The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Anything Goes Friday!! Astros Keep Moving on UP! MLB Labor Conversations

Episode Date: June 26, 2026

Anything Goes Friday!! Astros Keep Moving on UP! MLB Labor Conversations 

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We're at Big City Wings-N-E-Doh. This is Sports Talk 790. Thank God we're in a chicken wing joint today. I feel like Jonathan took it easy on us. Yeah. I feel like we could have gone.

That could have gone for an extra 10 minutes. My guess is that you're saving stuff for next week. Yes, exactly. That would be wise. You want to keep stuff in the bank. I want to save things for later. And by the way, we want to blow everything all at once. Just to make sure everybody knows, I am not a veteran hater.

Yeah, I kind of cringe when I hear that too, because what happens all the time, Matt? You say something and people think I said or I say something. Or people mishear things. You had some idiot the other day who thought I said Hunter Brown should have went out after 85 pitches. And, like, people mishear things. Correct. So let's be clear, folks. Matt Thomas loves America and he supports our veterans.

Yes. I have many members of my family that are veterans. Yes. And Jonathan, you will be apologizing for using that sound by 1130 this morning. No, it was good, Jonathan. It wasn't great. Stan strong.

It wasn't great. Stand strong like our veterans. Yeah. The ones I kind of associate with. All right, we are here today. We're actually like, we're here, how would you describe this? nobody's eating wings at 10 o'clock in the morning.

It's like the calm before the storm. It's almost like we're at the dress rehearsal before the big performance. I like that. I got you. Or like the sound check? Yeah, yeah. If you want to come see us... We're at the wing check.

Like sometimes the big deal, and I'm sure it is with every concert, but the big deal was to be able to, when I was going to see Paul McCartney in the regular, was being able to go into here a sound check. Yeah, it's like going to batting practice. That's the best sports of an hour. We are at the batting practice of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. Okay, we're taking hats. I mean, we're in uniform.

Yeah. But the game, but I mean, in the game, well, the game does count. We're still in the air. We're working on our inside-out swing today. Yes. We're trying to work on our PFCs, Nate Pearson. It's fine. It wasn't fine.

Well, I'm costing the team two runs, but they came back in one. Speaking of winning, all your Houston Astros do are win. All they do is win, win, win, no matter what. I want to... I want you write this down because you're going to apologize to Houston sports fan 1130 because you can't say it over and over again for a better part a week. They got to climb five teams. They can't get to the wild card.

I did hold on. I said the first part. I did not say the second part. You were so worried about all the teams in front. How long did it take for them to get to the wild card? If the playoffs started today, we'd be talking Astros Mariners wild card game. Well, what did we say the whole time? We said we needed to see something.

They were eight games under 500. We needed to see a five out of six. We needed to see a seven out of nine. That's what we got. So we're seeing it. Tatsu I Mai is pitching better. Mike Burroughs with a quality start. Hunter Brown is back.

Things I wanted to see for them to get back to 500 in a playoff race are happening. And they're still doing it. And they're still doing it despite the fact that it's not hitting very much. I never said they're washed or the season's over. Some people said that. I didn't know that. I didn't realize on August 20th. Some people said they were washed.

The Astros will be out in a division with the leading teams one game above 500. I didn't say that. I just said I need to see some more, and we're seeing it. I just saw, and we're going to celebrate at 11 o'clock today, the Astros are moving on up. Let's go, maybe. Jonathan, you're going to be so happy. I found a mix of the Jefferson song. And the normal Jefferson's theme song is a minute six.

Okay. Oh, you found the extended mix. I found the extended mix. Which is about double, so it's about 219. You know, it's funny because, and those of you that know... You get the second verse. No, there's no second verse. Somebody just went to their CD player or whatever or whatever and just making it mix up, which is fine.

TV shows, we've talked about this before. TV shows used to, a huge part of the TV show was the theme song itself. Yeah. That's how you get to hook people in. Correct. In 2006, and probably for about what you say, 10 years or so, we've given up on theme songs. We've got the skip intro button.

You're never fumbling around for the... You're like, oh, I hate this. Where's the skip intro? Right. You're fumbling around on the couch trying to skip the intro. But even the shows today don't have the recognizable stars. And I'm going to give you two reasons why. Well, actually, multiple reasons why.

One, they cost money. Yes. So everybody wants to save a little bit of money there. Number two, it does save you a few seconds to give you more content. Well, and the reason why you're doing that, is because you are now producing way fewer episodes than you did say back 20 or 25 years ago. And we have shorter attention spans.

I mean, I would say there have been some exceptions to the rule. Game of Thrones recently has a famous theme. Succession theme is pretty famous. Madman. House of Cards was a good one. Yeah. I'm trying to think of one. Pranos.

But that's 25 years. Yeah. But, yeah. I don't know what shows the kids are watch. Does Lung Man have a theme song? Yeah, either. I don't know. All I'm saying is we've lost one part of really engaging part of television was the theme songs.

Yeah. Where would doubt be without a time song? Oh, where? First show I can really think of in the last, say, 30 years that didn't need one that was just kind of a waste of time is you wanted to get, when you watched Seinfeld, you know, you wanted to get the, get into it. The guy slapping on his keyboard. Yeah. You wanted to get right into the show. You didn't want to waste any time with anything of that.

He's literally in front of the microphone going to... What? Jonathan clip that for next Friday. Why? That's what he was doing. Like, side of... All right, let's get to the Astros. Please. By the way, it isn't anything that goes Friday here on Sports Talks, 7-90.

So if you want to have... If you want a 12-piece wings at 10-25 B... I don't know if the grills fired up back there with the friar. I think they... They're doing 12 these days? No, I don't know. I'm just saying if you want to eat wings at 10 o'clock, I mean, God love you. And I'm piping hot, fiery wings at 9.30 in the morning.

Now, we can tell you today that if you're coming to have lunch with us, your Mikhailob Ultras are $1.50 today. Excuse me? $1.50. Wow. If you like to have a Corona Premier bucket. Some people's faces are perking up over here. Yeah. And they rhyme with middle real.

$18 for a Corona bucket. And if you want a margarita, which you know, if I have one or two, you've lost me for the rest of the show. That's a damn good deal. That's $5. driver back to Kwood. No kidding. That's a hall. It is.

Actually, today wasn't bad. It was a fill up twice. It's easier driving here to Edo than it would be to go down to the Galleria. I'm just, Galleria just makes me angry. Why? It's just always crying. No matter what time of the day it is. Well, there's a phrase I have for that exchange in area that I can't say on air.

It's the devil's you know what. Because you got 59, 610, I-10. All of it. You're not that far from 45. West Timmer. West Timer, San Felipe. You have residential, you have commercial, you have a tourist. So why do we move over there?

Should we call any martini our boss? No, because I moved over there. I'm five minutes away. Oh, okay. No, we're good. There's a reason I moved five minutes away. I don't give you a lot of credit, but you get credit for that one. I'm not the world's greatest morning person, so I moved close.

I got you. All right, it is that anything goes Friday here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. So that means you can get down on your favorite TV theme song. You can talk about how long your commute is. We can give full of Joe Spada, full credit for Astros winning seven out of nine. Now, you tweeted that last night. What were your responses? I've since muted the conversation.

Why? Because you know what? I'm stupid. I need to apologize to myself coming up at 1130. Okay. Because I poked the bear. So my tweet was basically... Can you read the responses, please?

I can read some of them, but I've muted the conversation since. I tweeted, I imagine... I assume Asho's Twitter is giving Joe a spot a full credit for this winning stretch. Because they've won seven out of a nine. If they lost seven out of nine, what would they be saying? Fire Joe Spada. Correct. He's the worst.

He's got to go. He's holding this team back. So, well, if A, then B, if he's the reason they're looking. So you're flipping this scenario then, basically. Then he's got to be the reason they're winning. Of course, you and I'm at are, the players are the vast majority of it. Correct. So that's what I'm trying to highlight.

One guy said I credit Jeff Bagwell. That's pretty funny. Gregory says, bad couple days for Espada is the reason for all my problems in life. That's funny. Look, here we go. Osata needs to be gone. They're winning because the pitching is getting better. It's not anything he's doing by any stretch.

That guy. That is an unhappy person right there. That's a real genius right there. Let's see. He's lucky to his team won tonight for the team that's under 500. Everyone was mad at him because he didn't go to Josh Hater and Stephen Oaker and Brian. King. You know the guys that have been used three out of four games? Even the ones, their arms are barely holding on.

Seriously. By the way, and not to give them any fuel. But we talked about this in May. This was the fat and get happy month. Yes. You know what? This was the softer schedule. This was the Angels. This was the Royals. This was a very mid-Cleveland team.

This was a way below average of Troy team. Ross, if they were going to make any sort of run to be competitive this year, they had to do what they're doing. This is frankly expected because of the fact that the teams they have been playing have not been... I mean, they got Minnesota coming up next week. It's not the Yankees of the race, but here's the reality of it, though.

You don't put the Yankees in a raise all the time. Oh, now you're mad about something. Go ahead. These guys are getting... This guy's got four likes. He made crucial, terrible decisions, all Blue J Series. The series they won, two out of three? Yeah. And then, let's see the one they lost.

They went two for eight with runners in scoring position. Hunter Brown. Yeah. See, Matthew. Hunter Brown got pulled after three innings. And then you had to go with Blue Ball. What are the terrible decisions that got made? Then you had to go with Logan Van Wy.

Van Wye. They scored two runs in that game. He made terrible decisions in that series? Yes, I noticed him as well. That was the one game they lost. They won the other two. I don't know. This guy's got five likes.

They're doing it in spite of him in his many dumb moves. All right. Well, let's get you at manager, bro. Let's get you there, bro. I'll give him credit for having this bad team under 500 in the worst division. This is a Longhorns fan, too. You know what? This guy's got...

That comes to zero surprise. I've been giving this guy extra rope because he's a Longhorns fan, but it's mute time. There we go. Oh, I just muted that guy. When you get muted by Sports RV, that's saying something. As a Longhorns fan, I gave him enough rope. It's over. All right.

And so you know what? I said something to poke the bear, and now the bear's your fault. And now the bear's running at me and I'm mad, right? It's my fault. I understand. No question. I understand. Yeah, you should wear it, and you're going to.

I apologize to myself. All right. Anything goes Friday here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. We have a few things to get to you on the radio program today. We will discuss. Obviously, the local nine is in the walled card, and we'll be celebrating that with Jefferson's theme

because we said it was going to happen when it did, and it only took a handful of days for that to happen. By the way, the Mets did fire Carlos Mendoza as their Mets manager. That's the least surprising news note of the day. Apparently, they just got embarrassed by the Chicago Cubs the last handful of days. They had six errors against the Cubs. In how many games? One game.

Shut up. Yes. They had six errors. Wait a minute. Do you have the box score on that? Yes. Is it yesterday? It was the game two of a double-hand.

header, I believe, what's the date on this? Well, today's the 26. It was either yesterday or the day before. Okay, it's 26, so. Let me look. This says the 24th. Okay, so two days ago. A couple days ago.

Six errors in one game. Look at this. Six errors. Have you ever seen that in your life? Oh, I see that Brooks Riley took the loss. Six errors in one game, and they've been giving up basically

like double-digit runs every game. at least they lost the last one 4 to 3 it was pretty close but in a double header they lost 10 to 3 yeah it looks like they lost 10 to 3 and 10 to 6 in a double

header excuse me 10 to 3 and 10 to 5 so they're 34 and 47 and Mendoza is out of work they lost a double header combined 20 to 8 at a home I'm assuming correct yes oh that can't be good

and in the second game committed six errors. We played some of the audio yesterday on the A team with Adam Clinton and me. Keith Hernandez was like fed up. He was not having it. You know, he's very lucky. They give them quite a bit of a leash. They do.

A lot of broadcasters don't get that kind of leash. Right. He was fed up. And then now, of course, Carlos Mendoza has been fired. They're 34 and 47. Juan Soto has actually been insanely good. He's got an OPS of over like 950. Everybody else has been a disappointment.

Lindor's making 30 plus million. He's been hurt and bad. They gave Bo Bichette some big cash. He's been terrible. I think Sean Mania is on a big contract there, and he hasn't been pitching well. And we can kind of tie that to Houston, Matt, because people want Jim Crane. Those who are stupid and say Jim Crane should pay this, this, this, and this. Steve Cohen is the perfect example.

Just because you shell out a bunch of money and these big contracts doesn't guarantee you that they're going to be good. They're sitting there at 34 and 47. All right, so let's assume, and we've got to get to a break. And Raymond, I promise you get to you just a second here. Let's assume that Jim Crane. Now, it would be ridiculous to say that every free agent that left here would have stayed. But let's just put together the heavy list, okay? You keep George Springer.

Up and down, he had a career season last year. Last year was great. But generally speaking, he's repressing. The contract has not been great for the Toronto Blue Jays. Yeah. Kyle Tucker has not been good for, he was, Mid for the Chicago Cubs and below average for the Dodgers, it just doesn't matter because the Dodgers are loaded. You let Carlos Correa go.

Yeah. He was mid at best. He's had back issues. With Minnesota. Yes. Okay. Help me out with some more. Well, let's do this.

Would we be complaining about these contracts? Tucker, yes. Bregman, yes. Correa? Yes. Verlander. Yeah. Probably.

If they got a big contract. I know there has to be one that we're forgetting about, but was there one that got away? I mean, among... Gregman was great last year or two years ago at this point? Last year or was it last year or two years ago at this point? Last year because it was one? Now, I'm not counting Mauricio DuPont. That's...

I'm talking about big franchise lifting type players. Yeah, Springer was excellent last year. 159 OPS plus. He's 85 this year. That's crazy. What a drop-off that is. Yeah. Everybody's talking about how the hitting coaches are excellent.

So it just shows you, again, that you don't want your favorites to go away? Garrett Cole won a Cy Young with the Yankees. Yes. Then he had Tommy John. Every pitcher gets Tommy John. But it felt like to me with Garrett that he wanted to be a Yankee. There was nothing that I... For Pete's sake, I've been a Yankee fan of my whole life.

If Jim Crane would have written a blank check, it would have mattered. He wanted to go. I love Mickey Mantle. He's the best. And he even shaved his facial here, too. My dog, my Pomeranians, named Mickey. See, the organic impersonations work. If I say do something.

You're right. It doesn't work out very well at all. They get in my head. All right. Raymond will get to you. It's an anything goes Friday at 713-212-5-790. Other things to get to. It's not good for you that.

One of my favorite things to do is make you shake your head. Well, that happens. Labor dispute, it sounds really ugly. Now, again, we're also months away, but man, the last 48 hours in terms of things we're hearing. Look at this remote for, did look at this remote laser focusing. Remote for you.biz. That's a trademark item right there. This is technology and innovation.

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You're like Fred. World Cup last night, your squad lost yesterday. Our squad lost. Yes, they did. At the death. Tertucquier. All right. The Rockets aren't doing anything, and Rocket fans are losing their minds.

I want to discuss that a little bit. Oh, my God. Yes, can we do that? And Caitlin Clark put the WMBA back on the map, and yet everybody hates her, and the league hates itself. There's a jealousy factor. And they should all, what are the game? whatever they're doing, they should try to get along because we've talked, and America's

talking more NBA in the last 18 months than we've talked in the last 25 years. And it doesn't make any sense. We got, I'm sorry, it's at 1130, the news at noon and non-flora stories at 130. With Jonathan back in our studio, I'm Matt and Ross. We are at Big City Wings in Edo, and we're going to be here today until 2 p.m. Right here on Sports Talk 790. And anything goes, they were the Big City Wings, Edo location. The restaurant will open up for wings in about 25 minutes,

but if you want to come see us and say hello and stare at us. Yeah, I mean, we're good-looking people. Yeah, absolutely. Excellent iced tea so far. I'm an iced tea snob. Generally speaking, the best iced tea restaurant you can find at Mexican restaurants and Chinese restaurants. The best? Us whites, we don't make great ice tea.

Is that true? Yeah, except here. I thought the English, they built the whole empire off of tea. Not when you put ice in it. Okay. All right. 713-212-1-2-5-790. Let's talk to Raymond on 790 with Matt and Ross.

Raymond, good morning to you. What's up, Ramon? Good morning. Oh, hell. Good morning, Mr. Texas. He's just trying to get a gift card. Oh, my God. You know you have to show up here to Big City Wink, right?

Yeah, you can't. He's not on the phone. We're not giving it away. Now you can hear you. Now you can admit he's not Mr. Texas. All right, man. He's Mr. Minnesota. Oh, wow.

That'll get you nowhere, my friend. Anything else on your mind? I think he hung up. That was my uncle, too. Wow. He thinks he's pretty... Thank you very much. Thank you, Raymond.

Damn, once he couldn't get a gift card. Yeah, he would scorched earth out of us. Mr. Minnesota, that's rude. Mr. Minnesota, eh? Now, Minnesota can cook, too. It's an underrated food city. What? The Lutaphisk?

No, that's disgusting. Just general fishing is good. And the... I hate to do this. What does they fish out of Lake? Walai. Walai. Walai is the preferred.

Yeah, and they call them sunnies, too. Uh-huh. So, it's a real light fish. And various Viking dishes, I imagine. And they have good meat. I mean, not as good as yours, but it's good. What do you mean? Like, what are they?

Great steakhouses. Oh, really? Absolutely. Minnesota steakhouses. There's probably at least 10 great steakhouses in Minneapolis in St. Paul. Okay. At least. What does Tlman have to say about that?

Well, he, I mean, he's got one of them, I thought. He's probably got them all rounded up. Well, you know what? If you can't beat them, buy them. Yeah, we go. It's working for him. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

All right, what else? So the Astros win. Tatsu Emi, 21 strikeouts in one walk in his last two stars. He's turning it around, baby. And everybody keeps asking Joe Espato, what's been the difference? And he says, he's throwing fastballs. He's throwing a slider. His two main pitches.

They're kidding a lot of the plate. He's throwing short. strikes. But let me ask you this. When you hear someone say that, strikes make them also hitable, too. Yes. It's not always a guarantee that if you throw strikes,

you're going to be a great pitcher. But generally, yes, you are going to be throwing in the strike zone, and when they say that, they don't mean throwing it down the middle of the pipe. They mean, throw it on the edges. Yes. Right. Because, I mean, that's how you get hitters out. Right.

That's why. I mean, really, if you watch every at bad in these games, how many times you see, like two, three times, like, oh, my God. Good pitch, like right on the edge. And to where guys are in you, how many challenges have we seen to where it's a fraction of an inch right on the edge? These guys are good. So, yeah, when we're saying throw strikes, you don't mean like middle, middle. That means get it around the edges to where it's going to be difficult to hit.

Yeah. And that's what Tatsu E. Mai has been doing in the last couple of games. It's not even really about changing speeds. It's about the movement of his pitches. Yeah. Start of his career, you had, let's see, four walks, three walks, four walks, three walks, in its first few starts.

These last few starts, one walk, zero walk, one walk. So, well, zero walks. I'm sorry, one walk when he got chased after two. I was going to say, you're not bringing up the Kansas game, are you? So maybe we should skip that one. Yeah. But, yeah, and Jeff Blum was making the argument

that you could argue it was even better than his no-hit start because he only gave up two hits, but in that no-hit start, he also only got two strikeouts, and he got four walks. So he didn't seem very sharp, even though, you know, as we know, baseball, the ball's got to land in a glove or, you know, you can have batted ball luck. He was sharp. Ten strikeouts, just the one walk.

He was looking very, very efficient, and getting the ball in the zone, getting whiffs on all of his pitches. And he looked comfortable out there. That's something else that Steve Sparks was saying on the broadcast. And, of course, you're looking comfortable when you're getting 10 strikesouts. I would certainly, I would also say I would hope that by the end of June he'd be more comfortable than he was. in the first month. He looks more comfortable. And also, sometimes we read body language that's maybe not there just because the success is there.

But I tend to agree, though. He looks more comfortable. He looks more natural out there. He looks more confident in knowing what he's going to throw. And he's settling in. Everything is better when you throw strikes. Yes. The mound is not nearly as hard.

Right. The food you don't care when you eat. He's like, this dew points too high. I don't know what's going on. And it does help. Betty got to pitch in. In Detroit, as compared to Toronto, where fly balls go to die. Especially, also that, and there's a lot of foul territory there.

It's just a big part. There's a couple of times. You know, like, you get behind in the game and you see a pop-up, and I start, like, fast-forwarding. Well, they did pop outs. I thought, I was like, where's the next pitch? Oh, because there's so much foul territory out there, too. Yeah. Yeah.

So, and look, the Detroit Tigers are, I would have to say probably the number one or number two disappointing team in America League. Yeah. Let's continue their disappointment. Astros are climbing off that list. and skyrocketing up the wall card standings. Seven of nine. Just as we thought.

Feeling good. Four straight series wins. And now it's a four-game series here. So if you're going to win five straight series, you're going to win two of the next three. But you know what? The Tigers, you know, it was the Tigers.

And, I mean, they do have some good hitters in their lineup. And Cleveland was injured. But at the end of the day, I mean, a lot better than what you're getting in Kansas City. Yeah. Well, what they're doing is, we kept telling y'all, let's see what this team does in June when the schedule softens up. up and it is it's a charm and he soft you don't want to do the if you take this horrible horrible start out but

you have you have the no-hit start but you know the reality is this the whole american league is soft that's true you've got what of the 15 teams you've got 13 of them within five of 500 or 500 rays yankees who else is like really that's it blue jays i mean not good Cleveland the white socks they're all both them are barely above 500 they have negative yeah they have negative run differentials. Mariners ain't scary. They're okay. Yeah. You keep waiting for them to be scary. It's Yankees and Rays and everyone else. Yeah, that's true. All right, 1043 on Sports Talk, 790. We'll talk to Doug when we come back if you

would like to get in because maybe Doug is going to be a great conversation piece, or maybe the rest of you can be a great conversation pieces. 713-212.5-790. We are at Big City Wings and Edo. We'll be here this afternoon until 2 p.m. 1050. Matt and Ross with you from Big City Wings. They'll be ready to serve you. lunch. Matter of fact, you want lunch today is $10. Choice of an entree, choice of a sign, and a soft drink for $10. What? $150 Michael Oba Ultras.

$5.00 margaritas. Wow. That's a great deal. And World Cup games, there's, I believe, two games at two and two games at seven. Sure. Man, you're on top of it, Matt. Yeah, that's what I'm here for.

Matt, Soccer Thomas. I think there was six games, too. Is there two more at nine? There could be. Yeah, two, Oh, 10. Oh, there's one game at 10 o'clock. You're staying up for that late night, New Zealand versus Belgium tilt? No. It's in Vancouver. I did watch a little bit of the U.S. game. Okay.

But since it didn't mean anything? The backups. I was not overly intrigued by it. Okay. I thought it was pretty good. The backups were playing pretty well, especially early on. Defense was disorganized. Defense, not great.

They were basically the Dowell, they were America's team last night. Dallas Cowboys. Good offense. Bad defense. You know, it's funny, and we're going to get to Doug in just a second. it was funny and i think soccer broadcasters do it more like when you watch an NFL game it's very rare not saying it's not impossible but it's very rare for an analyst to get mad at the player should have had that tackle yeah should have caught that ball it's more i think they they

walk a fine line because a lot of them played the sport and they just think it's just brocode not It's like Tom Brady's not going to say, God, Pat Mahomes, what the hell were you doing there? Uh-huh. Baseball doesn't do it a whole lot. But soccer, it feels like when there's something that goes wrong, soccer analyst, dude, whoever that is. Should have done better there. He's ready to pounce. Yeah.

Why do you think that is? Is it like the Americans and it feels like it's us and it's our own team so we can criticize them? But I mean, if I'm watching a Premier League with my son, they're doing the same thing there. You're right. You're right. They do do that. I don't know what it is. I like it, though.

Oh, I do too, because it's more... And they usually try to throw in... Sorry, good. As I say, it's more heartfelt. It's real analysis. They always throw in it for me. Yeah, I think that's a play he should make for me. Like, though, that's my opinion.

Like, just saying, I'm just saying. But they don't back off, though. I give them credit for that. Or they'll throw in a, from my point of view. From my point of view, that's something he should have... He should have finished that. I mean, could you imagine if you're watching Craig and Ryan on a rocket broadcast.

And men, Thompson misses a free throw with 14 seconds up to go in the game that will get the Rockets are late. Ryan's not going to go, for the love of God. Yeah, they don't lay it on that thing, but you're right. I mean, if it's like an American, we put it out of a three, they put it like a seven. Yeah. I'm just saying in the little that I've watched these games. Yeah, I like that.

I have noticed that soccer guys aren't afraid to go, they don't put a love of God, what are you doing? And it does feel like there's also guys with, like, more agendas. Like, I'll notice as a Manchester City fan, I'm like, And I'm like, man, this guy's crushing, man. It feels like he's crushing the players. And I'll look it up, and he used to play for Man United. Like, oh.

Well, there have been broadcasters in the past that have been fired because of their bias. Yeah. For those of you that are OG Rocket fans, Tommy Hineson was the lead analyst on CBS back in the 80s, and he was a former Celtic coach and a player and did their TV games. I thought it was a little much when he had green pom-poms on the sideline. That's right. When he came and put a Boston jersey on in the broadcast, I thought it was a little much. He tried to check into the game.

Yeah. Essentially, CBS said, hey, we've got to make a move because you're just showing too much time. Yeah, I guess maybe that's just something we have here. We push more for neutrality than maybe they do overseas for whatever reason. Let's go to Doug on 790 at 1053. Doug, good morning to you. Hey, good morning, fellas. Love the show every day.

I just wanted you, talking earlier about the theme song to the TV shows, and you're right. You know, they don't have that anymore. but there is one show called Friends and Neighbors with John Hamm. And the beginning of that is the music's bad. It's really awesome. And the details, everything's in slow motion. It's the one show I will not skip whenever that show comes on. So you guys have a chance to catch that show.

But it's an excellent show. I would definitely recommend anybody to go check that out. one out. Thank you, Doug, for the phone call. We appreciate it. I have not watched it. I do have friends that do have watching because I've seen it on Twitter timelines, on Facebook time months occasionally. Looks like it's good. I don't know anything about it. Oh, Amanda Pete's working. Olivia Munn? Oh, I'm team Olivia Munn. Okay, so you're going to watch you. Oh, hell yeah, I'm watching it now. Relax. I'm just saying, I'm going to, I got to binge watch something this weekend. We're in public now. Come on. 7.7 on IMDB, 84% fresh. On a rotten tomato.

read the one sentence about what it's about? Or like the AI. Yeah. Here, when a financial titan suddenly finds himself divorced and jobless, he starts robbing his wealthy neighbors to stay afloat. Stealing from his own social circle strangely exhilarates him,

but he gradually gets tangled in a deadly web. Find out more on Apple TV Plus. His friends and neighbors. That doesn't sound terrible at all. John Hamm, Olivia Munn, and cast. On Apple TV Plus. Is there a line?

language in it? Oh, there we go. I like this guy. Oh, there we go. We have a one gift certificate claim. All right, there you go. You choose the one, you wanted the two. What do you want to the video game or the hat certificate?

I want that certificate. All right, well, there is a hundred bucks to the hat store. How about that? You definitely need a hat because your hair is barely holding on for dear life on that. Oh, see, he's taking shots back. That's right. He's got an old-school asteroid. There you go.

See, all you do is one person came in before 11 o'clock. It's in this certificate. upset. You're such a fraud. I mean, that's true. I'm not going to argue about that. There you go. Friends.

I'm in. Your friends and neighbors. Now, Jonathan, do us a favor. We already have our 11 o'clock theme ready to go. Okay. We've got to celebrate the local nine. Oh, you want him to find this thing. I want him at 1120 to find this thing.

Well, this will be our bump back music at 1120. Okay. And we'll judge if the friends and, is it called Friends and Neighbors? Rate a record. Your Friends and Neighbors. Yeah, your friends and neighbors will judge the theme song on it. We'll see if our call it. was, had something going there.

84% tomato meter, which is critics. 75% popcorn, which is like regular folks. So what do you deduce out of that? Nobody likes anything 100%. It's pretty good. I would say it's pretty good. I'm going to pass on it. Why? Because why would I invest 15 hours of my

life on something that's good, not great? Give it an hour. See if you like it. I got other things to do. I got to salt my meat. You haven't been doing on deck or 10th things. I can tell you that. That's good. Okay. You You can't do that. You can't take them from me.

I could say I'm not on it. I know. Oh, who was on 18, two and a half hours yesterday? How was it, by the way? How long was your post game that you did? Oh, 30. Oh, okay. And how about the other one you took from me?

An hour? I didn't. I had calls. I called. 90 minutes. Yeah. Okay. At an hour, that's how much longer I was on 18 yesterday.

But I had to watch the game. And then I was on, you were going to watch it anyways. That's fair. And then I had to do two extra hours with Chris Gory. Oh, that's laborsome in both accounts. I wasn't saying that's not what I was trying to say. Okay. But I did two hours with Gordy and I had two and a half hours with Adam Clanton.

That's why that's for our team here at seven hours. Two and a half hours of Clanton? Woo! Yeah, exactly. You did 30 minutes by yourself with callers. I'm surprised you're not fully gray at this point. Exactly. All right.

The Astros are moving on up. We'll explain it next 1057 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Jammin with Astero Highlights and one of the greatest theme songs ever. The number one pick, in my opinion. Among shows that have lyrics. Any show, any, I don't care. Over Sanford and Sun, over Dallas.

Bye. See later. Jefferson's baby. The Jeff, you know what? Things don't burn on the grill, baby. Let's go. It's my turn it back. Yes.

You know what? I can't argue with you. I'd like to argue with you. I believe we did a fantasy five on it, and it was taken number one. I don't remember by whom. I think me, but I'm not sure. Yeah. Who can recall after all these years?

I know. We've done a lot of the fantasy prize. I know, I know. Shout out to Richard and David that have already come by. Richard said, what up, Mr. Texas? And he got himself a $100 gift card. Yeah, then he said you're not really Mr. Texas. No, he didn't.

He didn't say he's drunk anyway. He thought it. And then David, we signed his Astros jersey. Yes, we did. And he said, please sign it, Mr. Texas. I'm like, I'd be happy to. Oh, my God. Did you really put that on there?

Yeah, of course I did. Why would you desecrate a beautiful Craig Bigio jersey by putting Mr. Texas on there? I actually said, this will hurt the value. He goes, no, it's going to enhance it. I said, you're right. He's right. Yeah, there he is. Let's slap it up on eBay.

We are on Big City Wings in Edo. We've got two 2K-26 games left. Let, yes. With Shea Gildas Alexander on the cover. Sorry about that. It's what it is. Hey, he's on the ground. Oh, there's a referee or just walk out of the cover of the thing.

of the video game. And we've got two more gift certificates for $100 gift certificates for $100 gifts guards to the hat store. It's not like $100 off. It's literally $100. If you go in there and want to buy a hat, it's $109. It's $109. So we got a couple of certificates there. We are with you to get you a cowboy hat. I already have some. No, you don't. You're such a fraud. You're such a liar.

No, they're ordered. You got no boots. You got no hat. You're no Mr. Texas. But I travel to Texas streets. Yeah. It's like you drove the Galveston once, and now you call yourself Mr. Texas. How many counties have you been in the last week? In the last week? Harris.

No, I've been to Montgomery. Oh, I've been to Montgomery, too. Okay. And I was in Gallison. I'm not calling myself Mr. Texas. I'm just saying you're not. But, that's the reason why I am is because I'm not saying I should be president. I'm saying you shouldn't be.

I'm saying you're unqualified. I don't know. We've had two calls so far today. Oh, the guy, the guy called you Mr. Minnesota once you found out he wasn't getting a gift card. And then he said up, we sucked. Yeah, it is what it is. All right.

So the Astros, again, if you don't know, we said last week that we were not going to play the moving on up until the Astros got to the third wildcard or not the American League West. They're moving on up. And they are moving on up because they have made it. There's a log jam. I mean, have you seen the American League Wildcard standings, by the way? There is an intense wildcard standings. Well, that's why now we need to lock in on AL West, especially now that they're in second place.

Now they're tied with the A's and the Rangers. So put it this way. There is a four-way tie for the third Walg Card. That's it? And you're saying, well, wait a minute. How many teams are in the American League? Well, there's 15. But the Astros hold the Walg Card over every one of those teams.

They've all got negative run differentials. Yes. The AL. Oh, Mr. Taylor. Now I'm really pissed. This is terrible. It's like a Mr. Texas rally is what it is. Oh, my God.

Why would you do this? Why would you do this? Ray, come over here, Ray, our associate producer. Make sure he gets some animal engineer. Yeah, he's their engineer. On the side of lunch. Yeah. Have him choose one of those two gifts there.

All right, Mr. T knows, he knows. Terrible. That's the best. Oh, my God. Now I'm really pissed. You need to apologize to everyone. No, I'm not apologizing to anybody. You don't even like Dr. Pepper or Sweet Tea.

You're not Mr. Texas. You know what? That's actually good for you and not to like those things. No, we're all about diabetes in Texas. Okay. That's how we roll, baby. All right. That's fine.

I'm not sick. Back to what we were saying. Four-way ties, so they have it. Now, again, they lose tonight. They could go back to five games. Yeah, they could be fifth place. That's right. That is exactly right.

But the Astros won a game yesterday. Did so. And I'll tell you what, didn't have a hater available, do them? Didn't have Brian King. Yeah. Did not have Oaker, who's everyday Ocar, it feels like? Yeah, at the very list. He's a Brian and Bray of 2026.

Brian O'Brayy's back on the squad. That's good. He's off the restricted list. So my guess is not to try to do something, but there's probably something to do with... Well, he couldn't make it into Toronto. Yeah. Oh, my God. This is the worst day of my life.

This is the best. It's like a Mr. Texas rally. We should all sing the state fight song. You people are sick. You people have no shame. You should be embarrassed. We're giving away prizes. What are you talking about?

I know, right? Yeah, we don't give away nothing. I know. You're over here beaming with pride. They don't care about you. Yeah. We're just trying to get prizes. Yeah.

What do we got left? We got one, two. 2K-26 game left. You walk in, say, Mr. Texas is yours. It's Xbox, yeah. Yeah. By the way, my new 27 games coming out, seriously. It's not your game.

See, this is what I have to deal with, folks. Am I on it? This is made by Microsoft and 2K sports. Yes. It features the NBA and the WNBA. Matt Thomas is only in there if you play with the classic rockets from the 1990s, and he just called it his game. Jonathan, is it my game?

This is the narcissism I deal with on a daily basis. Jonathan, is this Matt's game? Does it say Matt 2K? Don't put me in this. Matt 2K 26? Are you on the cover? If it was my game, it would say Texas 2K. Oh, my God.

If it was your game, it would say Kingwood. It would say Porter East. New Caney South. Yeah. Shout out to all my new cany friends. Wink, wink. All right. Terrible.

You're fine. My game. I cannot believe. Like you're the developer. Well, like you're writing code for NBA 2K. Is your voice on this thing? No, it is not. Is mine?

Yes. All right. Oh, my God. Jesus. Wordido, Big City. Yes, we are. Crowd is filing it. Yeah, $1.50 for the Mikolo Bultures, by the way, if you want to enjoy that.

Okay, so the Astros are winning. Tatsu Emi, 21 strikeouts and one walk in his last two games. That's all good on that. Matt and Lance McConnell's throw three innings yesterday for the Space Cowboys. Shout out Jesse and Kristiani. Those are the two that said, came and called you Mr. Texas. That's right. It's only because of a prize.

It's fine. Well, you're going to do it to do. It's fine. You know what? I got $50 to Big City Wings. If somebody wants to come and say, Matt is not Mr. Texas. Whoa. Wait a minute.

If you're at Big City Wings, wait a minute. And you say Matt is not Mr. Texas. I got 50 bucks. You're going to bribe people with food? No, I'm not brisk. bribing anybody. You're not even more than you're bribing anyone.

No, I was encouraging. I'm not bribing. This is a straight-up bribe. If you come in and say, Matt is the worst candidate possible for Mr. Texas. I got $50 to Big City Wings for you. Let me have that gift card. I'll throw it in the trash.

Matter of fact, if you say that, we're going to double your wing order. No, that's not true. You're going to pay your... Oh, more food? That's horrible. No, no, no. You're going to pay for five.

You're going to get five. We're going to charge you're 20 wings. No, you're not. We're going to overpay. That's terrible. It's wrong with you. A lot. And then goes Friday, clearly.

Let's talk to Rick on 790 at 11-11. Rick, good morning to you. What's up, Matt? How you doing? Matt, you got me? Good friend. Thank you for calling. Yeah, how you doing?

Yes, sir. Go ahead. Yeah, I just want to get your thoughts. So just go ahead and say your piece, Rick. Okay, you just want to get your thoughts on the USA match last night. And then kind of why you're not doing more World Cup show. I remember when the Cooke's played in the Peace Bowl, I read in the program that you did like a daily World Cup show.

So I'm just thinking if you're bringing that back. I know who this is. Matt. First of all, that's not a Rick. It rhymes with a Rick, but it ain't a Rick. What's your breakdown of the game? You said you watched some of the game last night. Yeah.

I saw Turkey A. Yes, that's what the kids called it. Turkey A. Yes. Up to nothing. Right? Uh, no. They got up 1-0,000, and then... Wait, did they get up 2-0?

I would watch the whole game, and I can't even remember. No, it was 1-0, and then it was 1-1, and then it was 1-1, and then it was 2-2. Why? It's a back-and-forth. They call it a seesaw battle, Matthew. Turkey A pulled out the win 21 to 14. So, okay, I had it on, but I fell asleep. Is that okay?

It was late. It's fine. They scored at the very end, and also, it didn't matter for either side. Turkey A was already eliminated. The United States already made it through it and won their group. It was still a pretty good game, especially at the beginning. It was a fun back and forth game. I would say really the whole game was pretty fun. And the American tack, very good.

Defense, lacking organization, I should say. And that's why I was watching, and that's why the color analysts are so pissed. He's like, what is going on? They look so disorganized. This guy is completely unmarked. As you say, you're learning the vernacular man. Uncovered, unmarked. You're supposed to mark your man.

They did not mark him. So to Rick's call, who's not really Rick. But it rhymes with Rick. Can me, Richard. The Peach Bowl, when the Cougars played Florida, St. when we demolish the Seminoles. Yes. They did a media, they did a program that people could buy at the Peach Bowl.

And they had a page about the University of Houston Broadcasters. And for those I don't know, I did the pregame show on the Houston Cougar broadcast. Yes. It's an hour show before the kick itself. You're a Mr. Cougar. And the bio stated that they called me World Cup soccer. Like first of the call me Soccer Thomas. Yes.

And then the media bios that I want to do a daily soccer show. Or that you did one or something. I did want or want to do one, especially when it comes to World Cup time. Right. Why is that, Matthew? Because some people have editorial control over media guides in which I do not have. Yes. So they knew you're a soccer hater, which now you're a soccer hater.

which now you're just soccer ambivalenter ambivalenter would be the word I would use Soccer not a hater, not a lover And No, you know what we are You know what we are What are you? We're soccer, we're just friends

I'm not attracted to you Equaliences No, platonic You're soccer platonic Yeah, well I'm not going to With you Oh, I don't have romantic feelings towards you Interesting

It's never going to go anywhere with us Hmm But we're going to be friends Okay, you can get along Now, I'll say, this soccer since we're friends we're platonic okay if i don't see you for a year or i don't text you yeah or i don't like your instagram photos don't don't take offense by okay it's just we're just friends okay all right that's cool and if you want to call me for tickets once in a wall soccer i'll

give you some tickets okay and if you have a friend that uh like like we're going to london next year and if you can help me out soccer get some good tickets oh so you want freebies from your friend but you don't want to he's asking me for you You don't want to invest in the relationship. What freebies has soccer asked of you? Who knows? Nothing. But soccer could ask.

And I may be able to help. Soccer's not asking you for anything. And you're asking for freebies. I'm only asking for European soccer once in my life. I'm actually jealous you're going to go. You're going to love it. You're going to love the atmosphere. Yeah.

So I do need, I will need some travel advice from anybody out there that has gone to soccer matches. and we're also doing the Beatles tourist thing. We're going to walk on Abbey Road to do all that and go to Apple Records and go see Penny Lane and all that kind of good stuff. So, yeah. How's she doing? She's in my ear. She's in my eye.

I mean, I don't know. We'll see. All right, 1115. It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross. We are at Big City Wings. I smell buffalo sauce. And now I'm getting hungry. Yeah, that's going to be a problem.

And remember, if you come by... Are we eating at two or are we eating in the middle of the show? Probably closer to two. You got any interviews coming up? No. You get Joseph Duarte on for anything? I try to get McTagher, but he's in Paris. Oh, that's all right.

By the way, he's taking photos of how hot it is. You know, it's ridiculously hot. Is it warm? Yeah, okay. Not warm. It's 40 degrees Celsius. What is that in? 96?

Yeah. Yeah. It's not great. Oh, my gosh. So he brought to Houston weather. Well, apparently it's a heat wave. It'll be gone by Sunday. I don't know when he's coming back.

All right. There's an extreme high temperature, a warning in El Jelor. So the Astros are in the Wildcard, but the next caller we're going to be taking from Max. brown gravy to Mr. Texas. I love this show. That's what anything goes Friday. Yes.

713, 212, 570. Come by and see us. We're Big City Wings in Ito. I'm really against this. All you have to say is... Oh, this is terrible. Matt Thomas is not Mr. Texas. Yeah, I got $50 a big city.

Basically, we're paying for your launch. You can use in-house. I wish I had a gift card to double it for you to say otherwise, but don't have it. That's a shame. What are you going to do? Yeah, what are you? Life is hard. All right.

I'm sorry for coming up 11.30. We've got a little bit of a delay with you guys calling. So when we go to you, don't worry we're going to you unless it's Rick in Atlanta. Well, I'm going to have to have a serious conversation with that for the show today. Rick is amazing. It's great call, Rick. That wasn't a great call, Rick, if you're listening. Your thoughts that you want to break down U.S. versus Bosnia.

Real quick on this. July 1. 7 o'clock. I have a great friend of mine. I'll say who his name was. It's Adrian Trevere. He is his Spanish Voice of the Rockets. and we were talking yesterday, and he told me that a lot of countries,

and I'm looking right now on the screen, Ecuador, a national holiday after we're advancing the round of 32. Love it. We've not asked America to take any time off during this. No. Why haven't we not where other countries do so? We're not soccer crazed? But, I mean, we don't do that for Super Bowl.

No. We don't do that for the final four? We're not as passionate. We're not. About anything? Have you seen, like, Turkish basketball and soccer? And I would say college football is the only thing that probably comes close. With the pageantry and the passion and the atmospheres.

Then I think we should take one day a year to have ourselves a national holiday. And I suggest it's the Monday after the Super Bowl. But we also don't chase down referees in parking lots and slay them. So, I mean, that happens. And that's fair. It happens in South America, too. So, you take the good with the bad, that there's not games that are suspended because of gunfire in the stands. Yeah, not normally, yeah.

It's like, oh, well, six supporters were knifed. Well, Dodger games. Yes, actually, I guess it does. Wait, wait a second. Maybe we do have the passion. Maybe we are up to snuff with the rest of the world. But he was saying the rest of the world literally stops. Yes.

What they're doing. Uh-huh. And we don't, even as much as we are a sports craze, we don't stop what we're doing. I mean, it's kind of, people have proposed a national holiday day after the Super Bowl. You know, it's funny because we talk about the Super Bowl's getting, now television is that what they have, they have shares. When you have a share, that means the number of television sets that are on the percentage of people. So if a show has a 48 share, that means 48% of televisions that are on in the country. Yes.

Are watching it. One of the Super Bowls typically get, 52 shares somewhere in that range? Somewhere in that. which still means 48% of television sets in this country of ours on Super Bowl Sunday don't watch the Super Bowl. Right. So I'm trying to see how many people, 125 million viewers for the Super Bowl this year. Do you have a share number? Does it say a share?

I don't see that. I can try and find it. Now, I'll give you another example that counter-accessed a little bit. In Pittsburgh and in Green Bay. And those are the two cities that come to mind. They get 60 plus shares for their football games. When the Steelers are on, every Sunday, whether it's playing the Browns or the Panthers or the Chargers or the Chiefs, Pittsburgh has literally six out of every 10 television sets are watching.

In Green Bay, the Milwaukee market, it's about 65% in the same kind of range. A rating of 39.7 and a household share of 79. 79? That's what it says. That feels super high. Combined household share, whatever that means. Okay, yeah, I don't know. But case and point, when Green Bay, Milwaukee has a 60 share, we in Houston, I want to say we're 24-25 share, which is still a lot.

That's good, but it doesn't compare it to other cities. Yeah. World Cup final in 2022, $1.5 billion watched. Super Bowl, $125 million. No day off. We'd have to work anyway. Yeah. Let's go to the phone. Let's go somewhere for the World Cup final, man.

Whatever countries want, we'll go to their watch party. No, let me ask you this. Hopefully it's... I'm hoping it's Colombia, Brazil. Will there be Brazilian women in Houston? We can go see you. I mean, and go to Brazil. Excuse me?

Brazilian soccer, we want to go see. Why did you say women? Well, because, let's face it, the text you sent me daily are of Brazilian women. That's not true. Yeah, we can go. Brazil's going to be here, aren't they? Should we go to Rogo Ruralo? What's that?

Rogo Dadao. Are you okay? That's a Brazilian steakhouse, right? You've got the Broca's aphasia. They don't have TVs there, do they? I don't think so. Are you talking about the Brazilian Steakhouse? Yeah.

No, we're not going to a Brazilian steakhouse for the soccer game. Wouldn't that make sense, though? We'd have a nap at halftime. It's true. Get ready to go. Mack on 790. Matt, good morning to you. Good morning to you, sir.

I'm going to worry. carefully, but I don't think you can claim to be Mr. Texas to you denounce the brown gravy skeleton in your closet. Anyways, nuts of that. Thank you, Mac. Do you think, and I almost hate to bring this up and say it out loud, but is it possible we're going to have a pitching surplus? And if so, can we trade some of it for an outfielder?

Mack, thank you for the phone call. I brought this up to you with three days ago. We're talking about it. I still have the name of the list. It's a deep. Now, again, you got McCullors on the rebound. Three innings yesterday. Oh, yeah.

Don't. Woo! I'm not asking for a deep adjective. I'm just giving you facts. Did you hear the cheers at Big City Wings for Lance McCullors, Jr.? Yeah. Somebody's howling, and I think they've had seven Michelob Ultras, so that doesn't really count. Yeah.

And you've got Christian Javier. He's right. Mac is right because obviously he was listening to our show this week. It's not a great list, but it's a deeper list. That's what I'm saying. You still got Michael Jay. You got a lot of Tito's and germains. You still don't have enough Michaels.

Okay. That's the problem. You got a manili, but you got no vanilla. Well, may they both rest? That's a great question. I don't know. Okay, so you got Hunter Brown, and then you got Lambo Getty. I'm sticking with Lambo Getty being good to top two three.

I mean, Burroughs is still a question. question mark i mean he was good last time out but we've seen him be good and then go and give up three three three run bombs the next time he goes right right then you got christian havier then you got uh okay he my's in there because he's pitching well and he's making money uh-huh then we got tongue he's probably going to the bullpen mccullers feels like a see-a-later and then you got to figure it out between because you keep saying see you later they're going to give him another shot they're not saying they're not they're not putting him in sugarland to grab him and then release him now they could trade him but that's not going to get any value but they're bringing he's

pitching because he's going to pitch again. Where? How? Who's getting sent down? Mike Burroughs? No. Okay. You have to give me somebody then. If McCullors stopped pitching, you've got to tell me who's going down. So you've got to make two

spots. You've got the guy who hasn't been healthy in five years and who is not good when he's out there. You're sending McCullors of the bullpen. It just is what it is. Okay, you can do that. And you are... Okay, then he's not starting.

And you're bringing Javier out of the bullpen too. What about Tongue? He's staying in the rotation then. You're having Javier, you're having $40 million in the bullpen between those two guys? The money doesn't matter. It doesn't matter when he's hurt. The money, Lance McCullors Jr. would be long gone if he didn't have the contract.

I know that. So the money does matter. But he's an active pitcher. So, I mean, he's going to come back and do something. Again, they're not sending Javier. They're not trying to invest. in ticket sales in Sugar Land Space Cowboy games. They're doing it because they want them to come back.

Well, they don't have any other choice. You have him come back and see what he wants. Yes. What else are you going to do with Lance McCulloch College? I'm going to release it right now. But they're going to see what they got left. Yeah, you have him rehab. I want to go back to the point.

You have him go to the max 30 days. Maybe somebody pops up with arm discomfort. And yeah, you have a line of a point as an insurance plan. Can somebody pitch well enough to help you get some outfield help? I'm leaning towards and that answer being no McCullors has no value Javier has very little value

nobody's going to trade for Mike Burroughs No Javier has zero value because he's been hurt And oh by the way he did He's man he's got good money Highway tongue I mean you're not trading you need him So no I don't know There's gonna this you're gonna be squeezing

Okay if what you're saying is true That could happen how you could have Javier and McCullors Who was the guy on the mound today When he threw the ball away at first base I brought up his name yesterday Name Pearson? Pearson's. Pearson's could be gone.

See it's later. I don't know if he's, I don't know. Logan Van Wye, good luck. Enjoy your time down there. Logan Van Wynne, Gordon, whatever's name. He got sent it back down. Yeah. I'm just telling those two cats are one more shot, at least in 20206.

We are at Big City Wings Edo location. We'll be with you until 2 o'clock this afternoon. Jimmy and EZ. EZ's got it on I'm sorry. That's good. Love that. Ross, you've got a lot of them sorry. No, I don't.

Jimmy and Tomball wants to talk to me, Texas. 713-212-5-7-9. We're in Edo. Big City, Wings. Come on to see us on 2 o'clock. Yep. Yep. Time for you to do this.

Let's go. You know what to say? I know what to do. These easy words. So sorry. Probably didn't hit the post on the on air. It's okay. That's fine.

What are you going to do? Yeah, we're on a little bit of a delay here at Big City Wings, Edo. Yep. But we're not sorry that you are not here to hear all the people. I've signed autographs. Terrible. Terrible. I don't think I've been referred to as Matt once.

Our friend Reed came by and called you Mr. Texas. Yeah. Instead of a starstruck to see me. Yeah, I know. Which was really cool. He's shaking in the corner, actually. No, he's not worried about him. He's not shaking.

I think he's just under the air conditioning vent, actually. Is that what it is? Yeah, yeah, we're fine. He's got walking pneumonia over there, by the way. I want to get that checked out. You know, let me just tell you, you know, you know, You need to apologize to all of us for calling yourself Mr. Texas. I apologize for nothing.

It's growing. You can't stop it. It's like algae. It's like the mildew at the fountain in Washington, D.C. It's never going away. It feels like I'm telling everyone a meteor is coming, and they're just going about their business. That's what it feels like. It doesn't feel good.

You know what it is? People throw, it. Rainstorms coming, Ross. Yeah. And they're throwing the umbrellas away. They're saying, let it rain. Let it rain. Let it rain, Mr. Texas.

Sure. We're just going to let him call himself, Mr. Texas. Terrible. It's fine. Let's do some apologies here. 713-212-5-7-9. If you want to apologize for something you've said or done, we're going to wake the strippers up at noon. The women here have no idea what I'm about to do.

That's the best part about doing the show on location is you have women that don't listen to this show. Yes. That are going to hear me. We've also got children here as well. Yeah, they're going to hear you talk about strippers. It's not going to go well for Josh Allen over here. Seven-90s for the kids.

Yeah. Josh is like, what are we doing over here? We'll see. We'll see. His father here needs to give him a little advanced head up on what's going to happen there. Not that his father's going to a strip club or anything. We don't want to bring that up because I think the mom's here. What is wrong with you?

What? I'm just trying to take a look at the crowd here. You're trying to rip families apart actively at big city wings. All right. Ross, what do you want to apologize? How's your list? I know you got one. Okay, you know what?

I want to apologize for all the meat jokes this week. I mean, it was pretty funny. I had, I, uh, seared some rib eyes and a cast-up. iron pan. They looked quite delicious. And so I posted them on Instagram. And then all week I kept saying, come look at my meat. And you know what? That's not right. That's not for the kids.

The Matt Thomas Show with Ross is for the kids. That's right. And I want to apologize for making those puns all week long. Yeah. I think it's fantastic. I'm so sorry. All right. John... Four.

Come back to me real quick. I'm not... I got to talk of technical things right now. I'll help you allow. Okay, we're on a delay. We'll come back to you, Jonathan. Thank you very much. You got to apologize.

I have done nothing wrong. Are you serious? What have I done? Are you what? I've done four, are you kidding? I've done four 10th ending shows this week. You know what I do.

I do want to appreciate that. I do want to say thank you for that. I have supported my family. I've given away video games. Yes. I've met great friends. You've bullied people into calling you Mr. Texas. I don't think I've done both.

You hate guacamole. You hate guacamole. You hate inchie. You hate tamales. Don't go indoors. You don't have a hat or boot. You've never been to any state park or an national park in the state. You love it one time and now you're Mr. Texas.

Those are your qualifications. I've been to a half dozen times. Okay. For work. Like you don't even go visit these places. You just go on work. Fraudulent. Not Mr. Texas.

My money is still spent there. Apologize to the state. No. I'm trying to think. I didn't apologize for. A lot of stuff. I did say that... You need to apologize to the great people who worked hard on this game.

NBA 2K26, and you called it your game. I'm so sorry. You need to apologize to the wonderful coders at Microsoft and visual concepts. They feel like sales would improve with me being on there. You need to apologize to Shaggildis Alexander. He's on the cover, and you called the game. I want... I want Joe's spot of haters to call and apologize.

I would love to hear from them. Yeah, exactly. All right, let's go to the phone to see. We'll see how this works. We've got a little bit of a delay. We're on a delay, folks, so we can't say, hey, how's it going, and we're going to respond to you? So we're going to go to you. There's going to be a little bit of a delay.

Say your piece, and then we will respond. Yeah, so that's how nice and easy that way. Speaking of easy. Easy on 790, 1143. Easy, what are you saying sorry for? I got three. I'm sorry. Number one, I'm sorry for all the A-listers that showed up for the USA game.

I'm sorry. It took four years for you to care about USA soccer and your team lost. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Second. Second, sorry, Alaska McCullors. You're going to get traded. Ross, go ahead and hold on to that $50 gift certificate and that two PlayStation Dana Brown is willing to negotiate and he will be on your team. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And lastly, Matthew.

Utah, down, ski, and Thomas, you are not, Mr. Texas. Ross, did me some tape. Ross did me some fake. I'm doing a parley on Kalski, and I'll hang up and listen.

It's called a combo. On Kalli. Yeah, we've got to get the vernacular right. Remember, if you're on Kalshi, use the code 790. You get $20 when you trade $20. Easy to be ashamed of himself. All right.

713-212-5-7-90 I'm trying to get easy something Erigetti Montero Detroit and Houston baseball feels like a stayaway feels like a toss-up to me what are you like in the World Cup today Matt

you Kazakhstan You Kazakhstan Yeah why not Was that a new sovereign nation I hadn't heard of Give me a matchup and I'll break it down for you Um France Norway

3 and a half I like the under in that Okay I'm with you Also, I'm going to go with Francia as well. One more. We've got to help out easy, even though the only people that clapped during the I'm not Mr. Texas were members of your family. And I got Belgium on the money line. No, he didn't.

He did. He's her distant cousin. You all look the same. Oh. Whoa. Matthew, we don't all look like Matt. Wow. I'm uncomfortable.

You're fine. I'm sorry. Alongside, Ross, I'm bad. Yeah, exactly. I'm sorry for that. HR's on line two, actually. I'm sorry for that. You should be.

713, 212-5-790. Aaron and Rick and Jimmy will get to you guys next. We're coming to you from Big City Wings Edo on 790. All right, I think we've got some of our technical issues hopefully resolved. Ross, the associate engineer helping out of this. Yes. We've got a team of people on it. Yeah.

Meaning us. Yes. We have some breaking news to the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Really? Yes. Okay. How many sounders? That's one.

Let's give it one more. Okay. Real County, Texas. Real? Real. Real? Real. I don't think it's real.

I think it's just real. It's probably real. A giraffe on the loose in the Texas Hill country has now been found. I think it was found last night. Gracie, a missing giraffe last seen west of Leaky or Lake at Leaky, yeah. Her owner was offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to Gracie's capture and safe return. Friday morning today, she was found at approximately 6.45. Oh, thank God.

She was found safe and sound about four miles south of the Cedar Hollow Ranch. Yeah, I was losing sleep over this. Let me ask you this. Gracie's okay. Have you ever lost a giraffe? No. I keep my giraffe pinned in perfectly. How do you lose a giraffe to begin with?

It's not so inconspicuous, is it? How fast do giraffes run? They're fast, actually. I think they can get up to like 30, 40 miles an hour. No way. Yes. Giraffes go 30 to 40? Let me put a giraffe MP at 37.

When was the last name? Shut your bum ass up. Wait a minute. Apologize to the giraffe kingdom. All right. I'm sorry. I doubted how fast they moved. I'm sorry, zoologists.

Yes. 37 MPH and Jurassic, get moving, Maddie. Why don't we ever see giraffe races? Usually they're running from lions, not you, not, I mean, in the Serengetty. When I went to the Houston Zoo and saw giraffes, I never seen them running through a race. Those are probably sedated and sterilized. Okay. All right, so congratulations.

We are now a giraffe. Oh, thank God. The, uh, what, Gracie has been found. Shout out Gracie. Yeah. What do you feed a giraffe? Feels like apples and leaves. Well, elephants get fed peanuts, right?

Oh, gosh. Yes. Oh, sorry. High quality hay. Oh, you got to buy that nice hay? Yeah. You can't feed the giraffe that low-grade hay. You got to get the, the, not the generic hay.

Not the great value. That's right. At the Hill Country Fair. All right. You got to go with that nice, that nice premium organic hay. That's right. Let's go to the phones. We'll try this again.

Jimmy and Tom Ball. Jimmy, you're on 790. What are you apologizing for? Matt, I'm calling on you to apologize. Actually, real quick, I got a bunch of stuff. My voice is all messed up because I yelled at somebody, a salesperson on the phone yesterday. So you might actually be proud of me for that one. But why I'm waiting on hold, I'm just coming up with more ammunition of why Matt's not, Mr. Texas.

It's Rio County and it's Lakey. So you just turned out both of county and city in the state of Texas is wrong. The no enchiladas, no guacamole, there's just no, I mean, you're about as, to use an analogy, which Matt likes analogies, you're about as Mr. Texas, as President Trump is Mr. Iran or Mr. immigration or something. I'm sorry. It just isn't. That was, first of all, that was a terrible analogy. So you're old for one on your analogies. No, that was two amazing analogies.

I mean, you got people like me who's seven-generation Texan, and before that, they're coming down to Cherokees from Oklahoma. Like, I can trace. We've got family members on Indian roles and stuff, and then I'll give it to you. I love listening to you. You're Mr. Houston sports. You're the only reason I listened to the Rockets.

I didn't care about them until a few years ago. I started listening to you, and I appreciate that, and I love hearing you. Thank you. You're not, Mr. Texas. I just, I really would appreciate it. an apology to the entire city of Houston and all the people that you ascend on a regular basis. Thank you, Jimmy. Wow.

What a speech. Incredible stuff from Jimmy. May the next joint you roll be full of manure. Oh, wow. Okay. Why would you put that on Jimmy? Because he wants the moniker is sticking. No, it's not.

There's a restaurant full of people. I see it sliding down the wall you threw it up against. There are people not going to flag stores to buy Texas flags. me to autograph them. No, no. Embarrassing. All right, let's go back to it. Pedro's asking, when are you doing play-by-play for the end of the King of Combine?

Unbelievable run by the giraffs there, Matthew. No, we're not doing, believe it or not, because we're on location. We should do a believe it or not next week about how fast various animals can go. Wouldn't it be good? Sure. And we would give a number of giraffiraps are 37 miles an hour. We won't send you the questions and you can help out. Oh, my God.

Rick in Sugarland on 790. Rick, who are you apologizing for and for what? Well, I'm going to apologize for you, but not really. I mean, I'll tell you this. You probably are not Mr. Texas, and everybody's giving you a lot of crap for it, but nobody's giving you any credit for what you are and what you always will be. You will always be Thunder Matt, the voice of the Houston Thunder Bears. I'm so sorry.

And that title can never be taken from you, sir. That's true. Not ever. Thank you very much, Rick. He knows. You know what, Rick's making good points. I'm not trying to downgrade you, Matt. I'm not trying to say you're not a great, legendary sports figure in this town.

Thank you so much. A wonderful job is the voice of the Houston Rockies. There is no one in the city of Houston alive that has done Houston hot shots. Exactly. Texas Terr and Houston Thunderbirds. You're one of one. A great storied career in the city of Houston. A cougar through and through.

Yes. Loved by your brethren in the years of failure, you guys suffer with your athletic program. I mean, you have been the centerpiece of this. This station probably would have flopped without you in the last several years. I mean, I'm being completely honest. We'd all be speaking Spanish if it weren't for you. So I appreciate you, Matt, and everything you've done for the city of Houston. But you are not, Mr. Texas.

You have no business being Mr. Houston. Mr. Texas? You can't get it right. Never have been, never will be Mr. Texas. All right, I've already signed multiple autographs of Mr. Texas. I'll continue to do so for the next two hours. All right, now here's the bit. We're at Big City Wings at Edo.

The ladies don't know that I'm going to wake the strippers out. So we're going to wake the strippers out. Oh, okay. So what I'll need you to do is I need you to get your phone out. I'm not doing. I want you to get the reaction of what they're going to do and say. They get your phone out. Well, I'm busy.

I've got to use my voice. That's how I've been able to make. With your hand, you got two free hands. Well, you don't know that exactly. What are you doing with them? What? We wait. You're going to be talking about strippers and your hands are busy.

Is that what you're saying? No, no, no, no, no. All right, we're waking the strippers up and I'll take a photo of women here at Big City Wings. That's something kind of odd. It is what it is. Wordy-do. The sentences we put together on the show. 713-1-2-1-2-790.

7-1-3-1-2-5-790. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 12. 5 in H-H-T. Here it goes. Go! It's a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas Show and Ross. Or a big city wings.

Eniddle on 790. Matt, you're at. Wyndham Clark's 4 and 2. Who's he from? I don't know. He's not native. He's not a native? He's not a guy? Yeah. Or is he?

He's not Jim Proudfoot. So he's 4 and 2. Oh, I see what you did. Don't do that. The definition of true Quebecian Poonteen is French fries top with cheese curds and hot brown gravy, traditionally made from beef and chicken stock. Did you say Poonteen? Poutine? It was delicious.

Okay? I made an excellent pepper-crusted, pan-seared ribeye last night because they were on sale at Rach Rie Rearie. 1299 pounds. Good for you. Good deal. Good. So I made some excellent. I'll send you the pictures of my meat.

I love all the juices, but I want to make sure the grapefruit juice gets its run. Okay. I like Warder's original sucking on those candies. All right. You just like sucking on those hard candies. Yeah, I never had a soft candy now. You know what, Matt, I lost a lot of respect for you. You're trashed veterans.

I did not trash veterans. What are you talking about? That's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of my name. to entire life. Hey, let me tell you some. I'm in a veteran and all you do is make fun of me all the time.

I don't make fun of you the veteran. I make fun of you the caller. There's a difference. Why do you hate veterans, Matt? Don't even go there. A flank steak on Wednesday? Yeah, flank steak, Ross. Skirt steak Thursday. Beefy Ross. You call whatever you want. I don't care.

I'll follow. I will watch your VRV. I'll watch you take care of your meat. Thank you, Matt. You should apologize, too. I apologize for making all the meat puns. You probably made as many as I did. I was trying to get out of this segment. Talking about meat and beef.

Yeah. It's getting beefy here. I don't see what the big deal is. I am a veteran lover, not a hater, by the way, just to make sure we're technically accurate. Yes, thank you. I love veterans. I love anybody that's currently serving our country.

Thank you all for your. Your service? Yes. Terry, just know I love you, man. And anything else we need to clarify all the first two hours of the show? Yeah, thank you. John's got enough material the last weeks. You and I could go on a European vacation, take two weeks off, and we'd have still a plenty of things for the Friday open.

Okay. It is the time of the show at Ross for you today from Big City Wings, where lunch specials are going on for $10. And if you'll have Mickalub Ultras, $1.50 between now and 3 o'clock. soccer match at 2 o'clock here today. Yes. And we have all the hat certificate gifts certificates are gone, but we do have one 2K-26 game left if you are so inclined. I still have one for somebody who comes in and says the phrase that pays,

Matt Thomas is not Mr. Texas. I am, but see, no one wants to come claim that because it's dirty. Because I didn't say it enough. It's a dirty gift certificate. No, it's not dirty. It's very clean. Not at all. All right.

We've already got a Norway fan in here at the bar. He's wearing his Erling Holland jersey, although Holland's not going to play. Are they eliminated or are they still a lot? No, they're already through. Okay. How about Turkey yesterday? Oh, I don't mean to ruin your news at noon. Go ahead.

Come on, Matt. Let's get to the news and news. The top news and news. Yes, Matthew, let's go ahead and lead with USA. USA. Well, they lost to Turkey, three to two. Or I should say a turkey. It was a back-and-forth match, Matthew.

They were the Dallas Cowboys. They were American. his team last night. The offense was pretty good. The defense was worse. Three to two, they lost at the death in the 97th minute, or I should say 98th minute. Turkey A was able to score to go up. Didn't matter for them. They were eliminated. United States was playing their B squad.

It was like you had a bowl. I saw somebody say on Twitter, so I stole this. It was like he had a bowl game and everybody opted out, pretty much. Christian Polisick did play a little bit like 30 minutes. He is their best player as he missed the last game. He needed to play. Did he not? Get him like 30 minutes. I would have liked him to get like 20 minutes. because, I mean, what's the difference between 20 and 30 minutes among friends? But he got in there.

Maricio Pachitino in Pachwee Trust. So he put him out there. United States looks good, rare to go, for the big matchup against Bosnia and Herzegovina. When you get them together with USA, you throw the record books out, Matt. They're in the round of 32, July 1st, 7 p.m. next week. And again, an act of kindness from me. Yes. That was a Ross on-deck and 10th inning show for Minnesota.

I said Ross. who loves soccer more than life itself. Thank you. I will work for you that Wednesday. I really appreciate you, Matt. Thank you so much. You're very giving. You're a hard worker.

You do all these great things for a station. You're also not, Mr. Texas. We move on. Now, see? Wow, he's got a lot of support from the crowd now. Yeah, one. Yes, also the Astros, Maddie. Are moving on up, baby.

We honored him last hour. We'll do it again next hour. We've been talking about the macro. Let's talk about the micro of yesterday. Hatsuya and Mai is on fight ya, six innings of shutout ball. One walk, 10 strikeouts on 96 pitches, lowering his season ERA to 5.36 on the year. Yep. You also were not necessarily down, but did not want to use Josh Hater.

You didn't want to use Brian King. Brian King and Stephen Oaker. You went to AJ Blueball for two innings, and he was very good, striking out three, only giving up the one hit. Angel de los Santos gave up a solo shout. Thank goodness you got an insurance run from a sack fly in the ninth, and you're able to get the victory two to one over A.J. Hinch and the Detroit Tigers. And, of course, Astros Twitter with the Astros having won seven to nine,

giving Joe a spot a full credit. Yes, Seattle lost to Pittsburgh yesterday, and a bunch of teams in front of the Astros, including Toronto lost yesterday to the Rangers. So that means there is a complete log jam for the third wild card, but somebody has to be the number one of the number three wild card and it's your Houston Astros. But the Astros are wild jamming. Yep.

They're up in there. So they're tied for the wild card with three other teams. And also, I'm starting to get my eyes on that a lot now, Maddie. One and a half games back of the Seattle Mariners, you also are tied with the athletics and the Texas Rangers, but just one and a half games back of the 41 and 41, quintessence of mediocrity. Seattle Mariners. It's the somebody has to win division. And well,

that somebody hopefully is the use in Astros. And if they can, here's the reality of folks, and I don't know, I agree. I don't know if the Astro bats are ever going to get there because they're winning games with low-scoring games. Lately, yes. But if they ever got Cam Smith to have a weak worry at OPS of 800.

Now, Issaq Perthus has got RBIs in what four straight games, so he's doing well. Isok Pryt is heating up. Yordon is, an O-For yesterday, but that's not happening too often. If you could get just something out of the outfield. Now, granted, Taylor Tremel has two home runs in back-to-back games. You started off extremely hot.

Everyone's gone the downwave. I mean, Al-Tuve hopefully can bounce back. Some Christian Walker's been on a slump as well. Maybe he can bounce back for you as well. As you mentioned, Esak Paredes looks like he's on the uptick, even though he was 0-4-3 yesterday as well. He did have the run batted in. So if you can get, I mean, Pena, Alvarez, Paradis,

Walker Altovae. That's pretty solid top five. You need something out of the bottom four. And it just hasn't happened, including Jake Myers who got a bat yesterday. Yeah, I told you, the hot streak's coming. No, it's not. It was a fielder's choice out.

I'm saying he's getting to a simmer. We're coming to a full boil, baby. Next couple of weeks, Jake Myers fan club is ready. I can't even get Jake Brian Myers on a burner. Yeah, well, they cut off the gas. Now we're putting it back on. Okay? We paid the bills.

Okay, I don't know. You took it far. I took it further. You went to be like that. You went one step too far. Sinapoint Man will be here Tuesday. All right. Would you like some terrible baseball news?

No. All right. Well, you're getting it anyway. Okay, go ahead. At the break. Okay. It is time for a break. We always break on time.

Yes, that we do. All right. And my potato skins with chicken have arrived. So potato skins with chicken. Yeah. Look at that right there. Okay. You're going to have one?

No, I'm good. you sure i'm trying to cut back all right seven one i'm gonna get a buffalo chicken salad later good for you you know what thing is you're big city wings you can eat like you can get it grilled sauce and toss with housemade blue cheese or you could be like your brother ray who's eating

large amounts of fat fat fattening food but that's friday either way it's friday it's a cheat day it's race just told me to do something to myself that's funny he says you're number one as well 713212 57 90 we are live at big city wings you know come on by and see us between now and 2 o'clock and ross does have a gift certificate he wants to give away to somebody but it's a dangerous if you come in here and say matt thomas is not mr texas you get 50 bucks of big city

wings next and easy so no navigation yeah don't go to the one in cyprus it won't do any good yeah we're not going to be there 713 212 5 770 we will go to mike in san antonio you know we're number one in san anton because we're crushing it we do well in the markets absolutely houston yeah we're trying to use to work in progress uh we're doing a lot of great a lot of great people out here at big city wings yeah big city wings you know location we're at uh off a just off a navigation and the best thing part of it was that was 40 minutes from my house so that beats the galleria oh this is closer way close that's good this is further for me but that's okay 15 instead of five you know what credit to you so we've had a really good time we've had a lot of

lighthearted conversation about a variety of things um not so lighthearted on this and you have been and I give you credit. But what happened? You have been bullish on the labor negotiations between the owners and the players. Oh, okay. I'm about to throw a wet blanket on this. Oh, never mind. There was a huge union response to MLB's proposal about a max contract, getting rid of the amateur draft or the high schoolers, all sorts of things.

Yes. I'm not going to read that because that's like four paragraphs. But I do want to read one paragraph. All right. This is basically the union. firing back at the owners. This is from Union Chief Bruce Meyer. Owners attempts to bid players against players are nothing new,

but they've failed in the past and they will fail again now because PA members remain unified. We are committed to achieving a fair deal that protects the rights of all players, promotes competition, and leaves our game better for future generations. Sounds good, right? Yes. Okay, that's a lot of lip service. That's a lot of PR speak.

We stand tall and strong and uniform. Yeah, that's what unions say. That's what unions do, no matter if it's baseball or it's the auto workers. Right. He says Bruce Meyer's, Bruce Meyer, that's M-E-Y-E-R, no question we're very far apart. That comes as no surprise. He continues to believe, does Meyer, there will be an MLB lockout on December the 1st? Yes.

Which, when you go to lockout, that means nobody gets rehabilitation, nobody steps in complexes, nobody works out. Now, the minor leaguers are different. But it's in the off seasons. I don't know how much that I'm going, but there's no winner meaning, I don't think, per se. There's no conversation between the owners and the players. Furthermore, Bruce Meyer, who is on the international draft proposal,

called it horrendous. Okay. Is this the one where they're trying to take out the high school players, that part? Or you said international. Well, I don't know exactly, but I'd have to do a little digging on it. I'm just reading off of these Bob Nightingale tweets. Oh, okay. that are hopefully transcripted

transcripted correctly. Yeah, because Bob doesn't bat a thousand. No, he doesn't. That's okay. Myers says he anticipates having one more meeting with MLB before the All-Star game. Okay. And then I guess they will go silent,

it sounds like, unless something progresses. Okay. He insists as Bruce Myers, who is a labor negotiation chief, the players will not crack and not accept a six, salary cap under any condition. He says players will receive a $500 million pay cut if a salary cap is in place. Okay.

I imagine the owners disagree with that number. Yes. Yeah, it's ugly right now, for sure. I'm going to give you a statement that I don't think you want to hear. Okay. But I think it has to be said, and not everybody may echo my sentiment on this. we have to have the owners win this. The owners are going to have to force the players to accept us.

I don't think. How? Then you're going to be right. Then there will be no season at all in 27. It's going to take year plus. If they are going to stand that tall for a salary cap, you're going to be, you end up being right. They're going to have to convince the players for a salary cap. I don't.

Again, you and I are not privy to these conversations. But we've been through these laborers watching our sports over the years. It feels like to me the owners in baseball Rossi have been waiting for this, have been waiting for years for this to come and go. They've wanted a cap. They see a cap in football. They see a cap in basketball. They want it in their sport.

And I think there's enough people, whether you're a rich owner, like the Dodgers, you're a rich owner like the Mets, or you're a poor owner like the Royals or the Marlins, they're going to not back down from this. And if the players don't back down, we're not getting baseball for a long period of time. So I'm team owner on this, and I'm saying go convince them.

I see that. I mean, I don't know all these... It's all conjecture my part. Yes, I understand that. I just want to make sure you do. Neither of us are labor lawyers. Right. But just in general, normally I tilt towards the players,

but I understand they are fighting tooth and nail, something that is instituted and has worked for the health of the league in other sports. And there does need something to be doing. The current system that is under place right now, it cannot stand. It's far too imbalanced. You have the teams like the Pittsburgh Pirates and whoever else that aren't paying anybody and shaving payrolls. and then you have the Dodgers spending $300 million.

As it stands right now, this is not healthy. This is not good long-term for the league. The Dodgers are far and away favorites for the World Series again. Maybe it won't. Maybe they'll win again this year. Maybe they won't just because of the nature of the sport. But year-in, year-out, they have a far more greater advantage than any other team in any other sport in major American sports

because they are the Dodgers and the money that they can command and spend. So it's not right. What's happening right now is not good. So the union can say, we've done this for 100 years, we've had great success. And number two, the players can come back and say, it's not our responsibility to police yourself. You guys can't believe yourself. Why is it our responsibility? And the owners are come back and saying, we are going to police ourselves.

We are going to insert a cap. So that team one and team 30 can have a competitive chance against each other. You know what's kind of funny is the owners are going to be rooting hard for the Dodgers. All 30 hunters are going to be rooting for the Dodgers. See, this is unbalanced. This ain't right, guys. we've got to fix this. Because the players have been trying to preach parity.

Players have been trying to say, well, if you look at the last 10 years of the NFL, there's been more teams in the Super Bowl than there have more teams in the World Series and there have been in Super Bowl, all that type of stuff. They're trying to act like there is some semblance of parity. So the more parity there is, the more the players have the better perception. I'm just saying it's easy to, if you're not a boss, and you and I are employees, we're not bosses. It's easier for us to say, let's go for the union because they're looking for individual wages.

They're looking to feed families as compared to taking care of corporate. I mean, if we were going against corporate radio companies, we would not be citing it. But it's greedy owners versus greedy players. Absolutely. But I've been around this long enough, Rossi, and you have done enough to, if we come to this radio show every day in the next six months and say, Oh, good for you. Stay on your ground. Players, don't give up.

Don't have a cap. That's going to be false hope. I think they should have a cap. But the floor that they propose is ridiculous. The floor that they put everything, the other leagues, because they're trying to have their cake and eat it too. They're trying to have a salary cap, but they're also having a floor that isn't anywhere close to the NBA floor, which I believe is like 90% of the cap. Same thing for the NFL. NFL is got a great situation.

In the NFL, everybody spins about the same and that has the most parity as well. But I don't even think that's even not a negotiating tip. That isn't even being discussed. The players are saying we are not going to a cap. It ain't happening. And I think this rigid, immovable object of we won't take a cap and we ain't seeing baseball in 2027. Well, ratings are up, interest is up, revenues are up, everything is up. And then the owners are the ones that are saying this is not good.

This is not healthy for us, right? Yeah. So, I mean, I get both sides, is what I'm saying. Yeah. And if they want to draw their line in the sand as much as they are, my hope is in reason that I think there hopefully can be a season is because baseball is not going away. They're going to make a deal at some point, right? Or are we saying baseball's gone forever?

Of course. Of course. Of course not. So if they're going to make a deal, if somebody's going to have to concede somewhere, and we are now nine months away, 10 months away from missing games. What is it going to take to change other than players losing money and owners losing money? Is that the only thing that's going to change anything? Does Bruce Meyer's ego say, I don't want to be the first labor negotiator to ever institute a salary cap?

I don't know. Bruce Meyer, he's like the interim guy, right? But he's negotiating it now. Yeah, but it's going to be on his watch. Doesn't he have an ego to say every other commission? I don't even know. Is he going to be the guy? guy here, I don't know what his ego is. I don't know how involved he is. He's involved in it now.

He's the mouthpiece of the players. I don't know how much this is him driven or how much this is the players driven and especially the veterans. Of course, they're not going to want to bend. The players are going to, if the players miss an entire year's salary, they're going to go to Meyer and say we've got to do this. And that's what it's going to take, I guess. That's what it's going to take

an entire season. Well, the current proposals obviously are going to be changed. Everything that we're talking about right now is not going to be the same in five months from now and certainly not in eight months from now. guys are going to concede. They're all grandstanding right now, but concessions. Because you do that in summertime.

Yeah, you're going to have to come to the table, and they're going to have to play the PR game. You're going to have to win some public perception on this as well. But the statement to me that makes me really leery of it being a short-term out-of-experience of not having baseball is that we will, I mean, I don't want to, I mean, let me quote it again properly. We will not crack and not accept a salary cap under any condition. that's now on a Bob Nightingale tweet, that's now in reports, that's now written. That's also we knew that.

I guess if he would have said anything to the contrary, he would come across his week. Yeah, we'll say, we'll think about it. Yeah, it's not what we want to do. It's easier, I guess, to put the fist down and say, I will never, ever, ever do this. If you get something proposed where there is a very, very high ceiling and a very, not a very high ceiling, I say a cap and a floor, I think the, I will be on the owner's side. But the current proposal with the floor as low as it is is ridiculous, and it is going to cost the player's money. All right, we go back on the phones.

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Matt and Ross with you, a big city wings. Renito. Hey, Matthew. These, um, chicken. on top of the potato skins. Yes. Is it a buffalo or what? No, just regular.

Okay. But you got the sour cream and ranch. I got both on that one. Sounds delicious. And we have got some breaking news. More breaking news. We have more hat store certificates coming over because we've got some people that have come over and seen us today.

We want to make sure they have a little gift. Okay. Good. We're bringing some more certificates over. Excellent. Yep. Let's get back on the phones at 713-212-5-7-9. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90 and let's talk to Mike in San Antonio.

Mike, good afternoon to you. I know you wish you were here with us hanging out with Ross and, of course, Mr. Texas. I actually sat here. That's a great lead-in to my call because you're not Mr. Texas, Matt. And here's why. I've heard all the other reasons and they're very, you've been said you can be Mr. Houston, but there are so many that non-Dr. Pepper-loving mound, risk it. There are so many, but here's the most egregious reason. You, sir, rooted for a New York

sports team against the Texas team. That is like a Cardinal son. Damn straight I did. You can not be Mr. Texas and ever work. Hell yeah, I did. Okay, you can be Mr. Houston, but you can never be Mr. Texas and do that. That's that's a Cardinals sin. No way, no how. So I had to throw that in. Hey, I enjoy your God's show very much. And I listen to you all the time. Thank you, Mike. Appreciate it. Let me tell you.

You know, Mike's making a lot of good points. Thank you, Mike. I really like what Mike's saying. Let me tell you something. I have traveled those streets. Listen to me. Go ahead. Travel the streets of San Antonio.

Yes. Austin. Yes. Corpus. Okay. McAllen. Cool. Lubbock.

Uh-huh. Amarillo by morning. Sure. Why not? Wichita Falls. Okay. I love the state. I don't love the spurs.

I will never, ever, ever, root for the San Antonio Spurs. Okay. That's why that just qualifies. He makes a good point. That means you can't. You can't be Mr. Texas. No.

I am Mr. Rocket. You can't hate the teams. I live for the Rockets. You can't hate the Spurs. I hate the Texas. You heard me? I didn't. Yeah, you're just qualified.

Yeah, you're Mr. Houston. No, Mr. Everything around the state. You're a northeast corner of Houston. No. Stop. Mr. Kingwood and Mr. Toyota Center. You can be Mr. Toyota Center. You cannot be Mr. the state of Texas.

He's right. You're in a minority. How do you? How do you have to be? No, I'm not. Said hello to Mr. Texas. Yeah, because it's a bit. They are all laughing at you behind your back.

No, they're not. It's like you call the fat guy slim. You're just making a joke. You understand it's funny. I'm telling you. How do you feel about the Dallas Cowboys? They suck. You want to be Mr. Texas?

No, it doesn't revolve around sports teams. It resolves. What is it all around? Food. Places you've visited. You've food. You just said food and culture. You have nothing to do with Texas food or culture.

I love Fahis. Are you serious right now? Stokes. You don't like in jiladas. Tamales. Guacamole. Sweet tea. Dr. Pepper.

You cannot list food as the first thing as a qualification for you as Mr. Texas. That is insane. You are an insane person if you're saying that. A Rubin sandwich and a deli. A Rubin. Sandwich, a New York delicatessen sandwich? Sausage of Buccese.

Yeah. For Mr. Texas. Pizza. What the hell is wrong with you? Cofood and Galveston. You are insane. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Thank you. You don't even really like brisket. I like brisket. I wish I had brisket on my potatoes. I asked you qualifications and you said food. That's the one thing you have. You're the worst at. I've spent money at.

Seafood. Italian. You spent money at a restaurant. So now you're Mr. Texas. Ribs. Wings. Terrible. Terrible.

Are you getting a selfie with Dan Matthews? I might have knocked us off air of screening. So I hope we're still connected. No, it doesn't matter. The audience is listening right now knowing you're out of control. Embarrassing. Let's go to the phones. Baseball negotiations.

We need to take a break, actually. Oh, we do? Okay. Hey, Billy and J.B won't talk about the MLB on the liver front. I would love the toxic. And again, I don't want to. Stop the bit. So we're getting distracted.

This show has been on course. I don't know what you're talking about. Straight narrow all the way to 2 o'clock. Oh, my God. 1245 on Sports Talk, Severnetti. What? I just think it's been a great time. We don't get to go out very much.

And we're very happy to be out here today, a big city wings at Edo. All right. Navigation. Uh-huh. I have some more $100 gift certificates to the Hats store. We're going to give away to people that are here. Awesome. And maybe I should give me a cowboy head from here.

Yeah, we can get you on. At least you'll be closer to. You know, I'm not going to say it. That name that's not. Don't even say it. Don't even say it. Don't even, if you don't want to speak any existence. It's just triggering.

Everybody knows. I know. It's a little wink, wink. That's all it is. Maybe I should get a separate Instagram now with just me being around the state. I think you should. Okay. I think you should.

You'll be saying that you'll put negative comments on there. I would never do that. I would never do such a thing. All right, let's go to the phone to talk to some people. J.B. in the Heights wants to get in on the MLB conversation. J.B., good afternoon to you. Hey, guys. Yeah, I think this is an opportunity for the Major League Baseball Players Association

to do right by the majority of their players. If they were to acquies on a salary cap, And I don't mean a moderate one. I mean a really high cap and one that would increase each year, according to revenue, just like the NFL. But in return for doing that, you mandate a salary floor that raises the income of all those players that aren't the top of the, you know, the top of the food chain.

I think the players would be the high nap because if you could rate the, if you could end up raising the average Major League Baseball salary, while instituting a cat that was still going to go up every year, I think that would benefit way more players. It would just maybe the superstars suffer, but the superstars aren't really suffering anyway. So that seems like a win for the Major League Baseball Players Association. To be appreciated.

Thank you, J.B. It makes a lot of sense. If you get a floor, that means more people are going to make more than minimums. That means you're going to require 10 to 12 teams that are on the fiscally conservative side to spend a certain amount of money. That means the Juan Soto contracts go down a little bit and then nobody else comes up. That makes sense. And we kind of talk about the haves and the haves-nots between the owners.

There's haves and haves-nots between the players. So I don't know how unified all of them are going to be as well. There's going to be some inner division, but they're going to say we're standing. Each side is going to say we're standing strong. So that's where maybe it's going to come down to you get the little guys to buckle maybe. And that's how some, you get to either the players who are running out of cash and there's no games. to buckle or the owners who aren't making Dodgers money. The Dodgers and the Yankees and Mets, they can stand some hits.

They probably have some reserves and they can take a little bit more of a loss than, say, maybe smaller teams can't. Guess who loves also loves television revenue checks all 30 teams? Yes. You can't get Fox, ML, NBC, TBS when you're not showing games. Uh-huh. And so as of right now, the proposal, is basically 70%.

The floor, I should say, is 70% of the cap. It's 90 in the other leagues. So they're going to have to probably raise the cap of the initial proposal, and they're going to have to raise the floor. And if they're not getting to 90-10, then I get more of what the players are saying to where you're just trying to save money league-wide. And as of the current proposal, the players are saying, we're losing half a billion dollars a year.

No, I can't argue. And nobody can argue the game has grown. Revenues have gone up. Interest has gone up. Ratings has gone up. Like, based, this is both of them. Both of them needing to seize this moment to where things have been going so well. You have Shohay Otani.

But we said that in 1994 too, Ross. We did. I guess. I don't know. We're ratings all the way up and ratings. Well, the television contracts weren't the dollars they were. Salaries are a lot higher now. Yeah, salaries are.

You had only had agency for a few years then, right? The inflation of salaries have gone up way more than the average. I mean, there's no worried about, I mean, what was the Megan Millionaire making in 1994? Compared to where they are today, it's crazy. That's another thing, though, because when it comes to the NBA and the NFL, the players know the revenues. They know the revenues because it's open books. The cap is a percentage of the revenues. Baseball hasn't been willing to do that.

They said, okay, they open up the books, and they're like, no, we're good. So the owners have to, they're trying to have their cake and eat it too as well. Oh, yeah. This isn't a section of who you're rooting for. Because honestly, we've talked about, and every time we talk about labor, it's billionaires versus billionaires. So it isn't a question of rooting for. It's a question of rooting for getting the sport on the field

and making sure we don't miss any time in 2027. Just play the games, man. The wild card has been great. The pitch clock has been great. ABS has been great. The health of the league is good. By the way, speaking of ABS, not to get into labor stuff, I'm loving this two-challenged thing.

I know you want to get it full throttle, but man, it is, it's going well. It's really going well. I would love it. I just have a crazy idea. Get the Coles Rite. That's all I'm saying. It's installed at every stadium.

But Bruce Meyer, the labor negotiator for this, put it out there. And again, I guess if he would have said anything less than 100% we're not playing for not a salary cap. And we're good. He'd be considered soft. I understand. We're close to crumbling, guys.

We can only make it another month. It's not going to say that. That's the thing, too. They've known this is coming for years. You know, like before a bit, there's like a conflict before the war and everybody's building up arms, getting the factories going. Everybody's been getting their war chest going. They're ready to dig in.

And don't you think the players' union would have told us that players the exact same thing? Absolutely. They could not have been naive to this. Save your money. There's been absolutely memos or whatever. Cool it on the Lamborghinis. Like, calm down with the, the, the, the, the, summer house and Kate Bird in

Monaco, all right, and get ready because the storms are coming. I just find nothing. Well, you know what? Maybe in 1993, Ross, I was saying the exact same thing. I don't know. I don't remember. Me either. I just never go. We're at, you know, because the league will stop.

I was locked on the rockets, baby. Yeah, me too. I just don't ever... Jeff Bagwell's broken hand. He got hit a lot. didn't he. That little mitt he used to put on it, didn't really do it much. He had that giant pad on there like he was a UFC fighter. Yeah. It had like a remote control on it too. You could move it around. All right. Billy and Katie wants to get on on this as well. We've got the final hour of the show. Astro. Oh, the Astros. We're going to talk about

the real team going on right now. They're moving on up. Are they? We love that song. You'll get to hear it again. To two. Two two. Check swing. Tapper. Left side charging bare-handed. Barrett is to throw to first. in time to get herpenter. Thank you. If you've ever seen the Jefferson's episode where George Jefferson and Helen Willis are dancing, I've done that kind of dancing before. Okay. You didn't hurt yourself.

No. That's good. I've given me a standing ovation. Really? I've been given two standing ovations in bars before. Okay. When I dance like George Jefferson, and when I sang Piano Man at a karaoke night, It was so good.

I know, I heard. You got free round of drinks for the house, right? The manager at the restaurant said, free round booze for everybody because Matt brought the house down. Beautiful, Matt. Thank you very much. All right, there you go. That's the good news.

We didn't want to press Houston with all this labor conversation, but I got news for you. We're just getting you set up. You know what we could also do, honestly, and I hate to do this. He seems like you don't hate it. It can kind of help us out. We can record some shows. about labor troubles.

Yeah. And just play them safe from like April to like next September. Yeah, just tell Jonathan to start recording. And just do the best of the show every day. It would be just the same material. Yeah. The players want to, I don't want a saddle a cap. The owners do.

And there's your news headlines. Yeah, here we go. Three, two, one. Matt, the players are going to have to make some concessions. But the owner, they're just going to have to meet in the middle on this. Three, two, one. It's millionaires versus billionaires. Let's figure it out.

I like that. 3, 2, 1. I miss baseball. America misses baseball. The TV networks miss baseball. 3, 2, 1. At the end of the day, it's the fans who are suffering the most. They have to get something done, Matt.

3, 2, 1. Will the Comets make a trade at the deadline? 3, 2, 1. What are they going to name the hockey team? I go with arrows, Matt. 3, 2, 1. We don't cuss and disgust in Texas linebacker talk here. Don't look at me that way.

I'm sorry. It's been a week. I'm putting a shield up. You are so disappointed in me. We go get some training camp. Let's go. Let's get some training camp in. Shoot.

The Texas, I don't know, is C.J. Strata lead quarterback. Three, two, one. All right. I'm sorry. Back to the baseball. I'm not mad, I'm disappointed. You should be.

I'm disappointed in myself. That was the lowest of all the hanging fruit. How much in the jar, Jonathan, for that one? It feels like it's tripled. Like, 500. He's on in the whole restaurant doing this. Give everybody a shot at $100. $500, I think he said.

$500. I'm sorry, you know what, 1130. Next Friday. No, you should do it right now. And next third and next Friday. Billy, good afternoon to you. I'm sitting here laughing my Rump off. I don't know what I can say on the air or not.

But I'm in traffic, and I don't care. That's how good the show's been so far. I've been enjoying it very much. Hey, just replay what you just said, billionaires and billionaires. That's what I was going to say anyway. But, no, I agree 100% that there's going to be a salary cap and there's going to be a salary floor. I think that they can drop it to 80-20. But my two questions about this whole thing is, one, how long,

are they going to give teams to come in compliance? Because you've got 30 contracts that are six years plus, and they're going to have to get into compliance at some point. And the other is, why not to throw a little bone to the players do like a bird rule, or I guess you could call it the Benilla rule, where you can pay your free agent anything you want for one year and then count against the cap, and then the second year does? But I'm wondering what the, what are the, what are the,

give and take going to be on that floor and ceiling. And one last thing, Matt, just for you, I hate the Spurs, and Spurs fans' pain and tears gives me peace and joy. And, Matt, if you want to be Mr. Texas, be Mr. Texas. But, man, you're Mr. Houston. Just be Mr. Houston, dude. That's who you are, and we love you for it. Have a great day, Matt.

It's a great show, as always. Thank you very much. We appreciate it very much. There you go. There will be a little bit of adjustment because there are going to be some players. There are going to be some teams that are going to have to spend some serious money, which you would think, again, I'm not an economist here, but if all of a sudden the Reds have got two years to get to a certain level,

that means you're going to see a layer of players do very well financially, correct? That's what I think kind of the economics is it makes this kind of interesting. Like, I don't know. Does Juan Soto's contract get grandfathered of... It would have to be. It's kind of like eight more years on it or whatever, nine more year. anymore. And not long of the future contract's going to be.

I don't know, because they're also trying to institute the limit. I mean, they're insane trying to save five-year deals. I mean, come on. You know they don't really believe. No, they can't. If there's something the owners are going to give them, that's going to be probably one of them. Yeah, of course they're going to give up on it, but the fact that they're even proposing, the players know that's being proposed as something that they will scale back on and then say,

oh, we made it's concession. They know, and both sides kind of know where they're standing. So I don't know. Is it just going to simply take loss of revenues from the owners and loss of salaries from the players? It seems like that's going to be the case. And then who's going to blink first? All right. We have non-Florist stories coming up in 15 minutes.

Oh, man. Where's your story from this week? Saskatchewan. Really? Okay. You went to Canada. By the way, got an email from my buddy Jay. Yes?

The NFL Top 100 list is out. Of players? No. snack foods. Okay. I'm going to go brisket nachos number one. Okay. You know what I deserve that.

Guess who's not on the list. Wait. Stop. Can you contain yourself for five minutes? Somebody's not on the list? Who? Who do you think? Will Anderson?

Oh, please. Who is not on the list that's going to generate 20 hours of sports radio with failed radio host on our YouTube page? Tamari Lasseter? No. Oh, Kimey Fairbairn. He's got to be top 100 in my list. All right, we will tell you.

We will tell you who's not on the list. When we return, after I tell you about, Sethi's fine jewelry. If you've said things to your wife that you need to apologize for, like I've done on a daily basis. You got your swear jar filled up? Any worse, this song. This is a ring of bum.

All right. All right, uh, 121 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We have non-flores. What do you have against the ghetto boys? Yeah, it's fine. Oh, jeez. Mine non-flora stories from Australia, and we're going to be pulling a man's man card from it. Okay.

All right. So, you know how much I hate list. Do you? I hate list radio. I hate people's lists. We always make lists. We do? Yeah.

Like, once every three months. I do the top three BTO songs. That's true. We do the Fantasy Five. Yes. We haven't done a fantasy five in a long time. Yeah. Maybe we'll do it next week.

Yeah. Okay. But the NFL's top 100 is officially out. Wonderful. And I'm going to very quickly run through the Houston Texans that are on that top 100 list. Okay, can I guess where they are? Give me the name and I'll guess where they are. That's actually not a bad idea.

I think I kind of like this idea. All right, here we go. And we got, let's go with, we're going to welcome. I promise I have zero clue. We're going to welcome a new member to the top 100 list. And his name is Al-Siz Al-Shayir. Aziz al-Shayir? Yes

88th 92 Okay, I'm pretty close You weren't bad Oh and I've got to continue this This is not going to go well That's fine Close out the ads, Matt

She's not real Matt She just wants to steal your information How do I get to $191?191 I have to go down to How do I get to the rest of them? Oh, this is just terrible Google it, NFL Top 100 All right

While he does that Why did you follow me on Instagram No, that You know what, I got like six followers yesterday. I really appreciate you, folks. Wait a minute. I'm trying to build up. Can I get a few followers, please?

Okay, let's make it about you. I like it. Jesus. Crimeini. All right, okay, if I could plug for five seconds. Let's go ahead, do it. At Sports RV. I would appreciate it as I'm trying to build up my media career.

I would appreciate the follow. Thank you. At Sports RV on Instagram, although there are no longer pictures of my meet up there. Now, wait a minute. The NFL. Oh, okay, get it away from you. Oh, no, no, no, no. This is, this is, they just released 191.

Oh, okay. Maybe this is Pete, there's a different list. Maybe Pete Prisco's list is different. Oh, Pete Priscoe. You know what? Jay, did you give me a bad, I don't care what Pete Priscoll has to say. Oh, you get the Pete Priscoe? Yeah, he's a Jacksonville douche.

He's very pompous. Yeah, why do I, yeah, I don't know. They're only releasing, he'll, yeah, this is not the NFL in it. So I, Jay gave me some bad, our associate producer Jay, give us some bad advice. Well, you actually know who. really likes Pete Prisco. Is it Dan? Does Dan like Pre-Prisco?

Pete Prisco. Oh. Jay Prisco, too. Dan Prisco. Yeah, I don't care. Pete Prisco has his list out. Who cares what Pete Priscoe thinks? Probably got 41 Jaguars on it.

All right, let me step away from that. All right, a couple of things. We got Bachel Tutin. I thought that was odd. Mark Brunel. Still on the list for some reason. I don't know why. Real quick.

The rockets have made. no moves. Oh no! Oh no! The Rockets has made! Rockets'est Twitter is... You're acting like Rockets' Twitter. What's you can do? Fire Rafael Stone. Why is he Madoca here? What's Tillman doing? Why is he the Italian embassy? Fire everyone. Okay, guys, well, it's a hard cap leak. Yeah. We get an apron. You got to resign Tarry Yessen. You can't just wave a magic wand and get Jalen Brown. Life is hard. You've got Kevin Durant. You're hoping Fred Van Vleek comes back. They've got zero-time. together so you have no vision of what it is for them to play together you're hoping it works out

and really that's all you have anyways is hope against the san antonio spurs and the thunder in the west so the reason why you may ask why everybody's losing their mind why are they losing their mind because is jay and joe got traded to the gray pistons today for two second round picks really and the number one thing is why isn't rafel doing something about this isaiah joe isaiah joe nice player yeah i like joe i mean i don't you i mean i don't put him on the Rock and take out of zero problem with that. That's a good easy name for the play-by-play man. Oh, are you kidding me?

We've been one less Janeline out there. Yeah, I like that. Isaiah Joe for three. Flows off the tongue nicely. Yes. Fine, but he's a game changer. I mean, he can help. He's roll.

He'd be better off the bench. Oh, wait a second. They do need to trade for Isaiah, Joe. He's up at the 40%, 42% last year. But three? The part of the reason why the reason why Oklahoma City is doing these deal on the dime, on the cheap, is because they're, the cap. They're going to have to do something.

They're having to do, they're having to reduce the money, so they're getting rid of players. But just because Oklahoma City moved, I see, okay, Rossi, I get it. If Jalen Brown goes to a Western Conference team, if John Morant moves another Western Conference team, if for some reason Donna Mitchell leaves Cleveland, then Rocket Twitter gets all cranky, I can get that. But I'm not getting cranky over Isaiah Joe going to the Detroit Pistons. It's every single move, every single move. Rock's Twitter, quite frankly, has gone downhill significantly, like the last year plus.

The team just won 52 games, and their best player was hurt for five out of six games in the series, and people are acting like they won 25 games. It's insane. Spoiled. I don't know how. I understand how Astros Twitter got spoiled? How the hell does Rocket's Twitter get spoiled? Meanwhile, Texas Twitter is just like, man, we just want a little space.

We love Hannah. We love Cal. Let's go Texas. Twitter is a tumbleweeds going through that bad. But you, let me tell you something. I, I erroneously mentioned a top 100 list. If you know who's on a part of it, C.J. Stride, they're going to lose their mind. Why should he be in the top 100?

I'm not arguing with you by this. Who's losing their mind? Who's legit, Rob? Who's legitimately, there's no way. I mean, I'm not going to say there's going to be nobody. Maybe some random guy on Twitter. You don't think there'll be a half dozen radio shows in this market. It will get into it.

C.J. Stride is being disrespectful. David Mulligette might lose his mind. If he's not in the top 100. Yeah. But who in their real. reasonable right mind, lose their mind. A quarterback who had 19 touchdowns and eight picks and was, look like accusations of point shavings weren't going too far in the playoffs.

That's how poorly he played. Who's getting upset about that? With an actual functioning brain. It's going to happen. All right. I want you to show it to me when it happens. Well, I mean, we got a week. Again, people with over.

I don't count Pete Prisco. So, Jay, my man, Jay, I love you like a step brother, but Pete Priscoe ain't the list. I would love you to send me tweets from people with over nine followers who get upset. Over nine? That C.J. Stroud. How many bots that? The top 100. Was he even in there the year before?

Was it 2025 top 100? Oh, he's probably been in there before, right? Yeah, probably like at one point. And I don't care. I'm getting to the billboard top 100. But congratulations to Al Zichai. I'm sure he'll be able to play better football this year because he made the top 100. Damn, Sequin was number one last year.

We find interesting stories. Stories that occur outside the state of Florida and share them with the people of Houston. It's time for 790 from Big City Wings in Edo. Here we go. I want to tell you about an Australian couple, gentlemen, and folks listening to us. The male's name is Brett Borland. Brett Borland.

Brett Borland. At Al's cousin. The woman's name is Georgie Abella. It's a Georgia Bella. that. So when usually you get married, what normally happens with the names of the people? Well, in 2026? Generally, they don't always take the name. Generally.

There could be a hyphenation. There could be, I know several marriages that have happened recently where there's been no name change. People kept their names. I went to a wedding two weeks ago. The woman took the male's name. And that's generally speaking, probably what, 75% range in that group? I don't know what the percentage. Point being is this.

Mr. Borland was considering taking her name. Okay. Miss Abela wasn't sure that she wanted to take his name. Okay. So how do they resolve this? They invited people at their wedding to take part in a multi-event competition. Okay. To determine their shared surname.

Oh, so they had a list. They were going to hyphenate it or they were going to put them together in combined two words into one, which is known as a portmanteau mat. I believe it was going to be one of the other. Either Borland or Abella, but no dash. Not like Borabella. Correct.

Okay. So you're saying, what did they do to determine this? What did they do to determine this, Matthew? The families, the friends, Mr. Borland and Mrs. Abella, played Tug of War. Okay. They had a twerk contest. Oh, so they had the Females versus the Borlands.

It was like the Hatfields and McCoys. Oh, okay. And don't forget, I got one more for you. They had a patinistak race. Okay, that's beautiful. They had five events. Yes. And the best of five got to determine what name they would use.

I would have liked them to do like something intellectual, like maybe a Jeopardy round. Or maybe karaoke with a judge. It would be pretty good, but I don't know. You got to get impartial judges on that. The reality is the best of five did not go to five. It went to four. Okay. And Mr. Borland won, so now her name is Georgie Borland.

Oh, great. That's great news. I may come across as a sexist, but too damn bad. Oh, here we go. I'm a traditionalist. Yes, traditionalist. I say man card pulling if you are willing to take the woman's name. I know people who they don't like their last name, or it's lengthy, or it's spelled weird,

or they always, it's hard for them people to pronounce, so they take the woman's name. What's wrong with that? Who cares? I don't know a single person in my life that a man has ever taken a woman's name. Okay. I've heard of it before. The wedding that I officiated a couple years ago,

neither of them changed their name. I've heard it. Yeah. But I've never heard of a man taking the woman's name. I don't care. Why would you care? Man car. Why?

It's just traditional. The wedding ceremonies typically are traditional. The ceremony, the certificate, the life. you typically take the man's name and it just seems a little weird that's all I got I don't care all all right it's sometimes traditions and I'm like who cares that's why I asked a ruling I ask for ruling I mean I don't know I don't know what Jonathan thinks he can weigh in a well now the dashing I'm used to yeah I'm used dashing yeah dashing we're used to you get your man card pull for a dash no okay what about if she doesn't take it at all nope okay so you're only in Matt the when we think of manliness we think

of Matt. So, when the main card... Shut up. Not you, him. Oh, I'm sorry. I wasn't laughing. Our associate engineer who's on a bang-up job today, if you can tell. Yeah, I'm just going to say, I don't think men should take women's names.

That just seems weird. I mean, I imagine he has his reasons. Does he not like his name or... No, I think he's whipped. Okay. All right, that's my non-floor story. We move along. Thank you.

He's looking to have a good honeymoon. I mean, yeah, exactly. Hey, happy wife, happy life. I thought that's what they said. Okay. Go on. What's yours? Matt, I have some good news that has turned out to be bad news.

All right. Let me take you to Oakland, California, where there has been a crackdown from the Oakland Police Department, and they have been doing very, very well to where break-ins in cars. cars are down 37% year to year comparing May 2025 to May 2026. So you're saying, that's great. Fewer break-ins. Well, you know who's not happy?

Who? Low-price auto glass in Oakland. They are pissed. They're losing business. Owner Rod Singh says the decrease has directly impacted the once-reliable portion of his business. Quote, there is the door glass repair if there's any break-ins or vandalism. That segment of my business has been down about 30%.

He says his five service bays are usually frequently filled with break-in victims. And now he is not happy with the recent crackdown and subsequent curbing of break-ins in Oakland, California. So the man's economy is being impacted by the fact that there's less crime. He says, we've taken quite a hit. He's reduced his workforce. he had to lay off three of his seven installers because now he can only afford the salary four of them due to the decreased demand in his auto glass repair service.

So basically, we're not your non-fluoressurgies. We need more crime in Northern California. Or Rod just got to get out there and start smashing and grabbing. I got you. He wants to get his business back up. Real quick, I got a note on Twitter. If Taylor Swift tells Travis Kelsey to change his name to Travis Swift, would he do it? Why not? It's a better name. It's more famous. It's easier to say.

You probably get more marketing deals as Travis Swift than you would as Travis Kelsey. Because we would always say Kelse or Kelk. We didn't know what it was when he first came out. I say, go do it. Jan emails says, I would take Oprah's last name. And then I want you to go to Travis Kelsey and tell him in his face you're taking his man card. He's not going to do it, though. All right. Jonathan. your turn for a non-floor story. All right. Y'all got me all right?

Yes, sir. By the way, I agree. I kind of on that side. Take his man card. That's fine. Not take a man card, but it's more traditional. Anyway, let me get to my story real quick. So this is happening at Pasadena Police Department over there.

Los Angeles Times reported a police was shot by another police officer. This was happening last year in 2025, but a video resurfaced here. recently about what happened. Apparently they were in a garage area and one of the officers outside of the car branded his weapon and like aimed it at the officers. It's like a horseplay like, oh, I'm going to shoot you. But like, and put it back in his holster. Though, though it was a woman, a woman cop inside the other car that she got, she did the same thing. And next to you know, she shot him in the shoulder. And this is all I'm, this is. This is. This is all on video, and he goes down in pain or whatever. And we're saying that both of them are now discharged. And so the whole Pasadena mayor had to come out saying this type of unprofessional behavior is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated.

And apparently the dude that got shot, the police officer is fine. They didn't want it to be blown up into an investigation, obviously, because, you know, cops are having bad names late recently. but shot him, they shot his other thing doing a horseplay at the station. When we have horseplay at 790, we just throw things at each other like pens. I'm no gun safety expert. No, you're not. But it's my understanding that you do not point a gun at another person unless you intend to shoot them. Yeah.

I mean, you can play a rushing rule out, but that usually doesn't turn out very well either, right? Well, it didn't work out well for, what's his name? And Deer Hunter? Yeah, how do the Russians feel about their roulette game being named after our country? I don't know. Christopher Walken. There we go. Deer Hunter, like four hours.

Yeah, we have an Astros rotation for the rest of the weekend. Okay. And that means that either we got guys going to the bullpen or other guys that are on rehab appearances aren't ready just yet. We'll tell you about that. Plus, I see a nasty, not nasty, a funny rumor about who could be the. Interim manager of the New York Mets. Mr. Met? Met? The person that I saw, and I'm looking to verify this, is over 80 years old.

Terry Collins. Find out next. 713-212-5-7-9. All right, let me get a phone call in. We've got to play a little bit of audio. By the way, the manager that I've been hearing as a potential replacement, I'm not even going to announce because I think it was a joke. Okay, good. The guy has 17,000 followers, and he covers the team.

Can I just say it? Say, I think I got hoodwinked. Lou Penella may be considered as a replacement. He's 82. It wouldn't be impossible. Okay. But, I mean, Terry Collins wasn't that far off. Terry Collins. Which Jimmy Williams out to?

He's dead. Oh, so not much. Yeah, probably not much. Patrick on 790. Thank you for waiting. Patrick, good afternoon. Good afternoon, Matt. Good afternoon, Ross.

Joe. Matt, I know you were in Galveston last weekend. I live in Galveston. I was up the road today, running some errands and I came over the Kima slash Ceebrook Bridge and I couldn't help but see all those roller coasters over there. And I thought about what you said, I guess it was yesterday,

about not wanting to get on any of those roller coasters. When one of your employers, Mr. Petita has the thing in Galveston and in Kema. I thought I could hear Ross cringe and try and get you to back out of it. No, no. You kept hammering it. No, no, I'm not anti Those places

My kids love pleasure, peer We love going to chema I'm just not going on a ride Thanks for the phone call Thank you Yeah I don't think I was trying to Glean

Say anything I don't like to I'm on And I didn't No roller coaster either No, I'm done with Rollercoasters period I don't care of

Rossville or Real owns them I like my head Attached to my body By the way That's nothing against Mr. What are you trying? You're trying to get me in trouble With my boss

I'm sure Tillman's doing great Yeah I'm sure he's racked I'll tell you, gosh, on the pleasure pier. I run over to Landrys quite often. Yes. And I'm, I'm sure all the T's are crossed and the lower-case Jays are dotted at the Pleasure Pier.

Yeah. The regulations are fine. Yeah, I'm just not going to get on it. Yeah, Greenspoint parking line, I'm not so sure. Oh, Lord of no. I don't know that Tellman's not running the Greenspoint Park lot, is he? Gunshots before you get on the ride. Come on.

Oh, come on. You know, I'm right. Hey. You check your piece at the entrance. There is no entrance. It's right off of 45. Oh, who did I give my gun to? Exactly.

No, are you kidding? I spend a lot of money. I'm at the rolling rugged, and I'm eating dinner at Randries. And I'm a gum, Bubba Gump, and I've been eating at Lortons for steak. Yeah. And average Joe's, no, I'm sorry, Joe's Crab Shack. Average Joe's from the movie Dodgeball. Sorry, I got crossed out.

You did more damage than I just did. I feel better about that. I'm sorry, above average Joe's Crab Shack. There you go. Let me tell you something. Tell me any worry about me. I've spent a lot of money with his places. You got our money at the Nugget last week.

We did. The restaurant. The restaurant, yeah. We were able to get it back of a casino. It did okay. But he don't care. I got lucky. They're happy.

We'll be hanging out of his places in Vegas in a couple weeks. So excited about that. All right. Okawa Tong is still in the Astros rotation. I'm not surprised. Very interesting. No, I don't think of a year. supposed to start this week, right?

Well, he's had four... I'm sorry, weekend, I should say it. He's had four rehab. He's got not much more he can do. Does that mean Javier on Sunday? What is... Or Hunter Brown on Sunday? Javier to the bullpen.

That's what I said, two hours ago. I know, you could be right. But I thought, I don't know. Are they really that bullish on Kauway Tong in the bullpen over... Well, my point was yesterday. I don't think you can treat his arm and say bully three weeks, starter four weeks. There's a law.

Are you going to go to maybe some kind of piggyback situation? at some point. With McCullors and sure you could. You could do McCullors and Hobbier. Oh, that's a real one-two punch right there. Hey. He! He!

Hey! Say that? Yeah. These men have families. That's a real lightning and thunder combo. These men have family sports R. I understand. But we're also supposed to talk honestly about how they're going to perform.

We cannot sugarcoat, Matt. All right, before we get out of here. On Twitter. Oh, this guy doesn't even follow me. Good. Come on, D.K. DRK-14, G.L. Valdez. Democratic Republic of the Congo is following you?

Let me just give you what he said, and then we're going to play the audio. Okay. We had just got in the vehicle right before noon, and now my grandson won't stop. Here's the audio. Wow. The kid might be, too. You're corrupting the young minds. This is the greatest sweet ever.

The kids say, good morning strippers. Play it again. We need to keep this on like a speed dial. So when I'm ever off on Fridays, you play that instead. Yeah. Because have you ever done that all the time? I don't believe that at all. Oh, yeah.

You don't even follow the format of the show when I'm not here. We do all the bits. Yeah, we'll play. Oh, that's a lie. Oh, we'll play it a ton. Yeah, we've forgotten. I just don't get it. You forgot to shut your bum at.

Whatever. Jonathan tells me, he sells you out. Whatever button we're going to break the button. We're going to use that so much. Jonathan, you, I know where you are. Oh, I can't wait. All right. Let's remind the folks about the show federal credit.

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