The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Anything Goes Friday!! Astros vs White Sox Today!

Episode Date: July 24, 2026

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10 H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show at Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Terry, I thought you were a multi-millionaire. Let's find out of. Terry, did you get my binball account? And I'm not seeing any deposits from you lately.

What's going on with that? I'm not giving you any money, you're money, rob them. Are you going to play that every week? Is that what you're in your repertoire now? It's kind of great. I'm not giving you money, you money, grubber. You don't sound like Gil Biden, but I am. Terry, just not my biggest medal here.

Whatever, Terry. Love me some Terry. Sweet kid. No, he's not. Honor our veterans, Matt. Why do you hate Terry? He's old and grumpy. It doesn't promise me money, and he hasn't sent it yet.

Yeah, he said he was going to buy us a steak dinner if the Astros beat the Guardian. And they did, two out of three. That's right. They meatloafed it actually. Absolutely. All right. Good morning, everybody.

Good morning. It's 104 here on a glorious... Beautiful. Rained yesterday, which my yard... Weather's perfect. ...perioded it, yes. Walk outside into the sauna. How is it a freaking sauna at 11 at night?

It's just so annoying. Don't care. Don't care. Don't care. Shut your bum ass up. I'm sorry. I care. I care that it feels like I'm in a...

middle of a broiler and it's 1130 at night. I know. And the feels like temperature's still 94. And the feels like two days ago was 117. I do care. I like to go outside. I want to have some coffee on my porch in the morning. I would like to go for a walk.

You can't do anything. And then when it's 9,000 degrees outside, then you get a warning that the air quality is bad. All fair. Fantastic. But when you live one day, when today's high here in the Minneapolis, St. Paul area is minus seven. You don't bitch about it.

I'm not talking about Minneapolis. I'm talking about to Houston, Texas. I'm not worried about what they're doing over there. Don't you know? All right? You always drop the Fargo on it. I'm worried about what's happening here. What if you got a job is?

And the air is unbreathable. Hold on. And there's a lot. It's moist. Oh, damn it. Stop. When there's moisture in the air, Matt, it's moist. Okay.

There's tropical storms. When I'm watching Channel 2 in the morning, I'm not watching my buddy Justin Sapleton saying, hey, everybody's going to be a moist day out here. Yeah, you might say that. No, they don't say it. Soppy. No. Sopping wet.

The word moist sucks. I don't care what, the word moist is fine. When there's moisture, it's moist. Get over it, okay? I hate, I hate, feels like 117. I can live with it. All right. It is, as you can clearly tell, is the case every Friday for the first.

first five minutes of our shows on Friday. It's anything goes Friday. You know what? I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that rant. You're trying to get into all the big sports topics we have today. Yeah, we're going to get into them Texans and that offensive line. Whether or not they're going to get into that, whether or not that Mr. Blankenship's going to be that extra safely we'll be looking for.

Why didn't you go into Foghorn, leghorn? I don't say, I say, I don't know why I did that. Now I say, now I say Keelan Rutledge has a mean streak now. Let's get in some Keelan Rutledge. Let's talk. What y'all say? Shoo! We made the jar, Jonathan, and it's just not working. I don't know what to do. We've got to up the penalty somehow. You can't.

Because as much as I want to... It's like in Catholicism, you got to stay Hail Mary every time. Like, we need to make you do something. We need this every time you do that. It is a hurt, too. Every time you do that, say, I am not Mr. Texas. I can't do that. Why not? Because even if I say it, the people around the area, you know.

Everyone's just joking. They're like pulling your leg. You're like, oh, Mr. Texas. All right. Mr. Texas doesn't like brisket and Dr. Pepper. So here we go. So Terry's on the line and it says the money he sent. Let's take a look at the money.

I'm looking to see where he said. I'm checking my Venmo at Sports RV. Sports, you know what? I see yours. I don't owe you anything. Not yet. Commissions. I'm making my survey, by the way.

Yeah, look what I've got. $10. That's all I got in my Venmo. He sent you $10? No, no, this is what I left over from Vegas. Oh, that'd be great. No, you got to send you got to cash that out. and never pay extra because

you don't get it with it No, it's always a day. All right, Astros and the Pale Hose. Oh, we were talking about team nicknames. And it's one of you don't normally use. Yeah, it feels a little dated. A little dated. It feels like 100 years dated.

Yeah. I mean, Terry would recognize it. And Shulis Joe Jackson and the Pale Hose are in town for three at the Polo Grounds. at Kamiski Park on the southern side of Chicago which people say is the nice side of Chicago Yes here at 1934

People gravitate to the south side For the fine Italian cuisine And pleasant neighborhood atmosphere And what you're looking at here It's Al Capone and his mistress in the front row And Joe Mixing is gunner down there Over there eventually Joe Mixon wasn't in the 1919 white Sox season

No but his gun was No, he wasn't. By the way, I went and looked at a lot of people's Twitter account about somebody's got like somebody shooting Joe Mixon. Oh. Now it's compared to him doing it himself, which really doesn't really matter. Which I would win, by the way.

I don't think so. Yes, I do. Gunshot was a- You said he shot himself. A gunshot's a gunshot. I'm going to check the bet. You would still lose, Ross. Give me, no, I wouldn't.

Thank you. No, I would not. A gun shot's a gunshot. No, I would not. I'm going to go, I'm looking at the language of the bet right now. and I wrote down the date, I'll pull the damn audio. You said he shot himself in the foot and I have the field. So you're really going to take a victory if we find out that somebody in his family or friend.

I'm going to savor every bite of that pistachio croissant. Jonathan. He's going to, if there is a gunshot wound involved, he's going to take the W on that. If it's something. Oh, my God. Delicious Kuna Man. Hmm. Some cold brew.

I don't get this strange language. you use. It's delicious. It's going to be so good. First of all, you already owe it. I probably do. I literally have every other possibility in the world, except for a self-inflicted gunshot wound of the foot and a botched surgery. I think I'm fine. And if I'm not, you know what? I'll give you double. I'll give you two

coffees and two pastries. I'll get Jonathan too. When he's, when the truth comes out and he's like CEO somewhere, I'll still get you a coffee, Jonathan. Oh, here it is. This is Don Soprano. This is what happens. Don Soprano. He's verified.

Oh, yeah, yeah. He pays eight bucks a month. This is what happens when your brother-in-law shoot you in the foot accidentally. Okay, we got a brother-in-law. 1.43 p.m. on January 15th, we made the bet. I wrote the time down. Coffee and pastry of choice. Joe Mixon shot himself in the foot.

Matt has that. Ross has the field. It literally says that. In the document, Jonathan. Minnesota. on Twitter, says supposedly he dropped a big weight on his foot while working. The rest is unknown. Maybe one of those 45 pound plates.

All right. Well, let's go. Where's my pastry? Let's see here. I'm doing my Judge Judy. Let's go. Is the foot still attached? Yeah, has his foot been severed?

I mean, he's going to eventually come out in public. Someone's going to shoot a photo of him, right? Yeah. Is he going to try to run in the NFL? the wooden foot? No, he's done. Oh. Yeah. Aaron Wilson says he's done. Yeah. All right. Astros and the pale

hose today at they're starting in six. And have you ever heard the White Sox called the Pale Hose? Actually, once before. Was it Matt? Maybe. So when I used to work in Minneapolis, you know, the twins and the White Sox from the same division. And

I had never heard it until I got up there. Oh, really? So I thought they were saying pale hose. Yeah. And I'm like, damn, why are you talking about the white girls in Chicago that way? Mm-hmm. Come to find out, I wouldn't do a little Google search. It was pale H-O-S-E, hose as in panty hose. Mm-hmm.

Thus the socks, so. The white socks. Yeah. All right. On the radio program today, not a really piping hot day of sports topics. So remember, on a Friday like this, more so than perhaps any other Friday, it's than anything goes Friday in the show. Anything.

Give some topic ideas, Rossi. Yeah, if you want to talk about the Texans have training camp coming back very soon. Your top three storylines going into Texans training camp? I mean, we can do that for sure. I don't mind doing that at all. How will the offensive line be configured? Can Keel and Rutledge hold down the center spot? And what are they going to do in the guards with the guards and basically everything but left tackle?

Can Arionte Urshry make that next leap that the Texans need him to make? and most importantly, what does Tankdale have left in the? I can't think of an answer, no. A tank. Can't think. How about this? How about we do this for, well, this is a little sample exercise. It's anything that goes Friday.

Which offensive linemen are you most interested in seeing during training camp? Okay. No, this is not you. This is the audience. Oh, which left-handed bat should the Astros acquire? Are they quiring anybody? They have to? How about do it now?

Now, that's ridiculous. The market apparently is very, very, very tough right now. That's not a good sign for the local buy. There's only a few buyers. By the way, I'm sorry, sellers. Stanings Watch 790 did not move from yesterday because everybody involving the Stanings Watch played. The only team's truly, truly out in the AL are the A's, Royals, and Angels.

Blue Jays are pretty much out. Blue Jays should know they're out. Tigers are trying to pretend they're in. Astros are trying to pretend they're in. I'm sorry, Astros are in it. There you go, wink, wink. There you go. Two games out means you're in.

It just does. Well, they're trying to pretend their contenders. They could be. Just a lot of things have to happen. Well, I mean, a lot of wonderful things. Like better pitching. Oh, somebody in the outfield getting a hit. Oh, you know what?

Let's start counting. Hunter Brown has to pitch better. Emi has to be more consistent. Renel Blanco's got around in a form. Don't forget Erigetti. Hayden Wesneski needs to come back. Arrogate needs to find a four. form closer to May.

Brian Abrayuio has to keep on hitting better. Jose Altuve has to hit better. Christian Walker needs to improve. Jeremy Payne needs to keep it up. Plus, stay healthy. And the entire team needs to stay healthy. I just said 10 things that need to happen. It's 10 simple rules.

What's the name of that show? 10 simple things. For dating my daughter. Yeah, something like that. Or something like that. Ellie Coahu, wow. Dynamic. Dynamic.

I thought we were just breaking down what the Astros needed to do to make the playoff. I'm asking for what offensive linemen was. So if all those 10 things happen, I will call the Astros a contender. I don't care what you want to call them. I'm going to call them maybe division champs by the end of this year. Because this division sucks. Don't fool yourself into your contenders and give off any pieces.

When you win a division, that makes you a contender. It just does by default. No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't make you a contender. It makes you into the playoffs. In the playoffs, which means you're contending for an American League pennant. 22nd in ESPN's power rankings in baseball. I don't care about power rankings.

We don't care about power rankings in baseball. You know it's funny because we've been talking about trades that I've been trying to brush up and like, I'm like, oh, who's trade targets? Let me look at this article. Let me that. Every article is like, yeah, Astros need to sell. Yeah. There's not a single person outside of the 7-13, 832-281. Oh, my God.

I think it's 50% of 7-13 wants them to sell too. Yeah, I'm saying, but there's not a single person outside of here that thinks they should buy. No. No, because they're looking at. things strictly from a record perspective. And power rankings, which, as you know, power rankings suck. We don't care about pocket rankings, except the rotten five. Yes.

That's it. All right. Anything goes Friday. 713, 212, 5790. Which offensive linemen for the Texans is pivotal? Pivotable. Pivotable. No, pivotal.

There you go. Third time to charm of that. Pivotal for the Texans success in 2026. Is it ariot anniversary? Of course. Of course. 713. 212.790.

Anything goes Friday on Sports Talk 790. He's got an email in from the athletic, finding the perfect trade target for every contending MLB team. Oh, that's a good email from the athletic. We can read that one. Mine says your card has been declined. Please re-up. Yours says, please stop grifting off other people's accounts. That's not true.

We see what you're doing. I support journalism. Yeah. I pay for that. athletic and The Chronicle. I do too. Because they bully me every time I try to cancel. Well, it's funny because...

All right, fine. Yeah, they wanted to charge me like $17 a month. I'm like, I'm not doing that. I said, see you later. And then the guy made me like five offers until he got... I got him down to like 99 cents a week. That's not terrible. You're actually paying more than I am.

Oh, you're less than that? Okay. No, no, no, no. You're paying... I'm paying more than you are. Yeah, call to cancel. Again? When did you do it the last time?

About three weeks ago? Oh, okay. No, you might want to wait. Oh, damn it. Well, you gave him before I did. I was ready to walk away. Yeah, he says, I mean, the guy was probably in Afghanistan or something like,

excuse me, sir, we'll be happy to give you Houston Chronicle, Houston's leading information source. We will drop it from the rate we were going to charge you to the rate you were just paying. Like, okay, yeah, exactly. I'm not going to pay more. I went further than that because I was ready to really, really cancel. And then they went down to like 99 cents a week. The only time I really play hardball is with Sirius XM because I like the sports channels.

Oh, I know. My brother said he does that too. and he said the last time he was like, no, I'm done. And then they were like, okay, bye. Oh, they really did hang up on it. He was like, oh, dang. That's like a loss in your life, right?

I did that to Xfinity. I was like, I'm canceling my cable. They're like, oh, okay, cool. So give us the box back. I was like, damn it. What did you do? I was ready to walk away. I was ready to walk away.

Okay. Well, I went to Fubo sucks. I went to DirecTV stream. App sucks. So I don't know what to do now. Yeah, you're in a tough spot there. All right. Let's talk to some people.

It is, and anything goes Friday. Terry says he sent us some money. That's a lie. So we're going to call him off of the fraud that he is. Terry, where's my money? I told you, I sent it to Western Union when you were in Vegas, but you hung up. You didn't get the password. So I took it out.

Oh, okay. Yeah, it's definitely my fault. How much money did you send me, by the way? A thousand. Oh, that was nice. So there's $1,000 in the world that's being unused at this? point he said he pulled it back oh you did okay yeah Terry pulled out hey got a question Matt yeah sure whatever are you bald yes I am and beautiful by the way I am extraordinarily handsome thanks for asking

who who polishes your head for you he's laughing at its own no that's what's making me a laugh not laughing at his joke I'm laughing that he giggled at himself I mean there's a really good answer but it would probably be rude right back to you so I'm not going to say it say it because I got something for you. Oh, no, I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to do it. So go ahead and fire your salvo off. I don't care. What's the matter, Matt? You don't have the guts to say it? That is correct. We're FCC regulated station. Please clip that. Oh, my God. That's just made my life. All y'all want to be radio host, don't you? You think you can do it, huh? No, you can't.

you cannot do it I began to see why your wife left you over a billion 200 trillion 200 billion dollars how much did you send to Vegas he said a thousand over a billion 200 trillion 200 billion dollars

this is low key one of my favorites but folks I can tell you and I've known eight presidents three of the minimum just remember I don't care how old you are, you're never going to be as funny as me.

That was funny. When he'd giggled at himself. Yeah, he was very pleased of his efforts. Then he goes, yeah. Did he even finish it? Brian and Paraly. I love Terry so much. Brian, good morning.

Hey, good morning, guys, and happy Friday. Real quick on the Texans question, and I do have a, just a random, anything goes Friday question for you guys. Just out of curiosity since there's no Astros game to review last night or to cover. But I think it is ursery.

I think they need to hit on one of these tackles. They worked on King and Green and Titus Howard didn't pan out to be what they wanted. So I think it's got to be ursery, especially if they moving to the left side and he's going to protect CJ's blindside

this year and help with the running game. So I think it's going to be ursery there. But I think he's the key this year. So on the on the online but a anything goes Friday question for you and Ross I'd be curious I'm not sure if you're too much

in the lineage and all that but I heard this on a on a show a few months back wasn't a sports show but if you can go back everything being the same today you don't have to live in that time period but would you rather go two generations back and find out everything about your great grandparents and your grandparents and you know

where the Thomases or the villa reaos came from and kind of their journey and their story and all of that. You got to know them present day and all of that. Or would you rather go two generations forward and know, Matt, you're a great grandkids. So Curley's grandkids, what she grows up to, and the kids grow up to be like as parents and all that, would you rather go two generations forward and have that relationship

and see all that turns out or go two generations back and find out, you know, how the Thomas is and all that. came to Texas and all of that. So, like, my grandfather moved over from Czechoslovakia, but I was 12 when he died, so I didn't know much about him, and he primarily spoke Czech, and, you know, my dad was the youngest of 10 kids. I'm always fascinated with his journey here to the States and how he got here,

but unfortunately, most people don't know much about it. So me, I'd rather go two generations back, but I think going two generations forward would be cool as well. And anything goes Friday topic. Thank you very much. All right. Thank you, Brian. We'll give you the answer when we come back. Mine's easy.

Mine's very easy. I have no kids, so I can't go forward. I will hold mine off. And what I've heard about, generations back isn't so grand. I'm going to stay in the present. He didn't give you that option, Rossi. I'm good. You don't get to stay in 2026.

I'm going to cover those stones. I'm just glad I'm here. I'm glad we made it, folks. Don't you dare. It's anything goes Friday, anything but that. Well, then you should let me do it then. All right, how about this? Every time you do that, I'm going to just say,

if five times in a row, you're not Mr. Texas. No, because I don't want that out there in this trial. You're not Mr. Texas. You're not Mr. Texas. Oh, you know what you stopped yourself. I'm sorry. I did. I do want to take Mr. Texas here.

On Altuve, Durant, and Stroud, Sports Talk 790. Guaranteed human. That's one. That's two, and we will leave it at three. LeBron James. Oh, can I guess? Please.

Oh, please be Miami Heat. Then I went some money. First, let's guess the contract. Oh, man. This is maybe as stunning as anything else. Okay. Good for him. One year, 15 million. Close.

Two years, eight million with a player option. Oh. That's good. That's the first time in his career. said he would never take a discount and he was all about the money. No, no, no, no. I didn't say he never said it. I said he never has.

Some said he never would do that because he's got too much of an ego and he would never do that. Some said. All right. Guess the team now. You get two guesses. Really? Yeah. So it's off the board.

I'll go sixers then. LeBron James, two year $8 million deal with the player option with the Philadelphia 76ers. Gutfilly hit! But I lose money. Damn it. But I hit the gut. feeling. I thought, see, yes. That's the best

spot for him. They can win the championship. It's the best spot, but I'm still surprised. I thought yeah, I'm surprised as well. Yeah, once you said give two chances, then it wasn't going to be Miami or Cleveland to me. That was like the hint. I didn't mean to do it to you. Yeah, yeah, no. But it worked out. Good for you.

I'm deducing on the fly, man. I like when you deduce. No way. So So this is, okay, let's be, two years, eight million? First of all, for a million, just first. This is a ring chase, which, again, I don't have a problem with ring chase. When you're 30-something years old and you're down the last few days and you are trying to cement your legacy, when you have to continue to hear about Michael Jordan and his rings, you are going to go ring chase.

Well, let me ask you, what else is he supposed to do? That's exactly right. I'm not begrudging this at all. Yeah, well, you know what? I can't believe he doesn't want to go to the Wizards and try to turn them around at 41 years old. Yeah. This is, but that's a leg, I mean, Darrymore's got to be rolling over in his grave right now. I mean, my gosh.

I can't believe he didn't sign with the Nets. No kidding. Yeah, he wants to go win. So let's put this perspective. Going home would have helped. But home is home. I don't think Cleveland is close. I think Philly's way closer.

Of course, the big giant in all caps if Joe Al-M-Bee is healthy. but Jalen Brown, as long as he's healthy. This is a smash. This is a smash landing spot for him, I think. And I think anybody that was doing this the last few days was like, there is a legitimate number one spot for winning. And it's Philadelphia. Miami doesn't know what Yannis is going to bring there.

First of all, Janus has had a terrible history, not terrible, but a recent history of missing some games, missed a lot of last season. Now that Joel M. Bede hasn't missed a boatload of games in Philadelphia, but Jalen Brown is first. I mean, they're building this thing. This is, he's the fourth best player on the team, and that's great for the 76ers.

They have Tyrese Maxwell's still, right? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's a, that's a really, really good team. You know what we should have done, Jonathan? We should have played the 76ers music to celebrate. Get it now. Go ahead and get it out.

I love that song. It's such a good song. It's a jam. It is such a gym. No, good, bad things are happening when we hear it. Yeah, it's never a good sign. Ross is calling me myself on Ross. It's a rocket's loss.

Philadelphia, 76. This song has got to be, what, 50 plus years old? I don't care what. It's timeless, Matt. It is such a jam. It always has been, and it always will be. You didn't hit the post. That's okay.

Try it one more time. I hit the post of the bam, bam, bam. Yeah, I know you did. They came on the second beat. They came on the downbeat. 76ers So these dudes Went to recording studio

Yeah Played this song They did it And then they went out and drank Like man this is We just had a little catchy little tune here People are gonna love this song I think so

They didn't go out of that going This thing sucks Maybe they took their paychecks And they went to Bible study No I don't believe that I believe they were smoking Uh Maybe a little bit of a

Swisher Sweet and had Maybe they made this and went to go ahead a cheese steak and a spoon's farm They went to go have a cheese steak at the Liberty Bell

Not that we stereotype No we don't Maybe they went to the rocky statue And ran up to it Yeah I don't know the rocky statue You probably wouldn't there Turn it up

That's a jam Oh, this is the jam part right here Oh So break it on down baby Oh this I want to meet the guy That's playing this part of the song right now Now look, we don't play this on Rocket Nights

because that's a bad sign. Oh, the piano player? Oh, my God. He is 88 years old right now, and he is still at a blues club somewhere in Philadelphia. 76ers. And the problem is, you know, the worst part about it is Philadelphia is one of my least favorite NBA towns.

Oh, really? They have a good casino and good food, but they're angry, mean people. The weather's usually crappy. hotel's nice but you know it is what it is all right uh brian we did not forget your question about the generational thing but you know breaking news sometimes gets in the way here so wow that's it is shocking i'm with you that he took so little money years eight million dollars oh lebron good for you yeah again he's chasing he's chasing rings most great players do

he wants to be on a good team he wants to win Yeah. So, I mean, yeah, it's different way. You can frame it as ring chasing or frame it as, I mean, there's no reason he would join the Brooklyn Nets. I mean, Kevin Durant was not pining to go to play with Atlanta Hawks, but that way. Yeah, if he'd sign with Utah Jazz, that'd have been really shocking. That have been very shocking. Very, very shocking. Yeah, he wants to go win. He's 41 years old. I kind of didn't think he would do this.

Let's do this. real quick before we go the phones and Nolan and Keith will get to you. The Lakers are indifferent to this because this is old news of them. How does Cleveland feel out? Do they feel like the chosen one the hometown kid let them down again?

Oh, he's getting more jerseys burned. People are getting the lighter fluid out right now. That was tough, yeah. How do you think Miami's feeling right now? Probably spurned, but probably okay. They still have Janus and Bam? Let me tell you got Janus and Bam. You ain't crying over.

You know, I guarantee you what Miami Sports is. Why don't want that 41-year-old in there? This guy is washed. I don't want him rucking. I don't want him picking he is prime LeBron. When I got Yonis de Dentigupo and I got Bam out of bio, I don't need that distraction on my team. How is Golden State feeling?

Probably a sense of relief, I would think. They're old enough as it is. They were just trying to. I mean, and you need a place with defense. I mean, Joel Embed is not like a lockdown defender, but he's pretty decent in the paint. Jalen Brown's a great perimeter defender. Tyrese's

Decent. They can all score, though. My God. You have to hide LeBron's defense. That's one of the things you're going to have. They're going to score 120 points a game. No matter where he lands, you have to hide his defense. You have to hide him somewhere. Because in the playoffs, if you are bad, as you know, Matt,

and we know here in Houston, they will find you. They will hunt you and they will find you. And they'll call your name out publicly too. Yeah, I'll point him out. They'll start pointing at the guy. It's not fun. LeBron is a 76er. Hmm.

Opening night, Philadelphia at the Lakers. You kind of feel right, right? Or does it? Yeah. Yeah, it works any number of ways. It feels like. Philly and Nix, obviously. Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no. Rating champs. Nix Sixers in New York. LeBron and New York City opening up. That sounds, that sounds, yeah, at MSG, that makes sense. All right, get to making your schedule, Adam Silver. Yeah, let's get that. out here. I've got to figure out my life here.

1043, sports talk, 790, 713, 212, 5, 790. So I gave it a 3 multi-on-on-the-breaking news. That was 5's the all-time highest. I thought 3 would be good. Now, LeBron moving to Miami was a 5.

You think so? Back in the decision. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think you meant right now, like, eh? No, no. I thought 3 was good, right? I was thinking about 4. That was shocking. Yeah. Because most of everyone thought he was going to go back to Cleveland. All right, let's go to the phones.

Wasn't he at the Cleveland Boys and Girls Club? I told you I have a buddy of mine who says he insisted on me. He said, Matt, he's going to Cleveland. So I told his, I just texted my friend. I said, tell your friend to F off. You are, if you are a YouTube show host who doesn't have a credential because you deserve one, or you're a friend of a friend of a friend. You're not a credential media.

Let Sham do the heavy lifting. Okay, never mind. He was at the Boys and Girls Club in Connecticut because it was an ESPN production, the show. Yeah, Jim Gray was on there, right? Back then. Yeah, all right. You'll need to listen to the A team,

two to six with Adam and Adam and we'll be breaking this down like a mother, the LeBron James to Philadelphia. That's funny. Just group chat shenanigans. with 790 teams. We jab at each other. We do jab at each other.

We tease because we care. I mean, I would love them. I like them, but I don't love them. We're like a really dysfunctional family, but a family. Correct. Highly, highly dysfunctional. Yes. Highly, highly dysfunctional.

All right. We had some callers. Y'all dropped off. I mean, we're here all the way until 2 o'clock. I mean, y'all are that busy. So if you were on hold, call us back at 713-212-5-7. To pay off on Brian's question, he asked about a half an hour ago, before all this LeBron stuff went down.

What I want to go back, two generations ago or go in front. I want to go in front. I want to see what my great grandkids or grandkids that matter will turn out to be. I want to see what my kids look, but I hope it will be around for that. So, yeah, I'm going in front. Cool. And you're going back because you've got nowhere to. I don't know.

Can I use my nieces and nephews? Absolutely. I'd like to see how they turn out. For sure. For sure. And if they have kids and what they're like, that kind of thing. Yeah. When we get like water shortage, water and food shortages and the, it's a sun and the sun and the sun no longer works. And the feels like temperature is

139 every day. I just texted, I'm going to name, my name drop for a moment. Go ahead. I just named dropped. I just texted my friend Ian Eagle and I said, tell him, I said, him and his son need to get an apartment in Philadelphia because they're going to be there a lot. That's funny. The NBA's like, we only allow 15

maximum national exclusive games. And the NBA is like, we're going to make you. Shut your bum ass out. We're going to make it 30 for you. We need these ratings. Yeah. Hell, if Peacock's turning a profit because of the NBA playoffs, then you've got to put these games out, right? I mean, yeah, a couple quick things I'm thinking about is, yeah, the defense, as we mentioned, and, I mean, there's a lot of pressure on Joel and B to be healthy. There always is, but it's like, you got to get it together.

Doesn't that inspire you? If you brought somebody, like, we're all out of shape here at 7.9. Well, yes. Except Jonathan, he's doing good. If we brought a host in here who worked on the show eight hours a day and ate right and took us vitamins and sleptball, and getting in trouble in no debauchery. We'd all kind of try to be like him a little bit, I would think, right? Yeah.

That's just natural to do that. I mean, Joel and B, he's seven foot, but it's not like he's 7, 2, 7, 3, 7, 7, 3, 7, 3, 7, 3,000, 6, 8. He's never played more than 70 games ever. Yeah, he's injury-prone and with an injury history. double. Yeah. But when he's on the floor, you know he is on the floor? For those of you that don't know, Joel NBee, that much, he's a back to the basket center who can knock down three point shots and by just his brutality.

Strength, yeah, brutal strength. Can get the free throw line 11 times a game. Yeah, and shoots about 80% from three points. Yeah, he's about unstoppable. He dropped 70 on Wimby, right? Well, he's dropped many A torture nights against the Rockets over the years When he plays. I believe, yeah, his 70-point game was against Victor Wimbidima. Yeah.

It's pretty good. He's got creaky elbows, knees, ankles, wrists, middle finger, heavy headaches. And he knows, he knows. He must be out there. His body does not allow him to do it.

For long string, long different time. You're saying he's the NBA, Lance McCullors, Jr. No. Okay. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not. Keith, on 790 and 1054. Keith, good morning to you. Well, happy Friday. And you know, this is anything goes Friday, right? Hey, Keith, anything. Are you going to make any hairbrain predictions? I got to get my file out. No, no prediction. Okay. I got booby. I got booby reviews, but Matt, you're eliminated because these are grown folks.

Oh, wow. I was rude I wanted to ask Ross had he seen these three particular movies. Okay. Ready Ross? Yes. Obsession? Obsession, no, but I want to see it soon. You liked it?

Yeah, I gave it a beat. Okay, I heard it was really good. It's on my list. Okay, how about what we, I just watched your big movie last night. What's that? Utnodulus is a Odyssey

Odyssey Odyssey I'm going on We speed this up This is not great radio I'm going on Monday I have tickets for Monday Okay

How about the alien movie Which one? Romulus Disclosure Day Disclosure Day No I didn't watch that one either Sorry So there are three

movies that you wanted, you said that Ross would watch because he's grown-ass movies and he hadn't seen any of them. I'm going on Monday to the Odyssey. You're going to like it except maybe the last 30 minutes. Disclosure Day got bad reviews, so it wasn't that interested in it. Disclosure Day was great until the end.

The end sucked. The end sucked big time. Okay. How'd you like the Odyssey? No spoilers. The Odyssey was great except, like I said, I didn't like the last 30 minute. Oh, okay.

He didn't like the last 30 minutes of any movie, apparently. Yeah, I thought he didn't like the last 30 minutes of disclosure day. Yeah. I'm confused.

I'll give you my Odyssey review Tuesday morning. I actually would want to hear it because the two-fifths of our family, one gave it a 10 out of 10, one gave it a 7 out of 10. Ooh. Let me guess who gave it a 10 out of 10.

Wait, who went? Cameron and Payton. That's what I thought. Okay. Seven out of 10. Cameron. No. Oh.

I got it flipped. Cameron's gave it a tent. My oldest gave it a 10 out of 10 and he's going to see it again on Monday. Damn, should I see if he wants to go? I'm going to Dallas to watch it in 70 millimeter. Are you flying up there and coming back? I'm not going to wait until September until it re-releases or December. Okay.

Let's see if he wants to come with me? No, he needs to work. I'll pay his $25. Airfare is $25? No, I'll drive. Go to Bucky's, it's fine. Boy can eat a little bit. I got a companion pass.

I put him on that. That'd be nice. get extra legroom all right LeBron James is a Philadelphia 76er your son is big you big boy

he's like 6-4 right yeah yeah we have to get the extra I don't know if I'm gonna pony up for the extra legroom seat for him put him in the middle put him in the back bro in the middle of the back all right 713 212 570

Lebron is a 76er the Astro start a series of the White Sox and we have, I'm sorry, he's coming up in a half an hour. Well, I will apologize to Jonathan, to Ross, my family, on something I've been doing this week that had to stop. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Two on Sports Talk 790. It is Matt.

It is Ross. It is an anything goes Friday. And I think we're going to get a deep dive into the Astros, White Sox previous. More about the macro on the Astros. We are under two weeks before the trade deadline. We'll get to that a little bit. We will get to your favorite offensive linemen

and pick the click for offensive linemen for the Texans. Oh, lovely. And we will get to what LeBron James just tweeted out 32 minutes ago. LeBron James on his Twitter account does not capitalize the first letter in this word, another championship, period. Oh, there's a whole. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

That's a long list of, yeah, it's a threat of tweets. I didn't see it. We need some reading music? Yeah, let's do it. Breezing? Oh, no. Who's great? I have the other stuff.

Oh, this is even better. You got it? Oh, wow, I have him muted. That's why it's not showing up. When did I mute LeBron? You mute a lot of people. That's true. By the way, I was looking at some Twitter yesterday.

I'm blocked by a bunch of people I've never even heard of before my life. Why would you block me? I got my reasons. Well, I, you block people just for their, on their names. If they're fake, yeah. No, you don't know that they're fake. When you sign up, big kids. But these people that are blocking me are real Houston people because they're tweeting other people.

Oh, that's, okay. Maybe I made fun of your little buddies. Maybe so. Y'all could suck it. I'm going to start doing the block of the day. The Kim of Mutimo blocks? I'm going to block you. I'm going to block you back, bitches.

All right, here we go. You're an interesting human, Matt. I know. LeBron James. I thought I was done when the season ended. No, you are. That's a lie. Maybe he did. No, no, that's, I don't believe him. I wasn't ready to announce it. I knew I needed some time to really decide, but I was pretty sure I played my last game.

I was honest at that at that last press conference when I said, I need to look at myself and decide. He misspelled decide, by the way, if I still love this game. Well, she knows this from the heart. I still truly love this game and I have more to give. The last few weeks have been totally, have been really special. I've never been able to have no clue what to do and take real time to just think. I've had an incredible few months with all the people I love trying to figure it out. Wow, I believe all that part.

No, no, he's a diva, star for attention. I didn't say that. This is my last decision. I'm not going for money. I'm not going for family. What am I really playing for at this point? I still want to sacrifice. I still want to work.

I still want to grind. I still want to compete to win and have a chance at winning another championship. I believe I can make that, make the Philadelphia, 76ers, a championship team, and I'm so excited to energize a new fan base and start this incredible journey one last time. Thank you, L.A., Miami, I'll forever love you, and Northeast Ohio will always be home. Prayer emoji, salute emoji, and king emoji, and dice. I didn't put dice in there. It's a crack bell emoji. And rainstorms for some reason. What's going on with that? I'm very, you know what? He's not. He's a, he's a little bit. He's,

He always keeps you curious about what's going on. And so, you know what? Him in Philadelphia, it makes me curious. I forgot about Vijay Etchcom. Oh, dang. Is he the fifth best player on that team? He was rookie of the year candidate for a while, but kind of fell off down the stretch. LeBron might be the, when it's all said and done, like the fifth best player on that team.

That's the perfect type of landing spot for him. It 100% makes sense. 100% makes sense. You know, we never did. We never discussed where the best place for him would be. we just thought, we just naturally thought he would be going to I did say Philly was the best place for him. Okay, well, I need to go back and listen then.

I'm not listening. When I made, when I hit my gut feeling, see, I'm giving you your flowers and your gut feeling. When Jonathan and I have Joe Mixon's foot cut into pieces because of the Oh, I'm sorry, did Champ Shiranias say put out that Joe Mixon shot himself with him? He does NFL. Hold on. Let me come out of this.

Hold on. Because Ross, you can't say that you would win. If you, me and Matt this entire time before we said he shot himself, if we said something like this would happen. Before it was like a ski thing and then we both came on the conclusion that's got to be his shot himself. You guys are just following internet rumors.

No. Hold on. I missed the Adam Schaefter tweet that says Joe Mixon shot himself in the foot. That's because he's not getting it from an agent. So Adam Shepter doesn't break stories like it's from an agent. Okay. Well, okay. Well, sorry, which reporter's reporting this?

Me. And me and Matt both. Yeah. Oh, okay, tweet it out. No, tweet it out, Matt. According to my sources. I'm not a reporter. You just said you're putting it out.

No, I'm saying I'm putting out for this show. We're going to put it out. I want this show to say, I'll come to the Twitter camp. All right, so we're going to clip this and post it on Twitter and say Matt Thomas says Joe Mixen shot himself in the foot. When Nick Casario came on that conference, that press conference. Oh, my God. After that, me and Matt, and you weren't, we were both like, no, he's lying. And you were like, no, he's telling the truth.

Why would he come out and say nothing irresponsible? It's like all of us. Why would he, he has no reason to come out and say nothing irresponsible. He doesn't have to answer the question. If he shot himself in the foot, he doesn't have to. answer anything he's not even under contract with them or if someone shot him that's still the same thing as irresponsible so again

you're believing that and we're not you have zero evidence to back up anything that you're talking about you don't either that's the man you have z but you're the burden of proof is on you you are saying pay me off on this bet because this happened I have literally every other

outcome I have him getting stabbed in the foot by the ghost of black beard If that happened, if I get, yeah, anything I say. Me and Matt haven't said we won, though. You said you won.

Yeah, no, Matt says he won. He literally said it. Oh, I didn't say that. At the end of the day, I'm going to win. See, he's going to. Thank you. That's a difference. Thank you very much.

Oh, God. Jonathan, I don't know what we're paying you. We're going to get you a little race. This is terrible. Stay after the show at 2 o'clock. Jonathan, you should know you're on the wrong side of history on this. Look at this. Look at this person.

You're backing up right here. We're not the only ones that believe in this. It's on the internet streets. My dad even believes this. Thank you. Thank you, John's dad. Thank you. He just disappeared from NFL and nothing happened.

Nefarious or whatever. Something weird happened for sure. There were some HIPAA violations or something. So you can agree with me on this. Casero lied. I don't know that. I don't know how irresponsible it was. In terms of the injury.

Cicero is going to, how he handled the injury was irresponsible. Let me tell you, Texans fans. Cacero is going to lie to you about The Texans' offensive line being better? Why does he care about Joe Mixon? David Montgomery being a full-time, big-time, 25-kary running back? No, let's go to your scenario then.

Joe Mixon shoots himself in the foot, and then he gets botched surgery in the back of a van, and he ruins his entire career and to an extent the Texan's chances at a championship by doing something incredibly stupid, irresponsible, and illegal. And then Nick Casario covers for him? Yeah, because Nick Casero's not going to air during laundry. And DiMico Ryan was coming for him. him too. Why? I get D'Amico, I get his coach covering. Why? But this

is after the season. This is after the season in a press conference. He's going to cover for a player he has nothing to do with and is not under contract. He's going to cover for him. Because he probably was told himself in the foot. He was probably told legally and broke the law. Well, it's a bad look on him because the entire season

they avoided every conversation about mixing. That's why he looked bad. He wanted to save his bite. Why would he go and say nothing irresponsible? he shot himself in a foot. He would just not answer the question. He would just say,

Joe Mixon's not on our roster. We have nothing to do with Joe Mixen. That's it. He's not our player. Have you heard Nick Casario talk, Jonathan ever? Why would he not? Nick Casario. Take someone to the playoffs.

Not a single time did he come out and say, hey, look, I heard all these questions about mixing. I just want to set the record straight. He waited. So that means he shot himself on the foot? No, but it's weird how he moved to the end. It's weird. It's definitely.

weird, strange, something bad happened that they don't want to talk about. But a guy who was not a... Nick Casario dodges questions, like he's Neo in the Matrix fighting bullets, dodging bullets, okay? I'm going on contact. He would not answer. He could just say, no, I'm not talking about that.

I'm not answering the question. He went out of his way to say nothing irresponsible. Nick Casario's not doing that for nothing. I don't believe. You just laugh. You know what? You're just conspiracy guy. All right? You still don't even have

Will scoring the hundred points. I'm being open-minded. Okay. I'm not saying, look, it's not like I bet my life savings with Matt, okay? We got coffee and a pistachio croissant on it. Yeah, high-end croissant, though. I'm not saying that this is like the most,

like it's never ever in a million years not going to happen. I'm saying you two trying to claim victory and act like this is a you, you're winning the bet and you're right when there has been absolutely zero percent one shred of evidence when there is every single reporter around Houston and the country is starved

for attention. They're starved for likes and impressions and stardom and wanting to break stories. Every single NFL reporter on any single beat would love to break any kind of big story. Hundreds of them and not a single one

has said that. Okay. And see that's why you like working with me because I could go out on Twitter and put all this out there. I could put all this out there, Jonathan, on Twitter. Put it out there. No, I don't need the attention. Matt, no, Matt, you know what? He's getting mad at us because we have a conclusion.

No, no, no, no, no, no. Vas, give you an honest opinion. Just know, Ross, you're in the minority. All I'm going to say is one thing. Go to break. Bang, bang, bang. I'm doing a John. I'm doing a John.

I'm going to break. 1113 on Sports Talk 790. All right. Before we go, the phone's really quick. You know, so the report came out this week that you're not supposed to, you can have up to five cups of coffee a day. And it's good for like blood pressure? Yes. It's good for your heart health, which it wasn't thought of.

The older science said you couldn't have more than 400 milligrams of caffeine a day. But this newer study said it's better. But also, I will, again, qualify this because this applies to me. Because I use a metal filter for my cold brew that I make. you're supposed to have it paper filtered. It gets out some of the what if the chemicals. What if I'm curry flip filter?

So if you're doing, for example, Turkish coffee, as you know, Matt is unfiltered. Espresso is unfiltered. Cold brew you can make with like a metal filter or with just basically like tea bag type filters. So you have to have a paper filter with paper filter. So I was so excited about this.

And then I'm going to my cardiologist for my yearly checkup today. And they're like, do not have any caffeine. So I am all wonky today. Yeah. But that's the old science. This is a new study. So I don't know.

Did you ask the doctor if they heard the new study? No, I'm not going to call them and say, can I have caffeine now? I'm just like, if he says no caffeine, no caffeine today. Okay. So I'm drinking Sprite, which is, I love Sprite. I need you on caffeine. I'd rather have a hot cup of coffee right now. Just saying.

I need coffee. You don't need coffee. We heard your spirited argument with us a minute ago. Coffee's on a, it's a wonder drug. Yeah. That's going to be the best of this week. I drank my cold brew and I had a little bit of extra coffee. Good for you.

All right, let's go the phone. Anything goes Friday? We'll start with the Scott on 798-11-18. Scott, good morning to you. Oh, the revisit the valid contest you guys had last week. The duets? The duets, yes. And I want to have, I'll tell you three that I feel deserve minimum honorable mentions.

You have Tom Petty and the greatest, Stevie Nix would stop dragging my heart around. I was born would lead a Ford if I closed my eyes forever. Never heard of it. And another one. Elton John with George Michael, don't let the sun go down on me. Elton John and George Michael? Elton John and George Michael had a song together, Scott?

Don't go down on me? No, don't know. Don't let the sun go down on me. Stop. Scott, I knew what you meant. Ross is being rude. Yeah, I think of that way too, but yeah. But yeah, I mean, it was a beautiful ballad.

It's a great song. So Elton John and George Michael got together for a song. For a song. Correct. Right. That's it. What? Don't make it weird.

Scott, thank you. Scott Ross is making it weird. I'm not making, no, I didn't know they did a song. I didn't know they got together for a song. That's cool. Is it good? Have you heard it? Are you familiar with it?

Yes. Yes. I've heard it many times. Don't let the sun go down on me. Correct. Not don't go down on me. You have to add some words. Oh, it's written by Bernie Toppin.

Bernie's brother, listening to the show. Really? Yes. What's his name? Kit. Kit? Mm-hmm. Okay.

I think Kit, if you're still listening, I think he's been a baker in the Woodlands Conroy area for a long time. Oh, really? Yeah. Like pastries? Yeah. Like the croissons, I'm going to be paying you off on. Well, maybe.

I'll be banging buying you a croissant. That's fine. No, you're winning. I could lose? No, you could. I'm not up in the bet. All you did was make sense. You seem so sure of yourself, but I'm not

upping the bet. No, it's because I'm acting. I can be lying to you right now. You don't even know. I know. You are the world's greatest liar. I love the lie. It makes me very happy to lie. Yeah.

All right. So, yeah, the duets was last Friday. We're taking a week off. Here's what I thought for next Friday Best quarterbacks That took a snap since 2000 Huh What a weird distinction

Okay Because I mean one of my favorites of all time It's Joe Montana But Joe Montana never took a snap in the 2000s Okay So I was just going to weed out some Okay

Neither did John Elway Or Sid Luckman No Or Slingin Sammy Ball or Terry Bradshaw. I don't know why I always say Sid Luckman. It's just a funny name. Sid Luckman?

Sid Luckman. Yeah. You know all you're doing is because you're always trying to get that 1940 voice in. And the Chicago Bears are in town with slinging Sid Luckman. So you're telling me, if you and I went to go listen to a radio show in 1946, everybody would sound like that? Not everybody. Have you heard videos of people talking?

Yeah, we talk differently than we talked differently than we. we did in the 80s or 90s now. I don't think I'm talking any differently today that I talked in 1990. Well, you're a trained professional. Oh, I thank you. It's different. Highly trained professional. Experienced. It took me eight years to graduate. That wasn't that how to train. Yeah, it's because you're already on the job.

That's true. You're a broadcasting prodigy, Matt. You're calling rice games at like, what, 21? No, U of H at 24. That's when everybody was trying to cheat on me. Oh, I thought you started calling Rice football. No, you age first. My first year was U of age at 1996. I was 24 years old, yeah. In astronomy class with all the

bros on the offensive line, trying to cheat off me, and I'm like, I didn't study for this either. Yeah, they were learning about Alpha Centauri, and then you were calling Kevin Falk touchdowns. The Cuckers won the conference that year, Ross. Antoine Smith was their lead dog running. Remember Antoine Swith? I do. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. Antoine Big Dog Smith. We played the Syracuse Orangeman in the Liberty Bowl. Oh, now they're just the Orange Matt. Excuse me, the Orange. It's a genderless orange. We lost two, I believe Donovan McNabb, and I believe Marvin Harrison was his number one threat. Don't hold me to that. That sounds about right.

So I got your ass kick. Then I went to, we finished the game with the Liberty Bowl, which we lost. You think Robert Ford was there? He was probably in school about then. Hey, guys, what's going on? Can I go to the game? You think when the Cougars were down, what was the final score in that game? Or how they lost, right?

Yeah, it was December 31st, 19. See you later. You think he was doing see you later back then? See you later, Cougars. I think the girls were saying that to him? See you later, Rema? Oh, come on. No, that's what he said in the morning.

Oh, after he made him eggs and baking. Oh, I see. Then we got some alums and I drove from Memphis to Monroe, Louisiana. Yeah. To do a game against the, at the time, the South. No, they were the Northeast Louisiana Indians. Now, is that Monroe, Louisiana, or is that Monroe? Monroe.

Morro. Gordiose. That's Marlowe now. And we lost that game too. Oh. It was an O-for-Trip. What is your lifetime win-per-s? Don't even ask these things.

So rude. I'm just curious. Well, it's probably below 500 because of the rockets run. In college or pro or both? All of it. All combined hot shots, Thunder bears, rockets, Congress, owls.

You know what? The comments were probably winning like 75%. But I only did six games. a year. Oh. I would safely say... I thought you were the Comets guy. No, I was a backup.

Who was? It was Jim Cozumor did it for a while and Jeff Haggardorne in it for a while. I would say my winning percentage, here are my highs. 60 wins rocket team. Yeah. Were you doing 18 when they won 65? Yes. Okay.

And there's been two back 52 wins in a row. 50. 50 back to back. 41 and 41. That doesn't wash out the 20 loss. There was the 20 win seasons. The three straight 60 losses. Then I did all those rice games where they were terrible in both basketball and football.

Uh-huh. UvH had one good football season. I did probably have done five or six Cougar basketball seasons only, which two were decent. Utah, I did one good, one bad. You're crushing it on ESPN Plus. Oh, my ESPN Plus winning percentage is high. Yeah, they're always playing like the Stets and Hatters. I've never done a final score here.

from Tina Center Drexel 107 U of age 93 Yeah I've never done that You know that's what I'm saying yeah yeah I've always called victories At U of H 103 the Stets and Hatters

39 I've had more filler material I would say my winning percentage All time is probably 400 0.400 No way Really? Bad U of H

Yeah Bad rockets early on Rockets are getting that percentage up this year That's what I'm hoping for Hey folks I need to apologize to Jonathan Ross and my family. I'll be doing that next for your long showers. No, I told my wife, I said I would pick up an Uber ship to keep the long showers going.

Why are you laughing? The shower is soothing, but 45 minutes seems a little excessive. So yesterday, it rained in our area. So I didn't have to get the sprinklers out this morning. So I took that water I was going to use for the sprinklers. And you showered yourself with it. And I used my body with it. Why don't you just go out in the rain?

No, it's like nearly as cleansing. or relaxing. If you're ready to say sorry, 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. 1127, it's Manon-Ross at Sports Talk 7-90. This segment usually is led by Ross because all things the Indians apologize for,

including fighting with Adam Clanton, but that's not either here nor there. It's my turn to utter these very simple words. I'm sorry, so sorry. And I come to you to my radio partners and to my four members of my immediate family, which include my wife, my daughter, my two boys, Ross, Jonathan. I've been sending y'all mean Elmo's videos. Elmo's sick of you sending him videos.

We went and had dinner last night with my mom. Okay. And on the way home, I was laughing because I was looking. at the videos. In the middle of dinner? No, this is at the right home. And all collectively, the four of them said, Dad, we don't think they're as funny as you are,

as you think they are. Please stop sending them. And I said, they had an intervention on the ride home? They had an intervention on the right home. So I said, Cameron, Carly, Peyton, I accept that. I said, Kim, we're in bed before we go to sleep and we're looking at our phones. You're going to continue to hear them.

She goes, I know. I'm sorry. So, especially to my wife, Kim, the rest of the kids and to my radio friends here, I say to you, I'm sorry if I've ever sent you an Elmo video. Sorry. I still think they're funny. I think I'm the only one that's really funny, though. You think they're funny? A couple of them, you've sent like five.

I chuckled at like two of them. I think the Bob Barker ones were a lot funny, here. Really? Yeah Maybe because y'all are older So emma was more prominent So you were like offended by the year offended by these Elmo Things like they were like they were like

It was a good like you know a little scoff the nose They're all right All right so I just want to get that off that I will not be Setting you guys anymore Elmo's unless I think they're just so funny That I know you'll better laugh at those Ross what are you saying sorry for this week Earlier this week I wrote this down Thankfully

When the Astros got a low-level prospect for the Nate Pearson trade. I made a joke that he immediately became their number two overall prospect, and that was rude. That was rude to all the Astros player development people, all the hardworking minor leaguers and coaches and scouts and staff. And I'm sorry for joking about the Astros farm system, which, by the way, in the updated rankings from a Bleacher report is 30th out of 30 in baseball.

can I just tell you I'm sick and tired like physically sick and tired but for the purposes of this segment I'm tired of the Astros having the worst minor league operation we've had the worst we is on the backup right filter

yeah we got you the Astros have had the worst minor league for multiple general managers it started with Leno it continued with Click and it's continuing with Dana Brown I think it was still pretty good

when Leno was around but the tail in he was giving up prospects It was dropping down the list, right? Yeah, it was like Seth Beer and Corbyn Martin and the guys or whatever. Well, what about the guy that was the guy that got drafted twice, one by the Pirates, one by the Astro? Oh, Brady Aiken? No, the other one. We always made fun of.

We never got to make your legs? Mark, no. Oh, Forrest Whitley? Forrest Whitley. There's a lot of failed draft picks to come up with. Boy, you just ran off three right there. Three that never tasted any success. I'm sorry.

Astros! Say you're sorry. for a crappy minor league program. I'm sorry. You're demanding an apology on this segment. Oh, Fangrass got them 29th. That's good. No, it's not.

When you say 20 anything, it's not good. Out of baseball. Yeah. Power rankings got them 22nd. I told you not to pay attention to the power rankings. Dana Brown doesn't want you to look at the baseball America either or baseball perspectives. You don't care. MLB pipeline.

John, then what are you apologizing for? Thanks, Mac Brown. Come back to me. I don't know how I'm going to word this. Oh. Oh, oh, I'm a little nervous now. Yeah, I know. Let's talk to...

You sniveling snake. Let's talk to our buddy. Aaron calling in Minneapolis. Aaron, what are you sorry for? I'm not sorry, but I want to apologize from Roth. Ross, the last two weeks, you have taken great shots at my home state of Minnesota

with Mr. Matt Thomas is well familiar with. Yes. Uh-huh. He's also Mr. Minnesota, not just Mr. Texas. Oh, he's Mr. Minnesota there. No, see, tell him, Aaron, he's doing Fargo. He's doing Fargo, not Minneapolis.

We don't all sound like we're from Fargo. Yeah, exactly. Hey, you just said Minnesota. You know what you are? You're Mr. North Dakota. No. Clip it on the podcast. Go back and listen on the podcast. I'm not cast, Aaron. You just said Minnesota. I didn't say it. You did. I probably did, but we don't all sound like we're from Fargo.

We don't all. It's not all of them. We're from Fargo. Okay. It's just a joke, Aaron. I get it. But then you doubled down on Friday last weekend. Uh-oh. You took some shot at hockey players. Oh. You shouldn't do that. Oh.

How little there, how untuff they are. See, it's just a joke. That's another joke, Aaron. because everybody's like, you're the toughest. They're the baddest on the planet. They're the baddest. Oh, really? How much you skate at one time? Man, three minutes.

I'm done. Oh, cool. Yeah, that's true at 20 miles an hour. Mm-hmm. He brought the miles per hour to the game. That's very, very good. I get that. Can't do kilometers.

I'm not in Canada. No, you can't. Thank you, Aaron, very much. Close enough. It's just jokes, Aaron. You can't, you can't call. You can tell me to shut my bell mess up, but don't call and ask me to apologize.

I'm so sorry. For jokes. You should be sorry. for telling me to be, I'm sorry. Be sorry. Oh, sorry. That's a lot of layers right there. It's a meta sorry. All right, 713, 212-790.

7-1-3-212-5-790. If you want to apologize for something you've said or done this week, now is your chance to get 20 minutes left in this hour. Jonathan, have you been able to phrase it properly now? Yeah, because I got to apologize, and this is a... I got to get your contact, so my girl wanted to get her, you know, hair done, And if dudes y'all know, women go to the salon and they basically spend hours there doing a whole different hairdo and trying to get it right or what color they want with the inspiration picks and all that stuff. So she was there, got there at like around six on Wednesday.

And I came and got her food because she hadn't ate, hadn't eaten. And she was giving the hair just a hard time of what she wanted. They weren't really, they couldn't figure out what they wanted to do. And I'm sitting here in the back. I'm like, okay, like this is this is unprofessional. You're making her job worse, you know, whatever. But they're cool. They, you know, let's not at the first rodeo.

So I go about my day and then it's around like 11 o'clock at night. They're still there. You know, can you come back? You know, like, you know, spend time, whatever. Okay, so I'll go back. And she's still giving this lady a hard time. So I'm like, what's wrong with your hair? You know, it's fine.

But she's adamant on saying, my girl's very adamant. Like, this is not what I want. Like, it gets to be darker or whatever. And they're trying to figure it out like it's some math calculation. Come to find out. today this morning her hair looks horrible. Ooh. Like, like, real, real bad, like, spent, like, obscene amount of money for it to be, you know.

So I, and I'm over here defending a different woman. I should have been, you know, you know, realizing the dang, like, I didn't really, I'm a dude. I didn't know, like, this big of a deal until I saw her hair today. And I'm sorry, baby. Your hair looks a mess. And I just, and I'm, she's getting, hopefully getting a fix right now. But I was getting cussed out. I didn't know why.

Matt, you probably know more than I do, but... God, you could not have screwed this up anymore. You went and spent time with her... You assaulted her hair? No, she's... Good Lord. I was defending it. She was the one I was saying it's bad,

and I was like, no, your hair just did a good job. It's you. You're the problem. You didn't know what you want. Just for... Yeah, she knew what she wanted and didn't... Yeah, they messed her up for it. Yeah, yeah.

But I apologize. She forgot. That's a sticky situation. Jonathan. You know, Ross is a couch for you. Yeah, that's true, actually.

And I'm like five minutes away from work, so. All right, I'm learning. All right. Yeah, I can't, I can't fix you. What did you just do there? Yoda.

Learning you are. Sorry. I'm trying to think if your Elmo's better or your Yoda's better. Probably neither. It's Rocky. Ooh. That's it.

That's all I got. Hey, you got LeBron James. He's like a wheel of fortune, like a wheel of X. You know what? Hey, LeBron James is on the Sixers. I'm sorry. I'm turning my mic. I'm out of here.

That was terrible, too. What has happened in this segment? I came heartfelt with y'all telling you, I apologize for Elmo, and this is the rest that you guys give? Oh, terrible. Geo on 790. Geo, what are you sorry for? Hey, guys, great show, man. I just want to call me.

Quick and simple. I gotta apologize to Matt Matt, I love you guys, man, I love this show, but I think every time I call, I kind of take a jab at you, man. I call you juggernaut Thomas. Yesterday, I said that you light

the turbo on the bidet. You spark me as a turbo guy, and I think it's the fact that you claim that you're Mr. Texas, and it irks me, so I take a jab at you, man. But I'm gonna try to do better, Matt. All right, I'm sorry, man. Thank you, Joe. But also, don't be sorry. Keep it out. That's okay. We need

Some back, you know, need some help back here. I ain't afraid of you. Someone's got to tug mat down to earth. That's the job I take. Very seriously. Do you get in trouble for calling a woman a dumb bitch occasionally? What happened? What?

There is this woman on Twitter. Why is this sitting so far out of left field? What is it wrong with you? I won't even do it. You're right. I won't even do it. Okay. It's that woman that says that she knows.

all the dirt about what's going on with Diana Rossini and she just couldn't say anything because I don't know who you're talking about. It's Emma Vance or something as her name or something like that. Well, she just came out and said, I couldn't say this before, but I knew all along that that LeBron wasn't going to go to Miami because Janus didn't want him to go there. Backtracking media is the worst media. We do know things sometimes before they're happening and we can't report on them. but yeah, then going out and saying, I knew this all along, it's pretty weak sauce. Yeah, I'm with you on that.

So I'm just going to leave it there. Okay. All right, we need y'all to come and apologize. Look, I've poured my soul out to you about how much I love the Elmo's and it doesn't work. Ross apologized for his horrific Joe Mixen take and all of his... What? ...and a whole of his... Jonathan's apologized for the fact that he's never going to get any love him from his girl again because he insulted her.

hair. No, I didn't. No, no, no, no, no. I'm agreeing. By the way, what time did she get to the hairdresser? At six. And it took five hours? We didn't leave until one.

Seven hours? That's what I'm saying. That girl messed up her hair. No wonder you were grumpy earlier this week. You didn't sleep. How much does that cost? Look, I'm just saying, and that's why I'm apologizing to her.

You know, she was trying to get her right. She was trying to be assertive. And I was like, what's her problem, girl? And just to find out, you know, I saw the problem now. All right, well stated. 713-212-5-790 if you want to apologize it's cleansing it really is 713212-5-790 we'll be waking the strippers up today at 12 o'clock we've got non-flora stories for us at 130 what is your non-flora story from oh it's from Turkmenistan all right and what is today's edition of a hell yeah or not oh it's highly googable but I definitely have the topic lies you lie All right, if you want to apologize, let us know. 713212-5-790.

I'll tell you who needs an apology is the Miami Heat Social Media Coordinator. You know what, he did. He affected you. I know. I need to apologize for convincing myself that that was going to happen once that leaked out. Literally in the middle of the night, I went and put a few bucks on it. Damn. One thing that...

I didn't do as much as I wanted, so I'm happy about that. I just saw a tweet. there is some thought that LeBron might play for the Feld Office 76ers but live in New York City. 45-minute helicopter ride. I've taken that drive before. It's 75 miles.

Stay out of helicopters. That's a bad idea. I think it's a terrible idea. Stay out of helicopters. I'm going to say this. LeBron, if he wants to get a place in New York, I'm assuming he has a place in New York, you just go when you've got several days off.

You wouldn't want to be commuting. muting back and forth between that was simical who said that well sham says that he's that lebron is contemplating moving in new york while playing in philadelphia that's stupid i agree that's just too much that's i mean i get it why you some people would want to do that but i don't get it the right the rigorous what you live yeah yeah that's not good honestly that feels like not a full commit to the team. Come over there, I guess, you know, in his practice time. I don't know.

Is that wrong? It feels like it's not all in. First of all, I don't know. I don't know. I don't want to put too much into that because it's just being thought about. But it can't, it is possible to do it. But helicopter rides, ooh, I mean, damn, no, no, no, no, no and no. Because I honestly think about this, when Kobe,

was commuting from the Pacific area, Calabasasas, I think is what they call it, to the downtown to L.A., that's a 25-minute helicopter ride. I mean, that's over an hour drive if you're doing in Los Angeles. So maybe guys, there's time of so much money to just figure out crazy ways to get it around, in and around. I can just take the subway in Philly. He'd be all right. I don't think so. I don't think you take a subway from Philadelphia, New York. I mean, now, again, if you wanted to have a place up in New York, you could. probably spend two or three days up there if you wanted to a week, but I don't know. It seems ridiculous.

That seems absurd. It'd be like if you and I did a show together if I wanted to live in Austin. Yeah, I wouldn't like that. I mean, I could do it, or you could do it, but it'd be a lot of helicopter? No, I'm never going in a helicopter again. Yeah, I'm out. I've only been a helicopter one time in my life and I'll never do it again. It was in Las Vegas.

And the guy that was doing the vaguer, it was the tour of the strip at night. And the guy was like telling jokes and taking his hand off of the throttle thing. I'm like, put the damn hand back on that thing. Not good. But that's the main story. Yeah, there's your news in noon right there. Okay. Besides Astros White Sox preview.

Yeah. That's number one. It's a big series on the South Side of Chicago. It is a big series. Are you kidding me? The Astros are only two out of first place. It's a huge series. Huge.

Let's see. Mariners and Rangers are playing each other. Yes. Who we were rooting for? You just wanted two out of three either way. No sweeps. Or do you want a sweep to eliminate one? Hmm. Good question. Let's just say it doesn't matter. No, it does matter. No, it doesn't. I think it does matter for sure.

No, the Astros beat who's in front of them, they will win the American League West. Yes, and that includes beating up on the Chicago White Sox and we can spend to Erigetti in the mound of the night. How, as you would say, how are we feeling? Good. Good, not great. four walks last time out, six walks the time out before that, going against Davis Martin, but worked around the walks.

That's what he was doing early in the season. He was walking a lot of guys, but he was working around it. Only 85 pitches, five innings of one-run ball. Davis Martin, 9 and 5 for the South Siders today. 331 ERA. He was a 14th round draft pick in 2018.

Davis Martin. But is college baseball at Texas Tech. Oh, really? Red Raider. Like the Astros first round pick, yeah. Okay. Let's see. Minus 130 for the White Sox plus 107 for the Stroves. That's a stay away for me.

Hopefully Arrogati looks good. You know what? We are team Arrogati. Yor Don Quetta hit a home run every game. But Spencer's got to, I mean, and I would say this about as well about the A's too. I mean, this team's two recognizable starters have got to step up. And not only Rossi be successful,

but probably go deeper in game. This seems has been saddled with Hunter Brown and Sprintz ergeti going five, five, and two-thirds, that kind of thing. Thankfully, you got the day off, but yeah, it hasn't been a whole. Tatsu Yamai was quality and Lambert was two, but that's six. I like to get minimum six.

I know that's asking a lot from Marigetti because he strikes out a lot of people. He walks a lot of people. He runs up the pitch count. But hopefully he looks sharp on the south side of Chicago. Hunter Brown goes Saturday, by the way. Let's go. Sunday, the starter will be

Ronald Blanco. Ooh. Against Eric Fetti. Well, he's been kind of in... Mid. Yeah. And trade talks the last couple years, too. including the Astros of my not mistaken right

I remember bringing up his name a couple of years ago All right It is 1157 on Sports Talk 790 We have the news Astros series win by the way You heard it here first Really? Series win

My personal soft guarantee So can the Astros because the Rangers and Mariners are playing each other Can the Astros be in first place By the end of this weekend Does math say that you can? No I don't think so Because they're a game and a half of one

And two behind the other Yeah Yeah, because somebody in front of them is going to be winning every single night. So you're right. Two out of three would be lovely by one of those two teams and an Astro sweep. And the Astros will go to L.A. and beat up on those Anahomers three straight and come back with nine out of ten during the important ten games. If the Mariners sweep and the Astros – I'm sorry, Mariners win two out of three in the Astros sweep.

They could be just a half game behind the Mariners by the end of the series weekend. That's what I like the encouraging sports RV right there. You're seeing an upside on them. I want, I'm just being realistic. I want them to win. I am an Astros fan. I am born and raised in Houston, Texas. Let's go Stroes.

You've got a known Ryan tattoo on your left butt cheek. Absolutely. I didn't want that for public information, but thank you. I gave it out there anyway. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1202 in H-town. Power three of the Matt Thomas Show and Ross. It's this sports talk, 790.

Terry, I thought you were a multi-millionaire. Let's find out. Terry, did you get my Vimba account? And I'm not seeing any deposits from you lately. What's going on with that? I'm not giving you any money. Money grubber. Terry just called me a money grubber again.

Bless Terry. I hope he's having a great Friday. I hope he can chew his vegetables. All right. 12.05 is a time. I know he'll be hitting hay in a couple hours. Yeah. It's getting late for him.

He's got dinner at three and sleep by 515. Yeah, and he's on Eastern Time in Ohio, right? Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. Yep. Okay. It's funny, there's a lot of people that still get the time zones always goofed up. I do.

I forget Ohio's in the East. Yep. And not all of Texas is in the central time zone. What? You knew that. Is El Paso in the mountain? El Paso in the mountain time zone. and not all of Florida is in the Eastern Times.

I only found that out on the believe it or not earlier this week. Shehadi wearing Dodgers gear. Do you think we should send her an Astros jersey? I don't think you should be contacting her at all. What if we'll send her a jersey. Extra small. 12.06, Ross. Time now for the news.

At news. This is where you speak. This is where you go to Friday. I'm sorry. the shoddy family. Oh my God. Well, the top news of the day, Matthew, is LeBron James, picking the Philadelphia 76ers, calling it his last decision.

The landing spot, not super shocking. Well, kind of shocking. It was you had the heat leading the way in the odds recently, along with the Cavaliers, and then the Golden State Warriors. But the long shot 76ers come through, a two-year. year, $8 million deal from LeBron James. He is taking a massive pay cut from his $53 million salary last year. And now he's going to play with the Philadelphia 76ers in a series of posts on Twitter.

James addressing his decision making saying, quote, I was honest at that last press conference when I said I needed to look at myself and decide if I still love this game. I still truly love this game and I have more to give. this is my last decision. I'm not going for money. I'm not going for family. What am I really playing for this at this point? I still want to sacrifice.

I still want to work. I still want to grind. I still want to compete to win and have a chance of the feeling of winning another championship. Also says he believes he can help make the 76ers a championship team and excited to energize a new fan base and start this incredible journey one last time. The greatest thing about sports is the bargain deal. he is going to make $8 million in the next two years. That is life-changing money for 99.99% of anybody that works in this country.

And yet we are saying the word bargain attached to a guy that's going to make $8 million over two years. It is. I mean, yeah. At this stage in his career, even though he's, I mean, he was 27 and 6 last year. That's a career season for most people. That's why it's... We can never relate to athletes at all. We cannot relate to them.

No. Why are they making all this money? Because the owners are making time of money, too. Yeah, but they're doing okay. Yeah. Again, I can't relate to any owner. I can't relate to any player. Yeah.

Or movie star? Making $40 million. The CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Yeah. That's okay. All right, there you go. LeBron James is a Philadelphia 76er. Elsewhere in the news,

you have the Houston Astros taking on the Chicago White Sox for a three-game set on the south side of Chicago where you don't know what the stadium is called these days, Matthew. Guaranteed right field? Close. Guaranteed field. They took the guarantee off. You got the wrong word off. Oh, damn.

Rapefield. Rate field. How stupid is that? At rate field, it will be Spencer Arrigetti, Honel Brown, and Ronel Blanco. You heard it here first. Ash Rose win the series against Chicago White Sox. weekend. Also, the Rangers and Mariners are in first and second

place in the division. They battle each other this weekend, Matt. How are we feeling? I'm feeling that Monday morning, the Astros will be a half game out of first place. That would take a sweep and a Mariners 2 to 1 series victory. I need to correct that. The Astros

will be a game and a half out of first place in the American League West. They're going to this. They're going to gain the ground. Will they be in the second? Sure, we're not. Okay. Elsewhere in the news, rookie quarterback Diego Pavia has been waived by the Baltimore.

Ravens, Matt, your thoughts. People are losing their mind over this. One year contract. And they have waived him. Because, of course, Lamar Jackson, Tyler Huntley, and Skyler Thompson,

and undrafted former Yukon quarterback, Joe Fognano is on the squad as well. I've never seen so much social craziness for a guy who didn't take a snap hardly. And, oh, by the way, he had a one-year contract. Could he petition the NCAA to come back? Oh, my God. Cole Hudson.

The former Longhorn offensive lineman. Don't even put that in existence. That's not good. I'm literally searching for any kind of other headline. You tell me on a day where there was no baseball games of local importance. In the middle of summer, it is July 24th. Oh, the Rockets did sign Oscar Shibway to a new contract. Excuse me?

Oscar Shibway. Bless you. Cup of coffee with Utah. A cup of coffee with somebody else, I forgot. Okay. Added in depth at the five position, I want to say, if you, I mean, kind of an undersized five, I want to say. Don't hold me to that. I don't remember much about him, honestly.

You want to run through the Oscar Shibway assignment? No, I'm more interested in the nine most caloric item. for fast food in America. These are at restaurants? Yes. May I guess them? If you want to. All right.

So you're telling me they're nine of the most chloric? Mm-hmm. Are they all at restaurants I can get here in Houston? Stop Googling. Put your computer down. I'm looking about Oscar Shibway.

Oh, okay. I'd say all nine of them look to be available here in Houston, Texas. Oscar Shibway last year, 27 games with the Jazz, eight points a game, six rebounds, one assist. Limited time. Oh, wow.

Great stuff. I'm just trying to give information for the Rocket fans that want to get their Oscar Shibway updates. I'm going to get my Shibway jersey. He is 6'8. Yeah, I knew he was undersized. Okay, so here we go.

Big Mac's got to be on the board. Nope. Really? You're talking about three pieces of bread? There is a McDonald's item. None of these are like standard menu items. Most of these are special.

Then you have to tell me who they are then. Dave's triple. Well, that's, yeah. Wendy's coming in number three. That's a lot of beef, yeah. Number two, the big breakfast with hotcakes at McDonald's, 1,340 calories to start your day. Now, you know there's a big breakfast and a big breakfast with hotcakes?

That's this one. Oh, that's when you get the biscuit, the hash brown, and the pancakes. It's quite delicious. It's a lot of food. And number one on the list coming in at 1,350 calories. That would be the triple whopper with bacon and cheese. cheese. Now, I've had a lot of fast food in my life.

I've never had a triple burger anywhere. Now, if you want items that are not triple that are on the list, mushroom Swiss burger, what a burger? Coming in at 1,100 calories? Why is that so caloric? That was mushroom and Swiss and some kind of sauce. The sauce has got to be doing it, yeah. Okay.

Angus half-pound cheesecake at Arbys? Well, there's a video going viral. A guy takes a bite of it. It looks like he's going to cry. Like, he hates it. You want to try the Arby's Philly Cheesesteak? Can I just to know? I tell you, I love Arby's.

I think Arby's gets a lot of unnecessary hate. Just walk in and say, just give me the beef. That's all you got to do. Just get regular old roast beef sandwich sandwich. What's the he said? Cheastake is beef. Yeah, but there's all other things on that too. Yeah, it's like raccoon or anything.

I don't think they're serving raccoon. Me either. We got the raccoon. Yeah, I said they're not. Okay, good. 1,100 calories for the cheese steak and the supersonic double cheeseburger coming in at 1,050 calories also on the list. And then for Popeyes, the signature hot boneless wings,

1,020 calories for 6. Damn, that's a lot. Are we more worried about calories or fat grams? Well, I think they're going hand-in-hand. We're talking about triple whopper with bacon and cheese. Don't think the fat content's too low there, Matthew. When I was working at McDonald's back in the day, the big women would come in and they'd get to like the double quarter pound

large fries, cone, cookies, pie, and they get a small diet cook because they were just trying to cut back. Yeah, what's wrong with that? Got to cut calories somewhere. You do? Yeah, I get the Diet Coke. Why you were about the Diet Coke? Because if I'm going to drink my calories, I'm getting booze. Oh, we don't serve booze at McDonald's.

I wish you did. It would be a game changer. Yeah. They do at the Catina Taco Bells in Vegas. Yeah, I want a McOld Fashion. And a frosty flavor, too? I want a McTini. It's not a bad idea.

All right, folks, let's be honest. It's anything that goes Friday. Clearly. No Astros yesterday. Anything you want to talk about. It's a fun show, though. I've been amused by it for the most part. I went almost 19 seconds on the Good Morning Tripper, so it was getting counted by the audience.

So they were happy about that. Mm-hmm. We got now four stories at 130. Believe it or not, today is all things about the Philadelphia 76ers, LeBron's new team. Yes. You know what? You want me to give one away? Please do. All-time leading points later. Sometimes when I'm looking stuff up, Matt and I guess just while I'm looking it up,

and we were guessing we both came on Alan Iverson for Philadelphia 76's all-time points leader. It is actually Hal Greer, which I would not have guessed. Okay, so the answer, Ross is going to give you as Alan Iverson. The answer is going to be Howe Gris, so you're going to say not when you call it 150. Yeah. Pretty interesting top 10. Dolf Shea's, Julius Irving, Barclay in 5, Embed's seventh, Mo Cheeks, is ninth, Andre Aguadala, 10th. And where's Iverson?

Second. Second. Okay. 713, 212, 5790. Anything goes Friday. Astros and the White Sox start a series. Are you, I'll throw this out there. Is there some of you, you know what I'm going to put the poll question up?

I got to figure this out because I really don't know, I don't have a feel for the audience. are the Astros in your mind, should they be sellers or should they be buyers? We'll discuss that coming back. Next, 1216, Sports Talk, 790. All right, poll question is up. And poll question doesn't mean everything, but it's a gauge of clearly people that follow me. 23 votes are in. Should the Astros be buyers or sellers?

And right now, 57% say buyers, 43% say sellers. That feels about a right percentage this time of year. What if you had to put that literally Sunday after the? they got swept. Oh my gosh. 90 to 10? Yeah, I like how you waited for a sweep. Well, I actually should have waited for another six days.

I told you I wasn't going to make a decision about what they should do until after the Anaheim series. They're going to buy. You don't have to make a decision. They're going to try. Unless literally they get swept and, like, I don't know, lose like six of their next seven or something. So let's go to your philosophy on this. And what Kevin will get to you in just a second.

I promise. If they become sellers, what's the number one thing you could sell? Your honor is. Okay. Okay. Stay with me on this. That gets you a significant haul, probably a combination of minor leaguers and maybe even a major league starter or two, correct? Feel right right?

Okay. What is the next most tradable piece would be what, Jeremy Pena? How fat and happy are the Astros going to get off of the. acquisitions they would make in a Jeremy Penae trade. Two or three minor leaguers? Yeah. Okay. Then tell me what you're getting next if you were to move ESAC pretties.

I mean, we're doing full on sale? Yeah, you can get a couple prospects for ESAC. So essentially what you're doing... Mid-level. This is how you would sell it to the seller audience. We have the 30th ranked minor league program out of 30. Is that bad? We could trade three really good.

Astro players and get probably seven or eight prospects to replenish a woeful modeling system. You could sell me on that, but I'm not going to buy. Because here's the thing, if you're trying to trade Peter Lambert,

if you are trying to trade Christian Walker, you are trying to trade AJ Blue Ball. Rossi, you're not building for the future with the gentleman that I just brought up in terms of the people you'd get back and return. You might get lucky. You would get one of those players that might make a difference. Yeah. But, you're not, but, you're not, I'm But it wouldn't be a lot.

You just acquire. Just accumulate and acquire. Because there are guys who end up being thought of as just toss-ins and trades who can come up to the major leagues and contribute. Miles Straw got you Phil Meantan, who was good for a few years. And Yonner Diaz, who, I mean, he's not been an all-star, but been at least a serviceable major league catcher and had shown some flashes. Yep. That was for Miles Straw. So, I mean, if there's somebody like that, you can get a couple of pieces for somebody.

you just would accumulate and acquire. But that would require full reset to where if I ask you who's the Astros best player the next time they make the World Series, you would say, I don't know. I would like to keep Yordaun to where I can say who's the Astros best player when they make the next World Series, and I say it's still Yorda.

And I would, in a perfect world, I would extend Penae. I would extend Hunter Brown. I would give Yorda on a fat extension, sell off a couple of other pieces, hope that Nions and Alvarez get on the fast track And then within a couple of years Those guys are coming up

And you're looking like a contender in like 2028 So there's really When you think about it There's three pathways You could completely sell off everybody And start from scratch Which is just a non-starter I think Which I think would be a huge

If you wish that upon the Astros You don't remember how bad it was For a couple of years It was rough It was real bad You could go the other way and say Jim, open the pocketbook and start writing these checks. But then Jim's like, I've never done that before. Are you sure I should be doing it with these dudes?

And I got to worry about what's the future with a salary cap if there is one in baseball. So I'm not going to do that. So that's why I think you're in this middle ground right now. Because I don't think if you really wanted to reset, it's trading you're on an Alvarez, which I do not under any circumstances endorse. That's if you're doing a full blow-up. If you're trying to do a quick retool with Hunter Brown, Pena and Alvarez in the next couple, well, I mean, Penaic is going to be gone.

This is next year as his last year. See, I believe when- You know what, why do we have to say that? Next year is his last year. Sign the guy. Because if you're Jeremy Pena and Scott, and Scott Boros is... I know. What does Scott Boros clients like to do?

See what their value is in the streets. That's what everybody likes to do. Not everybody. There are players that stay with one team. Bobby Wood didn't worry about doing that. Oh, he's got a massive like 14-year contract. I know. He got paid.

Hulu Rodriguez got a huge contract. Didn't worry about those streets. Mike Troutts making like $30 million a year. Aaron Judge stayed with the Yankees. It was John Heyman nearly had Arson Judge going to the Giants because it was massive, massive money. It's baseball economics are confusing. They are. Yeah.

I think with the uncertainty, that is a good reason to make a case to just buy now. Buy what you can now. You don't have to go like chip all in, and that would be meaning like selling off your entire farm system, which they're not going to do. You're going to do like a soft buy. You're going to do a bargain bin shopping. Because when the game returns to the field, there will be different economic terms to it. Whatever that is, we don't know. The complexion will change.

And I don't even know, like, how many years will teams have, they can't even say, boom, salary catch. you got to get under by 2027. It's going to be three, five years if there is a salary cap. Yeah, I was going to say this is, depending on it, there will be a salary cap. There could be just an elevated tax or whatever. If there is no salary cap, yeah, I don't know. So right, because of the uncertainty, because Jordan's having a special season, because the AOS is garbage, I get why we want to buy. Okay.

Is that what's best for the long-term healthy organization? I don't think so. Yeah, but I, especially with the labor agreement up for grand. I'm not thinking about 20, 28, 2930 right now. It's not. Yeah. And maybe I will once we get firm economic rules.

And maybe when we're doing the show in 2028, we're like, damn, probably should have got a couple prospects. We should do that. Write those down. Let's reflect on this in two years. Because now Jeremy Pena's, I don't know, he's a cub or whatever, or the Giants.

Or you signed Jeremy Pena and he's now batting 225 and missing 65 games a year. Hunter Brown got a big deal with the Red Sox. Tigers. No, it would be the Tigers. Uncle Red Sox. Sounds good. All right. Keith, Will and Kso.

Hang tight. We'll get to you guys. One, two, three. When we return to this program, then we call the Matt Thomas show with Ross. On the phones, we go. It's 713-213-2-5-790. 7-13-212-5-79. We thank all of you for being a part of the show.

Non-Floral stories in one hour. Right now, Kevin with us on 7-90. Kevin, good afternoon. I appreciate the call. Just piggybacking what you guys have been talking about. Uh, first of all, yeah, when they went through the rebuild, you know, the payoff, in my opinion, was worth it. I mean, we had seven or eight years of an incredible run, so we can't forget about that. But, you know, I don't think you have to decide if you're a buyer or a seller.

I think if I'm Dana Brown, I just let the league know, make an offer on anyone we have and we'll let you know. And if someone makes you an incredible offer for a Pena or a hater, then you take it. But you listen to everything. And if someone just makes a stupid offer, it's like my house. house isn't for sale but if someone makes me an incredible offer pack our bags we're out you know uh i believe kevin that does happen quite a bit uh every general manager ever spoken to and thank you for the phone call it's always said there's always these crazy phone calls you get i don't i don't think that's what he just said is abnormal but you could take any deal you want and run up the flagpole

to the boss the big boss and jim can say i think we can win this division don't do this or are you kidding me? I can get rid of this player for that. The interesting layer to this is that Dana Brown is not under contract beyond this season. How, if you are Dana Brown,

do you weigh wanting to win now? I don't want to say saving your job, but keeping your job and appearing to be doing a good job while potentially mortgaging a future that you might not be a part of.

It's just interesting. No, if he gets shot down with a deal that he really wants to make, well, I'll throw up a couple prospects. We don't make this deal. I might not be here anyways. Then he would probably need to call his realtor immediately. Yeah, I just find, it's fascinating to be in his shoes. And he's going to say things publicly that he should say.

We're buyers. We're a really good baseball team. We're rounding in a form. We're close in the West. Mm-hmm. but it's like privately like dude I don't I mean if we went

you want to win you want to make the right trades you want to be able to stay here you don't want to rob Peter to pay Paul I'm going to continue to say I think the decision about Dana's future is already been decided okay well then that that probably means he's gone because if the future is that he's going to be here long term

he'd have been signed and the reason I'm saying that is because Dana because results don't always matter James Click can back you up on that yeah okay well then if you have a lame done general lame duck general manager you're letting him run your draft and your trade deadline and you're trying to get into the playoffs that's wild yes because you're saying well matt that doesn't make any sense of course it doesn't then if that was the case then you would have given dan an extension

to not be a lame duck in this situation right Dana obviously has to believe and operate as if he's going to be here long term no Dana's responsibility is to be the general manager for the 2006 Houston Astros and his job is to make this team the very best at Canada. Well, then he would trade everyone off and there would be nobody untouchable. See you later, Kevin Alvarez and Xavier Nions. If that was his job to

only focus on 26, then everybody would be on the table. But everybody I think everybody's got protects that you can't touch. And so Jim Crane or whomever? Like who's putting the governor on him then? Who's saying this guy is untouchable and this guy's not? If it's Dana Brown is the general manager.

My guess is the general that Dana has said, is everybody untouchable? And probably Jim has said, who, who, let me look at your prospect board. James looking at the, crane is looking at, he's breaking down the big board. Yeah. Because you're, you're saying, Ethan Pecco, yes, Bruce Mayor, no. Albert Fermin, no. Because again, if Dana's not working here next year, why does he care what the prospects are? That's what I'm saying.

That's why it's so weird. Yeah. No, he has been given a governor through owner. ownership that these guys are untouchable. And we are presuming they're untouchable. But no one said that. I don't think Dana, has Dana ever publicly addressed the top two prospects in the organization or whether or not they would be in trade chips?

No. No. By the way, there must have been an update in the prospect of ranking. This is good. Because our friend Walker Yonik got bumped all the way down at nine. This makes me feel better. Yeah, Albert Vermean is a 17-year-old that they liked that they did an international signing and then Jason

Chivoni is that guy that's been skyrocketing 23 years old up to AA. That's your top four right now. Alvarez 9, Chivone, Chivani, Chivani, sorry. Shavani and

Fermin. So 18, 19, 23 in AA and then a 17-year-old. So three of your top four guys are teenagers. No, I mean, even though Jim's not perusing the minor league rosters and watching games, He knows who his prospects are. Poor Walker Yonik, down to ninth.

He's back. Uyola out of the top ten. Hmm. Well, I would think if you're moving a starting pitcher to the bullpen, that would probably bump you off of a top ten prospect. Big downgrade for Zach Cole. He was like 10th, and now he's down to 24th. Sorry, Zach.

We wish you the best. Good kid, too. Too bad. Well, and pass a get down, Dina. Hi, Will. Hey, guys. Just so I want to make a couple points. First thing, I think Ross hit the nail on the head there. We've got a GM in the last year of his contract, and we're two games out of first place.

There is a 0.00 chance in my mind that this team is sellers. Unless Jim Crane, Queens House and decides he wants to rebuild, it's not happening. A GM in the last year of his contract won't do that. But the other thing is I wanted to push back on these prospect rankings. I mean, everybody keeps talking about the Astros, oh, always having the bottom, you know, a bottom, you know, farm system. And I'm just not sure teams really even look at that. I mean, here's my question for you guys,

or a little bit of research I'd ask you all to do. Go look at the last 10 years. Look who has been consistently at the top of the prospect rankings, the Dodgers. Year after year having, you know, tons of guys in the top 10, top 25, and how many guys have those have hit? By my, by what I've seen, I think maybe 3, 4, Bellinger, Pogis, Guler. outside of that, all these guys have been bused

versus you look at the Astros year after year, except for the last couple years, they have guys finishing top five in the rookie of the year race. I mean, Fromber Valdez, even Williur Abraeu, who goes to the Red Sox,

Hunter Brown. Hunter Brown was a top hunter guy. And the thing is, it's not only that, it's that you can make a trade for mooky bets when you have a bunch of farm hands. You can make a trade

for Freddie Freeman, I believe it was a trade too, right? For the Dodgers? No, Freddie Freeman was fine. But no, you're kind of going to my point, too. I mean, maybe they do look at these rankings, but what have the Dodgers given up for Max Scherzer, or Trey Turner or Mookie Betts?

Absolute crap. And it's all based off of these rankings that these riders are doing. These riders don't know anything about these prospects. I mean, over the last 10 years, who has had a consistently higher-ranked prospect system? Obviously, the Dodgers. who has produced way better major league talent the Astros. Over the last 10 years?

I think that's, I would say, the Dodger. I mean, not produce. Who have the Astros produced in the last, I don't know, five, six years that has been a really big, big time. Jeremy Pena. Jeremy Pena was a top 100 prospect. At the very last end, and he's a bottom half of the top 100.

Hunter Brown was a top 100 prospect. Well, I'm going to back you up on one thing. I do agree with you. I think these baseball prospectus and baseball America and MLB pipeline things are frankly just material to create in order to help you back up stories that you write about prospects. Like when a team makes a big trade. Oh, that player in our prospect list has them as the number 19th player. Everybody has their own intelligence about what they think about their players.

Point number two, which I'll also back you up on us, the Astros haven't been burned, so to speak, with a lot of the prospects they have sent away. way in order to bring players in. But the reality also is if we're talking about Jeremy Pena and Hunter Brown being the last guys the Astros have been able to use as members of their modeling system

to move them up to contribute, that means this organization doesn't have the prospects for two reasons. One, we've not seen a lot of them come up here and be stars in the last five or six years. And number two, you don't hear them as part of trade chips because other teams don't want them. Yeah, and okay, maybe that

goes against my point saying that these teams don't look at those rankings. I just, I don't think those rankings are accurate. I mean, so on the flip side of what you're saying, Ross, go look at the Dodgers for the last five years or the last 10 years of their top five or their top 100 prospects. From what I've seen, and I'm looking at here, four of them have hit. You've got Andy Pogis, Walker, Walker Bueller, who is, I guess you could barely say as a hit, Cody Bellinger, who they moved on from, who was terrible, and then Will Smith. outside of that they've had absolutely nobody that uh absolutely nobody that's hit and you know guys like Dustin may Alex Verdugo and other guys that they've traded have amounted to absolutely nothing so I just I wonder if teams are starting to look less and less at this at this prospect list but anyway I don't think teams are looking necessarily at the prospect list at all but it is it is when everybody

has you as 30th that's a problem when baseball America baseball prospectus M-OB pipeline Keith Law at the athletic, when everyone has you at the bottom, and they're all doing their own rankings and looking at prospects, it is a problem. Is it in the end-all-be-all? No. Is it certainly out there for us to go look at it and it's fodder and does it matter when a guy goes out on the field? No.

So there is a grayer. The Astros are 30th, so that's it. They have no prospects. Yeah, you can find guys. Yeah, people can come up who aren't top prospects and they can contribute. But over the years, you are going to have teams who are top prospect heavy. and on the top 100 list, they're going to be more successful. That's just true.

And I'll say this. If you have a low prospect list, which obviously the Astros have, teams are going to do their due diligence and look at their own and cross-check. And they're going to say, all right, do the Astros, are what we see, what the Major League Baseball media people see? So let's ask this before, when we come back to break, what exactly do you guys think, if you were in those seats, what should the Astros do to be better?

in these prospect ranks. What should they go? What should they do? They need a draft better and sign better. It's about... It's about... That's so... That's so... Because they lost their first-round picks and their couple of second-round picks, and also they haven't hit on the guys that they have had. That's just the bottom line of it. I mean, you can say that, but Ross, you can say that. But look at EMI. How many dudes that are in America right now

that are... can perform ten times better than what he's doing. They went to Japan for a mediocre pitcher. Let's be real. Well, because, well, yeah, this is one of the reasons they have. had to do that is because they were desperate and they did give him a deal that a lot of teams maybe weren't able to do and they signed him late in the game. There are eyes that are watching

talent that are wearing Houston Astros gear and being employed by the Astros that are not doing a great job. So that's the problem. Before Jeremy Payne came up, Baseball America had him at number 72 and Baseball Perspectus had him as the number 16 prospect in baseball. So he was a highly thought of

prospect before he came up and had his breakout season in 2022. Same thing for Hunter Brown. I'd have to go look it up. He was like in the 40s or 50s. He was a top prospect. Tell me who the Astro is who is like tearing it up and is carrying the squad right now who wasn't a top prospect.

There's nobody. There's no replenishment. And if you're going to not spend the crazy money on the super A-list free agents giving him 10 years, $485 million, you've got to use your pipeline. And the Astros have not been able to use a pipeline. Thus, they went to go get Tatsu Emi and overpaid for him. And saying the Dodgers only have four contributors who are, good like we're prockett that's pretty good

you got four guys who are contributing to your team or what oh he said cody bellinger's gone but if you get a few handful of guys and then you build around that and spend a bunch of money and then oh by the way you can make the mooky best trade you can make other trades to give away prospects because your farm system is stocked that's what matters when the astros had the top

farm system in baseball and jeff luna we were all talking about hey this is great rankings we love the prospect rankings now when you're 30th these prostrators rankings suck they're the worst It's because we're being homers. No, I can believe the Astros farm system sucks. Because the proof of that is, who, what from this group the last five years has come to help out the Astros or for that matter, any other team in baseball?

The answer is very few. I don't know. Who is an actual, I mean, paying in 2020. Last five years. Last five years. How plentiful has the Astros draft been for the Astros and for them to make trades to send to other teams to make those teams? bring current players to the Astros. Pena's came up in 2022.

And it's been him. And then Hunter Brown, when did he come up? 23 or 4? I'll have to go look. He can't have 22 as well. We'll get to you out of his break. Yeah, so we've got to go.

Like this is good job, John. Yeah, way to keep us on break there. Good conversation. 713-212-5-7-9. All right. So, again, we weren't talking circles, but we all had different kind of frames a reference here. I do believe

the minor league system stuff is highly subjective. The only problem with me against my own argument is there are like 10 different people that evaluate minor league systems and nobody ever thinks the Astros have a good one. So there's got to be some credence to

the people that go and do the deep dives on those. But just because you've got a crappy model like system doesn't mean you can't use it to your advantage somehow, some way. And the Astros have done that. The Astros started to lose some of their luster in the minor lake system And when they were making those trades to go get people, to go get Justin Verlinder at the deadlines.

And remember, the Justin Verlinder trade. The Zach Grinke trade, Rossi. It did not result in the Astros losing players that you were like, oh, I wish they were wearing Astroskear to this day. Nobody's dying for Seth Beard conversation. Drew Gilbert is wasting away in San Francisco. Yeah, but having Seth Beer and those guys allows you to make those types of trades. It allows you to acquire Zach Grinke.

Yes. And so, yes, you traded away a lot of prospects for Mookie Betts. That allows you to make the move. They traded away a couple of prospects and a player for Tommy Edmund, who's been hurt this year, but who has been very good for them. They drafted Justin Robleski, who has a 2.62 ERA. They draft them in 21. So they are getting some contributions from guys who they drafted. And he said, as he said, Andy Pahas, that was an amateur free agent that he had that come up the prospect list. then that's why the Dodgers are doing it that's why they're as successful as they are they're drafting and able to make trades and then oh by the way they can spend more money than God

so then you can sign Shohei Otani you can post the huge money for Yoshinobu Yamamoto and you can get those guys as a free agent as free agents and then you have the prospects who can come out either matriculate through your system or you can trade them away

for a Mukhi Betz and a Tommy Edmund Walker Yannick by the way former first round pick a few years ago is back playing Corpus Christi. That's good. 22 games. 91 played appearances, 86 at bats. He's drawn five walks have been hit.

He has 13 hits. Okay. Batting 151 with a slug of 258. His OPS is 454. Oh, their catcher, by the way, Dodgers catcher, Dalton rushing is doing very well for them. 22, two second round draft bit.

So I don't know. I think that guy's off saying that the farm hasn't been paying off for them. No, farm systems have to pay off for the good teams. You can't, the Dodgers aren't spending $50 million per position. They're not trading for every to, yeah, but then they're

also, they get both. They get both. And the Astros, when you don't get as many as with the Dodgers do, you have to be, you got to make more hits that you're in your draft and the Astros have not been able to do that. As I said before, when's the last phenom? We've been generally excited about

watching a AAA going, man, Can't wait to see you under Astro Gear. Is it Pena? Is it Brown? Hunter Brown, I went to go look. He was a... Oh, no, I have to pull it back up. Hunter Brown was the top hunter prospect.

So say, so you're all Hunter Brown. Astros had a better farm system. Well, yeah, he was the top hunter prospect. I mean, show me all the non-top hunter prospects who are crushing it for the Astros right now. Hunter Brown, Baseball America, pre-23, had him at 28. MLB Pipeline, 43rd. Prospectus 45th. Everybody had him as a top 50 guy. And here he is. Performing. It needs to be better tomorrow. Period. It'd be nice. Let's get to Koso before the top of the yard. Koso, what's going on?

Guys, I just wanted to guys let you know that I am starting my own Mr. Texas fan club. Thank you. And I just wanted everyone to know that I have a letter here from our board of regents. I'd like to read it off to you guys if that's okay. How long is it? It's literally 20 seconds. Perfect. Here at the Mr. Texas fan club, we welcome to everybody.

We probably stand beyond our fearless leader, Matthew Rodriguez-Thomas, through his questionable food opinions, unwavering love of Yacht Rock, and every hot take in between. We don't ask questions. We simply support Mr. Texas and encourage everyone to join. A one-time initiation donation of 2,500 is required. It will be donated to the Rhode Island College volleyball team.

We welcome everybody. And we will work together. It's been more than 20 seconds. I'm cutting this off. Let the mean speak. Go ahead, Casey. It's the Jake Myers' fan quote. I just want to know.

Everyone's welcome. Thank you guys. Thank you, Koso. A quick question. Oh, he hung up. Oh, what? I was curious your top three qualifications for being Mr. Texas. Oh, top three.

I've traveled the state. Okay, that's not, who cares? I've lived here. So have millions of other people. 80% of my life. Okay, I've lived here 100% of my life. And I feel comfortable here. That's your top, that's your hard sell?

Yeah. I don't want to represent a state I don't feel comfortable in. Terrible. That's pretty hard. That's a pretty weak sell there. Matthew? I don't know. Do I get called Mr. Texas once or twice per day on the show? Yes. Do I run around these Houston streets? People say, Mr. Texas, can we get an autograph, please? Yes, it happens. It's just a running joke. People seem to call him the fat guy slim. Everybody knows you're not qualified.

You know what? I will, I will back this up. I will spend some time in the Beaumont, Port Arthur area in the next couple weeks. What does that get you? What are you doing there? Beaumont Porter. Port Arthur. Oh, Port Arthur. You know, I'll go to Porter tonight. I move around the state Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, all around. I'll go wherever you want to go. I don't want to go anywhere. Let's go out to Midland Odessa.

Have you ever been? Never been. Oh. But I'll be happy to go. The kids call. You know what? Actually, you are Mr. Texas. You should make a bid for governor.

True words, never spoken on this show. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Why is this song so damn catchy? Two, three, four, five, sixers. It was written by about a junior high group, right? Hey, come on. No, it's not a junior high band. This is not a songwriter's Hall of Fame original.

What's some respect on our name. Everybody. Oh, God, I love this song too much. 76ers. Word coming from the NBA Broadcasting Department. Every 76er game will be nationally televised this year. Wow. All he did.

NBA record. Plus the NBA Cup final if necessary. Yes. Apparently the pre-season games available on Amazon Prime. Yeah. Turn it up. They're also, yeah, ESPN's launching a new network. ESPN Bronx.

Oh, I believe it's called ESPN 76. That works. People in 1974 were dancing this song. What year did this song come out? I don't know. I'm about to find out. What is the name of this song? Here Come the Sixers.

Released in 1975. Oh, it was off a year. 76ers. That's Dr. Jay, right? Bobby Jones. Who else on those mid-70s teams? Doug Collins, maybe? Well, there's a New York Times article on it.

Terry Roadcap. I'm not upgraded. I already do. Can I get this with the athletic? No. Damn it. All right. LeBron James, two years, $8 million contract to go play for Philadelphia.

This is his, as he says, final decision. Yes. Does he play the second year? It is a player option, correct? Is that right? I think it is. Oh, yeah. I think he finished.

It's a $4 million. That's a chump change for LeBron James. I think the bigger dollar amount is in the second. second year don't hold me to that i think i saw it but that's uh yeah but two years eight million dollars the lowest amount of money that lebrano has ever made in his NBA career will be in the next two years mm-hmm but i'm gonna guarantee you that there'll be cameras watching everything he does and he's going to have that Netflix movie locked and loaded for whatever it is which you know if you're that's not crazy i mean michael jordan made a movie i mean yeah last dance yeah last

dance. I mean, and yeah, basically him deciding to release it, I believe it coincided with LeBron James beating that Warriors team on the 3-to-1 comeback. He's like, all right, y'all must have forgot. And apparently rumors are already moving around that they're trying to find spot for Bronny James being the 76. Because after that, they were, I don't know, where the training staff? Who's the bigger gravy trainer? It's going to mean the mop guy? Bronny James trying to gravy train off Pops or Ben Verlander off his brother. Greater as in like more successful?

It's got to be Bronny. He's in the NB freaking A. Yeah, but why don't you separate yourself? That's power. Separate. Be your own man. What? Brony James basketball acumen and stardom. Growing his own.

Hell no. My dad was a Bron James. He could get me on the NBA and I had no talent. I can make a million dollars. How do you explain Ben Verlander then? What do you mean? You would separate yourself. Give yourself a different last name.

Why would he change his last name? Because he's a great return of his bro. I mean, Nick Cage did it. Who's his brother? His uncle is Francis Ford Coppola. He's Nick Nicholas Coppola. Did I have mad respect for that? There was another Coppola who changed your name too.

I can't remember. Now you're making up names. You're right. All right, let's go to the phones. That song is too catchy. can we get the Rockets get a catchy song? What is the Rockets Catchy song? Hmm.

Okay. How about you and I this weekend? We go to your house, get a couple of bottles of wine, and let's create a catchy Rockets Fight song. That would be as good as that is. That song is 50 years old, and it's still good to this day. Okay. You said it's that easy.

If a middle school band can do it, you can do it. I think we can do it. I think you and I are smarter and more talented in a middle school band. Well, this guy thinks you're an a-hole. No, no, no, no. What was his name, Thomas Rocap or whatever, who wrote the song? Is he alive? He's 70 years old.

So he wrote it when he was... Wait a second. Now, when is this article from? He's 75. He was 20 years old when he wrote it. So basically a junior high. That's not... I don't know how long you were in junior high.

Some longer than others. So let's talk to Charles on 7.90 at 110. Hi, Charles. Hey, how are you? good excellent there were students at temple a couple quick questions

yeah go ahead is there any other reason other than Yordon Alvarez to watch the Astros this year yeah there is two games out of first place uh Jeremy Panyas been pretty good

Issoc Paredes is kind of fun okay I'm not saying to date them yet but which Tutsu you might is going to get if you like surprises you never know which Tatuya Imai you're going to get. That's kind of fun. Hey, you know

what, but the reality, I mean, I'm a realist. This Astros team doesn't scare anybody. That's correct. You know, and, you know, back when they were perennial runner-ups or contenders,

one through six, one through seven, you didn't want to pitch to anybody in this lineup. You didn't want to get in the batters box, against anybody on the mound. This is not that Astros team, and it's not going to be that Astros team for a long time. I mean, that's just the sad truth.

Why? Hold a, hold a, hold on. I'm going to agree with half your sentiment. This is that nobody's striking fear in the Astros. Why does that have to be a long time? I'm curious why you think it's a long time. Because they've got nothing coming up. I mean, they've already brought their best prospects to the major leagues,

and they're all duds. I mean, I'm not saying they can't get better, but it's going to be two or three, four years before they, you know, if they figure it's just reality. Okay, so let's, so you want them to sell. Is that what I'm assuming you're going to do? I think they ought to sell everybody except for Pena and Alvarez and go into a major rebuild. Okay, well, you can't majorly rebuild with trading Christian Walker and Isak Paredes. mentioned this last hour. These guys don't carry the type of rebuilding prospects you think.

If you're going to really rebuild, and we can define the definition however we want to, if you're going to rebuild, you have to trade something that is worthy of rebuilding for, and Jordan Alvarez does that. Christian Walker does not. You know that point, and unfortunately,

they've only got two or three players on the roster that they're going to get a real return for. and as you so notably pointed out already several times, there's no guarantee with prospects. I mean, are they better off? I mean, I'm torn, but I don't think this team has a realistic chance. So they've got to make a decision on which direction they're going to go and go. They've been waffling for three or four years now.

And, you know, maybe it's the leadership, maybe it's the ownership. Maybe it's just, you know, there's not. that much talent out there. I don't know. But I just don't see this team as a even a potential if they win the division. I don't see them getting

out of the first or second round of the playoffs. Yeah. And you're not in the minority on that. Thank you for the phone call. I appreciate it, Charles. I mean, I know. I mean, all of us collectively are seeing the same team. We just have different ends on this, whether it's

it's a crappy America League that somebody's got to win it or do you go it's a crappy America League you got to know who you really are and when baseball is good again and the American League is more competitive you've got to be ready for it. Maybe this is an indictment against me. Just take it for what it is. The division says you're two games out of first place. It just does.

And 90% of the American League this year is mid or below average or sucks. I'm going to take my chances. I don't feel there even one piece away. but it's not up to me anyways. They're going to try to do what they're going to try to do. They're going to hope the rotation turns it around. Walker and Altuve improved from what you've gotten from them recently. That the left-handed bat you do trade for is going to be successful and good.

That the leverage army you trade for is going to be successful and good. And all those things need to come into place. And then maybe you're about as good as the raise in the Yankees. And maybe half of the guys that have majorly disappointed us, this year, Rossi, half of them play well the next 50 games. Yeah, we can hope. That's what you have. Not 10, but 5. You don't have hope. You're not

in a position of power. You can't make big trades. You don't have the resources to do that. You don't even have the financial resources to take on big trades or much of a big contracts, many big contracts. With the McCullors move and what, a couple of the other moves they made,

they do have some wiggle room in terms of salary they can take on. Yeah. They're preparing to make an addition. They're not preparing to further subtract. It looks like at this point. Scott and Son, I get to you next. 115. We got non-flora stories coming up at the bottom of the hour. 115 on Sports Talk 790. 120 p.m. here on Sports Talk 790.

Believe it or not, all things Philadelphia 76ers coming your way at 150. We did give away one answer to what actually will be question number one coming up at 150. if you were listening earlier, you were able to catch that. So hopefully you were listening, and you'll be able to get the freebie question, 76ers, believe it or not. And if not, we're going to scream and yell at you. Oh, you're going to scream and yell. Yeah, that's true. I'm not going to scream and yell.

I'm going to laugh. I'm going to hope they get it wrong because I just, you know, maybe this is a bad trade on my part, but when you get angry at the listeners, it entertains me, man. I just, look, if you're going to be a price or I get that. But I mean, but I listen to the show at least. That's all I ask. Yeah, we're going to give you all these prizes. is you could at least listen to our show. Correct. Scott on 790. Hi, Scott.

What's going on, fellas? Happy Friday. Same to you. So, you know, I don't have a big counterpoint or a point that I want to agree with when discussing the trade deadline, but I just kind of wanted to lay out what in my mind would happen if you did buy

into a total rebuild, which would have been sell off of our big prospects, or the big players, excuse me. So currently, we have two players in the top 100. of prospects with Alvarez and Nyan. So if you trade, let's say, Yordon, Peña, Hayter, and Hunter Brown, let's just say. You go from having two top 100 prospects to somewhere between six and eight top 100 prospects,

which immediately now gives you one of the best farm systems in baseball. Prospects are prospects. It doesn't guarantee that they're going to turn into something. Obviously, the hope for the plan to work is that some of them do turn into something. You're also going to be really bad next year and possibly the year after that. So you're going to add another two to three top 100 caliber level prospects. So by the end of the rebuild, when you're starting to look, okay, now it's time to win, you'll have had, let's call it, 10 top 100 prospects through your system.

Five of them work out where they're really contributors to your team. The key part is what people don't remember and talk about with our rebuild in 2017 when we ended up winning is you're going to have a really inexpensive baseball team at that point with really good young players. So what can you do now that you're ready to win? You start adding free agents like Josh Reddick, Brian McCann, Charlie Morton, Carlos Beltron, that's how you would fill out the team at that point in time. It's all hypotheticals.

You never know if prospects are going to work out, but obviously the plan would be for them to do it. And I'm not even saying that's what we should do. I'm just saying that would be the vision in my mind if we were to blow it up. I agree with you, Matt. You either have to go all in on blowing it up or keep trying to win because being in the middle just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Good point, Scott. Thank you.

You can't argue. I'm just, I just, I get very nervous about, well, now we got two prospects. Now we got four prospects. Now we got six. You know who talks like that? The Pittsburgh Pirates. No, but if you have six, but the, but the Ashras aren't Pittsburgh Pirates. Because as Scott said, you can get five, six, quarter.

players you're hoping will come up and contribute and then you can build around them and then and then you when you have more prospects you can trade more prospects as well so you can you can get the free agent signings you can swing for the fences and a Justin furlander trade or is that grinky trade or whatever more farm hands probably a good thing especially when you're thought of is the worst prospect farm system in baseball i just think y'all want halls for players that aren't going to bring halls back Jeremy Payne can bring you a hall back Jordan Averaz can bring you a hallback Josh Hader could bring you a hallback

That's it It could end up being nothing For sure But what's what is it What are they right now though They're 50 and 54 The bad With the bad farm system

But they're also 50 and a 54 And you're gonna get mad at me Just go ahead and be mad at me It's a winnable America League I'm sorry Yeah so you have a thin farm system And let's cut further to the bone to be out in the ALDS.

I don't, I cannot guarantee, I cannot guarantee a forecast. There's not even a guarantee they're going to make the playoffs. That's right. But there's no guarantee in any playoffs. You can have the best, you can have the best team in play in the American League and so it'll be bouncing in first round. But you can sit in a driver's seat and say, we're contenders, we're in the mix. We are right there. Of course, 29 out of 30 teams are unhappy.

But there are five, six teams. The Tampa Bay Rays are like, we're in this thing. The New York Yankees are in this thing. The Astros are not in this thing. But the race last year, too, were horrible. And so, but I want to ask questions because I don't really know the context. What were you all saying the exact same thing in 2022 when they won?

Saying what? About the farm system, about the prospects that we don't have a future. Then they had a much better farm system. I don't think it was that much better. I can pull up the list. Certainly in 17 they had the one. They missed on, they whiffed on a bunch of draft picks and then their international signings didn't work out either.

and Dana Brown got hired, what, three years ago? This is his fourth draft. He's been there since 2023. So he's run four drafts for them. So he's run four drafts as of right now. Kevin Alvarez is a free agent signing. He's thought of as one of their top guys. I always say this wrong.

Chivoni. Chivani. Chivani was a lower draft pick who's looking pretty good. And Nions is literally the first round draft pick of last year. Who's looking pretty good as well. All right, so I'll say this. Bryce Matthews was his first, first round draft pick. Not been great.

Cam Smith, part of the Kyle Trucker Trey, because that's prospects. Not good. Below average. We think he can be good. And I think the biggest indictment right now also has been Burroughs, Tong, Emi, Weiss. All whiffs right, bad whiffs right now from Dana Brown. Unfortunately, I'm rooting for Dana Brown. I like Dana Brown.

But I'm not. I'm sorry. If we're having this conversation of we are our dynasty and you're at the point where you guys talk show hosts about the Astros are so upset at the point of

we can't get draft picks I think we know the issue. Yeah. I think it's just hard to us to say that because... It's also hard to hit on draft picks in baseball. It just is when you're not picking

in the top 10, 10, 15. It happens though. It happens. What I'm telling you is I am... I can't give up on the thought of winning, especially when it's still a possibility. I don't think it's...

I think it's a remote possibility. ability. I think two games out on July 24th does not make it remote. I think 50 and 54 makes it remote that you're going to make any kind of run in the American League. You can get in. Yeah. Get in.

Yeah. I'll accept. Because they're not going to do anything. I'll say it. They're not winning the American League. I'm writing down. You have my personal guarantee. I put my name on it.

Astros are not winning the American League. I'd probably join you in that too. But I want to see it play out. Okay. Yeah, we want to see it out. You've got thin prospects and you're cutting even further to bone to convince yourself to your contender.

That's what they're going to do. That's fine. It'll be fun. I want it to be successful. 790. Astros station. Go, go Astros. Let's go.

I just, I'm not hopeful. Come on, Mike Burroughs. Come back from AAA. It'll be just fine. He's giving up how many home runs, 21? This week or this year? Hey. See, now you're being rude.

I'm bullish on Mike Bowles. Yeah, bullish on Burroughs. I'm done with Burroughs. We're printing up the shirts. I got some. BS on boroughs of what I got. Nobody print home damn. The only shirt you have a lot of print-up are the ones. I would love to be wrong.

To be awesome if they won the American League. All right. Steve and Alex, we'll get to you guys. Coming back next, 128 on 790. We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of Florida

and share them with the people of Houston. It's time for no, Alex. We got phone calls to get to, so we're going to make this very quick. The Food and Drug Administration, well, do you guys ever go to the convenience store and see those little pills in the front where you pay for your lottery tickets or your sodas or stuff? To help the rhino all night long pills? Basically.

Don't touch those. All right. I was watching a TV show and they were breaking down. Don't do that, Matt. The FDA is stopping the company that creates the 9.5. so subtly branded Boner Bears sex chocolate. Okay, good. They're saying this sexual enhancement product is being recalled because it has an active ingredient not declared on the product label.

That a product label is the Sedanaville, which is the active ingredient in the drug Viagra. So you cannot get Viagra unless it's prescribed by a doctor. But apparently the folks at Boner Bear and Sex Chocolate are putting it in their chocolates. and not telling you. Yeah, I saw an investigative report. Like, they're putting, like, 10 times the regular dose and, like, caffeine

and all this crazy stuff into those pills. Don't do it, Jonathan. So Jonathan, stay away from Boner Bear's sex chocolate. I work just fine. You won't eventually, friend. Rossi, do you have anything or if you want to pass it a pass?

I know, I can do it real quick. Let me take it to Little Rock, Arkansas. where unfortunately there was a man using a wheelchair struggling to get six lanes across traffic in Arkansas when some help came. I saw this video today. An unexpected way. A man in a Spider-Man outfit

jumped out of the red Jeep after spotting him. Oh, actually he was at the trampoline park and declared, I got you. He rolled the person in the wheelchair to safety only seconds before the light changed and the rows of traffic advanced. So congratulations to Spider-Man of Little Rock, Arkansas for helping a man cross the street in a wheelchair. That's a good Samaritan story of the Friday. Yeah.

He was literally in a Spider-Man costume. Yes. Which, how many guys are written Spider-Man costumes driving around town? Apparently he was at a themed event at the trampoline park right there. I got you. So I'll ask you, John, then when you're wearing a costume in your car driving around, what do you like? to where, Jonathan? My birthday seat, I guess.

Okay. That seems fair. Huh. That's not legal, Jonathan. I go as Aquaman. It's not. It's my own car. That's true. He wants to drop Tron and his car, let him be. All right, you got a non-flora story, Jonathan? Oh, someone's letting us know, by the way, four game series between Rangers and Mariners, even though it starts on a Friday. Ooh, the old wraparound, if you will.

We want a 2-2 split, right? I don't know. What do we want, Mr. Mathematician? You tell me. Sure, why not. Okay. Go ahead, Jonathan. Mine's a little wholesome one. I like to find these. In Russia, they're running personal ads.

There's time not for love like I did the last time. But they're just looking for some barbecue companions. They just want someone to come over and just help barbecue, prepare a grill, cost $13 and $65. You can include preparing a grill, cooking the meat, set up a tent, and just acting as a friendly companion. I saw the story too. Basically, again, what Jonathan is saying is,

If you are by yourself and you like to barbecue, you can have a companion with you at the barbecue. That costs a little money, but make some friends. So if you want somebody to be there with your meat, you can buy somebody. You want to put the meat on the grill. Yes. Hmm.

Now, John, then what happens after the meat is cooked is really between the two of them, correct? Yeah, if you want to encage in barbecue buddy services, whatever that may be. Thank you very much. Those are our flash edition of the non-floor stories. Go to the phones, talk to some people, get some nice folks who want to say hello.

We'll go to Alex and Conroe on 790. Alex, good afternoon. Thanks for holding. What's going on, Matt? Hi. Can you hear me pretty well? Yes, sir. Okay, so I've been trying to call in about my main point for,

ever since Lance got traded. So he got blown up in Game 3 of the World Series in 22, and I think it's a common consensus that he was tipping his pitches. Now, what I think is that Stubbs, the backup catcher for the Phillies, was conveying to his teammates what was going on. That's where I think that it came through is Stubbs was familiar with Lance, and he was communicating to his teammates what was going on. So I would really, I don't know if it's possible.

I don't know if y'all still have a relationship or if you want to check in on him, while he's in Milwaukee, but I wish somebody would ask him about that and see what his opinion is on it. My second opinion, if we're going to do a rebuild, there's no point in doing it if we're going to get rid of Yordon. You have to have somebody to rebuild around, and obviously we get the most for him, but that's just like that's not a tenable situation. However, if we sold the right guys, if we sold Pena, if we sold Hunter Brown, if we sold Hader, if we sold third base, my God. Peratus.

Paratus. If we could somehow unload Walker, you know, I feel like we could get enough guys back that we could be contenders opening day next season. So it wouldn't even really be a rebuild so much as a reset. However, with the fact that we're not sure if we're even going to have a season next year and how frugal Jim Crane is, I don't think he's going to waste his time signing anybody. Alex, I got to crutch on a couple things. First of all, when you do prospects, you just assume that every person,

prospect that the Astros get for the players not named Yorna and Pena are going to be major leakers by the time the next season comes around. That's not how prospects work. My guess is if you're training for any of those players you talked about, you're getting A&A players who aren't ready. And number two, Jim Crane's not frugal. Jim Crane is not miserly. Jim Crane does not give out exorbitant contracts, but Jim Crane pays fair market value for guys. Josh Hater is getting fair market value. Yoran Alvarez, frankly, is getting a value because he signed that he bought out his arbitration years. he's not he's not frugal he just doesn't want to give long-term extensions there's a difference i believe

in that case i feel like okay so frugal definitely has kind of maybe it carries a negative connotation but in this sense he is frugal he's he's not going to sign a dumb contract i guess is uh let's just settle on that he's he's not going to he's not going to put himself or the organization in a bad spot which is why i think that if there's no season next year he's not going to sign somebody and and have a lost season on that contract So, I mean, I'm not sure if that's actually how it works or not, or if there's no season, do the, you know, does everybody's contract get put on time? Well, I think it's to be determined. Yeah, I don't think I'm, I don't think I've gotten the answer to that.

Thank you, Alex, for the phone call. I don't know. I don't know. Does everything just get stretched over a year? Or, I mean, I don't, I can't, I don't think you just skip contract years. If there's no baseball being played, if you're, if you're selling to make $23 million, you're going to make $23 million dollars the next thing you're supposed to play. you're not going to make 23 meetings and say, well, that yours is gone. You're at one year less in your contract.

I don't think the players would go for that. I'm not sure. Yeah. Real quick, let's go to Steve on 790 at 142. Hi, Steve. Good afternoon, guys. Hi. The Dana Brown thing.

Let me, can I, can you hear me? Yes. Can you hear me? Yes. Hey, so the day, can you hear me? No, I can't hear you. Dana Brown. Can you hear me now?

Nope. Huh? No. All right Go ahead Go ahead Steve Go ahead Steve So the Dana Brown thing

Come on man It's Friday I guess you should mess with somebody Hey so the Dana Brown Do we know who he Drafted from the Atlanta Braves And if so How many of them are still on the team

I'll have you look that up Thank you Steve for the phone call It's Friday as you said It's Friday I ain't looking up Deng homework projects Last segment of the show I got news for y'all. I love y'all. I'm not doing your homework.

We're here to entertain and give opinions. I'm not here to give you lectures. I'm not here to do your homework. Google's your friend. Thank you, Steve. Steve has had a tough time getting in there. Hello? No, can hear me? Nope. Can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you.

No. Oh, hey. Ross, believe or not. Believe it. We're going to play this. Oh, you don't play the song? We're playing this song. Man, we're going to play it three times of a show.

We're going to overplay this song. Three times of the show's got to be unprecedented, Jonathan. We're overplaying it. 149 on Sports Talk 790. It is Matt. It is Ross. We are with you for another few more minutes. We got hell you are not coming up.

And then, by the way, no Brian Adams tickets. I would have not thought that Brian Adams would have been the number one on the, believe it or not, priceless this week, but they're gone. We are playing for tickets to see. John Mellencamp And the big three Big three by the way is tomorrow So if you're going to go to that

You can win that today here on Sports Talk 790 Yay Yay! I don't watch a lot of the big three It's interesting It's some of my favorite players Are yesterday you're playing I did go see Ryan Holland's play When he was with the big three team

And then Lisa Leslie pulled him out of the game After he got 2,000 didn't play again I was pissed at her still under this day I'm not trying to be person I think. Feels a little personal. It should be personal. I drove all the way to Dallas

to watch Ryan Holland's play two minutes. Maybe you should have been racking up fouls. I mean, I don't think Ryan Holland should have had two fouls and two minutes, but that's another here or there. Were they bad calls? They were definitely bad calls. All right, five minutes left to go on the show.

What should we do? It's all things about the Philadelphia 76ers. Monday through Thursday we play, believe it or not. Fridays we play a hellier or not. I'll read you statement about the Philadelphia 76ers. Statements completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Hell yeah!

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Whatever the 76 songs was. Okay. At the moment, the oldest player ever to play for the Philadelphia 76ers was Kevin Willis at the age of 39. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. No, Rick Mahorn at 40.

Thank you for flying. Duh. I don't know that. Robert on 790. Robert, your favorite part of today's radio show. Waking up to Stry, so always. At the moment, I already read that one. The Philadelphia 76ers' all-time leader in head coaching victories is Billy Cunningham with 454.

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That'll be hosted by the Wexler and Clinton duo. You'll have the 10th inning show. I will be hosting on Saturday, both pre-end post. Wow. Yeah. And what else we got going on? I don't know. Got a lot of concerts to get to.

we got Disastros Okay Climing up the division ladder I got to prep for Tone Danza next week Are you going to really I got it fitted for my suit

You cannot ask him about If any relations with Mary Lou Hennar though It's inappropriate I thought they dated Maybe they did Why can he ask What do you say to a man Why would I ask?

Jonathan let's go through this Did you knock up 40 years ago Mary Lou Hennar? It's just like bro talk, you know, just like... Oh, really? He was slaying in the 80s. Tony Danza? Okay, I'll tell you.

Okay, you know what? I will ask him. See? And I will also give you the reaction. He gives me when I ask him such question. I'll say, Ross wants me to ask you this. Yeah, so... The hell no.

Ross has got a thing from Merlew Henner. Can you help me out with that? I need some caffeine, Rossi. Go for a walk. It'll energize you. Okay. Up next, Waxler, Clinton. The A team.

Talk to you tomorrow. tonight. Astro coverage here on 790.