Speaker 1: This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Tail What
it eights Town?
Speaker 2: Good morning, and welcome you a Thursday edition of The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This is Sports Talk seven
ninety series, meeting Boston today six to four. Ross.
Speaker 3: Do you like it?
Speaker 4: Hut?
Speaker 2: Because they hate is on? What the hell is? This?
Is this the eighties? Jam? Okay? I Bribert Palmer the
power station, first part of that state it? Okay, Wait,
it's heating up. Hold on, let's say this guitar solo
is not bad. I like Promer Palmer, may he rest.
He has some jams back in the day as a
soloist and as a power scene. Now they mostly sounded
the same. That's fair. It's been resistible, very good. Turn
up this stop. But it sounded exactly like addicted to love.
I like it highs. I'm more of an Arnold Palmer.
Are you okay? Lemonade and icy mixed together? I got you. No,
I'm just meaning his golf game. Oh I see, but
you don't have to drink too sweet. It's fine. Good morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Remember if the Astros are gonna on a hundred games
this year, I gotta come up with a hundred diferent songs.
I mean we'll be on the weekend.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, eighty of them. Happy Thursday, everybody. This is
work day of the week for most of you. Tomorrow
we're gonna go be as crazy because ninety nine percent
of you are not working tomorrow. Now, can you and
I a working? Can you have meat on Good Friday?
Or you gotta wait till Sunday? I believe it's Sunday.
You have to wait? Oh dang, all right, so you're
still getting a fileo fish tomorrow. You know who's got
a good sized fish?
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 2: Uh uh? Pop rock Eyes?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Really? Yeah? The fish sandwich is good, the rock Rise,
the fish filet itself is bigger than the bun. I
would never go in there in ten billion years and
ever not get chicken. So well, would you like tomorrow
and ago get a rock Rise fish file at my treat? No,
I'd get chicken. So you're saying, if I'm at Popey's,
it's like it's like if I go to a fancy
steakhouse and I'm getting fish sticks. No it's not happening.
No no, no, no, no no no no no no no
no no. You can get you can go get some
salmon at Rowtons. You can, but you're wasting your time.
Get a steak. You're going You're going to the Rowtons
of Chicken Popeye. But I'm just saying it, gotten none
double rhyming stuff. It's stupid. Okay, I'm going to Popeyes. Okay,
it's a I don't care. It's like they're never gonna
spend money ever, so I'm not giving it. You can
do that. I'm getting too confused. I'm at Dorton's, I'm
at rop Eyes. I'm a red d Bidenda. I don't
want tired of beating at all these places here. The
best part of it is, no, is that people call
in and do the same. Yes, I'm sick of it.
I'm not going to rop Eyes. I'm going to freaking Popeyes.
Because everybody knows what we're talking about. Jonathan doesn't know. Jonathan,
do you know what we're talking about? Of course not.
You don't. No, you don't say you're supposed to go
along with it. I'm getting some red beans and rice
and some chicken for Popeyes well tomorrow, and I'm getting
a hockey puck biscuit and I'm gonna like it. Well
I'm gonna go to Wet's go tomorrow and go to
uh knop Eyes, and I will get the fish filet
and we'll see how it is. We'll do a little
taste test. Can I get one in addition to the chicken?
I get yes? Okay, I cause you're eating a lot,
I get it. Yeah, it's fine carbo loading that you
are a marathon this weekend. Okay, So another day of
double wins, yes, trow. The Astros disposed of the Red
Sox earlier in the day. Yes, and then the Rockets
beat the Wisconsin Herd of the G League yesterday barely. Yeah.
Win's a win. A win is a win, is a win.
That's still was ugly, and I mean the Bucks were
shooting out of their free in mind ten threes alone
in the third quarter. Yeah. AJ Green had six catches
for eighty six yards and a touchdown, and he also
made five threes. AJ Green is the epitome of a
white boy in basketball. I mean, just chuck chuck. I mean,
forget about defense, forget about playing ninety four feet. He'll
go seventy feet max, Yeah, and just throw up a
logo three point shot. I don't even know who Pete
Nance was. I don't either. I know who Larry Nancy
Carmack Ryan was. No, I know Cormack McCarthy and Ken
Cormack Ryan was. Oh are you kidding me? Cormack Ryan
is guaranteed and named after Cormack McCarthy. Right, I'm just
telling you this. I was fully prepared to have the
worst broadcast in my NBA career. Uh huh, And I
didn't because I was professional about it, but got ready.
But but the reality was, there were so many names
on that in that group that I had no idea
who the how they were. Yeah, I'm sure the worst
Jerichar Simms, Gary Trent I knew, but he got hurt
in the first half of the hip contusion. So they
started the game with the eight active players and they
finished with seven m crazy and the game was frankly
too close. I know. We brought up the line in
twiceen and a half. That's what you got to stay
away from Lions in basket. What do you mean if
you had the bucks, you're all good. Yeah, not that
I would give you a thought or two either way
on that. Felix, Oh my god, I got up to
nineteen and a half feels like when you're in the
Rockets are massive favorites game, the other side's not the
worst uned you if you was expressed there by Rossfield,
a real one half of the Matt Thomas Shield, Ross
and the two Sports Talk seven ninety. I'm just going
on recent history. I understand. That's all I understand. All Right,
So we got a lot going on today. We have
Brian mctaggard. Youre going to join us at eleven o'clock.
Brian McTaggart, Yes, a good irishman. Yes, well, Scott Tigris
will not be joining me in Indianapolis because I'm not
going either. Oh yeah, you guys, why not? Because there's
not a team that I care about. Do you know
Mattress maxim is promotion where you buy the bed the
closest team. Who is the closest geographical team? Okay? Really yes,
I've heard the commercials for him obviously. Okay, yeah, if
the closest team to Houston playing in the Final four
is Illinois. This is a little advice at tn T
and CBS. I don't know which network is carrying the championships.
Don't look at the Houston numbers. It's actually funny it.
Oh wait, it went away there it is. It's it's
actually TBS and True TV. Okay, yeah, you think they
just try to get viewers on those channels as possible. Yeah,
and it's on HBO of course. Yeah. So yeah, they're
just trying to They they every I think it's every
three years they move it to the cable stuff. So yeah,
they're trying to put as many networks out there that
can put the game.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Way back in the day, they used to do homer cast,
where you have a local flavor to the team, but
they don't do that anymore because they don't want people
because people will get confused. Yes, people are these guys
are just flat out Duke fans. Yeah, it's the Duke Broadcast.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 2: I do believe and I wish that all sports centers
would do this. They do this in college football. Uh
you know, ESPN's got like nine different channels. One of
the channels has the broadcast of the radio call from
each of the teams. So if you're like, let's say
you're watching Ohio State versus USC for the championship, just
throwing two schools out there, one of the channels in ESPN,
either it's SEC network or Big whatever would have the
Ohio State Call one, what have the the call of USC.
People get confused and then they get angry, yeah, and
then they have it's all it's old people. I'm gonna
be honest, it's old people. They're just looking for the game.
And uh, that happened at my I'm not gonna out
who did it, but it happened at my household at
the super Bowl. Its hours before the super Bowl. But
they had the wrong broadcast on the Nickelodeon version or something.
It was the it was like the Pat McAfee cast
or something. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Maybe it
wasn't the super Bowl. Maybe it was a playoffs or something.
But yeah, now that's why they put the games on,
like some of them, like they'll put the same game
on ESPNN, ESPN two, just giving you opportunity be SPN, ABC,
like just spray a wide net. They'll find it. Do
the guys from that true TV show Realizer' being bumped
in practical jokers because that's a channel that runs something.
But that are they making new stuff? I thought they
had broke broken up or there's been scandals. We will
be the scandal just fake stuff or I think it
was like in improprieties with women or something. Don't quote
me on that. I won't. I won't. You did sit
on the air, though, so I said, don't quote libel
and slender coming up in three two and one. I said,
I'm not sure, so we should be legally covered there,
thank you. iHeart legal team. Yes, all right, Astro is
going to win. We will discuss that Rocket's good to win.
We'll discuss that we have Brian mctagger at eleven o'clock.
I just don't get eleven thirty, and we're gonna do
something for the first time today in the history of AOS.
We're doing a reverse AOS. Oh, there we go. Joe
Gatto accused of sexually assaulting a woman while she was nineteen.
There you go go ahead. Thank you for that. H Well,
I wasn't wrong. You're trying. We're trying to clear my
legal written name. You cleared it beautifully. Sorry. So aos
usually are for ASTRA overactions when things are going poorly. Yes,
I have not taken a look at the astro's Twitter account.
I'm going to assume here we're gonna do reverse AOS
at ten thirty today that things are significantly more positive. Right, Yes,
I've not looked at it. I don't want you either. Okay,
let's look at it, you and I organically. When we
do the segment of ten thirty, are we seeing World
Series bou on tweets or are we seeing hitting coaches
made the difference? Is Joe Spotta getting all the credit
I don't believe he's getting any credit this Well, when
they lose, he's he's a bumbling fool. Correct. Well, now
they're winning, we gotta call last last Friday? Was Joe Spotta?
Was it that guy? Frank? Mm hmm. It's like Joe
spot is on the train out and how's how's Joe
Spotta doing? Now, folks? At ten thirty, we're going to
read reverse aos. Yes, now there's that Remember that one dude.
I forgot his him because look Twitter accounts. I don't
usually ever remember, but there's that one guy that always
crushes every single loss, and he does it like five
Street tweets in a row. When we see the name,
will recognize him. He's probably muting. You've muted Hi because
you've brought out how much you disliked the guy. Well
he sucks. Yeah, whatever, that dude's name I'll just get
time for that negativity in my life. Life is beautiful.
Everything is beautiful. Not everything is beautiful. Life is beautiful. Well,
it's a beautiful day, says there Taut In the struggle,
Matt and the hard times make us enjoy the better,
the good times better. Huh it was all good times,
so we'd have no context. I feel like I want
more good times? Yeah, exactly. Who would play the role
with Thelma? Are you talking about the show? Yeah? Alright, relax?
What you you watch good times, haven't you? Jonathan? That's
an O. That's an O. G goat show. You know
what We're gonna make you put a dollar in a
jar every time you're lusting. He lost for only one thing.
We'll be millionaires stop seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven ninety some deets on the Astros win next ten
to fourteen on Sports Talk seven ninety ten, nineteen on
Sports Talk seven ninety It's mad It's Ross seven one
three two one two five seven nine zero seven one
three two one two five at seven ninety. Uh, we'll
have reverse aos at ten thirty. I'm very curious, and
I I thought about doing this. Literally this morning, as
I was driving to work, I said, I wonder how
the Twitter verse because you know how we know how
the Astros are when they lose, how people lose their minds.
How is Astros universe when we win? When the Astros
have won five consecutive games, Yes, you could. Overreaction doesn't
just mean negative overreacts. What I'm saying, I'm very I can.
I've not looked at it, Okay, so when we look
at it at ten thirty, it'll be organically for the
very first time. Okay, you're on and Alvarez two for three,
two runs, a double hit by pitch. By the way,
if you hit him one more time, he's going to
come after you and grab those create and grab his
hands than the ones that are like surgically repaired maybe allegedly,
and those creaking ees, and he's going to body slam you.
He hasn't had creaking knees in like six years. May day.
I thought you'd be rooting for him to get hit
at take one another now and miss no, no, no, no no,
because you want him in for forty eight games. I
want him in for one hundred and fifty one hundred
and forty five, one hundred fifty five, one hundred fifty five,
seven days off plus the extra time off. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
his ops against the Red Sox. You know this is
thirteen hundred. Yeah. I mean seriously, it's the most. The
Garrig's jealous of that number, Lou Ahead A, Babe Roof
and all those guys, but they have a lot higher
samples as they do. Babe Bruce's career ops against the
Red Sox eleven forty seven, Lou Garrig eleven hundred, Frank
robinson ten eighty seven, and Marcello Zuna's on that list,
and Xavier Edwards of the Miami Marlins. You're like, who,
Carlos Gray went deep for the first time this year
off of Garrett Crochet. By the way, did you know
that Garrett Crochet finished second in the Sion Award winning
last year?
Speaker 3: Hm?
Speaker 2: You didn't know that?
Speaker 3: M M.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's nice. Brown finished third. See I I don't
keep track of posts and awards, and maybe that's I
should be better about it that I just maybe came across.
It's okay, Matte, so you're thirty six hours ago. I
don't I didn't remember. I remember it well, I mean okay, yeah, uh,
there's so much things. There's so much information in my
head and sometimes I forget things. Yeah, but mostly it's
about the sixties episodes of the Mass Games. It's seventies,
seventies and the Mass Games. Yeah, that's that's actually fair.
I can give you every host of every game show
probably in the last fifty years. That's part Crochet my
son's eighth birthday, no chance. Wow. The line up for
the eighty six Astros absolutely okay. And the funny that
brain works priority folks, Yeah, priorities. It is all right.
Lines are are not full. If they were two and five,
they would be not there today.
Speaker 6: You know you already?
Speaker 2: What are you talking like that? I almost sailer in
the jar? What's wrong with you? Come on this Cousin's cousin,
Texas Draft order trade trade down. Let's go look at
the the latest monographs. By the way, I'm gonna try
to get Bruce felmanon from the athletic next week. Okay,
good luck. I mean, I don't know if it's gonna happen.
He's athletic guy. And yeah, I always when I send
emails to athletic reporters, I say, uh, I am a subscriber.
I actually pay for you. Ye, so listen here, Bach
come on my show. I'm betting Dane Brugally used to
come on when he was NFL draft dot Net. Now
he's big time with the athletic He's guys, I'm slammed.
Is he slammed? Really? You know what my favorite is
when you can say something ding when you lose your job.
Eventually we'll remember this because you're going to lose your job.
Dan a bouse. But that's rude. Matt, what what? What's
wrong with you? No? I just I'm tired of people
that go big time on us and I want them
to lose their job. I mean he I wish dating
the best? No, you don't. You brought him up. You
said he big time? You why you wish someone that
big times you the best? Big time? I mean maybe
able to wish the best? By the way, can I
say that I don't want that man to be able
to feed his family? So damn whatever he does great analysis.
I read his guide every year that you're nicer than
I wouldn't be. I'm slammed. Let me tell you the
list of people that were slammed. Ken Rosenthal slammed. Who
else is slam? Mike Turrico slammed, Hopefully get Mike on
the show, because I tell you what have I said
about Mike two weeks ago? Pound for pound the best broadcaster?
I know you. I aspire for a perfect broadcast. I
think Mike gets perfect broadcast once a week. You you
placed him on the all time out Rushmore? Can we
get a fifth person on the mountain first? Too difficult?
Let's get him on the all time Just say top five,
top five Rushmore plus one, Mike Turrico, No, here we
go Rushmore plus Rushmore plus. Okay, Like if if Mount
Rushmore's four, is there, what's a great thing in this world?
It's five? We got Disney plus, we get Apple plus.
Let's get mount for plus back in the day. I
don't know what that is. That's a game show reference. Sorry.
How did I do on my my Quality Start plus?
Or Hunter Brown? By the way, Oh I did good?
I think? Go ahead now, first describe it. It was.
It's better than six innings and three earned runs. He
did six innings and one in run. That's a good
old fashioned quality starting, not a quality star plus. That's
a quality plus I don't think so only one earned run?
Are you changing the goal posts against? Okay? So I
could be right, okay, right here, seven seven ninety there. Okay,
look Matt, Look, guys, you hurt Matt's feelings sometimes when
there's no callers. So if you want to Matt seven
one three when they're grumpy and bad, I want you
when calling when they're happy and good, call and say
what's your favorite thing about the Astros? Start. I'm gonna
go with the ord on personally seven one three, two
one two five, seven nights. That's actually a good idea.
What's the favorite thing? Uh to me? How about Christian
big dog Christian Vasquez. I'm gonna go a big dog
Christian Walker. Okay, he was he was there. Let's kick
the dog, wile Ude. We should do it Astros Christian
rankings every week right now? It's Walker Vasquez, Javier. I mean,
I don't think you do a full segment on it.
I've already come up with a new segments. By the way,
I told you this off off here. I'm telling the
audience on here. Okay, this is going to be a
fifty two week bit now, Okay, because there is a
lot of people in the NFL. Players will move on
from teams, so we got to see how other former
Texans have done. Yes, we'll have rocket players that we'll
have left. So missing you John Wade every Monday one
thirty from here on out, something like New Labor Dame
Moral Day. Okay, sounds great. We have to set appointment
listening for various things for people to go. Man, I
wonder how Verdlander is doing. Oh, Matt and Ross will
take you. I'm missing you Mondays at one thirty. We
could also do missing you of old girlfriends and top
three Christians of the Act. You could give me your
five former girlfriends in your life. I can Facebook look
and see how they're doing okay, and see how Ross's
exits are doing in their life. I don't care, but
the audience might. I wish them the I kind of care.
I wish them the best game, successful and even going. Man,
I wish I was hanging out with a midday radio
hosts like Rossfield real. I wish them all the best. Okay.
Ten twenty seven. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna
try something brand new. Ladies and gentlemen. The first time
you were a little PA with the ladies and gentlemen,
you want to go full pa. Yeah, ladies and gentlemen,
we're going for the very first time time time time
time going to go with reverse AO. We'll only use
AOS when things are down and out. If things are
going well, we have to do the reverse aos. How
does the Astros twitter verse feel about the Astros with
a five game winning streak? That's next Here on Sports
Talk seven ninety we look at let people calling in.
I love this. Let's go, baby, you'll want a good moon.
It makes me happy that they're hit the outside pitch.
Oh is that our guy? Thank you for taking his call?
All right? Seven one three two one two five seven
hoinety ten thirty two. Let's get to it right now
before I get the phones. We got a lot of
excited people to talk some Astros baseball. But first we
need some Astros and some aos. This is our first
time in twenty twenty six. Thanks the post on time.
I gotta wait one more run? Right? You got it?
See that's where I usually started. I got a cheat
code in front of me. Do you really that's Oh?
See you have the post. Here we go and this
is it?
Speaker 7: All right out let's go hey out, Let's go Astros
over reaction right here on seven ninety.
Speaker 2: All right, So, yesterday the Astros Twitter account when they
reported the final score, the very top of the line
said Chipley greater than Duncan because that's the donuts that
are associated with the two cities. Okay, finals score Astros
six and the Red Sox four. First response, Shipley's called
the people have spoken. Next, Donuts, Yes, coffee No. Next man,
I got to watch the peakest episode of Invincible, followed
by an Astro's dub what a day? Hmm mister the uh,
I don't want it? What is that show? I don't know. Next,
You're unhealthy all season and we are the best team
in the al. Next, strolls, strolls are rolling. Next, Shipley,
you must not be from Houston. Next man, I love Shipley's,
but the dunkin Donuts on Sophomore was where it was
when I was a kid. Next, by the way, Starbucks
is the Houston equivalent to Duncan in Boston. Next, if
the Astro estate like this, one hundred wins. Next, Sadly,
Shipley is not owned by Houston anymore, owned by a
California firm should your bump ass up? Next, dunkin Donuts
are little trash, and wow they're not. You're off to
your great star boys. Next, Shipley always wins. Next, we
love y'all, go Astros. Next, that's the end of the game,
your final score. You're Houston Astro six and the Boston
Red Sox four. Astros win. Next, keep it going, fellas.
I love to see the Bats get going at home. Next, Yes,
always in forever, next boom, Next from Mason, both are
ass I don't think there were some of the Astro
Red Sox. They're talking about Shipley and Duncan. Perhaps good
could be Polar Bears, says darn tutin. Cal says that's facts. Cal,
not that good. McNair spin not even close, Cumulus, this
is damn good coffee, quoting Howard Schultz, founder of Starbucks. Now,
let's take a look at the retweets and the post. Frankly,
this has been fifty to fifty donuts and coffee talk
over the Astros. That's funny. I don't know think that
was the intention. And Shipley is the correct name. I
know people like to say ship Lee's, but people are
trying to correct them. This is from Roxanne as someone
who is from Texas but now lives in the Northeast
and has dunk in a minimum five times a week.
This is correct. Next Texans forever. Next talking about them nuts?
What doughnuts? Not them nuts? Next, swept them socks Burrow
looks good, Correa, big knock, bra you shut the door?
Five and roh, gotta like this. Next swept them bitches.
Next talk I can't read that one. I almost read it.
Next that's a sweet nicely done gents. Hashtag chase the fight.
Next Astro is from Cam Sanderson. Astros Run the MLB.
Hashtag Wow Andrea, Yes, Astros Fande happy Happy joy Joy,
I loses. I miss Shipley so much it hurts h
And let's go one more. Here go Stross a warm
out of the fresh out of the friar glaze. Shipley.
Oh yea yea yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah. I
don't disagree with you. I do not disagree. Yeah, but
I'm talking like, let me tell you when I get
this the grant, the best ship the best, Okay, I'll
say Shipley. Whatever is I used to go when I
used to work morning drive, I'd bring donuts here sometimes. Yes,
and you get them at five twelve in the morning.
Oh my god, melt in your mouth. I mean literally
you could feel the grease going down your throat. Don't
keep capture I didn't hear him correctly, nothing said nothing.
I think with that, with my awkward giggle out of context,
is going to be perfect because I would don't capture
that under any circumstance. Don't you gotta get that way,
See you tomorrow. That's it is why we call you
full throat tom Nobody calls you full throat. Everybody calls
you full throat time. Call me mister Texas. Do not
call me. Nobody calls you that. That's nobody that's being
serious and you don't know that tongue in all right?
So that so, how do you that's quickly great? How
do you feel the reverse Aos win today? I think
they're great. Everybody's pumped up, everybody's happy. Nobody said all
full credit to Joe spot and then there's no Joe
spot a full credit to the hitting coaches. None, okay,
but they'll be a blaming on. Don't worry you lose
two or of three to this to the Sacramento A's
tomorrow this weekend you'll be hearing it. Yeah, all right,
let's talk to some great listeners here. We got Brian
Hagger coming up in about twenty five minutes here on
the show. We'll start in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Aaron, good morning, Hey,
good morning. Are are we all excellent? Thanks for dolling in.
Speaker 8: Hey, just want to give a quick shout out to
Brian King mcnee's legend obviously doing really well for the Astros.
My question actually pertains to pitching. So when Spencer Righetty
fully gets held, how do you feel like the Astros
are going to navigate that situation? Who's gonna go up,
who's gonna go down? And I mean we can be
looking at a six man rotation.
Speaker 2: Aaron, you answered your own question. It's gonna be a
six man rotation. There's a stretch of games now where
the Astros will not have a day off for two weeks,
so they're going to go six man's thirteen days in
a row, starting on the tenth. Barraghetty, my guess will
be called up here in the next handful of days, gotcha, gotcha?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 8: Yeah, I just wanted to talk about that and kind
of bring that up and then obviously my next question was,
do you think that the Astros like might have retired
those those blue jerseys?
Speaker 2: Obviously they normally wear them on Sundays. I'm just pulling
y'all's leg, but I love those jerseys. I love them.
That was Fromber's uniform, I.
Speaker 8: Know, but yeah, I wanted to wear the white jerseys apparently,
so they wore them on Sunday. So I guess we'll
see if we see him breaking out again soon.
Speaker 2: So you know, I bet you you know what? Thank
you for the phone called Aaron shot to our Lake
Charles Brethren. First major league start. Let them let them
wear we want it. Usually for the first when they
first came out, they would wear them every Sunday, regardless
of the unif Hoop was pitching. Now they let the
pitchers count of decide a little bit. Can they change
once it gets pulled? I mean it was only like
two innings. You mean them all, twenty six of them
change uniforms mid games, going and put the blues on
once he minds out, once he gets his photo up
and in the Astros whites, I'm gonna go and say, no,
you can't do that. Okay, But it's a good idea.
It'd be funny, like if you're getting no hit through six,
Jesus go changing the oranges or something. Yeah, you know
it's funny. You don't do You remember what was it
during It was Game seven of the World Series against
those of the Nationals that there was such a big
firestorm about them wearing the oranges. Oh yeah, I think
it was the go ahead and they want and they
wore the orange because people were losing their minds and
they still lost the game. Yeah, they're losing because they're
nowhere in the orange uniforms, you idiots. The best uniform
is the Navy blue. In my mind, they're losing because
they're they're whiffing on all the pitches. Can't score, don't Yeah,
but yeah, if I if anybody wants to buy me
a GAF for my birthday June fifth, give your birthdays
coming up, not really until two months that's birthday. Not
proud of me. I didn't like accomplishment or something. I
guess respects to common died at nineteen suck at King Tutt.
I'm gonna start calling you, mister history. Thank you. Let's
go to Oh, we're gonna accept this call James and
Alvin on seven Onty James, good morning, Good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 9: Thank you for accepting my call.
Speaker 2: It's our pleasure.
Speaker 9: I want to talk a little bit about the ABS,
the strike system that the league doesn't implement it. I
think they're taken away from the integrative of the game.
Speaker 2: The game is.
Speaker 9: It's the only game that don't have a clock. They
install the pitching time clock of battles get in the
box of time, but the game is not decided until
somebody score with that ABS.
Speaker 3: Even with the if it was.
Speaker 9: So important, why they only why did they only implement it?
Each team has two calls to challenge certain pitches. Why
is it that the pitcher and the catcher can challenge calls?
What the umpire sees is totally different from what the
pitcher and catcher sees. And when the battle only has
himself to challenge a call, I think it's just another
way to manipulate the game.
Speaker 2: On controlling of the game.
Speaker 6: If the game was.
Speaker 9: So perfect, why do the batter has Every Major League
batter swings a thirty four to a thirty seven inch
back The play is only seventeen inches wide, in which.
Speaker 6: That's a very.
Speaker 3: On how you would.
Speaker 9: Say usable account when it pitches one inch out the
out of the strike zone, but the battle swinging the
thirty five or thirty four inch back and he said,
I can't hit it. It's at the zone most umpiles.
Speaker 4: From what I've.
Speaker 6: Seen, is a hitt of a pitch. That was a
hit of a pitch.
Speaker 9: I'm just saying, I think they're taking away from the
integrity of the game. Thank you, gentlemen for accepting my cause.
Speaker 2: Of course, just tell me your thought. Yeah, you want
the plate wider. By the way, let's make sure we're
clearing this. You get as many challenges as you want,
as long as you're right. Yeah, you can challenge it
to your blue in the face. You have to. You
get yes. If you're wrong, you lose one. If you
lose two, you lose both of them and they're done. Yeah.
I have no idea what hell he's talking about. The
play is seventeen He wasn't to have seventeen inch bats.
Speaker 10: I think I think he want Listen to me, James
wants seventeen inches.
Speaker 2: Imagine if they went out the little first of all
your hands, James, take up some of the bat. Have
you ever held seventeen inch bats. Okay, see, come on
baseball here, Matt, keep your elbow up by the way too.
Oh okay, thank you or actually close to your to
your side, you're like you, thank you. Were going to
get you in the hitting coat and Don manningly over here. Yeah,
let's get you working out your done. Oh my god,
that they had little mini bats like they give out
at the gate. This is so ridiculous. I thought about this. No,
he's thought, he's overtaught it. Let them swing the bat.
Who cares how long the bat is? Who cares how
your stick is? Kim on seven ninety, Good morning to you.
Speaker 11: You know, first of all, sometimes there's some mornings I
wished I had have had what the last caller is having.
Whatever he's having, it sounds like he's having a very
good morning in a yes, very intellectual morning.
Speaker 2: There's no question he's enjoying his day. For sure, he.
Speaker 11: Is enjoying his day. So I was thinking, since we
had four Christians on our team, I know ones in
the miners well, and currently have three Christians on the team,
does that make the Astros God's team?
Speaker 2: I think yes, they're looking pretty blessed right now.
Speaker 11: God's team.
Speaker 2: Aren't they looking blessed?
Speaker 6: Right now?
Speaker 11: They are? And I think it's because we're gods. It's
finally the Astros are God's team, and I think.
Speaker 2: We should do We should call Jac. We should call
Jac on a mobile. Absolutely, all right, it's good Friday tomorrow. Yeah,
let's do it. We can do tomorrow right. Well, he's
dead on good Friday, right.
Speaker 11: I'm just saying to me, the Astros are now God's team,
and that is what I'm most excited about.
Speaker 2: Yes, Now, who's the Devil's team? That's what I want
to know. Tim, You got an idea on that.
Speaker 11: That's the Dodgers, the Dodgers, right, yea, yeah, Lip.
Speaker 2: In l A.
Speaker 11: That is, that's where Hollywood is.
Speaker 2: That's the Dodgers.
Speaker 11: Absolutely the Devil's team.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Tim. There it is. We just
declined declared. The Astros are not the Angels, by the
way you would think the Angels would be. The Guardians
would be like a godlike team. Guardians just seems to
work as well. Dodgers definitely not devil raised No chance.
The Diamondbacks snakes, right, Maybe it is the Diamondbacks. They're
for forbidden fruit. Who else would be potentially we missed
a big one. Hold on Gods team or are the
Devils teams team? It might take you a second. Okay,
hang on, let me let me there's somebody screaming at
the radio right now. They and we mentioned the halo. Dude,
Angels is the obvious one. This is probably number two. Okay,
let me stay out, go ahead and think, go ahead
and think it's all right. Take you time. Hold on,
let me look at the MLB standings because I know no, no, no,
say it, just say it. The Padres ah, we're not
God's seam. The padres are. They call him Friars for
a reason. Astros Baseball. He is on the air. More
of that that. Wish I had more time to discuss
this with you, but we'll do that next. Gabriel, Jim Gabriel, Well,
who else is on the line. Peter and Paul and Judah, Matthew, Mark,
Luke and John are also on the line, and Jeremiah
ten forty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety. Probably a
lot of folks that are very happy about the Astros.
That makes us happy. By the way, we did get
worried that the New Jersey Devils are Devil's team clearly,
of course, anymore and anymore and helic pious. I don't know.
I don't know if the Dodgers feel like a devil's team.
M right, we goah, think about this, it's got it. Yeah,
I mean, Angels and the Padres are pretty good. Angels
and Potters are no brainers, seventy six ers for historical perspective.
I don't know, No, that's that's the independence, right. Yeah,
we'll think about this. And helic teams and devilish teams. Yeah,
Guardians is a good one. Guardians is really good. They're
protecting us. They are Oh oh, definitely a devil's team.
The Nashville Predators, Oh my god, that's pretty good. Definitely. Uh.
Now here's one for you. What do you do with
the Orlando Magic? Ooh is it the Devil's magic? The
devil or you know where you're going with the Miami Heat.
They're going straight to hell. That's true. M hm, that's
a good that's a good point. All right, back on
the phones.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: Brian in Paarland on seven ninety Brian, good morning to you,
Good morning guys.
Speaker 12: Yeah, the last caller, Ross Gott got to the last
Christian Christian row before I had a chance to uh
not on.
Speaker 2: The active rossters, but we will once it gets back
down there, we'll have an extra segment.
Speaker 12: Yeah what was to begin the season. But I like
the lineup we have, and I think this team this year,
especially with Korea being back up full season, and this
is kind of his team to kind of take charge
of again. Last year he was kind of coming in
mid season, but after the way he kind of responded
yesterday after Jordine got drilled and he hit the three
run bomb.
Speaker 6: That was that's that's that fire.
Speaker 12: That we've seen from previous teams have gone deep in
the playoffs, and I, you know, I don't know what
has gotten into Christian Walker, but maybe it's the fact
that you take him out of the four hole and
he's batt in fifth or six in some occasions. But
I like this lineup the way it's going. I know
it's still early and so this isn't you know, let's
start getting our parade spots for the World Series title.
But I just like the composition of the team. And
obviously I think a lot of it just comes down
to these guys can stay healthy, but being able to
get bread us in there and giving guys days off.
I think that actually.
Speaker 3: Worked help in the long run.
Speaker 12: Now, I know everybody wants to play and have that,
but I think so far and great, Jeremy's been out
and they've been cautious bringing them back.
Speaker 3: But I think a Spota has.
Speaker 12: Done a good job of managing this roster and getting
guys playing time enough to see the ball and kind
of stand rhythm. And also I will I don't know
what the new hitting coach has done with Altuve, so
he will get props, but to already have that many
walks ten games into the season is fantastic. I want
to see more of this Altu b If this is
what we get from him, his chance of three thousand
is actually pretty good in the long run, but hopefully
the West Coast swing won't won't get to us too bad.
Speaker 13: But enjoy the show, guys, have a good one, Thank.
Speaker 2: You very much. Two things, actually three things. One, I'm
rooting so hard for Jose to get it. It's gonna
still take several years. The two and hit seasons are
are a thing of the past. It's gonna take him
a while, right, It's not a foregone conclusion here, and
if it is it may not even be as an
astra who knows, who even knows, I don't even know,
depending on what the state of the team is at
the time. Number two, I think Jose has been be
able to adapt to anything in his major league career.
He knows he's not twenty five anymore. So if he's
gonna take a few more pitches to get on the
base paths, good for them. And number three, and this
is even a super positive note. Y'all like this Astro
run right now? You know they're playing the next handful
of games. It's the Sacramento As who suck and the
Rockies who suck. They got a chance to really get
to use the Matt Thomas term fat and happy over
the next week or so. You do like to say
fat happy, and then we're gonna see a real series
with the kids. Don't say that, by the way, my
kids do. And if one kids the Rockets broadcast as
the kids say fat and happy, you're talking about the
Rockets up coming schedule. Yeh yeah, yeah, uh so that
we got that going. And oh, by the way, we're
adding another team to the uh JC team, the New
Orleans Saints. Of course, that's of course that works. And
by the way, somebody came in with blue devils. Ooh,
it's an easy one now, Demon Dickens kind of both. Wow.
I mean they're diggens, but they're demons, so I guess
at the end of the day that's bad. Yeah, yeah,
they're not. They're not the sweet, sweet, generous Deacons. All right,
let's go to uh j C on the Matt Thomas Show,
Ross at ten fifty eight before we get to Brian McTaggart. Hello,
j C, j C.
Speaker 3: I think that JP.
Speaker 2: All right, JP, you're on seven ninety and good morning
to you, Jeremy Paineer. No, it's just JP. It's John Paul.
Speaker 3: Well close enough. I just want to call him. Let
y'all know I enjoy y'all show, and I listen, and
I'm a regular listeners. And I was calling you in
reference to you was talking about Shared the other day
and I've been in love with all all my life.
Speaker 2: Yes, Lord, JP, I want you JP real quick. I
want you to keep his family friendly. But I want
you to tell Jonathan and Ross how good looking j
Share was in nineteen seventy eight. Just tell him who
mm hmm, that that's.
Speaker 3: The only thing you can do just nail. But she
has always been good looking.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking looking now.
Speaker 3: Yes, she is the movie that I looked at. In
the last movie I looked at, it was a it's
called Barlette.
Speaker 2: Yes, she played a go go dancing the club manager.
Speaker 3: Yes, right right, it's a during I don't see it
about forty times.
Speaker 2: I guess that's a share haller right there. Anyway, Yes, sir,
thank you GP. Nice to hear from you, and please
call anytime you want to.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: One of one other things I wanted to say. The
three of you guys, y'all y'all really y'all really mashed together,
real good because y'all make the show what it is.
And I just want to tell y'all, y'all are like
a well well cooked meal. Regardless how you serve it up,
it still tastes good.
Speaker 2: Thank you, j JP. Last question for you, how do
you like your steak cooked?
Speaker 3: Medium?
Speaker 2: Okay? Accept that acceptable? Acceptable? Thank you very much. That's
the limit it is you he has had medium, well,
we'd had issues. Brian mctagger to join us next here
on Sports Talk seven ettis The Matcommis Show with Ross
eleven o three on Sports Talk seven on a let's
spend ten quality minutes with our friend, a fine University
Houston graduate, longtime beat writer for MLB dot com at
astros dot com, Brian McTaggart, every Thursday here on the
radio program. Uh, five and two? Are we raising the
flag for an American League West title at the Dinkin Park?
Brian mctagger I don't think so.
Speaker 4: Probably not a wise thing to do, but it does
seem like the Astros have gotten off the slow starts
year after year pretty much. So Yeah, I mean after
the first homestand I think you take five and two
for sure, especially after the way the first two games
went all right.
Speaker 2: We were asked to this from our audience earlier. What
is one or two of the most surprise things you
have seen so far during this winning streak.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's just the quality of the advanced
I mean, they preached this all offseason and into spring training,
and even I don't know if you remember the first
few Great Fruit League games, a spot as like, oh
we drew six walks, drew seven walks, and they were
excited about the different approach that they have. But it's
really been a point of emphasis with the new hitting
coaches and their new hitting coordinator is let's make these
pitchers work, let's stay inside the strike zone. And it's
it's really paid off. I mean, and it's across the board,
you know. I think one guy at the forefront of
it is the guy who was probably their biggest free swingers,
jose L TV. I mean, his his chase rate last
year was fifty percent and right as of right now,
it's like thirty four percent.
Speaker 2: That was a swing rate.
Speaker 4: Sorry, his chase rate is down like sixteen percent. And
even swinging in the zone. He was swinging in the
zone last year it's like sixty three percent and now
it's less than fifty percent. He's got more walks than strikeouts.
And this is a guy who usually I sat twice
as many times as he walked, So up and down
the lineup, they're really making the pitchers come in the zone.
They're getting they're getting the starters out of the game early.
Speaker 2: To me, that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 4: And then I think, I like what I see from
the bullpen. They've been able to deploy these long relievers
a couple of times to chew up two or three
in his blue ball looks really good. They got to
get the closing situation ironed out. But a brain you looked,
you know, quite a bit better yesterday. So you know
a lot of things that if you're the Astros, you
think this is positive and we can sustain this.
Speaker 2: What did you know about the hitting coaches coming in?
And look, Astro fan base can be a finicky bunch.
They're touting them highly now, but if they go on
a streak where they only score three runs over a
five game stretch, they'll be calling for their job. So
what did you know about them going in? And I
know there is a there was co hitting coaches last year.
There is definitely a hierarchy chart this timmer around.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think on Friday the Astros fans wanted everybody
fired again. I think I were talking about there the
fire spot of guys were back, and I haven't heard
from them now, but uh, they're probably having a rough time.
But uh yeah, I mean they thought they obviously needed
some different voices in the room, and they they brought
in Victor Rodriguez, who has done this for a very
long time, has worked with some super elite players, some
some big time hitters, and they brought in Anthony and
Iposy who've been with the Tigers, and yeah, they wanted
they wanted a hierarchy. So Rodriguez is the hitting coach.
I post, he's the assistant guy. And even they even
promoted uh, you know, one of their I guess hitting gurus,
the guy who knows more about hitting biomechanics than anybody
in the game probably And Dan Hennigan, he's their offensive
coordinator so to speak, you know Korea. Talking with Korea
during spring training, he says, gotten a lot of great
information from him. So it was time that they needed
some new new leadership, I think in in their their
hitting room and uh, and I think those guys have
been instrumental in trying to get them to change their
approach as a whole as a team, and so far
it's working out.
Speaker 2: Brian mctigger with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Difficult to assess with Jeremy Penya eventually going to be
in the lineup probably every day, but just your thoughts
on the way that things have been constructed the outfields
and mixing in with jord On and low Perfito and
Bryce Matthews as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, Jose you know, we talked
aboutn't mind that's got too many infielders. Well, it's sort
of coming handy here the first week of the season
while they try to get Penya back into the game regularly.
It's more about his legs and just feeling game ready
every day. I mean, his swings there. And I think
we'll see him play back to back games and Sacramento
this weekend for the first time.
Speaker 2: So I think we're nearing the end of having.
Speaker 4: A wonder if Jeremy Penya is going to be in
the lineup every day, and then it'll get a little
challenging for Joe to see how he deploys pereties because
he's done a nice job hitting in that spot after Alvarez,
you know, not so much hitting homers or driving in runs,
but he's getting on base. But yeah, in the outfield,
left field just seems to be a little bit of
a platoon low Perfedo's right Handersrice Matthews against left handers
Lit Bafiito's played center field.
Speaker 2: Matthews.
Speaker 4: Well, Myris is stat a couple of times, I guess
right handers.
Speaker 2: I think we will continue to see that. But little
Brafito is sitting the ball really hard.
Speaker 4: You know, Bryce has your longest time run of the
season that when he put in the home run court.
So if this has truly been the case for everybody,
every position player on this roster is getting a chance
to contribute, even Christian Vasquez hitting a home run yesterday.
So I think if you're a jealous bot of that's
what you want.
Speaker 2: You want.
Speaker 4: You want thirteen guys who you can mix and match,
and any one of them could help you on any night.
Speaker 2: A couple more minutes here with Brian McTaggart on Sports
Talk seven ninety. Christian Vasquez goes deep yesterday, which then
immediately sent astro Twitter into he needs to play more often.
Jan Ar Diez, how would you describe his spring? And
how would you you know, we don't ask you to
describe the numbers so far it's not been good at
least behind the plate and behind the dish at catching.
So a thought or two about the long term in
your mind future for Jannier Diez, not necessarily Christian Vasquez
pushing for more playing time, but how much are we
gonna spend looking at Walter Yonick's development this year at
the Monor League level.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, the advants haven't been good from from
Diaz there. You know, the approach hasn't been great. He
swung and missed at three balls outside his zone the
other day. He's not making hard contact, so they have
to be concerned about that. I mean the spring he
looked okay, not great at to play. Defensively, I think
he's making stripes. The Colors gushed on him the other
day about you know, how well he called the pitches
and and so forth. I know that Hunter Brown really
trust him as well. But he's gonna have to hit
a little bit. And I think if they if you
put Christian Vasquez as a starting catcher, then uh, he's
gonna be Christian Besquez that we expected and hit two
hundred and you know, not to take anything away from him,
but he's a backup catcher at this point in his career.
Long term, Yanick is the guy. He had a tremendous
spring for them. Defensively, I think he's a major league
ready starting catcher. He made some strides offensively in the
Great Fruit League. So he's starting out at Double A,
which he hasn't even played in Double A yet. But
if he can hit, I think Dana will move in
pretty quickly. I think we could see him in Triple A,
and I think we'll come to camp next year if
he has a good season at the plate. I think
he could come to camp next year battling for definitely
a spot on the roster, but maybe even a starting
spot unless he has really gets it turned around at
the plate.
Speaker 2: Far let your run. Let's get a thought or two
about when we should see Spencer arrogaty call up. Is
there any time frame because I know there's a stretch
now of two weeks without a day off, so the
presumption is a six man rotation will come into play
at least for the short term. When do you expect
that decision be made?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it'll probably be another week April. I
think they have an off day April tenth, so maybe
before they hit before they hit Seattle, I think he'll
have to start. That's when this when they go out
like this thirteen game stretch. So I think we're another
week away from from getting the six man rotation. So
Ragetty's gonna have another one, one or two starts down there.
But it's nice that they have him. They have Jason
Alexander and Triple A, Cold and Gordon. You know, they
have some guys that they would feel comfortable about coming
up and adding to this rotation if they have to.
Speaker 2: Tag safe travels to Sacramento. We'll talk again next Thursday.
Thanks for the visitors always. All right, thanks guys, you
got it. Brian mctagger down the MLB beatwith astros dot
Com and of course a Thursday visitor with us here
on Sports Talk seven hunty, we have I just don't
get it coming up at the bottom the r Okay,
that'll be at eleven thirty. Can't wait when we return.
When alums overstep how do I phrase this? When alums
think they run the business, when people that write checks
want to run everything. Okay, I got an example of
that next eleven thirteen on Sports Talk seven hounty. All right,
bottom of the hour here on seven hunty, we're going
to have I just don't get it to our Thursday
staple where Ross Jonathan and myself we throw things to
each other and say, hey, here's going on in our life,
and okay, we just don't get it, and most of
the time we usually get each other's I just don't
get it. So there's something in your life that inscss
you that you don't understand. Take three solid minds, Jonathan
Ross myself and we'll try to help you. And I
just don't get it. Yes, all right. We have talked
about a handful of alums over the years and as
we've done this radio show, and I think the alum
that has attached himself to his school because of the
financial dollars that he has given is Cody Campbell, the
big alum at Texas Tech. Yes, oil man rich, ridiculously rich,
single handedly put Texas Tech. By the way, he single
handedly got them a defense. I mean, I've grown up
watching Text Tech football all my life. They never had
a defense. So this year maybe price is going up too.
Who is he still involved or he just selling? I
don't know. So Cody Campbell yesterday or it was two
days ago, three or three days ago, I had heard
word that they're thinking about moving the Texas Tech Houston game,
which would be the Big twelve opener, to a Friday
night for so Fox can to televise it. Friday Night's
become a big college football night. Used to be Thursdays,
but the NFL took that over. So now you're getting
like Mac games on in low end ACC games. Big
twelve on a Friday night is a good spot for us,
so they do Sundays before the NFL starts as well.
Sometimes a couple yeah, a couple of yeah. But Friday's
has been a I mean, there have been some really
good Friday night Friday night Fox college football games. No,
I'm sarious. I've been Pack twelve been on them, not
Packed twelve. Big Ten's been on there, Pack twelve, Big twelve. Okay,
you're I'm sorry, go ahead, and you're just trying to
throw shade. And that's fine. I get it. So Cody
a tweet out yes and says Friday night lights are
sacred in the Great State of Texas. It is absolutely
absurd that the Big twelve conference in Fox Sports would
consider scheduling Texas Tech football and you of AH football
on a Friday night, which would be October eighteenth. I
know that Brett Yormack, and he adds him so he
can see it. Oh wow, he ain't afraid to show
that to him. Okay, is not a native Texan, but
he wow. But I'm finishing the tweet here. But he's
been here long enough to know better. Come on, man,
ouch sixteen hundred likes, two hundred and fifty one retweets,
one hundred and twenty two replies. Brett Yormark clearly saw
it and basically said, you don't run the Big twelve.
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 2: Deal with it, he said, in not so many words.
I remember, I imagine Cody Campbell does not run the Big twelve.
That's the first statement. Are you serious? Is this real?
Our board and our eighties approved playing twelve games a year,
one of Saturday's a year off on Saturdays in an
effort to raise a profile, narrative, and viewership of the
Big twelve football. Texas Tech hosting a primetime game on
Friday Night d delivers that Friday Night Big twelve football
games outperform the conference average rating by sixty four in
twenty twenty five. All of our schools are treated equally
during the TV scheduling process, and this game fits within
our scheduling parameters. I am thankful that our TV partners
provide us with these opportunities. Now it's not not at
foegone conclusion, but there have been rumors that that's the
game It's going to be on that on that particular weekend. Look,
Cody Campbell. Good for you that you've just given the
check the text attack and say do whatever you got
to do to get this to get us to win
football games. You can't go to the commissioner. I know
your checkbook carries huge weight, but you cannot go to
the commissioner, Brett, you or Mark who was a guest
in the show last week, and say, Brah, you can't
put our game on. I'm sorry. Did you see his
follow up? I did not. I'm like triple checking. This
is verified account. I mean, it's just I think this
is him. It's go to be him. Apparently Brett didn't
get the memo everything runs through Lubbock. He did not
say that. Oh my god, he did. That's legit now,
I mean it's Unich can never tell because verified system
Elon Muskin is infinite wisdom. Just let anybody pay for it. Correct.
But this is the I mean, it's the same thing
from the from the first comment. I know alums think
they run schools. Well, Cody Campbell thinks. He said everything
runs through Lubbock, said no one ever. The reality is this.
He also said maybe we should bring the tortillas back. Yeah,
the reality is this. What's the reality. Many if you
have a kid that is playing high school football, you're
gonna go to the game, You're gonna lose that member
of the audience. But they're not putting Texas ex Houston
on to make sure Abilene gets to catch the Red
Raiders and Cougars. They're doing it because they want people
in Chicago, Miami, Cincinnati, Saint Louis, Orlando to see Big
twelve football. I have for someone who you know, Look,
I was in a part of high school football. I
was a mascot every Friday night when high school days.
I know everybody knows the value of it, but it
just doesn't carry that. Look, when TV networks cut you
the check, they'll tell you when they're going to play
the games. So Brent or Mark is not going to
piss off his television partners by saying, well, one of
our lums is not want Texas Tech playing on a Friday.
You can't do that. You sell your soul for the check.
And if Fox says you're playing at seven o'clock on
a Friday night in from of a national television audience
where there's no other game going on, you're gonna play it.
I have zero problem with the Cougars, or for that
mat or anybody playing on a Friday night. I just
don't get sixty percent boos and ratings. Take it, like
Cody better ratings. You're not fighting with twelve other games
on a Saturday, or fifteen or twenty other television game
televised games. And then in the TV networks are like, hey,
if you don't like it, don't take our check. Put
a non channel seven in Lubbock and see what the
kind of ratings you get or whatever channel they have
up there. I mean, I don't know. I just look.
Television has made college athletics a different animal. Even you
can go back ten fifteen years. The amount of money more. Yeah,
I mean think about this. We grew up watching the
SEC on CBS. SEC's like, y'all are nice and you've
done a lot of things for it. SC, but ESPN,
ABC is gonna pay for us to carry every single
game goodbye. And now you've got Illinois versus Wisconsin on
the Big ten Game of the Week on Terrible Box
or on CBS. I just I appreciate alums, but alums
think they're running the company and they're not. Oh, Cody Campbell,
especially the everything runs through Lubbock. Relax, why don't you
score some points in a playoff game and then we
can talk. Oh, well that was too soon, and I
think got a field goal. Go to text Tech yet,
I think they got skunked. Wasn't it like twenty three
nothing Oregon Tech. It wasn't good. Yeah, twenty three zero.
So Friday nights are a little different at home, by
the way, Yeah, no, no, no, I'm sorry, No, it wasn't
It was into Orange Bowl. Well I'm talking about the
Get the Lobby Tech Lubbock game. Uh, the Tech game
is in Lubbock, So yeah, I'm just saying, just chill out,
play the game, have some eyeball. I mean, does anybody
in Chicago gonna watch Texas Tech Houston. It's at four
o'clock on a Saturday, probably not Friday night game. You're
at the sports bar, you're at the bar, you're at
your house getting ready for the weekend festivities and the
games on. You know you're gonna there's a better chance
of seeing Text Tech Houston when you're not going against
fifteen or twenty other games. Yeah. I just think it's
a pissing match, honestly. Well, uh, and Brent or Mark's
gonna wait sit in there egos. Yeah, for sure, we
could see that coming. All right, ROSSI what don't you
get in life? I know you're gonna say. There's a
lot of things, many things, many, many, many things that
I probably won't stay on air many of them. Do
you think we should look a private behind with the
microphones turned off? I just don't get it. We did
that for the what was it the thirty thousand Twitter
follower party? Oh? We did. We had we had to
ask empty anything yes, and we basically answered everything correct.
You shied away from one question? Oh, I think I
know what it was. We did open things up, though,
for things that were never going to be discussed on
the air. Yeah. So when's the forty thousand Twitter follower
that's never gonna happen? Why not because I don't get
enough followers? Oh, it slowed down. The website has slowed
down significant people have people are jettising from it. Yeah,
I don't think it's I don't think the community is
growing as much unless it's through count bots. No, and
I get rid of bots. I get rid of the pot,
the bots and the porns. Okay, all right, I like
to have my I like to have my Twitter account
with authentic because here's the thing. If you have people
that are gonna say, hey, why don't we advertise your
product because you got all these followers will get for
your If half your followers or bots, you're not gonna
get it, results in your lose money. Keep them no
what you get? I got a nugget nothing because I'm authentic. Okay,
that's they call me. They call me mister authentic. Here
on the show, are you okay, mister? I live five
times a day? I said, most that's not authenticity. Why
lies are okay? FIBs are okay? Flat out lies not
so much? Seven one three, two, one two five seven
on I just don't get it next eleven thirty three
on Sports Talk seven ninety we needs have a open four.
I just don't get it, but our computers are down. Stunner, Jesus,
I just don't get it. Actually get it. I get it?
Uh yeah, this is just frozen. How's everything going to
your world? Matt? It's good. Rockets won last night, Astros
won yesterday. Rockets have won four straight. Astros have won
five in a row. Cougar's thriving in the recruiting world
successful basketball season. It's fine warmer. Hey, this is the
calm us down. This is this our song? Or I
just don't get it? Pick that's something I just thought.
Beatles be happy with you. You guys. It's his ring tone? Right,
it is it? Okay, it is a ring tone. Yeah,
you wanted to name your firstborn son Jude. I did not.
Oh uh, by the way, Ringa or Paul with two
more concerts in at the Honda Theater in Los Angeles
over the weekend. What's the matter now?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Sorry, I thought my mic was off. Sorry, oh way,
I was just worried about your microphone yesterday. Yeah, they
got to fix all right, this is I it's time
for I just don't get it. What don't you get
in your life? Is there something that we can help
you with because of our stage advice and our life experiences? Okay,
I don't get why anybody would not love the Beatles.
H would give me the number one reason why someone
would not. Now you don't say that their favorite? Yeah,
I don't hate the Beatles. So if you and I
went on a two hour road trip to say regulars,
I don't want two hours of the Beatles they have
some hits, a lot of late stage Beetles Beatlemania stuff.
I'm not a huge beetle Ania fan. I well, it's
it's it. It was for the era, it was for
the time. It was. It was to get the teen girls.
They started to make it up with Help and then
the follow up albums to that. I mean, it's it's
an all time run. You're trying to pull up the
old discography. What happened after Help, Matt, you should know
right well you got uh you got Revolver. You have
Rubber sol, Rubber Soul, Revolver. So it's my first favorite album.
Yeah album, Yeah Marine, that it be is fine? Let
it be the album I was gonna say. His song
is is amazing. Yeah, the song's great. All right, turn
this off and now I want to think this. Listen to
Beatles for three hours the show. All right, Uh, Ross,
what don't you get anything in your life you don't
get today? I'm sorry to do this because obviously he
is a broken man. But uh now video is out
of Tiger Woods. Yeah, go ahead. You have billions and
billions of dollars. You have all these resources at your
disposal for which now he's going to rehab overseas, So
that's good. He wanted to go overseas to avoid the
limelight or whatever. I guess that's fair, whatever, whatever, whatever
it takes. Man put him in Sri Lanka, I don't know,
put him in the middle of the Amazon for us.
Tiger Woods is one of the great athletes. Like I'm
gonna put like Mount Rushmore of the best most dominant
athletes I've ever seen. I'm putting Tiger Woods on there.
You really are, yes, And that's that's only a four
spot up there, Lionel Messi, Tom Brady, Tiger Woods was
tough alright, shut up anyways. I just don't get how
he had the bad crash in twenty one, Like, how
many wake up calls do you need? Well, how much
he had the incident with his wife, Elan Norgren. How
many I don't wake up calls does the average person
need in their life. It's more than one sometimes, Yeah,
And that's what I'm saying. I'm not trying to judge.
I don't know his path obviously, you know his father
he was like a built to be a machine, a
golfing machine from age zero. Correct, So he had a
tough upbringing and stuff like that, and he's had massive success.
But I don't get it. Man, you're driving around on
pills and all this stuff. Like, well, I'm worried. I'm
worried for him. I'm wishing him to bet this. Honestly,
this probably is his ninth life. How he survived he
could any car accidents and he's not hurt himself or
anybody else is absolutely amazing. They said he should have
died in twenty twenty one, and like that's another lease
on life. And then you're getting into another rollover accident
five years later and he didn't kill anybody or severely hurt.
How many rollover accidents have you caused, Matt zero, I'm
at zero. Yeah, I'm not trying to judge again, Like
it's it's hard to I mean, feel judgy, I guess,
but I just know you're you know what you're allowed
to judge. I don't get it. You've you've watched this
guy self destruct. I don't want this to be having
the gift of being was on pace to be the
greatest golfer of all time and Tigre's not the greatest
golf of all time. Now he's got my vote, I
know he does hire winner entire more and more leading
money winners, more money winners Jack Nicholas in nineteen seventy
four was a difference than it was. So he's the
money leader against his peers. Give me Nicholas, gim me Palmer.
I'm going Woods. Woods could have done it, though Woos
could have. I mean Woods was more dominant. But I
think longevity does playing it. Golf is a longevity sport.
How do you do it for? I mean he won
the Masters in nineteen at what forty five? Yeah? But
what was the in between? I mean what was he was?
Thirty seven to forty five? Twenty surgeries on his knee
and seven surgeries on his back. Okay, Well, I mean
injuries are part of the equation. So I'm going with
Tiger Woods. I mean, I don't think it's crazy to
say that. It's not crazy. I'm just going to disagree
with you, okay. Uh seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven. Jonathan,
what don't you get this week?
Speaker 10: You know it's funny because, uh myad was about golf too,
but it wasn't about Tiger Woods. I was just sitting
in my car, thinking, you know, golf probably is the
only sport where you can't you know, play like active,
like play in it and be active in it without
being in a business casual attire. And I was just like,
I guess I know the answer, but I really don't
get like do you have to be there, Like when
you go to country clubs, you have to like dress
up or like.
Speaker 2: They most country clubs have a dress code.
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 10: Like, so like what's the history on that? Like I'm
paying all this money, I got to dress certain way
to go play golf.
Speaker 2: To like you know what I mean, like, what would
you like to wear?
Speaker 10: Just I mean, I obviously nothing like trashy or nothing
like that, but I.
Speaker 2: Mean, well, I don't think they're asking you to look
like I mean, you go to the pool, they don't
want you wearing cut off jeans.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there's dress like when you're going and you going
on the fairway type of thing, like you get your
drive in your hand and it's like five in the morning,
whenever you go up there at six o'clock.
Speaker 2: Tradition that I would just say tradition, and in every
golf course is the same way. That's not every golf course.
You go to a mediat a public course, down a
public course, a sharps down, you can wear you know
you want.
Speaker 10: I've never seen that though, That's what I'm saying. I've
never seen you don't play golf like I just don't
get that. No one plays golf in anything casual.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean you can still go the collar shirt
and shorts. It's very casual. I'm not asking you to
put a three piece suit on. Yeah, you can pullo
in some golf shorts. I mean, I guess I understand
where you're coming from. But yeah, you go to the
par three course off of the Beltway, they don't have
a wear whatever you want. In Baytown it's shirt optional.
Could you imagine that works on a golf course. It's
Baytown and tank top and that you're gonna say say
the other No, no, what you're gonna say? I was gonna say,
you can't say anymore? Can you? No? It's not one
was was it ever? Was it ever okay to say it?
I think, I mean, we just didn't say it. But
I'm not saying it. I'm not doing it. You get
a rhyme it, No, let's move on. No, I'm o
uh at this point, I don't know if I you know,
I mentioned earlier this week, I don't get why you
would have a bluetooth in your ear twenty four to seven.
I just think it's really happening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't get that either, But what do I know?
Speaker 3: Yeh.
Speaker 2: As far as golf, I would just say it's a tradition.
I might I understand what you want to tear down
that tradition. I mean, what do you want to wear?
What do you want to wear? Because you're you're out
there for four hours and it's one hundred and two degrees,
you can't wear khaki shorts and a polos.
Speaker 10: You can wear like athletics shorts and the like a
T shirt.
Speaker 2: So you want to be in like gym gear. I
feel like i'mnestly.
Speaker 10: I want me I'm saying, I feel like I've never
seen that, Like, like, why does no one I.
Speaker 2: Think you can wear depending on the course, I don't know.
I don't play golf much.
Speaker 10: These I'm telling you, I've never seen them a life
and my grandpa golfs every morning.
Speaker 2: They gotta work. You go with them?
Speaker 10: No, No, I'm just saying, like he like and then
I have this homeboy that was I run track with.
Now he's golfs and he's wearing everything. But you know,
like business at tire. I mean, I think it's just
part of the sport.
Speaker 2: Like if somebody gets into running and then they they're like, oh,
I bought a garment watch. You know, I got these
running shorts and all I got this. So they get
into biking and all of a sudden they're dressing like
Lance Prime, Lamps, Armstrong. It's just like you wear the
outfit when you get into the sport tennis, Like they
have tennis skirts and tennis outfits that people wear. Definitely
see people like go to tennis pot and practice in
the gym. But I mean it's just kind of like
the uniform. Nobody's nobody's fing jean, somebody's playing tennis and geans.
Stop this are you playing? Guys? I'm just saying, like
you're you're out there walking on the hot ass course
for four hours and and well probably you're writing a
card too, and yeah, Kaki shorts are comfortable. I don't know.
I mean, if you want to work out, we have
to you know, you're not working out, you're going to
it's an event. You're going to play golf, but you're
not going to Lifetime. You're not going to Lifetime Fitness
to go uh to pump a bunch of iron and
video yourself on Instagram. It's like an event. Are we're
going to play golf, So I'm going to put on
my golf outfit and you can get your steps in golf.
You don't have to get a golf call. You could,
but yeah, if.
Speaker 10: You really want to labor, you get what I'm saying, Like,
that's just the only I just don't understand that's the
only sport like the world.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not saying you're crazy. It's not the
only sport. We just mentioned tennis and I don't know whatever.
Speaker 10: CycL You can go on a bike, no, no, no, no,
that's that's different.
Speaker 2: If you're in No, I'm not talking about your going
with with the boys to the Valro station on your bike.
I'm talking about your like cycling, my dads, cyclist. I'm
telling you can go a cyclist. You wear bike shorts.
Speaker 10: That's different because that's the aerodynamics and that's how you
get the speed. That's that's totally different sport because that
has all the physics inside of it. When you talk
about totally different but tennis. But you go to the
tennis court, you don't have to wear it attire.
Speaker 2: You can't. You don't have to. But I'm not normally
wearing mc hammer puffy pants and uh and a jester
or hat on the tennis court. Golf is a different
sport where you see everybody that participates in it, it's
gonna wear that they're little uniform. Not everybody. There's not
one rate like this majority. It's the only sport I
don't know. I don't think a collared shirt and shorts
is necessarily bucking. This is some sort of official uniform. It's
what it is. You see. You just describe the uniform everybody.
I mean, I've seen people golfing and regular athletic uh.
You know what, You're not required wearing nickers when you're athletic.
I've seen people golf and athletic shirts and non colored
colored do you want to wear nut huggers? What do
you want to wear? I'm saying, what do you want
to wear?
Speaker 10: Is describing is what I've never seen driving and seeing
people at the golf course.
Speaker 2: I've never seen anybody in just rather a regular like
Adida's Mors Moisture waking T shirt I only have. I've
never seen the wood drive around more. All right, let's
let's get off this golf conversation. That's peril. I'm sure
Reichy and Mamiitas is really happy about this. Talk. Uh easy,
j R. Mikey hank Ted. We'll get to the three
of you next eleven forty four on Sports Talk seven ninety.
You better not say you don't get very man alone.
That's all I'm gonna tell you right now. Your career
is over. I'll just I just try to guess what
is your favorite. It's got all my favorites. I mean,
he's got a couple of jams, but I mean this
this is you get mad at me because it's gonna
be cliche. That's probably the best, most famous, most famous,
not his best.
Speaker 10: Oh snap, I don't even know it's the song this
is big Medalo.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's not bad. Apoloti, thank you, you gotta so
you're sorry. How's your list? By the way for Friday?
Me I got nothing. By the way, on the show
tomorrow we will have a Jalen Rose will be thiss
at now. Oh what part of the college basketball coverage
is Jalen Rose, and we'll talk a little MBA with him.
He made ocle but is at one o'clock tomorrow as well,
and we have I'm sorry as eleven thirty Non Flois
Stories Friday Edition Matt Thomas Show, Ross be there to
be square. It's good Friday tomorrow, which means you need
to be with us tomorrow. You're off, we'll call in
say him.
Speaker 6: HM.
Speaker 2: Blessed is he who listens to the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross tomorrow Easy seven ninety, Good morning.
Speaker 5: Good morning, gentlemen. We don't you get a couple of
I don't get all right, I got a couple of them.
First one is when somebody asks you, are you sure
I've been in my profession for twenty five years. They
come to you with a problem and you offer them
a solution, and then they ask you, are you sure
you're a normal user. I've been in this profession twenty
five years. Apparently you're not sure if you're asking me
about it. So I don't get that.
Speaker 2: The second one you is, I T yes, yeah, that
makes sense.
Speaker 5: And the second one is when people use the word
we casual sports fans use the word we when they
refer to professional teams. I watched the game uh Saturday
when de min was was having his trouble with with
the pitching. He was struggling a little bit, and the
guy sitting next to me, he's like, yeah, we paid
him all this money. I was like, wait a minute,
are you part of the Crane family? Are you associated
with the Astros? We did not pay anything. Also with
the with with with with the Cougars. Uh, you know
they they they they took their fall. Yeah, we lost.
You're not an alumni, you're not a booster. You probably
can't name two people on that team. How is it we?
I just don't get it.
Speaker 2: And going back ahead, my we, my we descriptions of
the following. If you went to a school, you're automatically
a all right number two. If you work for a
particular team, you can be a WEI. I also believe
if you have been a fan of a particular team
for some or all of your life, you can say
we the Astro fans or we the Rockets. I'm okay
with that. I don't think media should do it unless, again,
you're employed by the team, because you're supposed to be
even though you are a root for the team or
support of the team, you're not technically a member of
said team. So as much as I'm an astro fan,
I don't ever say we need to hit better when
runners in scoring position. Now I do, but clarify myself
as we as a Houston Rocket, as I'm a Houston
Rockets employee. I've been winning them for ten years thirteen overall,
if you go back to the first time. So again,
everybody's got their own definitions. I generally don't mind the
use of we in most situations, and.
Speaker 5: I get it. And then to Jonathan's point, shout out
to my boys that the Melrose golf course, you can
come in there with no dress code. You can come
in with a tank top and flip flops and play eighteen.
That's all I can go, gentlemen, Thank you easy.
Speaker 2: How about that if you all know of a place
where Johnathan can go wearing a thong, a tank top,
no socks and shower shoes.
Speaker 10: Yeah, he wants to go play golf at your course.
It's spend a lot of the money on these clothes.
I'm not to spend more money in clothes.
Speaker 2: Golf is an expensive habit. My friend. I've given it up.
I had shoulder surgery ten years ago. I haven't played since,
and honestly, I hate to say this, I don't miss it.
I miss it. I used to play when I was
on the morning shift and I would get off at
noon and I would have nothing to do. So I
got into golf. I got addicted to golf quite frankly. Yeah,
I was going hitting balls every day, going every weekend.
That's a straight on your wallet right there, that it
is golfing to do a better job of making it cheaper.
I think you price people and they don't care. They don't.
But I see a lot of golf course. I just
do camping gear. Everything's three hundred, four hundred dollars. But
the problem is with golfing is it's expensive to maintain
these courses. I mean it is true and watering. And
do you want nice ones? Do you want good? I
mean those greens they don't just in organically look really
Pristina when you get there, gotta be manicuring and love.
Don Do I get it? So I get why golf
is expensive. I mean I like it. Let's talk to
We haven't talked to JR. In a long time Jr.
Good morning. Where are you been, Matt?
Speaker 14: How are you doing? My friends?
Speaker 2: I know it's been a long long time. What's you now?
Are you in Denver? Now? Is that what I'm seeing?
Speaker 14: No, sir, No, sir, chasing chasing cruise throughout the middle
of nowhere. Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Well hopefully you're safe. How are things?
Let's go to that.
Speaker 11: Oh it's going good.
Speaker 14: I just wanted to tell you what I don't understand,
But first I got a question.
Speaker 2: Do we all agree.
Speaker 14: That Tiger Woods is the most successful golfer in the
last forty years?
Speaker 2: Yes? Okay.
Speaker 14: Now do we all agree that Tiger Woods has made
more money than any golfer ever?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 14: Why didn't this joker, what I don't understand, have a
driver to take.
Speaker 5: Him wherever he needs to go? I mean, if he
has if he wanted to go to.
Speaker 14: A restaurant, I mean, hey, I want to go to
a restaurant. I'm Tiger Woods. Come pick me up. I mean,
I don't get it. Somebody please tell me what's going
on with you.
Speaker 2: There's nothing I can say, Jared, except I just don't
get it. Thanks for the phone call. Good to hear
your voice been a long time? The reality? Is this
the reason he gets o good? You don't want to be?
You know, I don't know if it's not a question
of paying somebody, I mean, it's is it the logistics
of having to call somebody and have him come pick
you up? Or is it you know, hey, I want
to go get a burg or is it just you
know what I can get away with stuff. I'm Tiger Woods,
I can I'm fine. I'm not under the influence of anything.
I can drive easily. Nothing to worry about here. What
do you think it is? Yeah? I think I think
he's he said privacy web to hire a bro that's
a super private dude, make him sign an NDA, do
you know? I think it's because he's let me take
a bunch of different women. And there are the most
the most incredible athletes that I've ever covered or worked
with or worked around, all have guys they just do
I mean, but there there is We hear of athletes
getting in DUIs and stuff all the time, car crashes
and incidents. So I mean, it's pretty common for millionaire
athletes to not want to pay for a driver. Well,
I would think one with an addiction problem that's had
multiple car accidents, probably should think otherwise. He probably should
real quick before we get to the news at noon.
I just don't get it. Do you know who had teams?
You know who had security at the game on Tuesday night?
The Rockets and Nicks. Craig Ackerman NBC did. There was
some stoic bro who did not crack a smile for
the entire time that I saw him. I think he
was Reggie mill security person. Oh really, do you think
Reggie Miller needs security in twenty twenty six? Probably why
people are crazy if he feels like I don't know you,
we don't know. Maybe he's gotten some threats. That's just
that I don't I mean, I guess that you'd help me,
you just help me figure out why I don't get something.
In theory, I would hope you wouldn't need it. I mean,
he's a hall of famer though, Yeah, but it's just
this's Reggie Miller. It's it's I mean, Joe Montana's a
Hall of famer. He didn't have security. Doesn't he do it? No?
I don't think he does. Well, maybe maybe it's only
when he's in arenas. Maybe he's been attacked. Maybe he's
been threatened. I don't know, somebody the autograph, you know,
like get away from me. Yeah, back off. I've read
how many bad takes. He's gotten better. He used to
be able, still isn't great. I think he took the criticism.
Herton improved, so good for him. Yeah, he's fine. Let's
get to the news at noon. You want to, I
would love to, but sometimes the heat is on. Thank you,
Robert Palmer, thank you. Power Station.
Speaker 1: Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2: Twelve o two on seven ninety Good afternoon. We were
going to give you a nice musical interview with some
highlights of last night's Rockets and Astros, but our computers
are down, so it's what it is. We're working on it.
We're working on great to have you with us here
on a Thursday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
We've got believe it or not. Today one point fifty.
We have a recap of the Astros and Rockets game
to get to as we present to you the News
at noon. Butt on them, bump, don't on them. Here
we go, Yes, Matthew will go in chronological order, which
means we will start with your Houston Astros six to
four victory over the Boston Red Socks. Mike Burrows was
solid five innings, pitch to earn runs, three walks, six strikeouts.
Did have some slight control issues here and there, but
he was spinding the breaking stuff and getting a lot
of whiffs and some effective pitching for the Houston Astros.
Aj blue Ball continues to be a dude as he
came in and did his thing. Kywaiting did give up
a solo shot, as did Brian abrey You, who is
now perfect one for one in save opportunities. Brian abray
You with his ERA down to nineteen point two nine,
nineteen point two nine, you know, I did get some
strikeouts that yeah, he struck out the side after giving
up a solo shot to Roman Anthony to start the hitting.
I almost sad start the segment. That's the same the
segment of the game. So Brian to bray you a
perfect one for one and save opportunities. So far, my
got feelings looking good and uh, his era is just
above the voting age, so that's fine. It's gonna come down,
I would certainly hope. So although they're going to play
in Sacramento, which means that's true. Everybody, Zra is going
to get a little over. Astro's offense gonna be just
fine in a Sacramento. There are now five and two
your Houston Astros. Of course, the big one yesterday was
Carlos Care's three run bomb off of Garrett krossche so
Astros offense looking good. Carls Kraaye with a home run.
Christian Vasquez had a home run as well. By the way,
Christian Vasquez, Uh, for any of you that are fighting, well,
let's put it this way. Catchers typically aren't gonna be
the leanest machines out there.
Speaker 3: M hm.
Speaker 2: He's healthy, eating well well, I mean he got called
off the couch a couple of weeks ago. So so
you want to say it God and say it. That's
he could drop a couple you know, I would think it.
No snow, no secret, No, I don't. Yeah. Yeah, his
waist size probably could go down a couple of inches. Sure,
why not Rockets beat it? Oh no, we can't do that,
he did. No, I cannot Rockets beat the Milwaukee Bucks
one nineteen to one of thirteen. Read a Shepherd insarts
it back into the starting lineup for the Rockets nine
of fifteen overall, nine of fourteen from three. He was
on a fighter and he was hitting him from thirty
plus last night, Matt, he was career high. As you mentioned,
Rockets with the victory, now go to number five in
the Western Conference, a half game in front of Minnesota, who,
by the way, played the San Antonio Spurs. I think
tonight say it with me, five seed, go Spurs. Now
do you want to be the five to go on
the road to take on the Nuggets in three? Wouldn't
you rather be the sixth to go on the road
to take on the Lakers? Both are tough, Okay, As
let me give you the two different perspectives. Okay, the
fan in me says, I like the chances against the
Lakers better. The competitor in me and the competitor that's
in the Houston Rockets are like, we need to be
playing good basketball going into the postseason, and I guarantee
you that every NBA team is going well. If we're
gonna win a championship, we're gonna have to be beating
not one, not two, but probably three excellent teams wherever
the Chips fall, where they may will play. Who we
have to play. So to answer your question in a
long form, there, you can't dog a game just to
drop a spot. I'm not saying that they need to
dog a game. I'm saying, which would you rather happen?
I would rather play the Los Angeles Lakers. Okay, to
answer your questions, so we'll see what happens. Game and
a half behind the Nuggets are your Houston Rockets home court.
I would like home court advantage over over any of it.
I think so you take home court over anybody as
compared to playing a road against them. I said differently
last night, but I've changed. I reserved the right to
change my mind. Oh it's fine, we changed our mind.
Here A constantly home court over everything. Try to get
in that four spot half game ahead against the Timberwolves.
A gut feeling. How much does that second and last
game matter between the Timberwolves and the Rockets. I could
see it going either way. Gut tells me it's going
to mean something. But I think you're right. Yeah again,
you're talking. These teams have been separated four five six
by about a game, game and a half for about
two months now. The Lakers the only team that's really
kind of pulled away. Yeah, they are a game and
a half, but just one in the lost column. Oh sorry,
two three in the lost column ahead of the Rockets,
but never mind, all right, Matthew. Also, I don't even
want to talk about what Victor winbin Yama did last
night against Jess do it because we provide information in
all audience one one thirteen Warriors over the Spurs. Wimby
had forty one points and eighteen rebounds. He sucks Adam Clinton. Yeah,
he's a bum. I believe the words were bum. What
a bum? Victor wimbin Yama is forty one and eighteen
forty one and eighteen crazy three blocks as well, he's
making an MVP push, very late MVP push. So is
it SGA.
Speaker 3: Him?
Speaker 2: Wimby? Kate is disqualified? Can Jalen Brown get it? Jalen
Brown's not the craziest thing. Jason Tatum's playing well for
the Celtics right now too. Yeah, but he's not gonna
it's analytical, So that's a boot to point.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: NFL News, Matthew, do you have some yes Kirk Cousins
agreeing to sign with the Raiders. Now it is listed
as a five year deal for one hundred and seventy
two million dollars, but it's actually just one year, twenty
million dollars guaranteed, and then it will have a club
option for two years at eighty million. According to Adam Schefter.
Let me tell you this, and I've brought this up
five hundred times. You know, when you want to come
back as a different person in life, Yes, I think
coming back at kirk Cousins has got to be on
the mount Rushmore of the list. Currently career earnings, you
know what, Yes, kirk Cousins career earnings, how many years?
Fourteen year career five hundred and forty million, three hundred
and thirty three. Okay, let's still a lot. Let's put
this in perspective. We add this one to seventy two.
He's there. Well, let's not on all that, and let's
talk about what's guaranteed to him Kirk Cousins. When you
think of a quarterback, how many years has it taken
to you think of kirk Cousins being an elite one
many years, many many many down the list. Three hundred
thirty three million dollars kirk Cousins double franchise tagged by
the Commanders big money from Minnesota, decent money from Atlanta,
and now decent really good money from the Los Angeles
Raiders or the Los Angele Raiders, the Las Vegas Raiders. Yes,
Kirk Cousins three hundred thirty three million dollars. Wow, Fernando
Mendoza likely to be selected first overall by the Raiders.
And that makes sense why I'm bringing this up. He
skipped out on Indiana prote yesterday. Yes, done, He's like,
I ain't got time for that. Now we're good, sign
me up. So Fernando Mendoza number one overall to the Raiders,
with Kirk Cousins putting him under his wing. All right,
bust or all pro? Oh one of the other? One
or the other Fernando Mendoza, I don't know. He just
feels like a no all pro. Then, Okay, your guess
I had to pick one. Yeah, you would think one
dash one would should be an all pro. Correct, you
would hope. So yeah, apparently I don't know. Some people
don't think this is the greatest draft year of all time,
but who knows. Okay, well, I'm going to try to
get a draft expert on for the show next week. Okay,
all right, man, your thoughts on Iowa State women's basketball
star Audie Crooks entering the transfer portal for his fine
for her excuse me, final year of collegiate eligibility. She
will have offers, wouldn't she dropping like thirty a game
and stuff you? Twenty five point eight points per game?
Speaker 15: Wow?
Speaker 2: Sixty five percent from the floor, beast. Why'd you bring
her up?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's just listed on the ESPN top headlines. I mean
you play, Yeah, I've seen highlights. Yeah, she's physically imposing,
she's bawling. Okay, well you want more on on Tiger Woods.
He's going to rehab overseas, getting in helping needs. Yeah.
The video release with the Share County Sheriff Deputy Tatiana
Lebanar saying I do believe your normal faculties are impaired
and you're under an unknown substance, So at this time
you're under arrest for dui Woods saying he was looking
at his phone and changing the radio station when his
land rower clipped the back of a truck and rolled
over onto its side on a residential road on Jupiter Island.
Police officers also on the video found pills in woods
pocket after the crash. I hope this is the last
time we bring this up. Honestly, he's I don't know.
The next time he runs into trouble, he's gonna go
to jail. And that's ridiculous because he has been given
so many second, third, fourth, fifth chance opportunities. I'm wishing
him peace and healing. I hope this out of the
country treatment center that he goes to, I hope it
works for him me too. Hey, let's brag on the
astro numbers you want to. Yes, we got some good
astro numbers to get to okay, and we'll do that
plus your phone calls. Remember today we asked those who
being the ten o'clock hour to call in and talk
about what you love so far about the Local nine.
We should do that again. If you love the Local nine,
which we believe that you do, what have you loved
most so far? After this five and two start seven
one three two one two five seven ninety it is
nice to talk about a Wedning baseball team. And that's
what we've got in our city. Astros five and two
day off today will take on the hated Sacramento A's
for our three game set beginning tomorrow. I know they're
not really the Sacramento A's to just call themselves the A's.
By the way, construction right along course for the start
of the twenty twenty eighth season for the A's in
Las Vegas. I like saying Sacramento as that's where they play.
I know that's being weird. It's not being weird about it.
You're trying to sell tickets and get people to come
out there, and you won't even name that's name, the
name you're the town you're playing in. It's ridiculous. Yeah,
you know what I mean. I would say, I get it.
Darn looking for Darren looking fill nine thousand seats, I
think is what it is. Yeah, how's that going? So absurd?
Everybody we talked to a spring training hated that place.
A couple of players you asked about the play on
the road and stuff.
Speaker 13: M hm.
Speaker 2: The ball I mean they're in a Triple A. They're
in a Triple A ballpark with dimensions that are not
far enough because the ball travels really far there. And
then on top of that, there in the not these
major league clubhouses, I mean, they're they're accustomed to going
into borderline hotel rooms. And they're just not good as
good as they used to be. Terrible. It is what
it is. But the Astros have their first three games
sweep since September of last year against the Rangers five
game winning streak. I mean, just Mike Burrows looked better.
I don't think he was outstandingbody looked better. Gave you
eighty four pitches. Astro Bullpen's been good. Has been overworked
so far, especially when you've had a couple of seven
inning performances the two days before that and blue Ball
dominating blue Ball already a guest on the eight team
earlier this week, Yeah, as you predicted. Yeah did I
have that? Yeah? You said on Christian Rowe as long
as he was on the team. But he's been sent
all right. Christian row by the way, fourth in the
current astrois Christian rankings. Soho, who how is your rankings going?
Speaker 5: Right? Now?
Speaker 2: This is Are you going off a forty man here? Yes? Okay,
go ahead, Walker Vasquez, Javier Roa, what do you think
I can't argue? Now? Let's go into uh Christians in general? Okay,
it's everyone. McCaffrey. Oh okay, I thought you were going
you know, Correle two. Vey mccolors. Oh no, no, no,
let's go with Okay, Christian would probably not in the
list anymore. Man, he I thought he. I have not
heard from him. I thought it was somewhere overseas or
something like that, that makes sense. No, I thought he was
going to China. But no, I guess he last played
with the Lakers last year. Christian just fight with people
on Twitter calling them casuals. Yeah, it's gotta be. McCaffrey's
got to be one right over any of our Christians.
Walker's got a case, McCaffrey, I guess, Yeah, McCaffrey one
Walker too. Is there any other Christians we're forgetting about?
Feels like it you wanta go look it up? Braun Brown?
Oh Christian uh with the Nuggets? Nuggets? Yeah, that's b
r a u n by the way, Yeah, that's why
I said, Braun, But it's Brown. It's right. That's not
a bad call on your part. All right, let me
look at Let me try to Christian Brown or Christian Walker.
That's a good one. Man. I never thought I would
compare a Denver Nuggets an astro got a ton in baseball? Well,
most of the aren't the astros Yelwich. That's on the court. Arroyo,
all right, that's yeah. I was gonna say what I
think we're losing the audience. I'm losing my own audience here.
I'm losing myself. Let's get to the guys we actually
do care about Jordan Alvarez two for three, two runs,
a double hit by pitch his ops against the Red
Sox thirteen oh five, Carlo's Korea home run, first of
the year, three run jack, first home run at dyke
In Parks, and is being traded from the Minnesota Twins.
Had it been that long? Wow? It was Krea number
home run number one. Forty are called Christian Korea. How
would you describe Carlos Korea's career? Can you even do it? Now?
Was he the number one prospect in baseball? Wasn't he
one dash one? He was a one dash one pick?
But what is the number one prospect in baseball? I
don't wasn't there, wasn't Tyter. Wasn't Brian Buxton in that
group too? Like one dash one started in that same range.
People wanted them to take Buxton, they didn't, And I
mean they've both been hurting their careers. Both have been
very good, both way more than than Korea. Both have
been very hurt in their careers. He's not a Hall
of Famer platinum glover. Let me pull. I'm wondering where
he was. I can find the prospect history. But okay,
forging about the prospect just just as a major leaguer.
But I got myself curious. I know. I'm sorry. Impactful hits,
parts of World Championship teams h No. One. Actually he
got as high as number three prospect in Baseball or
number four on Baseball America. So top five prospect, elite
level shortstop made the transition to third base as a
lot of shortstops tend to do. Rookie of the Year,
no MVP, three time All Star, gold Glove and a
Platinum Glove. I think no Is one gold glove was
a platinum glove. So okay, So I'm going to ask
you the question I asked you sixty seconds ago. Describe
his career all of very good, really really solid, not
Jersey retirement worthy. We'll be in the Astros Hall of Fame.
Book got written on him. Also, he's got eight eleven
ops right now, and he's playing very well in the field,
hitting two ninety six. That's early, very early, yeah, right, yeah,
I mean those are around his his career numbers. He's
career eight sixteen ops, two hundred home runs, two hundred
and one all of very good. You're a three time
All Star on a Platinum Glover and a Rookie of
the Year. Good. That's really good. But he's But I
would have thought we first started watching that he was
headed for a Hall of Fame career. Yeah, in twelve years.
If you'd ask me to predict after he won Rookie
of the Year twelve years, I would have said, like
three Gold Gloves and like seven eight All Star or
one batting Championship and amp a big silver slugger. Yeah,
maybe not a batting champ, but at least like a
He's never hit more than twenty six home runs in
a season. I would have thought he would have multiple
thirty home run seasons. I because he had twenty two
his first year in ninety nine games. I think the
biggest detriment for his lack of that chase towards the
Hall of Fame is injuries. Injuries which I think slowed him.
I mean, but as far as like a battler, A leader,
like the attitude, all that stuff he's been has been perfect. Oh,
I'm a he born to play baseball, born to play baseball,
knew at a very young age he needed to not
only learn how to play baseball, but get schooling. Needed
needed to learn how to speak English to make sure
that he knew he was gonna be media savvy, which
he is. It's like mentoring Bryce Matthews who heard that story, like,
oh you you're you're not eating good. You don't want
to be great, like he's he's just a lead. And
I'm telling you right now. And I want to ask
Carlos this if when we get him on the show,
hopefully at some point. I wonder what those Mountain visits
are like, does he you know, because they all speak
underneath their gloves, right, they cover their mouths up. Is
he a here's the city situation, here's what's presenting himself,
or is he going in there saying all right you
blankie blank, he's do this blank blank. You know, he's
a more motivational speaker than anything else. And frankly, when
when the Scandal of seventeen got into play, he took
up for a lot of his teammates that was great.
You don't know the facts. You gotta shut the bleep up.
I might be we have that clip working well, I've
had to restart it three times, so we'll see you
talk all right. All I'm saying is I'm really I'm
glad he's back. It's kind of nice to have him back. Yeah,
I love it, especially he's hitting three run bombs of Garrettkoshit.
It was a difference in the game and him. To me,
he's not he's not gonna be your best player. But
if he's your third or fourth best hitter, I think
you're in a really good spot. And the and the
transition from that was a great line. Cody Bellinger codes
it was so yeah. By the way, is Cody and
a douche name? Hall of Fame?
Speaker 3: Hmm?
Speaker 2: Now let me give you the two names we've already
thrown in there. You've thrown Jacks and jas Biggers hate
you now, Jackson, Brody Brody. Brody's a douche name, Okay?
Is Cody a douchey name? Brody and Cody first glimpse,
I say, yes, Well, you gotta come at Cody Campbell
like that. I'm not coming By the way, he's he's
still trying to go score shirt on Brett or Mark
still is he's still doing it? What's he saying?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 2: He's saying, your mark serves the President's which sort of
serves them the board they're gonna about to throw a hands.
Somebody said, this is like ww E promos they're cutting.
Do you think they're trying to build up? What do
you think about that? I mean little faux stuff or
do you think me an actor is just legit?
Speaker 14: Man?
Speaker 2: How much of this is these guys playing it up?
Those who don't know Cody Campbell is criticizing the Big
Twelve Conference because they're thinking about moving Texas Tech Houston
game to a Friday night, where Cody Campbe's it's like
football in Texas is high school football on a Friday night.
Oh I got a Cody coming in. Oh lord, no,
Oh get him? Oh no, get him Cody. Now, if
you didn't hear the story the other day, I said
that Jacks was a douchey name, and our friend Pete
Mayok said, hey, my stepson's name is Jax. He thinks
it's hysterical. Yes, now, look, oh lord, I'm just gonna
take the loss on this go ahead. No, you want
to call people out, No, I'm just saying it's fun.
I just asked. It's a douche people then with the
name Dave or a douchey, it's that they didn't name themselves. Okay, Cody,
before you join the show, I want to apologize. I
should not speak in such broad brushes. Cody online one
who's going to join us next is an awesome human
being friend of the show listener, Cody. I'm going to
apologize and say I'm sorry that Cody. Is that a
douche named twelve thirty one Sports Talk seven eight? Where
does our phone lines? I was gonna talk to Cody.
What happened? It is dropped? You still here from me?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: There he is? Okay, this is different radio station. All right,
I'm gonna I'm gonna apologize. I'm gonna take my loss.
He well, why did this just go to Sonny? That's Cody,
my friend, my colleague, my my bestie. Hi, Cody, get him,
get him, Cody, don't hold back. Shut up. Cody knows.
I was just teasing, right Cody. Oh yeah, it's all good. Oh,
thank god? And Cody. Cody Bellinger is a Douce. So see,
I knew it wasn't wrong. Not all Cody's are built equal.
You're the cool Cody. What else you got today? No,
I was kind of I was gonna call anyways with
the astro was talking about going to a six man rotation,
and you're seeing more of these bullpen games and stuff.
Is this just where baseball is going to go in
the future. You know, I grew up watching Nolan Ryan
start a game and finish it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, now we're seeing pitcher's going four or five innings.
Speaker 2: The reality is you're spending more money Cody on starting pitching,
and you want to make sure they are with you longer.
Midderallievers generally not a dime a dozen, but they don't
worry about their long term arms as compared to starters,
and so they would rather If they're going to pay money,
they're going to want to make sure their guys are
ready to go. And if if you save them for
one less start over a six day stretch and not
wear and tear them, especially early in this season, Major
League Baseball team teams will take their chances on it,
so you can move up, up and down mid or relievers.
This is harder to do so with starting pitching. Yeah,
I get it. Yeah, thanks for taking the call, go Astros,
go Astros, Thanks Cody for the phone call. Thanks Cody,
a wonderful name and a wonderful gentleman of the show. Yeah,
the day is Nolan Ryan, er are gone. That's always
the first name everybody brings up, like I remember what
Nolan Ryan is. They don't forget Bob Gibson's you're throwing
one hundred when he was forty. No one. Mine is
a freaking nature, Okay, Nolan Ryan is an absolute freak,
an exception to most rules first of all, and second
of all, as you laid out, I mean just a
different error, different era, a different age. And money has
a lot to do with it. Yeah, I mean, you
don't pay Mineral or Levers nineteen million dollars a year
to get out in a six inning. You pay nineteen
million dollars t million dollars for starting pitching. And you
want to make sure those guys are upright and their
arms are good. And because if guys, I mean think
about it, if you if any of those starters go
through Tommy John's or forum injuries, that they're not just
quick fifteen day fixes. They're usually six months to a
year before they get fixed. Josh Hader's making nineteen million
hopefully comes back, so okay, but he's you're not all well.
I mean, closers make decent money. Yeah, but you're Brian King.
I mean, I don't think I mean, Brian King's gonna
make a nice living. But don't get me wrong, But
it's just a different age where everybody's throwing as hard
as they can, spinning the balls as far hard as
they can as well. Yeah, yeah, so I don't now
six man sounds good, but it also gives you an
armless of the bullpen, which then then you have to balance.
Do you let your starters stay out there a little
bit longer because you don't have as many reinforcements and
you just have to play it by ear case by
case basis. Yeah, but yeah, it feels like to me,
the astros will go in and out of this, they'll
back guys off, and that's what the battle will be
between I don't know, it's between Lance and Spencer Eric.
I mean, what if Eric get he throws six innings
a one run ball? You know, again, it's so early
that I mean We've only had what two guys go
through the rotation twice. McCarter's only pitch once, EMI is
only pitched once, Christian Hobby is only pitch one. We
have no sample size on what their twenty twenty six
is going to look like. Yeah, mc coulors is out
of options. I don't I would imagine Burrows is not.
But you're not sending him down. No, No, you might
could be. I mean, if he doesn't pitch well and
he needs to just go down for a couple of starts,
that wouldn't be the craziest thing, I don't think. But
hopefully he just turns it around and you have one
of them good problems. Oh here the whole season. You
think a Scott Boris client who makes that kind of money,
you got that kind of publicity, is going to be said.
So if he goes out two more times and he's
getting completely shelled and Raghetty's pitching, well, it'd be a bullpen.
There's no way a Scott Boris client's being sent down, Okay,
I mean I could see it. I don't know why.
If he's struggling and rag Getty's pitching, well, I'm not
saying that's gonna happen. No, I don't think the chances
that are good either. But I know I didn't Roki
Sasaki get sent down. Who I don't know who Rookiy
Sasaki is. It's the Dodgers pitcher. I'm sure he's wonderful. Okay,
boris client. I don't know who his agents are. Uh Wasserman.
Oh that's another big one too, that's another big group.
I think he got sent down last year. Not to go,
not to go, look this up. No, the only way
I could ever see Emi getting sent down is if
there's something with an you know, injury for similar rehab
start or something, and look, this is this is we
don't this is not even a conversation at this point. You,
I mean, think about this. If anybody's gonna move up
and down, it's probably gonna be arroganty because he's got options.
Because once you use a player, you don't have analyst,
but you've got a lot of options. You can send
them up up and down. It's got has got options,
and Laspa Colors Junior does not. So look what a
nice problem to have. I'll say this, you want to
go get a slugging outfit or the deadline, and you
have a surplus in your starting rotation with blue ball
and why sitting there back there? Ooh, I feel like
I could go gut feeling here right now. Jason Alexander
waiting in the wings. By the way, I think the
Cowboys are four and one? What's our win total? Ninety
six one and forty four game schedule? Whatever? Now I
just said they're gonna win the PCL. Now, what would
the parade be like in sugar Land? If you want
a PCL, you should go by the by the fountains
and then the town center. You started, You start at
the sugar mill. You go down a consolation field. What
state is the sugar mill in? I wish I know?
I wish I knew sugar Land better. You're the first
person ever say that because I can. It's fine, all right?
So if you like sugar Land, if you live in
sugar Land right now and listen to the show, what's
the parade route?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 2: You go to buy the In and Out Burger? Because
tell me, I'll give you the King King went a team.
You go to the fountains, then you go to the
In and Out Burger, and then you go to the
Town Center and then you party at that uh that
Marriott pool. It's nice. That Mary is nice. Yeah, and
you can get one of those double big port chops
over there at Perry's after too, exactly. We used to
do when there are sports, probably to do shows over
there and way back in the day. Yes, Stadia, that's it,
good poll by you remember if you're not. Yeah, they're
long gone though, so they stopped advertising. They stopped advertising.
That's what happens and own a business. They went out
of Business's a fact. That's why Big City Wings is
thriving where there's all the time growing, Thank you very much.
Twelve locations, when are you? Uh yeah, Kingwoods would be.
We get off at Kingwood Drive, you go to the fountains,
you go throughout the variety neighborhood. You stop at all
the golf courses. There's like nine of them. I'm good.
That's a lot of golf courses. Yeah. Make sure you're
wearing your proper attire, Jonathan, you're not invited to a
Kingwood golf course. Uh.
Speaker 10: I don't want to even be invited. All those silver
spooning goons over there, So we spend.
Speaker 2: Goons that what they call it over there. That's what
they call them. I like that. Yeah, I don't know
the Oh, well, we're having technical more tennis. We're good
do the show. Okay, you were just talking as a curedous.
All right, uh seven one, three two. We're already how
about this, We're already creating a sugar Land space cowboy
party parade route. I love it. You know what we
need some more? When he went for downtown Houston in June, rockets,
what do you think let's go. I think you're gonna
be free. Don't say that. I think you're gonna be
free the month of June. What do you mean? Don't
say that? I know, I know, I know. I'm sorry.
I'm living in reality, Kenn. I live in a mystical
world where Kevin Durant defies age like he's done for
ninety percent of the season. Nine percent of the season. Actually,
all right, by the way, we got Kyle's gonna join us.
Give us the parade route through sugar Land. Okay, great
sugar Lank Chamber of Commerce is weighing in. It does
It does end to the Marriott where the pool is, right,
I guess, so you gotta go to the golf courses.
Uh huh. Yeah, Let's let's see what Kyle's gonna help
us out. Kyle, you're in charge of the Sugarland Space
Cowboys parade route. How's that gonna go?
Speaker 1: Matt?
Speaker 13: I think you start a you start a Constellation Field.
Speaker 11: Okay, And there's a back road that wraps.
Speaker 13: Around right to the h the old sugar factory, and
then you're gonna take Highway ninety right there back to
Highway six and you just take that all the way
to the town center.
Speaker 2: Are we stopping by the airport or no. There's not
enough people to be around this whole last route. And
what's the population of sugar Land. I think we need
a shorter round, Kyle.
Speaker 13: I think sugar Land's got one hundred thousand.
Speaker 2: I'm saying it's every single one of them going to
be at this parade round. You cancel mile, if you
cancel school for the day, they will you need every
single one, plus the in and out employees at this route.
By the way, you cannot have you cannot have in
and out route. There's a parade there anyway with cars
waiting to get for food. I have not been in
Constellation Field. I have been by there, though.
Speaker 13: Yeah, well there's at least three thousand people that go
every day, so that'll that'll fill their out.
Speaker 2: I mean we going to line them up single file.
Speaker 13: Everyone's spaced out every stop light at Highway six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, put you off like red Rover line. You're not
invited a parade. You know, you're just poop pooing it.
I'm not poo pooing it. You're trying. We gotta get competed.
You guys just went a route longer than the Astros
parade route. Okay, you think sugar Land's getting more people
than the Houston Astros for World Series? If you cancel
four pen Id schools forer day, every kid their mother
would be out there. It was out of the Astros parade.
Let's be realistic. Sugar Land's a big suburb. But come
on now, all right, Charlan, I got your back, sugar Land.
I'm living in reality. Love you, sugar Land. You've not
been no game in Constellation Field. I don't know. I
used to go. I used to go for Skiers games
way back in the day. Okay, but I have not
been recently. Didn't you go and try to hit home
runs over the No? That was somebody else. I don't
even think you reached the warning track. So it was
a good run. It was a good run. Twelve forty
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one three two one two five seven ninety. A former
astro nemesis has a job. Now. We'll tell you who
that is and where he's playing next. Twelve to forty
five on Sports Talk seven ninety. For about five years
on this radio show, people would call up. It would say, hey,
the astros need pitching help, and we would say, man,
you're right, they need an arm they need especially last
year with all the different injuries. Well there was a
name that was brought up. What about every twenty percent
of the time, what's Trevor Bauer doing these days? Right now?
Do we have that answer that we used to give
the people. I can try to find it. Let me see.
And you're like, Matt, why are you bringing up Trevor
Bauer and the reason why I'm bringing up Trevor Bauer
is because he is now going to be playing quote
unquote professional baseball. He has signed with the Long Island
Ducks of the Atlantic League, and he's scheduled to pitch
opening night April the twenty first for that team. Now
I also have I have the Trevor Bauer thing. I
also have something called MT. Bauer post game call. Let's
play that ring a bellon. That's gonna be why I
got mad at somebody, I think so, right, sure, Kevin's
in Spring Branch on the Tenth Innings Show.
Speaker 15: Hello Kevin, Hello, Hey, I was just curious, what do
you think that Trevor Bauer is gonna have to do
to be ready once the Astro signing.
Speaker 2: They're not going to sign him.
Speaker 6: The Astros are going to sign Trevor Bauer. No not,
you know that.
Speaker 2: He's what do you know that he's doing, Kevin, They're not.
They're not going to sign him.
Speaker 6: They're gonna sign Trevor Bauer.
Speaker 2: Boss man, listen, idiot, they're not going to sign him.
Speaker 15: You don't have to call me an idiot.
Speaker 2: I'm all right, Why don't you listen to me when
I tell you they're not going to sign him.
Speaker 15: Oh, I mean you're you're not listening to me whenever
I tell you they are.
Speaker 2: Well, who are you? What do you know about it?
Tell me who are your sources? Where are you getting
this from?
Speaker 15: Well, let me just say that the Astros are going
to sign Trevor Bauce.
Speaker 2: Okay, listen to me. Are you going to be able
to answer a question of mine or not? If you
know who they're signing and where you where you're getting
this from? Let's go what do you got?
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna say who I got it?
Speaker 2: Then I don't believe you. Then you don't want to
tell me who you got it from? Then I don't
want to hear it from you.
Speaker 6: It's too it's too close to the Astros.
Speaker 2: Well, then who is it?
Speaker 15: It's it's it's too early, too for what?
Speaker 6: But too early for I mean this is this is
fresh news?
Speaker 2: No, it's not. It's not fresh news. If you want
to break the news, what is your name? Let's go
out and give out your phone number so people can
call you and give you credit when you hit the story.
Speaker 6: Right now, I don't I don't need any credit.
Speaker 15: I was just curious, what do you know that Trevor
Bauer would have to do. I mean, like you know,
when a picture goes through, he's got to work up
the innings and everything. Just wondering do you know if
he's working out or anything like that.
Speaker 2: I'm you know what, you know what, Kevin, He's starting
tomorrow's games. So whatever your sources are are wrong, he's
starting tomorrow for the Astros.
Speaker 15: No, I didn't say he was starting tomorrow for the Astros.
Speaker 2: Then what are you saying? This is stupid? Have you
been drinking?
Speaker 6: Are you?
Speaker 2: Are you on a recreational drug?
Speaker 6: Right now, I'm driving.
Speaker 15: Down the freeway sixty miles an hour coming back from Angleton.
Speaker 6: Back to Houston right now?
Speaker 2: Right, Well, congratulations and breaking the story. Tell everybody where
they can get all the What other breaking news do
you have on the Astros?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: I don't have any other breaking news. I just heard
today the Astros are gonna sign Trevor Bauer. This that
what I heard.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, then you're hearing that information.
Speaker 15: I think it's he knew how close it was to that.
Speaker 2: You'd say, well, then you think if you're not going
to tell me how close it is that I'm not
going to believe you. So how about that?
Speaker 15: Well, I understand that, but I'm m The Astros are
signing Bauer.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's okay, Thank you so much, appreciate the information
you've given me. Five minutes of my life will never
get back, and I apologize for the three minutes of
you to listen to that. I thought it was pretty good.
I'm going to tell you an idiot, right it was.
It was pretty much on targets. I'm just going to
tell you all something. We are highly compensated here at
the radio station for reasons just like that right there.
That's funny. So we were taking calls like that all
the time for a long period time. Forgot about that
guy who was like, it's a done deal. So he
is playing for the Long Island Ducks. He is also
going to be miked up for all games and practices.
So he for his YouTube channel for yeah, for basically content.
So it's you know what he is. He's a bit.
He's not a he's a bit. No man, he's gonna
be He should be signed. He's been blackballed. He's the
greatest pitcher of all time and the Astro should sign him.
He was the Mexican Baseball League's Pitcher of the Year
in twenty twenty four. You know that you boys like Mexico.
That's nice. Good for him. Trevor Bauer, a former Cy
Young winner. This is his fifteenth quote unquote professional season. Hmm, yeah,
was he he was playing in Japan. I'm trying to
find his other stuff. Mexico Japan, released by the Dodgers
in twenty twenty three. Pitch in Japan last season. Oh,
he had some Well he played with two different teams.
You know, it does scare me. And now I'm gonna
be honest for just a second. Sometimes people and you
don't know who's telling the truth and who is not.
But sometimes people will have people that will have people
that will call into postgame radio show and say, hey,
I know something's going to happen, and it'd be easy
for me to dismiss it. But sometimes those things new drop.
Sometimes they're right. But in the case of signing Trevor Bouart,
never seemed like it was It was never felt like
it was right. There was no whispers. There was nobody
that I thought was even close to being credible in
the organization and said hey, Matt, there may be something
to this. It was just ridiculous. Yeah, and if it
was a troll case or whatever. But it's funny because
sometimes and this is this is human nature. Sometimes when
we find something out, we want to tell somebody because
the person that told us is really cool and does
that makes sense to you? Yeah, I have it on
good authority. Well that you know. Maybe it's because it's
your boss that told you this. Maybe it's because of
Let's say you have a friend of a friend of
a friend who's a celebrity saying, you know, guess what
Kevin Costra is going to be in town next week.
You wanted to you like to spill tea like that.
I've had people that are friends of friends of friends
that have called shows that have said, hey, don't be
surprised at this guy signed. So you sometimes have to
take it with a grain of salt, and sometimes you
have to completely dismissed it. Sometimes you say, man, this
sounds like a guy that's halfway credible. You don't know,
And that's the that's the positive. That's the thing that
anonyminated to do. You can just throw anything you want
out there, just like social media too. Well, we do
have the Trevor Bauer PSA, I guess that we may
play this hour. There are thirty teams in Major League Baseball.
None of them have called about the services of Trevor
Bauer for a reason. The reason is he's just a
bad guy. His spin rates dipped significantly when Spidertack was
cracked down upon. He was under investigation in twenty twenty one.
A separate woman in Ohio sided temporary order of protection
in twenty twenty A third woman accused Bauer of sexual
assault in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three. There
are thirty teams that can get his services, and all
have declined to do so so far. He crushed the
Astros when he was in the big leagues. He has
got a terrible reputation for being a bad teammate. He
goes in that Astro's clubhouse who be hated immediately. No
one will like him, no one respects him. You have
to have a good clubhouse culture for every single day
of the baseball season. Trevor Bauer does not bring it.
Trevor Bauer will not be in the Astros clubhouse. Yes,
my name is ros Vireal, and Trevor Bauer will never
be a Houston astro. My name is Matt Thomas. And
what Ross said, I say as well, Trevor Bauer never
an astro. That would well, we should have said, is
I believe Trevor Bauer will be a Long Island duck.
We could have gone with that. I would have bought that.
Oh yeah, something gimmicky for between that for the rest
of his career. Absolutely, guy had multiple screws loose beyond
whatever was alleged of his activities. And guys with screws
Lewis don't get to be big league Baseball, they just don't.
And Thusie's a Long Island duck. Final Hour the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross. We've got the astros, we have
the rockets to get to. We have fighting between a
big twelve commissioner and a high end alum NFL rule changes.
It sounds like we got that going on too. We
get to a lot of things to get to the
next fifty minutes. Ross what it's today's edition to believe
it or not? Oh hell, all right, Trevor Bauer, you
probably could do it. I'm not doing that, all right.
Seven one three, two one two five seven autis is
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. By the way, thanks
everybody that called in or seting tweets in the last
five minutes. That caller Kevin was a long time ago.
That was what two years ago, probably wouldn't stay a
couple of years. That it was that y'all think it
was in the last few seconds was not thank you
for having my back anyway. Great tweet from Chad Chris
Paul picking up Trevor Bauer on his way to Houston,
and it's from Dumber and Dumber. Got room for one
more if you want to go movie references. Huh, Chris
Paul and Trevor Bauer. That's not that's not in the
same category. Chris Paul was good as a rocket. I'm
not gonna allow that. No, but people keep calling about
Chris Paul. You can allow people are like, hey, they
need Chris Paul. Rockets need Chris Paul. It's not happening. No,
it's not definitely retired. Yeah, no, I took we took
a call like last week. It was a guy saying,
get Chris Paul. Oh, but we're read. Chipper's like, I
got this, don't worry, We're good. He's doing great. You
know what you needed. You needed another bench scorer, and
the Rockets don't have bench score. We got six players ross,
we got six players at score. It's a problem. Now
if Josh Julian wants to put in eight points a game,
I'm all for that, but that's you don't have more
more than that's not they want off than. It is
the on the regular. You know who has more than
six players who can score? No, I don't and I
don't want to even ask. So sometimes you want don't
answer the questions you don't ask for so I'm not
gonna ask a question, don't ask, just worried. Hey, we
gotta talks to Rockets. You want to Let's work quick
here we all this is the final hot of the show.
We have believe it or not. Today at one fifty.
Are you going with Christians that are in sports like
like religious like? Because earlier we were talking about how
the Astros we did the Christian Astros Christian power rankings.
M hmm, Walker, Vasquez, Javier Roa, do you disagree with
the money assessment? So you were putting Rolla on because
of the forty man. Not the forty man, but if
his name was Dan Rolla we would not put him
on that list. Okay, I got you all right, Rockets
uh one sign against the Wisconsin Herd of the G League. Yes,
gotta win those games. Gotta only play what's in front
of you. They did. They won one thirteen. We had
a loss in this community since you, of h they
were never down in the game. Rockets got up as
much as twenty, got a little close for comfort at
the end, too close, but they won and that's the
most important thing. And they're now bumped to the five
seed in the Western Conference. AJ Green, Pete Nance, Cormack,
Ryan Cormack, Ryan was launching bombs yesterday, something called Pete
Nance was doing a bunch of stuff too. Yes, the
boys were bawling. By the way, there was a photo
that was taken of Gianni's hugging e May and Kevin
duran Come on, that was first of all the Rockets
number one assistant Ben Sullivan used to be a coach
at Milwaukee when Milwaukee won the championship. So there's bros saying, hey,
long time no see. Yes, and Kevin Durant and Giannis
have had a long relationship because of the international amount
of competition they've played. Do not read between the lines,
because let me tell you something. Kevin was on Team Grease. No,
but you played against Team Grease. Okay, he could walk
up and say, bro, you need to come here. Guess
what it's out of Both of their hands might be
in the little Indianis's hands. U Yannis will go and
say I want to be traded. He could say, I
mean Kevin Brant was signed off on being being a Rocket,
but it would not be that. Well, but at leasting
the only thing that Kevin said was no to Minnesota.
He would have gone to San Antonio. He would have
gone to Houston. He would have gone. If you're a
star player and you want to get out of a city,
you can't narrow it down to just one place because
you're you're handicapping the team that you're trying this. You're
you're trying to move away from. James Harden disagrees, Well,
look how James's careers turned out. Well, he wanted to
be a Clipper, Yeah, and that lasted what a couple
of years. I just I if Giannis wants to move,
he has to be flexible in knowing that it's going
to have to be one of three or four places.
Now you can narrow it down to three or four.
I don't think the problem with that. He's earned his
ability to do that. But if you all of a
sudden say I'm only going to say Miami, I'm only
going to Houston, I'm only going to Golden State, You're
not You're not helping out your cause there. I don't
think he's gonna say that. Let's get him rockets or
the East one or the other. Yeah, I want no
Golden State. I don't want ever to utter the word
san Antonio. How are we feeling about the untouchability of
a men Thompson Because now, be honest, is a year older.
But also we were hopeful that the three point shot
would develop for a nd Thompson, and it has not.
So the balance is how much of the scales tipped
in either way or none at all. No one's told
me this. This is just me, Okay, I think a
end's untouchable. Now you've said he's not untouchable, and I
understand that. Not for you, honest, there's one component I
got news for you. Nobody's untouchable. I think you ye,
this this unbelievable, Yiannis bit. I think this is this
has taken away for some of the luster from this.
Two reasons why miss a lot of games this year,
And second he got sideways with his team publicly. Now
sometimes maybe that's publicly publicly. Yeah, I mean, I well,
they're arguing about Jannis wants to play the bucks and said, no,
you're not playing that way. I would feel like that
that's a little bit of a disconnect when you go yes, yeah,
I just think you gotta be if he's on the rocket,
is he gonna play? I think you're gonna whoever's gonna
get him is gonna get him for a haul. But
he's also hollows. He now thirty two, he's thirty one.
What's it gonna be the start of the next season
this He will be thirty two in December, Okay, so
most of next year will be thirty two, still pretty
much in the prime of his career. But he's had
injury ailments the last couple of years. The body probably
is a little older than thirty two in terms of
wear and tear. I guess I'll put it this way.
Whoever gets him, I don't think Rossy it'll be a
seismic movement in terms of what they get back. I
think they'll be draft picks involved that maybe one or
two instant players. But if you're Milwaukee, you need a
complete overhaul, which is probably gonna meant starting with your coach.
We're all happy to get Kevin Durant. He's thirty seven, yeah,
and he's been exceptional. Yeah, and he's been their best
player of And it's also playing as many minutes as
anybody in the NBA, basically in terms of permanent you
know a number of total minutes per game.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I just I don't think it's going And this may
be a positive for the Rockets, I don't know if
it's going to be able to I think Milwaukee's gonna
ask for way too much and have to settle on
seventy percent of what are they what they really want?
Because I think Giannis is again a lot of wear
and tear, missed much of the last season, never shot
well from three ever before, not a great free throw shooter.
Now downhill, Shoot, he's sixty four from the field, Say downhill.
But as we see with Kevin Durant, you have to
kind of reinvent your game a little bit, and does
ronas three years from now and again if Jannis comes
here tomorrow, I'll be thrilled. I'm not saying that, but
I'm just I'm just trying to play a little bit
of a devil's advocate. It seems like you hate Jannis.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: I like Jannis a lot. He's averaged twenty seven points
six points per game this year, ten rebounds, five assists,
sixty two percent shooting. But here's my question, this is
just an honest question, and thirty two, thirty three, thirty
four years of age, can he get downhill like he's
doing it right now? Probably not, But you're trying to
win a championship. I would say with Kevin Durant, he's
gonna be forty. You're keeping Kevin Durant. Your window is
a couple of years. Yeah, So then what would be
your Well, the problem is who you're gonna have to
give up a live body in return? For sure? Alpie
or a men are going to be the first two asks.
If not both, they're gonna ask for both. You're not
getting both. No, there's no way. Again, I still think
a man's untouchable. That could be up for argument. I
love him in Thompson, I love He's not gonna be
two time MVP. No he's not. But that's past tense.
You're you're you're telling when you say that, and I
understand where you're going with that. You're then anticipating that
he's going to get another MVP. I don't either Gianna's
days of being an MVP or over. Okay, here's his
finishes since twenty one, four three three four three Okay,
so top five in the MVP. He's what a huge
falloff third and fourth in the MVP every year. I
take it for sure. I just I just man just
fills the boxes of a lot of things. Defense, good
ball handler, defensive player of the Year. Yes, the Koumpo's
pretty good on defense, but again is thatch Way. But
he's gonna do a thirty two thirty three again at
these are all we we don't have the answers to that,
but you have. But you had to think about father time.
Yes you do. It's gonna be very And this is
the thing. I love him and Thompson. I'm just saying
he's not untouchable in a y honest deal. Yeah. I
think teams operate differently than we as fans. I think
in their mind they think there is untouchables. Now, if
you do straight up, then you probably do. But but
if you're if you're the Bucks, You're not doing it
straight up. That's what I'm saying. The Bucks would say,
hell no, that's right. I mean, if you're gonna you're
gonna layer a deal with lots of current players and
draft picks, I don't know. If amends in that group,
well there, then who are they taking? You're going with Shinggoon?
Then I think Shangoon be talked about. Shagoon's notary Smith
would be talked about. Not untouchable, but you like him. Uh,
Harry Easton not untouchable, signing trades either. Nobody's untouchable except
Kevin Durant because that just wouldn't make any sense. Yeah,
all right, one fourteen on Sports Talk seven Aunty seven
one three two one two five seven ninety. If you
want to chime in seven one three two one two
five seven aunt of your astros have won five consecutive games.
The Rockets have won four in a row. We got
some NFL slight subtle changes that I want to talk
to you about about, not only things on the field,
but all will discuss that. Next. It is Matt and
Ross and we are with you today until two o'clock
today seven one three, two one two five seven nine,
which during the owners meetings that are being changed for
twenty twenty six, teams can now declare and attempt an
on side kick at any point in the game, rather
than only in the fourth quarter. Okay, that seems still
a little weird, because again you can't fool them with
onside kicks. I mean, if you have to declare UH
to prevent teams are intentionally kicking out of bounds in
the fifty yard line, the resulting ball positions out of
the twenty yard line instead of the twenty five, to
prevent teams from what teams are intentionally kicking it out
of bounds in a fifty That doesn't make any sense.
Kickoff safety adjustment to prevent teams from intentionally kicking out
of bounds from the fifty yard line. The resulting position
is now the twenty yard lines of the twenty five.
I don't even get that. I'm just going through the
list here, I confuse. Yep, you have to have a
full time mental health clinician on the team, improving coliatory health.
That's a good idea. Let's see, we've talked about the
tampering procedures about talking to free agents, that that's been
changed a little bit. Here's one that I think is
the interesting one, and tell the one that kind of
kind of piqued my interest. There's going to be a
one year trial by the NFL that's going to allow
the league to step in on quote clear and obvious
official mistakes. If a official inficiating mistakes, meaning if they
see something that's so egregiously wrong, you're going to be
able to get a booth assist, a field assist, a
whatever you want to call a legal assist to fix it.
And the reason why they're doing that, you know, the
reason why is because they're preparing for replacement officials in
twenty twenty six and they don't want goobers that have
never efficiated at the NFL level. Maybe they're they've been
doing the replay assist, but this is apparently going to
be a extra to that, meaning two feet in bounds
if it was clearly missed, or maybe there was a
they're going to run it back or a hold. It says,
a one year trial allowing the league to step in
unquote clear and obvious officiating mistakes. This is in case
a workstopage occurs. It's kind of a backup. Hey, we'll
be a big brother to you guys, just to make
sure you know that you don't have to carry all
the heavy lifting yourself. Okay, I don't see how that's
much different than the replayssis they do. Now, I guess
you'd just be faster or I mean it'd be more widespread,
more widespread. Okay, Now, remember one of the last time
officials decided they wanted to take a little hiatus. Yeah,
that's when you had the double the touchdown in completely
with the packers. Yeah. Uh, they got crushed. They were
not good. So let me ask you this. So the
next best level of people are those because those aren't
college officials. College guys are working on Saturdays. They don't
have time to be going an NFL. I don't know
are they Are they high school bros? Or no idea?
The vision two guys? Who are these referee scabs? I
mean I don't I don't even I wish I really
didn't know who they are because it doesn't make any
I mean, who are They've got to be high school guys?
Why is the NFL always beefing with their referees union.
What's going on? Well, what is it? What is the
beef about? Union wise? I'm probably my money. Yeah, okay,
so they want more cash. I don't know, but it's
it's just seems so weird that the biggest disconnect with
the NFL has not been with its players, has been
with its officials. Okay, so the dispute is now, yes, okay,
I thought it was coming next year. No no, no, no, no,
that they're they're hiring now. But they're saying in twenty
twenty six that if these scab is it scab twas Okay,
if these gab officials goof up so bad, like there
is a hold, I'm assuming it's a hold, or I'm
assuming it's an off sides that was not called. They're
gonna go and say, hey, we saw this, we're gonna
help you out. Are they gonna come in with clear
and obvious holds because those happen like everything? Yeah, I'm
curious how deep they get into that. We're gonna fit,
we're gonna make sure we can't call everything. To me,
it feels like it's more like off sides or illegal
motion where that stuff is indisputable. And the current CBA
signed in nineteen and it expires in May. Hmm, interesting,
Let's get the real officials out there. I can't are
they really asking for too much? I mean, are the
officials asking for above? And by now? The NFL wants
them to go full time and the NFL fit and
the officials are like, shut your bum masts up. I
want to be able to make my money selling paint
when I'm not working games. As I told you that today,
I have to tell the truth. I making them full times?
Like them any better?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. Uh. The union is pushing back
on a performance based model for officiating accountability measures, and
the union is also pushing back on seniority helping guys
land postseason assignments. NFL wants to get rid of seniority
as a factor in postsease assignments. They just want to
have a lot. Yeah, they want they want the best.
Whether you've been the Union's like, the union wants seniority, guys. Yeah.
By the way, the NFL union, the referee unions being sued.
There's a one of the three female officials last year
got fired and she's suing them now for sexual harassment,
and then, of course money, NFL offering annual sellar increase
of six point four to five percent per year. They
want over ten percent a year. Apparently those are the
big sticking points at according to the Athletic. Okay, so
help me know this. They're gonna they're offered a six
percent raise every year or over those links of the year. Wow,
per year for six years. Could you imagine taking your
salary and getting a six percent bump every year? How
good would that be? It'd be nice. Isn't three percent
supposed to be standard? Three percent of what they call
the cost of living adjustment? Yeah, while you're rolling your eyes,
I don't feel like cost of living is going up
faster than that the gas. By the way, my case
bounced back the last cuple that's good. I was wondering,
I was I couldn't sleep last night. Well, I'm glad
you checked in on mean that makes the line that
means a lot to be. So, yeah, we're gonna have
scab officials. We're going to have the NFL watching over them.
When you say it replacement. The union guys want to
call them scabs, but I want to know who they are.
Are they they're not Division ones. They certainly aren't working
on saturdays. I don't know. Maybe it's maybe it's lower
end Division two, Division three. Like, man, this is my
one chance to get in the pros. May work, work,
I mean, but I mean, how do you if you
cross their picket line? Are you going to be in
a chance of ruining your chance to be a major
NFL official? This is true. It was failed to fail
Mary was twenty twelve, fourteen years ago. No way, I
really want pass interference judged again. I really do. Give
me an official upstairs in the booth that just stares
at the thing over and over again, just like you
know how Jean Sarator does on the TV. Why don't
you have a legit dude up there saying yeah, I'm
watching this thing over and over again. That's interference. How
often does Jean's territory get stuff wrong? He usually backs
the officials too. Yeah, that's the problem is you have
to get somebody that's completely You have hard enough to say, yeah,
my friend Greg, who's the official in the game? Goroof done?
You need a panel of three, three guys and have
them a vote two out of three best two to
one wins. That's what I say. But how long will
that take to do that? Though you press the button,
it takes five seconds. They look at it once and
then boom. But I don't think they want to love
it all a couple time, as long as anybody else
looks at it. Yeah, because you have anchoring biases when
you when you make a first decision, you anchor towards that.
That's anybody, because especially in the NBA, it's like I'm
reviewing my own call. I'm going to try everything in
my power my bias to see that I made the
right call. It's natural. It's human nature, yes, human nature. Yes, yeah,
Now that in baseball you can't do that because the
insant replay shows whether that ball, I mean, whether that's
ball was a ball or a strike, or that guy's
foot touched the bag before the ball got there. Yeah.
You order chicken fried steak and I get rid by
and I'm like, dang, that looks good, and I'd be like, nah,
I made the right decision, Mike. I'm just you stick
to your own decisions for whatever reason. It's human nature.
That's true, all right. Brian mctaggard on the Astros an
awesome start we'll hear from him next one nine on
Sports Talk seven ninety. We have Believe It or Not
coming up in twenty minutes right here on the Matt
Thomas shoul Ross don't go anywhere. I'm thirty four on
Sports Talk seven, and we caught up with Brian McTaggart
and he'll do with visit with us every Thursday at
eleven o'clock here on Sports Talk seven. I and I
kind of joke with him early on in our visit,
and here's some of the conversation about the Astros raising
a banner after this five game winning streak, including a
very impressive three game sweep over the Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's just the quality of the advanced
I mean, they preached this all offseason and into spring training,
and even I don't know if you remember the first
few grape Fruit League games, the spot as like, oh,
we drew six walks, drew seven walks, and they were
excited about the different approach that they have. But it's
really been a point of emphasis with the new hitting
coaches and their new hitting coordinator is let's make these
pitchers work, Let's stay inside the strike zone, and it's
really paid off. I mean, and it's across the board,
you know. I think one guy at the forefront of
it is the guy who was probably their biggest free swingers,
jose l TV. I mean, his his chase rate last
year was fifty percent and right as of right now,
it's like thirty four percent. It was a swing rate. Sorry,
his chase rate is down like sixteen percent. And even
swinging in the zone. He was swinging in the zone
last year it's like sixty three percent and now it's
less than fifty percent. He's got more waks than strikeouts.
And this is a guy who usually strikes out twice
as many times as he walks, so up and down
the lineup, they're really making the pitchers come in the zone.
They're getting they're getting the starters out of the game early.
To me, that's the biggest thing. And then I think,
I like what I see from the bullpen. They've been
able to deploy these long relievers a couple of times
to chew up two or three in his blue ball.
Looks really good. They got to get the closing situation
ironed out. But a brain, you looked, you know, quite
a bit better yesterday, So you know a lot of
things that through the Astros. You think this is positive
and we can sustain this.
Speaker 2: What did you know about the hitting coaches coming in?
And look, Astro fan base can be a finicky bunch.
They're touting them highly now, but if they go on
a streak where they only score three runs over a
five game stretch, they'll be calling for their job. So
what did you know about them going in? And I
know there is a there was co hitting coaches last year.
There is definitely a hierarchy chart this summer around.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think on Friday the Astros fans wanted everybody
fired again. I think all were talking about that the
fire spot of guys were back. And I haven't heard
from him now, but they're probably having a rough time.
But uh yeah, I mean they thought they obviously needed
some different voices in the room, and they they brought
in Victor Rodriguez, who has done this for a very
long time, has worked with some super They even promoted
uh you know one of their I guess hitting gurus,
the guy who knows more about hitting biomechanics than anybody
in the game probably and Dan Hennigan, he's their offensive coordinator,
so to speak, you know Korea. Talking with Korea during
spring training, he says, gotten a lot of great information
from him, so it was time that they needed some
new new leadership.
Speaker 2: I think in in their their.
Speaker 4: Hitting room and uh and I think those guys have
been instrumental in trying to get them to change their
approach as a whole as a team, and so far
it's working out.
Speaker 2: Moving to the pitching side, just your thoughts on the
starting rotation and starting with Alance mccullors Junior, I'm sure
you predicted seven innings of one and one brawl.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I said, first time through the rotation, mccollor
is going to be the one who dominates. So they
good for him. I mean, he you know, he seemed
to be in a different place. I think we might
have talked about this earlier in the spring training when
we talked to him the first couple of days. Seemed
to be just very comfortable where he was at. He
was enthused that he had a whole offseason where he
wasn't healthy and wasn't rehabbing. He seemed very at peace
and and man, he came out and threw like a
guy who's ready to push back the clock ten years.
But you know, he's not the same picture that he
was years ago. He doesn't from ninety seven ninety eight,
but you know he doesn't rely on the curve ball
and the sweeper as much like he used to. But
but you know, he's in his all. He's trying to
get contact. He ended up getting nine strikeouts.
Speaker 2: He was terrific. I was gotta build on it.
Speaker 4: But I think we'll see better the second time out.
Speaker 2: From em I mean a couple more minutes here with
Brian McTaggart on Sports Talk seven ninety eight. Uh, Christian
Vasquez goes deep yesterday, which then immediately sent astro Twitter
into he needs to play more often? Uh, jan here, Diez,
how would you describe his spring and how would you
you know, we don't ask you to describe the numbers
so far it's not been good at least behind the
plate and behind the dish at catching. So a thought
or two about the long term in your mind future
for Yarnier Diez. Not necessarily Christian Vasquez pushing for more
playing time, but how much are we going to spend
looking at Walter Onyx's development this year at the Monor
League level?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you know, the advats haven't been good
from from Diaz. You know, the approach hasn't been great.
He swung and mist at three balls outside the zone
the other day. He's not making hard contact, so they
have to be concerned about that. I mean the spring
he looked okay, not great at the play. Defensively, I
think he's making stripes. The Colors gust on him the
other day about you know, how well he called the
pitches and and so forth. I know the Hunter Brown
really trust him as well. But he's gonna have to
hit a little bit. And I think if they if
you put Christian Vasquez as a starting catcher, then he's
going to be Christian Besquez that we expected and hit
two hundred and you know, not to take anything away
from him, but he's a backup catcher at this point
in his career. Long term, Yanick is the guy. He
had a tremendous spring for them. Defensively, I think he's
a major league ready starting catcher. He made some strides
offensively in the Great Fruit League. So he's starting out
at Double A, which he hasn't even played in Double
A yet. But if he can hit, I think Dana
will move in pretty quickly. I think we could see
him in triple A, and I think we'll come to
camp next year he has a good season at the plate.
I think he could come to camp next year battling
for definitely a spot on the roster, but maybe even
a starting spot unless Diaz really gets it turned around
at the plate.
Speaker 2: Far let you run. Let's get a thought or two
about when we should see Spencer Arrigady call up. Is
there any time frame, because I know there's a stretch
now of two weeks without a day off, so the
presumption is a six man rotation will come into play
at least for the short term. When do you expect
that decision be made?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it'll probably be another week April. I
think they have an off day April tenth, so maybe
before they hit before they hit Seattle, I think we'll
have to start. That's when when this when they go
out like this thirteen game stretch, So I think we're
another week away from from getting uh the six man rotation.
So Eric Getty's gonna have another one, one or two
starts down there. But it's nice that they have him.
They have Jason Alexander and triple Triple A, Cold and Gordon.
You know, they have some guys that they would feel
comfortable about coming up and adding to this rotation if
they have to.
Speaker 2: Brian McTaggart earlier today from MLB dot com covering the
intros like Nobody's business and to give us some great content.
I'm sure Chandler Rome would disagree with you. Why you said,
like nobody's business. Oh okay, like Chandler Rome's business. Yeah,
like exactly like Chandler Mat was like, man, yeah, wrap
it up, Chamdler, give them Jeremy Penia. Did you see
a smile that Chandler had when uh, Jeremy Pene was
interrupted the conversation with Camps, maybe glowingly happy that the
Chandler loves his team so much. It's good. Much of
the people that think they don't love that channel doesn't
love the astros. He doesn't love it. He covers them,
he covers He's not a fan a fanboy. It's okay,
We've got a fanboy meeting this town. We need we
need some objectivity, yes, all right, believe it or not. Today, Ross,
what's the category Christians that are in Houston or in
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it's Christian athletes, all right, but athletes named Christian. I'm
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The winning tricks are going to continue for both teams.
Can't wait. Rockets are beating the Jazz from all night there.
You know if knowing's abouts about that, Okay, don't you
don't don't don't No Dogs game was a little close.
Don't be nervous in Elli over there. I'm a reticent Ross. Uh.
I hate to say this. Go Spurs, go go ahead
play in Minnesota tonight. Yep, go Spurs, Go Spurs, because
you want to you know what, It's not about the
five seed, it's about getting the four. It's about being
in the home court. Home course would be great, Home
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What's the biggest piping sport full final four this weekend?
But we'll talk to Jael and Rose about that a
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