, Jonathan,
I know you will not go play in the UFL.
Can I get you on a professional flag football team?
You know, because I'm trying to use your speed? No,
I mean I could, I could do it. It's run
of nine I play. Give me the Randy Moss of
flag football.
Speaker 14: Just go to just go.
Speaker 1: How's your hands? I played defense. Typically guys that aren't
run track have crappy hands.
Speaker 15: They just do.
Speaker 1: What was your what was your baton drop rate? To No,
it was just one school record holder, come on with
some respect in that man's name. But they legitimately at
the owner's meetings had a press conference and Larry Fitzgerald
was up there talking about it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I was like, are you kidding me? Flag football?
Speaker 1: That's cool. I don't know. I'll give it a shot,
see if I like it. Like you said, you can
only invest in so much. But you know as much
like tease about it being in the Olympics. Maddy and
Rossie we like watching beach volleyball and they ain't the
most Olympic thing out there. I love beach volleyball. I
love the Olympics.
Speaker 2: I love them. I was watching more Winter Olympics than
I thought I would.
Speaker 1: Oh not for me. I'm also I'm strictly you're a liar.
You're a liar. You said you were watching I watched
a little bit. I tell you, I don't remember. Didn't
Jonathan back me up? Didn't he say he was watching
some Winter Olympics and he was more than he thought
he was gonna watch. Was watching a little speed skating,
A little bit with speed skating in curling. See, I
watched the gold medal hockey team. Pedro brought to put
up a good point. What's the spread? Put a line
in there, what's the money line? I got the Houston
Flash on the money line. Lock of a week. I
got the San Antonio Fury minus the four and a
half flags.
Speaker 2: I'm in, by the way, the flags.
Speaker 1: If you really want to be a gangster about it,
you would tuck the flag underneath your belt so it's
harder to pull. You can't do that.
Speaker 2: You can get away with it as long as you're
not in professional flags.
Speaker 24: Yes I do.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna allow you to tuck in your flag. Man,
there's not gonna be a keg at the fifty yard line.
We played one time in a monsoon ROSSI I mean
a serious, serious monsoon. Okay, it was fun. Okay, Yeah,
I don't know what I'm say. You're drawing up plays
on a piece of paint with the weather in. Implications
are it was? We played coed by the way, naturally, Oh,
you accidentally kept on grabbing something else instead of the flag.
Huh what was I grabbing? I want to know too, Yeah,
me too. Cheek I grab someone's cheek. Did I get
in trouble or no? Probably right Cody restraining order. Thomas
Final hour Matt Thomas Show was Ross Believe it or not?
Share today? God love her?
Speaker 2: Seventy So you's seventy nine years old. She's right, you
know she wrote a book.
Speaker 1: She got seventy. How many books has she running? I
don't know, but the first one is about her first
half of her life. Now she's gonna be the back
half of her life. As she writes this one. Apparently
Sonny was an a hole to her for the most part,
which I'm thinking, if I'm marrying that goddess, I'll be
nice to her. Yeah. Oh sorry, reading some very disturbing
facts about her that I will not say out not
you tell me to break. I mean, I could say
it if you want. It's twelve fifty eight finalizer Matt
and Ross Sports Talk seven Hony. Next is the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross. We have fifty nine minutes left
to go on this radio show. Make it count, Houston, Texas.
We are going to entertain the hell out of you.
We will not bore you with endless NFL mock draft conversation.
I made a gut feeling earlier today. Ross, I stand
by it, Rockets, I mean, excuse me. The Texans trade
out of the first round, believe me or not.
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 2: You think you're stay in the first round.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe leaving trade up. We will get a draft
expert on next week. By the way, okay, I will
search good, I will chase good. It's tough to get
people these days.
Speaker 15: It is.
Speaker 1: It's too big time. We got way too many big
timesif way too many big timers out there. Pro Football
Focus had massive layofd What happened? You know they got well,
Chris Collins were sold as steak.
Speaker 2: Oh he's out.
Speaker 1: Huh he got nine figures? He said? What now? Okay,
you're the economist of the two of us. I guess
I don't look at that website very often with There
are a lot of ads on there. Help me, help
me how they got nine? Every single team, all thirty two?
To you make fun of Pro Football Focus? All you
want all thirty two teams? Yes, you do all thy
All thirty two teams subscribe to their data, so they
must charge in a laciously large amount. So yeah, they
apparently it is Amy nine nine figure deal is what
it was said. What was reported for Chris collins Worth
selling a steak in PFF. So they have a consumer
side and then they have a private side that goes
to the teams. And the consumer side apparently is going away,
so I won't be able to pull up their grades anymore.
Speaker 2: But they that's used by a lot of media people.
Speaker 1: I use their grades, I use their fantasy I use
I mean just just reading their stuff. They have betting
content as well. I mean it's a decent website. I've
subscribed to it for years. So now all those guys
that are hounds are gonna have to go out and
get regular their data. Guys they're keeping. That's a lot
of the content. The podcast they do, they do PIP
submits a multimeter platform. I mean, it's it's podcasting, it's
it's videos, it's youtubes, it's all this stuff. Most of
everything's going away except for the data that they sell
to the teams. I guess that's how they really their
their bread is buttered. Okay, wow, because they they NBC
when they put their graphics of players, they talk about
what position ranking they are. Yeah, I don't know if
that's going away or how much. But a lot of
the guys that I follow and I take the I
read their content, they're getting all getting laid off. There's
a there's a NFL Draft podcast they have that I
listened to. Let me ask you this. If you're Chris
collins Worth, you just claim nine figures? Do you buy
those guys a year? I don't know what you do.
He's probably pocketing it. I'm guessing how many bros got
to let go. Somebody said, now here's an acquisition. It's
funny if you know Chris Colender. That's so in the weeds,
but it works out beautifully. Let me ask this. If
I got nine figures and I knew that ten of
the men that I worked with helped me get the
nine figures, I would make sure you guys got paid
an entire year salary for as a severance pack. That'd
be nice. I hope they get something because yeah, they
got bought by TeamWorks. I don't know exactly what all right, Well, uh,
we used it here on the show. Yes, we made
fun of it. I did back in the day shot,
but I've changed my tune on it. I didn't realize
what kind of poonhounds they were. Yes, now they got
more time to go be hounds because they're looking for work.
And here's the problem with those dada guys are staying
I said, data nerds are saying.
Speaker 2: So there guys were not pooon hounds. They were just
regular hounds, all right.
Speaker 1: Seven to one three two five seven seven one three
two one two five seven Nutty Astros with a dominant
win against the bow Socks yesterday. Yes, go ahead, Sorry,
I just got excited. Is is this Carnal?
Speaker 2: Is that your name, sir? Hello, Cardinal Cardinal Carnal.
Speaker 23: Carlo Carlo, Carlos, Carlo Carlo?
Speaker 13: What's up?
Speaker 18: What's up?
Speaker 2: Carl carl Are you Carlo?
Speaker 1: You on a speakerphone?
Speaker 8: Get off the speakerphone, not none to speaker for I
had a head bump.
Speaker 20: Yeah, you wanted to get.
Speaker 8: Out, That's fine, go ahead, okay, can you hear me? Okay?
Speaker 23: So I've been watching that home highlight because I don't
know able to watch anything anymore. But uh, I will
go back again and thank you for all you did
today this morning when I was working and he was amazing.
Thank you so much. I love shared, I love I
love her. Hmm, I'm not eighty years old, right.
Speaker 1: Seventy nine?
Speaker 19: Oh I was, I was.
Speaker 1: I was very close, yeah, very close.
Speaker 13: So how are you? I'm forty seven, So how are you?
Speaker 1: I'm forty one?
Speaker 19: Well, come on road?
Speaker 20: What is road?
Speaker 8: That's me?
Speaker 1: I'm forty one.
Speaker 8: Oh oh you're put okay road?
Speaker 22: What's going on?
Speaker 23: I think I've seen the last time the Astle concert. Okay,
Well everything has changed because I haven't been listening to
the radio.
Speaker 1: Oh you gotta gotta keep listening.
Speaker 8: Carlos see them of course.
Speaker 23: And uh and I would like to tell you that
you're doing.
Speaker 8: A great job.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what you do. Thank you, thank you, Thank you, Carlo.
Speaker 23: That was that's what's amazing.
Speaker 3: Go back time?
Speaker 8: What's her name? Turn me back time?
Speaker 1: Turn back time?
Speaker 20: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Share, I got it.
Speaker 23: Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, card Let's call the air right there?
Love him from Share, forty seven years old, shout out
Cardrilo in demo love it, Yes, yes, sir. Uh by
the way, I will I will drop a freebie on
you right now. Since he brought up turn back time,
this is a free believe it or not coming up
and fit now in fifty for doing this in forty minutes.
If you get this wrong, I will get your phone number.
I will call you after the show and I will
swear at you. Okay now. Share was sent a demo
for If I Could Turn Back Time, sung by Diane Warren.
Share was They sent her the demo like, hey, record this,
She hated the song. She had to get encouraged and
badgered by the songwriter and then finally agreed to record
If I Could Turn Back Time, and then it became
a massive hit.
Speaker 2: So how are we going to spend this is your question.
You're gonna say that Cher hated.
Speaker 1: Share was in a demo for her hit If I
Could Turn Back Time and initially hated the song and
refused to record it. That's it. Believe That is a
believe it. Yes, listen to me. That is a believe it.
It's a fun fact too. It's a lot of fun.
A lot of people didn't like their songs or didn't
think they were great, and they become massive hits. Happened
all the time. You all to share. You know, I
have a list when if I ever get to interview
Paul McCartney, which the chances that are zero percent. You've
written questions for him. In my mind that is that
is adorable. And the two questions I have for him
are really they're one A and one B. It's one
what song do you sing a lot that you don't love?
And that's what's the one song that you love a
lot that you wish you could sing more? But people
just haven't gravitated towards it. Okay, like he I've seen
Paul four times. Isn't the Intermittent Postman? Or what is
that song called that you hate?
Speaker 2: Temporary secretary?
Speaker 1: That's close.
Speaker 2: So I've seen him four times. He's played that song
three times.
Speaker 1: That's it's time to go to the bathroom song. It's temporary.
First of all, nobody calls anybody a secretary anymore. The
song was made in nineteen eighty. It was never a hit,
but for some reason he likes it. He probably loves it.
So he was in LA this past weekend and he
had two shows at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles, Okay,
And apparently the first night was for like just diehard fans.
The second night was more for celebrities and a listers.
One of the two nights he sang Temporary Secretary. If
you're Paul freakin McCartney and you have all the hits
and the beatles, all the hits from your solo career,
all the hits from your wings career, why do you
continue to put this god awful song out? Clearly he
likes it, so I know one of the answers to
my own question, what song do you love that we
don't like that you continue to play in front of us.
Do you think it's gonna be that Oh he said
it before. Oh, Okay, we're gonna play Temporary Secretary coming
back and you're gonna be like, God, this song sucks.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 1: I is this how you're gaining listenership for our show? Hey, guys,
this song is horrible coming up next, which is like
for twenty So we're not gonna play a lot of it,
but you'll hear it like you're telling me one of
the greatest artists in the history of the world loves
this song. Well, I have to listen to the whole
I don't want to listen to the whole song on
this show. But you gotta let it breathe sometimes, Matt,
I've let it breathe. It's breathed stinky ass. Once you
let it be, Let's go to James on seven ninety
at one to eleven. James, good afternoon to you.
Speaker 24: Good afternoon. Listen. Uh, now that the comments, you're coming back,
that's great news. I mean, get another team back from
the back field days. Is Ross gonna be the uh?
Is he going to do the in game broadcast?
Speaker 1: Ross broadcast? I have no experience doing play by play
or color commentary, so probably not. Well, that's true. No,
Matt was a prodigy. Matt was like, weren't you calling
Rice games when you were like twenty?
Speaker 2: I was calling you of H games while I was
going to school, So yeah, I was twenty twenty four
years old.
Speaker 1: I did some color in high school, back in the
day high school football color.
Speaker 2: It was fun.
Speaker 24: Matt won't do it because he does the rockets right
at the same time.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean put it this.
Speaker 2: Way, I don't that that has not been determined yet,
and I'm not.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll let that.
Speaker 2: We'll cross that bridge runs.
Speaker 24: Time, Okay, any I got feelings I wanted to get
to That's the reason I really called sure. I think
that either Ross. I think Jonathan more than Ross. One
of those guys will take their their girlfriends on a
date this weekend and they're going to have a evening
with Ludicrous. And that's just a gut feeling though. That's
the talk you guys later.
Speaker 1: You going to the Gamblers game this weekend? Johnah, you know,
I didn't plan on it, but I don't plan on
it either, So that's a bad guy feeling from James.
Thank you.
Speaker 2: No one's going in the games.
Speaker 1: I'm curiously I want to go now, just to like
take a video of many a one thousand in Dallas
over the weekend. Yeah, that was announced right, Yes they
butchered it. No, they didn't butcher The products is not good.
The product's not good. But you have to. I mean, look,
I'll say this, for the last time, the Roughnecks had
a niche crowd of about fifteen sixteen thousand that went
to games. Why the UFL or the EXFT, whatever the
hell it was at that time, screwed that up. You
pissed off sixteen thousand people. COVID was it did? Was
it around COVID times? And they had issues too? Was
it before COVID when the Roughnecks were getting in big fans?
Speaker 2: I think they were.
Speaker 1: I can't that question. I don't know, by the way,
what part of this song that we playing. No, I'm
not play it right now, but what I use it?
But just play it right now, right now?
Speaker 2: So awful.
Speaker 1: Let's let's listen.
Speaker 2: Listen to how of this is it? Oh wow, I've
heard this three times? You are big a Paul McCartney fan.
Speaker 1: I am, I hear this.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I cannot to the concession stand fast.
Speaker 1: Enough fine for me? Someone strong? Sweet, that's enough. I'm done.
That's good. Yeah, that den And I tell you guys, yeah,
but Matt, you say some songs are good and we
don't like them, but this was. This is a good judgment.
Speaker 2: Thank you for once.
Speaker 1: So by the way, if any of you ever get
say mean things about me, I'm sending you the YouTube
version of this song so you can listen to it
in in symphony. Oh god, I'm benna bad.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Roughnecks were five and oh and then the COVID hit.
But they came back the next year, right, I mean no,
they didn't come back till twenty twenty three, and they
really weren't really the right building. Someone met them. Yeah,
but I think that I think they just just butchered
the merger. COVID said, we're good, all right. Seven one
three two one two five seven. Auntie, Just how bad
is temper? No, we're not gonna do that. Seven one
three two one two five seven Auntie. We've got the
Astros Game two of their series tonight. We have the
Rockets and the Knicks. You excited about tonight? I've kind
of juiced four, aren't you. I couldn't be more excited.
I don't believe you. Waunchpad coming up at six o'clock.
Let's get you super excited for it. One fifteen on
Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety.
Speaker 2: One Sports Talk seven anty Believe it or not? Share
coming up in about thirty minutes from now. Tomorrow, we
have a shorter show because we've got an Astro's day game.
We'll have a Brian Bogus epic with us at eleven o'clock.
I will handle Astros on deck at noon tomorrow, so Ross,
you will have a chance to go out and have
lunch with your family if you so choose.
Speaker 1: Okay, when is this tomorrow? Really?
Speaker 24: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Huh oh, I gotta solo tomorrow Okay, we've got Dana Brown,
you play we'll have for you because Ayron's be on
live tomorrow at nine thirty with Dan and Cole, but
we'll we play it at about twelve fifteen, twelve twenty
tomorrow if you don't catch it live. So sounds like
an excellent time. Astro's Day Baseball and Rockets for the nightcap.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got a busy day.
Speaker 1: Rockets Tonight, Rockets, Bucks Tomorrow night, Rockets, Jazz Friday, and
then two very intriguing West Coast games. Now Golden State's terrible,
which is hard to say because we you never want
to say the word terrible in front of Golden Stea
because the always still beat you. Oh yeah, how that happened?
How that work out? And then Rockets like game you
don't want to mean anything will be the Phoenix Suns.
You want to win that because you want to get
into the four or five spot in the West, but
you also do not want the Suns to try to
creep up and take your six spot. Forty two and
thirty three Phoenix Suns. What's the latest on Jalen Green?
How's he Jalenson? Okay, Dylan Brooks. By the way, is
back for them. Yes, so we got Rockets again tonight,
six o'clock in the an. Are you gonnanna be the
you know you're gonna, uh, you're coming out. I'm watching it.
I'm watching them. Standle. You had Astros too, to watch Astros? Yeah, rockets,
So I'll get my TV set up so you'll handle that. Yeah,
you'll handle all of our astros breakdown tonight. Actually listen
to radio when they get in the car, I'll watch list.
I'll have them both on, okay, bringing seven yeah, seven
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you're best friends. Yes, we're like your older brothers. Huh,
we will will hit you Like I said, you're more
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Speaker 2: I don't think so. Yeah, I've seen your algorithm.
Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, I don't rather have my algorithm
than other people's algorithms. Okay, I don't want to have
political algorithms. Nope, No, I don't want to have. I
don't want to have stephen A. Smith versus Cam News. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: So what if it's one occasionally shows up?
Speaker 1: Am I hot?
Speaker 2: For forty five?
Speaker 1: David and Humble at one twenty two on Sports Talk
seven Only, David Good, afternoon to you, good.
Speaker 19: At the good afternoon, Matt Good afternoon Off.
Speaker 2: What's on your mind?
Speaker 8: Yeah, Matt, you know I'll love you like a brother bike,
I would hope.
Speaker 19: So I've been listening. I've been listening to you for
a very long time, my friend.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 19: Yeah, and you're a beautiful, bald hated man.
Speaker 2: Die get there very much means a lot.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 19: The Houston Rockets right now, they're in the sixth seed
in the Western Conference. They are, and I don't feel
good about that?
Speaker 2: Why can't Why don't you feel Why do you feel
bad about it?
Speaker 19: Because if the Phoenix Suns will catch you at the
number six position, you be at the number sixth position,
and I feel really not good about it.
Speaker 1: I would say, I mean, I would not say there's
a zero percent chance at the Rockets dropping a seven,
but I would say it's very minimal.
Speaker 2: The Rocket schedule in the next two weeks is not
very difficult.
Speaker 1: And even though there is not a great hope they
can get to four, they can certainly get to five.
It would take them having a decent sized losing streak
to hit the six. And I'm telling you they've got
Memphis still, They've got Milwaukee still, they have Utah still.
Those are three games right there. Those three teams have
zero interest in winning zero point one percent, says Basketball Reference.
Speaker 19: Do you think the Rockets can win all three of
those games?
Speaker 1: Matt absolutely, absolutely not. They're three dog opponentssolutely. They better
win all three of those game. They're all trying to tank.
You can win them.
Speaker 19: Yeah, I don't like tanking loss. I know it doesn't
make me feel good.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't.
Speaker 19: And I'm very excited about comments.
Speaker 1: Good good, they're coming back. Yeah, we had their president
earlier today, so it'd be ready for twenty twenty seven.
Houston Comments dot Com, Houston Comments dot Com. Thanks David
for the fall call. We appreciate it. Yes. Uh, Basketball
Reference seating odds zero point one percent for seven. This
is as of today. Yes, and how do they how
they have them at six? You're now you're that's a
grin forty five point seven percent. Okay, Number five thirty
eight point five percent. So you're saying that's a chance.
Number four thirteen point one percent, number three two point
six percent.
Speaker 2: Okay, So.
Speaker 1: Who is the favorite to be the number three seat?
I think I know the answer. That would be the
Los Angeles Lakers. Do you want their? You want all their?
Just give me, just give me a person to be third. Okay,
So the best the most likely outcome.
Speaker 2: Rockets v.
Speaker 1: Lakers in Los Angeles for Games one and two. Yes,
according to the odds, but you're forty five percent to
be six. So if you add up all the other odds,
it more likely you'll end up somewhere else. Hopefully five.
Hopefully four. I think five is within a puncher's chance.
I mean, because if you have you just beat Minnesota.
You got Minnesota coming up here the final week of
the season, you beat them, you're in the five. As
long as the teams are playing the way there's winning. Yeah,
just win, baby. I would like a four. I'm gonna
give you the a load of question. Okay, Rocket's a
better chance to win a series against a Lakers B Nuggets?
I didn't count the Wolves because you're kind of fighting
for their same spot, So I would count the Wolves. Okay,
I would rather play the Lakers. Here's the reason why
I am more encouraged by the Lakers. Just don't play
defense right now. Lucas playing out of his mind like lately,
he gets different, and you've got no shot. I mean,
if he's just dropping forty point triple doubles all series,
what are you gonna do? Yeah, the Lakers defense has improved,
and they did a good job with the double teaming
defense against the Rockets, but it wasn't as good the
second game when Alprin Shingoun was there. Lebron James had
a twenty point triple double against the Wizards, but we
had a triple double the night after the Rockets beat
them in what were they in Miami? Yeah, in Miami. Look,
I'm not the biggest he might be the greatest basketball
second Christ, but the the amount of he's lost his
fastball is ridiculous. He doesn't have it ninety eight on
the gun using a baseball of an actor, but it's
still ninety two ninety three.
Speaker 2: He still gets He's still he still makes place at
forty one at forty years of age.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it matters how you define greatest
basketball player of all time? You define, Yeah, what if
Michael Jordan had a higher peak but Lebron James had
a better, longer career. The number one argument I always
hear is that Michael didn't need anybody, And then the
Lebron Hayters say, well, Michael needed Scottie Pippen, and Michael
needed Tony Kuko, the greatest Major Dennis Robin, and Michael
needed Phil Jackson. I think Phil Jackson has a huge point.
How many different coaches did Lebron win his four championships
with two with Spultra Spolstra, h one in LA, one
with Tyron lou one with Frank Vogel. Yes, if I'm
taking up a if we're lining up a draft and
I say, you say you're getting this player for his
entire career, I'll take a Bron over Michael. But that's
not how I mean. That's that's just one facet of
the argument. I'm still highest peak. It's Michael Michael. If
I need one game or one series, it's Michael. I
need one game, one shot, it's Michael. F I need
one seven game series. Yeah, it's Michael.
Speaker 20: Long.
Speaker 2: Jeopardy does play into it, though, that's why he's number two.
Speaker 1: I don't. I think it's one two and it's not
even that is not even within question. You won't argue
flip flop.
Speaker 6: You can do it.
Speaker 1: I told you will.
Speaker 2: Put Kareem in there because we talked about how what
is it?
Speaker 6: Was it?
Speaker 1: Two time national high School Player of the Year, three
time College Player of the Year, held.
Speaker 2: The scoring record, and held the scoring record for a decade.
Speaker 1: Gosh crazy, Hey, he held the scoring record and he
had to play four years of college. One year he
couldn't even play as a freshman, and in the next
three years he won College Player of the Year and
as a freshman they beat the the senior I do
believe again, Mount Rushmore, there's three spots that are already
locked the load. It's the fourth one that rotates. Do
you think we should get it? Do you think we
should get a fifth person up on Mount Rushmore? Sush,
you're so ridiculous, break Are you gonna go carve up
the mountain? I know it's there's room, is there? I
mean I haven't been there, but I guess they're probably
not at the edge of the mountain because I think
it's too hard to do things in fours. Okay, well
it's your top say top five Rushmore.
Speaker 2: Yeah we do, No, we don't. It's a beautiful national monument.
Aftros red Sox tonight again the game will be heard
on our sister station, news radio seven r H. Astros
have a day game tomorrow, so again we'll be on
the year ten to twelve with our show, and then
I'll do on Deck from twelve to twelve forty uh.
And then the Astros hit the road for the first
time this year. They're going out West. If I'm not mistaken,
let me make sure pulls up properly.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They go to Sacramento for three, Colorado for three
and three of the Mariners. So the A's are terrible.
The Rockies are terrible. Not that you would try to
get fat and happy early in the season, but why not.
You can stack some wins. You need to stack some wins.
It's always nice. The Astros good to put the Rockies
like six times tire. I mean they almost like five
winners and keeping on these a's they can hit. I
don't know how they started the season off oh and
four they're all, yeah, they're not off to a great start.
They're due whipped up by the Blue Jays and lost
their first game of the series against the Braves. Yep,
but yeah, Colorado is typically terrible. Uh in Seattle four
Seattle Rapper. That's a long ass trip. That's ten games,
a lot of pret diem. I mean, just thinking that
out loud. I'm always pocket watching. I'm not pocket watching.
Pocket appreciate. Okay, just get some wins, get some some
length out of your starters like you got yesterday. That's nice.
Speaker 2: Oh I got a scenario that happened.
Speaker 1: But I know quality start plus is coming for for
Hunter Brown, so I'm excited about it. Explain what that
is because you created that metric yourself. Now, remember I
created a metric two years ago. Yes, expected sex Average,
Remember talking about how what what a horrible X beeat
what the ridiculous XP calling it x l A oh
expected late average. Yeah. You know who's on board with
you hates XBA Adam Wexler, wex hates it. Yeah, I
would have thought Clant would have hated it. Well, probably Clant,
I know, I know Clant hates it. Wex says too good.
So I've got somebody that's like a math nerd on
my side. Well, well you gotta call him. Well, I
agreed immediately, didn't. Oh he's fine, he knows, he understands
his own life. XPA is not everything, it's just something
a little. It's the lettuce on the sandwich. No, I
think lettuce. That's that's a big add on. Ops, that's
your that's your burger, it's your meat. Okay, walk great cheese,
strikeout right, But no, where's your slug? You're right, well
it's it's an ops. Okay, it's true. Well, uh, I
don't know where to go. What were we talking about?
Speaker 8: Go ahead?
Speaker 1: Oh, I was watching the TV brought your x l A.
We were talking about that expecting laying average. Yeah, and
Clinton always says his higher than it really was. I
don't know if I believe him. You do believe him? Yes,
he's a player that he was. He's happen years, ten years. Gosh,
I lost the over runner.
Speaker 6: I remember.
Speaker 2: I remember when they first started dating.
Speaker 1: They would walk around the offices and they were just
like they were trying to hide it, but they really
couldn't hide it. They were both like sweating profuse Yeah
to live with each other for a while. Ah, hey,
ten years of marriage. It's probably more than most of
shares marriages. Oh, we'll find out coming up during maybe.
Uh oh, so this is I'm maybe the wrong person
they have. They spent a lot of time talking about
the different types of pitches that Lance was throwing when
he was throwing on the count. To me, it goes
in one or not the other.
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't process it. It's it's too much.
Speaker 1: And I think baseball broadcasts still do this day, even
in twenty twenty six, with all the metrics that are available,
they still give me. I don't care about the spin rate,
per se. I don't care what pitch he throws to
what a hitter in this particular category. I just want
the pitch to be thrown for a strike and get
him out. That's when when I watched Lance mccultors yesterday,
I was happy that he got ahead of hitters. Is
he getting ahead of hitters? Is he inducing maybe ground balls?
Speaker 6: Is he.
Speaker 1: Is the curve is because the curveball getting more strikes
than the other ones. But it was just it just
sometimes it gets too much mumbo jumbo, And I think
that's what baseball does that sometimes does tune people out.
I think they do a little bit too much sometimes
on the broadcast. But I mean, I know him. Maybe
I'm pro. I mean I am in the minority for
the most part. I like all that stuff. I like
to I like learning about the sport. I like learning
more about the sport. I like reading about stuff and
location and arm angle and all that type of stuff.
Break I like it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: My philosophy is keep it simple, stupid. I know, let's
get a base hit the ball land.
Speaker 2: Yeah, strike. You're a traditionalist in many things.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you hate the abs, you hate the numbers. Habi,
I love the abs. I don't want to you don't
want Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You're more of a traditionalist. Yeah,
but traditionalist would want v abs under any circumstance. You
heard that one grumpy Umpire was talking about how he's
not embarrassed. Years ago, you were more on that side.
You've come around. Yeah, And that's the thing you have
to do. If you don't adapt to anything, then you're
going to be left behind, whether it's your business, whether
it's the sport that you love. Yes, like, for instance,
I don't have an answer to this because I never
brought this up. But in the NBA, to use a
small example, I don't mind the number three point shots
being taken. There are a lot of folks that just
that lose their mind over it. I still say three
is greater than two. And if I have more guys
on my floor that can hit threes, I'm gonna win
a lot more games. The real nass Let's get some more,
you know what I'm saying, the breed shepherd knocking them down.
But nineteen ninety four NBA fan, nineteen eighty three NBA fan,
maybe even two thousand NB fan did not love the
three because there were too many guys that weren't shooting
the threes. Well, just generation of players six nine, six, ten.
And we got one right now in Denver that hits
seven foot the seven feet tall that hits three point
shots in regularity, making him one of the grest players
in the NBA, making him a two time MVP, and
probably in the end they're gonna ma him one of
the ten greatest players ever to play the sport. So
I I do like some things that are that change
the sport. Well, especially here in Houston. We were at
the forefront. We were in the frontier of the of
the three point revolution. I love technology, I love I
love instant replay. I can't get enough instant replay. I
want more instant replay. I want more instant replaying basketball
because unfortunately we don't. We do too many challenges in
the first quarter that I don't don't love. That's fine,
I mean, yeah, I would say, if you're doing the
first quarter, just make sure you're one hundred percent. You
got to make sure you're a hundred percent. And I
know that every basket means the same, but damn, I
don't want to. I love holding on my challenges to
the very last second. I know, and I do believe
it will eventually see that with baseball too, I think
we should. I think the unless it is so ridiculous,
hold your your ball strike challenges for later in the contest.
It doesn't necessarily mean more but storyline intangibles. Yeah, and
anighthingning at bat with two on, josel two bag gets
called out rung up on strikes and he thought it
was a ball. I got one of my back back pocket.
I'm happy now. The only difference in basketball and baseball
is in baseball if you challenge something in the first
inning and you win, you get to keep your challenges.
In the NBA, you get two and that's it, and
that that's that's hard for me, and I wish it
would change that. They need a system like what the
NFL did to where they're fixing stuff almost in real time.
You're like, all, we're hearing from my guy, remember, don't
they They're like, oh they what are they?
Speaker 2: Interview assist?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, replay assists or whatever they're called, whatever they call it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what they need. They need. They need a
dedicated crew. I mean, you need maximum fifteen people. How
many knights? Is are all? Is every all thirty teams?
Speaker 2: Is that in the NBA replay centator something there's two
bros and something there's like five or six. Let's get
home all in there, come on your multi billion dollar corporation.
Speaker 1: I guess it's depending on the number of games. If
you want to improve, at least do it for the
playoffs or something. Playoffs, I guess you need fewer guys
in there in that first round. You got a lot
of games going. All right, let's play believe or not?
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Wrapping up a Tuesday edition of the radio program. Tomorrow,
Brian Bogus Evin with this at eleven o'clock, and then
we have a shut your Bow mass up at eleven thirty.
Then we have Astros Baseball at noon with our on
deck coverage. Rockets will play the Bucks tomorrow. But first
things first, the Knickerbockers are in tonight. Jalen Brunson, reserve
for the Mavericks, goes to the Knicks' scores thirty points
a game.
Speaker 2: Can you talk about some mistakes the Maverick The Mavericks
are made goodness. I mean number one is Luca, but
number two Jalen Brunson by this just said go yeah,
you can go your own way, okay, Fluwood mac on it.
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't mean to, but I just did.
Now I was averaging twenty six points the game. Tonight's
game is on NBC with the Mike Tico, Reggie Miller
and I don't know who's doing the round ball rock.
By the way, Fox next year for college basketball, get
rid of roundbock Rock, round ball Rock.
Speaker 2: That's not your song.
Speaker 1: They paid for it's air.
Speaker 2: Everybody's the mother's using it now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well they know. I mean he played for the rights.
You better use it. That's right, uh, astros seven to ten?
First pitch back to the front of the lineup on
the rotation, right, Hunter Brown's going the night? Is that correct?
Speaker 24: Yes?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: On deck will be at six o'clock?
Speaker 1: Is that we doing on deck? Are we doing it
because of Michael Barr? Is Michael Berry doing the room?
Speaker 8: I bully?
Speaker 2: If there's an on deck? Does Michael Berry know this?
Speaker 12: Believe?
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's gonna be good news for him? Ramon,
who is your when you go to a game? Do
you like to eat popcorn? Or do you get a
hot dog? What's wrong with you? Ramon? Did you hear
your name being mispronouncing? A commercial of this earlier day
on the show.
Speaker 2: Was that here mm hmm, it's gonna happen five minutes
up to go on the show, what should we do?
We should play.
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