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Speaker 1: Ten o three at inch Town. Good morning, and welcome

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to a Wednesday edition of the Mat Thomas Show with

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Ross right here on your home with the Astros and

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the Rockets and the Texas Longhorns. Sports Talk seven ninety

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with Ross, I'm Matt, our producers Jonathan, and we are

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with you today until two o'clock. Wait. Today we will

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get into a deep dive of the Astros set back

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to the Chicago White Sox last night, not one, not two,

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but three double plays one for six. I want to

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say runners in scoring position nine hits compared to four

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for the Chicago White Sox. And unfortunately Lance mccullors did

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not get you that third consecutive quality start. Five innings,

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four runs, four walks. It was just one off each way,

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one more inning, one for your run. We're almost there.

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That's like telling a fact. Guy, if you were thinnernet here,

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you'd be a better looking guy. Yeah, he would be, probably,

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I'm'm talking about him. I mean, I don't. I think

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Land's doing okay himself. It's close to quality. It was

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a half quality start. I mean, I'll give him credit

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for getting to the five innings quality adjacent and well,

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basically you're creating a new, a new metric. Yes, I

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am all right. That's so basically a ross quality start

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is significantly different than the rest of us. Having quality

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is normally a notch below everyone else. Well, it's funny because,

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and I'll give this as a terrible parallel, when you

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see a girl in Houston, Texas, we will grade her

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a certain number. Okay, we have that number, and then

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we have what we called a road number. Numbers go

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up on the road the hot Yeah, you get a

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boost affirst? You would want a buffer, wouldn't you. So

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a Houston six might be a road eight. Yeah. I

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don't think this works for quality start because he's at home.

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But okay, you're trying that out of the gates. I'm

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just going right to the analogies right away, all right.

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On the radio program today, we will have an update

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on what's going on over at Texans Mini Camp. It

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is a second final day of that before training camp

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starts late next month. We have an update from the

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NBA finals. Our friend of Vanessa Richson from Space City

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and now working for ESPN this series. She's doing a

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I think it's they call it hoops streams. I think

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that's what they call it. Okay, it's like that. It's

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like a pregame to the pregame show. Okay, And her

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and a mon Shepherd are been on doing on an

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ESPN plus Rocket's legend legend and mon Shepherd number of wards?

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I said to a mon Shepherd as a Houston Rocket, Hello, Hello,

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three hellos. I'm gonna put it at the over under

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of three. Did I go over that number or under? Okay?

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How about number of words that weren't high or hello greetings?

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I would go point five and I'll go under. I

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would say, if you put the words hello, goodbye, how

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are you in there? They would still be zero. Okay.

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I don't think I spoke to him. Well, that's rude.

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It's a nice guy. I'm sure. I'm sure Vanessa will

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braging about him quite a bit when she joins us

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later today. Brian bogus EV's gonna join us at about

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fifty five minutes from now. He is give us some

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little Astros update. He was working the presentation of Astros

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Baseball last night with my friend Shelby over there on

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Space City, and we have a shut Shobama ass up

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and ain't nobody got time for that? I have something

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at eleven thirty that is affecting my trip to Las

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Vegas tomorrow. That is, ain't nobody got time for that?

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You said all this is hair and dust? Uh No,

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is that in Vegas too? I don't know if it's

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in Vegas or not. It's not even the weather. The

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weather is not going to be great today, but I

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think they were forecasting dooming gloom all day long. I

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think it's going to be cleared by two or three

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o'clock this afternoon, so god, yeah, but yeah, something is

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going on with my trip to Vegas that I'm not

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happy about, and I'm going to have to call out

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a particular company. But of course rhyme because I don't

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spend money with us, okay, And I think if you're negative,

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you you don't have to rhyme. Okay. Then I want

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to be negative then unless you want to go to

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the all press is good press card. We wonder if

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we'll figure it out and we believe it or not?

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Today at am I gonna do din or live? I

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believe it or not? And you said you were, I mean,

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I'll do it today. That's my that's my contribution to

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the show. You know what's funny, I've been writing, Uh,

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every day for the show. I have been writing down

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names that I think would be good for a live

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or dead Do you want to get him to you? Please?

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That way you can't throw them at me, So no,

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if they're goo, Yeah, they're goodnames. Let's do that. Seven

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a part of the radio program, but like seven one

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I also have to attack on hutch up a mess up.

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There's like, you know the guy, the guy Christian that

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calls the show that calls me a horrible Houston Cougar fan. Yes,

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so I blocked him on Facebook. Yes, I've blocked him

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on Twitter. He can't call the show anymore here and

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now he's he's crushing me on the Kook fan message board.

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What I mean, it's like he's got a person. So

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you're like me crushing you on what is it? Cougar

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is jaf Kook fans or something like that. Den, I'm like,

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I didn't even know about it until a friend of

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mine said, who is this guy? Why is he attacking him?

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I'm gonna keep that an arms link. Matt, Well, I

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have done everything I can, but I mean to not

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call me a real Cougar. Is because I went to

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He went on the post and said, well, Matt went

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to North Texas's freshman year. I got news for you.

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About eighty percent of people that go to the University

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Houston get their degrees started somewhere else. Why does that

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disqualify you from being a Cougars fan. That's so stupid.

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You went to the school. Your degree says University of Houston.

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You you took the classes, you bribed your professors there. Yes,

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you've been on campus. You've been calling their games football,

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basketball over the years. I went from I took an

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red eye on my own dime to fly to San

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Antonio signing up for Cooks. Send me the link. I'm

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signing up for kugsfans dot net. And if I get attacked,

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that's fine. I gotta come after this guy. I'm happy

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for you. Thank you for having my defense on that.

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All right, that is a Jackass. It's just I mean,

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life's too short to be just an ale. Well, some

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people disagree, but I agree with you, but a lot

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of people disagree. Yeah, I guess life isn't too short

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to do that. Astros fall again last night by a

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final score of four to two. Lance Pa Colors suffers

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the loss. Seas now one and two on the year.

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Shane Smith is even with the league now with getting

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the victory last night, Shane Smith. That's made up by

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the way the freaking White Sox. I mean, come on,

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the White Sox have twenty three wins this year. Don't

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even say it. Oh, dear, dear, go ahead, three of

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them against the Astro. There are three and one against

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the Astros, correctly one, that's right. Now. Let me just

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put this way. There are some teams that you just

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don't compete well against, either because of matchups or it

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just happens to be the crazy sport that is baseball.

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me out with this. There was a home stand where

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the Astros had Kansas City and Oakland. It might have

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been the year where they were just forty one and

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forty one at home or forty and forty twenty three. Yeah,

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whatever it was, and it was like they're gonna get

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fat and happy, They're gonna get about five hundred. This

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whole bit about them not winning at home, and I

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believe again I'm just throwing this out there. I think

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maybe the Astros went one and six during that stretch

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something like that was you remember the gap I about

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it was something horrible. So I don't think it's that

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the White Sox had the Astros number. I just think

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sometimes you just run into series matchups that for some reason,

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just because of the fact that somebody's due for a

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poor performance or you've traveled and had a lot of games.

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you would think if the Astros played the Chicago White

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Sox one hundred times, the Astros would win many more

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of them, seventy five eighty percent of them. Well, it

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just happens to be the first four times they'd played

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the White Sox have won three of the four. Yeah,

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it doesn't make it hurt any less. And there is

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good news because the Diamondbacks destroyed the Mariners last night.

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At Astros have a three game lead still into the

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American League West. I mean in the eighth, you get

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the bases loaded with no out and you get one

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run out of it. And Ross three I mean can

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of corn double plays. I mean there was no unbelievable

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grab or base running gap. It was just a good

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old fashioned s Yeah, Taylor Bay double plays one for

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six with runners in scoring position, seven left on base,

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and you lose by two. Yeah, all right, so we

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Speaker 2: On that.

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Speaker 1: We have a Texas mini camp. We have a listing

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of the worst stadiums in Major League Baseball. Oh, we'll

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right now. In fact, yes, I'm watching UH Jonathan Alexander

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Speaker 1: Stroud is still throwing. That's good. That's good. That's a

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season at the Los Angeles Rams. Yes, huge, I do

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want to go to that stadium. Why so fine? Yeah,

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that whole that whole area is crazy. Be half empty

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your Charger tickets than the Rams because the Rams have

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stay in downtown La. Oh my god, what a mess

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down there right now. Yeah, it's funny all the years

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have been calling rockets. We've never stayed downtown LA. We've

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either stayed in Beverly Hills or Marina del Road. Where

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is Staples downtown? Okay, I didn't know that, or I'm sorry,

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what is it? Whatever it's called now? Yeah, Crypto dot,

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ryptot ram, Marina del Ray beautiful. No, it's growing unbelievable,

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very nice, very bougie. Well until you stay in Beverly

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Hill and then then it trumps that boot. That's the

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ultimate bougie. Is that the ultimate boogie in the country?

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You think Beverly Hills? Uh for me, Yes, I tell

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Para Sox when I was there and they're forty yeah,

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I'll just take those. But yeah, I mean I almost

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did a double take. I would. I had to go

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to spend half my per diem on a pair of socks.

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and it lasts longer. I don't doubt that I just

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were durable. I just wasn't prepared to do it. It's

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not like your mood of the moon socks that fall

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apart after sixty years. I do. So I called every

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drug store in the air, like, no, we don't care.

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You called every drug store. Yeah, I pulled an Indie

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There's no Marshals, there's no uh TJ Max. So yeah,

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it is of all the places we go, the most

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that you feel like you are not in your real

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world would be Beverly Hills for sure. Okay, all right, oh,

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let me get till we were talking about the NBA.

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So uh. The next the next fired uh Tom Thibodeau

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after his team lost in the Eastern Conference Finals in Indiana. Yes,

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and said that we're going to find a coach is

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going to get us over the hump. Correct. So it's

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what they did? Ross is they is they broke up

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with their girlfriend. Who's the seven? Okay, stay with me

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on this, because they went to go get nines and tens, yes,

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who are all had boyfriends? M hm Okay, yeah, they

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went to go after people who are already attached. Correct. Minnesota

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has Chris Finch. The Knicks asked for permission to that.

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Minnesota said, shuts your bomb ass up. They the Knicks

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asked for the Rockets to talk to Imadoka. The Rockets said,

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shut your bomb ass up. And apparently the Jason kids

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stuff is about to come to a head, and pretty

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soon Dallas is going to tell them if they haven't already,

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to shut their bumb ass up. I don't think you're

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the Mavericks you can afford to possibly let Jason kid

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go because that would they mean that you just have

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completely lost the infrastructure of your franchise. You've already got

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a general manager who's on the hot seat. Why would

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you get rid of a coach who, first of all,

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was beloved as a player there and it's been a

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very good coach for the Mavericks. Would it take? It

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would be draft compensation? How would this work out? Can

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they let him out of the deal. I don't I

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have no answer to you. I'm trying to remember. It

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was kids still under contract with the Bucks when he

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went to the Nets as a coach. I thought it

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was another direction or okah, I thought it was a

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Nets coach very first. Okay, yeah, yeah, maybe you're right.

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I'm trying to I can't remember. But point being is this,

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if you're going if you're gonna make that move, I

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get it. If there is somebody that's out of work

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that you think, like, for instance, if you think Michael Malone,

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who is firing in Denver, is the answer, then you

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go get Michael Malone. If you think there's some assistant

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on your staff that you think is the cats me out,

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you go get that guy. But why would you And

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this is not just talking about the the the Knicks.

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This is any organization. You if your foundation of trying

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to replace a coach for any particular team is involving

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going to get a successful coaches elsewhere who have shown

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no indication they wanted to go there. That's that's the

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absolute worst way to go higher replacement. Well, maybe they're

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just shooting for the moon. They had the seven they

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broke up, so yeah, they're chasing the nines and tens

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and they miss. Might end up with another seven. Let

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me tear right now. If they they end up with

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a seven, that's gonna be a win. My guess is,

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whoever the coach is going to be, it's gonna be

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something of very underwhelming nature. Now I have to preface

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one one of those things. I personally know someone that

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is going to be applying for that job. So if

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that person gets the job, I will congratulate him, but

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I know the national perception of this person in his

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job will be not spectacular. Sham says that the MAVs

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have rejected the Knicks. Okay, yeah, that's what I'm saying.

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It's it's I think it said this morning. They just

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came out, So that's why I'm saying, you've Jason Kidtis

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they're saying no. Emay Doka. The Rockets have said no,

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and Chris fincha Minnesota and said no. It's just I mean,

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I guess you gut. The worst it could happen is

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they tell you no and then now you move on

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to other candidates. But you're replacing Tom Thibodeaux, who got

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you the Eastern Finals YEA with probably Somedy, respected multiple

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time coach of the Year. I mean, he's grumpy, he

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doesn't ever use his bench. But I mean it's it's

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not like they were for one and done on the playoffs.

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They they got to the final for the NBA again.

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Sometimes you have to be really blessed to have great

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ownership and then and the Knicks have been chasing the

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great ownership for a very long time. You can there's

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always this disease of more in sports, and the pursuit

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of a championship is important and all this stuff, but

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it's crazy this day and age, how nobody trusts the

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process for the most part. I mean, I think the

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Rockets are going to trust the process. I think they're

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an outlier. I mean, we'll see what happens with Kevin

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Durant if he ends up in a Houston Rockets uniform,

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then they won't be that outlider than I'm talking about.

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But it is just always, I mean, one out of

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thirty teams we are seeing wins the championship. We are

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seeing way too many coaches in sports either a getting

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super shortly or unless you win it all, you're done. Yeah,

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I mean we went through the list. I think you

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might have been out when No, you were here when

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the TIBs news came down, but then we went through

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like the Coach of the year the recent okay a

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daisional are the last two coaches dagnall? Yeah, I always

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call it. I always do. The soft sounds really good

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division all. Okay, before that, Mike Brown out, Monty Williams out,

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Tom Thibodeau out, Nick Nurse out, Mike Budenholtzer out, Dwayne

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Casey out, and then Mike d'antoni's back to the rock.

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So we're talking about years and years and years of

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this most recently stuff. This is crazy. You win Coach

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of the Year, you almost don't want to accept the award, right,

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I'm good, I don't want to be Coach of the Year,

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But I also feel the same way about guys getting

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the hooked too quick. Yet college coaches being fired for

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two years. I know you have to in college athletics,

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in college football, you have to build a program. Programs cannot. Now.

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Maybe they're thinking because of nil and the transfer portal,

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it should take you a faster quicker, But there's no issues.

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Athletic directors and university presidents are saying, you've been given

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two things that coaches twenty years ago can't use any

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can't have nothing at their disposal. You need to get

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it done. Even when the portal went free for all

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before that, coaches are getting fired after one or two years.

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And I always bring this up. Matt Brown his first

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his first in at North Carolina, his first two years,

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he went one in ten, both years, one intent and

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then one in ten. If that happens now he's fired, yes,

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and then he maybe never brings North Carolina up to

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their heights and then never ends up with Texas. Yeah.

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That's the one thing I'm very happy about is that

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I feel like in my school, Willie Fritz is in

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a spot where he doesn't. I mean, look, we'd like

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to get to five hundred this year. We'd like to

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get back to a Bowl Game. But I don't feel

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like there's this insane pressure to do that, because when

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you when you do when you do that, you put

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a lot of pressure on a coach, and more times

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than not, it's gonna you're gonna be disappointed by it,

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putting these faults in it. Like when when when renew

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Kator told the world that we fire coaches for not

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winning ten games. I mean, that was the fate of

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complete for him. That was like five coaches ago. That

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was when they fired Major apple Way. Right, Yeah, did

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a long horned legend dirty you of eight. Hey, I'm

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team apple White. Me too, So I've been team Appa

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White since two thousand and one. I was too. I

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thought Chris Simms was kind of a pompous ass of

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like I can I can gravitate and relate to Major

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Appo wit much more. I ever could go at Chris

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Simms for sure. All Right, ten twenty eight, It is

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the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We've got Brian Bogocevic

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coming up in one half hour from now seven one

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three two one two five seven ninety seven one three

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two one two five seven nine zero. What is on

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your mind? If you've got a couple of things we'd

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like to hear from you. A Astro's performance against the

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White Sox last night. B Uh, we've got uh Switzerland

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kicking the crap out a team USA and soccer yesterday

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not great. See what intrigues you about Texans Mini camp

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if anything does at all? D the NBA Finals. And

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we have a list of the best and worst ballparks

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in Major League Baseball, all between now and two o'clock

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here on Sports Talk seven ninety it's seven one three,

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two one two five seven ninety. Brian Bogus seven can

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twenty five minutes. Lauren she Hoty looks spectacular today, per

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usual on the MLB network. I gotta turn this off.

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She's keeping you distracted. Yeah, that's that's the gods is true.

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I mean I could lie to you, but I'm why

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would be the point? There's back a game. Yeah, we

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appreciate that. I mean there's nothing of put on on

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Sports on ten thirty in the morning, especially US six. Yeah.

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Well of course, well, Space City Hill Network won't put

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us on, and that's okay. We couldn't do some of

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the things we want to do on this show. That's true.

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If we were on TV yeah, but a little. My

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grandma would be proud of me. So if they loosened

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up to the purse strings a little bit and didn't

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have some parameters we'd have to meet, it would be

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in much better shape. Like like ninety percent of the music

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we couldn't play on the show. Probably that's true. So

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all right, h plus we I mean, we are handsome

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enough as it is. Just come see us some person

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we go sabor CAATs replay on So that's fine? Is

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it really? That's what it is? Yikes? Seven two one

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two five seven ninety seven one three two one two

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five seven ninety we go to Is that bowling? Or

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is that can't be right? Bowling Green? Robbie, where are

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you calling us from?

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Speaker 4: I'm calling from Bowling Texas. Actually right down here by Whartons.

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Speaker 1: I've never heard. I have never heard of Bowling Texas. Thanks.

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That's the population.

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Speaker 4: Hey, you know we're a little well based on on

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football numbers, we're a three A high school.

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Speaker 1: Nice that might help you. Okay, what's the most exciting

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thing to do in Bowling Texas?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 4: Lee, Yes, you know, go to go to a different town.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's a that's a very good line, Ronnie,

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I I applaud you for that, friend, Thank you.

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Speaker 6: Hey, I wanted to.

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Speaker 4: Talk about the Texans a little bit, the backfield situation.

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Speaker 1: Yea.

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Speaker 4: Now this new offense, you know, I don't. I'm not

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sure it's more of a power scheme, right, that's my understanding?

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Or is it still is still the zone type stuff

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the one thing, the one thing that bothers me. If

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it is more of a power scheme, that seems of

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Pierce's ally right there to me. I know he's not

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a good cutback guy. Yeah, I'm still kind of still

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a Damian Pierce apologist, even with the room that we have, right, I.

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Speaker 1: Understand, I have a terrible news for your Robbie. I

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don't think he's gonna be on this football team come fall. Yeah, Nick,

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Kaylee is supposed to do both, by the way, I mean,

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when he was hired, they talked about zone and power

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running and stuff like that. Because obviously with the Shanahan Tree,

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with the what was his name, the previous offensive coordinator

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we got fired, it was all a lot of zone

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stuff and there was kind of a square peg into

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a round hole with Damian Pierce. But I mean, Kaylee

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says he's gonna do both. Yeah, the reality is you

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took a fourth round pick on a guy and what

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he marks, so you think he's gonna be able to

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contribute right away. You went and got Nick Chubb in

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early June, and you got Joe Mixon coming off a

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thousand yard season. I think as a numbers game, I don't.

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I'm not saying that Damian Pierce's career is over with.

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I just think it's a situation where there's probably one

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too many guys in the room. Bobby Slowak, I couldn't

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come up with the name. Yeah, I got you. And

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what's going on with Christian Walker? Is he ever gonna

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hit again? That is a christ by way. What a

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great segue on your part. That's a million dollar question,

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you know. And here's the thing, Robbie, And thank you

468
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,720
for the phone call. We appreciate you listening. I I'm

469
00:23:20,799 --> 00:23:24,359
team Christian Walker because uh and I this is probably

470
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:28,240
terribly biased, but eloquent guy willing to talk say some

471
00:23:28,279 --> 00:23:32,000
things you value that you value the fact that he

472
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,680
has a track record of hitting twenty plus home runs

473
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:36,839
each and every year. You have a track He's got

474
00:23:36,839 --> 00:23:39,759
a track record of three consecutive gold gloves at first base.

475
00:23:43,799 --> 00:23:46,799
But man, it's just it's just not driving. It's just

476
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,200
not Yeah. Dana Brown mentioned this when he was on

477
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,240
the Sewan Salisbury Show, which he joins Wednesdays at nine thirty.

478
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,279
A little bit of bad batted ball luck, but that's

479
00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,640
it's not a ton. And you tell me if I'm

480
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,559
getting too deep in the numbers weeds Matt. But sure,

481
00:24:01,599 --> 00:24:04,960
batting average balls and play it can be you know,

482
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,519
like for example, Jake Myers, right, he put four balls

483
00:24:07,559 --> 00:24:09,400
in play and got four hits? How many did he

484
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:11,720
really probably deserve the off that content? They were all

485
00:24:11,759 --> 00:24:15,039
four of them were all soft contact, right, So so

486
00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,640
that's very good batted ball luck. Sometimes it can go bad.

487
00:24:18,799 --> 00:24:21,359
So in for his career, he's got two hits two

488
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:23,559
eighty two on batted balls. Right now, he's hitting two sixty.

489
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,119
That's a little low. But that's not crazy. That's not

490
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,680
like totally out of the realm of possibility. That doesn't

491
00:24:28,799 --> 00:24:31,880
that doesn't shore up for all the batt at bats

492
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:33,640
that he's been having. Can I give you a dumb

493
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,079
down approach that I used? I mean, you know, you

494
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:40,640
tell me about how what the percentages off the bat

495
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,960
right yes, but if teams defend and have scouting reports,

496
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,079
which they do, they place their players in positions where

497
00:24:48,079 --> 00:24:50,599
they have Christian Walker's got a history of hitting the baseball.

498
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:53,039
This could be Fenny player. So that's why to me,

499
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:57,799
this whole thing about the contact and this what do

500
00:24:57,799 --> 00:25:00,480
they call it that when it's one six point seven? Oh,

501
00:25:00,559 --> 00:25:04,599
the exit velo, exit vilo, to me means nothing because

502
00:25:05,279 --> 00:25:08,400
I'd rather have Jake Myers soft hitting sixty eight point

503
00:25:08,559 --> 00:25:11,160
seven and hitting more than ain't as compared to Well,

504
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:12,920
I know who Christian Walker is. I know he's a

505
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,519
power hitter. I know he doesn't hit. He hits left

506
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,319
of second base nine nine times out one hundred. I'm

507
00:25:17,319 --> 00:25:19,279
gonna position my players the best way I can, and

508
00:25:19,319 --> 00:25:21,279
if he hits it hard, I don't care it's selling out. Well,

509
00:25:21,319 --> 00:25:24,240
it's like any number. It's about context. You would rather

510
00:25:24,279 --> 00:25:26,920
have Tony Gwinn hitting him where he ate because he

511
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,279
can control the baseball a little bit better. Jake Myers

512
00:25:29,279 --> 00:25:31,039
is going up there. It's not like Jake Myers is

513
00:25:31,079 --> 00:25:33,359
manipulating the baseball and he's like one of the old

514
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:34,880
time great hit I don't but I don't need Jake

515
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:36,680
Myers swinging out of his shoes those at that point.

516
00:25:36,839 --> 00:25:38,519
But if I get if you get one hundred guys

517
00:25:38,559 --> 00:25:41,039
with the highest exit vlos and one hundred guys who don't,

518
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,079
I mean, the hundred guys with the highest x vlos

519
00:25:43,079 --> 00:25:45,680
are gonna have the best are gonna be the best hitter.

520
00:25:45,759 --> 00:25:48,319
You making theory they would be the power guys for example,

521
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,440
But that's also just I mean, he just hit line drives,

522
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,079
and keep hitting line drives and keep hit him in

523
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,119
high exit velos. If you look at the leader board

524
00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:57,559
of exit velo every year, it's generally around the best

525
00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,640
hitters in baseball, like Aaron Judge up there every year.

526
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,440
I think O'Neil Cruz is leading it this year. It

527
00:26:02,599 --> 00:26:04,839
isn't a lot of that because they're just professional hitters.

528
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,720
I mean, when you are a superstar hitter, you're going

529
00:26:08,759 --> 00:26:12,440
to have high exit villow. Yes, I yeah, there's a

530
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,480
positive correlation. But I'm talking about but we don't. We're

531
00:26:15,519 --> 00:26:18,400
not putting Christian Walker in that particular category. We're putting

532
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,000
him in the mid range. He's a he's a mid

533
00:26:20,079 --> 00:26:22,920
level major league player right now. Yes, that I think

534
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,039
is being defended properly because so for anybody. I'm not

535
00:26:26,039 --> 00:26:27,559
saying you in particular for you to say, well, his

536
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:31,079
exit villo is amazing right now, it's not. It doesn't

537
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,519
translate where Aaron judges exit vlo to me is going

538
00:26:33,599 --> 00:26:35,680
to mean a lot more because I know he is

539
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,279
a sprayer of the ball. He's got a he right

540
00:26:38,279 --> 00:26:40,240
now as we speak, has a better track record of

541
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,559
getting on base and hitting home runs than Christian Walker does. Well, yeah,

542
00:26:43,559 --> 00:26:46,880
he's a better hitter than Christian Walker. But also, I mean,

543
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,839
it's the years he's relative to the years in the past.

544
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,119
His numbers are down talking about batted luck and they

545
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,519
were defending him the same way in years past. It's

546
00:26:55,559 --> 00:26:57,759
not like all of a sudden people just started defending

547
00:26:57,799 --> 00:27:00,519
in a different way. Batted ball numbers go up when

548
00:27:00,519 --> 00:27:05,519
they got rid of the shift slightly. But it's it

549
00:27:05,519 --> 00:27:07,319
doesn't matter which way you slice it in. What you're

550
00:27:07,319 --> 00:27:12,240
looking at Christian Walker is it is having a bad season.

551
00:27:13,039 --> 00:27:16,079
I mean, and I know that the easy narrative is

552
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,240
he's jose A Brew two point zero. I'm not gonna

553
00:27:19,279 --> 00:27:23,200
put him in that category, but he's closer to jose

554
00:27:23,279 --> 00:27:26,559
A Braw than he is to urly Go Yulei Guriel.

555
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,200
I mean, I mean the samp we're in June now,

556
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,200
I mean the sample size is there. I mean he's,

557
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:36,799
like I said when he if he got the two

558
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,079
fifteen in his batting average, that would mean he's had

559
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,920
some sort of spark. Because right now, he entered the

560
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:44,920
game yesterday with a bating average of two oh seven.

561
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,200
He's having some bad luck. I know you don't want

562
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,240
to hear XPA, but he's underperforming his XBA. But also

563
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,000
the other things are bad for him. His strikeoup percentages

564
00:27:54,039 --> 00:27:56,640
are way up, his walk percentages are way down. I

565
00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:00,400
mean strikeout numbers. It's I think it's a little bit

566
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,599
of bad luck, but it's also just bad played appearances

567
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:08,279
and perhaps pressing still pressing too much. Well, whatever it is,

568
00:28:08,319 --> 00:28:11,160
And here's the general aunime. The audience doesn't want to

569
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,160
get in the weeds of that. It's about performance. Going

570
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,759
to the baseball game, having runners at second and third,

571
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,559
Christian Walker, get a ball in the in the outfield,

572
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,079
bring a runner home, and more times than nine he's

573
00:28:21,079 --> 00:28:23,319
not been able to do that. He's leaving a lot

574
00:28:23,319 --> 00:28:25,880
of men on base. Yeah, well, he's not going to

575
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,440
just start choking up on the bat and start slapping singles.

576
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,799
I mean no, but I mean it sticks out. But

577
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,000
in the in fairness to him, he ain't the only one.

578
00:28:36,079 --> 00:28:38,759
You've got significant amount of players in this baseball team

579
00:28:38,799 --> 00:28:42,720
that are underperforming based on their previous offensive production. Yeah,

580
00:28:42,839 --> 00:28:45,079
I don't think. I think we if Christian Walker weren't

581
00:28:45,079 --> 00:28:47,680
struggling the way that he would, we'd be really locked

582
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,119
in on Janar Diaz. Yeah, and how bad he's been.

583
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,680
But yanted to get a sack fly yesterday, So it is,

584
00:28:54,759 --> 00:28:58,319
you know, thank god people were on base. Yeah, it's

585
00:28:58,319 --> 00:29:00,960
just yeah, it's not would have been nice. It's not

586
00:29:01,039 --> 00:29:04,119
just the bases loaded. Yeah, all right? Seven one three

587
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,400
two one two five seven ninetie seven one three two

588
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:10,119
one two five SEVENANTI. There is a list of thirty Now.

589
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,799
USA Today does a lot of aggregating and a lot

590
00:29:12,799 --> 00:29:17,480
of crazy ass stories. They have the list of the

591
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,960
thirty best stadiums one to thirty and Major League Baseball

592
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,759
Belt based on Yelp reviews. I'm going to be brutally honest.

593
00:29:24,799 --> 00:29:27,440
I'm not a big fan of yelp, and I'm certainly

594
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:29,079
not a big fan of yelp that determining was my

595
00:29:29,079 --> 00:29:31,920
favorite baseball stadium. I'll prove my point after I tell

596
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,000
you about the folks at the Shell Federal Credit Union.

597
00:29:34,599 --> 00:29:38,559
All right, really quick, sixty seconds ross. Uh. I was

598
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:43,000
bumping around on satellite radio last night and the Gold

599
00:29:43,039 --> 00:29:46,039
Cup friendly I guess or qualifier or I don't know

600
00:29:46,119 --> 00:29:47,559
because I don't pay attention to soccer. But it was

601
00:29:47,559 --> 00:29:49,839
something to new with Gold Cup and didn't involve a

602
00:29:49,839 --> 00:29:53,000
strip club, so I really didn't know what it was about. Uh,

603
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:56,880
Switzerland played US. I thought it was just a friendly.

604
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:58,759
Maybe it was a friendly. I mean, I hell if

605
00:29:58,759 --> 00:30:00,440
I know, but I don't know either to one in

606
00:30:00,519 --> 00:30:03,440
Switzerland one four to zero, four to nil, I'm sorry,

607
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,440
don't say zero four nil? I thought I saw. I

608
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:10,119
thought it's the USA got a oh that's right? Four nothing?

609
00:30:10,119 --> 00:30:13,319
Oh there it is? Yikes? Is that bad? Let's go

610
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,200
the Gold Cup warm up as what they're calling it.

611
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,200
It was warm. It was in Nashville, of all places.

612
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,599
How's the crowd. Let me say, if I can find

613
00:30:23,599 --> 00:30:26,400
the summary that where they play in and they played

614
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,319
in the stadium, wore the Titans play I guess so, uh,

615
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:33,920
that's says Geo dis part No, that would be where

616
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:38,519
the Nashville team plays some sort of professional soccer. Doesn't

617
00:30:38,559 --> 00:30:42,119
mention the attendance capacity was thirty thousand. I'm gonna imagine

618
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,039
it was close to that. It's so crazy that I

619
00:30:44,039 --> 00:30:46,200
feel as big as there. And they have one referee,

620
00:30:47,079 --> 00:30:49,759
well they have side, they have side, but on the side,

621
00:30:49,759 --> 00:30:51,759
so basically I think there's three. And then I don't know,

622
00:30:51,759 --> 00:30:53,640
if they had a video assistant referee, then you'll have

623
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,359
a guy who is like the video guy. Okay, v

624
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:57,839
A R as they call it. Not to put you

625
00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:59,200
on the spot here, because we've still got a year

626
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,400
before this happens. Are you a little nervous about how

627
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,319
Team USA is going to do and this NetWorld coming

628
00:31:04,359 --> 00:31:06,440
out being on the home soil. I'm almost gonna be honest,

629
00:31:06,519 --> 00:31:08,799
I do. I watch most of European soccer. I'm not

630
00:31:08,839 --> 00:31:13,039
really locked in on the on the United States team.

631
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 7: OKAA hasn't caught up to the world of soccer, how

632
00:31:16,359 --> 00:31:18,079
like basketball just not caught up in America.

633
00:31:18,119 --> 00:31:20,519
Speaker 1: It's like that right now, and they still, yeah, they

634
00:31:20,559 --> 00:31:23,240
still haven't done that. And this, I mean, this wasn't

635
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,799
even their a squad, right, You're asking the wrong person.

636
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:28,319
I don't think it was. I don't think it was

637
00:31:28,319 --> 00:31:33,519
I'm looking at okay, but yeah, they're not very good.

638
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,200
I don't go see where they are world rankings. Do

639
00:31:36,319 --> 00:31:37,279
Should we just give up?

640
00:31:38,559 --> 00:31:38,839
Speaker 5: Why?

641
00:31:39,079 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: Like Poland's basketball team, it's never gonna be team US. Yeah,

642
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,359
but they still have a team. I imagine it's still

643
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,640
gonna go for it. Yeah, but we but we as

644
00:31:46,799 --> 00:31:49,279
USA is USA sports fans, we just don't go. Yeah,

645
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,920
you know, if we're not the best, why but I

646
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,480
don't all if we If we're not the best, you're

647
00:31:54,519 --> 00:31:56,319
not there. If you're not first, your last. Yeah, that's

648
00:31:56,319 --> 00:31:59,319
how I kind of feel about soccer. Okay, well, I

649
00:31:59,359 --> 00:32:01,720
mean everys they don't finish first and everything, and they

650
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:03,519
don't just fold up the team and the women beat

651
00:32:03,559 --> 00:32:06,319
up everybody. Yeah, the women are great. Yeah, but we

652
00:32:06,359 --> 00:32:11,279
all but the Olympics usually we're usually top three medals. Yeah.

653
00:32:11,359 --> 00:32:15,200
I think they've finished first the last time, right or close.

654
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 7: I think we have first in overall medals and we

655
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,240
lost to China and gold medals.

656
00:32:19,319 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Okay, I'm just thrown it out there. I mean,

657
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,480
way are there is there? I would say there would be.

658
00:32:25,519 --> 00:32:27,599
As a completely novice fan of this, I think there's

659
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:31,519
significant pressure for US US. We've been used to team

660
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:33,839
USA to perform better than we have in previous World Cup.

661
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,240
They are sixteenth in the world according to the FIFA

662
00:32:36,359 --> 00:32:39,680
World Rankings. How many teams are to be ranked? I

663
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:45,039
mean over one hundred, that's not terrible. Kazakhstan is one

664
00:32:45,119 --> 00:32:49,960
hundred and thirteenth. Case you're wondering, So we're like, we're

665
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,839
like the Fresno State of Soccer. I would say a

666
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:57,160
little better than that, right, Yeah? How about Miszoo? What

667
00:32:58,519 --> 00:33:03,279
it's the Vanderbilt No, come on, man, it's top sixteen

668
00:33:03,319 --> 00:33:05,920
out of two hundred and never been top sixteen in anything.

669
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 6: Yeah.

670
00:33:06,759 --> 00:33:08,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they got bounce in the first round. Bye,

671
00:33:09,039 --> 00:33:13,960
that's true. All right, that was consistently around like sixteen,

672
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,480
but never really threatens. I'm gonna I feel like Texas

673
00:33:16,519 --> 00:33:22,480
techs like Misso how about Iowa State Iowa? That's really

674
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,440
that's a good pull, not bad? Or like Wisconsin. Yeah,

675
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,960
that works too. Two hundred and ten uh countries are ranked.

676
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,960
San Marino is last. No, wait minute, you can't ever

677
00:33:34,039 --> 00:33:38,240
be worse than San Marino, just ahead of Angulia. Then

678
00:33:38,279 --> 00:33:40,599
you're making up Country and US Virgin Islands. You're making

679
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:44,400
them names Luis and Katie had ten fifty four high. Luise, Hey,

680
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:44,920
good morning.

681
00:33:45,559 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 6: Nucked me over about the soccer about the soccer team.

682
00:33:48,039 --> 00:33:50,160
I'm from Venezuela and we've never been in the World Cup,

683
00:33:50,279 --> 00:33:53,759
so we are like the Texas state of the of.

684
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:59,039
Speaker 1: The Oh, you're in the Texas State Penminal, Louise. That

685
00:33:59,359 --> 00:34:03,119
was fair tastic pulled by you, my friend outstanding there

686
00:34:03,359 --> 00:34:06,440
forty seven forty seven Minnezuela.

687
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 6: I guess, guys, this is like a personal theory with Walker.

688
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:17,760
I think it might be that he's supposedly replacing Bragman. Uh,

689
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,679
he is a little pressure that he has to produce

690
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,960
home runs and and and when he comes to heat

691
00:34:24,119 --> 00:34:27,119
in in the stadium, he's just looking for a home run.

692
00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:29,960
I think that also happened with Ad. I'm all school

693
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,920
where baseball were the first hitter was usually a fat

694
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,000
guy contact heater that could put getting based. And then

695
00:34:37,039 --> 00:34:39,800
the fourth and the third heater was probably the best one.

696
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:43,239
He could hit doubles at home runs. For the cleanup hitter.

697
00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 2: Was the home run guy.

698
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 6: But now it seems like he's under pressure that he's

699
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,800
gotta hitt him a humbrun if he goes two for

700
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,639
four with no rubies. It's not a good day for him,

701
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,639
but he's not hitting the ball, so he's trying to

702
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,239
hit the homers. And maybe that when he's trucking out

703
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,239
so much and he's had a lot of pressure, I'm

704
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,440
wanna hang up a Laice a bit. Also, Also, as

705
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,360
it was, he was a very good hitter because he

706
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,840
could hit everything he was hit him homewer because he's

707
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,320
a stunky guy, this shrong guy. But now it seems

708
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:13,480
like he only wants to hit a home run and

709
00:35:13,519 --> 00:35:16,639
then he's lost maybe a little that contact that he

710
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:18,480
used to have. Well, guys, I'm want to hang up

711
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:19,719
aliez In and listen to your great guy.

712
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think Christian Walker's trying to figure

713
00:35:22,039 --> 00:35:24,039
out something just to get on base. I mean, I

714
00:35:24,079 --> 00:35:25,880
know he's heart, middle of the older guy. He wants

715
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:27,400
to be a guy that wants to provide power. He's

716
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:32,719
done so for much of his major league career. I

717
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:34,840
don't know him well enough to know if he's pressing,

718
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,480
but obviously when you are sitting here barely above two

719
00:35:38,559 --> 00:35:40,280
hundred for as long as he has been he's got,

720
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,599
he's obviously feeling it. Frege and contract three year deal.

721
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:50,559
Good money. Yeah, I mean there's gotta be some he's

722
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:52,840
I don't think he's just going This has just been

723
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,760
a slow time for me. This is a slow time

724
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:56,880
that has gone on for two plus months. Well, good

725
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,960
thing is man, we have a trained eye to add

726
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,599
coming up in the next segment, and he will give

727
00:36:02,679 --> 00:36:06,079
us the answer. He being Brian Bogus ten fifty seven

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of them Matt Thomas Show with Ross. If you want

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to join our conversation, we still ow you the thirty

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ballparks according to Yelp by Way, I still got all

731
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of you that. We'll get to that coming up in

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just a little bit. Eleven oh one on Sports Talk seven.

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How any time for us to spend ten quality minutes

734
00:36:19,079 --> 00:36:23,159
with our friend Brian Bogus sevic He is working Space

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00:36:23,159 --> 00:36:26,039
City Home Network series against the Chicago White Sox. And

736
00:36:26,119 --> 00:36:29,119
I told Brian yesterday I said, my good friend Shelby

737
00:36:29,159 --> 00:36:31,159
is working with him on the broadcast. I said, you

738
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:32,960
need to throw her at curveball. So what did you

739
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,960
throw her yesterday? Come on, give me something that threw all?

740
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:37,719
What did you say you.

741
00:36:37,679 --> 00:36:40,320
Speaker 8: Know I threw at her? Was that our microphones weren't

742
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,119
working on the set, so we had to leave right

743
00:36:42,119 --> 00:36:44,320
before game time and run back to the studio and

744
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,159
haul over there to get ready for the show. That

745
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was That was the big curve ball that was thrown

746
00:36:50,079 --> 00:36:50,760
at everybody here.

747
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 1: Now, if you were real gentleman, what you should have

748
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,519
done is got one of those guys as a bike,

749
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you know, the right around downtown that gets you from

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one spot to the other your parking spotcast, Yeah, rickshaw,

751
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gets you a rickshaw next time. That had been really funny.

752
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:03,880
That's a good show.

753
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,079
Speaker 8: First first segment of the show from the rickshaw outside

754
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of Dikan that that you'd have gotten some serious TV

755
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writings to get you a little salary bump, just telling you, bogie,

756
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this is how we dis how we do things, so

757
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go a little outside the box.

758
00:37:16,119 --> 00:37:18,519
Speaker 1: Hey. Uh. Had a couple of calls in a first

759
00:37:18,559 --> 00:37:23,280
hour Brian about Christian Walker and it's not a slow start,

760
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:26,159
it's a prolonged slump for him offensively, and every time

761
00:37:26,199 --> 00:37:28,239
you think he's gonna turn the corner, it just goes

762
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,440
back into a slump. What are you seeing with your

763
00:37:31,519 --> 00:37:36,320
trained eye? What is it pressing? Is it bat speed down?

764
00:37:36,519 --> 00:37:39,400
Combination of both because every time I think he's gonna

765
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,679
turn the corner, he unfortunately doesn't. It's two bad because

766
00:37:41,679 --> 00:37:43,360
I do like him a lot. I do like his

767
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,519
glove at first base. I know he's trying. It's not

768
00:37:46,559 --> 00:37:48,960
a question to want to, but the results just aren't

769
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:49,480
in right now.

770
00:37:50,559 --> 00:37:52,639
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's it's a lot of things.

771
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: I'll say.

772
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,320
Speaker 8: First of all, I don't see anything physically. I don't

773
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,280
think it's a oh my gosh, this guy got old

774
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,760
over the off seat, or the bat speed's gone, or

775
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,000
there's some big hole in his swing that needs to

776
00:38:04,039 --> 00:38:04,559
be fixed.

777
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: I think it's.

778
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 8: A combination of a lot of outside factors.

779
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:09,679
Speaker 5: I know.

780
00:38:10,039 --> 00:38:13,119
Speaker 8: You know y'all mentioned earlier the batting average on balls

781
00:38:13,119 --> 00:38:13,559
in play.

782
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:14,639
Speaker 1: You know, there's a little bit of.

783
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 8: Bad luck, you know, some balls not falling, some good

784
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,320
plays being made against them, balls hit right at people.

785
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,679
There's also, you know, he's he's had some pitchers make

786
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:26,280
some good pitches on him. You know, you know bad

787
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,159
luck that way where a borderline pitch doesn't go your way,

788
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:32,519
or you know, the first pitch is a perfectly located

789
00:38:32,519 --> 00:38:34,199
pitch that that you're not going to swing at. Now

790
00:38:34,199 --> 00:38:38,000
you're in a hole, and when things aren't going your way,

791
00:38:38,199 --> 00:38:40,519
those things in your mind get magnified. I mean I

792
00:38:40,559 --> 00:38:43,760
remember there being times standing in the batter's box thinking, Okay.

793
00:38:43,639 --> 00:38:44,519
Speaker 1: Here's my time.

794
00:38:44,679 --> 00:38:46,760
Speaker 8: I'm gonna get a good a good first pitch right

795
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,679
down the middle of fat one to hit and get

796
00:38:48,679 --> 00:38:51,280
dotted up in your O one and it's like deflation.

797
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:53,719
Here we go again. And you can see some at

798
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,920
bats from Christian Walker here there when when something doesn't

799
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,239
go his way, where you can just see him thinking like,

800
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,559
oh man, here we go again. It's happening again. Today's

801
00:39:02,599 --> 00:39:05,559
not going to be the day. I think there is

802
00:39:05,639 --> 00:39:08,920
also something to be said about just the astros middle

803
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,840
of the order in general. I mean, it's been inconsistent

804
00:39:12,079 --> 00:39:15,960
at best in those three, four, five six spots throughout

805
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,440
the course of the year. You know, I think not

806
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:22,679
having healthy productive Yordon in there, having Yainer being up

807
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,679
and down, Housael Tuve has been up and down all

808
00:39:25,679 --> 00:39:28,480
of a sudden. Christian Walker can be more of a

809
00:39:28,519 --> 00:39:32,400
focus from opposing pitching staff and how they're game planning

810
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,239
for the lineup as a whole. You know, if you've

811
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,639
got Yordon hitting in front of or behind him, maybe

812
00:39:37,639 --> 00:39:39,679
they're saying, hey, Christian Walker is going to be the

813
00:39:39,679 --> 00:39:42,480
guy that we're going to go after, and then all

814
00:39:42,519 --> 00:39:44,360
of a sudden he gets some better pitches to hit. So,

815
00:39:44,639 --> 00:39:47,840
you know, it's usually a combination of a lot of things.

816
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,800
And when you're in the situation that he's in where

817
00:39:51,079 --> 00:39:53,679
you're struggling, you know you're struggling, you're pressing because you

818
00:39:53,679 --> 00:39:56,119
want to get out of it, All of those things

819
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:59,559
feel even more magnified than necessarily what we're seeing from

820
00:39:59,599 --> 00:40:02,119
the outside side. So yeah, I think it's just a

821
00:40:02,159 --> 00:40:04,280
lot of things going on and swimming all in his

822
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:04,800
head at once.

823
00:40:05,159 --> 00:40:07,159
Speaker 1: Last question about him, they'll go to some other things.

824
00:40:07,599 --> 00:40:10,480
If we were to find out Brian that his bat

825
00:40:10,519 --> 00:40:16,119
speed was down a tick a significant amount, how do

826
00:40:16,159 --> 00:40:19,400
you fix that? How could you fix that? What adjustments

827
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,159
would you make? If you if you found out yourself,

828
00:40:21,159 --> 00:40:23,159
Bolgie that your bat speed was down from a year ago,

829
00:40:23,199 --> 00:40:23,719
what would you do?

830
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,159
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, the first thing I would do would be

831
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:28,480
look and see if there are mechanical reasons for it,

832
00:40:28,559 --> 00:40:33,400
not necessarily strengths, age, injury, physical types of things. Is

833
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,559
there extra length in your swing that's slowing it down

834
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:38,840
or are you trying to do you know, are you

835
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,079
over swinging, therefore not being as quick as you need

836
00:40:42,119 --> 00:40:44,519
to be. I would first look at that kind of stuff,

837
00:40:44,519 --> 00:40:47,800
and then what you do is you look for, you know,

838
00:40:49,039 --> 00:40:52,440
game plan adjustments, approach adjustments. You look at Eastock parades.

839
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,480
He doesn't have elite elite bat speed, but he can

840
00:40:55,519 --> 00:40:58,039
turn on anything that anybody throws at him, and it's

841
00:40:58,039 --> 00:41:00,440
just a matter of what pitches you're looking for, kind

842
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,760
of how you set up in the batter's box, how

843
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,360
you're working in at that So back speed isn't necessarily

844
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:09,519
the end all be all of being able to hit,

845
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:13,119
but it is a big part of the calculus in

846
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,360
how you go about approaching an entire at bat and

847
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,239
how you're going to attack certain pictures with different repertoires.

848
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,360
So even if that speed is down a little bit,

849
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,599
that's not really an end all be all of what

850
00:41:24,639 --> 00:41:25,519
you can do at the place.

851
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,280
Speaker 1: Brian bogasvik with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety

852
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:31,960
and not just Walker, but just Diaz or anybody who's struggling.

853
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,119
Can you just kind of take us through what is

854
00:41:34,159 --> 00:41:37,079
happening behind the scenes right now in your mind, as

855
00:41:37,079 --> 00:41:39,800
far as you mentioned changing game plans and approaches, what

856
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,559
is the kind of mental battle that these guys are

857
00:41:43,599 --> 00:41:45,719
going through where you don't want to reinvent the wheel,

858
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:48,760
but obviously what's happening right now isn't working.

859
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think one of the biggest, one of the

860
00:41:53,519 --> 00:41:56,360
biggest battles that you're fighting when you're in a prolonged

861
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,719
slump is not trying to do too much and therefore

862
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:03,800
dig yourself into a deeper hole. You know, Oftentimes you're

863
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,760
not as far away as you might feel, especially you know,

864
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,119
sometimes you'll feel like, oh my god, my swing is

865
00:42:10,159 --> 00:42:11,800
in a terrible spot, and then you go watch the

866
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:13,800
video and you're like, man, it doesn't look a whole

867
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:16,559
lot different from what it normally looks like. So you

868
00:42:16,559 --> 00:42:20,440
don't want to go do major overholes, you know, unless

869
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:24,280
you absolutely have to. But it's small things. It's maintenance

870
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,840
work in the cage, it's watching video to make sure

871
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,440
you're not, you know, doing something in your setup. There's

872
00:42:29,519 --> 00:42:32,239
kind of low hanging fruit things that you can fix

873
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,000
pretty quickly. You know, oh i'm a little bit more

874
00:42:35,039 --> 00:42:36,840
closed off than I want to be, or a look,

875
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:38,960
my hands are drifting away from my body a little bit.

876
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,119
Those are kind of quick, easy fixes, So you're always

877
00:42:42,119 --> 00:42:44,639
trying to stay on top of that with video stuff,

878
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,000
and a lot of it has to do with the

879
00:42:47,039 --> 00:42:49,840
game planning. You know, who are we facing today, what

880
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:51,719
is he like to do? What is he going to

881
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:53,800
try to do against me? And how can I try

882
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,079
to tip the scales in my favor. You know, if

883
00:42:57,480 --> 00:42:59,360
you're feeling a little bit long in your swing and

884
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,840
you're having trouble well catching up to fastballs at the moment, Well,

885
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:04,400
what's this guy's best off speed stuff?

886
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:05,079
Speaker 1: What counts?

887
00:43:05,079 --> 00:43:06,760
Speaker 8: Did he like to throw his off speed stuff? When

888
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,440
can I hunt something soft out over the plate that

889
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,400
I can use the whole field and not necessarily have

890
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:15,079
to turn on high velocity. So doing things like that

891
00:43:15,079 --> 00:43:17,639
that can maybe get you going a little bit, because

892
00:43:18,039 --> 00:43:21,800
you know what you perceive as happening when you're struggling.

893
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:23,559
Oh my gosh, this guy made a pitch against me.

894
00:43:23,639 --> 00:43:25,840
I'm screwed in this at that. You brush those things

895
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,559
off very quickly once those balls start dropping in and

896
00:43:28,599 --> 00:43:30,320
all of a sudden and oh, one count is like, Okay,

897
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,239
he made his pitch. I'm going to get him on

898
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,679
the next one. So it's just about trying to play

899
00:43:34,679 --> 00:43:38,440
these little mental games and almost tricking yourself into thinking, okay,

900
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,159
I'm fine now, because once you think that, you usually are.

901
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 1: Do you think at this point, maybe Walker and some

902
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:46,480
of these other guys are just like, get me to

903
00:43:46,519 --> 00:43:49,280
the All Star break. I like a mental break, some

904
00:43:49,519 --> 00:43:52,639
days off and some rest and relaxation to kind of

905
00:43:52,679 --> 00:43:54,360
just reset for the second half of the season.

906
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,599
Speaker 8: It could help, you know, a couple of days off,

907
00:43:57,639 --> 00:43:59,960
a couple days away from it to just kind of

908
00:44:00,119 --> 00:44:02,639
be compressed. But also, you know, you can get a

909
00:44:02,679 --> 00:44:06,599
fresh start without necessarily having to have that natural break

910
00:44:06,599 --> 00:44:08,320
in the season. If all of a sudden you have

911
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,039
a good series and you can say, okay, from this

912
00:44:11,079 --> 00:44:14,400
point going forward, what is my season? That's as good

913
00:44:14,679 --> 00:44:16,760
as a restart as you need. If you can look,

914
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,480
you know, once you get to this point two hundred

915
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,320
at bats or so, you know, if you're in a hole,

916
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:24,119
you're not going to dig your way out. Like Christian

917
00:44:24,119 --> 00:44:26,239
Walker is not going to hit three hundred this year,

918
00:44:26,559 --> 00:44:29,519
but he can look and say, hey, starting on you know,

919
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:33,639
June fifteenth forward, I hit three hundred with an eight

920
00:44:33,679 --> 00:44:36,400
to fifty ops and just kind of play play those

921
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,719
games in your head. So yes, any kind of a

922
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:43,119
refresh restart is helpful, but it doesn't have to be

923
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:45,880
necessarily a break in the schedule.

924
00:44:46,199 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 1: Paul get the Astros are in the midst of a

925
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:51,400
thirteen game stretch of consecutive games without a day off.

926
00:44:51,599 --> 00:44:54,719
Well going back to a six man rotation? Are we

927
00:44:56,039 --> 00:44:59,800
should we be further preparing? Should major League teams further

928
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:03,719
for for the eventual rotation to go to six more

929
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:07,400
times than not? And the biggest benefit obviously is keeping

930
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,199
your starters of the extra day arrest. The biggest negative

931
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:11,519
is you're down an arm in the bullpen.

932
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:16,320
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think I think teams are coming around to

933
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:20,199
the fact that if not using it on a very

934
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,840
regular basis, being able to go to that six man

935
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,760
rotation at times. It's just with the amount of injuries

936
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:29,039
that pile up. First of all, you have to have

937
00:45:29,079 --> 00:45:31,559
the depth in the organization, so you might as well

938
00:45:31,679 --> 00:45:35,079
use it. And also any mileage that you can take

939
00:45:35,119 --> 00:45:39,480
off of your guys is probably worthwhile. There's always the

940
00:45:39,519 --> 00:45:42,239
balancing act of you know, for one short in the

941
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,000
pen and we get a short start, how do we

942
00:45:44,039 --> 00:45:47,360
make up for that? But you know, that's the manager's shop.

943
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,199
The manager can figure that out. The pitching coach can

944
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,599
figure that out and kind of have these swing guys

945
00:45:51,599 --> 00:45:54,480
that can go back and forth. But yeah, it's it's

946
00:45:54,599 --> 00:45:57,280
quite obvious now that at some point during the season

947
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:58,800
you're gonna have to go to a six man rotation.

948
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:00,679
At some point during the season, you're probably going to

949
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,800
have to dip into your you know, eighth, ninth tense

950
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,559
guys in the depth chart. So when you I think

951
00:46:06,599 --> 00:46:10,920
we're going to see teams start signing, developing, trading for

952
00:46:11,159 --> 00:46:14,239
just these gluts of starting pitching because you're going to

953
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:15,920
need them at some point, you know, going into the season.

954
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:17,239
Oh my gosh, how are they going to find innings

955
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,840
for all these guys? Trust me, you'll find them eventually.

956
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:22,199
And I think teams are just finding that it's just

957
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:25,159
going to be worthwhile to start stockpiling innings.

958
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 1: Come more minutes here with Brian Bogasovic from Space City Network.

959
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,280
Here on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross, I am

960
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:35,679
frankly surprised how much second base Jose Altuve is playing.

961
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:39,000
Are we going to see more of that? Because the

962
00:46:39,119 --> 00:46:41,760
spot has not been offensively a good spot and the

963
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:44,199
fact that Melton's been playing some left field. You'll get

964
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:47,079
your do on back. Eventually you can throw Duban out there.

965
00:46:47,599 --> 00:46:49,519
What is your take on what you've seen so far

966
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:51,760
and what if you were to get your crystal ball out?

967
00:46:52,119 --> 00:46:54,159
How much second base will Jose play the rest of

968
00:46:54,159 --> 00:46:54,639
the season.

969
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,559
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, I think there's a lot of things that

970
00:46:58,599 --> 00:47:00,280
play into it. First of all, I think I think

971
00:47:01,159 --> 00:47:03,440
I think the coaches have done a really good job

972
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:07,159
this year with all of the moving pieces defensively that

973
00:47:07,199 --> 00:47:09,159
they have all the different guys in the outfield, mixed

974
00:47:09,199 --> 00:47:12,159
the rotation at second base. They've done a really good

975
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:15,400
job maximizing whatever they're doing on that day, that they

976
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:17,719
have a really good feel for, you know, what the

977
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,119
matchups are with the pitchers and who should be ware.

978
00:47:21,119 --> 00:47:23,239
So yeah, I think we're going to keep seeing guys

979
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,960
moved around. But the biggest question is when Jordan comes back,

980
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,079
what does that do? How much outfield is he going

981
00:47:29,119 --> 00:47:31,559
to play? Is he going to occupy that DH spot

982
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,400
all of the time. I do think it is a

983
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:37,840
huge weapon, especially on the road, when you can go

984
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:41,280
Melton Myers and Cam Smith in the outfield. That is

985
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:44,000
a really good defensive outfield, And if you're playing somewhere

986
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:45,880
that has a lot of space out there in the outfield,

987
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:48,639
it's a pretty big advantage. So if that results in

988
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:52,280
Jose moving to more second base, and look until somebody,

989
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:56,039
you know, until Mariso Dubon or Brendan Rodgers goes over

990
00:47:56,079 --> 00:47:59,400
there and starts consistently hitting for an extended period of time,

991
00:48:00,159 --> 00:48:02,239
is going to be a rotation. And moving al twove

992
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,079
in and out of the outfield and out of DH

993
00:48:04,119 --> 00:48:06,599
to second base is going to be part of that.

994
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:10,559
But I can foresee a scenario if it comes to

995
00:48:10,599 --> 00:48:13,000
this where if you're not as occupying a ton of

996
00:48:13,079 --> 00:48:15,679
DH when he comes back and we're trying to get

997
00:48:15,679 --> 00:48:18,519
these three outfielders mixed in or Dezenzo once he comes

998
00:48:18,519 --> 00:48:21,360
back into the mix of Jose playing more second base,

999
00:48:22,039 --> 00:48:24,599
just based on what you're trying to now maximize from

1000
00:48:24,599 --> 00:48:26,199
an offensive standpoint.

1001
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: And speaking of those guys you mentioned the outfield, another

1002
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,599
week of sample size with Jake Melton, what you're seeing

1003
00:48:33,599 --> 00:48:35,880
from him at the plate and then camp Smith as well.

1004
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:38,039
And I thought over the weekend that a bet where

1005
00:48:38,039 --> 00:48:40,360
he knocked in those two runs was a great at

1006
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,079
bat from him seeing the cutter outside and then sending

1007
00:48:43,199 --> 00:48:44,360
the other way knocking in two.

1008
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:49,119
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think, you know, from from a mountain standpoint,

1009
00:48:49,639 --> 00:48:53,239
the tools have always been there. Everybody's really always raved

1010
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,920
about the physical tool, speed, power to defense and everything.

1011
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:59,760
It's always the question has always been how much contact

1012
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:01,480
is there going to be? How well can he handle

1013
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,440
the strike zone. He's done a pretty good job. I

1014
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:06,480
know he's struck out some, but it's not like these overmatched,

1015
00:49:06,679 --> 00:49:09,440
blow your doors off type of strikeouts. He's battling, he's

1016
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,760
seeing pitches, he's laying off of tough pitches, getting pitches

1017
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,119
into the zone, and that's that's a very good sign.

1018
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:17,079
I would have to imagine that the ashers are pretty

1019
00:49:17,079 --> 00:49:20,000
pleased with how he's handled the strike zone since he's

1020
00:49:20,039 --> 00:49:22,599
been there, because that will allow the tools to play,

1021
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:26,559
and you know, what he brings to athletically is pretty impressive.

1022
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:28,960
If there's enough contact there, there's going to be a

1023
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:32,000
lot of tools to play. And you know, from Cam Smith,

1024
00:49:32,119 --> 00:49:34,800
he just continues to progress. I mean, they're they're the

1025
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:37,760
adjustments that he's been asked to make on the fly

1026
00:49:38,119 --> 00:49:41,440
at the big league level. First time seeing major league pitching,

1027
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,840
it's been pretty amazing of what he is now versus

1028
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:46,880
what he was at the beginning. Of the season in

1029
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,840
terms of his setup, his rhythm, his ability to get

1030
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,679
on fastballs, his ability to turn on pitches you know

1031
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:55,679
where the contact points are. So it's been a lot

1032
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,960
of really good developments at the big league level, which

1033
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:00,760
is a really difficult things to do.

1034
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 1: Aggie, great stuff is always look forward to catching you

1035
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,039
and Shelby on TV tonight Astros in White Sox game

1036
00:50:06,119 --> 00:50:07,800
number two. Thanks to the visit, and we'll talk again

1037
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:10,679
next week. All right, you guys got it. That's Brian

1038
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:13,440
Bogasvik every Wednesday with us at eleven o'clock right here

1039
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:17,119
on Sports Talk seven. We have shut your ball mass

1040
00:50:17,159 --> 00:50:19,360
up and ain't nobody got time for that coming up

1041
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:21,159
in fifteen minutes. You got some things you got to

1042
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:23,960
get out your chest. I'm feeling all right right now.

1043
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:25,800
I guess I can come up with something. Yeah, I mean,

1044
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:31,480
your life is full of aggravations and disgust. It's oh,

1045
00:50:31,519 --> 00:50:33,159
you know, what what did I do when you pip

1046
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:36,639
something that rosted or something that happened in your life.

1047
00:50:37,039 --> 00:50:39,599
I'm gonna let you go first. Then, okay, I gotta

1048
00:50:39,599 --> 00:50:43,599
I gotta go after somebody too. Not happy? All right,

1049
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:47,199
as promised? How does Yelp think major League baseball parks. Look,

1050
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:48,559
we'll give you the tails in that in a minute

1051
00:50:48,599 --> 00:50:51,079
eleven fifteen on Sports Talk seven Hot you generally speaking

1052
00:50:51,159 --> 00:50:55,119
ross about Yelp reviews. Do you believe them? Do you

1053
00:50:55,599 --> 00:50:58,840
take them with a grain of salt? Do you are

1054
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:03,199
they treated by you as guy gospel? Uh, definitely not gospel.

1055
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,320
It also depends on the place in the restaurant and

1056
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:09,159
the type of restaurant. I always look at it for restaurants,

1057
00:51:09,159 --> 00:51:12,360
but sometimes things can be skewed one way or another

1058
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:15,440
depending on a place. We can have great food with

1059
00:51:15,559 --> 00:51:18,199
bad service, And generally on Yelp it's going to be

1060
00:51:18,199 --> 00:51:21,320
lower than Google because I think people want to go

1061
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:25,239
to Yelp to complain. If you had a great experience

1062
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:27,440
at a restaurant or a normal one that was fine,

1063
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:29,960
you're not going to run to Yelp. If somebody pissed

1064
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:32,800
you off and you got bad service, You're more likely,

1065
00:51:33,559 --> 00:51:38,400
just human nature to go online and be spiteful or

1066
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:40,960
look for revenge, or want to get noticed, or maybe

1067
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:42,559
even try to get something free out of the deal

1068
00:51:42,599 --> 00:51:45,880
and put something negative out there. All Right, So I

1069
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:49,360
didn't know yelp did ballpark reviews. I didn't know they

1070
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:53,320
did so USA Today Today did a story about Yelp

1071
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:57,760
reviews of ballparks. Okay, I'm going to give you from

1072
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,199
we'll do from five down to one. In the will

1073
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:03,239
put in perspective a couple of the ballparks. And I

1074
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:07,559
think this list is frankly ridiculous. Coming at number five.

1075
00:52:08,159 --> 00:52:09,920
This is a scale I believe out of one to

1076
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:15,559
five stars. At number five is Wrigley Field in Chicago.

1077
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:18,719
It feels good to me on that one, Yeah, okay,

1078
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:21,239
And I don't want to get into a deep dive

1079
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:23,880
on that on why it is, but let's just we'll

1080
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:25,559
get to the deep dive on a couple of other ones.

1081
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,960
At number four is Oriel Park at Camden Yards, the

1082
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,440
Orioles play, and I had been to that ballpark and

1083
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:34,480
I would agree that is a top five ballpark for me.

1084
00:52:35,119 --> 00:52:39,079
So so far, I'm pretty good about this, okay. At

1085
00:52:39,159 --> 00:52:46,079
number three Fenway Park. Fenway Park has got really great food,

1086
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:48,559
but it's a pain of the ass to get around.

1087
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:53,880
The seats are externally narrow. M when people used to

1088
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:57,239
be smaller. Well, yeah, because the food at ball at

1089
00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:58,840
Fenway Park is good. At the food one is good.

1090
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:02,239
People would be the school. That's right, squeeze it in there.

1091
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:08,079
Uh So, if you love history and you love nostalgia,

1092
00:53:08,199 --> 00:53:11,039
it's your place. But if you love to be able

1093
00:53:11,079 --> 00:53:13,239
to figure out where you're going in the concourses and

1094
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:15,480
being able to get restrooms that aren't with troughs for

1095
00:53:15,559 --> 00:53:18,840
rest for stalls and whatnot, it's not your place, okay.

1096
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:24,079
Number two Oracle Park in San Francisco. I've been there before,

1097
00:53:24,519 --> 00:53:26,480
I've seen two games before. It's a nice stadium. I

1098
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:28,599
wasn't blown away by it. I was blown away more

1099
00:53:28,599 --> 00:53:31,480
by the ambiance, you know, with McCovey cob out in

1100
00:53:31,559 --> 00:53:35,760
right field. Beautiful. Well, I will never go to a

1101
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:37,400
night game there ever. Again, I can tell you that,

1102
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:41,280
for damn sure, that was Unbelievable's put your long John's

1103
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:43,599
on wind. And the number one ballpark which I have

1104
00:53:43,679 --> 00:53:46,639
not been to is PNC Park in Pittsburgh, And I

1105
00:53:46,679 --> 00:53:49,280
think part of it is because of the fact that

1106
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:53,800
you've got the bridge and all that right there, the

1107
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:59,159
perfect setting baseball. So uh noticeably, there are some ballparks

1108
00:53:59,159 --> 00:54:00,840
that are not on the life in the top five

1109
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:02,920
that I would have put in. Let me tell you

1110
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:04,360
where some other Poule parks that I think a lot

1111
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:06,440
of our audience has been to that you could grate

1112
00:54:06,519 --> 00:54:11,599
it on coming in at Let's see here number twelve,

1113
00:54:11,639 --> 00:54:14,559
Peco Park. I have been to Peco. It's spectacular. I

1114
00:54:14,559 --> 00:54:16,320
love it. I would be my top five. I'd put

1115
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:18,320
it in a top five. I have not been to

1116
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,199
T Mobile Park. Have you been to the T Mobile Park again? Seattle? Yeah?

1117
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:26,280
And I thought it was great. Okay, let's see here

1118
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:28,079
a few more that we're getting towards the middle of

1119
00:54:28,079 --> 00:54:33,320
the pack. Here Coursefield at seventeen. I loved Corsefield. Is

1120
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:35,239
it part of that is because the fact the team

1121
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:37,440
sucks so bad you just get in there and felt greats.

1122
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,800
I got greats. I got like a twenty rows back

1123
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:44,559
behind home plate for like fifty bucks free sweet. I

1124
00:54:44,599 --> 00:54:48,360
hate to tell you this. Yankee Stadium, Noos Yankee Stadium

1125
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:52,800
is really very spacious and comfortable and food is good.

1126
00:54:53,119 --> 00:54:56,079
It got ranked eighteenth on the list, which one Yankee

1127
00:54:56,159 --> 00:55:00,199
Yankee Stadium. Maybe a lot of people hating on the Yeah,

1128
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:03,159
this is just hanging that feels like that's more. It

1129
00:55:03,199 --> 00:55:05,159
could be lower good. It's just I think it's I

1130
00:55:05,159 --> 00:55:07,719
think it's the Yankee hatred. I think what you could

1131
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:09,639
be going there and getting heckled by Yankee fans and

1132
00:55:09,639 --> 00:55:11,760
they're throwing beers at you. I'd give them one stars.

1133
00:55:12,599 --> 00:55:16,320
Uh number this is the one that really stuns me. No,

1134
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:19,239
that's not true. Uh oh, here we go at number

1135
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:24,400
twenty one dayik in park. What's the overall rating? Three

1136
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:26,679
point nine out of five. That's pretty good on ouda

1137
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:31,239
yelp twenty one. Jennifer g Rights. Giveaways to the ballpark

1138
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:33,920
this year are not like knowing what the secret code

1139
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:37,519
is for a hideout. You are there more hours for

1140
00:55:37,559 --> 00:55:40,360
the game starts and still not receiving the promotion. Even

1141
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:43,519
with boxes of giveaways left, they're either set aside for others,

1142
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:45,400
or if you go on the entrance it doesn't have

1143
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:47,880
the item. You can't get one at another entrance as

1144
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:52,639
re entry is not allowed. Two stars. Levy A rights

1145
00:55:53,039 --> 00:55:57,719
great ballpark, but the security has the biggest power trip imaginable. Also,

1146
00:55:57,920 --> 00:55:59,679
there is a nasty lady who is one of the

1147
00:55:59,679 --> 00:56:02,039
secure guards who cussed me out because I forgot my

1148
00:56:02,159 --> 00:56:03,920
jacket and I had to go back down to get it.

1149
00:56:04,039 --> 00:56:07,119
Three stars. There's nobody cussing this guy out I'm calling

1150
00:56:07,199 --> 00:56:11,079
bsm leve. So this is why, in my mind, YELP sucks.

1151
00:56:11,159 --> 00:56:14,159
You got you get two bitties here who are pissed

1152
00:56:14,159 --> 00:56:18,440
off for all the wrong reasons. Yeah, twenty one out

1153
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:21,719
of thirty because of the LP reviews. Yeah, but that's

1154
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:25,400
that's another thing too. When you see Sogner Stadium twenty second,

1155
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:29,079
Dodger Stadium for being an old place and for things

1156
00:56:29,079 --> 00:56:32,159
in California that don't have nostalgic, is nostalgic and fantastic.

1157
00:56:32,559 --> 00:56:36,719
I love Dodger Stadium. That's a twenty two. Uh. And

1158
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,119
then you're saying to yourself, what could be the absolute

1159
00:56:39,159 --> 00:56:49,000
worst coming in at number thirty? Drum roll, please my mom.

1160
00:56:49,159 --> 00:56:51,840
Boom boom, boom boom, look at you. By the way,

1161
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:56,280
it's not Sacramento, it's not it's not Tampa. Oh that

1162
00:56:56,320 --> 00:56:58,920
was a good Tampa was gonna be? My guess it

1163
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:02,000
is and I'm this is this is there's somebody themselves

1164
00:57:02,159 --> 00:57:04,760
somebody adds on this website. Fine, it's getting more time

1165
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:10,320
to think. Oh, not a bad choice. Global Life Field

1166
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:17,880
in Arlington. They're the worst. Okay, B D B E

1167
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:20,920
E B D. First of all, name somebody named B

1168
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:25,199
that isn't at least seventy five years old, and it's Bebe.

1169
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:29,400
My name is B and I went to help to

1170
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:30,360
say the following.

1171
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:39,360
Speaker 7: This place is abiss undrained staff, zero consistency, absolutely no

1172
00:57:39,719 --> 00:57:40,440
regard for.

1173
00:57:40,519 --> 00:57:43,880
Speaker 1: A customer experience. Wait, why did you start talking like

1174
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:49,239
a like a Victorian Arab. Whether you're a VIP or

1175
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:55,079
a general admission, expect chaos and confusion. One star. Shut

1176
00:57:55,119 --> 00:57:59,159
your bomb ass up. B. Here's Mike B. I don't

1177
00:57:59,159 --> 00:58:02,840
know they're related or not. Absolutely, hands down the worst

1178
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:05,800
MLB stadium I've ever been to, and I've been over fifteen.

1179
00:58:06,199 --> 00:58:08,800
The food choices are pathetic. Layout to get around the

1180
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:10,800
stadium is pathetic. No one knows how to get from

1181
00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:12,679
level to the level, and you have to walk a

1182
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:15,639
country mile or walk up three flights of stairs again anywhere.

1183
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:17,440
I would never give this place a time in my

1184
00:58:17,519 --> 00:58:20,519
life again or my money. One star. I will say

1185
00:58:20,519 --> 00:58:24,360
the layout did suck and it was kind of confusing. Yeah,

1186
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:27,239
that's when I was there, when we went there for

1187
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:32,440
the twenty twenty three ALCS because they gave us food vouchers,

1188
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:34,039
so we had to go out in the into the

1189
00:58:34,079 --> 00:58:37,119
water on the media dining now they didn't have media dining, right,

1190
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:39,880
I hope so we had food vouchers. Would you get

1191
00:58:40,639 --> 00:58:45,760
barbecue is a good tato? It was good bed right. Stop,

1192
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:52,000
there's no year old bend. Are you okay? No? I

1193
00:58:52,079 --> 00:58:54,159
just was doing I thought it was a pretty decent beat.

1194
00:58:55,039 --> 00:58:58,000
I thought it was fantastic. Thank you all right. Time

1195
00:58:58,039 --> 00:59:00,840
for some people to shut their bumbmasses up here.

1196
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 9: Let me again, tamp here, Let me get tap here,

1197
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:06,840
Let me get tamped it here, Let me get tampeded. Care,

1198
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:10,000
let me get tamped it Garlet again tamp here, Let

1199
00:59:10,119 --> 00:59:12,280
me get tap here, Let me get tamped it.

1200
00:59:17,719 --> 00:59:17,840
Speaker 2: All.

1201
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:22,039
Speaker 1: Right, Here we go, big baby you ready seven one

1202
00:59:22,119 --> 00:59:25,960
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three

1203
00:59:26,159 --> 00:59:31,079
two one two five seven nine zero. Somebody bothering you

1204
00:59:31,119 --> 00:59:34,480
this week, Somebody yelling at you for all the wrong reasons,

1205
00:59:35,519 --> 00:59:37,920
somebody giving you terrible advice. Tell them to shut their

1206
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:45,840
bomasses up, mate, then you play it. I bet shits

1207
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:49,239
o bum ass up man much better. Or if somebody

1208
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:52,760
at the office is taking their time firing off sound bites,

1209
00:59:53,599 --> 00:59:56,480
not playing them in proper speed in context.

1210
00:59:57,239 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 7: Aintybody got time for that, right, donathanybody there?

1211
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:06,199
Speaker 1: You go let's go seven one three two one two

1212
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:12,719
five seven honey ticket Master, Oo, you put their name

1213
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:18,440
on it. My son and I, my middle son, Peyton,

1214
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:20,920
and I are going to Vegas later on tonight tomorrow.

1215
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:24,920
We're going to see Barry Manilow. Ticket Master's on that.

1216
01:00:27,079 --> 01:00:35,559
My wife bought the tickets. Okay, we go to transfer them. Uh? Oh,

1217
01:00:35,599 --> 01:00:41,440
the tickets for this concert are non transferable. What so

1218
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:45,239
I get on the chat and I and I chat

1219
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:48,159
with something called a Roger. This is not AI, this

1220
01:00:48,199 --> 01:00:50,719
is a real person. I got past the AI real

1221
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:57,360
quick and I said, Hey, Roger, my wife's was I

1222
01:00:57,360 --> 01:00:59,360
was pretending I was her. I need to transfer these

1223
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:02,960
tickets to my husband. Oh, I'm sorry, we can't transfer

1224
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:09,000
these tickets. At what point does any concert, under any circumstance,

1225
01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:14,719
with any ticket app not allowed transfers. Ain't nobody got

1226
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:17,840
time Ticketmaster for me to have to chase down these

1227
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:20,599
tickets the night before I'm going to see the legendary

1228
01:01:20,719 --> 01:01:22,559
berry Man Love. Ain't nobody got time for that.

1229
01:01:22,639 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 9: Ain't nobody got time for that?

1230
01:01:26,239 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 1: Wow, I'm surprised. I Mean, I've heard of this, but

1231
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:34,119
usually it's for like very important, big concerts. I understand.

1232
01:01:34,119 --> 01:01:36,519
Barry Manilow is a big concert. Clearly, it's very important.

1233
01:01:36,519 --> 01:01:39,159
I want to get sued all the time. You take

1234
01:01:39,159 --> 01:01:42,000
get mastered. He's always getting sued. I got issued. I

1235
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:43,920
thought that. I thought the Department of Justice was breaking

1236
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:45,719
them up. I think that still. I think it's still

1237
01:01:45,719 --> 01:01:49,320
in the postage. Okay, lawyers are getting paid. It exists.

1238
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:54,920
You guys are good ticketers, Ticketmaster, you suck. Ain't nobody

1239
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:56,719
got time for me to have to chase this down.

1240
01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:04,559
I'm mad, Sorry, Matt, That's all I got for now. Jonathan,

1241
01:02:05,719 --> 01:02:07,639
you said you're gonna let him go first. But I

1242
01:02:07,679 --> 01:02:08,880
just know that was a good one. I like that

1243
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:09,880
was a good take a mess with one.

1244
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:10,239
Speaker 8: I like that.

1245
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:10,599
Speaker 1: Thank you.

1246
01:02:10,639 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 7: It's okay, But I need everybody to understand, especially in

1247
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:17,719
this building. I got a small ton of time to

1248
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:20,599
go use the restauranm I can I go into this

1249
01:02:20,679 --> 01:02:24,599
restroom almost every week, I'm gonna stall. I don't care.

1250
01:02:24,639 --> 01:02:26,239
I'm the one who gets a little paper and put

1251
01:02:26,239 --> 01:02:27,920
it on the seat. You know, you know, do my thing.

1252
01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:30,760
Speaker 1: Uhh, I go into the stall. I go in stall one.

1253
01:02:32,039 --> 01:02:37,119
Speaker 7: Why does it look like Hiroshima got this the toilet

1254
01:02:37,119 --> 01:02:39,920
like someone who dropped in the toilet and leave all

1255
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:44,320
the water on the seat. I'm like, so I slip

1256
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:50,719
a little bit. It's in both of the stalls, but

1257
01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:53,000
the bigger one. How do you make a bigger mess?

1258
01:02:53,199 --> 01:02:55,079
Speaker 1: Do you know what we call the bathrooms in our office?

1259
01:02:55,159 --> 01:02:55,760
Don't you know?

1260
01:02:57,639 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 7: I thought that it still smelled like the dude was there,

1261
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:01,519
like you had just left.

1262
01:03:02,679 --> 01:03:03,760
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody got time for that?

1263
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:06,559
Speaker 7: And I'm so upset that I couldn't get my relieve myself.

1264
01:03:06,599 --> 01:03:07,760
Speaker 9: Ain't nobody got time for that?

1265
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:14,519
Speaker 1: Oh? I think bathroom eticquitt is horrendous in office buildings.

1266
01:03:14,519 --> 01:03:16,199
That's why the number one rules should be. And we've

1267
01:03:16,199 --> 01:03:18,079
told this before, go to a different floor, by the promise.

1268
01:03:18,079 --> 01:03:21,639
You don't have time to different floor exactly, certainly not

1269
01:03:21,719 --> 01:03:25,239
with these elevators. Jam this, you'll be stuck at for

1270
01:03:25,239 --> 01:03:29,039
ten minutes an elevator. Wow, I ain't have anything to say.

1271
01:03:29,159 --> 01:03:38,039
That's disgusting. I was so irate. Oh yeah, nothing to say?

1272
01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:42,280
No seven one three two one two like a horse

1273
01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:44,960
barn in there too often? Yes, I told you I've

1274
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:47,039
been trying to eat better. Yeah, a little bit more, penny,

1275
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:50,440
stay off the whornmill. Chili seven one three two one

1276
01:03:50,559 --> 01:03:54,519
two five seven ninety seven one three two, one two

1277
01:03:55,039 --> 01:03:57,360
five seven ninety I got another one for you. Okay,

1278
01:03:58,639 --> 01:04:05,800
backing into your parking spot? Guy? What what? You'm backing

1279
01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:08,480
into the parking what's up? You get one chance and

1280
01:04:08,519 --> 01:04:12,840
one chance on that. I'm not gonna sit there and

1281
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:15,599
watch you curve and move your and finagle your way through.

1282
01:04:15,679 --> 01:04:18,480
If you can't do it on the first try, ain't

1283
01:04:18,519 --> 01:04:20,679
nobody got time for you to try it four and

1284
01:04:20,719 --> 01:04:24,159
five attempts when you're backing up traffic. Now, I would

1285
01:04:24,159 --> 01:04:27,639
say eighty five percent of the time I get it

1286
01:04:27,719 --> 01:04:29,880
right first, but sometimes you got to retrain. But if

1287
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:31,599
you see somebody that needs to go by, you let

1288
01:04:31,639 --> 01:04:34,639
them go by. And that's what I would. I have plenty,

1289
01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:37,159
plenty of respect for you for saying that there are

1290
01:04:37,199 --> 01:04:40,679
too many people that just want to try. These people

1291
01:04:40,679 --> 01:04:42,760
aren't paying attention. They live in their own world. Yes,

1292
01:04:43,199 --> 01:04:46,079
I'm with you, but I would say, yeah, I im

1293
01:04:46,119 --> 01:04:47,760
back into spot most of the time.

1294
01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:51,800
Speaker 7: I think Matt pulls in every time. I think I've

1295
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:59,440
seen them every time, pull in, pull in, or pull out. Okay,

1296
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:03,960
we're moving on. I'm trying to be better to you.

1297
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 1: Notice I'm not taken any shots anybody Today's I'm trying

1298
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:11,039
to be a better person. Okay, except Ticketmaster. You guys

1299
01:05:11,079 --> 01:05:16,440
absolutely one percent suck. Sorry, Matt. They are the worst.

1300
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:17,920
So here's what we've done. I've figured it out how

1301
01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:21,079
to do it. I have now my wife's email account

1302
01:05:21,159 --> 01:05:24,480
and her password on my phone, so now I'm entering

1303
01:05:25,239 --> 01:05:27,800
as her on my phone. Okay, Now I got the tickets.

1304
01:05:27,840 --> 01:05:30,239
That's smart, but it doesn't need to be. Transferring should be,

1305
01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:33,000
should be an elementary process. It's not. I don't think

1306
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:35,760
that's Ticketmaster's call. Actually, I think very that's Barry Manilo's

1307
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:37,960
old I'm Barry Manilow. Shut your bow mass up for

1308
01:05:38,039 --> 01:05:40,159
doing that. That's when they try to freeze out scalpers.

1309
01:05:40,159 --> 01:05:42,800
But it's trying to freeze out scalpers. But who's scalping

1310
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:46,440
a ticket to Barry Manilo? Plenty of people are. He

1311
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:49,760
sells on Las Vegas, constantly sold on Cleveland last week.

1312
01:05:49,760 --> 01:05:52,519
The man is an international superstar. Does he come out

1313
01:05:52,519 --> 01:05:56,079
in the hospital bed? That's not nice? Seven three two?

1314
01:05:57,440 --> 01:06:00,320
By the wait, we uh uh, My son and I

1315
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:02,199
have decide we're gonna go see a concert on Friday

1316
01:06:02,239 --> 01:06:06,480
night too, We're gonna go see Carrot Top again, one

1317
01:06:06,519 --> 01:06:10,559
of Matt Thomas's five most hilarious comedians of all time.

1318
01:06:11,119 --> 01:06:13,000
And that was a win. On the Fantas. You lost,

1319
01:06:13,159 --> 01:06:16,480
you lost, you sure lost. Yes, you had Karen Top

1320
01:06:16,519 --> 01:06:27,000
and you had Lisa I had like Chris Rock. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,

1321
01:06:27,079 --> 01:06:30,239
you got crushed, Matt, as you should have Maddie on

1322
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:32,119
seven on Maddie wins the matter with you.

1323
01:06:34,159 --> 01:06:38,760
Speaker 10: To Rob Manfred in Major League Baseball. John boy has

1324
01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:44,280
lied and misled the MLB community for years, and now

1325
01:06:44,320 --> 01:06:47,280
you're partnering with him while you send Ceac desist letters

1326
01:06:47,280 --> 01:06:50,760
to the Apop Boys for having watched parties, Rob Manfred,

1327
01:06:51,039 --> 01:06:52,280
Ain't nobody got time for that?

1328
01:06:53,119 --> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 9: Ain't nobody got time for it?

1329
01:06:55,880 --> 01:07:00,519
Speaker 1: Well kind of watch parties. Somebody got me really met,

1330
01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:04,280
I ain't nobody got time for you eating? Mid segment?

1331
01:07:04,519 --> 01:07:11,119
You starting, so he asked the question and then he eats, sorry,

1332
01:07:11,639 --> 01:07:15,480
and I should not have done that. I apologize. Really,

1333
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:17,840
Clinton's gonna have to clean some jumbal eye off of

1334
01:07:17,880 --> 01:07:22,119
that microphone. I know it's clean now. I disinfected it.

1335
01:07:22,239 --> 01:07:26,559
Uh yeah, I think there was. M Malban was disallowing

1336
01:07:26,639 --> 01:07:28,840
somebody to have a watch party. I'm not exactly sure

1337
01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:29,519
what was going on.

1338
01:07:29,599 --> 01:07:33,239
Speaker 7: Okay, they were, Oh, they gave a season assist for

1339
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:36,119
another watch party about their games, I believe, and that's

1340
01:07:36,119 --> 01:07:36,800
what he was talking about.

1341
01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:41,920
Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, universally discussed in the ballpark yesterday that it

1342
01:07:41,960 --> 01:07:46,880
was that, that it was John Boy Media was. If

1343
01:07:46,920 --> 01:07:48,320
they weren't a fan of the Yankees, it wouldn't be

1344
01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:52,519
a big deal at all that the Yankees in their

1345
01:07:52,559 --> 01:07:55,639
traffic helped them decide we need some more of the

1346
01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:58,280
young people in there, Like if they were, yeah, instead

1347
01:07:58,280 --> 01:08:00,840
of talking Yanks, they were talking Bruke. If they were,

1348
01:08:01,039 --> 01:08:04,280
they're doing deep dive on talking Marlins. What they would

1349
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:07,840
not have signed minority invest probably not. Seven one three

1350
01:08:07,920 --> 01:08:10,920
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two

1351
01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:14,920
one two five seven nine zero more of shut your

1352
01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:18,199
ball mass up. Ain't nobody got time for that? Coming up?

1353
01:08:18,199 --> 01:08:27,680
After I tell you about Affordable Tree service seven one

1354
01:08:27,720 --> 01:08:30,720
three two one two five seven ninety that's how you

1355
01:08:30,800 --> 01:08:36,239
reach us. Ain't nobody got time for you not to

1356
01:08:36,279 --> 01:08:38,319
call this show. You got plenty of time to call.

1357
01:08:38,399 --> 01:08:39,960
This is your this is the safe space.

1358
01:08:41,039 --> 01:08:42,159
Speaker 9: Ain't nobody got ten right?

1359
01:08:42,840 --> 01:08:45,800
Speaker 1: Yes? Did you say anything this week? Oh you no,

1360
01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:47,399
you skip me in and I said it's my turn,

1361
01:08:47,439 --> 01:08:49,880
and then you went to the caller. Oh Ross, what's

1362
01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:51,359
the matter with you this week? Let's sign I got on?

1363
01:08:51,760 --> 01:08:54,039
Forget it? You do have something? Come on you? You

1364
01:08:54,119 --> 01:08:57,479
live your life full of this. Audience wants to hear you, Pross. No, No,

1365
01:08:57,520 --> 01:09:01,600
it doesn't matter. Fine, Uh, I'm gonna go with the

1366
01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:05,760
NBA in general. Multiple days off in between NBA Finals games,

1367
01:09:06,159 --> 01:09:12,079
Horrible presentation by ESPN. Then they put clip art Larry

1368
01:09:12,159 --> 01:09:14,880
O'Brien trophies on the court on game number two after

1369
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:17,960
everyone complains about game number one. I mean, could you

1370
01:09:18,079 --> 01:09:22,199
have ask it even anymore? It's the NBA Finals, It

1371
01:09:22,239 --> 01:09:25,479
should be a big deal and it's not. And the

1372
01:09:25,560 --> 01:09:28,960
ratings are bad and clearly people are tuning out, and

1373
01:09:29,319 --> 01:09:31,520
ESPN and the NBA are not doing themselves any favors.

1374
01:09:31,600 --> 01:09:32,760
Ain't nobody got time for that?

1375
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:36,119
Speaker 9: Ain't nobody got time for dead?

1376
01:09:36,319 --> 01:09:39,680
Speaker 1: Bless you? David in Vegas, David, what's going on with you?

1377
01:09:40,680 --> 01:09:44,680
Speaker 11: Oh I've got uh, nobody got time for this? That

1378
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:47,359
I know is a New York complaint with YouTube.

1379
01:09:47,439 --> 01:09:51,920
Speaker 1: Yes, go for it, Yes, yes.

1380
01:09:52,399 --> 01:09:55,800
Speaker 11: Mister claimed to be a sports bar, but bad sports

1381
01:09:55,840 --> 01:10:00,960
bar operator. I just came back a week and weekend

1382
01:10:01,039 --> 01:10:05,439
family vacation with my whole family in Utah, and two

1383
01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:07,760
nights we decided we wanted to go out as a

1384
01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:12,199
family and watch the NBA Finals game at a sports

1385
01:10:12,279 --> 01:10:15,560
bar at places that advertise as the best sports bars

1386
01:10:15,600 --> 01:10:18,479
in the area, with all the yell previews and everything.

1387
01:10:19,000 --> 01:10:21,439
First night, for game one, we go walking into a

1388
01:10:21,479 --> 01:10:25,600
place thirty TVs right around tip off time, not a

1389
01:10:25,720 --> 01:10:29,520
single one. It's turned onto the game, and you know,

1390
01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:31,680
we talked to the guy about it, and he says, okay,

1391
01:10:31,720 --> 01:10:34,760
we'll find it for you, sure or no problem. Struggles

1392
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:38,239
around with it, can't find a channel. Finally says who's

1393
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playing in this game? I you know, I try not

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01:10:41,840 --> 01:10:45,079
to roll my eyes. I say Oklahoma City and Indiana,

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01:10:45,239 --> 01:10:47,560
Like that's going to help him find it anyway, you know.

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Ten minutes into the game, we finally get it. Of course,

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no sound, we got music and everything else like that.

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Speaker 1: So on.

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Speaker 11: Then for game two we go in and we find

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01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:59,560
a much better, much higher rated dedicated sports guard calling

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01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:04,119
a vance everything. Also walked in there. There's thirty screens

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on there, about a single one of them, except.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, David, you got to get that name

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01:11:09,520 --> 01:11:11,520
of those companies and let me know because my company

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Remote for you dot biz will come to your rescue.

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01:11:14,119 --> 01:11:17,319
It just w yeah, ain't nobody got time for that?

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01:11:19,439 --> 01:11:21,920
Thank you, David. Hey, David, I feel you're paying my brother.

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01:11:22,039 --> 01:11:26,680
I do ROSSI promote few dot biz. I'm gonna put

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01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:30,800
it publicly available for you to invest stock in it,

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01:11:31,119 --> 01:11:33,920
publicly treat it immediately. I'm ready to go. Who's your

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01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:37,720
top employee? Me in best stock with what money? Oh?

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01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:40,199
Who's your money? My sons are involved in it. Who's

1413
01:11:40,239 --> 01:11:42,279
your second best employee? Cameron Thomas?

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01:11:42,319 --> 01:11:42,399
Speaker 8: Oh?

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01:11:42,479 --> 01:11:44,119
Speaker 1: Where what was he? The last dispatch to?

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01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:45,119
Speaker 2: Uh?

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01:11:45,399 --> 01:11:50,279
Speaker 1: Really, you're lying? And then we sent my son Peyton

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01:11:50,359 --> 01:11:58,000
to Bapplebee's and we sent my daughter Carly to uh

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01:11:58,119 --> 01:12:05,439
Roda got the yellowstone of remote. Rana. Yeah, they sell sounds. Oh,

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01:12:05,479 --> 01:12:09,119
who's watching sports? And Rrana salad place Remote for you

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dot biz came a Messadian with extra fea and put

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01:12:12,680 --> 01:12:21,880
on the NBA Finals. That's exactly right. Seven one three,

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01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:24,560
two one two five seven outie Brian at Love and

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01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:26,119
fifty two Brian would the matter with you?

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01:12:27,600 --> 01:12:30,479
Speaker 2: Hey, Matt Hey Ross first long time.

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01:12:30,880 --> 01:12:32,760
Speaker 1: That's not your first time. It's not your first time.

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01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:34,000
We have you on that. We have you on the

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01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:36,560
screen here as a frequent caller. You're a liar.

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01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:39,560
Speaker 2: First time long time man.

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01:12:40,800 --> 01:12:42,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, do.

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01:12:42,880 --> 01:12:44,520
Speaker 2: You guys know who what Brian?

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01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:45,000
Speaker 8: This is?

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01:12:45,279 --> 01:12:45,560
Speaker 1: Yes?

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01:12:46,039 --> 01:12:46,279
Speaker 3: I do.

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01:12:46,359 --> 01:12:49,640
Speaker 1: I don't know if Matt does? You know, Matt? Matt's

1436
01:12:49,640 --> 01:12:53,039
a little slow. And then on the uptake, go ahead.

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01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:55,920
Speaker 2: Who is this Matt? Come on, let's go figure it out.

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01:12:56,039 --> 01:13:00,359
Speaker 1: Oh, let me guess this is a guy that would hmmm,

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01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:02,119
that would take a picture of himself and put it

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01:13:02,119 --> 01:13:04,279
on Instagram in a spaseball uniform.

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01:13:04,560 --> 01:13:09,239
Speaker 2: Oh here we go. Okay, all right, first of all,

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01:13:09,640 --> 01:13:12,239
let's get something straight. That was three two four sports.

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01:13:12,319 --> 01:13:15,560
Check them out on Instagram. They do really good coverage

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01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:16,600
of youth sports.

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01:13:16,720 --> 01:13:17,279
Speaker 1: Should be cool?

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01:13:17,760 --> 01:13:18,520
Speaker 2: Was playing sports?

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01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:20,560
Speaker 1: She does? She does play youth sports, but shouldn't take

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01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:22,359
picture of herself and put them on her Instagram.

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01:13:23,279 --> 01:13:25,319
Speaker 2: I don't either. I don't even have Instagram.

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01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:27,920
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm sure you do. You got you guys and burners.

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01:13:27,920 --> 01:13:29,840
I know I know how you roll. I know you

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01:13:29,880 --> 01:13:31,600
wrep around town. Brian.

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01:13:32,920 --> 01:13:33,359
Speaker 5: Yeah.

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01:13:33,399 --> 01:13:36,079
Speaker 2: Anyways, anyways, Hey, I'm actually out here at Men's t

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01:13:36,199 --> 01:13:38,880
Clinic Men's Tea Clinic dot com check it out, proud

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01:13:38,920 --> 01:13:42,039
home of UH Sports Talk seven ninety. So you guys

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went to Chili's, Applebee's and Solata Is that right? Is

1458
01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:46,600
that where your family went.

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01:13:47,199 --> 01:13:50,680
Speaker 1: For to watch basketball? No, that's those are new clients

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of remote for you dot biz.

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01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:55,119
Speaker 2: Oh okay, but you guys can't say because that's like

1462
01:13:55,159 --> 01:13:56,560
a bit you guys do. I don't know. This is

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01:13:56,600 --> 01:14:04,039
my first time listening. I'm curious, all right, Seriously, I

1464
01:14:04,119 --> 01:14:06,399
just wanted to do this. Saytan, shut your bam mats.

1465
01:14:06,239 --> 01:14:08,399
Speaker 1: Up, go for it. The floor is yours.

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01:14:09,600 --> 01:14:12,000
Speaker 2: So the guy that just called in Maddie like too,

1467
01:14:12,119 --> 01:14:16,079
like last segment, it's uh he talked about Apollo, the

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01:14:16,119 --> 01:14:18,399
group that I'm in, and we did get season desist

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from Major League.

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Speaker 1: Oh yep, Matt.

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Speaker 2: But Matt, you asked the question and then you started

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to eat a Glizzie in the middle of the radios,

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01:14:27,119 --> 01:14:29,800
in the middle of the studio, and no one has

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01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:30,520
time for that.

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01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:34,119
Speaker 1: Oh God, I'm being so out of by a former

1476
01:14:34,159 --> 01:14:36,479
coworker of mine. Oh this is this is a low

1477
01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:37,840
point of my broadcast career.

1478
01:14:38,359 --> 01:14:42,079
Speaker 2: I mean, oh, hey, I just want in all seriousness,

1479
01:14:42,119 --> 01:14:44,399
I listen to you guys quite often. I miss you guys.

1480
01:14:44,399 --> 01:14:47,800
Hope everyone's doing well. You bring laughter to my drive

1481
01:14:47,840 --> 01:14:50,560
when I'm cruising around the city because I'm a corporate guy. Now,

1482
01:14:50,600 --> 01:14:52,359
Matt Ross, you know it is what it is, and.

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01:14:52,319 --> 01:14:54,319
Speaker 1: You're making I mean, let's tell people. Let's tell people

1484
01:14:54,319 --> 01:14:56,680
you're doing better. You're making double what Ross is making

1485
01:14:56,760 --> 01:15:00,479
right now minimum.

1486
01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:06,560
Speaker 2: I can't confirm or deny Matt Ross grinds.

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01:15:06,600 --> 01:15:09,520
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, he's a grinder and not a grind. Hey,

1488
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:11,199
it's good to hear your voice. Do not be a stranger.

1489
01:15:11,199 --> 01:15:12,760
You know you're always welcome to call the show.

1490
01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:16,359
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Guys, Thank you all Right's.

1491
01:15:16,159 --> 01:15:18,800
Speaker 1: Every body, especially if you're gonn tell Matt to shut

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01:15:18,800 --> 01:15:20,239
your bum mass up. He didn't say that at all,

1493
01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:23,680
Say what's up on? Nothing? All right? But that's because

1494
01:15:23,680 --> 01:15:26,199
he's rude that way. I've only had a like two

1495
01:15:26,199 --> 01:15:29,880
contacts with him. Oh okay, you guys are like passing

1496
01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:32,680
like ships in the night. Yeah, we lose employee, we

1497
01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:36,159
fill it right back up like oil. No, like big money, right,

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01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:40,319
the big machine. And he's one of the best youth

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01:15:40,359 --> 01:15:43,680
baseball coaches in Houston. Yeah, he and the I don't know,

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the bandits or something, the bandidos, And he loves going

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01:15:46,840 --> 01:15:53,800
out with divorce moms. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

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01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:58,600
I don't know if he does. First of all, what's

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01:15:58,640 --> 01:16:01,840
wrong with that? If that's true or not? I justid

1504
01:16:02,399 --> 01:16:05,000
it could be. I mean that would be if you're

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01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:06,920
a single, good looking guy, wouldn't you let me part

1506
01:16:06,920 --> 01:16:08,720
of your racket? Go coach you sports and hang out

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01:16:08,720 --> 01:16:10,880
with the divorce a moms? Yeah, what do you mean

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01:16:11,479 --> 01:16:12,399
I can't pay tuition?

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01:16:12,479 --> 01:16:12,600
Speaker 2: Oh?

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01:16:12,640 --> 01:16:15,760
Speaker 1: I bet you can't pay that tuition. Oh that's that

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01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:19,479
seems that certainly happened before. And I'm uncomfortable now. You

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01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:21,800
can't be uncomforable. Thirty seven year old mom says, Hey,

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01:16:21,880 --> 01:16:24,039
come over and have dinner with us. Give my son

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01:16:24,039 --> 01:16:25,640
a lesson. I'll give you a lesson. Give a little

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01:16:25,640 --> 01:16:29,279
Timmy a ben a drill. Little Timmy's fourteen. I don't

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01:16:29,319 --> 01:16:45,039
think he needs one drills. And you bring the youth

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baseball coach over to the house. Half shot a night quill,

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01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:49,640
put it in a shot glass. What are you putting?

1519
01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:52,680
I mean, drugs are you putting in this kid's body?

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01:16:52,960 --> 01:16:56,600
He's sick. You gonna wake up hungover? Man, Mom, what

1521
01:16:56,680 --> 01:16:59,680
is my problem? I had this terrible dream that our

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01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:02,199
coach was at our house last night until three am

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01:17:02,640 --> 01:17:07,000
and he wanted to cuddle. All right? That is that

1524
01:17:07,159 --> 01:17:09,640
is such a bumbass up that he might get time

1525
01:17:09,680 --> 01:17:13,039
for that. Let's get to the news that do. We

1526
01:17:13,119 --> 01:17:16,319
have a little bit of NBA breaking news from Sham Sharani.

1527
01:17:16,359 --> 01:17:19,000
We'll get to that. It's not breaking, but it's developing news.

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01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:22,279
We'll put it that way. Seven one three two, one

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01:17:22,399 --> 01:17:25,000
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two

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01:17:25,039 --> 01:17:28,840
five seven nine zero. Also coming up in about forty

1531
01:17:28,880 --> 01:17:31,399
minutes from now, we're gonna visit with our friend Vanessa Richardson.

1532
01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:34,800
She'll be working the sidelines on the ESPN radio broadcast

1533
01:17:34,920 --> 01:17:38,520
of game number three in the NBA Finals from Indianapolis.

1534
01:17:38,520 --> 01:17:41,560
The Pacers and the Oklahoma City Thunder are tied at

1535
01:17:41,600 --> 01:17:48,479
a game apiece twote two in Houston. What's happening, lunch timers,

1536
01:17:48,680 --> 01:17:51,439
Good afternoon to you our number three of them, Matt Thomas,

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01:17:51,479 --> 01:17:54,359
Showood Ross. By the way, y'all can slim on me

1538
01:17:54,399 --> 01:17:56,960
all you want from Menelo and Cara Top I'm gonna

1539
01:17:56,960 --> 01:18:00,560
have a great time. Y'all can suck it. Tell him

1540
01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:02,399
to shut their bumbasses. Trying to be nice about it.

1541
01:18:02,479 --> 01:18:08,079
Y'all be taking unnecessary shots at me one person on Twitter.

1542
01:18:08,119 --> 01:18:10,279
I appreciate that, and you agree with it, and you

1543
01:18:10,279 --> 01:18:12,119
you and ha ha ha ha ha. I don't know

1544
01:18:12,279 --> 01:18:17,199
shot mao ha ha Is that true? I don't think

1545
01:18:17,239 --> 01:18:22,359
I did it. It's terrible. Yeah, you put three crapping, crying,

1546
01:18:22,439 --> 01:18:24,880
laughing emoji. Try to interact with people who are listening

1547
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:26,640
on Twitter. I appreciate them, you know, man, I just

1548
01:18:26,920 --> 01:18:28,479
you know, don't take it personally, which is I do

1549
01:18:28,600 --> 01:18:30,720
take it personal. It wasn't about you. It's just, you know,

1550
01:18:31,479 --> 01:18:34,000
try to interact with the people at sports r V

1551
01:18:35,439 --> 01:18:37,680
cart Tops. The ugly one that's like really old now right,

1552
01:18:37,720 --> 01:18:42,439
and well, he's a prop comic and it's a very

1553
01:18:42,520 --> 01:18:46,119
vulgar show. He's a prop comic. He's extremely unfunny, and

1554
01:18:46,399 --> 01:18:48,920
nobody respects him. And he's had a lot of work done. Yes,

1555
01:18:49,880 --> 01:18:55,479
nobody respects him. Look at his face, you know what.

1556
01:18:55,520 --> 01:18:56,800
I kind of felt bad for him. It was one

1557
01:18:56,840 --> 01:18:59,319
of the roasts that they were doing and he was there,

1558
01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:02,840
and everyone who did a roast, like crushed him talking

1559
01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:06,720
about his mangled face from his surgeries, and then they

1560
01:19:06,760 --> 01:19:09,119
showed him walking out of there like, man, I gotta

1561
01:19:09,159 --> 01:19:11,279
go look in the mirror. Is something wrong with my face?

1562
01:19:12,279 --> 01:19:16,359
I don't understand because I I've seen him in performance

1563
01:19:16,399 --> 01:19:18,359
once before and it was really funny. It was it

1564
01:19:18,840 --> 01:19:21,680
was slapstick. It was the lowest. It was the l

1565
01:19:21,760 --> 01:19:27,960
c D of comedy, but still funny. It's an LCD screen.

1566
01:19:28,119 --> 01:19:30,520
I mean, it was crystal. It was a high brow

1567
01:19:30,760 --> 01:19:35,199
Seinfeld comedy. Okay, yeah, that's what you love, man, That's okay. Yeah,

1568
01:19:35,279 --> 01:19:38,600
that's what I'm saying. Don't steal my joy. Yeah, we

1569
01:19:38,600 --> 01:19:39,840
don't want to be a thief of joy. If you

1570
01:19:39,880 --> 01:19:41,479
love Carrot Top. I didn't say anything about it. I

1571
01:19:41,479 --> 01:19:44,640
don't love him, but uh, my plans got changed. I

1572
01:19:44,640 --> 01:19:46,560
thought you love I thought the Space Cowboys were there,

1573
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:49,319
and they're not. So uh. I just said, let's go

1574
01:19:49,319 --> 01:19:51,439
see something because my son does. We're not gonna go

1575
01:19:51,439 --> 01:19:55,359
see Kenny Chesney and we're not gonna go burlesque show

1576
01:19:55,439 --> 01:19:57,560
or something like that. I mean, is Shin Limb there?

1577
01:19:57,840 --> 01:20:02,119
Who Shin Limb? Don't know who that is? It's the uh,

1578
01:20:02,359 --> 01:20:05,319
it's the uh the magic guy. I want to see him.

1579
01:20:05,159 --> 01:20:06,920
I'm not a magic person. I don't want to go

1580
01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:09,039
see Blue Man Group or any of that crap like that.

1581
01:20:09,159 --> 01:20:10,920
So I'm gonna go look at uh go listen to

1582
01:20:10,920 --> 01:20:12,920
the Carrot Type in life a little bit, and I

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01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:16,039
present to you at Total four the News at noon.

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01:20:16,159 --> 01:20:20,920
He's at the Venetian. How much sakets I have to

1585
01:20:20,960 --> 01:20:21,279
go see?

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01:20:21,359 --> 01:20:21,640
Speaker 8: All right?

1587
01:20:21,680 --> 01:20:25,079
Speaker 1: When are you guys there? We're leaving tonight. Wea they're permitting.

1588
01:20:26,279 --> 01:20:29,960
Oh yeah, he's at the Palazzo Theater, the Banatza. Go

1589
01:20:30,039 --> 01:20:32,840
see him at the Balla. I didn't see Ringo Star

1590
01:20:32,840 --> 01:20:34,760
at the palazz while I was there last time, really

1591
01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:36,399
and the All Stars. I thought Ringo was at the

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01:20:36,520 --> 01:20:39,520
Orleans Stop. Here's a gift for nails in a Houston

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01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:43,840
Yay Tomorrow seven thirty at the Palazzo. I'm Friday. We're

1594
01:20:43,840 --> 01:20:46,439
going to see Man Little tomorrow and Carrattop on Friday. Okay,

1595
01:20:46,439 --> 01:20:48,600
never mind, y'all wanna if y'all gonna be in Vegas,

1596
01:20:48,640 --> 01:20:50,520
hook me up David. You know where you listening show.

1597
01:20:50,560 --> 01:20:52,560
We'll find you. If y'all want to go a quick

1598
01:20:52,560 --> 01:20:54,960
trip to delv we'll go. I promise you you go

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01:20:55,039 --> 01:20:56,560
with me to Vegas. We have a good time. First

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01:20:56,560 --> 01:20:58,520
of all, we'll go see some funny stuff. We'll go

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01:20:58,560 --> 01:21:00,439
hear some great music, we'll go eat some good food.

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01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:03,000
And I'm gonna help you with your blackjack. Oh v

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01:21:03,239 --> 01:21:05,439
but good looks like decent seats one hundred twenty bucks.

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01:21:05,479 --> 01:21:09,159
I'm good news and noon time. Here's Ross, yes man.

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01:21:09,199 --> 01:21:13,520
A lot of stuff going on in the sports news sphere,

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01:21:13,880 --> 01:21:16,079
and we're gonna go ahead and start here. Look fear

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01:21:16,159 --> 01:21:18,479
really good play fear spear to watch the con Fear

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01:21:19,239 --> 01:21:25,319
stop throwing a ch in there sphere s fear s

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01:21:25,319 --> 01:21:28,119
fear sphere. Well you might be texting for real mad

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01:21:28,279 --> 01:21:35,760
spear sphere. Let's go. Let's just play this. Oh my

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01:21:35,840 --> 01:21:39,680
computers freezing. So one two and that's lifted in the

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01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:40,199
center field.

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01:21:40,279 --> 01:21:42,119
Speaker 2: Robert coming in coming in coming.

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01:21:41,880 --> 01:21:45,880
Speaker 1: In makes the sliding catch, Luis Robert Junior, the bent

1615
01:21:46,119 --> 01:21:49,560
like slide on that shallow flyball the center and the

1616
01:21:49,680 --> 01:21:53,199
side is retired. That was the Astros that the bases

1617
01:21:53,399 --> 01:21:57,560
loaded in the eighth inning with no one out, Yanner

1618
01:21:57,680 --> 01:22:02,000
Diaz with a set fly, but they get nothing else.

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01:22:02,439 --> 01:22:06,720
Lance mccullor's junior not great five innings, four earned runs.

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01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:08,960
He did get six strikeouts, but he also racked up

1621
01:22:08,960 --> 01:22:11,680
four walks in ninety six pitches in those five innings.

1622
01:22:11,840 --> 01:22:14,079
Had mentioned, Matt, the bullpen was great. After that, Bennett

1623
01:22:14,079 --> 01:22:16,680
SUSA with a good six outs, same thing from Dubin

1624
01:22:16,840 --> 01:22:19,840
and Orts so Luis Robert hits at home run right

1625
01:22:20,479 --> 01:22:23,199
in the fourth inning. That was the last hit they've

1626
01:22:23,199 --> 01:22:25,920
wiite sock Scott in the entire game. Now, they did

1627
01:22:26,039 --> 01:22:28,279
draw four walks in the final four innings, but no

1628
01:22:28,359 --> 01:22:31,800
base hits at all. Pretty good from the bully. The

1629
01:22:31,840 --> 01:22:34,600
bully has been fantastic now, looks I give I give

1630
01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:36,920
credit to mccullors to get to five because it was

1631
01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:39,079
pitch count was fairly high for most of the most

1632
01:22:39,079 --> 01:22:44,520
of the game. Yes, but the Astros not able to

1633
01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:48,039
pick up the victory. One for six with runners in

1634
01:22:48,399 --> 01:22:54,520
scoring position, three double plays, three double plays. Matt, if

1635
01:22:54,560 --> 01:22:57,479
you go to a team ops in baseball, do you

1636
01:22:57,479 --> 01:22:59,960
know where the Astros are, I'll give you a hit.

1637
01:23:00,039 --> 01:23:02,439
They're not in the top ten. Are they in the

1638
01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:05,079
last ten? No, so they're going to be in the

1639
01:23:05,119 --> 01:23:06,640
middle ten. Are they in the upper half of the

1640
01:23:06,680 --> 01:23:10,119
middle tenn the bottom do you want iteenth, There you go,

1641
01:23:10,199 --> 01:23:12,680
I'll go. I'm gonna go with sixteen. Are they the

1642
01:23:12,720 --> 01:23:14,520
top three of the middle ten or the bottom three

1643
01:23:14,520 --> 01:23:15,760
of the middle ten or are they in the between?

1644
01:23:15,760 --> 01:23:17,560
The middle three was kind of sneaky, wasn't it. No,

1645
01:23:17,600 --> 01:23:19,960
it wasn't sneaky. I saw you coming a mile away

1646
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:25,319
on that one. Okay, continue ridiculous. Astro's back in action tonight,

1647
01:23:25,520 --> 01:23:31,439
Ryan Gusto on the hill facing Sean Burke. Astro's favorites

1648
01:23:31,479 --> 01:23:35,279
in this one A minus one seventy five Matt Thomas,

1649
01:23:35,359 --> 01:23:39,159
Ryan Gusto over under four and a third innings. I'm

1650
01:23:39,159 --> 01:23:41,359
taking the over. By the way, our executive assistant here

1651
01:23:41,399 --> 01:23:44,720
at the company is paying wants to buy a drinks.

1652
01:23:44,720 --> 01:23:47,800
Did you order right now? Of what kind of drinks?

1653
01:23:47,880 --> 01:23:49,920
I don't know what's happening. We're gon we're gonna get

1654
01:23:49,960 --> 01:23:53,760
liquored up during the show. Okay, let's go, all right, Ryan.

1655
01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:58,720
You hate Ryan Gusto. I appreciate Ryan Gusta. Ry, I

1656
01:23:58,760 --> 01:24:02,520
hope you're right. Okay. Oh, she's buying lunch. I just

1657
01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:06,119
had lunch. No, this is great, Hold on you, No,

1658
01:24:06,159 --> 01:24:06,920
I'm getting lunch.

1659
01:24:07,159 --> 01:24:07,920
Speaker 9: Oh you already ate?

1660
01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:09,640
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, jump a line. You spit it all over

1661
01:24:09,680 --> 01:24:12,720
the microphones. Okay, whatever he's doing here, get it, get it,

1662
01:24:13,079 --> 01:24:16,239
get it some for get it. Okay, but this is

1663
01:24:16,239 --> 01:24:24,359
your update. The update. Sham Sharania is reporting Sham Sharania

1664
01:24:24,520 --> 01:24:30,039
NBA Insider that the negotiations and conversations between the Phoenix

1665
01:24:30,079 --> 01:24:33,560
Suns and Kevin Durant's business partner, Rich Kleiman are sorting

1666
01:24:33,600 --> 01:24:38,640
through trade options. The team showing the most interest Houston,

1667
01:24:39,119 --> 01:24:45,079
San Antonio, Minnesota, Miami, and New York. Your thoughts on

1668
01:24:45,119 --> 01:24:50,119
those five I didn't hear you. I was order making

1669
01:24:50,159 --> 01:24:52,399
an a lunch order. Hows chicken salad?

1670
01:24:52,479 --> 01:24:52,680
Speaker 5: Rap?

1671
01:24:52,720 --> 01:24:56,079
Speaker 1: This is what I got, all right? Sons and Kevin

1672
01:24:56,159 --> 01:25:00,920
Durant are and his business partner are sorting through trade options. Okay, Minnesota, Miami,

1673
01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:04,000
New York, Houston, San Antario. This is the Shams and

1674
01:25:04,039 --> 01:25:08,479
you know Shams don't went it wrong normally not. Uh hmm.

1675
01:25:12,479 --> 01:25:14,279
I told you yesterday. My gut says he's going to

1676
01:25:14,319 --> 01:25:17,319
San Antonio. Antonio feels right. You don't know that Houston

1677
01:25:17,359 --> 01:25:20,560
wants to Look what did Houston want Kevin Durant. Yes,

1678
01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:22,319
it's just gonna be a question. But at what cost.

1679
01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:25,880
I would say exactly. I would say, yes, the Rockets

1680
01:25:25,920 --> 01:25:30,079
would be interested, but no, the Rockets wouldn't be interested

1681
01:25:30,159 --> 01:25:35,479
in winning a bidding war. No, I don't think that's

1682
01:25:35,520 --> 01:25:39,640
in in raphel Stones's DNA right now. I heard the

1683
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:41,680
Knicks were going hard after him too, didn't Mark Stein

1684
01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:43,479
or somebody say there was some talk of maybe using

1685
01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:47,399
Karl Anthony Towns as a potential trade show. That's fine,

1686
01:25:47,439 --> 01:25:49,520
But as Karl Anthony Town's a coach killer, he's gotten

1687
01:25:49,600 --> 01:25:51,760
the same coach fired in two different sets. Well, he's

1688
01:25:51,800 --> 01:25:55,600
just a horrible defender. Yeah, good score, good person, great

1689
01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:57,800
through sure, yeah, great guy, been through a lot in

1690
01:25:57,800 --> 01:26:02,560
his life, yep, but just can't defend. Can't defend. Hmmm. Interesting,

1691
01:26:03,079 --> 01:26:04,840
I would I'm with you. I think I would put

1692
01:26:04,880 --> 01:26:08,000
I would put San Antonio. I'd say San Antonio, New York.

1693
01:26:09,199 --> 01:26:11,159
I would put Houston probably fourth or fifth on this list.

1694
01:26:11,159 --> 01:26:13,600
I would say San Antonio, then Houston. I guess again,

1695
01:26:13,640 --> 01:26:16,319
I'm none was saying Matt, we're interested. I'm just saying

1696
01:26:18,039 --> 01:26:21,399
the barometric pressure says there is a little bit of interest.

1697
01:26:21,680 --> 01:26:23,960
I think there's interest again, but I just don't think.

1698
01:26:24,079 --> 01:26:28,800
I think if if, if whoever the Phoenix gm is

1699
01:26:30,039 --> 01:26:33,800
is going back and forth to everyone and saying, hey, hey, guys,

1700
01:26:33,880 --> 01:26:36,880
Knicks did made this offer? Rackets? Can you match? Rufhel

1701
01:26:36,920 --> 01:26:38,680
sends to be like, no, we're good. He's gonna have

1702
01:26:38,680 --> 01:26:41,399
a certain offer that he thinks is reasonable. But he's

1703
01:26:41,399 --> 01:26:43,359
not gonna get into anything right. He's not gonna get.

1704
01:26:43,239 --> 01:26:43,479
Speaker 8: In a bit.

1705
01:26:43,760 --> 01:26:45,800
Speaker 1: There wasn't a starting point. He's gonna raise his paddle

1706
01:26:45,800 --> 01:26:47,760
at the beginning, but then when the Knicks and the

1707
01:26:48,079 --> 01:26:50,039
and whoever else start driving up the price, and then

1708
01:26:50,039 --> 01:26:52,319
he's gonna tap out. That's what I think. How do

1709
01:26:52,319 --> 01:26:55,000
you feel about people that do that generally speaking at auctions,

1710
01:26:55,760 --> 01:26:57,560
just try to drive the price up. Yeah, people do

1711
01:26:57,600 --> 01:27:01,920
that in fantasy football. They start bidding stuff up and

1712
01:27:01,920 --> 01:27:04,319
then they end up with the players on accident. That's

1713
01:27:04,319 --> 01:27:06,720
always fun. What do you think about all, well, you're

1714
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:08,000
not gonna be in the league. I think, nope, I

1715
01:27:08,119 --> 01:27:10,920
out come on, Nope, I'm done fantasy football. Have you

1716
01:27:10,960 --> 01:27:13,720
been in done fantasy football auctions? I've been in fancay

1717
01:27:13,760 --> 01:27:16,119
football auctions. It's okay. It's it's just a lot longer

1718
01:27:16,159 --> 01:27:18,720
to do though. He can be out there quick. You

1719
01:27:18,760 --> 01:27:22,199
put a short limit on it. Okay, all right, Texans back,

1720
01:27:22,359 --> 01:27:24,720
I'm doing I'm finishing the update. Right, Texans are back

1721
01:27:24,840 --> 01:27:27,760
on the practice, second and final day of mini camp.

1722
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:32,359
Appreciate it. Uh. Nick Chubb was out there today. CJ.

1723
01:27:32,479 --> 01:27:34,840
Stratt was out there throwing today. Love it and there's

1724
01:27:34,880 --> 01:27:37,800
your headlines of that. Because until somebody gets hurt or

1725
01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:40,600
somebody does something crazy, I mean, these play I played,

1726
01:27:40,600 --> 01:27:43,279
descriptions of these great catches are nice and everything, but

1727
01:27:43,319 --> 01:27:49,239
it's it's a glorified flag football practice, don't you think. Yes? Now,

1728
01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:52,640
is there some rot running, yes? Is there some instruction? Yes?

1729
01:27:52,720 --> 01:27:55,640
Is there stuff that lads to the groundwork down for training camp? Absolutely,

1730
01:27:56,560 --> 01:27:58,359
but again we're not talking about a real training camp

1731
01:27:58,399 --> 01:28:01,720
for at least another month. That's all right, sounds that

1732
01:28:01,760 --> 01:28:03,600
the boys are doing, and that's when you really start

1733
01:28:03,640 --> 01:28:05,680
to really do a deep dive in And of course

1734
01:28:05,880 --> 01:28:07,800
there's nobody in the marketplace that'll give you a better

1735
01:28:07,840 --> 01:28:09,720
deep dive than us here at Sports Talk seven Ietan.

1736
01:28:09,800 --> 01:28:12,680
Of course, Adam Wexler, your unofficial home for the Houston text.

1737
01:28:12,720 --> 01:28:15,520
We are as unofficialists it gets and that, my friends,

1738
01:28:15,600 --> 01:28:17,680
was your news at news. Wow. Thank you, Matt No

1739
01:28:18,199 --> 01:28:21,840
you're right, thank me. I did.

1740
01:28:22,720 --> 01:28:22,800
Speaker 2: So.

1741
01:28:23,039 --> 01:28:25,960
Speaker 1: Are we gonna go to the Rockets, not getting Durant,

1742
01:28:26,039 --> 01:28:29,159
not getting Yannis, and just staying away from the heavy

1743
01:28:29,239 --> 01:28:31,840
hinting superstars and get a middle level guy? Is that

1744
01:28:31,880 --> 01:28:33,520
what you you think? You haven't kind of predicted that

1745
01:28:33,520 --> 01:28:35,640
a little bit of back, did you not? I think so?

1746
01:28:35,760 --> 01:28:36,359
Speaker 11: Yeah?

1747
01:28:36,520 --> 01:28:38,199
Speaker 1: I would. Yeah, that was my gut feeling. I'd be

1748
01:28:38,239 --> 01:28:41,960
okay with that rotational piece, not a superstar.

1749
01:28:43,199 --> 01:28:43,439
Speaker 8: See.

1750
01:28:43,479 --> 01:28:47,079
Speaker 1: I like Jalen Green, I think to me, and we

1751
01:28:47,159 --> 01:28:51,560
got to get a break on this one. I think

1752
01:28:52,520 --> 01:28:55,560
the shock of the playoffs, I want to I'm very

1753
01:28:55,600 --> 01:28:58,640
curious to see how he comes back from this. Does

1754
01:28:58,680 --> 01:29:01,560
that make sense to you? A storyline in Redemption arc?

1755
01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:04,119
And hopefully he can bounce back. But because here's the thing,

1756
01:29:04,199 --> 01:29:07,600
if he does this again and he goes into a shell,

1757
01:29:08,800 --> 01:29:11,279
then you know he's not built for a long postseason run.

1758
01:29:12,760 --> 01:29:15,960
I'm not ready to say that just yet. Yeah, and

1759
01:29:15,960 --> 01:29:19,159
that because I'm just super pro Jalen Green or super anti,

1760
01:29:19,239 --> 01:29:22,840
I mean, don't I don't have a favorite, but I'm

1761
01:29:23,439 --> 01:29:27,439
not ready to give up on it. Yeah, but I'll

1762
01:29:27,439 --> 01:29:31,520
say this the leash to start to change your mind.

1763
01:29:31,560 --> 01:29:35,279
I think is very very short. I feel like he's

1764
01:29:35,319 --> 01:29:36,960
not going to be a superstar. He's going to be

1765
01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:39,319
a guy who can average twenty to twenty four or

1766
01:29:39,359 --> 01:29:42,039
five points per game, make an All Star game here

1767
01:29:42,119 --> 01:29:45,479
or there, but best player on a championship team, which

1768
01:29:45,520 --> 01:29:46,840
is kind of what you were hoping for. I don't

1769
01:29:46,840 --> 01:29:49,359
think he's gonna be there, which is okay. He's he

1770
01:29:49,439 --> 01:29:51,880
was your leading scorer on a fifty two team, Like

1771
01:29:51,920 --> 01:29:54,800
if Alpi takes a little step up, Reid takes a

1772
01:29:54,840 --> 01:29:58,119
significant step up, and a man continues to progress like

1773
01:29:58,119 --> 01:30:00,359
he did from season one to season two, could you

1774
01:30:00,399 --> 01:30:02,560
not get back to fifty two wins next year? Absolutely?

1775
01:30:02,800 --> 01:30:07,199
All right? Just thrown out there. I'm just here's what

1776
01:30:07,239 --> 01:30:10,159
my gut tells me. Better deals will be for Durant

1777
01:30:10,159 --> 01:30:12,720
will be out there, and I think the Bucks, if

1778
01:30:12,760 --> 01:30:15,479
indeed Giannis really does want to leave Milwaukee, the asking

1779
01:30:15,520 --> 01:30:19,319
price will be too much. Correct. That's just my not

1780
01:30:19,319 --> 01:30:22,640
even a gut feeling. It's just just the vibe. I

1781
01:30:22,680 --> 01:30:25,119
get the vibes. Good feelings are what could be. I

1782
01:30:25,159 --> 01:30:29,159
could be wrong. I'm okay with that, Okay. Twelve fourteen,

1783
01:30:29,199 --> 01:30:33,119
on Sports Talk seven nineties, all Right, Ross says is

1784
01:30:33,199 --> 01:30:37,920
Breaking News twelve twenty one, Sports Talk seven ninety. You

1785
01:30:37,920 --> 01:30:41,359
know what happens, that's one. I think it's two. At

1786
01:30:41,479 --> 01:30:45,520
least Wait a minute, now, last time you said at

1787
01:30:45,640 --> 01:30:48,319
least two, it was definitely a three. Okay, some people

1788
01:30:48,319 --> 01:30:52,119
are gonna say, okay, do three me okay. So the

1789
01:30:52,199 --> 01:30:57,119
actual thing that's I'm not the biggest fan of said group,

1790
01:30:57,119 --> 01:31:01,520
but Brian Wilson Beach Boys, the Beach Boys, Yeah, has

1791
01:31:01,600 --> 01:31:10,560
passed ah oh at the age of eighty two. Good life.

1792
01:31:10,960 --> 01:31:14,479
I like the Beach Boys, never loved them. I respect

1793
01:31:15,359 --> 01:31:18,520
lot of the Beach Boys. The second most popular group

1794
01:31:18,520 --> 01:31:24,079
of the nineteen sixties. I would well Rolling Stones had

1795
01:31:24,119 --> 01:31:26,800
a longer career, but I would say in their heyday

1796
01:31:26,840 --> 01:31:29,640
in the sixties, it was Beatles one Beach Boys too. Yeah.

1797
01:31:29,680 --> 01:31:31,800
The Beach Boys and Beatles were each kind of pushing

1798
01:31:31,800 --> 01:31:35,199
each other to changing the dynamics of pop music and

1799
01:31:35,479 --> 01:31:38,359
songwriting and lyric writing and all that type of stuff.

1800
01:31:39,079 --> 01:31:41,399
Speaker 7: Did you say they had a bigger like brand image

1801
01:31:41,439 --> 01:31:42,479
in America than the Beatles.

1802
01:31:42,800 --> 01:31:46,960
Speaker 1: No, I wouldn't say that the Beatles were worldwide famous.

1803
01:31:47,359 --> 01:31:52,199
Beach Boys obviously, the British invasion made the Beatles here

1804
01:31:52,239 --> 01:31:54,560
but I mean no, I would say, no, I don't.

1805
01:31:54,600 --> 01:31:58,359
I don't think it's even close. Pet Sounds is one

1806
01:31:58,399 --> 01:32:01,640
of the most renowned albums of all time m H

1807
01:32:02,239 --> 01:32:05,119
with a lot of their hits on it. Uh. They

1808
01:32:05,159 --> 01:32:09,159
were the the The Beach Boys were the Smoking Joe

1809
01:32:09,199 --> 01:32:13,039
Frasier to the Beatles. Muhammad Ali Mmm okay. On the

1810
01:32:13,159 --> 01:32:14,640
radio show in the Marketplace, I'm gonna give you a

1811
01:32:14,640 --> 01:32:19,359
boxing old boxing reference for old bands. I'm here for

1812
01:32:19,399 --> 01:32:26,119
you Brian Wilson eighty two. Was that worth three sounders? No,

1813
01:32:26,239 --> 01:32:29,039
it was worth two. Well, people love the Beach Boys,

1814
01:32:29,039 --> 01:32:30,560
and I don't want to hate because I don't really

1815
01:32:30,880 --> 01:32:35,199
care for them that much. I would say if they toured,

1816
01:32:35,239 --> 01:32:40,439
I would go see them. My favorite Beach Boys song

1817
01:32:40,520 --> 01:32:43,199
would probably have to be all the ones that they

1818
01:32:43,279 --> 01:32:46,479
ripped off of a Chuck Marry I'm gonna go with

1819
01:32:46,600 --> 01:32:48,560
I'm gonna go with the more of a of a

1820
01:32:48,560 --> 01:32:51,239
ballad for them. God only knows, is maybe my favorite song? Yeah,

1821
01:32:51,359 --> 01:32:53,800
that's probably I would say their best song. But that

1822
01:32:53,920 --> 01:32:56,600
was that all the Pet Sounds, So God only knows.

1823
01:32:58,600 --> 01:33:01,439
Is that what it was called? Yeah? It was also

1824
01:33:01,479 --> 01:33:03,760
the theme for a TV show on HBO called Big Love.

1825
01:33:03,800 --> 01:33:05,880
It was about the man that was married to three

1826
01:33:05,880 --> 01:33:12,039
Mormon women. Okay, it's the classic. I just don't like

1827
01:33:12,079 --> 01:33:16,479
the droning, whining vocals on a lot of this. This

1828
01:33:16,560 --> 01:33:19,960
is a I see that. That California surfing stuff didn't

1829
01:33:19,960 --> 01:33:21,680
do anything for me. Yeah, that was the early stuff.

1830
01:33:21,880 --> 01:33:24,000
It's kind of like Beatlemania stuff. And then they matured

1831
01:33:24,039 --> 01:33:30,359
like the Let's give it a run. Wait, they's not

1832
01:33:30,439 --> 01:33:33,159
like the Beatles. They do not sound like the Beatles

1833
01:33:35,680 --> 01:33:37,119
you used to out of us.

1834
01:33:41,000 --> 01:33:41,079
Speaker 2: This.

1835
01:33:41,439 --> 01:33:43,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is not a jam, but it's certainly a

1836
01:33:43,720 --> 01:33:49,359
melodic theme to it. Yeah. This was used in was

1837
01:33:49,439 --> 01:33:56,079
this in uh Oogie Knights? Brian? A little thing that

1838
01:33:56,119 --> 01:34:00,720
known about Brian Wilson. Brian Wilson, their father was very

1839
01:34:00,840 --> 01:34:06,520
very abusive and caused lots of issues among members of

1840
01:34:06,520 --> 01:34:09,119
their family. And then one of the and then one

1841
01:34:09,159 --> 01:34:13,520
of the brothers I think did he'd drown or did

1842
01:34:13,520 --> 01:34:16,560
he kill himself? I can't remember. Then and then Mike

1843
01:34:16,680 --> 01:34:20,800
Love recently passed away. I don't even know how many

1844
01:34:20,800 --> 01:34:27,600
members are left Mike Love, al Jardine, Okay, Bruce Johnston.

1845
01:34:27,680 --> 01:34:30,560
That's what this Wikipedia says to the current members. Mike

1846
01:34:30,880 --> 01:34:36,039
is Mike Club's not alive? Is he? Or is he? Yes?

1847
01:34:36,079 --> 01:34:38,560
He is eighty four years old. Are you somebody somebody

1848
01:34:38,560 --> 01:34:40,800
would Love died as Kevin Love?

1849
01:34:41,359 --> 01:34:41,560
Speaker 2: Well?

1850
01:34:41,640 --> 01:34:46,720
Speaker 1: No, Kevin, I think I think Mike is his uncle. Okay, yeah,

1851
01:34:47,039 --> 01:34:49,640
Kevin Love's dad died. He recently? Maybe yeah, maybe it's

1852
01:34:49,720 --> 01:34:52,880
maybe Kevin's dad died. Okay, I'm gonna get the song

1853
01:34:52,880 --> 01:35:00,479
a seven. Yeah. Stan Love died in April. Okay, so

1854
01:35:00,840 --> 01:35:03,239
uh yeah, what'd you say about this, Jonathan? Do you

1855
01:35:03,279 --> 01:35:03,640
like this song?

1856
01:35:03,720 --> 01:35:03,840
Speaker 8: Or no?

1857
01:35:04,000 --> 01:35:06,239
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it a sa What is the most

1858
01:35:06,239 --> 01:35:13,239
famous Beach Boys song? Surfing us a cocomong? I get around?

1859
01:35:13,239 --> 01:35:15,680
That's them. That's the one I know. Yeah, I get

1860
01:35:15,720 --> 01:35:18,000
around surfing calfamous?

1861
01:35:18,640 --> 01:35:18,960
Speaker 7: What is it?

1862
01:35:18,960 --> 01:35:21,039
Speaker 1: What is it? What wouldn't it be nice?

1863
01:35:21,079 --> 01:35:21,199
Speaker 2: Oh?

1864
01:35:21,199 --> 01:35:24,560
Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be nice? It's a pretty good jam. Good

1865
01:35:24,640 --> 01:35:27,600
vibrations good? Oh okay, you know what, there's there's more

1866
01:35:27,680 --> 01:35:30,720
hits than I thought. Good vibration is a great song. Oh,

1867
01:35:30,840 --> 01:35:33,600
good vibrations plus some good vibrations on hate this song?

1868
01:35:33,720 --> 01:35:36,680
Oh no, no, no, go ahead. Now we will play

1869
01:35:36,720 --> 01:35:39,079
this version and then we'll come back with the Marky

1870
01:35:39,159 --> 01:35:43,920
Mark and the Funky to do that. This is a jam.

1871
01:35:44,880 --> 01:35:49,760
Don't sing over the song. You see, when something rosses,

1872
01:35:57,039 --> 01:35:58,720
I just don't like it. Sits. I don't know. It's

1873
01:35:58,760 --> 01:36:01,279
just grating to me. It's like nails on a chalkboard.

1874
01:36:01,319 --> 01:36:03,159
It's like you and Mini Ripperton. I can't explain it.

1875
01:36:03,199 --> 01:36:05,319
That's true. This can't explain it comes a good course.

1876
01:36:05,319 --> 01:36:17,000
So it turn this up real quick. It's good. It's good.

1877
01:36:17,399 --> 01:36:20,479
I'm not understanding them. They're in my mind. They're properly rated.

1878
01:36:20,960 --> 01:36:22,640
It's just one of the greatest, the second greatest group

1879
01:36:22,680 --> 01:36:26,760
of the nineteen sixties. Overrated. You're gonna lose on that.

1880
01:36:26,760 --> 01:36:29,000
That's okay, it's my opinion. That's right. It's just a

1881
01:36:29,000 --> 01:36:32,119
bad opinion, all right. Let's get you say. I think

1882
01:36:32,159 --> 01:36:33,640
a lot of people agree with me. The Beach Boys

1883
01:36:33,640 --> 01:36:35,920
are America. I'm America is going to disagree with you,

1884
01:36:36,000 --> 01:36:37,840
and I don't need to argue me. That's with you. Your

1885
01:36:37,760 --> 01:36:40,520
tastes are crap, pleat. I want you to go tell

1886
01:36:40,760 --> 01:36:42,840
tell everybody how much you think the Beach Boys suck.

1887
01:36:43,039 --> 01:36:45,279
They're almost as good as berry Man alone. Oh you

1888
01:36:45,319 --> 01:36:49,119
know what, shut your bumb ass up, bag. You're terrible.

1889
01:36:49,560 --> 01:36:51,520
I hope you're choking your chicken sandwich.

1890
01:36:52,800 --> 01:36:53,119
Speaker 2: Up. Man.

1891
01:36:53,199 --> 01:36:56,560
Speaker 1: All these calls coming in for this, all right, we

1892
01:36:56,560 --> 01:36:59,560
gotta get Charles real quick since Beach Boy Talk seven

1893
01:36:59,640 --> 01:37:05,760
ninety apparently goes Wednesday. Charles, I said I respect them.

1894
01:37:05,760 --> 01:37:08,079
They were revolutionary. Don't you just said they were already?

1895
01:37:08,119 --> 01:37:09,760
I means you don't respect the I mean I respect

1896
01:37:09,800 --> 01:37:11,960
what they did for the game. Okay, Charles, what do

1897
01:37:11,960 --> 01:37:12,520
you got today?

1898
01:37:13,760 --> 01:37:15,760
Speaker 5: First of all, I'm gonna help you all out. They're

1899
01:37:16,239 --> 01:37:17,600
California's VZ.

1900
01:37:17,640 --> 01:37:20,199
Speaker 8: Top to just make it simple, hm hm.

1901
01:37:20,439 --> 01:37:26,279
Speaker 5: Anyway, Jalen Green, he's gonna be good, never necessarily great.

1902
01:37:27,000 --> 01:37:29,920
I see Harden all over again. But why do we

1903
01:37:30,039 --> 01:37:32,960
keep chasing all these players? I don't care what sport

1904
01:37:33,000 --> 01:37:36,159
it is. Here in Houston Astros do well, but everybody

1905
01:37:36,239 --> 01:37:40,840
else we chase these players that have been injured whatever.

1906
01:37:41,000 --> 01:37:45,800
Why would we even want Durant? Like wouldn't like Devin Booker.

1907
01:37:45,880 --> 01:37:47,920
I don't know if he's up for contract or whatever.

1908
01:37:48,039 --> 01:37:50,600
Speaker 1: He's He's about to get a new two year extension

1909
01:37:50,720 --> 01:37:52,079
at the end of the contract's going to pay him

1910
01:37:52,079 --> 01:37:54,840
seventy five million dollars a year. It's about valued. Kevin

1911
01:37:54,880 --> 01:37:56,680
Durant's got a couple of years left in this contract.

1912
01:37:56,720 --> 01:37:58,000
A matter of fact, I think he's got one year

1913
01:37:58,039 --> 01:38:00,800
left on his contract. He still wakes up scoring twenty

1914
01:38:00,800 --> 01:38:03,560
five points a game, and those guys are hard to find.

1915
01:38:04,319 --> 01:38:05,279
Speaker 2: He gets hurt all the time.

1916
01:38:05,279 --> 01:38:06,319
Speaker 8: He's heard at the Olympics.

1917
01:38:06,359 --> 01:38:08,520
Speaker 5: He's hurt everywhere I need him.

1918
01:38:08,560 --> 01:38:11,119
Speaker 1: And again, I don't think you I want you to

1919
01:38:11,159 --> 01:38:14,319
rephrase it. I want I don't think they're they're chasing

1920
01:38:14,359 --> 01:38:17,840
after him. Is there interest? Yes, Chasing after would be

1921
01:38:17,840 --> 01:38:19,960
giving would be mortgaging the farm and giving up everything

1922
01:38:19,960 --> 01:38:21,159
you had to go get the guy. I don't think

1923
01:38:21,159 --> 01:38:21,920
the Rockets want to do.

1924
01:38:21,960 --> 01:38:23,880
Speaker 6: That's understandable.

1925
01:38:23,960 --> 01:38:25,399
Speaker 2: I love a mid level player.

1926
01:38:25,680 --> 01:38:28,319
Speaker 5: I think we have enough pieces. I would be okay

1927
01:38:28,399 --> 01:38:31,680
with getting rid of Green to get a player as

1928
01:38:31,720 --> 01:38:34,239
good or better than him. With a couple of players,

1929
01:38:34,479 --> 01:38:36,760
and I believe we make a deeper run. I mean

1930
01:38:36,800 --> 01:38:37,680
that's just my opinion.

1931
01:38:38,319 --> 01:38:40,279
Speaker 1: Okay, you know what, I get it. If you want

1932
01:38:40,279 --> 01:38:43,039
to stay with the Nucleus, I can I can argue.

1933
01:38:43,199 --> 01:38:47,039
I can argue right there for you on it. Oh

1934
01:38:47,960 --> 01:38:51,199
you're clenching your teeth. Say what you guys say when

1935
01:38:51,199 --> 01:38:56,439
Canna get to Vanessa. I don't see I mean a

1936
01:38:56,520 --> 01:39:00,479
Men Thompson TBD. But I don't see best player on

1937
01:39:00,520 --> 01:39:06,159
a championship potential remaining in Shingoon or Green. That's my opinion,

1938
01:39:07,439 --> 01:39:09,000
and you're not the only one that has that opinion.

1939
01:39:10,520 --> 01:39:13,399
I need one more year. They're both young. That's fine,

1940
01:39:13,720 --> 01:39:16,640
and maybe that's wrong me to say that, but I

1941
01:39:16,640 --> 01:39:19,399
I don't want to bury either one of their professional careers,

1942
01:39:19,439 --> 01:39:22,439
especially Jalen's, knowing that that was the first go round

1943
01:39:22,479 --> 01:39:24,319
of the lights are bigger and brighter than the playoffs.

1944
01:39:24,319 --> 01:39:27,560
And see, I'm not burying them necessarily, but relative to

1945
01:39:27,600 --> 01:39:33,319
their peers in their own draft classes, they're lagging behind.

1946
01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:39,199
And guys that we've seen by year four light years

1947
01:39:39,199 --> 01:39:42,199
ahead of where Jalen Green is right now. The Devin

1948
01:39:42,239 --> 01:39:45,840
Booker is Anthony Edwards. You know, even I mean Shake Gildas, Alexander,

1949
01:39:45,920 --> 01:39:50,000
Jalen Brunson, whoever. Yeah, I get it. But Jalen Brunson

1950
01:39:50,039 --> 01:39:51,560
was never considered this to be what he was going

1951
01:39:51,640 --> 01:39:53,960
to do in Dallas. That's why Dallas got rid of them.

1952
01:39:55,000 --> 01:39:56,520
He took a step off in New York. But how

1953
01:39:56,560 --> 01:39:58,199
many years he did? How many years was the name

1954
01:39:58,239 --> 01:40:01,239
of before. I don't know, go look, but take a

1955
01:40:01,279 --> 01:40:03,319
quick time out. Pat and Brian want to talk about

1956
01:40:03,319 --> 01:40:06,439
the Beach Boys. We are playing Good Vibrations by the

1957
01:40:06,479 --> 01:40:08,840
Funky Bunch because if you don't want them, because if

1958
01:40:08,840 --> 01:40:10,359
you don't want the market mark in the Funky Bunch,

1959
01:40:10,439 --> 01:40:12,760
you want to Brian Wilson's death. Oh so it's not it.

1960
01:40:12,800 --> 01:40:15,279
We're gonna believing on. We're gonna be believe on. Brian Wilson.

1961
01:40:15,319 --> 01:40:17,520
Well he's dead. Put him in a life for y'all.

1962
01:40:17,560 --> 01:40:19,399
Know the song feel Flows by Beach Boys. I had

1963
01:40:19,399 --> 01:40:22,079
a color as that. I don't know if it's good flows. No,

1964
01:40:22,279 --> 01:40:24,600
I don't know. All right, we're gonna check in Indianapolis

1965
01:40:24,600 --> 01:40:27,199
plus some more. Phone call straight ahead every Rockets game

1966
01:40:27,359 --> 01:40:38,479
on Sports Talk seven nineties Jamaica. I want to take it.

1967
01:40:40,800 --> 01:40:50,479
Come on to bab Was this in cocktail? Is that?

1968
01:40:50,520 --> 01:40:55,399
Is this where this song became Pontpier. I don't know.

1969
01:40:56,039 --> 01:40:59,079
This is late stage Beach Boys, very late Beach Boys.

1970
01:40:59,079 --> 01:41:01,479
If you're not heard. Brian Wilson passing away today at

1971
01:41:01,520 --> 01:41:04,760
the age of eighty two, primary songwriter and co founder

1972
01:41:04,760 --> 01:41:09,800
of the Beach Boys. I believe one of Vanessa Richardson's

1973
01:41:09,800 --> 01:41:13,279
best Friends was in the Kokomo video. If I'm not mistaken,

1974
01:41:13,880 --> 01:41:17,920
this was in Cocktail. Matt good job. Uh cocktail, good movie,

1975
01:41:17,960 --> 01:41:20,119
great movie? Over what?

1976
01:41:21,680 --> 01:41:21,800
Speaker 3: All?

1977
01:41:21,880 --> 01:41:24,760
Speaker 1: Right? Back to what I was saying, Vanessa's got close friends.

1978
01:41:24,760 --> 01:41:28,199
One I believe the name is Stamos. John Stamos Cocktail

1979
01:41:28,439 --> 01:41:33,640
was in the Kokomo video. Bok stop by the way,

1980
01:41:33,640 --> 01:41:35,680
you're going to meet him. Let me tell you something.

1981
01:41:35,720 --> 01:41:38,279
You got the ESPN tag on your little on your

1982
01:41:38,319 --> 01:41:41,479
Instagram and your Twitter. Now you are meeting John Stamos.

1983
01:41:41,960 --> 01:41:43,640
It's not a question of if it's going to be win.

1984
01:41:44,800 --> 01:41:46,560
Speaker 3: I hope. So I've been waiting.

1985
01:41:46,960 --> 01:41:52,600
Speaker 1: All right, you're in Indianapolish The excitement, the thrill of

1986
01:41:52,800 --> 01:41:56,279
NBA basketball is at a crescendo. What is going on,

1987
01:41:56,319 --> 01:42:01,279
first and foremost between John Cougar mellencamp and Pat McAfee.

1988
01:42:01,359 --> 01:42:02,760
Why are they bitching at each other?

1989
01:42:03,880 --> 01:42:07,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some beef there and it had something to

1990
01:42:07,920 --> 01:42:10,840
do with Pat stood at one of the games for

1991
01:42:10,920 --> 01:42:14,800
the Western or Eastern Conference finals and cussed on the

1992
01:42:14,880 --> 01:42:18,399
jumbo tron and jokingly told the New York Knicks fans

1993
01:42:18,399 --> 01:42:22,840
to go home. That offended John Mellencamp, who is known

1994
01:42:22,880 --> 01:42:25,119
to be very gratchy himself, so I'm not sure why

1995
01:42:25,119 --> 01:42:28,319
he took the Twitter, but he made very poorly executed

1996
01:42:28,359 --> 01:42:31,119
graphic and said that he didn't think that at was

1997
01:42:31,720 --> 01:42:34,199
serving up who's your hospitality? Was very strange.

1998
01:42:34,319 --> 01:42:36,840
Speaker 1: So what is who's your hospitality? What is who's your hospitality?

1999
01:42:36,880 --> 01:42:37,640
Defining your own way?

2000
01:42:38,079 --> 01:42:41,279
Speaker 3: According to John Mellencamp, everybody's supposed to be nice, but

2001
01:42:41,319 --> 01:42:45,159
I'm I'm not sure. I'm not sure the details on that,

2002
01:42:45,239 --> 01:42:46,800
but some major beef there for sure.

2003
01:42:46,960 --> 01:42:48,880
Speaker 1: All right. Vanessa, by the way, is a major star.

2004
01:42:48,960 --> 01:42:51,359
We know her from Space City, but she's working. Is

2005
01:42:51,800 --> 01:42:54,359
it called Hoop, It's not Hoop Dreams. What is your

2006
01:42:54,439 --> 01:42:56,000
show called on on ESPN Plus?

2007
01:42:56,520 --> 01:42:59,520
Speaker 3: So it is a YouTube, it's a digital show. It's

2008
01:42:59,520 --> 01:43:00,640
called Who Streams?

2009
01:43:00,680 --> 01:43:01,439
Speaker 1: Whose Streams?

2010
01:43:02,720 --> 01:43:06,720
Speaker 3: It is a thirty minute pregame show. It is half

2011
01:43:06,760 --> 01:43:10,880
an hour before the game starts, and then it goes

2012
01:43:11,039 --> 01:43:13,760
right up to tip off. So we are court side.

2013
01:43:14,359 --> 01:43:17,319
You know, we've got great guests coming through. We talk

2014
01:43:17,520 --> 01:43:19,319
x's and o's. We have a lot of former players on.

2015
01:43:19,399 --> 01:43:22,079
But then we also touch on you know, storylines around

2016
01:43:22,119 --> 01:43:24,960
the league and fashion and all of the fun stuff.

2017
01:43:25,000 --> 01:43:27,439
So I'm doing that and then tonight I'm on the

2018
01:43:27,680 --> 01:43:30,960
actual Game three broadcast again for the sidelines for the radio.

2019
01:43:31,119 --> 01:43:33,800
Speaker 1: Well, I'm very happy for you, the congratulations for this opportunity,

2020
01:43:33,800 --> 01:43:36,079
and you missed me having its thrill because not only

2021
01:43:36,119 --> 01:43:38,880
are you working an NBA national event for ESPN, but

2022
01:43:39,199 --> 01:43:42,840
you're in your hometown or your home state. Is Pacermania

2023
01:43:42,920 --> 01:43:44,800
running wild? I mean, how much can it will it

2024
01:43:44,880 --> 01:43:47,000
cost for an average person to get in the building tonight?

2025
01:43:48,239 --> 01:43:52,079
Speaker 3: I have no idea the ticket prices, but I think

2026
01:43:53,239 --> 01:43:55,199
it's been twenty yeah, I mean it's been twenty five

2027
01:43:55,239 --> 01:43:58,000
years since the Pacers were in the NBA Finals. So

2028
01:43:58,720 --> 01:44:01,560
you know, everything that's happened with Katelyn Clark, what she's

2029
01:44:01,600 --> 01:44:04,000
done not only for women's basketball, but you know, I

2030
01:44:04,039 --> 01:44:07,399
have friends that have restaurants downtown and businesses and everything's

2031
01:44:07,439 --> 01:44:10,159
just really exploded for them over the last couple of

2032
01:44:10,199 --> 01:44:12,760
years because of Caitlin Clark. And then, yeah, it's good

2033
01:44:12,760 --> 01:44:16,680
for the city. Like I always say, in you know, football,

2034
01:44:16,720 --> 01:44:20,640
everybody knows Texas for football, right and with Indiana it's

2035
01:44:20,680 --> 01:44:23,399
it's basketball and it's not just pro basketball. That's the

2036
01:44:23,439 --> 01:44:25,720
thing is that yeah, I mean I grew up liking

2037
01:44:25,800 --> 01:44:28,199
the Pacers, right, but like it was more so like

2038
01:44:28,279 --> 01:44:32,359
high school basketball. As crazy as that found high school basketball,

2039
01:44:33,159 --> 01:44:35,680
college basketball, it's just a big part of the fabric

2040
01:44:35,720 --> 01:44:39,279
of the entire state, from you know, Gary, Indiana down

2041
01:44:39,279 --> 01:44:41,880
to Evansville. So it's good for the city and it's

2042
01:44:41,960 --> 01:44:42,600
cool for sure.

2043
01:44:42,840 --> 01:44:45,600
Speaker 1: Now you have covered super Bowls, you have covered World Series.

2044
01:44:45,680 --> 01:44:48,239
This is your first NBA Finals. Correct, give me the

2045
01:44:48,359 --> 01:44:51,960
vibe differently in this event compared to the other two

2046
01:44:51,960 --> 01:44:52,960
events you've been a part of.

2047
01:44:54,800 --> 01:44:58,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's obviously it's more compact. You know,

2048
01:44:58,399 --> 01:45:01,399
basketball is a very into setting. You can if you

2049
01:45:01,439 --> 01:45:03,760
sit close enough. This is why I always tell people,

2050
01:45:03,760 --> 01:45:05,479
if they can, they should at some point try to

2051
01:45:05,520 --> 01:45:08,159
sit courtside at a Rockets game because it's just the

2052
01:45:08,199 --> 01:45:10,159
best access you can get at a sporting event. You

2053
01:45:10,159 --> 01:45:13,359
can hear what the coaches are saying, and it's it's loud,

2054
01:45:13,439 --> 01:45:16,680
so you know. Look, I've been at the Nighty five hundred,

2055
01:45:16,720 --> 01:45:19,960
the Kentucky Derby super Bowl, and like you said, every

2056
01:45:20,000 --> 01:45:22,640
event is a little bit different. But what is cool

2057
01:45:22,720 --> 01:45:26,319
is just the constant, like high pressure situation and everybody

2058
01:45:26,359 --> 01:45:30,279
being so excited, and the excitement is definitely palpable at

2059
01:45:30,279 --> 01:45:31,319
those events. For sure.

2060
01:45:32,079 --> 01:45:34,159
Speaker 1: It's been hard for us. And I'm brenching this on

2061
01:45:34,199 --> 01:45:37,399
Twitter myself, and you're covering it, and you've got travels involved,

2062
01:45:37,399 --> 01:45:39,680
so this could be a little bit of a time

2063
01:45:39,720 --> 01:45:42,359
off is not bad, but I want to get into

2064
01:45:42,439 --> 01:45:45,560
every bit of this series. But the two days off

2065
01:45:45,600 --> 01:45:49,479
in between the first three games has been kind of unsettling.

2066
01:45:49,880 --> 01:45:52,399
Has there been any reaction from I know the players

2067
01:45:52,399 --> 01:45:53,960
don't mind it, but what about people that are just

2068
01:45:54,000 --> 01:45:57,439
trying to generally drum up conversation about this finals because

2069
01:45:57,439 --> 01:45:59,479
they are too smaller market teams, they're not too very

2070
01:45:59,479 --> 01:46:01,439
recognized teams. And I would think you, if you've got

2071
01:46:01,760 --> 01:46:04,199
a great series going, you're thirsty for the next game,

2072
01:46:04,239 --> 01:46:06,399
and with such a long break, it's been hard to

2073
01:46:06,479 --> 01:46:07,479
kind of get that right now.

2074
01:46:08,319 --> 01:46:10,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, there are pros and cons like I, like you said,

2075
01:46:10,479 --> 01:46:12,319
I don't think the players mind it. They're never gonna

2076
01:46:12,319 --> 01:46:15,720
mind more rest, but certainly, you know, you hear everybody

2077
01:46:15,720 --> 01:46:17,920
on the on the talk shows, not just yourself but

2078
01:46:18,000 --> 01:46:21,520
on ESPN talking about, like you know that all the

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01:46:21,600 --> 01:46:23,800
days off, but then between three and four there's only

2080
01:46:23,880 --> 01:46:26,760
one day, so it's definitely an odd schedule.

2081
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Speaker 1: Now you are working the sidelines for the radio broadcast tonight.

2082
01:46:32,479 --> 01:46:36,079
You've been in Rocket huddles. What's it like being around

2083
01:46:36,079 --> 01:46:38,479
Oklahoma City huddle and or Indiana so far?

2084
01:46:39,479 --> 01:46:41,479
Speaker 3: Well, and I'm not just saying this because I love

2085
01:46:41,520 --> 01:46:44,279
the Rockets so much, but it's incredible to hear e

2086
01:46:44,399 --> 01:46:48,000
May and his coaching staff, you know, like he Ben Sullivan,

2087
01:46:48,079 --> 01:46:50,960
Royal Ivy, like the Rockets have some of the most cerebral,

2088
01:46:51,000 --> 01:46:54,600
smart assistant coaches that are so engaged with the players.

2089
01:46:54,640 --> 01:46:58,000
So the first and foremost is that that is so

2090
01:46:58,119 --> 01:47:01,479
impressive and it is cool, you know, when you're everybody

2091
01:47:01,479 --> 01:47:04,159
says that the finals and playoffs in general are about

2092
01:47:04,159 --> 01:47:07,960
adjustments and playing chess, and so to hear you know,

2093
01:47:08,000 --> 01:47:10,840
Mark Dagnold and then Rick Carlisle who won a championship

2094
01:47:10,880 --> 01:47:13,760
with the Dallas Mavericks, you know, to hear how both

2095
01:47:13,800 --> 01:47:16,439
of them do their things is interesting for sure. And

2096
01:47:16,479 --> 01:47:20,119
the dynamic of every time out and every possession mattering

2097
01:47:20,159 --> 01:47:22,359
has been really cool. So yeah, it's been great.

2098
01:47:22,520 --> 01:47:24,439
Speaker 1: I was going to say for you, especially too, because

2099
01:47:24,479 --> 01:47:26,920
we you and I know the intimacies of the Rockets

2100
01:47:26,920 --> 01:47:28,680
and they're the way they think, the way they talk,

2101
01:47:28,720 --> 01:47:30,840
the way they prepare. It's got to be kind of

2102
01:47:30,840 --> 01:47:32,880
fun for you to kind of get a different perspective

2103
01:47:32,880 --> 01:47:35,319
of how things are addressed if you visit with them

2104
01:47:35,319 --> 01:47:37,920
before the game or shoot around to kind of because

2105
01:47:37,920 --> 01:47:40,560
we don't get to peek into Indiana's thought process when

2106
01:47:40,560 --> 01:47:42,600
the Rockets are playing the Pacers. You get this opportunity

2107
01:47:42,680 --> 01:47:44,760
now with the Thunder and the Pacers as working for

2108
01:47:44,760 --> 01:47:45,920
a national entity.

2109
01:47:47,079 --> 01:47:50,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're definitely, but definitely in our own Rockets world.

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01:47:50,439 --> 01:47:52,199
And I wouldn't, you know, have it any other way

2111
01:47:52,279 --> 01:47:53,920
because I think the team is heading in such a

2112
01:47:53,960 --> 01:47:56,680
fun direction. But it is interesting to see how different

2113
01:47:56,720 --> 01:48:00,279
coaching staffs move and how you know, the different cultures

2114
01:48:00,319 --> 01:48:04,520
and and different temperaments, shall we say, of Rick versus Mark.

2115
01:48:05,399 --> 01:48:10,039
It's definitely fascinating as well. So yeah, it is definitely,

2116
01:48:10,119 --> 01:48:13,039
you know, the biggest stage, and and I look forward

2117
01:48:13,079 --> 01:48:15,760
to our, uh, our Rockets being here soon enough.

2118
01:48:15,880 --> 01:48:17,720
Speaker 1: All right, So who will the be the celebrities in

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01:48:17,760 --> 01:48:18,399
the building tonight?

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Speaker 3: Ooh, you know, I think we're gonna see Reggie Miller.

2121
01:48:22,640 --> 01:48:25,239
I know we are planning on having Lance Stephenson stot

2122
01:48:25,279 --> 01:48:28,159
By our show if uh, if Lance would like to,

2123
01:48:29,399 --> 01:48:33,520
I know Charles Barkley is here and Shaq was an okay, see,

2124
01:48:33,560 --> 01:48:35,159
I don't know if Shack will be here as well.

2125
01:48:35,239 --> 01:48:38,760
So as far as Indiana celebrities, you might get Pat McAfee,

2126
01:48:38,840 --> 01:48:45,279
you might get John mellencamp, uh at Paris, Uh, Kenneth Babyface.

2127
01:48:45,399 --> 01:48:48,119
Edmunds is from Indianapolis. I'm really trying here some former

2128
01:48:48,159 --> 01:48:49,000
could players.

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01:48:49,079 --> 01:48:49,479
Speaker 2: Maybe.

2130
01:48:49,760 --> 01:48:51,960
Speaker 3: I don't think there are a ton of celebrities from

2131
01:48:51,960 --> 01:48:53,760
Indy vill See David.

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01:48:53,520 --> 01:48:56,479
Speaker 1: Letterman's from Indy, right, Yeah, why is tonight?

2133
01:48:57,560 --> 01:49:00,680
Speaker 3: David Letterman? Definitely, and then you know you'll get the

2134
01:49:00,720 --> 01:49:04,279
celebrities that want to come just to because it's an

2135
01:49:04,319 --> 01:49:07,399
NBA finals. So we shall see Ron our test is here.

2136
01:49:07,439 --> 01:49:10,520
I saw Ron earlier, so he will be in the

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01:49:10,520 --> 01:49:12,439
house as well. So it should be a lot of

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01:49:12,479 --> 01:49:13,560
former pacers for sure.

2139
01:49:13,600 --> 01:49:17,159
Speaker 1: All right, Follow Vanessa on Twitter Sports Vanessa's our Twitter account.

2140
01:49:17,239 --> 01:49:20,279
She'll give you the YouTube connection to watch your show tonight,

2141
01:49:20,439 --> 01:49:22,800
which will you'll start at what time? Six thirty or

2142
01:49:22,800 --> 01:49:23,439
seven o'clock?

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01:49:24,399 --> 01:49:28,079
Speaker 3: So we start half hour before the game begins, all right,

2144
01:49:28,159 --> 01:49:31,239
So I believe the game isn't Yeah, so Houston Time

2145
01:49:31,319 --> 01:49:32,640
is different than Indiana Times.

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01:49:32,840 --> 01:49:37,279
Speaker 1: Houston Times seven thirty okay so seven five? Yeah, all right.

2147
01:49:37,199 --> 01:49:40,039
Speaker 3: Again, go ahead, Matt.

2148
01:49:40,279 --> 01:49:43,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say you can listen to radio on there

2149
01:49:43,000 --> 01:49:45,560
because one of my good friends, Mark Keshischer is the

2150
01:49:45,600 --> 01:49:47,600
voice of the NBA and ESPN radio and he and

2151
01:49:47,640 --> 01:49:49,960
PJ and Vanessa stepping in to help them out tonight.

2152
01:49:50,000 --> 01:49:51,640
So it's a great broadcast. So if you're not the

2153
01:49:51,680 --> 01:49:54,800
biggest fan of Richard Jefferson or stephen A. Smith, you

2154
01:49:54,840 --> 01:49:57,079
get a radio alternative. There you go. Did I say that?

2155
01:49:57,079 --> 01:49:58,880
Probably go? Yeah?

2156
01:49:59,000 --> 01:49:59,199
Speaker 5: Yes?

2157
01:49:59,439 --> 01:50:00,560
Speaker 7: How nice is to plug it?

2158
01:50:00,640 --> 01:50:00,840
Speaker 5: Yeah?

2159
01:50:00,880 --> 01:50:01,439
Speaker 3: Absolutely?

2160
01:50:01,920 --> 01:50:04,199
Speaker 1: There you go. Hey, safe travels. How are you getting

2161
01:50:04,239 --> 01:50:06,760
back and forth? Are you? Are you on an ABC, ESPN,

2162
01:50:06,840 --> 01:50:08,760
Disney jet or how are you having to fly commercial?

2163
01:50:08,800 --> 01:50:09,479
What's going on with that?

2164
01:50:10,439 --> 01:50:12,840
Speaker 3: I'm slumming it. I'm slumming it commercial. But Matt, I

2165
01:50:12,840 --> 01:50:14,359
have to call you out on something. Why haven't you

2166
01:50:14,399 --> 01:50:16,560
asked me about my John Stamos tweet?

2167
01:50:16,840 --> 01:50:22,800
Speaker 1: And so real fast she came up with a really

2168
01:50:22,840 --> 01:50:26,359
funny line about how the Knicks wanted to talk to

2169
01:50:26,359 --> 01:50:29,720
to uh Ima Adoka, and she says, I want to

2170
01:50:29,760 --> 01:50:33,399
talk to John Stamos. It's not happening, so I thought

2171
01:50:33,399 --> 01:50:36,720
it was really funny. I wanted to say I wanted

2172
01:50:36,720 --> 01:50:38,520
to talk when I was single and younger. I wanted

2173
01:50:38,520 --> 01:50:40,760
to talk to Jenny Garth and Tiffany Ambertheesen. But that

2174
01:50:40,800 --> 01:50:43,760
would be a flat out bitsteal. So I asked for

2175
01:50:43,800 --> 01:50:45,920
a ruling from her audience, Ross if I could bit

2176
01:50:46,000 --> 01:50:48,359
steal Vanessa because people bit steel for me all the time.

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01:50:49,239 --> 01:50:52,279
And she said, Vanessa on Twitter, you said what you

2178
01:50:52,319 --> 01:50:54,319
can't bitsteal this woman? You call me a woman?

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01:50:55,000 --> 01:50:57,319
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did. I think you need to get your first.

2180
01:50:57,319 --> 01:50:58,840
Speaker 1: Of all, you have enough bits.

2181
01:50:58,520 --> 01:51:01,920
Speaker 3: To be clear. You have such a bumbs up. Yeah,

2182
01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:02,960
I just don't get it.

2183
01:51:03,079 --> 01:51:05,199
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah Morning Stripper Yeah yah, yeah.

2184
01:51:05,039 --> 01:51:07,239
Speaker 3: You're good on bits. You gotta let me have this bit.

2185
01:51:08,239 --> 01:51:09,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. That's why I didn't do it. That's why I'm

2186
01:51:09,680 --> 01:51:12,159
gonna give up. By the way, tell Ross the buddies

2187
01:51:12,199 --> 01:51:14,159
that own the bar in Indianapolis and how they wear

2188
01:51:14,199 --> 01:51:17,119
their good Morning Stripper shirts. Really yeah, yeah, they love us,

2189
01:51:17,159 --> 01:51:17,439
they do.

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01:51:17,680 --> 01:51:19,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, they love Matt Thomas. They are actually so they

2191
01:51:20,239 --> 01:51:22,680
own bars in Indiana, but they are the Houston Natives.

2192
01:51:22,840 --> 01:51:25,680
They actually started in the industry working for Tilman for

2193
01:51:25,800 --> 01:51:30,199
Tita on the Chema boardwalk, and so they are massive

2194
01:51:30,239 --> 01:51:33,039
Matt Thomas Show fans. And you know when they found

2195
01:51:33,079 --> 01:51:34,680
out that I sat next to that on the plane

2196
01:51:34,720 --> 01:51:38,119
and all that texted me, good morning, strippers.

2197
01:51:38,319 --> 01:51:40,880
Speaker 1: It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Vanessa. Yeah, don't

2198
01:51:40,880 --> 01:51:44,159
forget Ross's name. He's he's a sense of hanging it

2199
01:51:44,239 --> 01:51:47,000
up on you. Now, no, you're not all right, Vanessa

2200
01:51:47,039 --> 01:51:49,560
will be listening tonight. I have a great rest of

2201
01:51:49,560 --> 01:51:51,319
your time. And again we're very proud of you for

2202
01:51:51,399 --> 01:51:52,960
this opportunity and talk to you soon.

2203
01:51:53,359 --> 01:51:53,960
Speaker 5: Thank you. Guys.

2204
01:51:54,000 --> 01:51:57,399
Speaker 1: We'll see that is Vanessa Richardson, Major network star Vanessa

2205
01:51:57,479 --> 01:52:01,920
Richardson now on ESPN doing that hoopstreams pregame show and

2206
01:52:02,000 --> 01:52:05,039
working on the radio broadcast. All right, believe it or not,

2207
01:52:05,119 --> 01:52:06,840
we're switching. We're gonna do a Liverdever. We're gonna do

2208
01:52:06,840 --> 01:52:11,000
Brian Wilson. Now, right, come on, we gotta what we're doing.

2209
01:52:11,960 --> 01:52:15,720
Hell yeah, I'll support you. I can do it, Pat

2210
01:52:15,760 --> 01:52:17,520
and Brian will get to you next twelve forty eight,

2211
01:52:17,520 --> 01:52:19,880
It is The Matt Thomas Show with Raw seven one three, two,

2212
01:52:19,960 --> 01:52:23,279
one two, five seven ninety seven one, three, two, one, two,

2213
01:52:23,520 --> 01:52:29,319
five seven ninety again stuff not gonna be in the

2214
01:52:29,319 --> 01:52:33,239
Hall the uh Songwriters Hall of Fame. Oh, this one

2215
01:52:33,439 --> 01:52:37,479
actually sounds kind of familiar. It does sound like sounds

2216
01:52:37,479 --> 01:52:45,279
like this song from Chuck Berry bit stealing. Yo, that's white.

2217
01:52:45,279 --> 01:52:51,479
Suppose that's crazy. Yeah, Chuck Berry actually sued them. You win. Yes,

2218
01:52:51,600 --> 01:52:55,279
he's got a songwriter credit now on Surfing USA. It's

2219
01:52:55,359 --> 01:52:56,479
a straight rip.

2220
01:52:58,039 --> 01:52:58,319
Speaker 8: All right.

2221
01:52:58,359 --> 01:53:00,560
Speaker 1: Now here's the problem. They're like, no, it's a tribute. No,

2222
01:53:00,720 --> 01:53:03,159
it's influence. It's not the same. So we lost Brian

2223
01:53:03,199 --> 01:53:07,560
Wilson today from we lost slid Stone yesterday. These deaths

2224
01:53:07,600 --> 01:53:11,680
happened in three. Oh no they don't. Yeah they do. Okay,

2225
01:53:11,720 --> 01:53:15,479
who's the next great singer we're gonna lose tomorrow? I'll

2226
01:53:15,479 --> 01:53:17,520
put some people on the big board. You ready, sure?

2227
01:53:18,159 --> 01:53:23,800
Harry Belafonte, I think he died. Linda Ronstadt, you're so weird.

2228
01:53:24,079 --> 01:53:28,640
When's when's it gonna happen? When's the moratorium on three? Uh?

2229
01:53:28,680 --> 01:53:31,039
It had to be tomorrow? Yeah, tomorrow. Yeah, So you're

2230
01:53:31,039 --> 01:53:34,840
saying tomorrow a major singer will die. No, I'm not saying,

2231
01:53:34,920 --> 01:53:36,800
but that's if you're gonna if you believe in the

2232
01:53:36,840 --> 01:53:39,399
things that happened in three I don't somebody's gonna die tomorrow.

2233
01:53:39,439 --> 01:53:41,279
You can always find three things that happened and then

2234
01:53:41,359 --> 01:53:45,119
just put them together. But you're putting three really good

2235
01:53:45,199 --> 01:53:51,199
singers together. Okay, So I would go with Linda Ronstadt,

2236
01:53:51,680 --> 01:53:58,479
Dion Warwick, Dion Warwick, Gladys Knight, Smoky Robinson, Diana Ross

2237
01:53:58,560 --> 01:54:02,880
is alive, okay, Smoker Robinson died. I thought, no, he's

2238
01:54:02,880 --> 01:54:07,960
a lot. He got sued. Actually he was news for

2239
01:54:08,079 --> 01:54:14,119
something like two weeks ago. Yeah, he's very much alive. Well,

2240
01:54:14,279 --> 01:54:18,640
unfortunately for those women, I hope it's not right. I

2241
01:54:18,680 --> 01:54:22,640
love Smoking Robinson. It's all time great, all time great.

2242
01:54:22,680 --> 01:54:26,239
I listened to Smoky Channel on Serious XM occasionally. You've

2243
01:54:26,239 --> 01:54:28,359
always talked about how he influenced your personal life. Now

2244
01:54:28,439 --> 01:54:36,840
that's not true at all. You're uys be suspended again? Yeah,

2245
01:54:37,239 --> 01:54:41,159
Pat In Sureland on Seminati Hillo, Pat, what's going on?

2246
01:54:41,199 --> 01:54:41,439
Speaker 5: Guys?

2247
01:54:41,560 --> 01:54:43,199
Speaker 1: You tell us the man.

2248
01:54:43,239 --> 01:54:47,439
Speaker 12: I just reminded me of the Beach Boys concert I

2249
01:54:47,439 --> 01:54:51,319
saw after an Astros game, and evidently I think they

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01:54:51,359 --> 01:54:52,680
did it in back to back years.

2251
01:54:52,760 --> 01:54:56,479
Speaker 1: But uh uh so, man, they got they got Astro ties.

2252
01:54:56,560 --> 01:54:58,920
Speaker 12: You can tie that into the sports talk, and yeah,

2253
01:54:59,000 --> 01:55:01,600
these guys deserve a a little more respect than o'brost

2254
01:55:01,680 --> 01:55:02,319
has given them.

2255
01:55:02,359 --> 01:55:04,960
Speaker 1: So uh. Never a huge.

2256
01:55:04,720 --> 01:55:09,680
Speaker 12: Fan of myself, I'm a generation behind their their heyday.

2257
01:55:09,760 --> 01:55:13,159
But uh, my sister tells the story, she's about ten

2258
01:55:13,199 --> 01:55:16,880
years older than me, how they opened for Crosby, Stills

2259
01:55:16,920 --> 01:55:18,520
and Nash when they.

2260
01:55:18,359 --> 01:55:19,199
Speaker 1: Were at their peak.

2261
01:55:20,199 --> 01:55:23,159
Speaker 12: They said, the Beach Boys open for him and stole

2262
01:55:23,199 --> 01:55:26,359
the show. Everybody was called nuts at the concert, and uh,

2263
01:55:26,520 --> 01:55:28,159
it was at the highlight of the concert.

2264
01:55:28,239 --> 01:55:30,319
Speaker 1: But anyway, that's all I add. Thanks to the phone call.

2265
01:55:30,479 --> 01:55:32,680
Thank you, Patty. Yeah, I get I have a pull

2266
01:55:32,760 --> 01:55:36,039
question up. Love them, like them, just okay? Hate them?

2267
01:55:36,199 --> 01:55:38,760
I would be I would put myself in the category

2268
01:55:38,760 --> 01:55:41,119
of liking them. I don't love them. I love the Beatles,

2269
01:55:41,359 --> 01:55:45,520
I don't love the Beach Boys. I love the Eagles.

2270
01:55:45,560 --> 01:55:48,880
I don't love the Beach Boys. I like them and

2271
01:55:48,960 --> 01:55:51,880
they're fine. But you put you put yourself in the

2272
01:55:51,960 --> 01:55:58,199
just okay category. Like I said, I respect what they did,

2273
01:55:58,520 --> 01:56:05,239
I just don't it's not my deal. Well that could

2274
01:56:05,239 --> 01:56:06,760
be the same. I can say the same thing about

2275
01:56:07,000 --> 01:56:10,560
hip hop. I respect the exactly it's just not your deal.

2276
01:56:10,680 --> 01:56:14,359
It's not my deal, That's what I'm saying. But you

2277
01:56:14,399 --> 01:56:16,560
openly make fun of it. Who did I make fun of?

2278
01:56:16,680 --> 01:56:18,640
You make fun of a lot of the songs. I

2279
01:56:18,640 --> 01:56:21,319
didn't steal a song from Chuck Barry. They did, That's true.

2280
01:56:21,479 --> 01:56:25,000
That was me. Let's go to uh Brian on seven

2281
01:56:25,079 --> 01:56:28,239
ninety before the top of the r Hello, Bryan, what's up, guys?

2282
01:56:28,479 --> 01:56:32,039
Speaker 13: I saw the Beach Boys played in sugar Land up

2283
01:56:32,079 --> 01:56:33,199
the Ryan.

2284
01:56:32,960 --> 01:56:35,960
Speaker 1: Anchel right Anchel? Yeah, yeah, I know where that is

2285
01:56:36,239 --> 01:56:36,720
a few.

2286
01:56:36,600 --> 01:56:38,680
Speaker 13: Years ago, and my wife and I went at the

2287
01:56:38,680 --> 01:56:41,760
time where we brought down the average age by far

2288
01:56:41,920 --> 01:56:45,319
by a lot, but the music was still really good.

2289
01:56:46,359 --> 01:56:49,199
My club was playing and Bruce Johnson was still there.

2290
01:56:49,600 --> 01:56:53,199
So two of the originals or mostly originals, but it

2291
01:56:53,239 --> 01:56:56,119
was Dennis who died in a yeah, drowned in the lake,

2292
01:56:56,720 --> 01:56:58,800
and then Carl died from lung cancer.

2293
01:56:58,840 --> 01:57:01,600
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, like the mid nineties.

2294
01:57:02,119 --> 01:57:03,720
Speaker 3: But no, I think there were there.

2295
01:57:03,960 --> 01:57:06,119
Speaker 13: They were one of those bands, along with the Beatles

2296
01:57:06,119 --> 01:57:09,439
and the Eagles. Who's whose music can just transcend time,

2297
01:57:10,199 --> 01:57:13,199
it can cover numerous generations. Yeah, you either most of

2298
01:57:13,199 --> 01:57:16,199
the time, you either love them or you're just indifferent

2299
01:57:16,199 --> 01:57:19,279
to him. Most people, you know, there's no harm, you know,

2300
01:57:19,439 --> 01:57:23,319
no harsh feelings towards him. But I grew up on that.

2301
01:57:23,640 --> 01:57:25,960
You know, My parents grew up in the fifties and sixties,

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01:57:26,000 --> 01:57:29,359
so we always had the oldies on in the house,

2303
01:57:29,399 --> 01:57:31,760
whether it was them or Dion and the Belmonts or

2304
01:57:31,800 --> 01:57:35,159
the Drifters or whoever. So I grew up with a

2305
01:57:35,159 --> 01:57:37,560
lot of that music. So it's still it's still great

2306
01:57:37,600 --> 01:57:40,439
to listen to. There's still on my uh my phone,

2307
01:57:40,479 --> 01:57:43,680
so when I'm I'm driving across this big state of ours,

2308
01:57:43,680 --> 01:57:45,079
I'll put them on and I can listen to a

2309
01:57:45,159 --> 01:57:47,600
lot of their songs. But uh, sad day because he

2310
01:57:47,720 --> 01:57:51,199
was the he was the brains behind the operation, didn't

2311
01:57:51,239 --> 01:57:52,239
tour much.

2312
01:57:52,199 --> 01:57:55,239
Speaker 1: And tremendous mental health issues. Thank you, Brian for the

2313
01:57:55,279 --> 01:57:57,199
pot to the top of the hour. Yet that's the

2314
01:57:57,239 --> 01:58:00,600
thing is that I think there's what I've read properly,

2315
01:58:01,000 --> 01:58:03,039
a lot of verbal abuse, a lot of pressure for

2316
01:58:03,119 --> 01:58:07,880
the father. Kind of remind me of of the Jackson's dad,

2317
01:58:08,479 --> 01:58:10,720
the way he would treat his I mean, Joe, Joe,

2318
01:58:10,760 --> 01:58:14,439
I mean, Unfortunately, there's a lot of abuse with families

2319
01:58:14,439 --> 01:58:17,479
that have successful groups and the pressure that the moms

2320
01:58:17,479 --> 01:58:19,640
and dads put on them. It's a lot of artists

2321
01:58:19,920 --> 01:58:23,920
as well. Just in John to watch him a Rocketman.

2322
01:58:24,000 --> 01:58:27,840
His dad barely accepted him a movie. It was okay,

2323
01:58:28,520 --> 01:58:31,239
that's my girls like top biopick movie. Now. Oh see,

2324
01:58:31,239 --> 01:58:36,039
I thought I thought the biopick of Freddie Mercury was better.

2325
01:58:36,560 --> 01:58:38,800
But I might be in the minority on that. I

2326
01:58:38,800 --> 01:58:41,399
still haven't watched the Elvis one or the Elton one.

2327
01:58:41,479 --> 01:58:43,199
Elvis one kind of dragged down because it was a

2328
01:58:43,199 --> 01:58:46,359
lot of Colonel Parker pov on that one and a

2329
01:58:46,399 --> 01:58:50,279
lot of Tom Hanks was like, he's what. Thanks, by

2330
01:58:50,279 --> 01:58:52,479
the way, Trevor did a great job. He says, you

2331
01:58:52,520 --> 01:58:55,039
got to make sure Paul McCartney's wrapped up and bubble wrapped.

2332
01:58:55,039 --> 01:58:57,319
Paul McCarney ringo star. You're also on that list too.

2333
01:58:59,399 --> 01:59:02,920
They could. No, they're not. At some point, Matt, remember

2334
01:59:03,119 --> 01:59:05,319
when half the Beatles are gone. You can't when when

2335
01:59:05,359 --> 01:59:08,760
Paul leaves, I'm taking a day off. Why to leave

2336
01:59:08,880 --> 01:59:12,840
what this or earth of ours? Yes? Okay, well you're

2337
01:59:12,840 --> 01:59:14,760
not even gonna go see him anymore? So what's the different? Hey,

2338
01:59:14,800 --> 01:59:16,840
wait a minute, you put out this Beach Boys poll

2339
01:59:16,880 --> 01:59:21,159
on your Twitter. Yeah I did. Oh man, I just

2340
01:59:21,239 --> 01:59:23,199
I'll delete mine. I guess, yeah go, I'll just put

2341
01:59:23,239 --> 01:59:25,800
love them, let them don't like them, Yeah, Paul. Question

2342
01:59:25,880 --> 01:59:27,960
one hundred and thirty one votes in thirty seven percent

2343
01:59:28,239 --> 01:59:31,119
just okay. I'm gonna put just okay, thirty one percent

2344
01:59:31,239 --> 01:59:34,600
like them, twenty percent love them, in four percent hate them.

2345
01:59:34,760 --> 01:59:37,119
I'll delete mine and retweet yours. Matt, You're the best.

2346
01:59:37,439 --> 01:59:40,840
All right, let's get us. Final hour of the show.

2347
01:59:41,439 --> 01:59:44,640
Astros White Sox. The rebound game is tonight, Rossie. Is

2348
01:59:44,640 --> 01:59:46,560
it a guaranteed one night? You gotta beat the You

2349
01:59:46,560 --> 01:59:50,600
gotta beat the pale Hose, don't you? Is it a

2350
01:59:50,720 --> 01:59:55,439
must win the game for the Houston Astros. It is not.

2351
01:59:55,640 --> 01:59:58,159
It is not. It'll be great pregame coverage coming your

2352
01:59:58,159 --> 02:00:00,600
way at six o'clock. Well, who's hosting it?

2353
02:00:00,800 --> 02:00:00,840
Speaker 8: Me?

2354
02:00:01,560 --> 02:00:04,600
Speaker 1: Well great, it's a relative term. One o'clock on Sports

2355
02:00:04,600 --> 02:00:06,159
Talk seven ninety. If you want to jump in on

2356
02:00:06,199 --> 02:00:08,359
the conversation, you may do so at seven one three

2357
02:00:08,439 --> 02:00:11,399
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two

2358
02:00:11,479 --> 02:00:13,880
one two five seven ninety Final hour of The Matt

2359
02:00:13,920 --> 02:00:16,600
Thomas Show with Ross We are with you till two o'clock.

2360
02:00:16,640 --> 02:00:17,880
We'd love to have you a part of the show.

2361
02:00:17,920 --> 02:00:20,479
We've gotten a variety of things going on. We have

2362
02:00:20,479 --> 02:00:22,920
a couple of astros calls, a couple of Rockets calls,

2363
02:00:22,920 --> 02:00:26,399
a couple of beach boy calls. I kind of like,

2364
02:00:26,479 --> 02:00:28,600
I just don't want to just beat a single topic

2365
02:00:28,640 --> 02:00:30,239
down your throat for four hours a day. Could you

2366
02:00:30,239 --> 02:00:30,680
imagine doing that?

2367
02:00:30,760 --> 02:00:30,960
Speaker 5: Ross?

2368
02:00:31,000 --> 02:00:32,800
Speaker 1: Yet, I would want to do that under any circumstance.

2369
02:00:32,880 --> 02:00:36,439
Coming up next segment, Game by game predictions of Nick

2370
02:00:36,600 --> 02:00:40,960
Chubb's rushing output. All right, speaking of the Texans, DJB

2371
02:00:41,159 --> 02:00:44,880
enemy covers the Texans for espn Uh huh, biggest I'm

2372
02:00:44,920 --> 02:00:46,800
reading verbatim off of him. The sound of bed still,

2373
02:00:46,960 --> 02:00:49,920
I'm giving him credit, says biggest takeaway from day two

2374
02:00:49,920 --> 02:00:52,520
of the mini camp the offensive line better than day one.

2375
02:00:52,960 --> 02:00:56,760
That's good. In the limited reps against starting defensive line.

2376
02:00:56,800 --> 02:00:59,840
Stroud's favorite target today was Kirk Christian Kirk both connected

2377
02:00:59,880 --> 02:01:02,000
on a few passes, highlighted by a deep slot for

2378
02:01:02,039 --> 02:01:07,119
thirty ish yards thirty ish okay? And is this a

2379
02:01:07,199 --> 02:01:11,600
dj B enemy gut feeling? Will Anderson and Daniel danil

2380
02:01:11,640 --> 02:01:16,760
Hunter should have each have ten sacks again, DJ, I

2381
02:01:16,800 --> 02:01:18,800
would hope. So it feels like a little bit of

2382
02:01:18,800 --> 02:01:21,760
an early prediction on that based off of too mini

2383
02:01:21,760 --> 02:01:23,920
camp days, well, based off the fact they're two of

2384
02:01:23,920 --> 02:01:28,920
the best pass rushers in football. This defense canna be good. Maddy, Hey,

2385
02:01:29,000 --> 02:01:33,279
are you ready for some sixteen thirteen games? Yes, Demiko

2386
02:01:33,399 --> 02:01:39,279
Ryans is MVP Texans MVP. Kimie Fairbairn. All right, So

2387
02:01:41,039 --> 02:01:43,399
what wins more in the NFL the last in the

2388
02:01:43,479 --> 02:01:50,920
last ten years, offenses or defenses? Offense? How far can

2389
02:01:50,920 --> 02:01:53,960
I it's a team having both? Well, of course, let

2390
02:01:54,000 --> 02:01:55,960
me tell you. If you think you can just have

2391
02:01:56,079 --> 02:01:58,920
one or the other and not like have a wretched

2392
02:01:59,159 --> 02:02:01,439
one part and have a superior other, you're not. You're

2393
02:02:01,439 --> 02:02:04,000
gonna be the onside looking in. You just are. You

2394
02:02:04,119 --> 02:02:06,880
have to have some assemblance of a competitive both sides

2395
02:02:06,880 --> 02:02:09,640
of the football. Now you can probably be ranked twentieth

2396
02:02:09,640 --> 02:02:14,239
and something and in one particular category and still win. Yeah.

2397
02:02:14,239 --> 02:02:15,960
I think it's been holding the defense has been holding

2398
02:02:15,960 --> 02:02:20,199
the Bills back. Yeah, Bengals defense has been holding their

2399
02:02:20,279 --> 02:02:27,079
offense back. Yes, who's been held back? Baltimore. I think

2400
02:02:27,119 --> 02:02:28,479
the Chiefs made it as far as they did on

2401
02:02:28,520 --> 02:02:30,560
the backs of their defense, though Pat Mahomes and then

2402
02:02:30,640 --> 02:02:36,720
offense were pedestrian. Yeah, what's held Baltimore back? I would

2403
02:02:36,800 --> 02:02:40,199
say Lamar inconsistently. I would say inconsistently with Lamar some yeah,

2404
02:02:40,479 --> 02:02:42,800
bad luck in football games that just had didn't go

2405
02:02:42,840 --> 02:02:45,560
their way. But I think two years ago in the

2406
02:02:45,600 --> 02:02:49,319
AFC Championship game, Lamar Jackson was pressing way too much

2407
02:02:49,399 --> 02:02:53,520
for sure, and then the game they lost to the Bills.

2408
02:02:53,560 --> 02:02:55,680
Didn't they turn lose their tone over about like three

2409
02:02:55,720 --> 02:02:59,000
or four zero? Yes, early in the game, Yeah, Mark

2410
02:02:59,039 --> 02:03:02,000
Andrews fumbled the ball away and then he dropped the

2411
02:03:02,039 --> 02:03:03,920
pass at the very end right a two point conversion

2412
02:03:03,920 --> 02:03:05,359
that would have sent it to overtime or something like,

2413
02:03:05,439 --> 02:03:08,560
Oh was that for the win? So gimmicky endings, yeah,

2414
02:03:08,600 --> 02:03:10,199
they say, I would say a little bit of bad luck,

2415
02:03:10,239 --> 02:03:13,479
but also Lamar Jackson inconsistently. As you said, Yeah, two

2416
02:03:13,560 --> 02:03:16,279
years ago, he was like trying to toss everything down

2417
02:03:16,319 --> 02:03:17,800
the field when they had that close game, what was

2418
02:03:17,800 --> 02:03:19,880
it like, seventeen to ten or whatever with the with

2419
02:03:19,960 --> 02:03:22,199
the Chiefs, and he was trying to bomb everything and

2420
02:03:22,239 --> 02:03:24,279
not taking everything in front of him. So when you

2421
02:03:24,319 --> 02:03:28,359
think of the great defenses that win Super Bowls. Two

2422
02:03:28,399 --> 02:03:33,079
come to mind, eighty five Bears and the two thousand

2423
02:03:33,079 --> 02:03:35,680
Baltimore Ravens. I would put the O two Buccaneers in

2424
02:03:35,680 --> 02:03:38,600
that category. To Brad Johnson, you're thinking about go just

2425
02:03:38,640 --> 02:03:40,960
go find a game with an average quarterback or below

2426
02:03:41,000 --> 02:03:43,199
average quarterback, and you could probably attribute it to it

2427
02:03:43,239 --> 02:03:46,159
was a great defense. It got twenty twelve ish. I

2428
02:03:46,159 --> 02:03:49,319
think it was twelve Ravens with Joe Flacco. But Flacco

2429
02:03:49,399 --> 02:03:52,279
was great and the ploco was like double digit touchdowns

2430
02:03:52,279 --> 02:03:55,680
in one interception. He put together an amazing postseason. He did.

2431
02:03:55,680 --> 02:03:57,319
But he's just a mid quarterback. I mean, I think

2432
02:03:57,399 --> 02:04:01,439
right all agree with right, right, So we'll the Texans

2433
02:04:01,439 --> 02:04:04,239
do not have a mid quarterback. Now. He is a

2434
02:04:04,279 --> 02:04:08,560
good quarterback. You and I had this playful conversation last

2435
02:04:08,640 --> 02:04:13,319
year about elite. Did he take the step to be

2436
02:04:13,359 --> 02:04:16,920
elite last year? CD? Shroud? Yeah, you can't say yes

2437
02:04:17,000 --> 02:04:19,680
because if everybody has said universally that he had a

2438
02:04:19,720 --> 02:04:23,199
down year. So I still put him in the very

2439
02:04:23,199 --> 02:04:25,960
good category. I don't necessarily think he's got to be

2440
02:04:26,039 --> 02:04:28,840
great if this defense is what you think it's going

2441
02:04:28,880 --> 02:04:31,159
to be. And daneil Hunter does get you ten sacks,

2442
02:04:31,159 --> 02:04:33,560
and Will Anderson gets you ten sacks, and Derek Singley

2443
02:04:33,560 --> 02:04:35,640
plays the way that he did last year, and Jalen

2444
02:04:35,680 --> 02:04:38,119
Petrie is healthy and able to contribute more than he

2445
02:04:38,119 --> 02:04:42,279
did last year, then you could have a spectacular, elite

2446
02:04:42,359 --> 02:04:45,640
top three defense, have a middle of the pack offense,

2447
02:04:45,640 --> 02:04:47,760
and that might get you to a place she ever

2448
02:04:47,800 --> 02:04:49,960
been before. And that's at least the AFC Championship game.

2449
02:04:52,199 --> 02:04:55,560
That's how the positive storylines go on. That super defense

2450
02:04:55,600 --> 02:05:00,920
that plays above its head, CJ rebounds and gets just

2451
02:05:01,119 --> 02:05:06,359
enough offense, just enough of a running game, just enough

2452
02:05:06,399 --> 02:05:12,520
pass protection, A just enough offense with a superior defense

2453
02:05:13,359 --> 02:05:16,439
can ROSSI get you to the AFC Championship game. Yeah,

2454
02:05:16,479 --> 02:05:19,159
it felt like Bobby Slok was running the just enough offense.

2455
02:05:19,239 --> 02:05:21,359
And I'll be interested to see what Nick Kayley does

2456
02:05:21,359 --> 02:05:24,520
and how much of that was at the behest of

2457
02:05:25,039 --> 02:05:28,000
Demiko Ryans and how much it also could be is

2458
02:05:28,039 --> 02:05:31,800
if this offensive line craters again, Yeah, then Bobby Slow,

2459
02:05:31,840 --> 02:05:33,600
it's gonna be talking to you about, you know, sending

2460
02:05:33,640 --> 02:05:38,439
messages like man bea when me, when me? What my fault? Exactly? Anybody?

2461
02:05:38,520 --> 02:05:39,960
I mean you and I can go up draw and play.

2462
02:05:40,000 --> 02:05:43,239
If we have a perfect offensive line, who's gonna hold

2463
02:05:43,279 --> 02:05:45,239
everybody for five six seconds? You and I could draw

2464
02:05:45,279 --> 02:05:47,960
up plays and they'll be successful. Right, But it's about adjusting,

2465
02:05:48,000 --> 02:05:49,760
and I think Bobby Slog did a poor job of

2466
02:05:49,840 --> 02:05:54,640
doing that. And speaking of where you put uh CJ. Stroud,

2467
02:05:54,680 --> 02:05:57,239
a couple of weeks ago, Pro Football Focus ranked all

2468
02:05:57,239 --> 02:05:59,800
the quarterbacks. Now, how often did they do this? I

2469
02:06:00,279 --> 02:06:03,439
don't know, but this is its off season fodder. Oh yeah,

2470
02:06:03,439 --> 02:06:05,119
because I like I say, they're probably doing this to

2471
02:06:05,159 --> 02:06:07,319
gain some clicks. And they got one dated Tier one

2472
02:06:08,239 --> 02:06:11,520
elite starters. They only put four in there. That would

2473
02:06:11,560 --> 02:06:14,800
be the guys you would think of Mahomes, Burrow, Lamar,

2474
02:06:15,119 --> 02:06:18,560
Josh Allen. Yep. Tier two high end starters.

2475
02:06:19,079 --> 02:06:19,359
Speaker 3: C J.

2476
02:06:19,479 --> 02:06:23,840
Speaker 1: Stroud is not in there. Tier three solid starters who

2477
02:06:23,840 --> 02:06:28,000
have flashed high end play. They do not have c J.

2478
02:06:28,079 --> 02:06:33,359
Stroud there. They have him fourteenth under the category of

2479
02:06:33,439 --> 02:06:37,039
solid starters, but need more help, behind Baker Mayfield and

2480
02:06:37,079 --> 02:06:42,039
ahead of Kyler Murray and Trevor Lawrence. Say that last

2481
02:06:42,079 --> 02:06:46,960
sentence again, behind whom Baker Mayfield Jordan Love twelve, Baker

2482
02:06:46,960 --> 02:06:51,279
Mayfield thirteen, c J. Stroud fourteen, who had better seasons

2483
02:06:51,279 --> 02:06:53,159
of those three quarterbacks. I would say that Love and

2484
02:06:53,199 --> 02:06:59,119
Mayfield had better season. I would agree with that Gino

2485
02:06:59,199 --> 02:07:02,600
Smith tenth though, Geno Smith or CJ. J. Know Smith,

2486
02:07:02,600 --> 02:07:04,560
that's such a great season. He got traded in the offseason.

2487
02:07:04,640 --> 02:07:06,520
So let's let's sold that roll a little bit down.

2488
02:07:07,359 --> 02:07:12,039
Jordan Love or c J. Shrub career or last year

2489
02:07:12,920 --> 02:07:20,239
for this year. I don't mean to him in hauw.

2490
02:07:20,680 --> 02:07:23,920
I don't know. It's not about but it's not about

2491
02:07:23,920 --> 02:07:28,000
the arm strength, it's not about the accuracy. It's about

2492
02:07:28,039 --> 02:07:32,159
how he's going to live with I think to be

2493
02:07:32,399 --> 02:07:36,479
again a very suspect offensive line Baker Mayfield or CJ.

2494
02:07:36,560 --> 02:07:42,880
Stroup this upcoming season. Baker Mayfield led the NFL with

2495
02:07:42,920 --> 02:07:49,119
sixteen interception but interceptions, but he had forty one touchdowns.

2496
02:07:54,800 --> 02:07:57,479
I don't want to talk about any of this. Here's

2497
02:07:57,520 --> 02:08:04,439
what you've done. We are attaching on paper. CJ wins

2498
02:08:04,439 --> 02:08:08,000
those battles over those two quarterbacks. The upside on CJ

2499
02:08:08,239 --> 02:08:11,479
is significantly better than the other two guys. First of all,

2500
02:08:11,560 --> 02:08:15,600
he's younger. Second of all, he had an incredible first season.

2501
02:08:16,319 --> 02:08:19,640
But what we can't do is we cannot separate the

2502
02:08:19,680 --> 02:08:23,960
offensive lines from the quarterbacks because they are they work

2503
02:08:24,000 --> 02:08:27,000
as a seven man group. You got your five linemen,

2504
02:08:27,119 --> 02:08:29,159
you have your tight end, and you have your quarterback.

2505
02:08:31,039 --> 02:08:34,680
It's like ross. And here's a terrible example. It's like

2506
02:08:34,720 --> 02:08:38,199
your lead singer's got a terrible band behind you. And

2507
02:08:38,239 --> 02:08:40,000
you may think the guy's a great vocalist, but if

2508
02:08:40,000 --> 02:08:41,720
he's got a terrible band behind him, it's still gonna

2509
02:08:41,720 --> 02:08:47,600
be a bad band. We all think about that one.

2510
02:08:48,000 --> 02:08:54,560
It's not the worst thing I've ever heard. If has

2511
02:08:54,560 --> 02:08:57,439
an average offensive line and is not thrown around like

2512
02:08:57,479 --> 02:08:59,359
a rag doll like it was last year, or running

2513
02:08:59,359 --> 02:09:01,880
for his life. Let's say he runs how many how

2514
02:09:01,960 --> 02:09:04,039
many pressures did he face last year? Is there you

2515
02:09:04,039 --> 02:09:06,439
look at I can probably look that up. But this

2516
02:09:06,479 --> 02:09:07,520
is the thing, though, I mean a lot of these

2517
02:09:07,600 --> 02:09:10,319
quarterbacks ahead of him have had bad I mean Pat

2518
02:09:10,359 --> 02:09:13,199
mahomes offensive line was horrible Parish here, Yes they were.

2519
02:09:13,359 --> 02:09:15,760
Joe Burrow's not had a good offensive line in his career.

2520
02:09:18,600 --> 02:09:20,920
I don't remember the quality of Jaden Daniel's offensive line.

2521
02:09:20,920 --> 02:09:24,960
It wasn't great. I don't think. Let's see, obviously, Jared

2522
02:09:25,000 --> 02:09:28,840
Goffin the Lions had great ones good stuff in San Francisco.

2523
02:09:29,000 --> 02:09:31,079
So let me let me go Debbie Downer for a second.

2524
02:09:31,119 --> 02:09:32,560
I'm fear second. You can't blame it all on the

2525
02:09:32,600 --> 02:09:36,800
offensive line. So here's my point. If he doesn't improve

2526
02:09:37,720 --> 02:09:39,880
and he's not better than Jordan Love this year, and

2527
02:09:39,920 --> 02:09:42,000
he's not better than Baker Mayfield, which I don't believe

2528
02:09:42,000 --> 02:09:46,960
to be the case. But if he's not, you can't

2529
02:09:46,960 --> 02:09:49,039
put fifty million dollars in his pigy back. Oh they will.

2530
02:09:51,520 --> 02:09:56,079
That would not be great money spent, you will be

2531
02:09:56,319 --> 02:09:59,079
do you let me ask you this is it the

2532
02:09:59,159 --> 02:10:02,520
right football decision? I know football quarterbacks are treated differently

2533
02:10:02,680 --> 02:10:05,920
salary wise. Is it the right decision ross to put

2534
02:10:05,960 --> 02:10:08,960
sixty million dollars a year into a player who is

2535
02:10:09,039 --> 02:10:11,479
considered a mid level when you are a fourteenth in

2536
02:10:11,520 --> 02:10:14,880
the NFL by whatever metrics, Pro Football Focus or your

2537
02:10:14,920 --> 02:10:18,119
own seeing eyes you know watching it. How do you

2538
02:10:19,119 --> 02:10:23,319
win with a football team if you're paying sixty million

2539
02:10:23,359 --> 02:10:25,720
dollars to a guy who's the fourteenth best quarterback. I

2540
02:10:25,760 --> 02:10:27,479
think that's part of the problem reason why Kirk Cousins

2541
02:10:27,680 --> 02:10:30,119
has never been able to win games. You spend all

2542
02:10:30,119 --> 02:10:33,439
that money on him and he's just okay. I think

2543
02:10:33,479 --> 02:10:36,079
he's better than Jordan Love. Jordan Love got huge money.

2544
02:10:36,439 --> 02:10:39,520
The highest AAV quarterback in football is Dak Prescott. And

2545
02:10:39,520 --> 02:10:42,119
look than Dak Prescott. Look what the Cowboys are. Yeah

2546
02:10:42,119 --> 02:10:43,920
you can't. They can pay that. I mean you you

2547
02:10:44,000 --> 02:10:45,960
just have you have to take that leap because what's

2548
02:10:45,960 --> 02:10:49,159
your alternative? You don't have one, exactly like you have

2549
02:10:49,239 --> 02:10:51,039
to take shot. Can you win a super Bowl with

2550
02:10:51,039 --> 02:10:53,520
C J. Stroud? I think the Texans as absolutely sure.

2551
02:10:53,680 --> 02:10:55,720
Will he win you that super Bowl? That's up for

2552
02:10:55,720 --> 02:10:57,880
debate and remains to be seen. So if you have

2553
02:10:57,960 --> 02:11:01,359
one of these golden tickets, which is a franchise quarterback,

2554
02:11:02,239 --> 02:11:05,239
unless he demands it and then gets twenty five lawsuits

2555
02:11:05,640 --> 02:11:08,479
filed against him, you hold on to that golden ticket.

2556
02:11:09,600 --> 02:11:12,039
So he's already got the golden ticket. Two is baking

2557
02:11:12,520 --> 02:11:14,399
unless he throws twice as many I iNTS as he

2558
02:11:14,399 --> 02:11:16,079
throws touchdowns. I don't think c Just's got that in

2559
02:11:16,079 --> 02:11:18,319
his DNA. Two is getting fifty million dollars a year.

2560
02:11:18,399 --> 02:11:20,800
Kyler Murray's around fifty million dollars a year. I mean,

2561
02:11:20,880 --> 02:11:24,520
it's it's just the going rate. So basically, if you

2562
02:11:24,720 --> 02:11:31,520
if you pay money for a mid quarterback. You're screwed. Yeah,

2563
02:11:31,800 --> 02:11:34,439
I think c J. Strout's better than mid. Obviously he

2564
02:11:34,439 --> 02:11:36,880
took a step back last year. But I think what

2565
02:11:36,920 --> 02:11:38,039
I don't want is I don't want you and I

2566
02:11:38,159 --> 02:11:39,920
year from now to have the same conversation of him

2567
02:11:39,920 --> 02:11:43,399
being the fourteenth best career year coming for CJ. Strout.

2568
02:11:43,720 --> 02:11:46,000
What's up? Okay, let's go. That's the better Red Ross

2569
02:11:46,039 --> 02:11:48,560
we know in Love one sixteen on Sports Talks Around

2570
02:11:48,560 --> 02:11:51,119
And if you missed our conversation with Brian Bogacivic, we'll

2571
02:11:51,159 --> 02:11:53,000
have more of that coming for you at one point

2572
02:11:53,000 --> 02:11:55,279
thirty Believe it or not Today, All Things Brian Wilson

2573
02:11:55,399 --> 02:11:58,960
rip to the former lead singer and a lead writer

2574
02:11:59,159 --> 02:12:02,079
of The Beach Boys, one sixteen on Sports Talk seven

2575
02:12:02,079 --> 02:12:04,960
hours one twenty three Sports Talk seven ninety It is

2576
02:12:04,960 --> 02:12:06,640
a Matt Thomas show with Ross. We are with you

2577
02:12:06,720 --> 02:12:08,840
till two o'clock today. Believe it or not, All things

2578
02:12:08,840 --> 02:12:12,000
about Brian Wilson, lead singer of the Beach Boys, passing

2579
02:12:12,000 --> 02:12:15,680
me at the age of eighty two. I told you

2580
02:12:15,720 --> 02:12:19,000
this before. We'll get back to Sports second here, and

2581
02:12:19,039 --> 02:12:21,159
it's a byproduct of the fact that I'm just not

2582
02:12:22,399 --> 02:12:26,600
much into the current music. But all my favorite people

2583
02:12:26,680 --> 02:12:28,720
are getting to the point where they're neither dying or

2584
02:12:28,960 --> 02:12:32,279
not able to perform anymore. Well, man, the only thing

2585
02:12:32,359 --> 02:12:35,479
sure than life is death. Thank you for that. So

2586
02:12:35,600 --> 02:12:39,760
I need to start finding some current music. Okay, we

2587
02:12:39,880 --> 02:12:44,439
gotta go for like uh Chapel Roan and Pink Pony Club.

2588
02:12:45,239 --> 02:12:47,319
That sounds good, I'll try it. You don't want to

2589
02:12:47,359 --> 02:12:49,880
hear that, man, go to go with pop music? What

2590
02:12:49,920 --> 02:12:53,119
are you looking for? Anything that I can go see

2591
02:12:53,119 --> 02:12:56,439
you at casino in forty years from now. I'm going

2592
02:12:56,479 --> 02:12:58,359
to wheel you up at the casino. In forty years.

2593
02:12:58,399 --> 02:13:01,039
You don't think I will be wheeled up to a casino? Oh? Man, yeah,

2594
02:13:01,039 --> 02:13:03,600
I guess so doing that later this summer. Things don't

2595
02:13:03,600 --> 02:13:06,560
work out any better, break your legs or what. I

2596
02:13:06,600 --> 02:13:09,800
don't know. You never know. Like who's the hottest male

2597
02:13:09,880 --> 02:13:14,319
recording artist right this second? And like what John, That's

2598
02:13:14,319 --> 02:13:17,039
a hard question. Okay if I put on well, we

2599
02:13:17,079 --> 02:13:19,279
don't have an AC station here. Bruno mar is still

2600
02:13:19,279 --> 02:13:23,279
already old now he's still okay, it's not unk music

2601
02:13:23,359 --> 02:13:26,720
yet or kind of? Is that? Timberlake still considered a

2602
02:13:26,760 --> 02:13:30,439
top five that's like, you know, what I mean. By

2603
02:13:30,479 --> 02:13:32,359
the way, my wife is watching this show called The

2604
02:13:32,399 --> 02:13:35,359
Better Sister. Jessica Biel is the star of the show.

2605
02:13:36,359 --> 02:13:41,439
Jessica Biel, goodness, gracious all time. Good for him. They

2606
02:13:41,560 --> 02:13:43,640
make her look older in this show than she is.

2607
02:13:44,239 --> 02:13:48,199
Top selling artist of twenty twenty four Morgan, I always

2608
02:13:48,199 --> 02:13:51,439
get this wrong, whaling Wall. That was the first person

2609
02:13:51,439 --> 02:13:53,840
I said it too. That's my good. That's good, all right,

2610
02:13:56,159 --> 02:14:02,560
Tyler the creator, Really Drake gets some Drake. Do you

2611
02:14:02,600 --> 02:14:05,000
see me being a Drake guy? I could see it.

2612
02:14:06,439 --> 02:14:08,399
See that. That feels like a slight because you're a

2613
02:14:08,479 --> 02:14:11,680
Kendrick Lamar guy, so that would make you me. No,

2614
02:14:11,760 --> 02:14:15,760
that's fine, you mean a Drake fan. Yeah. Kendrick Lamar

2615
02:14:15,920 --> 02:14:17,880
was one of the top artists of last year. Luke

2616
02:14:17,920 --> 02:14:22,640
Combs apparently people like it's all right, so based on

2617
02:14:22,680 --> 02:14:25,079
its country music based Now what's going on?

2618
02:14:25,119 --> 02:14:33,199
Speaker 7: Everybody's buying Combs and Saboozi and jelly Roll.

2619
02:14:33,720 --> 02:14:39,159
Speaker 1: People love the jelly can't stand on alright, what do

2620
02:14:39,199 --> 02:14:43,079
you got against the role man? I got the I

2621
02:14:43,119 --> 02:14:46,680
got He's got like serious tattoos over Eminem, Kendrick Lamar,

2622
02:14:46,760 --> 02:14:50,960
Travis Scott, Kanye West, Tyler the creator, Drake. This is

2623
02:14:50,960 --> 02:14:53,800
what Google is saying he needs.

2624
02:14:53,880 --> 02:14:55,399
Speaker 7: He doesn't need mainstream though. I feel like he's not

2625
02:14:55,439 --> 02:14:57,640
gonna like to make Okay, what do you want some jazz?

2626
02:14:58,439 --> 02:15:02,479
Speaker 1: Yeah? What you know what? I listened to seventies on

2627
02:15:02,560 --> 02:15:07,279
seven in the Bridge. I got issues. I'm fine. What

2628
02:15:07,319 --> 02:15:11,600
about the K pop group BTS? You know I'll do.

2629
02:15:12,239 --> 02:15:15,680
Give me, give me some Hooty the Blowfish, some of

2630
02:15:15,720 --> 02:15:18,119
that Taylor Swift. I don't know what sty boys. I

2631
02:15:18,119 --> 02:15:22,079
think this mess. I like Becy Boys, Billy Eilish, people

2632
02:15:22,079 --> 02:15:24,079
love the Billie Eilish. All right, let's get back. Let's

2633
02:15:24,079 --> 02:15:25,760
get back like some of that pop stuff and it's

2634
02:15:25,760 --> 02:15:27,199
all this. Try to find some new stuff on the

2635
02:15:27,199 --> 02:15:31,359
plane ride today. Okay. Oh the weekend, Yeah, weekend's got

2636
02:15:31,399 --> 02:15:35,199
some jams. Yeah, put the put the weekend on the

2637
02:15:35,279 --> 02:15:38,800
late when you're laying your lady now, really so I

2638
02:15:38,800 --> 02:15:41,600
could do that like two forty five today. Oh, you're

2639
02:15:41,640 --> 02:15:43,520
not getting home till about three h three ten? Yea,

2640
02:15:43,479 --> 02:15:45,520
oh of the weather, you're probably right. Sorry, all right

2641
02:15:45,600 --> 02:15:48,760
home at two of five. I'm gonna startin texting you

2642
02:15:48,760 --> 02:15:51,399
every day when I get home. You know what you

2643
02:15:51,520 --> 02:15:54,479
gotta say I'm home. What about what about you? And

2644
02:15:54,479 --> 02:15:56,399
then put just you and then you'll respond in your

2645
02:15:56,439 --> 02:15:59,880
normal way, which is curse words. Yes, by the way,

2646
02:16:00,479 --> 02:16:03,119
g f wymy sirih does a great job. I swear

2647
02:16:03,159 --> 02:16:05,159
to her on the ride home all the time, and

2648
02:16:05,199 --> 02:16:07,079
she she does a pretty good jo just about eight

2649
02:16:07,079 --> 02:16:09,920
and a half out of ten, she says all of

2650
02:16:09,960 --> 02:16:12,560
them too. Do you make sure you enunciate it? I

2651
02:16:12,600 --> 02:16:18,800
slow it down. Wow, I'm glad you slow it down.

2652
02:16:21,880 --> 02:16:25,359
Astros and White Sox Game two of a three game

2653
02:16:25,399 --> 02:16:27,199
series tonight you'll love the on deck show. What are

2654
02:16:27,359 --> 02:16:29,760
What are your keys of victory tonight? A keys of

2655
02:16:29,880 --> 02:16:32,879
victory for the Astros? Ye, Ryan Gusto going more than

2656
02:16:33,200 --> 02:16:36,120
four innings, that's key number one. The reality is this

2657
02:16:36,200 --> 02:16:38,360
he needs. If you're trying to get link from him,

2658
02:16:38,600 --> 02:16:41,479
you gotta get it tonight. Because the bullpen got used

2659
02:16:41,520 --> 02:16:43,760
up a little bit yesterday. Yes it did, although I

2660
02:16:43,760 --> 02:16:47,799
mean it was what Susa ort and Duban yep, so

2661
02:16:47,879 --> 02:16:50,280
no leverage. But Hater did get up in the ninth

2662
02:16:50,280 --> 02:16:51,639
and he was throwing a little bit. Ye. So I

2663
02:16:51,639 --> 02:16:53,360
don't know how much you want to count that, but

2664
02:16:53,639 --> 02:16:56,200
I would yees some some link from Ryan Gusto. I

2665
02:16:56,239 --> 02:16:59,399
would also say middle of the lineup, including Jannerdyas and

2666
02:16:59,479 --> 02:17:02,920
Christian Walker, let's go a little bit of luck. Christian

2667
02:17:02,920 --> 02:17:05,120
Walker's luck is gonna turn. I feel more confident. Actually,

2668
02:17:06,239 --> 02:17:09,399
I don't feel like we're protecting Christian Walker. But I

2669
02:17:09,440 --> 02:17:11,319
could see how some people might think that if you

2670
02:17:11,360 --> 02:17:13,879
want to give up on him, yeah, that's fine. I

2671
02:17:14,000 --> 02:17:17,440
just don't. I'm not going to. But also, of course,

2672
02:17:17,440 --> 02:17:19,200
as you know, I went down with the Jose Bray

2673
02:17:19,200 --> 02:17:21,040
you ship man, I think you did. I want a

2674
02:17:21,040 --> 02:17:24,079
great bet on that one. You did. Well, I tell

2675
02:17:24,079 --> 02:17:25,840
you what I tell you. By next Tuesday, he's gonna

2676
02:17:25,840 --> 02:17:28,239
be at two fifteen. Ord I say two weeks for

2677
02:17:28,280 --> 02:17:30,040
the two to fifteen. I want to go back to

2678
02:17:30,079 --> 02:17:32,399
the gut feelings. But right now he's at two o eight.

2679
02:17:32,719 --> 02:17:34,440
Well you going up a point? You got a yeah?

2680
02:17:34,440 --> 02:17:36,600
I mean slow steps. I mean, if you just want

2681
02:17:36,600 --> 02:17:39,120
to go one for four every game, shot that wood.

2682
02:17:39,200 --> 02:17:40,440
Let's go. Do you have the box germ from the

2683
02:17:40,479 --> 02:17:42,000
last night in front of you? Yes, oh for three,

2684
02:17:42,079 --> 02:17:44,319
So go give the on one for three. Go look

2685
02:17:44,319 --> 02:17:46,520
at four, five six in the Astros line up yesterday.

2686
02:17:46,879 --> 02:17:49,719
Let's see four was Jennardy Is oh for three, Walker

2687
02:17:49,840 --> 02:17:53,319
one for three, Jake Myers one for four with some

2688
02:17:53,360 --> 02:17:56,399
hard hit contact. Matt, you know what I like Jake.

2689
02:17:56,440 --> 02:17:57,840
I talked to Jake Yester as matter of fact.

2690
02:17:57,879 --> 02:17:58,040
Speaker 3: Good.

2691
02:17:58,280 --> 02:18:04,639
Speaker 1: Uh. If Jake is anything short of seven in the lineup,

2692
02:18:06,120 --> 02:18:08,200
it's not an indictment against him, it's an indictment against

2693
02:18:08,200 --> 02:18:14,040
his teammates. Seven sixty eight ops is good. Results have

2694
02:18:14,079 --> 02:18:17,719
been good. Do I expect him to continue? Can I

2695
02:18:17,719 --> 02:18:20,440
give you? Can I give you a crazy baseball take? Yes?

2696
02:18:20,559 --> 02:18:22,399
Thirty seconds. We'll talk more about this when I get

2697
02:18:22,399 --> 02:18:25,120
back next week. Okay, what if I put Jacob Myers

2698
02:18:25,200 --> 02:18:29,799
up for trade? What would you get? I could? I

2699
02:18:29,799 --> 02:18:32,159
could easily move chas and or Jacob Mountain in the

2700
02:18:32,200 --> 02:18:35,840
center field. I guess go give me. I think I'll

2701
02:18:35,879 --> 02:18:37,520
give me a hard hitting second. It's been one of

2702
02:18:37,600 --> 02:18:40,120
your best hitters. He's been one of your best players. Okay,

2703
02:18:40,479 --> 02:18:43,000
I'm not asking you to give me the long excerpt

2704
02:18:43,000 --> 02:18:45,239
of this. I'm telling you, if you're going to make

2705
02:18:45,239 --> 02:18:47,559
a trade, you have to give something back in return.

2706
02:18:47,680 --> 02:18:49,920
What's his? Could you are you? Could you be selling

2707
02:18:50,079 --> 02:18:55,559
him in a high water mark right this second that

2708
02:18:55,559 --> 02:18:58,479
the stock price for Jake is as high as it's

2709
02:18:58,520 --> 02:19:02,159
ever been. That's true. I'm just want you to think

2710
02:19:02,159 --> 02:19:04,040
about that for a couple of days and we can

2711
02:19:04,040 --> 02:19:06,600
revisit next Well, he's got two more years of team control.

2712
02:19:06,920 --> 02:19:10,879
That makes it even better, even better that you keep them. No,

2713
02:19:10,959 --> 02:19:13,079
because I don't think you're looking to spend the next

2714
02:19:13,079 --> 02:19:15,600
five years investing in Jake Myers. Why not you throw

2715
02:19:15,639 --> 02:19:17,239
him out there? He's been one of your best players

2716
02:19:17,239 --> 02:19:21,399
center field you can trade. You're gonna trade an everyday

2717
02:19:21,399 --> 02:19:25,520
center fielder with good average, not great average, a Gold

2718
02:19:25,520 --> 02:19:28,239
Glove finalist, gold Glove finalists, and you're gonna go get

2719
02:19:28,239 --> 02:19:30,040
your second base. You're just trying to piss me off.

2720
02:19:30,040 --> 02:19:33,959
And it's working week days ten to two. Sports Talk

2721
02:19:34,040 --> 02:19:37,639
seven and eight. Brian bogas Evin conversation is next. After

2722
02:19:37,719 --> 02:19:40,479
Ross tells you about centergenic was there today. We had

2723
02:19:40,479 --> 02:19:43,040
a chance of visiting with Brian bogus Evic. His visits

2724
02:19:43,079 --> 02:19:45,159
come to us every Wednesday at eleven o'clock here on

2725
02:19:45,200 --> 02:19:47,319
Sports Talk seven eight. We let to play like to play.

2726
02:19:47,360 --> 02:19:49,799
Some of the best parts of it in this segment

2727
02:19:49,840 --> 02:19:51,879
where we discussed again some of the things we were

2728
02:19:51,879 --> 02:19:53,520
talking about just in the last segment of our show,

2729
02:19:53,559 --> 02:19:56,280
and that's Christian Walker and his continued struggle to be played.

2730
02:19:56,360 --> 02:19:58,280
And we had a chance to ask Bogie a couple

2731
02:19:58,280 --> 02:20:00,520
of questions about the astra first basement, what he sees

2732
02:20:00,559 --> 02:20:01,840
from him at the plate.

2733
02:20:05,799 --> 02:20:09,440
Speaker 8: See anything physically. I don't think it's a oh my gosh,

2734
02:20:09,520 --> 02:20:12,440
this guy got old over the offseason, or the bat

2735
02:20:12,520 --> 02:20:15,159
speed's gone, or there's some big hole in his swing

2736
02:20:15,200 --> 02:20:18,200
that needs to be fixed. I think it's a combination

2737
02:20:18,479 --> 02:20:21,920
of a lot of outside factors. I know, you know

2738
02:20:22,000 --> 02:20:25,239
y'all mentioned earlier the batting average on balls in play.

2739
02:20:25,399 --> 02:20:26,360
Speaker 1: You know, there's a little bit.

2740
02:20:26,239 --> 02:20:29,399
Speaker 8: Of bad luck, you know, some balls not falling, some

2741
02:20:29,440 --> 02:20:32,000
good plays being made against them, balls hit right at people.

2742
02:20:32,680 --> 02:20:36,520
There's also you know, he's had some pitchers make some

2743
02:20:36,559 --> 02:20:38,280
good pitches on him. You know, you know, bad luck

2744
02:20:38,319 --> 02:20:40,879
that way where a borderline pitch doesn't go your way,

2745
02:20:41,000 --> 02:20:44,200
or you know the first pitch is a perfectly located

2746
02:20:44,239 --> 02:20:45,879
pitch that that you're not going to swing at. Now

2747
02:20:45,920 --> 02:20:49,680
you're in a hole, and when things aren't going your way,

2748
02:20:49,879 --> 02:20:52,239
those things in your mind get magnified. I mean, I

2749
02:20:52,239 --> 02:20:55,040
remember there being times standing in the batter's box thinking.

2750
02:20:54,840 --> 02:20:56,280
Speaker 1: Okay, here's my time.

2751
02:20:56,360 --> 02:20:58,639
Speaker 8: I'm gonna get aod a good first pitch right down

2752
02:20:58,680 --> 02:21:00,360
the middle of fat when to hit, and you get

2753
02:21:00,399 --> 02:21:02,959
dotted up in your O one and it's like deflation.

2754
02:21:03,440 --> 02:21:04,239
Speaker 1: Here we go again.

2755
02:21:04,399 --> 02:21:07,040
Speaker 8: And you can see some at bats from Christian Walker

2756
02:21:07,079 --> 02:21:09,280
here or there when when something doesn't go his way,

2757
02:21:09,319 --> 02:21:11,600
where you can just see him thinking like, oh man,

2758
02:21:11,760 --> 02:21:13,760
here we go again. It's happening again.

2759
02:21:13,840 --> 02:21:14,639
Speaker 1: Today's not going.

2760
02:21:14,600 --> 02:21:18,000
Speaker 8: To be the day. I think there is also something

2761
02:21:18,000 --> 02:21:20,799
to be said about just the Astros middle of the

2762
02:21:20,920 --> 02:21:24,360
order in general. I mean it's been inconsistent at best

2763
02:21:24,440 --> 02:21:28,000
in those three, four, five six spots throughout the course

2764
02:21:28,040 --> 02:21:31,559
of the year. You know, I think not having healthy

2765
02:21:31,600 --> 02:21:34,840
productive Yordon in there, having Yainer being up and down,

2766
02:21:35,120 --> 02:21:37,440
how Zael Twove has been up and down all of

2767
02:21:37,440 --> 02:21:40,719
a sudden, Christian Walker can be more of a focus

2768
02:21:41,239 --> 02:21:44,200
from opposing pitching staffs and how they're game planning for

2769
02:21:44,239 --> 02:21:47,120
the lineup as a whole. You know, if you've got

2770
02:21:47,159 --> 02:21:50,040
Jordon hitting in front of or behind him, maybe they're saying, hey,

2771
02:21:50,239 --> 02:21:51,840
Christian Walker is going to be the guy that we're

2772
02:21:51,840 --> 02:21:54,520
going to go after. And then all of a sudden

2773
02:21:54,559 --> 02:21:56,559
he gets some better pitches to hit, So you know,

2774
02:21:56,959 --> 02:22:00,239
it's usually a combination of a lot of things. And

2775
02:22:00,319 --> 02:22:03,520
when you're in the situation that he's in where you're struggling,

2776
02:22:03,600 --> 02:22:05,639
you know you're struggling, you're pressing because you want to

2777
02:22:05,639 --> 02:22:08,719
get out of it, all of those things feel even

2778
02:22:08,799 --> 02:22:12,000
more magnified than necessarily what we're seeing from the outside.

2779
02:22:12,399 --> 02:22:14,440
So yeah, I think it's just a lot of things

2780
02:22:14,479 --> 02:22:16,520
going on and swimming all in his head at once.

2781
02:22:16,840 --> 02:22:18,879
Speaker 1: Last question about him, they'll go to some other things.

2782
02:22:19,280 --> 02:22:22,159
If we were to find out Brian that his bat

2783
02:22:22,200 --> 02:22:27,799
speed was down a tick a significant amount, how do

2784
02:22:27,879 --> 02:22:31,079
you fix that? How could you fix that? What adjustice

2785
02:22:31,079 --> 02:22:33,200
would you make if you found if you found out yourself, Bolgie,

2786
02:22:33,239 --> 02:22:34,840
that your bat speed was down from a year ago,

2787
02:22:34,879 --> 02:22:35,399
what would you do?

2788
02:22:35,959 --> 02:22:37,840
Speaker 8: Yeah, well, the first thing I would do would be

2789
02:22:38,079 --> 02:22:40,200
look and see if there are mechanical reasons for it,

2790
02:22:40,239 --> 02:22:45,079
not necessarily strengths, age, injury, physical types of things. Is

2791
02:22:45,479 --> 02:22:48,280
there extra length in your swing that's slowing it down

2792
02:22:48,600 --> 02:22:50,520
or are you trying to do you know, are you

2793
02:22:50,680 --> 02:22:53,760
over swinging therefore not being as quick as you need

2794
02:22:53,799 --> 02:22:55,920
to be. I would first look at that kind of

2795
02:22:55,920 --> 02:22:58,200
stuff and then what you do is you look for,

2796
02:22:59,280 --> 02:23:03,239
you know, game plan adjustments, approach adjustments. You look at

2797
02:23:03,440 --> 02:23:06,840
Estoc paradies. He doesn't have elite elite back speed, but

2798
02:23:06,879 --> 02:23:09,399
he can turn on anything that anybody throws at him,

2799
02:23:09,479 --> 02:23:11,639
and it's just a matter of what pitches you're looking for,

2800
02:23:11,959 --> 02:23:13,719
kind of how you set up in the batter's box,

2801
02:23:14,280 --> 02:23:15,319
how you're working.

2802
02:23:15,079 --> 02:23:15,399
Speaker 1: In at that.

2803
02:23:15,639 --> 02:23:19,159
Speaker 8: So back speed isn't necessarily the end all be all

2804
02:23:19,520 --> 02:23:23,200
of being able to hit, but it is a big

2805
02:23:23,360 --> 02:23:26,159
part of the calculus in how you go about approaching

2806
02:23:26,200 --> 02:23:27,920
an entire at bat and how you're going to attack

2807
02:23:28,239 --> 02:23:31,840
certain pictures with different repertoires. So even if that speed

2808
02:23:31,959 --> 02:23:35,280
is down a little bit, that's not really an end

2809
02:23:35,319 --> 02:23:37,239
all be all of what you can do at the place.

2810
02:23:38,000 --> 02:23:40,959
Speaker 1: Brian Bogasivik with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety

2811
02:23:40,959 --> 02:23:43,639
and not just Walker, but just Diaz or anybody who's struggling,

2812
02:23:43,680 --> 02:23:45,840
Can you just kind of take us through what is

2813
02:23:45,840 --> 02:23:48,799
happening behind the scenes right now in your mind, as

2814
02:23:48,799 --> 02:23:51,479
far as you mentioned changing game plans and approaches, what

2815
02:23:51,959 --> 02:23:55,280
is the kind of mental battle that these guys are

2816
02:23:55,280 --> 02:23:57,360
going through where you don't want to reinvent the wheel

2817
02:23:57,479 --> 02:24:00,440
but obviously what's happening right now is working.

2818
02:24:01,680 --> 02:24:05,200
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think one of the biggest, one of the

2819
02:24:05,200 --> 02:24:08,079
biggest battles that you're fighting when you're in a prolonged

2820
02:24:08,079 --> 02:24:11,440
slump is not trying to do too much and therefore

2821
02:24:11,479 --> 02:24:15,200
digging yourself into a deeper hole. Uh. You know, oftentimes

2822
02:24:15,280 --> 02:24:19,200
you're not as far away as you might feel, especially,

2823
02:24:19,280 --> 02:24:21,360
you know, sometimes you'll feel like, oh my god, my

2824
02:24:21,440 --> 02:24:23,399
swing is in a terrible spot, and then you watch

2825
02:24:23,440 --> 02:24:25,319
the video and you're like, man, it doesn't look a

2826
02:24:25,319 --> 02:24:27,760
whole lot different from what it normally looks like. So

2827
02:24:28,159 --> 02:24:31,719
you don't want to go do major overholes, you know,

2828
02:24:31,799 --> 02:24:35,440
unless you absolutely have to. But it's small things. It's

2829
02:24:35,520 --> 02:24:38,280
maintenance work in the cage, it's watching video to make

2830
02:24:38,319 --> 02:24:40,959
sure you're not, you know, doing something in your setup.

2831
02:24:40,959 --> 02:24:43,559
There's kind of low hanging fruit things that you can

2832
02:24:43,600 --> 02:24:46,520
fix pretty quickly. You know, oh i'm a little bit

2833
02:24:46,520 --> 02:24:48,559
more closed off than I want to be, or a look,

2834
02:24:48,600 --> 02:24:50,639
my hands are drifting away from my body a little bit.

2835
02:24:50,680 --> 02:24:53,799
Those are kind of quick, easy fixes. So you're always

2836
02:24:53,799 --> 02:24:56,319
trying to stay on top of that with video stuff,

2837
02:24:56,479 --> 02:24:58,719
and a lot of it has to do with the

2838
02:24:58,760 --> 02:25:01,559
game planning. You know, who are we facing today? What

2839
02:25:01,600 --> 02:25:03,399
does he like to do? What is he going to

2840
02:25:03,440 --> 02:25:05,479
try to do against me? And how can I try

2841
02:25:05,520 --> 02:25:08,760
to tip the scales in my favor. You know, if

2842
02:25:09,200 --> 02:25:11,079
you're feeling a little bit long in your swing and

2843
02:25:11,120 --> 02:25:14,559
you're having trouble catching up to fastballs at the moment, Well,

2844
02:25:14,559 --> 02:25:16,879
what's this guy's best off speed stuff? What counts does

2845
02:25:16,920 --> 02:25:18,639
he like to throw his off speed stuff? When can

2846
02:25:18,680 --> 02:25:21,239
I hunt something soft out over the plate that I

2847
02:25:21,239 --> 02:25:23,200
can use the whole field and not necessarily have to

2848
02:25:23,280 --> 02:25:26,879
turn on high velossities. So doing things like that that

2849
02:25:26,920 --> 02:25:29,799
can maybe get you going a little bit, because you

2850
02:25:29,840 --> 02:25:33,760
know what you perceive as happening when you're struggling, Oh

2851
02:25:33,799 --> 02:25:35,520
my gosh, this guy made a pitch against me. I'm

2852
02:25:35,520 --> 02:25:37,719
screwed in this at that you brush those things off

2853
02:25:37,799 --> 02:25:40,399
very quickly once those balls start dropping in and all

2854
02:25:40,440 --> 02:25:42,000
of a sudden and oh, one count is like, Okay,

2855
02:25:42,040 --> 02:25:43,920
he made his pitch. I'm going to get him on

2856
02:25:44,040 --> 02:25:44,639
the next one.

2857
02:25:44,719 --> 02:25:45,600
Speaker 1: So it's just.

2858
02:25:45,600 --> 02:25:47,920
Speaker 8: About trying to play these little mental games and almost

2859
02:25:48,000 --> 02:25:51,120
tricking yourself into thinking, okay, I'm fine now, because once

2860
02:25:51,120 --> 02:25:52,879
you think that, you usually are.

2861
02:25:54,040 --> 02:25:56,159
Speaker 1: Do you think at this point, maybe Walker and some

2862
02:25:56,159 --> 02:25:58,159
of these other guys are just like, get me to

2863
02:25:58,239 --> 02:26:01,040
the All Star break. I like a mental break, some

2864
02:26:01,200 --> 02:26:04,360
days off and some rest and relaxation to kind of

2865
02:26:04,399 --> 02:26:06,040
just reset for the second half of the season.

2866
02:26:07,079 --> 02:26:09,280
Speaker 8: It could help, you know, a couple of days off,

2867
02:26:09,319 --> 02:26:11,600
a couple of days away from it to just kind

2868
02:26:11,639 --> 02:26:14,200
of be compressed. But also, you know, you can get

2869
02:26:14,239 --> 02:26:17,959
a fresh start without necessarily having to have that natural

2870
02:26:18,000 --> 02:26:19,879
break in the season. If all of a sudden you

2871
02:26:19,920 --> 02:26:22,479
have a good series and you can say, okay, from

2872
02:26:22,559 --> 02:26:25,799
this point going forward, what is my season. That's as

2873
02:26:25,840 --> 02:26:27,639
good as a restart as you need.

2874
02:26:27,799 --> 02:26:28,440
Speaker 1: If you can look.

2875
02:26:28,479 --> 02:26:31,120
Speaker 8: You know, once you get to this point two hundred

2876
02:26:31,159 --> 02:26:34,000
at bats or so, you know, if you're in a hole,

2877
02:26:34,079 --> 02:26:35,799
you're not going to dig your way out, Like Christian

2878
02:26:35,799 --> 02:26:37,920
Walker is not going to hit three hundred this year,

2879
02:26:38,239 --> 02:26:41,200
but he can look and say, hey, starting on you know,

2880
02:26:41,479 --> 02:26:45,319
June fifteenth forward, I hit three hundred with an eight

2881
02:26:45,319 --> 02:26:48,079
to fifty ops and just kind of play play those

2882
02:26:48,120 --> 02:26:50,399
games in your head. So yes, any kind of a

2883
02:26:50,440 --> 02:26:54,799
refresh restart is helpful, but it doesn't have to be

2884
02:26:55,600 --> 02:26:57,559
necessarily a break in the schedule.

2885
02:26:57,959 --> 02:27:01,719
Speaker 1: That again was Brian Bogus with us every Wednesday and

2886
02:27:01,760 --> 02:27:04,760
his entirety at eleven o'clock right here on Sports Talk

2887
02:27:04,840 --> 02:27:07,159
seven ninety Believe it or not, All things about Brian

2888
02:27:07,360 --> 02:27:12,639
Wilson me he r I P one fifty on Sports

2889
02:27:12,680 --> 02:27:15,280
Talk seven ninety Matt Ross with you for a final

2890
02:27:15,319 --> 02:27:18,879
segment today, back for a four hour, four hour get together.

2891
02:27:18,920 --> 02:27:21,440
Tomorrow Brian McTaggart will be on the show. You know,

2892
02:27:21,520 --> 02:27:23,639
Brian's taking his wife to Paris next week. He will

2893
02:27:23,680 --> 02:27:26,600
not be with us. I mean, the man's gonna tak

2894
02:27:26,600 --> 02:27:28,680
It's great. A week vacation in the middle of the

2895
02:27:28,680 --> 02:27:33,719
baseball season. That's his beat. Good for him. Yeah, Paris

2896
02:27:33,760 --> 02:27:35,920
on your list. Yeah, I want to go to Paris,

2897
02:27:36,159 --> 02:27:38,840
absolutely good to go to the Louver though, what hold on?

2898
02:27:38,920 --> 02:27:40,479
I heard it's dirty. Yeah, there's dirty.

2899
02:27:40,479 --> 02:27:42,079
Speaker 7: And I had a lot of French teammates that were

2900
02:27:42,079 --> 02:27:43,760
from Paris up this one.

2901
02:27:43,799 --> 02:27:46,360
Speaker 1: Most disgusting cities you can go too. Yeah, but I

2902
02:27:46,399 --> 02:27:48,639
figure if you're going to all the tourist trap spots,

2903
02:27:49,000 --> 02:27:51,079
it should be taken care of, I hope.

2904
02:27:51,120 --> 02:27:51,200
Speaker 2: So.

2905
02:27:53,079 --> 02:27:54,959
Speaker 1: Yeah, if I never lived a country that Chris Cordy,

2906
02:27:54,959 --> 02:27:56,959
you didn't go to Paris last year? He has big,

2907
02:27:56,959 --> 02:27:57,559
big traveler.

2908
02:27:57,559 --> 02:27:59,840
Speaker 7: It just came back from bed bugs too, right, Paris

2909
02:27:59,840 --> 02:28:02,079
and the city there bedbugs Paris, that's what it's called. No,

2910
02:28:02,120 --> 02:28:03,520
but like the you know, the Olympics that had all

2911
02:28:03,520 --> 02:28:05,840
those bed bugs problems, all the hotels and stuff like that,

2912
02:28:06,079 --> 02:28:07,360
rating the whole entire city.

2913
02:28:08,200 --> 02:28:10,200
Speaker 1: We can't have that. I don't want any part of that.

2914
02:28:11,000 --> 02:28:13,200
Should be fine. What you're winding, there's no bed bugs

2915
02:28:13,239 --> 02:28:16,319
that love. Okay. I just go on a cruise or

2916
02:28:16,319 --> 02:28:18,879
something like that and it goes the Eiffel Tower. Be

2917
02:28:19,000 --> 02:28:21,680
very romantic spot. Absolutely, That's what they had last year.

2918
02:28:21,680 --> 02:28:26,440
They had the beach, volleyball, cross songs, some bags and

2919
02:28:26,600 --> 02:28:29,440
music in the background the whole tel. Yeah, see posters

2920
02:28:29,440 --> 02:28:38,879
of Victor Obama and the Tony Paca. Yes, below Koliboi

2921
02:28:38,959 --> 02:28:42,719
whatever it is Washington Wizard, Sure, why not? That's one

2922
02:28:42,760 --> 02:28:44,760
of his French brethren. All right, five minutes left to

2923
02:28:44,760 --> 02:28:50,079
go in the show. What should we do? We should

2924
02:28:50,159 --> 02:28:54,680
play Uhmerica's fastest growing sports radio game. Should we simply

2925
02:28:54,719 --> 02:28:56,440
called it be believe it or not in here so

2926
02:28:56,520 --> 02:28:58,719
it works? Should call seven one three two one two

2927
02:28:58,799 --> 02:29:01,959
five seven Natti seven one three two two five seven

2928
02:29:02,040 --> 02:29:03,760
ninety Today's edition. I Believe it or not is all

2929
02:29:03,799 --> 02:29:07,000
things about Brian Wilson. He rests in peace. Things do

2930
02:29:07,079 --> 02:29:09,600
come in threes. Uh, I'll bring you. I'll read your

2931
02:29:09,600 --> 02:29:12,360
statement about Brian Wilson. Statements completely an utterly accurate. You'll

2932
02:29:12,360 --> 02:29:15,319
say this, believe it, sam as Hroni is full of

2933
02:29:15,319 --> 02:29:18,440
bunk commet up. You'll say this not to believe it

2934
02:29:18,520 --> 02:29:19,959
or not in a row when you're prize. What are

2935
02:29:19,959 --> 02:29:22,000
you playing for today, Jonathan Appear?

2936
02:29:22,079 --> 02:29:25,120
Speaker 7: Tickets to see Heart on June seventeenth a Smart Financial

2937
02:29:25,120 --> 02:29:27,520
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2939
02:29:29,239 --> 02:29:35,159
Speaker 1: Bill, what's your favorite Beach Boys song? Good vib Braider? No,

2940
02:29:35,200 --> 02:29:40,360
it's good vibrations. I know, I know. Good luck to you, Bill.

2941
02:29:40,479 --> 02:29:42,799
That's actually not a bad line there from you. Brian

2942
02:29:42,840 --> 02:29:46,040
Wilson started in music with piano lessons from his mother

2943
02:29:46,079 --> 02:29:49,319
at a young age, and his first musical aspiration was

2944
02:29:49,360 --> 02:29:53,000
to be a concert pianist. Believe it or not? So

2945
02:29:53,079 --> 02:29:53,959
unbelievable but.

2946
02:29:56,479 --> 02:29:56,559
Speaker 8: Not.

2947
02:29:58,200 --> 02:29:59,959
Speaker 1: You don't even like Heart? Why are you even playing

2948
02:30:00,120 --> 02:30:03,920
this game? Brian Wilson's first Brian, you don't like by Heart?

2949
02:30:04,040 --> 02:30:06,879
Brian Wilson's first band was the Wilson Brothers, but it

2950
02:30:06,920 --> 02:30:09,760
was changed to the Beach Boys when Mike Love was added.

2951
02:30:09,879 --> 02:30:17,760
Believe it or not? That so little believable, but believe it? No,

2952
02:30:18,000 --> 02:30:23,120
I get out about it. Poor guy. So happy for you. No,

2953
02:30:23,639 --> 02:30:26,079
he almost had me or I almost had him? Or

2954
02:30:26,120 --> 02:30:28,879
I did? Joe on seven on He Joe, what was

2955
02:30:28,879 --> 02:30:31,040
your favorite part of today's ten to two radio show?

2956
02:30:31,600 --> 02:30:35,239
Everything between you and Ross and going back and forth

2957
02:30:35,559 --> 02:30:39,120
with the baseball and Oh my God. Brian Wilson's father

2958
02:30:39,280 --> 02:30:41,639
said he was a musical prodigy and as a baby

2959
02:30:41,680 --> 02:30:44,120
he hummed melodies in his crib before he could talk.

2960
02:30:44,319 --> 02:30:45,120
Believe it or not?

2961
02:30:45,799 --> 02:30:48,479
Speaker 2: Oh God, man, believe it?

2962
02:30:48,639 --> 02:30:51,440
Speaker 1: Yes, come on, there we go, Joe. We're rooting for you.

2963
02:30:51,600 --> 02:30:53,879
Ye name number two, statement number two for the win.

2964
02:30:53,920 --> 02:30:56,760
In nineteen seventy one, Brian Wilson had an LSD trip

2965
02:30:56,799 --> 02:30:59,680
that led to a religious experience. He was baptized in

2966
02:30:59,680 --> 02:31:02,040
the Church which of Christ, but left the church within

2967
02:31:02,040 --> 02:31:09,000
a year. Believe it, We're not believe it? No, I'm sorry, God,

2968
02:31:09,360 --> 02:31:12,639
it hurts me. I chose it all time. Plays Joe,

2969
02:31:12,760 --> 02:31:16,000
but he never wins. Chris on seven ninety Chris, you

2970
02:31:15,959 --> 02:31:17,079
were ready to play? Believe it or not?

2971
02:31:19,239 --> 02:31:20,040
Speaker 4: I'm ready.

2972
02:31:20,520 --> 02:31:23,559
Speaker 1: Due to a nerve issue since childhood, Brian Wilson did

2973
02:31:23,639 --> 02:31:26,120
not have hearing in his right ear. Believe it or not?

2974
02:31:27,879 --> 02:31:32,000
Believe it, Believe it is right, believe it, bo way,

2975
02:31:32,079 --> 02:31:34,600
let's get let's let's go out with a good vibrations

2976
02:31:35,120 --> 02:31:36,920
Jonathan to close up the show today again, that's a

2977
02:31:36,920 --> 02:31:39,840
good song statement number two for the wind. Brian Wilson

2978
02:31:39,879 --> 02:31:42,959
believed dogs could sense good and bad music and use

2979
02:31:43,040 --> 02:31:47,879
them to guide his songwriting. Believe it or not, believe it?

2980
02:31:48,079 --> 02:31:51,520
There you go. Congratulations, theres a win for our man.

2981
02:31:51,719 --> 02:31:56,520
Nicely done. Cody on seven ninety Cody, No, No, we're not.

2982
02:31:56,559 --> 02:31:58,760
The show's on over with. We're still finishing the game.

2983
02:31:59,079 --> 02:32:00,399
I just thought I was just trying to tell you

2984
02:32:00,479 --> 02:32:04,159
something ahead of time. All right, uh, Cody on seven

2985
02:32:04,200 --> 02:32:06,920
are you ready to play? Believe it or not? Believe it?

2986
02:32:07,040 --> 02:32:10,520
In nineteen seventy two, Brian Wilson's band members stage an

2987
02:32:10,559 --> 02:32:13,399
intervention on his drug use, and he escaped the meeting

2988
02:32:13,479 --> 02:32:18,079
by exiting a bathroom window. Believe it or not? Believe it? No,

2989
02:32:18,239 --> 02:32:23,479
that sounds believable, though, Ross you es good day for it?

2990
02:32:23,520 --> 02:32:25,360
Isn't it a good day for him? Jonathan was actually

2991
02:32:25,360 --> 02:32:27,799
really got suspriss Dave on seven at you ready to

2992
02:32:27,799 --> 02:32:32,680
play Believe It or Not? In nineteen ninety Brian Wilson

2993
02:32:32,680 --> 02:32:35,879
wrote a rap song. It was called smart Girls Believe

2994
02:32:35,920 --> 02:32:36,440
It or Not?

2995
02:32:39,520 --> 02:32:41,159
Speaker 2: Sounds crazy enough to believe it?

2996
02:32:41,280 --> 02:32:46,680
Speaker 1: You should? Congratulations, you're a winner. Nicely done. Now let's

2997
02:32:46,680 --> 02:32:51,239
hear some good vibrations. This is probably their ross. This

2998
02:32:51,280 --> 02:32:55,040
has got to be their best jam. I think got

2999
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a little harmony in it. Go with cocobo. Oh stop,

3000
02:32:59,280 --> 02:33:06,239
you're terrible. Y'all have a great day Aruba, Jamaica. So dismissive.

3001
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Up next, our beach boys, Clinton and Wexler. Actually I

3002
02:33:11,639 --> 02:33:14,079
don't think wex has ever been to a beach under

3003
02:33:14,120 --> 02:33:17,399
any circumstance, right, what I mean Clinton's gone because Clinton's

3004
02:33:17,399 --> 02:33:19,799
been enough to go to a beach. Have you been

3005
02:33:19,799 --> 02:33:25,040
at Galvezon, Great Graywater and seaweed? That's not nice? Up

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