The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Bats are on FIRE! Is McCullers Back? Rockets vs Knicks Tonight

Episode Date: March 31, 2026

Astros Bats are on FIRE! Is McCullers Back? Rockets vs Knicks Tonight

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-01 in H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. The Houston Astros explode for eight runs. More than enough support for Lance McPellers, Jr., who was brilliant. As the Astros defeat the Red Sox 8 to 1 to win their third. It's great game.

Is there not a better way to wake up on a Tuesday morning than having astral highlights and share? I dare you use to Texas to find a better combo than that right there. I dare you. How far do I go of making fun of this song and making fun of you before you out me? You can do it right now. I don't care. Let me just tell you because it was my suggestion. This is cheesy.

It's so good. But you jumped. I was like, what? What about chair? Turn out. Go ahead. It does. So I can be mad at myself or even suggesting it.

It's so good. It's like I asked a bear if we should go eat salmon. Should we go? Hey, Winnie. You want some honey? Yeah, exactly. Hey, Matt, you want us some share? Should we play share?

All right. Now, she's super old now. Oh, here we go. But for about 40. years, she was just the sexiest thing alive. I mean, just super, super hot. Sang, acted, funny, and just, oh, my goodness.

I mean, maybe I just missed her prime too hard, because that's an, okay, I'll take your word for it. Okay, I'll just say this. I may be one of the only heterosexual men in the world that loves Cher, like, share. I mean, yeah. I know. You saw her in Vegas. I did. I did go see her in Vegas. I was given a ticket and I was like, oh, you guys are going to share.

Like, yes, we are. And we had a great time. That's wonderful. That's what's important. That's what's important, Matt. That's great. Yeah, I'm trying to think if I want to give you a video of her on Sunny & Share, that's like 1974, so you can't appreciate that. Maybe like Share 82, 83 when she started to become an actress. I still wasn't more. But that meant that's just prime. I'll take your word for it. I'm not calling you a liar. Thank you. I appreciate. that very much. Good morning everybody. Hi, Ross. I'm doing great. The Astros are doing great. I'm in a spectacular mood. Can I

say something to any astro fan? Yes. Any astro media? Any astro observer? This is outstanding what happened last night. Amazing. But just like I would tell you if the Astros had opened the season one and four, I just, we have to just, it's a sample size. No. Nope, nope, nope, nope. Syma Cullors. Let's go. Al Tuvei's back. I did tweet that out yesterday. Oh, you did? Yeah. I didn't see that.

Yordon Alvarez, he's mashing the ball. We're all good, baby. I mean, it's nice. It beats the alternative. New hitting coaches had a slow start, but the new hitting coaches got Jose Altuve two home runs. Let's go. You know what? You're going to start speaking that in existence. I'm with it. And all those people are going to call the show saying, Ross, we used to call you for months on end.

and talk about how there need to be a change in the hitting coaches, and you were poo-pooing that. Yeah, they taught Jose Al-Tuvae how to hit. It's great. He's being more patient. He's working walks. I love it. Rangier-Ranger Suarez. A run head?

Not good yesterday. Helped Venezuela win the WBC. Yes, he did. Did he unload some of the bullets too early? I don't know. Because apparently when he got back from, to Fort Myers where they have spring training. He was lousy. And then he was obviously the first

start of the season yesterday for him was lousy. That's a question for him and his trainers and his metrics and what? I'm Bull Sox Talk. Let's go to Pawtucket. Rafael, you're on Paw Talk. Oh, it's funny, Carly's school, my daughter's school, University of Rhode Island is about 25 minutes from Pawtackett. I'll be going to some Red Sox

minor league games. No, you're not. I have some wicked chatter. I have, there's no chance. Do you think if I go up there for links to I'll come back with it like a New England accent. No, you're not going to. It would be kind of fun. You're going to call everything Wicked Awesome? Yeah.

Okay. In Dorchester. Yeah. Dorchester, Mass. And the Patriots. The Patriots. A great. Drake May.

Mike Vrable. Celtics ruled a building in the entire NBA. I missed the garden. Jason Tatea, player of the week. You're doing good. All right. We have a busy show today, Russ, Sports. All right.

So we have at 1120 today. Gretchen Shear is going to join us. She is the president of business operations, the Houston Rockets, and Houston Commons. So we'll talk to her about the team of getting the WMBA back in our city. Got feelings at 1130 today. And the season premiere of the Joe Espotted Show at 1230 today. I'm so happy. It's going to be easy.

We can't screw this one up. We always like to have Joe on when things are going well. Yes, sir. Or email you doco or anybody. Yeah. So this is a nice time to have Joe on. on three in a row, Lance McCullors Jr. doing his thing. Seven innings of one-run ball.

Getting swings and miss. By the way, we are done making predictions, I think. No, I'm not done. I'm done. Because we had extraordinarily limited expectations of the Astro starter yesterday. And he, by the way, has the now the team ace. There's always a wide range of outcomes and anything in life, Matt. And sometimes we're right.

Sometimes we're wrong. Every year we go and look at our Super Bowl predictions from week one. they're way off. Not good. Because life is hard to predict. I don't think anyone had seven innings of one run ball with nine K's and only one walk

on their bingo board for Lance McCullors Jr. But he did it. Let's look at that box score for him. Okay. Did anybody have seven innings? Raise your hand. No. No one's going to do it.

Oh, I had the over three and a half. Four hits? You probably could have put that on the board. Yeah. One run? Possible, but probably not likely. One wall. possible, not likely.

Nine freaking strikeouts. I wrote down a prediction for his thing yesterday when we were doing overrunners. Yeah. I said four and a third, two earned runs, five strikeouts, three walks. Not particularly close, but that's okay. Dang. But that was about what, and this is the thing too, when you pale it towards every other starting pitcher.

Nobody else got it out in the sixth inning. I'm sorry, no, Pat, nobody got towards the sixth inning. Rose did five and two-thirds, sorry. Yeah. And everybody else was bad to worse, so Hunter Brown didn't give up a run, but he labored. But he labored, like most guys do.

He threw 102 pitches. Yep. He was efficient. He was getting out. He was getting swings and misses. He was getting double plays. He was getting out of jams. It was awesome. I didn't believe what I was seeing.

It was amazing. It was, and I don't mean to be too grandiose on this, it was like 2018. It was a vengeance performance. It was awesome. That's what you signed him for five years and whatever the dollar amount. And this was a guy, Matt, we were in front of him in spring training.

He sounded like he had one four out of the doorway. He's like, if I pitched good, it'll be great. If not, I left it all in the field. He's like, I love my family. Maybe I'll start serving some more coffee. Maybe I'll take care of some more pets. He's and all those things. He was introspective and emotional.

And it just felt like, you know, he was making his last stand. So for him to go out there, and we talked about this throughout spring training, he is Mr. Barrymey and the H-20017 Astros holdover with Altuve, both of those guys performing last night. That was awesome. Yes, it's a March game against the Red Sox, but it was as special as a March game against the Red Sox can get. And we talked about this before.

They're one of 162. You can't take this one away. You can't. I was astonished. Awesome. Oh, by the way, your OPS leader, now Jose Al-Touvae with an Opsos. of almost 1400.

Let's freaking go. I love all two-by leading off. I got zero problem with Yordon Alvarez betting second and three through seven figure out the way you want to do it. Let's go.

I'm on board. Jordan Alvarez D-Hing. Whatever. Bryce Matthews and left with that would not a cheap shot. 434 feet. 11 off the bat. I know you love Exit Velo,

Maddie? I'm a big Exit Velo guy. Did you know? I'm going to make sure this is accurate. It was accurate as the last year. Jose Al-Tuves not hit a ball 111 in his life. So Bryce Matthews showing some power. Bryce Matthews, that was a,

as the kids will say, a tank job. Yes. Well, literally to the gas pump. Yeah. I wonder if that gas pump is cheaper than getting the gas in the neighborhood. I don't think it's connected to anything. I've always been, I've always bragged about how Kingwood gas is cheap and everybody else. Man, we're at $359 now. Yeah.

What are you paying in the city? I don't know. That's right. You fill up your tank once a month. Yeah, it's five minutes for me to get here. Don't just, don't do that. Don't give me your evil eye. I chose where I wanted to live.

So I live close. Because I got problems waking up sometimes. It's fair. So, well, hear from Lance McCuller's coming back. Oh, I lied. Jose Al-2 if he hit a ball 112 in 2018. He's never hit a ball 11-any any other time, though. Stop not giving out of Roni's information.

I'm sorry. I'm going to think of it break. All right. 1120, Gretchen's going to join us. Rockets and Comments, 1130 gut fillings with the news at noon. We have Joe Spotted 1230, believe it or not, at 150. And we have

Anthony Edwards. We'll discuss all that today. What happened with him? You impregnate somebody again? You've not seen it. Good. 1013 on Sports Talk 790. 1019 on Sports Talk 790. It is Matted Ross with you here on this Tuesday.

Good afternoon, everybody. We would love for you to be a part of our radio show today. If you'd like to join us throughout the course of show with a variety of topics we have put together on our list, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. We'll hear from Lance McCuller's coming up at the bottom of the hour. After his, I mean, startling? I mean, what do you want to use this term? There is, if you were to say, one starting pitcher through the first term,

of the rotation was going to give you one run over seven innings, there was no one. And I mean no one would have guessed Lance McCuller's Jr. Good for him. He would have been the last guess. Yeah, and it's awesome. It's great. I've been saying I'm rude for him. It's about consistency. It's about all year long.

Yeah, but it was, it was highly enjoyable. Good for him. I mean, you know what? Being that, look, here's the reality of it. Being an athlete's tough. It just is to be really, Now, granted, if you're really good at your job, you make a lot of money. And then once you make a lot of money, you've got to back that money up. And so not everybody knows what everybody makes in life.

But when you're a public figure and you are attached to your dollar amount because your team has a budget or has to work on the parameters of a salary cap, every dollar matters. And the reality is the money that has been spent on Lance McCullors over his major league career has not been good. Because he didn't want to be good just because he wasn't good because, 90% of it was because of injuries. His body has been failing him and he wants to be out there

and he's just got all this hate and I think we talked about it the last couple of weeks and even last night I was tweeting about how great he was going to like yeah well I'm waiting for him to get hurt okay shut up you shut your bum ass up okay just enjoy the moment while it's happening maybe he'll get hurt maybe he won't

who knows I got news for you history says athletes get hurt yes multiple times actually So it's, it's, I don't even know what else to say. It was a, we were turning back time. Yes. Two-A-Thing bombs. McCullors is out there dealing.

Carl's Corray is making Blue Star plays running into right field, tossing the throwing guys out. Lance McCullors Jr. is going, that's my boy. I was like, oh, this is so great. This is amazing. Nistalgia was hitting last night, watching the Astros. That's right. That's why it's awesome to turn back time and we need to have to play more. Share songs on a show tomorrow.

No, that's it. No, that's it. I guess I... You know what? If they win tomorrow, we can play Believe. Why? It's share. Why?

Actually, we had a quota. There's no quota for share songs. Once per month. Jonathan, turn back time. Do you like it? I mean, who doesn't like share, though? Thank you. Me.

There are two adult men who are heterosexual that like share in this office. All right. You don't have to qualify it. Yeah, sometimes you're not. You got to qualify things in life. If you like Cher, you like share, Matt, doesn't matter. Yeah, but as soon as I said, you like started to snicker. I didn't snicker.

I've known you like Cher for 20 years. I think you like to Barry Manilow's worse. Wait a minute. It's way worse. Let's stop. We never did a believe or not, Neil Zedaka, by the way. May he rest. He died?

Yes, he died last week. Really? Yes. I'm sorry. Well, it's laughter in the rain, and then what? Bad blood. Not familiar. No, we're not playing it.

Stop. Calendar Girl. Calendar girl? Yeah. I love my love, my love, my calendar girl. It's before my time. But it's a song he had. It looks like you love that one.

It's fine. Is it on my phone? Yes or no. I'll say yes. No, it's not. You want it on there, though. I have two. No, I don't.

713, 212.12. 790. 7132.1.2.5.790. Your Astros win. Looking for another victory. This will be three. Looking for four in a row today. We'll talk to Joe Espada.

But y'all, y'all put your, like, alarms on your phones. 12.30, Joe Spada joins the show. Okay. That's your alarm set? No, I don't want it to go off in the middle of the show. That'd be fair. That'd be weird. Stephen in Los Angeles at 1023.

Stephen, good early morning to you. Hey, guys. I hope you're doing well today. Obviously, he was watching the Astros game last night. And to say that I was stunned by what I was seeing out of Lance McCullors is an understatement. It was really just a marvellous. to watch how well he was pitching last night. And I think one of the things that was most surprising and the most telling was that his walks were almost nonexistent.

I think he had won last night. And even when he's been an effective pitcher in the last few years that he's actually pitched, he's always prone to walk guys, you know, a handful of guys. So to see him, you know, I think what worked. the best last night or that was helping him the most in as far as my opinion goes, is that he was able to command his basketball, you know, and obviously it's not his most effective pitch, but I think when he was struggling so much last year, he was just throwing his fastball and he had no idea where he was going. And then everybody was just, you know,

sitting on his off-speed stuff. And it was just, it, it just made for long at baths and long pitch counts and things like that. And he just had everything working for him last night. And it was really just a joy to see that. And the last thing I'll say is if we could all just say a little prayer and to the baseball guys, let's please get 150 games out of York on Alvarez this season because, my God, I mean, it's a small sample size, but I think in five games,

you can see how much he impacts this lineup. I mean, even his outs or have been loud, you know, so far. So a lot of good stuff. No complaints on my end. Thanks, guys. I'll hang up and listen. Thank you, Stephen. He is pacing to play 162.

Yes, he is. And there were some people worried about his spring training numbers. No, never mind. I thought that was Cole in there, not Cole. No. My name was Shmish Morty. Oh, smish. He also wanted Jason Alexander in the starting rotation.

Well, everything's, you know, you have your favorites. Space Cowboys, they take Mondays off, right? Oh, by the way, did you hear about Zank Cole? Yeah. Hurt foot, going to be out a while. Yeah, you got hit with a pitch. He broke a toe. Can't you just put some tape on it,

wrap that bad by that? I would imagine, but also why push it? It's like week one of the space cowboys season, and they're loaded with their stocked. But if you get that over under at 103, aren't you a little concerned about that? Yeah, that's fine. Next man up, baby.

I got belief in my space cowboys. Yeah. You should talk out the first pitch of a space cowboy's game. I should. Everybody's going to be like, what the hell is this? guy. Ladies and gentlemen,

now on the bound from Sports Talk 790. One half of the Matt Thomas show, Ross. It's Ross. Would you raise your hand and say, hey, how about y'all doing? Yeah, I would do the double piece signs.

What are you running from the political office? Like Richard Nixon. Like Ringo Stardust. What do you turn around? Ringo does that. Ringo does it every time, at least ten times for concerts. I don't got a song about an octopus. Ringo.

one of the greatest drummers of all time just keep the beat ringo let john and paul do their thing and george too you got one job brother okay he's fine because some drummer nerds gonna call up ross is disrespecting wringo if you listen to his fills on something you're really going to hear something special and he's playing with the band he's not taking over and that's what's really great about ring. Okay, that's fine. I couldn't have said it better myself.

Again, the line last night for Lance McCullough, seven innings, four hits, one run, it was earned, one walk, nine Ks, gets the victory through 96 pitches. That's what we were expecting, not every single time, but much more over the last couple years than we have received. Astros got an outstanding performance of him. Ryan Weiss gave you two innings last night with three Ks, and a nice bounce back for him after a rough debut.

Astros hit not one, not two, not three, but four home runs. Crush, Ranger Suarez and the Red Sox. And the Astros have now won three consecutive games. We bring you back here at 1032 here on Sports Talk 790. Yeah, Ryan Weiss looked really great. And of course, we know McCullors did as well. Let's hear a little bit from him in the post game. First of all, just on his outing and how he was feeling out there,

as the results were pretty darn good. Oh, I feel good. I know the Red Sox are an incredible team. So I've known for, you know, two weeks or so that I was going to face them in the first game. So just what the, you know, coaching staff has been preaching to me since spring. Just got to be in the zone, you know. Scouting reports are all good and everything like that is good. But we got to attack and we got to be in the zone and we got to force it.

So I did that early. And then my defense, you know, some unbelievable plays behind me. Offense was incredible. So it was a good day. It's a good point. It was a team effort. Defense was good. Yeah.

Getting out to a nice early lead builds confidence, too. You feel like you can not necessarily get away with a mistake, but maybe take some chances that you would hope that you build to, especially if you got a little bit of a cushion. You know, for a Monday night game, after the, you know, the pomp and circumstance of opening weekend, you kind of, it's funny. I've brought this up many times that I apologize if you heard it before. I don't think there's a bigger drop in elevating. of a first game of a season in baseball to a second game more than any other sport. And so I think it kind of comes to the opening series.

You're on your first road trip. You've got a new team coming in. Even second series on a Monday, that's kind of a drop-off too. Low-pressure situation. It's the Red Sox, but I mean, it's not like, you know, their World Series contenders right now. Not at all. I mean, it's, it's, uh, Breggman's not wearing their gear anymore.

No, there's not any of the sizzle of him being back in town. So, yeah, I, you know, it's early. But it was awesome. I'm not going to put any more into it except to say it was enjoyable. And I like the bats for the third straight game. I mean, high, high production for three straight games. So when, putting things in perspective, when the Astros score three runs over a six-game stretch, I don't want to hear about the betting coaches not doing their job.

Because right now the betting coaches are outstanding. I almost said, I almost said, no, people are going to be smarter than that. No, and look, I wish Astros Trudeau were smarter. It's just not. It's the worst one. It's the worst. It's everybody, Twitter. But it's the worst. I mean, somebody has to be the worst.

I'm going to Rockets. Still. Fire, Udoca. Shago. Shagoos is the worst. Astros 1, Rockets 2. I'll give you credit, Texans, Twitter. You're okay. Individual college Twitter is really bad.

I would say so. But I don't know. It's a real tight race. Oh, one, two, between Astros Rockets. Yeah. It's such a significant advantage of those. It's a real Ollie Frazier. That's so funny.

All right, 713, 212-1-790. 7-1-3-1-2-5. Anything else from Lans or you want to wait for a little bit? Yeah, let's go ahead. Here's what he had to say about, you know, obviously it's been a long road for him with the injuries and the spring and all that type of stuff. He says he's not trying to focus too much on his past. Yeah, I've just been trying to not put too much stock into the past or the future, honestly. Just try to be present and just try to go out there and compete, really, honestly.

You know, I think last year was obviously tough. And I think I just carried the weight like every start, you know. And so this year I've just been just really focused on just trying to not worry about the past or the future. just enjoy the moment and go out there and compete as hard as I can. He's so measured, introspective. Measured. And, you know, honestly, that's the way he's supposed to be because if you were, if he was come out and say, man, I am back.

I am nationwide. I look out. Here comes a brand new Lance McCullors of 2026. And then all of a sudden something hurt or gets beat up or blasted. And then people jump on him again. He, I mean, let me tell you, Lance knows. Lance may not have it a Twitter or a Facebook or a TikTok, but he knows. He's not naive.

He's not going to come out there and cut a promo. And the Red Sox got another thing coming. Let me tell you something. You thought I was good Monday night. I get on the road and I'm going to shut you down, A's and Mariners. Get out the way LMJ is back. How you like that, sucker? I said bury me in the H, but we're going to bury them on the mound when I come out.

He's not going to do that. No. That'd be great. Lance, you just won your 19th game in the year. I'm very excited about this. I get that 20th one, it'll be great, and, you know, I'm just put a lot of hard work in. It's almost not, it's not Bella checking, but it's so. I mean, I think he just has, well, he's had a lot of time to gain perspective, and I think it's the right perspective.

Live in the present moment. The past will haunt him. But don't you want her to come on and go, See, I told you I'd be back. You counted me up, bitches? I don't think he'll do that. No. But I like it.

I'm cool with it. I love it. Especially as someone who's trying to, you know, be more in the present moment myself, Matt. Were you in the past before? I don't know. I just have an anxious mind overthinking things. Just be in the present moment.

Everybody needs to relax. It's all good. I appreciate that. I need you to push some of that to me. I got three games this week and four more and three and a half shows with you. A Herculean effort. I know. The dreams are all right.

Last night, didn't dream much. I'm trying to think if I had anything that was memorable. I think the answer to that is no. Okay. By the way, if I ever bring up dreams on a show, you got to almost have like dream weaver standing by. Okay. By Gary Wright, by the way. Or Mr. Sandman.

Or Mr. Sandman works. Or inter-Sand-Man. No, that would probably send me into the bad dreams. Okay. Well, it's been a dream for Lance McCuller's Jr. That was, nobody, nobody saw that comment. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not even him.

Yeah, yeah. But I'll say this. The numbers in spring were pretty good. I mean, he was getting better as the month was progressing. And again, I don't use spring numbers as any indicator one way or the other, except for frightening for a playoff for us on the roster. He was getting a lot of whist, but in a lot of it, some was out of the zone, but I mean, that just means he had the Red Sox fooled.

So I'm just going to go on that and we're going to hope that he's not going to do that every time out. But it's a nice building block. You couldn't be more encouraged. And we got an ABS victory last night, which we haven't had one of those yet. Yes. Thank you to El Tuve. Thank you to El Tuvae. You see how small that strike zone was that they put on the TV?

By the way, the Astros Enterplate. I'm standings watch. Okay. Are you serious? Well, I just had to go look. You know, stop. Half game behind the Rangers. No, I said stop and you didn't stop.

Right now, the Astros. Do not go stand. Rocket's standings watch is fine. Rockets are, I mean, the Astros are half game out of first, and they would be the second wild card of the season end of the day. Season doesn't end today, Matt. It's March 31st. By the way, got a ruling from our friend Alex who just sent us a tweet, I can you share next month.

See, that popped in my head, but I wasn't going to say it out loud because that would have been a good line for you. Well, good thing is, next month is the first. You're telling me I can use one share song per month on the show. If that's a rule, that's a rule. No, it's a 30-day. There's a 30-day moratorium. That's fine. You know what? Use all the share you want.

Let's go. No. Nilsadaka, Cher, Barry Manalo. Kendrick Lamar. We can play. We'll play Kendrick if we want. Let's not put Barry Menelow in that list of people, okay? Hey, Barry's fighting cancer.

Hope he gets through it okay. Is he? Yeah. Oh, man. He cancels some shows, but I think he's starting to readjust his schedule, add some shows back, so. Do you know, kind? I'm just curious.

I don't, actually don't know. I don't know. Well, I hope he's all right. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9. We are going to get a little NBA chatter coming, and we've got the Rockets and Knicks coming up tomorrow tonight.

Stage 1 lung. I don't know if Barry was a smoker or not. I don't know if he was. don't have to be a smoke. No, there's a lot of people getting lung cancer, don't I haven't ever smoked all the pollution. Yeah. I went to a down note really quick. It's fine.

Stay in the present moment. Enjoy the now. See? Because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow? Start taking your own advice. I'm trying. It's hard. Life is hard, Matt. I know.

But at least we have the 10-to-two fantasy world, which we live in here every day on this show. All right. Let's see what else going on baseball-wise. The Mariners finally got something on Cal Raleigh. That was good for him. I guess. Is that what we want? No.

By the way, everybody's complaining about the new TV package that MLB is going through just like the NBA was complaining. There are some games on Peacock. There are some games on Apple TV. And I thought about this yesterday, and it's not easy. It does take work, and it also takes more money. But we figure out a way to watch our college football teams that way. Hell, U of H this year was on FS1. one, TNT, ESPN, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU.

Now, granted, those are all cable, quote-unquote, cable stations. It doesn't require you to have an extra fee. And though they were one, I think they were on CBS Sports Network one time. My answer to all of you that criticize this, and a lot of people tend to do this on social media more so than just running into you, is I get it. It's, to watch sports, just to watch it. is significantly more expensive than it was 10 years ago.

Mm-hmm. You could not, when I was a kid, you had, even if you didn't have HSC, the cable channel, you had 80 games on Channel 20. And that was free. Didn't cost you a darn thing. Yeah, I wonder, what they're doing is they're saying, you and I are diehards.

We're going to watch Astros wherever they're on. They're trying to get people who are not, who are browsing Apple TV, who are browsing Netflix, who are browsing Hulu, who are whatever. And like, oh, okay, well, I guess I would just, disagree with you. I think they're doing it just for the check because the regional TV networks are going away. You're getting no money. So if someone's going to offer you a check, like Peacog does and like Apple. But I mean, more so, they really don't care if they're, they honestly don't care if a Seattle, a resident is going to watch the Astros Angels. I think that's the plan. Of course, plan one is the check. I know that. I'm not saying they're not saying, I'm not saying, we're going to do this for free. But that's got to be the only reason they can try to do that.

They're trying to spread things around and try to gain, I don't know, more casual fans or something. That's the only thing that makes sense to me. See, as a diehard Astro fan, you would have had a chance to catch me watching Giants and Yankees on opening day if it was on ESPN. But because it wasn't, and I was on the road, and I could have gotten Netflix in my hotel room. That's not very difficult to do that. But you're also assuming that I have Netflix and you're also assuming that I have on my phone. You're just adding a few hoops. And generally speaking, the football, the baseball, and the basketball folks are like, we don't care.

If you want it bad enough, you want to see your team bad enough, you'll figure out a way. Yeah, I just wonder, because Peacock is still losing money. I don't know. You just had this big merger. The long-term financial ecosystem is interesting to me. Well, I think it's a direct correlation to the regional TV networks that are going away. You have half the teams in Major League Baseball. their TV networks are gone.

They're either producing their own stuff or Major League Baseball is producing it for them. They're getting no revenue. Local television dollars are going away. Why is that? Because they just, the business model was bad. They were trying to go to these cable companies and these satellite providers saying,

hey, you need to pay us for the have this channel. And they're like, no, we don't want to pay it. Yeah, we're good. Yeah. So, again, we're lucky here. Space City is on just about everything. I don't think it's on YouTube, but I think it's on everything else.

It's not on DISH, I don't think. Yeah, but Dish doesn't care about sports. So if you're a Diss subscriber, you don't like sports. Am I right? I want to shout at my dad. Dad? Dad, Villa Rale? He likes sports.

Let's go. Get off the Dish. I know. We've been trying to tell him that for 15 years. You're going to see? How's it worked? He doesn't listen to us. So does he call you complaining about not having the Astros games?

No. Well, that's a nice good dad. He's used to it. He catches them more than our own. Now you can catch a lot of games on streaming services and national TV. Yeah. All right, let's get a little rocket chatter coming in next. Plus, Anthony Edwards did not start last night's game for Minnesota.

Why not? You'll find out next. 1045 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. 713-212-5-790 is how you reach a show. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Rockets are down to eight games left in the regular season, sports RV. 45 and 29 there, Mark. They are 25 and 10.

side tootice center will be tonight for the rockets and the new york knickabockers it's a big one try to get mike tariko on the show today you did yes p r persons that he was slammed yeah he's very busy very busy traveling all those things is it going on with charlie 713 212 5790 713 212 5790 Last night, Minnesota played. They have a half game in front of the Rockets for the 5C in the West. They were in Dallas against the Mavericks last night. And they did not have Anthony Edwards, who was coming back from his injury in the starting lineup.

I thought he was supposed to start. Well, he was supposed to start. He didn't. What happened? Well, we'll let Anthony Edwards address that when the post-game media scrum after the dominant win over the Mavericks last night. What happened to you for the first one out? I was taking a sh-h-h-hook. Oh.

Yeah. But, yeah, like I said, Mike held it down from here. And also, you went to China. Mike is some Mike Conley. Believe him or not. 100% believe him. Really? 100%.

What makes you think he wasn't? I don't know. It just seems like something he would say. If it was anybody else, Anthony Edwards likes to troll. He likes to mess with the media. He likes to say crazy stuff. I think he,

he could have been just late to the arena and he's just saying that. I don't know. I'm just speculating. No, no. We're just two people talking out loud. He wasn't like he was late to the building. You don't, you don't, you don't enter the... Have you ever, in the history of the NBA? In the history of the NBA, have you heard of anybody that has missed the start of a game

because nature called? That's why, that's what gives me pause. Listen to me, OG Rocket fans. There was somebody with the rockets. I want to say 15, 16, 16. years ago. Okay. That missed the start of the second half. I've heard of that. That sounds familiar.

I don't remember who it was. I don't either. But somebody missed the start. I don't want to say it was Dwight. I don't think it was Dwight Howard, was it? I don't think so. I know what you're talking. That sounds vaguely familiar to me too. If somebody could alert us. But let me give you some more context. Okay.

Former Rocket Ryan Anderson. You know, when you, if you go to games, you see the pregame hype when they're in the hallway before they run out. Uh-huh. When Ryan was a rocket, they could not do it until he got his out of the way. What do you mean? He would time it to make sure he had his restroom experience just prior to walking out on the floor. Okay. I mean, maybe he's right. How many minutes did he miss? We'll go look at the box.

What is he eating? Is everything all right? I mean, it could have happened. If he, you know what, maybe I'll back up. He could have had a bug. He could have a stomach bug. No, he played. Well, you think you're, do you think you're done?

You think you're over it? And you're like, all right, I just went twice. I should be good. And then boom. So if he had like a stomach virus, I mean, it's possible. I don't think he had a stomach virus. I think he just. What did he?

What happened? Let's take a look at a stat line here. How many minutes do he play? Off the bench, last. night he played oh, 23 minutes. Okay. Now remember, he's coming back from injuries. He's missed a lot of time.

17 points. 7 of 13 shooting, 2 of 3 and 2 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 turnovers and 2 fouls. 23 minutes. I, under the game of Believe it or not, believe him. I will say maybe. Who knows?

I'm just a skeptic, just because he's such a character. Don't you have to time things out yourself in life? He's such a character. Yeah. I do. I can't. I have to time mine. All right. Play it again. I think he sounds sincere on this. What happened to you for the first thing else?

I was taking a shit home. Yeah. But yeah, like I said, Mike held it down for me. Jonathan, believe him or not. Okay. I'm leaning towards with Ross. I think something else happened and he's just like, and he's a troll. I can't really trust that. Yeah, he's kind of a trolling guy. But he's always so honest and open So it could be true too

So It's a choose your own adventure Before it tracked me Ah Jonathan Yeah Did you time it out Honestly

You're gonna want to But you gotta keep that in Because you need that energy So I Oh really But I thought You'd be lighter I thought Yeah what do you want to run light

Because the thing is You think so But then all that energy And all the thing you have in there It's all gone So you're gonna be feeling weak when you saw running it. So, and if you do go, because you're going to want to go, you got Port-a-Pi's, and you don't want to risk.

What if it's-all-in, you know. Is that true for a one as well? No. You want to let that out? Because, I mean, you'll give you some urgency. No, that's one of the hardest things to do is run with that. Oh. You don't want to leave.

You don't want to leave. Hold on. Forget about the track. You don't want to run, period, when you have to go to the bathroom, unless you're running to the bathroom. Well, he just said. Well, you want to. You want to hold it in. I was just saying, like, you want to keep that in there.

You want the sense of urgency? No, no, no, no, no, no. If you don't have to, you're not going to go and, like, go do it. You get what I'm saying? Like, you want that all. Are you sure all you track athletes believe this is exact same thing? I know this has been discussed. This is a topic, yeah.

I mean, when you go to nationals and you see these top athletes and there, some guys eat Skittles. She think that was like Usain Bolt's trick? So you waited to the last possible moment? Think that's how Mr. Free's one of those runs in Atlanta? No, I'm saying. If it's coming out, it's coming out. But you got to hold it, though.

Like, you know what I mean? Like, what if you're like walking up to the blocks? There's no chance. I'm sorry, John, and I'm calling BS on you. There's no way you, if you have to go, you are going to take it with you. Man, I want you to look up pictures of how many people go on themselves, even like 800 mile runners. Okay. That's not going to happen.

That happens all the time. Ugh, gross. tracks a brutal sport. Hmm. On that note, we'll get the second hour start of the show. Coming up in a half an hour, we got gut feelings to get to. 713, 212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-790. I stand with Anthony Edwards. Frankly, I empathize with him. One more time, one more time? I empathize with him. What happened to you for the first one now is, okay? I was taking a... You know, there is a slight element of trolling on that

Because he could have just said I just was I wasn't feeling well He knew he was gonna get deadpan I'm watching the video It's like a deadpan like he looks like he could be He doesn't smile he looks like he could be he could be trolling I don't know How are we gonna find out? I like Anthony He's a great player and he's a character off the court

Oh he throws a little smiling after You know he was with a It was an NFL athlete at the Wolves game with the other night that I was at at and I got into a picture with those three of him, Edwards, and me. I saw that. You're not, you're in the picture, but you photo bomb it. No, they were

waiting for me. No, they weren't. You look very upset. Yeah, because the rockets had lost. Oh, 15 points in overtime. Oh, it was after the game. Right after the game. Oh, I didn't know that. I was like, man, it looks like Matt like had to send back his soup at the deli or something.

You can fake a smile or something? Fake a smile. He didn't know. I guess he didn't know his beer being footer after. I had no clue whatsoever. Yeah, go, go find it. Go retweet it. Did you? No. Why not? Because I was in their, I'm not in their business. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

7.04 Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross with you here to celebrate the Astros win. Man, y'all never call when their things are going good. Do you ever notice that, Rossi? Grumpy can't call fast enough. It's okay. nature. It is human nature. How many times you go to a restaurant? Oh, man, I had a great steak and that souffle was amazing. How many people you tell? Handful. That steak was well done. The

suflay didn't rise. You complained of the whole world, but you can't run to your Facebook fast enough for it. Yeah, I'm always complaining about souffle on my Facebook. That's on me too. Samezies. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. So if you're happy about the Astros, and I believe you should be. I'm feeling happy. After two lackluster games against the halos, two nice comebacks, and then just a good old-fashioned throttling of the Boston Red Sox last night.

And Ranger Suarez, by the way, a client of Scott Boris in town yesterday to another client in Jose Altoouet and Jose rocked him. Two home runs for El Tuvei. It's beautiful. Approaching 2,400 career hits.

Yes. How we're feeling about him? I don't know. I mean, what's our overall feeling about Lance McCullors Jr. start? Here, in no particular order. First of all, awesome. Second of all, good for the team because the starting pitching had been shaky. The bullpen needed a little downtime and they got it yesterday with only using Ryan Weiss and that was it.

But third, and this is logically thinking about Lance. Let's see how he follows it up five or six days from now. Yeah, that's the unfortunate part. I don't want to be in a position where I am saying to myself, when is the other shoe going to drop? because the result that we got was spectacular. The stuff was good. Right. The fact that everything went perfect.

Only one walk, a ton of whiffs. The stuff was moving around. He got some great defense behind him as well. But you add all that up, it was just spectacular. It was just fun to watch. And for somebody who has poured his heart and soul into this city and has always wanted to be out there and got a lot of undue hate on social media and from the fan base, I feel like there's a lot of people who support him.

But some people just waiting. to attack him for whatever reason. For somebody who loves this organization, it was awesome to see. Well, I want to contextualize a little bit here on the hate. It's not about Lance the individual. Because you can hate an individual

for being crazy comments, insulting, throwing people under the bus, adversarial with the media, maybe he has issues with teammates. He was just, criticized because of the numbers, the appearances, or like thereof. And that's hard for an athlete to understand that.

Because Lance McCuller's in his mind thinking, I'm a good dude. I'm involved in the charities. I'm a Houston guy through and through. But yet, nobody cared about that when he was pitching once every two years. Yeah, but still, like, it's not like he doesn't want to be out there.

That's what I didn't get from all the hate that he was getting. It's like he wants to be out there. He's a competitor. It wasn't hate from a lot of people. It was a running joke. I think it was. I think it was a lot of hate from me. I don't think anybody hated.

Get this guy off my team. Well, that's terrible. Absolutely he got that. But it was a running joke. Yeah. Well, I'm wishing. And it happens all the time with athletes. It's not just him.

It's everybody. His absolute dream start. And I hope it continues. And for him, you know, the reality is this. This is a contract here for him. whether he wants to continue pitching or not. That's certainly up to him. But if he wants to help because this team could certainly use it,

look, EMI, we don't know who. I mean, look, all of the stuff says that EMI is going to be a dynamic starter for this team. But he's also seeing Major League pitching for the first time. Hitting, yeah. Hitting. Hunter, I'm not worried about. We're not sure on Christian Javier, frankly. We're just not. So even though we have so many different options, the Astros have so many options,

it isn't a guarantee that everybody that pitch the first five games of the year is going to give you a quality start every single time and there's no guarantee that Spence here at Gatti when he becomes a sixth member of this rotation is going to come through. Take this opportunity, Lance. Kind of step up and help out this team

when there are still some question marks even though the team's depth chart for pitching is pretty good at this point. I'm still optimistic. It's still one turn to the rotation. Hunter Brown's still going to be an ace. E. Mice is going to tinker with his repertoire. He talked about that.

Burroughs has a little more pressure. He also has. He also has nerves. He's not playing for the Pirates. Yeah. That's fine. I'm not that worried about that.

And yeah, EMI will be an interesting case because he's coming straight over from Japan. And that's going to be an adjustment period. Yeah, I don't think you annihilate the starters

for not doing their job and I don't think you put Side McCullers on a pedestal because of the one-year performance. Let's go. I'm ready. I'm ready for it. I don't think Major League

Baseball's comeback players of the year or most improved. I think it's more of an NBA thing. Recently. Did they start doing that? Maybe they added it, but I mean, look, that's the award he can go for. That means the Astros and for Lance personally, he benefits from that. Yeah, yeah, they've done it.

They started it in 2000. I don't know. Yeah, they have an award. Okay. Well, there's a leader in a clubhouse for that. He's got the Sayung and he's got the comeback player of the year award already locked and loaded. At least here one start. Roger on 790.

Good morning, Roger. Good morning, Matt. So on the Astros, yeah, I thought it was in a time warp. it felt so good as I was constructing my chili Maria meat infused hot dog on the top of the artisan

bun. It's so nice. We just have all that in one motion and one in one moment. It was nice. You know, Alcubei putting the cherry on the Sunday with the home runs and then, you know,

Jordan extending the arms and then you got latched just doing the Lansing with the fire and the brimstone that he's known for back of the day. It was just so nice to see. And I just hope that that continues. I see that they're more patient at the plate. Yeah, a couple of guys are still fiddling away, but I'm hoping it's contagious.

It's like it was contagious negatively last year, where they were just swinging at everything and not had an idea of what the strikes zone was looking like. So, yes, hopefully this continued. And the first two, then they were still patient, too. It was coming. It looked like it was coming. I wasn't going to, you know, didn't think they're going to come back from a six-old deficit,

but they did, and, you know, they went in convincing trash, so let's just keep it up. Now, my question view on the Rock, and more specifically, operand Shang-Gun, and he had this, the first game of the season, he was stroking the three. He looked like it was going to be a part of his game. It looked like he unlocked something that was going to space the floor, and we were just going to be just a better team. And then it went away. And now, usually when he does that top of the key, he'll fake it and he'll fake it.

And like, nobody bites for that stuff. But he does that. And I'm thinking maybe he just got tired of doing that. You see him in practice. You see him on a daily basis. What do you think did make him say, you know what, I can do this? Because we need that. Well, I think, and thank you, Roger, for the phone call.

It's the next level to his development. If he's going to take his game in the next level, as being able to pick and pop threes. Yeah, he did it a lot overseas. He did it for a lot for the first month of the year. And then it wasn't falling for about a month. And the Rockets basically said stop doing it. Now, I don't know if one game changes things around.

It was crazy. It was crazy that he made five of them. They were just like swishing in too. Oh, yeah. And then he puts, he has that little, what's that bird that has a one leg in the air all the time? The flamingo? The flamingo shot that was falling for the most part yesterday. He was just on.

And it was great to see. I don't want to overreact to one game. I still don't think he's going to develop into a three-point shooter. I would like for him to be in the 33, 34% range. Right now he's at 28. At least enough to keep honest. To at least defend it a little bit. Yeah.

Yeah. After that game, is this correct? He's up to 30.5% as well. Okay, we'll see. Let's take a look here. After, I mean, the one game, five for seven, because he doesn't take a lot for game. 305, essentially 31%. Yeah.

But he's career 280. Yeah. This is his fifth year. Normally guys aren't just going to, I think it's a one game. I honestly don't, you know, we had EMA Doka on talking about Russell Westbrook making threes. He's like, we like when those guys make threes because then they get confident about it. Well, it worked out in that game. So let's see us, let's just like with Lans to cross sports here, let's see a sustained

success of this. I wouldn't, I wouldn't bank on. I wouldn't either. All right. The comments are back in town. We'll talk more about that coming back in a month. 1113 on Sports Talk 790. Matt and Ross with you at 713-213-212-790. The announcement yesterday coming out publicly that the Houston Rockets have agreed to purchase the Connecticut Sun and we'll be bringing Houston Comets WMBA basketball back to our community, not this year, but one year from now. And we're getting you back on the call, baby. Well, we wouldn't discuss that yet. First things first.

Let's get the team here to town first. Oh, okay. All right, fine. Let's say hi to our friend. This is an awkward. Gretchen Shear, the president of business operations for the Houston Rockets and commas. Gretchen, good morning to you. Good morning.

I was like, are you putting me on the spot asking me a job for a job? No, no. That's 100% roster. I'll take the blame. I'll take the blame, Gretchen. It was me. You guys have been working on this, obviously, behind the scenes for quite some time. When the final announcement came through and everything was agreed upon,

what was it like for the family, for yourself now with a new project here, bringing the comments back after a long absence. Yeah, it is, it is so excited. Tillman. Tillman is very excited, obviously, is far away, but has been so engaged and passionate about this process. And Patrick and Page and the entire family. And our organization and the fans and the community,

are just over the moon. So we're very excited to get this across the finish line, get kind of the official approval and go from there. But yesterday's announcement was a big first step for us. It is amazing to me. New television deals, and look, you know this from the NBA world. Television deals make the world go around, having stars, having the ability to use social media.

The NBA is a different animal than it was, say, 20 years ago when this team in this city were had one. Yeah, for sure. I mean, the growth has been exponential, and it's been steadily growing for years. And then over the last couple of years, it was a tipping point where it just, you know, kind of exploded exponentially. But like anything, I mean, the WMBA has always had very strong, passionate fans. It's a phenomenal brand of basketball. But if it's not accessible to the general public, it's really hard to grow new fans.

So just the media and the television exposure that you've seen grow over the last five to seven years has been, gigantic and you've seen it in the growth and the popularity of the sport. Gradually, she're president of the Rockets and now Comments joining us here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. You know, Cynthia and Tina and Cheryl, I mean, how much will you try to integrate the past to the future of the Houston Combs? Yeah, I mean, that's super important, right? The legacy is important. I think that I am, I talked to, you know, I was able to call Tina and Cynthia. and Cheryl, and obviously they've been supportive through this whole process and Van Chancellor,

and I was able to talk to them Friday afternoon after, you know, that the news started to leak. And I'm just personally, I'm so excited for them. I mean, they were, they built, you know, they were the foundation that helped build what is the WMBA, you know, today, 30 years later. And when it's not live in your market, you know, they're not always front and center. So the fact that the legacy and how talented and just legendary those players and coaches were, that that's brought back to the forefront of this game, I'm so excited for them. So right now we definitely are going to be celebrating them

in the history that they built and the return of that legacy and the dynasty. And as we get to completion and the season starts, we'll certainly be celebrating the game where it is today and educating fans, new fans on just the growth of the WMBA and what they have to look forward to in 2027 when this team comes to Houston. You brought up to history, so it kind of made me wonder. Is this going to be like a Cleveland Brown situation? What's going to happen with like team records and all that stuff as it relates to the sun in the comments?

You're asking questions that I cannot answer. Okay. That was Ross. I'm sorry. Yeah, well, you can blame me again. Yeah, that's all part. I'm 0 for two. All part of stuff that we will, that we, that we're working with the WNBA on as we, as we finalize and complete this process.

Gretchen, share with us here on Sports Talk 790. And just overall, your thoughts, question of what you've seen as a woman, of course, in a male-dominated space in men's sports, the growth of women's sports and what we're seeing with the NBA and, I mean, a volleyball and really all over the country in women's sports in general. Yeah, game is game, right?

So I think with the increased exposure, you know, the world is recognizing how talented these women are and what they bring to the court or to the field. every single day. They're getting the respect and the pay that they have earned and built. And, you know, a lot of that is due to not only the media, you know, obviously the media exposure, but the media exposure wouldn't be there if the fans weren't there. And so I'm just proud of the world. I am proud of sports fans for supporting women's sports and helping grow the game. And we knew, you know, as we started looking through this process about and about bringing the WMBA back,

and bringing the comments back, you could just feel the excitement from, you know, fans of the team from the past and fans from the WMBA today, the business community, eager to support women's sports fans. Like, you could feel it bubbling up under the surface. And yesterday, when we were able to make the official announcement and launch our deposit campaign, we had some pretty high expectations. And they exceeded, yesterday exceeded all of our expectations. And you know us.

We're pretty aggressive and pretty competitive. So we feel really good about where this team is going to be when it launches in 2027 and we're going to need everybody listening to make sure they put their deposit down and come out to support this team as we relaunch this franchise. And I'm assuming calling the office. Is there a website? What's going on socially in terms of funding? Yeah, Houstoncomments.com is live.

So Houstoncomments. com is kind of the central hub of where we can have everything that. we're able to have as we complete this process. But the deposit is there. There's some retail that's there celebrating the WMBA's return to Houston. That's where you can find kind of upcoming stuff on where to follow us on social media.

There's Facebook page, there's an Instagram page, there's an X page already ready to go from the comments. Obviously having the partner brand right in the Houston Rockets, you know, we're able to amplify that message while we build the Comets independent fan base. And the schedule is going to expand, right? There'll be more games in the future years, correct? There will be more games.

You know, the terms, the agreed upon has been done by the CBA. The league is papering that right now, and they'll be expanding by a handful of games over the next several years. Exactly how that plays out. Each year, I think they're finalizing in those terms, but they'll play, it looks like they'll get up to 50 in the next few years, which will be 25 home games, give or take. Gretchen, there's a lot of new expansion teams.

Last year, Golden State, Toronto's going to have a new team. Portland, have you been able to bug them about what to do, what not to do, in terms of trying to build a new franchise in a new city, especially in some of those cases that are bringing back basketball? Yeah, and then Cleveland is 28, and then Detroit and Philly will be added as well. Yeah, I mean, that's the great thing about having the infrastructure of the MBA and your colleagues is that we can learn people's best practices. We can learn from people's mistake. I mean, we're in a bit of a different situation. We have a year to do this,

whereas many of them have several years to do it. So we are doing it, put on the gas, no break to get ready for next year. So we certainly will take some lessons learned and some best practices, but we're going to have to do a lot of this on our own. as well given given the timeline all right again reminding folks it's the comets houston comets dot comets you can also call the office and all the instagram and twitter for information about those tickets correct yes sir all right we'll leave it at that congratulations i know you guys been working on this for a very long period of time uh and look forward to seeing by the way do you i maybe i don't have any answers do you own the logo and all that good stuff or what's

going on with like the old school stuff do you want to create a new logo what's what's the works on that yeah we're working yeah we're working through all of that process right now. I think it's really important to honor the legacy of the brand and the name that elicits so many amazing memories for fans while also making sure that we're stepping into the future and we're creating, you know, a look and feel that matches the next decades as well. Awesome. Gratian, thanks for the time and we'll see you tonight at the building. Thank you. We'll see you later, Gretchen, Chair, President of the Business Operations for the Rockets and the Comets, as Houston will get WMA basketball back in our city in

2007. My daughter's very excited. As a matter of fact, we're talking about that last night. So, because she doesn't, she has no idea what the old school comments are. No. I mean, they took over the city for a while. They were great. Yeah. I mean, there were some lean rocket times and the comments, thankfully, took care of the basketball first a little bit. And they still have those banners and the retired numbers up at the Toyota.

Yeah. And I have a couple of championship brings from the first time I brought this. Oh, you do? I did, you. Okay. Yeah. they put me on the spot there about they're in the games. I didn't put anybody on the spot.

I made a joke. It's fine. I'll hear about it, I'm sure. Okay, well, it was my fault. I'll take all the blame. I've been taking the blame for years. I'll still do it. It's fine.

1127 on Sports Talks 7. They've got to get the history back, right? I mean, it's got to be a Cleveland Brown situation. My guess is, yeah, yeah. All right, 1127, Sports Talk, 7.9. It's not forgot feelings, Ross. I don't even know what we did or how we did. I think we did bring up a question about the Rockets Midwest Road Trip,

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You've got sports predictions. We're going to hear from you right now. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Ross, how did we do last week? Well, I'm glad you asked, Matt. Because I got a scroll down. and I'm having some computer issues, but it's going to be okay. Follow me on Twitter and Instagram.

I went up to it. I'm good. I'm good. Thank you. All right. Last, whoa, we got out of some whoppers. We had a lot of predictions. Rockets finished road trip with three wins.

Did not happen. It's fine. Astros win three out of four of us of the Angels. Did not happen. Cam Smith for the season over 775 OPS. I will look. It's early. You don't have to look.

All right. He's not there. I mean, you can... It's only five games. Yeah, it's early. He's got some hard hit contact. Thank you. He'll be all right.

All right. Let's make a five-star catches in the field. Still bullish? Yeah, it's going to be fine. Zach Cole, fewer than 75 games than Astro. Well, he broke his toe, so you're off to a good start there. I almost don't want to read this one. Oh, is it?

How bad is it? Go ahead and do it. You've set it up. You have H. Cougars to the final four. I think I also had Purdue beating Texas, but that doesn't mean much. They were favored. And Tatsuya I Mai finishes second in wins this Astros season.

Okay, just one start. Yeah, it's just one start. It's all good. All right. Oh, no, did I write this down? I said Rockets out in the first round. That's rude. Oh, this is off to a bad start.

In a good way, I'm happy to be wrong. Spencer Arrogetti, more starts for the Astros. this season than Lance McCullors Jr. Well, so far it's 1-0-0-0-0. And probably going to be 2-0. First, Astro to hit a home run. Yoron Alvarez. That was correct.

Yes, you hit that one. Nicely done. Should have had actually another one. No, I'm sorry. Sorry, into the season. I'm sorry. And then I have Walker second. I miss red. Okay. I said Space Cowboys PCL champions?

That's still very much in play. Even though they've got Zach Cole out for a while. I said Cougars in the final four. Sorry. It happens. And I said, Brown first and victories, Burroughs second.

Right now, Lance McCuller's Jr. He's the Sion, Canada among the five. Yes. All right. Jonathan Allen kept it short and sweet. Six seed for the rockets.

Which right now is where they are. Hey, they're only a half out of five. Yeah, that's fine. Actually, that's untrue. No, it's a half out of five. It's half out of five. Two out of four.

Yes. Okay. Very, very attainable, for sure. Yes. And there you go. Oh, Brad Miami said Tatsuya Amaya was going to be the best pitcher on the staff. Okay. And when 15 plus.

That could easily happen still. Okay. There you go. There's some gut feelings. All right. 713, 212. 5790. 713.

212-1-790. Gut feelings, baby. Jonathan, you're going first this week. We always wait for you to go third. You're going first this week. Give me the three win homestand for the Rockets. They're going to sweep the homestand. That's Knicks, Bucks, jazz.

Easy, easy, easy, easy. Well, Bucks and Jazz will be a piece cake. The Knicks tonight will be difficult. There's no pieces of cake. Have you seen this Rockets team? Hey, no 45 and 20 minutes. Let's go. I will join you in that.

Rockets win the next three. And... Rockets two and one. And... Get out of the six spot this week. Okay. I just don't know what to expect this team. I know. Hey, the talking to that the Rockets had a couple days ago

obviously worked. Momentum is building. Yeah. You know, when you hear a team only meeting, our players only meeting, that's when you know that the arrow is trending upwards. It works so far. Team meeting in Memphis. Memphis win, New Orleans win. Boom. So get out of a six in a good way. As an improved. Yes. Phoenix keeps one and two, by the way. I know.

There, the cushion for seven is good, though. I'm going to give you a Texan's draft prediction. Really? They are out of the first round. Yeah, I think you said that a few weeks. So did I? Okay, so let me try. They are training.

They are, I put my name on it. They're going to trade again. Okay. Pushing again. They are trading out of the first round. Sure. Because they're 28 now. If they go to 33.

3, 34, 35, 36, and then get some extra compensation. Nick Casero likes doing that. He just loves to make trades on Trade Day, on draft day. That's just just in his DNA. He likes to trade. He likes to make moves. Mm-hmm. That makes sense.

Yep. All right, Hunter Brown, it would be easy to say quality start. I'm going Quality Start Plus. Explain that what that is. Two or fewer innings? Six or more. I'm sorry, two or fewer runs. Two or fewer innings would be bad.

Six or more innings. Quality start plus. It's a metric I just made up. Wait a minute. There's no such thing as quality start plus? No. Better than a quality start. That's the dumbest thing I've heard since Soft Sweep.

A soft sweep works? A gentleman sweep? Gentleman sweep is in play. Lose the first one, then win the next few. I've heard a gentleman sweep. Folks, he just came up with a metric. Quality start plus. Yes.

Now, you're not going to create like quality. quality start plus plus are you? Well, we'll see. I mean, Lance McCuller Jr. Last night, what did he have? A quality start plus or a quality start plus plus? All right. Here is one for next year.

They're going to take Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith off of the NCAA basketball coverage. That's probably not going to hit. Kenny maybe. Charles is going to be there. Unless he doesn't want the check. I think they're going to have to overhaul that entire studio show. because Nate Burleson was awful.

The talking basketball was an embarrassment. I don't know how much they care. You know, the answer to that is they don't care. Yeah. Because if you're doing a studio show and you are putting on the brightest basketball minds, NBA Chuck can talk about it for the most part. He can't talk college basketball at all. Not that anybody particularly cares, but certainly CBS doesn't care because they're putting them on there.

but I just thought it really got annihilated this past year. And Charles is going to have some sort of. I mean, he's got to have some ego to go, man, I know people, no, I don't know squatted by college basketball. Yeah. What do they call it when it's like a test audience and they get a test audience? Whatever Charles has, he does well. Oh, like a TV Q rating.

Like how, cue score. Q score. People love Charles Barkley. He's got a very high Q score. And I got news for your friends. Stephen A. Smith has a high Q score too. There wouldn't be a reason why they're paying him $20 million a year in having on all these shows that people didn't like

generally speaking like him. No. Again, social media is the first one to go run to him and she hates him. But people still watch him. I don't get it, but they do. I will say Michigan wins it all. I got Arizona winning it all. Okay. Jonathan, you want to get in a national champion? Yukon, baby.

I see, I knew he loves the. He loves the. loves the underdog, but Yukon's good. You like Dan Hurley, by the way? Who does? Nobody. You said Zona. Here's one for September of this year. Week one starting quarterback Cleveland Browns, Deshawn Watson.

Okay. Wow. You see what I'm trying to do, folks? I'm putting gut feelings out there to get you guys invigorated. Yeah. I'm inspired. You should be. So I'll give you another one.

Yes. Next Astros' home run Christian Walker Well he's getting close I know all those doubles he's been hitting I know He's ready baby Brian Debray use ERA

At the end of the month Oh I got one more Hold on Oh go ahead North of four Yeah it's got by the end of the month Of course it's going to be in April April

Still north of four Yeah probably It's going to take a while To whittle that down What is it like 27? I mean, you can change in a heartbeat. All right, what's your other one? Yordon Alvarez over 130 games this year.

I'm feeling good after this first week. We only got 126 left to go. Let's go, baby. Let's go. How do you feel about his left field work and DH? It's fine. It's a good balance. It's a good balance.

What's it? Three at DH and two and left? Yeah. That's great. Playing every day? I like it. Love it. And they go on the road, it's probably more de-hing.

Correct. Yeah, you've got to take advantage of the home ballpark for sure. All right. 713-212-5-790. If you have any gut feelings, don't be afraid. Well, we won't bite. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Any sports predictions you want to get to,

we will take them next as the Matt Tomas-Mish-O-Ross continues. Joe Espada with us at 1230 today. Ross, what is today's edition of Believe it or not at 150? Lance McCullors Jr.? You could. We could. We could. We could out of the guy.

I think so. We could also talk about failed WBC pitchers at play for the Red Sox. A run head? We got lit yesterday. My goodness. That's a shame. Really hate to see it.

713-212-5-79. All right, 7-13-212-5-7-9. We need your got a fielding. Let's get them in right now. 7-13-212-5-7-90. We go to Gar-Nokes. Just talk to. You know who.

New York. James and God knows. James, good morning to you. Thank you. Thank you for taking my call, fellas. Thank you, Governor Thomas. Listen, I'll get to it. That guy that's working over there, Jonathan, he's got tremendous promise.

I'm predicting that he's going to take one of them high-profile spots from one of those two cats in the morning, if not both of them. They need to replace them. Let Johnson get some play in the morning. And I'll get to it. I got the Knicks in a dog fight beating your rockets. I'm sorry it's not the popular vote on that, but I just feel the Knicks, you know, going to pull a rabbit out of a hand.

And also, I'm also predicting that the Astros are going to take at least two at the three, if not sweet dumb bones over there in Boston. And then to make this other thing that I'm pretty strong on it, I think Alvarez is really going to have a breakout year this year. he's going to give Judge all the, you know, money that's in the running and everything for it. And also, I still got Connecticut, even though a lot of people don't believe it, I think Connecticut is going to play Arizona, and it's going to be a dog fight, but I think Connecticut can pull it off.

Thank you for checking my call, fellas. New York. Jonathan, you got their future there, James and Garden hosts. I think they're doing it. I appreciate the college days. Leave those boys alone. They're doing their job in the morning. Fantastic.

Yeah, you'll hear. Listen to the morning drive. The morning drive with Dan and Cole. Dan Matthews and Cole Thompson here on Sports Talk 790. Cole will have Astros Zooty tonight over on 740. And you're doing the rockets on 7. Yes, I am. Okay.

Shout out Cole. He's stepping up. Yeah, for sure. Way more than Klan. He took a game for me last Friday. He's been willing to step up. Team player. Yes.

Wish we had more of that around here. 7-1. 212.5790. 713. 212575790. Last call for a got feelings. Anything else from you? No, but

Rockets are one and a half. I was surprised to see they're one and a half point dogs to the Knicks. Knicks are good. How are you going to stop Klinkepella? You know, I'm just doing my stat board here. You had 14 rebounds. Yeah. Unstoppable Kling Kepal. Is that what you're going with?

How can they be under dogs when The Rockets have Clint Capella. Hey, 14 rebounds, Clint, let's go. I like Clint. He's got a lot of pep in his step. Big fan. By the way, Aaron, not that y'all care about this, but it's for one second. So on an NBA statute, you get plus a minus.

It's one very small metric. It's probably a little more time deceiving more than not. But when you're on the floor and your team scores points, you get plus. If you give up points, you are, you get deducted. Yeah, it's better in like hockey with goals and stuff like that. So let's go through some of the numbers. Jabari was a plus 16. Kevin Durant was a plus 1.

Alper was a plus 26. A man Thompson, a plus 32. Now that's in 35 minutes to play. So he was on the court a lot. Reed Shepherd was a minus 10. Aaron Holiday played 25 minutes against the Pels on Sunday. He was a plus 41. Aaron freaking holiday.

Let's go. Jay Sean Tate was a plus 27 in 13 minutes. That's pretty damn good. Beat that pelican ass is what you did. Take that, pelicans. Pells. Tar Easton, by the way, back-to-back 15-point games. I'm buying some Tar-Eason stock.

Are you buying? How's that stock? Okay. It was very low. I bet it was. Get down the good value now. Is this not the same Roger that called earlier, is it? Is it different, Roger, hopefully? We can't take two calls in the same show. Yeah. He prize-hors him. There you go.

Roger, we let you prize hoarder during the end. We can't let you come in twice. with that. We appreciate your material. We appreciate you. That's right. We just have a little spice, a little variety. Thanks for listening and thanks for the support.

Thank you, Roger, very much. 713-212-5-7-9. That will conclude gut fillings for today. What? Oh, well. Yeah. Okay. I mean, I'm already out of my gut.

Matter of fact, let me go to Anthony Edwards. Anthony, do you have time for gut feelings or did you miss a segment earlier? Why did you miss it, by the way? Just curious. Asking for a friend. Hello? We're going to get to Anthony. Just give him a second.

All right. Maybe Anthony's a little late. In the old days, we'd have a little button. You would have the old button bar that had all those liners for us. Well, it sounded like a leaf blower. Okay. And I think we'd put it out to retirement. What happened to you for the first thing now is?

I was taking a shit. Oh, yeah. I think Matt just wants that drop. I think I just snorted it. I didn't mean to do that on the air. It's taking a bleep. You really love that. Could you imagine telling your boss that?

Hey, what happened? You missed the first five minutes of that meeting. I was taking a shit. No other professional allows that to happen. It probably does. Nature calls. You could, but he could have said I was in the bathroom. And we would have been able to interpret it properly.

He just let it out right there. He just said, there's no room for interpretation on that. It's Aunt Edwards for you. He's a personality. He says he doesn't want to be face of the league, which whatever that means. Such a stupid phrase. No, I understand what it means. I understand what it means, but I think people, it's like first take every week.

Who's the face of the league? Who's the face of this league? Who's the face of that league? Does it matter? Let's just enjoy these players and we don't have to debate stupid stuff like that. That means who you put in the cover of a video game. That's all it means. LeBron James.

well lebron james is the face of the league for 15 years at least so i mean i who's the face of the league now you'll get my answer next victor wimbignama don't say that i don't want to say it uh don't say that all right so when i say i'm going to take out the phrase must the face of the league who's the must seat player in the league right now wimbingama yeah people i mean look anthony edwards is awesome but people don't pay to go see anthony edwards they won nine in a row. They don't even go to see they don't even go see Nicoliochich. The Spurs could win like 65 games. Yeah, I know. I'm very well aware of that. You hear that I'm playing? People want to go see when we play. Now, we hope that

he is much like other seven foot guys North that have injury issues. Not that you're praying for injury issues, but it's there is a tremendous history of that in the NBA. Okay, they can only win 64 games. But they're going to win 60. Rockets have done that how much in their history? once or twice

I don't want to talk about it makes me sad in the history of San Antonio Spurs are going to be not only they're going to win 60 they're going to be the number two seed and I said I think they're going to beat the thunder 2018 they won 65

I know that for sure they had a sighing was it 94 a 61 team no 94 58 and 24 I want to say don't home me to it wow no 58 and 24 you've nailed it thank you so in the history of the Rockets French

it was one of James's teams right yeah they won 65 and 18 like I said they've done it once in 59 seasons and the Spurs are about to win 60 seasons and games are overrated I'm ready for a break I'm ready to hear some share oh great you know what

this is my fault so I can't even complain it's not your fault it's your excellent thought last second hey what can we add to make production value the show. Yeah. And it's paid off because the people

love it so far on the show today. I don't think a single person has mentioned they love it. Well, I had two people tweet me about it, so that counts for me. It does for me. 713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-2-1-790. We are a one-half-hour away from

Joe Espana, the manager of the Astros with his weekly Tuesday visit. Up next, Share, Astros, News at noon, 1158 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. The Houston Astros explode for eight runs. More than enough support for Lance Woodcullors, Jr. Who is brilliant as the Astros defeat the Red Sox 8 to 1 with their third street-beat.

Astros put up a new banner for the American League West Championship, an American League pennant and then ultimately another World Series flag. Wow. This song needs to be put up there. This is the theme song for 2006. You can turn back time. Christian Vasquez is back, turning back time.

It's true. McCullors. Macullors. Altuve. Correa? Yes. Alan Ashby. He's not there. he's not. Kevin Bass is not out there.

Cesar Cedano? There's a bizio in the system. Oh, you brought a bizio back. Turning back time. That was beautiful last night. This is awesome. 40,000 people. Is Jonathan Jammin back there?

You loved this song. Did you think I was lying? Did I say, I like Sharon? He doesn't like Sharon. Maybe this is fine. Believe is offensive. That song bleeds my ears. That's what you play. if you're trying to interrogate terrorists and try to get them to break.

You put share believe on a loop. They will break within six minutes. No, that's not the song. You got to acknowledge greatness when you hear it. Okay, this is fine. I mean, some of the stuff with Bono before he ran into that tree is pretty good. Stop. That is, that is just rude as you.

It's Bono, not Bono. Number two, bringing up the tree is wrong. No other people hate you. Do you know I'm scared to ski because of some? any bono? I would hope so. What happened? He was skiing and collided with a tree and died. Oh.

Yeah. I got one for you, one better. I don't want to go on a horse because of Christopher Reebriking his neck and dying. Oh, that's a good one. You've written a horse though before, right? Ever in your life? You can't be mistaken. Maybe as a kid, maybe as a young kid. But I was so poorly, I don't think he would have put a fat guy on a horse, fat kid on a horse.

I don't think so. I'm sorry. I'm trying not to picture that law. I'm trying to be nice. Jonathan, go look at Cher 1978 and tell me you don't have feelings. All right. No, I saw her, I think it was last year, the Vittoria Secret thing she performed with her little, like, you know, and she's old, but, hey. I know.

If you're going to be with somebody 70 plus, it's going to be Cher. How old is Cher? She's 79. Okay. Oh, my God. She's Shere, believe it or not. Sure, believe it or not. Absolutely.

She got a lot of work done, but she looks good type of work done. She is 85% plastic. It doesn't matter. She's funny. She can sing. She can act. I guess it's just that I don't get it. But I'm wishing her the best.

All right. Let's get to... For what years she has left. All right. Charlie wants to talk about the Astros, but first let's get to the News at News. Yes, Matthew, the News at noon. as a number of different things to talk about, but we'll lead with the Astros turning back time at Diken Park last night. I mean, how does this sound for around 2000? I don't know, 19-ish.

Lance McCuller's Jr. dazzled. Jose Altuve hit two home runs. Yordaun Alvarez had a home run. The Astros' offense exploded for eight runs and they beat the Boston Red Sox eight to one to proved to three and two on the season. Lance McCullors, Jr. Has been a long road for him. Injuries after injuries. And, of course, the past and all those things. He says he is not trying to think about what happened in the past.

Yeah, I've just been trying to not put too much stock into the past or the future. Honestly, just try to be present and just try to go out there and compete, really, honestly. You know, I think last year was obviously tough, and I think I just carried the weight, like, every start, you know. And so this year I've just been just really focused on just trying to not worry about the past or the future and just enjoy the moment and go out there and compete as hard as I can. Staying in the present moment, Lance McCullors, Jr. seven innings pitched one earned run four hits one walk

nine strikeouts the dude was dealing that's got to be one of his literally most efficient starts ever in his career he would take that in the prime Lance McCullors yeah got a lot of wiffs got a lot of swing and miss and didn't walk a lot of guys in Astros

three and two Matt new hitting coaches how we're feeling at 600 ball Astros play 600 ball the rest of year they will win and dominate the American League West. There I said it. Okay. Well, I don't know if that's going to happen. But let's

move on. Let's go to the New York Knicks in town against your Houston Rockets as they settle in for a three-game homestand, which means Matt Thomas settles in for a three-gun home stand, so that's good. So you have the Knicks tonight, then tomorrow on another

back-to-back as they just continue to pile up. They will be taking on the Milwaukee Bucks. Friday, they take on the Utah, Yaz, on the road for a couple in Golden State and Phoenix, and then they finish out at home, Philly, Minnesota, Memphis. Three of these games on Peacock, by the way, and one on Prime Video. Tonight's on NBC, by the way. Tonight's on NBC slash Peacock for your Houston Rockets.

If you want a Houston flavor, it's me. No Ryan, no Craig, no Vanessa tonight. Okay. Make sure you stay tuned tonight here on Sports Talk 790. we have the Astros on News Radio 740 KTRH. It's that time of year. If you're looking for one or the other, just go to 790 or 740,

and you'll find whichever game you're looking for. So just make sure you stay tuned. It's going to be fine. All right, elsewhere, Matt, I don't think we've brought this up yet. Tiger Woods, of course, as you know, over the weekend, had a crash, a DUI crash,

as he was arrested on Friday's suspicion of misdemeanor DUI with property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test. He says he was looking down at his cell phone and changing the radio station in his SUV, which caused him not to see a truck slowing down before his rollover crash last week on Jupiter Island, Florida. I do not believe him. Martin County Sheriff's Deputy Tatiana Levinar wrote in an arrest affidavit that Woods was, quote, sweating profusely and his movement was, quote, lethargic. and slow while she interviewed

the 50-year-old Tiger Woods. Yeah, he might have been changing a radio station looking at his phone, but he was also probably high as a kite. Seven back surgeries, 20 operations on his right leg, which he is severely injured in a car wreck, of course, outside Los Angeles in February of 2021. He never should drive again.

If I, and I don't think Tiger takes advice from anybody because I think Tiger thinks he's better than everybody else. but please, Tiger, never drive again. You are worth a billion dollars. If you have to have somebody at your house, sleep in a spare bedroom, just if you want to go get a little

Rock O'Rolell at 1.30 in the morning, have him drive you. It'll be okay. Stop driving. You're not good at it. Well, he says he doesn't want a driver because he doesn't want people in his personal business.

Too bad. You're about to go to jail. Did you see that the Yankees beat the mariner, sorry, loss of the Mariners 2 to 1 on Monday night. Hate to hear that. How Aaron Judge do? Well, I wanted to say how Aaron Boone did. Aaron Judge OPS under 800 right now, but I mean

he's one of the best hitters on the planet. I think he'll be fine. Luis Castillo tossing six scoreless innings, but what Aaron Boone was upset about? A perfect five for five that the Yankees hitters had to go on ABS challenges. Boone. Really good job

by the guys. When you have that kind of success rate, it's not going to be like that every night. But I thought everyone was obviously warranted in a couple of key spots to give us a chance to build an inning. We weren't able to build much offensively last night. It's working. Good. I'm glad it is. Gateway drug.

In moderation. Gateway drug. All right. Let's go to the phones next. 1213. Joe Espada, bottom of the hour right here on Sports Talk 790. Your updates for you, presented to you by our friends of the joint chiropractor. They are the official chiropractor of University of Houston Athletics.

Chris Sannack still weighing his decision on whether or not he wants to return to the Cougars next year or declare for the NBA draft that according to his father, he should make its decision within the next two weeks or so. It feels like, from what I understand, he's probably back half of the first round if he so chooses, but that, you know, he could also go declare, go to the combine and pull back and say, hey, I'll go back to play U of H for one more. Yeah, just can't hire an agent, right? Yeah. some sad news a delay, I will say, more than anything else. Calvin Samson will not be going into the Basketball Hall of Fame this year. He did not receive enough votes.

Which sucks. They deserve it. 800 wins. 40-year coaching career, multiple final fours, took what, Washington State, Oklahoma, Indiana, Houston, all the tournaments? I mean, pretty good career. And he'll get in. It's just going to have to wait a while.

very good career. Thank you, Ross. 713-212-5-790. Two-time AP coach of the year. Yeah, excellent. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Let's go to Charlie in Rice Military on 7-90. Charlie, thank you for waiting and good afternoon.

Hi, Matt. Hi, Ross. Can you guys do it just fine? Yes, sir. Go ahead. Thank you for waiting. Yeah, headed from Rice Military to Kingwood to play some golf this morning, or this afternoon.

Good for you. I agree that I agree that Jonathan's probably going far. Maybe take over the morning show at some point. I do like Dan Matthews in the morning, but I think if we were playing a drinking game and every time he said also too, we'd probably have a bit much to drink.

I was at the Astros game last night, and I also, Matt, I love going to Astros games with your father-in-law. Really? Very classy, knowledgeable guy. Yeah, very classy knowledge. Have we ever met before? Have we ever met? I don't even know. I ran into you once at Costco and Kingwood, but are in Townsend. But, well, my wife used to teach Cameron.

Oh, yeah, I know who you are. Okay, I got you. And I'm putting two to two together. All right, very good. Well, so you went the game last night and everything was good. He had a good time. Yeah. Do you know, he's out two-based? So he was four-for-four. Do the heat, have he still never hit five for five? He has never had a five-haping game. That's right. Yeah.

Anyway, love your father-in-law. I'm a military guy. I know I think he was as well. He was in the Army, yes. I'm from San Antonio. I'm from San Antonio. Love the Cowboys. Love the Astros.

And I can't believe you can't beat Duke. I know. We're all sad. Thank you, Charlie, for the phone call. I actually was a lot of sleep in the house last night. I was very pleased. That's good. Yeah.

She used to Duke. choking at this point, right? Oh. Back to back years. Why don't you send her a voice text? I'm good. No. I got it.

I've been cussed out by your wife enough over the years. By the way, most four hit games without ever hitting a five hit game in major league history. Is it Jose? Don't say who it is. I want to try to guess.

It's Jose second with 41. All right. Can I have a hint on who was first? You're the one that wanted to guess. You're already asking for a hint? It's a Hall of Famer. And it's a Hall of Famer that hadn't played in, I don't know, over 50 years. Oh, my gosh.

We're talking about a guy that played, that ended his career in the 70s. When you're listing one of the greatest players of all time, he will come up probably within the first 10-ish. Okay, so a guy that retired in the 70s. No, way before that. I mean, okay, he hasn't played in the last, you know, you're making me do math. I'll say, Mickey Mantle.

Mickey Mantle. Mickey Merrick. Oh, man. He had played at least 50 years? How about it didn't play at least 90 years? Whatever. I wasn't exactly sure how long he held on. He played the 39.

You think Lou Gehrig played all 1971? 1939. No, I didn't think he played the 71. He was on the last Senators team. Well, I was going to say 70 years, so I just walked it back. I got you. Let's go to Robert on 790. Robert, good afternoon.

Hey, guys. Last night's game was, man, that was one of the best games I've seen in a while at home. You know, last year we could win. and I really am glad to see them hitting. The reason I called was the questions. I mean, when you could question a call, is it the pitchers of being the batters? Is it separate from a question on a call like that tagout,

or is it all the same? No, no, no. This is, ABS involves the three people, the pitcher, the catcher, and the hitter, and it's directly about balls and strikes, nothing else. Those are separate from the game challenges. Oh, okay, okay.

And then I was also thinking since they're doing that, the ABS, it might take a lot of stress off of pitchers. You know how they get frustrated when they're not getting the calls to thinking that, well, you know, you have the right to question the call. And, you know, so you might as well get over either the catcher's going to question it or not. So no use getting all frustrated over the umpire, you know. So I'm thinking it might take away a lot of stress. I don't know. How do you feel about that? Well, if you run out, if you run out of challenges, the stress level pipes up again, because if you want to be able to challenge a call and you run out, you're done.

But yeah, I would say there's no need to really get aggravated. Now, the only time you'd probably have a good aggravated is if your manager says, hey, we have one challenge left, we're not using it until later in the game. But if you start on a good start and you're challenging and you continue to get it right, you still have the two challenges left, it probably makes it a stress-free experience. Oh, wow. Baseball Sivan has a page. I'm going to be checking this all the time. And it is? All the season data. So far, 55% overturns.

As I said before, that's a good number. I think if you get north of 60, then it's going to really bruise him on fire ego. No, because again, and I've watched a handful of games. We have a lot longer going to go. But Rossi, the average missed pitch, we're talking about one inch, one inch, two inches. We're not talking about one inch, two inches. We're not talking about a foot outside. Fraction of an inch. Fraction of an inch, yeah. We're talking about microscope.

And again, 95 mile an hour fastball coming your way. Yeah, let the machine get it. Maybe so. 58% overturned I'm sorry, 50% from batters, 58% from,

it's just says fielders. Well, I want to catchers numbers. Here we go, 59% catchers. Pitchers are two for six. So the pitchers aren't doing it. Don't do it. I wouldn't let the pitchers do it. I think Joe Spada told us that two months ago.

Too emotional. Makes sense. Speaking to Joe, he'll join us next here on Sports Talk 790. If you want to join us right after the skip, 713, 212-5-790, 7-1-3-2-790. We are going to look forward to talking for the next 26 weeks. I like it to be 32 weeks or so with the manager of the manager of the next. the Houston Astros. Joe Espotted 1230 Tuesdays here on 7. I skip. It's Matt and Ross. Happy season opener. Happy

three-game winning streak. How are you, friend? I'm doing well, man. How are you guys doing? No, got no complaints. Hey, a little old school last night. You got Al-Tube with a couple of home runs. Lance gave you a seven. I mean, what are... Correa? It's like... It's like 2019 all over again.

Yeah, Correa. I'm making those plays at shore. Let's not take away from that bomb that you're Don hit. Glad that this one did not hit the roof. You know, he almost looked like it was going to hit the roof. And getting also a contribution from some of the young players, man, you know, Bryce Matthews, just everyone putting a little bit in there just to contribute and help us win some games with really happy the way we are. We playing right now, Lance McCullors, my goodness, how phenomenal he was last night. Really pick us up. We really needed an outing from him like that and he delivered.

You know, when we were down in West Palm with you in February, he was very reflective about his season ahead, his past, and his future. What has it been like watching him in that month of spring training, gaining the confidence for you to put him in that opening, starting rotation? You know what? I think Lenz understands the picture he is today, right? For him to have success, he needs to be the guy that, controls the game from the very first pitch.

And how you do that is attacking the strike zone. When Lance attacks the zone like he did yesterday, he's able to command the bat. He's able to control the game. Fastball for strikes, really good change up, the sweeper effective, because everything was looking the same, right? Everything was coming out from the same lane,

executing pitches, heading the count, as fishing from the very get-go, I think he knows that that's the picture he needs to be, to be successful, and he's not running away from it. You know, one of the reasons I really root for Lance is obviously because he's been here for so long

and part of these championship runs, but just to me also seems like such a great dude and teammate. So if you could just expand on that and just give us your thoughts on what type of person he is? Yes, and you know, we all,

we're all rooting for him because what he what he was done for this organization, what he's done in our community, and what he means to this club. You know, great teammate, great father, man of faith. This guy has pitched some big games for us. I've been here for nine seasons right now. This guy's been in the biggest games. This organization has had since I've been here. And also, I've seen it from the other side when I was with the Yankees, how he dominated

in the LCS. So it's still in there. That guy's still there. And just getting that out of him because he's fully healthy. And his frame of mind is such a really good place that I think he's going to help us win. And now it's, you know, build him from this outing, right? Not try to do anything different, right? Get ready for his next start and build from this because the stuff is there.

Astros manager, Joe Espada with us here on Sports Talk 7-9. Let's go to the other holdover from the 2017 championship team. Jose Al-Tuva, a couple of home runs. I mean, obviously, we've talked about a lot about him over the years, but just at the played approach, seems like some more patience from him. How much of it is it the same old Jose Altovae, and how much of is it kind of a new slant on things? You know, I think it's the new slant on things.

I think, you know, we've been seeing a lot of pitches. the last three games. I mean, that's been something that we highlighted in the all season. We're preaching to our hitters. Let's us control the abat by forcing the pitchers to make pitches. We know our strength. Stay within yourself. We have a really good lineup.

If you don't do the damage, the guy behind you will do the damage. If they choose not to pitch you someone, we are capable of having enough depth in our lineup that the next guy is going to do it. and that has been the theme here for the first few games. Contribution from the guys in the bottom. So when Altube comes up to the plate and Yoran comes to the plate, there's traffic on the basis, there's people on the basis, and we've been carrying out our game plan very, very well the last couple of games.

Let me ask you this. You know about Jeremy's finger and you've used him a couple of times day off here and there. What have you been told? Do you visit with him on the daily? how much does he want to test it? How much do you want to see it tested at least early on? You know, we all want to see Jeremy in there every single day. He wants to be out there every single day.

But we're doing what's best for Jeremy in our club right now. We want to build his body. You know, this is not about the finger right now. It's about his full body. You know, his legs, he's, you know, he's upper body. We want to make sure that heating really had a long, like it's spring training to really build off. There was a little pause, even though he was on the base, he was in the weight when he was taking ground balls. But he didn't really have a big buildup towards the end of camp. So we want

to make sure that we do that. We were hampered by injuries last year, guys. And I want to be really smart about, you know, the volume of games that these guys are getting. And also, we've been playing some long games here the last few days. So we want to be smart and make sure that these guys stay healthy throughout the season. You mentioned long games. I don't mind long games when you've had back-to-back games where you've overcome deficits. The reality is this. That's something, Joe, you hopefully can use in your back pocket, is that if a team of your squad falls behind 4-0 or gives up a 4-0 lead like I did the other day,

that you have the comeback ability. That is something that is not, you're not stopping the game and yelling the guys in the middle of the dugout. Where does that come from? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. And, you know, Matt, I think what's really important to recognize here is that, you know, we have gotten some of their starters that we've faced.

They're being out of the game before the fifth inning. Now, when you do that, that trickles down and push in a really good spot for game two, game three of the series, right? It's showing the Angels. We lost the first two. So Rihanna went out seven innings first game. And then we started, you know, having some long grab bats. We're starting, you know, passing the baton further down the lineup.

And now all of a sudden, game three, game four. the same relievers that pitch game on, their stuff was not playing the same because they've been using twice, maybe three times, doing a series. And I think that's something that we are talking to the guys, the importance of it is when our lineup, it does that.

It helps everyone in the lineup. And also allow us to win games and win series. You've had now five games of live action, games that count with the ABS system. are you liking it? We like it. I think, you know, even seeing the umpires really locking it in and really trying to get every call

right, right? That's the point. So we are, we're making awareness of, hey, this system is here to help everyone get every call right. Conversation with the umpires in between innings and the haters, you know, it's been really good. The system has been good.

we haven't been very successful early on, but we're always, you know, looking over our decision-making when it comes to what to use the ABS, just to make sure that we're using it at the right time. Not only just, you know, we don't want to be, you know, we haven't not been susceptible, but we want to make sure that we are successful using it at the right time. So when we have moments, especially in the game, we still have some of them last so we can execute. Last one from us, Skip, Abraeu's second performance, the velocity was down, And I try not to make too much of that because it could be a gun, it could be a tired arm. You were quoted as saying, and like you'd interpret it for us a little bit, that it's more mechanical than it was about just the arm.

So where are you with him? And what was that mechanical adjustment you think he's going to make? And you don't have to tell us, but what is it right now? Well, so I'll share that with you. You know, in a post-game after he did that outing, I had a conversation with him in my office. And I wanted him to be intended with me. You know, it said, are you healthy? it's a skip. I'm healthy. I'm 100%. But right now, I'm battling some mechanical issues.

And, you know, Brian Abrero is a huge human being. And, you know, neck, upper body, lower half, there's got to be coordination and you've got to be, you've got to be, the sequence needs to be right. Right. For he's delivered to be working out in front right now. He's opening lower half to quick, arm size dropping, and he's yanking everything. You don't really see Brian and Brett. when Brian O'Brien-Brayo is missing the lost side, that's a sign of he's spinning too quick, he's opening too quick. Now, when he's missing arm-side, right?

When he's part 98 to the top of the zone, now he's finishing him out in front. So he was walking me through that, and he knows why he needs to be working on as coaches, and we're going to help him through that, right? Through videos, you know, through flatground. But I'm not concerned. at all. It's

just what happens early this season, just like a hitter. My timing is not down. It's not quite there yet. And you need to continue to give him opportunity because we know how good he is. We can't win without Brian and Braille. That's just the bottom line. No question about that. Joe, thank you to visit. Looking forward to

a lot of these every Tuesday and good luck tonight and trying to get this series win against the Red Sox. All right, fellas. Thank you. Thank you. See you later. This show. A spot of manager of the Astros with us here on a sports talk seminar. You and I could talk to him. We mentioned during Astrofest. We could spend hours. Yeah. You know, we need to be

fair. He should bring some questions to us. Hmm, no. I don't think he wants to. By the team? No, just in life in general. Life in general? No, let's talk baseball. Okay. We get him for 10 minutes a week and we're very blessed for that. Yes. We have to spend our time. I always, you know,

I was thinking about the first two games. I was like, oh gosh, I need to turn this around just because I like the interviews. We like him in a good mood. We like the Astros winning. That's low-hanging fruit. That's its early season. season, life happens. That's true, but it's much better to be talking to them three and two than

more than four. Are you kidding? You crush the Red Sox. You had back-to-back come from behind victories. McCullors. We'll get to E-Bey. We've got 25 more weeks of these better ways. So we will make sure get everybody in on this. But it's kind of nice. We're not spending a whole lot of time talking about injuries. And I do believe him on the Abraeu.

I think mechanics can come into play. And the reality is this. If you're, and this is the God's honest truth, if you're a member of the Astros medical staff with everybody having the microscope on you, if there is something wrong with Brian or Brayu, they better figure that out really fast, and I think they would have done that.

I hope so. So I would tend to believe that when he's telling us, it's more mechanical than it is anything else about armside pitching and whatnot. I want to believe my, I have to believe him. And the athlete has to tell that to Joe, because they've already got one pitcher down. They can't afford to have the double high-end relievers out. Well, Joe Gap, has me feeling confident.

Yeah. So it's just mechanics. He's going to be all good. All right, 1243 on Sports Talk 790. All things share on today's edition, believe it or not. It's going to be awesome. Can we play share music behind it? No.

All right. I mean, if you want. No, no, no. It's fine. You're as a bigger part of the shows. We wouldn't play Jesse James or... Jesse James? That's another one of her bangers.

Yeah. I don't know. Not familiar. All right. She also was a disco finesse. I'm two for a while too. Okay. Take Me Home was the name of a disco head of hers back in the day.

Oh, take me home tonight? That's her? That's not her. That's not her. That's somebody else. Nope, that's a rock band. Oh. All right.

1244, if you want to comment anything that Joe had to say, let us know. 713. 212-790. 7-1-3-2-5-7-90. Now, normally Thursday's at 1130 we do. I just don't get it, but I just have to get this out today. Rossi, there was a, you know, the NFL owner. owners meetings are in, I think, Phoenix.

Yeah, they're in Phoenix. They took a lot of time yesterday at the NFL owners meetings talking about flag football, how the NFL is going to back a league of flag football for both men and for women. I just don't get it. What's the end game on that? Well, they're going to try to make money and get people interested in it. You don't get it, really? I really don't get it.

No, look, Flag football was great in college when you were playing dorm versus dorm and the losing dorm had to go buy beer after. I love that. Flag football was cool when you were not athletic enough to play football because your mom wouldn't let you. Some of these guys are pretty crazy athletes. If you watch, have you seen that like a professional tag? Like the start and stop and the agility? It's actually not bad. I do believe there are athletes that are doing it.

Yes. I'm not saying that it's not fat guys with cigarettes in her mouth playing. Yeah. But I'm never going to consider it to be legit. Well, you need star power. I don't know how much star power you're going to get. Yeah, I think it's, it probably could possibly blossom as some kind of niche sport. I don't think they're trying to overtake, you know, the NFL or anything like that.

Sean Payton said today, he would be, quote, surprised that there are any, NFL players on the United States team in the near future playing flag football. Earlier this month, he coached the Founders FFC team made up of current and former players. Captain by Tom Brady, ironically enough. Founders FFC lost both games in the tournament, including a 43 to 16 defeat to the current existing USA team. Flag football will be an Olympic sport in 2008. I just don't get it. These dudes are crazy.

I'm just saying it. Like if you watch some of the highlights Now I haven't sat down and watch a whole game or anything like that Here I'm about to retweet this one from Go find it at Sports RV on my Twitter This dude Velton Brown Jr Like he's making moves Like I said the start and stop

The agility, the bend It's crazy Not saying I'm going to sit down and watch And it's going to overtake the NFL It's not going to overtake Super Sunday Here's what we're seeing We're seeing anything that we ever did As a kid

somebody's saying, I want to make it a professional league. Like there's pro pickleball. Yeah. I was just about to bring that up. Yeah, exactly. Is pro pickleball going to be... Pro ping pong?

Yeah, pro table tennis. Yeah. Pro volleyball? They're starting up women's leagues. Yeah, they are. But volleyball and basketball, I mean, those are tried in true team sports. Big three's chart?

Oh, how about would Big three be the more that's a great parallel that's a great comp yeah I went to go see big three personally in Dallas

when Ryan Holland was playing how'd you like it I hated it oh it's funny because I was I was getting my

my beard trim today my shave at the at the barber I was gonna I was thanking that the first segment and he

and my barber said hey do you watch college baseball and I said I you know I've called some college baseball but I don't

regularly watch it because the reality is this I just can't watch everything. I am super vested in the rocket, super vests in the Astros, super vested in the Texans and the NFL

and my Cougars. I got to have some time away from a television and just college baseball is just not going to do it for me. But maybe... It's a lesser product. Obviously. I mean, it's just not as good, right? And if the answer is yes,

please correct me. Was America thirsting for competitive flag football? I don't think so. again last time I played flag football I swear to God it was probably November 1991 I was 19 years old

I was playing in a flag football league at University of North Texas in Denton I sacked the quarterback in my greatest flag football accomplishment really yeah I was also the offensive I was the offensive coordinator as well you were okay yes

it was fun drawn up place okay I put people in motion left and right it's fun but I never thought when I was 19 years old, man, I can't wait for a professional flag football league to develop 30 years later. Yeah. Now, I see why some people are doing it. The chance of getting injured or is dramatically less.

Yes. 2% as compared to 50 in football. I get it. But man, coming to you live, we're in Dallas at Jones Park today. It's the Houston Flash against the Dallas Mighty. Bumpkins.

Bumpkins. Now, Jonathan, I know you will not go play in the U.S.L. Can I get you on a professional flag football team? You know. Because I'm trying to use your speed. No, I mean, I could do it. Yeah, just run a nine. I play football.

You'd be the Randy Moss of flag football. Just go, how's your hands? I play defense. Typically guys that are in run track have crappy hands. They just do it. I play defense. I'm not going to. I'm not going to lie.

What was your baton drop rate? Uh-oh. Did I strike a nerve? No. It was just one. School record holder. Come on. Put some respect on that man's name.

But they legitimately at the owner's meetings had a press conference and Larry Fitzgerald was up there talking about it. I was like, are you kidding me? Flag football. That's cool. I don't know. Give it a shot. We'll see if I like it. Like you said, you can only invest in so much.

But in as much as I tease about it being in the Olympics. Maddie and Rossi, we like watching beach volleyball, and they ain't the most Olympic thing out there. I love beach volleyball. I do too. I love the Olympics. I was watching more Winter Olympics than I thought I would. Oh, not for me. I'm strictly 100% sober.

You're a liar. You're a liar. You said you were watching you. I watched a little bit of the... You're such a fraud. What did I tell you? I don't remember. Jonathan backed me up.

Didn't he say he was watching some Winter Olympics and he was more than he thought he was going to watch? I watched a little speed skating, a little bit. Was it a speed skating? Yeah. Speed skating and in the curling. Yeah. And I watched the gold medal hockey game. Pedro brought a good point.

What's the spread? Put a line in there? I'm in. What's the money line? I got the Houston flash on a money line, lock of the week. I got the San Antonio Fury minus the four and a half flags.

I'm in. By the way, the flags, if you really want to be a gangster about it, you would tuck the flag underneath their belt so it's harder to pull. You can't do that. You can get away with it as long as you can. No, not in professional flag football.

You don't know that? Yes, I do. Dude, they're not going to allow you to tuck in your flag, Matt. There's not going to be a keg at the 50-yard line. We played one time in a monsoon. Rossi, I mean a serious, serious monsoon. Okay. It was fun.

Okay. Yeah, I don't know what the... I'm sitting here drawn up plays on a piece of paper. What the weather implications are. We played co-ed, by the way. Naturally. Oh, you accidentally kept on grabbing something else instead of the flag, huh?

What was I grabbing? I want to know, too. Yeah, me too. Cheek? I grab someone's cheek. Mm-hmm. Did I get in trouble or no? Probably.

All right. They call your restraining order, Thomas. Final hour! Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Believe it or not, share today. God love her. So you're 79 years old? She's right, you know, she wrote a book.

She's got... How many books does she run? I don't know, but the first one is about her first half of her. her life. Now she's going to do the back half of her life as she writes this one. Apparently Sunny was an A-hole to her for the most part, which I'm thinking if I'm marrying that goddess, I'll be nice to her. Yeah.

Oh, sorry. I was reading some very disturbing facts about her that I will not say out loud. You tell me during the break? I mean, I could say it. If you want, it's just... 1258. Final hour, Matt and Ross. Sports Talk 790. Next. This is the Matt Thomas show

with Ross. Five minutes left to go on this radio show. Make it count, Houston, Texas. We are going to entertain the hell out of you. We will not bore you with endless NFL mock draft conversation. I made a gut feeling earlier today, Ross. I stand by it. I mean, excuse me, the Texans trade out of the first round.

Believe me or not? Not. You think you're staying first round? Maybe they'll even trade up. Hmm. We will get a draft expert on next week, by the way. Okay. I will search.

Good. I will chase. Good. It's tough to get people these days. It is. It's too big time. We got way too many big time. People getting laid off to.

Way too many big timers out there. Pro football focus had massive layoffs. They did. What happened? You know? They got, well, Chris Collinsworth sold his steak. Oh, he's out, huh? He got nine figures, he said.

Now, okay, you're the economist of the two of us. I guess. I don't look at that website very often. Were there a lot of ads on there? Help me how they got nine figures. Every single team. All 32. You make fun of Pro Football Focus all you want.

All 32 teams, yes you do. All 32 teams subscribe to their data. So they must charge it a lachiously large amount. So yeah, they apparently it is a nine figure deal is what it was reported for Chris Collins. We're selling a stake in PFF. So they have a consumer side and then they have a private side that goes. to the teams and the consumer side apparently is going away. So I won't be able to pull up their grades anymore.

Wait, but they, that's used by a lot of media people. I use their grades. I use their fantasy content. I use, I mean, just, just reading their stuff. They have betting content as well. I mean, it's a decent website. I've subscribed to it for years. So all those guys that are hounds are going to have to go out and get a regular jobs.

The data guys they're keeping. A lot of the content, the podcast, they do, they do pipes, it's a multimeter platform. Right, right, right. It's podcasting. It's videos, it's YouTube, it's all this stuff. Most of everything's going away, except for the data that they sell to the teams. I guess that's how they really, their bread is buttered. Okay.

Wow. Because they, NBC, when they put their graphics up for players, they talk about what position ranking there on B.F. Yeah, I don't know if that's going away or how much, but a lot of the guys that I follow and I take the, I read their content, they're all getting laid off. There's a NFL draft podcast they have that I have. listen to. Let me ask you this. If you're Chris Collinsworth, you just claim nine figures. Do you buy those guys a year?

I don't know what you do. He's probably pocketing it. I'm guessing. How many bros got let go? Somebody said, now here's an acquisition. If you know Chris Collinsworth, that's so in the weeds, but it works out beautifully. Let me ask this. If I got nine figures

and I knew the 10 of the men that I worked with that helped me get the nine figures, I would make sure you guys got paid an entire your salary for as a severance package. That'd be nice. I hope they get something. Yeah, they got bought by teamwork. I don't know exactly what that is. All right. Well,

we used it here on the show. Yes. We made fun of it. I did back in the day, but I've changed my tune on it. I didn't realize what kind of pun hounds they were. Yes. Now they got more time to go be hounds because they're looking for work. And here's the problem with those guys. The data guys are staying, I said. Data nerds are saying.

So their guys were not pun hounds. They were just regular hounds. All right. 1712. 2.12.790. 713. 212.790. Astros with a dominant win against the bow socks yesterday. Yes.

Go ahead. Sorry. I realized you were so much doing about it. I just got excited. Is this Carnell? Is that your name, sir? Hello? Cardinal?

Cardinal? Oh, Carlo. Carlo. Carlos? Carlos? Carlo. Carlo. What's up?

Carle. What's up? Carlo. Carlo, man. Carl, are you on a speakerphone? Get up the speakerphone. No, no, the speakerphone. I have a headbound.

Yeah. You want to get out? No, that's fine. Go ahead. Okay. Can you hear me or no? Yes. Okay, so I've been watching the whole highlight because I'm not able to watch anything anymore,

but I would go back again. And thank you for all you did today this morning when I was working, and he was amazing. Thank you so much. I love Cher. I love, I love her. I know she 80 years old, right? 79. Oh, I was very close. Yeah, very close.

So how old are you, sir? I'm 47, so how old are you? I'm 41. Well. What is Ross? That's me. I'm 41. Oh, oh, you are, okay, Ross, what's going on? I think I've seen a lot.

of the actual concept but everything has changed because I haven't been listening to the radio. Oh, you got to keep listening, Carlo. See, Timo, of course. Yeah, and

I would like to tell you that you're doing a great job. Yeah, I do. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Carlo. That was, that's what amazing. Go back time. What's your name? Turn back time. Turn back time, yeah, share. I got to listen to it. Okay, thank you so much for everything.

All right, thank you, Carlo. Appreciate it. Grazie, Carlo. It's called the air right there. Loves him from Cher, 47 years old. Shout to Carlo. In demo. Love it.

Yes. Yes, sir. By the way, I will drop a freebie on you right now since he brought up Turnback Time. This is a free, believe it or not, coming up in 50, now in 5th, for doing this in 40 minutes, If you get this wrong, I will get your phone number. I will call you after the show and I will swear at you.

Okay. Now, Cher was sent a demo for if I could turn back time sung by Diane Warren. Share was, they sent her the demo and like, hey, record this. She hated the song. She had to get encouraged and badgered by the songwriter and then finally agreed to record if I could turn back time. And then it became a massive hit. So how are we going to spin this as your question? What do you mean?

You're going to say? say that Share was in a demo for her hit. If I could turn back time and initially hated the song and refused to record it. That's it. Believe it. That is a believe it. Yes. Listen to me. That is a believe it. That's a fun fact, too. It's a lot of fun.

A lot of people didn't like their songs or didn't think they were great and then they become massive hits. Happens all the time. You know, I have a list, if I ever get to interview Paul McCartney, which the chances that are zero percent. You've written questions for him? In my mind. That is adorable. And the two questions I have for him are really, they're one A and one B. It's one, what song do you sing a lot that you don't love?

And what's the one song that you love a lot that you wish you could sing more, but people just haven't gravitated toward it. Okay. Like he, I've seen Paul four times. Isn't the intermittent postman or what is that song called that you hate? Temporary secretary. That's close. So I've seen him four times.

He's played that song three times. That's it's time to go to the bathroom song. It's temporary. First of all, nobody calls anybody a secretary anymore. The song was made in 1980. It was never a hit. Okay. But for some reason, he likes it.

He probably loves it. So he was in L.A. this past weekend, and he had two shows at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles. Okay. And apparently, the first night was for, like, just die-hard fans. The second night was more for celebrities and A-listers. one of the two nights, he sang temporary secretary. If you're Paul Freakin McCartney and you have all the hits in the Beatles, all the hits from your solo career, all the hits from your wings career,

why do you continue to put this god-awful song out? Clearly he likes it. So I know one of the answers to my own question. What song do you love that we don't like that you continue to play in front of us? So you think it's going to be that. Oh, he said it before. Oh, okay. We're going to play temporary secretary coming back.

and you're going to be like, God, this song sucks. No, I, is this how you're gaining listenership for our show? Hey, guys, this song is horrible. It's coming up next. But it's like 20. We're not going to play a lot of it. But you'll hear it like, you're telling me one of the greatest artists in the history of the world loves this song. Well, I have to listen to the whole, I don't want to listen to the whole song on this show,

but you got to let it breathe sometimes, Matt. I've let it breathe. It breathes stanky ass. Why don't you let it be? Let's go to James on 790 at 111. James, good afternoon to you. Good afternoon. Listen, now that the comments are coming back, that's great news.

I mean, we're getting another team back from the back. The old days, is Ross going to be the, is he going to do the end-game broadcast? Ross, you know the in-game broadcast? I have no experience doing play-by-play or color commentary, so probably not. I neither did Matt until he did it. Well, that's true. No, Matt was a prodigy. Matt was like, weren't you calling Rice games when you were like 20?

I was calling U of H games while I was going to school. So, yes, I was 20, 24 years old. I did some color in high school back in the day. High school football color. It was fun. Matt won't do it because he does the Rockets, right? At the same time? Well, I mean, put it this way.

I don't, that has not been determined yet. And I'm not, we'll let that, we'll cross that bridge when it's time. Okay. Anyhow, I've got feelings I wanted to get to. That's the reason I really called. Sure. I think that either Ross, I think Jonathan more than Ross, one of those guys will take their girlfriends on a date this weekend, and they're going to have an evening with ludicrous. And that's just a gut feeling, though.

That's it. I'll talk to you guys later. You going to the gamblers game this weekend, Jenna? You know, I didn't plan on it, but. I don't plan on it either. So it's a bad gut feeling from James. Thank you, James. Yeah, no one's going to the games.

I'm curiously. I want to go now just to take a video of how many people are there. They had $8,000 in Dallas over the weekend. Yeah, but that was announced, right? Yes. They butchered it. They didn't butcher. The product's just not good.

The product's not good, but you have to... I mean, look, I'll say this for the last time. The roughnecks had a niche crowd of about $15,000, $16,000 that went to games. Why the UFL or the XF, whatever the hell it was at that time screwed that up? You pissed off 16,000 people. COVID was it? Was it around COVID times that they had issues too? Was it before COVID when the roughnecks were getting to big fans?

I think they were. I can't answer that question. I don't know. By the way, what part of this song are we playing? No. Play it right now, but let's not use it about it. Just play right now. It's so awful.

Let's listen to how this is it. Oh, wow. I've heard this three times. You have a big. of Paul McCartney fan. I hear this. I'm like, I cannot get the concession

stand fast enough. Can you find for me someone strong and sweet? That's enough. I'm done. That's good. Yeah. That, why?

Did I not tell you guys? Yeah. But Matt, you say some songs are good and we don't like them, but this was, this was a good judgment. Thank you for once. So by the way,

if any of you ever get, if you'd say mean things about me, I'm sending you the YouTube version of this song. So you can listen to it in symphony. Oh, God. now I'm been a bad mood. That's right. Yeah, the roughnecks were 5 and 0 and then the COVID hit. But they came back the next year, right?

I mean, help me out. No, they didn't come back until 2023. And they really weren't really the roughness. So they were building some momentum. Yeah. But I think they just, they just butchered the merger. COVID said we're good. All right.

713, 212, 790. Just how bad is temporary? No, we're not going to do that. 713-1-2-5-790. We've got the Astros game two of their series tonight. we have the Rockets and the Nicks. You excited about tonight? I'm kind of juiced for, aren't you?

I couldn't be more excited. I don't believe you. Launchpad coming up at 6 o'clock. Let's get you super excited for it. 115 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. 120. Sports Talk 7-90, believe it or not,

Cher coming up in about 30 minutes from now. Tomorrow we have a shorter show because we've got an Astros' day game. We'll have a Brian Bogus Civic with us at 11 o'clock. I will handle Astros on deck at noon tomorrow. So, Ross, you will have a chance to go out and have lunch with your family if you so choose. Okay. When is this? Tomorrow?

Really? Yeah. Huh. I got a solo tomorrow. Okay. We got Dana Brown. Replay we'll have for you because Dana Brown's going to be on live tomorrow at 930 with Dan and Cole. But we'll replay it at about 1215, 1220 tomorrow if you don't catch it live.

Sounds like an excellent time. Astros Day Baseball. and Rockets for the nightcap. Yeah, we've got a busy day. Rockets tonight, Rockets Bucks tomorrow night. Rockets Jazz Friday, and then two very intriguing West Coast games. Now, Golden State's terrible, which is hard to say because you never want to say the word terrible in front of Golden State because they still beat you. Oh, yeah, how that happened, how that work out?

And then, a game you don't want to mean anything would be the Phoenix Suns. You want to win that because you want to get into the four or five spot in the West, but you also do not want the Sun. to try to creep up and take your six spot. 42 and 33 Phoenix Suns. What's the latest on Jalen Green? How is he looking. Jalind's doing okay. Dylan Brooks, by the way, is back for them.

Yes. So we got Rockets again tonight, six o'clock on the island. Are you going to be at the arena? You're going to be coming out? I'm watching it. I'm watching it. I'm watching it.

You got to watch Astros. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rockets. So I'll get my TV set up. So you'll handle the app. Yeah, you'll handle all of our Astros breakdown tonight. Actually, I'll listen to radio something in the car. I'll watch it.

Listen, 74. Yeah, I'll have them both on. Okay, very good. Yeah, 740 for the Astros game tonight, 790 for the Rockets game. Mm-hmm. And then tomorrow both will be right here on 790. So just know that 740 and 790 is your friend. Love it.

790, mostly your friend, especially 10 to 2. Oh, we're like your best friends. Yes. We're like your older brothers. Huh. We will hit you? Like I said, you're more like a dirty uncle. I don't think so.

Yeah, I've seen your algorithm. Oh, by the way, I don't want to have my algorithm than other people's algorithms. Okay. I don't want to have political algorithms. Nope. No, I've done that. I don't want to have Stephen A. Smith versus Cam Newton algorithms. Yeah, you keep on looking at what you're looking at.

So what if it's one occasionally shows up? Am I hot for 45? David and Humbold at 122 on Sports Talk 7-90. David, good afternoon to you. Good afternoon, Matt. Good afternoon, Ross. What's on your mind? Yeah.

Matt, you know I love you like a brother, right? I would hope so. I've been listening to you for a very long time, my friend. Thank you. Yeah, and you are a beautiful bald-headed man. I appreciate that very much. That means a lot. The Houston Rockets.

Right now, they're in the sixth seat in the Western Conference. They are. And I don't feel good about that. Why don't you feel bad about it? Because if the Phoenix Suns will catch you at the number six position, you'd be at the number seven position. And I feel really not good about it. I would say, I mean...

I would not say there's a 0% chance that a rocket's dropping a 7, but I would say it's very minimal. The rocket schedule in the next two weeks is not very difficult. And even though there is not a great hope they can get to 4, they can certainly get to 5,

it would take them having a decent size losing street to hit to 6. And I'm telling you, they've got Memphis still, they've got Milwaukee still they have Utah still those are three games right there those three teams have zero interest in winning

0.1% says a basketball reference Do you think the Rogers can win all three of those games Matt? Absolutely Honestly why not they're three dog opponents Absolutely they better win all three of those games They're all trying to tank

You can win them Yeah I don't like tanking Ross I know it doesn't make me feel good It shouldn't And I'm very excited about the comments Good. That's good. They're coming back.

Yeah, we had their president out earlier today. So it would be ready for 2027. Houstoncomus.com. Houstoncomets. Thanks, David, for the phone call. We appreciate it. Yes. Basketball reference seating odds,

0.1% for 7. This is as of today. Yes. And how do they have them at 6? You're, now you're, that's a grin. 45.7%. Okay. Number 5?

38.5%. So you're saying there's a chance. Number four? 13.1% Number three? 2.6%. Okay. So, who is the favorite to be the number three seat?

I think I know the answer. That would be the Los Angeles Lakers. Do you want all their percentages? Just give me a Lakers. 80% or 80% to be third. Okay, so the best, the most likely outcome, Rockets v. Lakers in Los Angeles for games one and two. Yes, according to the odds.

but you're 45% to be six, so if you add up all the other odds, more likely you'll end up somewhere else. Hopefully five, hopefully four. I think five is within a puncher's chance. I mean, if you just beat Minnesota, you got Minnesota coming up here the final week of the season.

You beat them, you're in the five. As long as the teams are playing the way that they're playing. Just win, baby. I would like a four. I'm going to give you a loaded question. Okay. Rockets a better chance to win a series against. A, Lakers,

B Nuggets. I don't even count the wolves because you're kind of fighting for their same spot. I would count the wolves. I would rather play the Lakers? Here's the reason why I am more encouraged by the Lakers. They just don't play defense. Right. Now, if Lucas playing out of his mind, like lately, they're that different.

You've got no shot. I mean, if he's just dropping 40-point triple doubles all series, what are you going to do? Yeah, the Lakers' defense. has improved and they did a good job with the double teaming defense against the Rockets, but it wasn't as good

the second game when Alper and Shingoon was there. LeBron James had a 20 point triple double. No, against the Wizards, but we had a triple double the night after the Rockets beat them in, what were they in Miami?

Yeah, in Miami. Look, I'm not the biggest LeBron guy. He might be the greatest basketball for the whole time. Second greatest. But the, the amount of

he's lost his fastball is ridiculous. He doesn't have a 98 on the gun using a baseball veneckler, but it's still 92, 93. He still makes plays at 41. At 41 years of age. I mean, I guess it matters how you define greatest basketball player of all time. No, you know who defines it? You define you. Yeah, what if Michael Jordan had a higher peak, but LeBron James had a better, longer career?

The number one argument I always hear is that Michael didn't need anybody. And then the Braun haters say, well, Michael needed Scotty Pippen and Michael needed Tony Kookech. The greatest coach of all time. And Michael needed Phil Jackson. I think Phil Jackson has a huge point. How many different coaches did LeBron win his four championships with? Two with Spoltre? Spolster.

Mm-hmm. One in L.A. One with Tyron L.A. And one with Frank Vogel? Yes. If I'm taking up, if we're lining up a draft and I say, you say, you're getting this player for his entire career, I'll take LeBron over Michael. But that's not how, I mean, that's just one facet of the argument. I'm still, I'm, highest peak, it's Michael.

Michael? If I need one game or one series, it's Michael. I need one game, one shot. It's Michael. If I need one seven game series. Yeah. It's Michael. Long jeopardy does playing it, though.

That's why he's number two. I think it's one, too, and it's not even, that isn't not even within question. You don't argue flip-flop, you can do it. I told you we'll put Kareem in there because we talked about how, what is it, was it two-time national high school player of the year, three-time college player of the year, and held the scoring record. And six-time MVP. And held the scoring record for a decade. Gosh. Yeah.

Crazy. Hey, he held the scoring record, and he had to play four years of college. One year, he couldn't even play as a freshman. And then the next three years, he won college player of the year. Mm-hmm. And as a freshman, they beat the senior UCLA team. I do believe again, Mount Rushmore, there's three spots that are already locked and loaded. It's the fourth one that rotates.

Ooh. Do you think we should get a fifth person up on Mount Rushmore? Shush, you're so ridiculous. Take a break. We're going to go carve up the mountain? I don't know what's... There's room. Is there?

I mean, I hadn't been there, but I'm assuming there's room. I guess they're probably not at the end. of the mountain. Because I think it's too hard to do things in fours. Okay. Well, just say top five. You don't have to say. You don't have to say Mount Rushmore.

Yeah, we do. No, we don't. It's a beautiful national monument. Astros Red Sox tonight. Again, the game will be heard on our sister station. News Radio 740 KTRH. Astros have a day game tomorrow. So again, we'll be on the year 10 to 12 with our show.

on deck from 12 to 1240. And then the Astros hit the road for the first time this year. They're going out west, if I'm not mistaken. Let me make sure it pull this up properly. Yeah, they go to Sacramento for three, Colorado for three,

and three of the Mariners. So, the A's are terrible. The Rockies are terrible. Not that you would try to get fat and happy early in the season, but... Why not? You can stack some wins. You need to stack some wins. It's always nice. The Astros are going to to put the Rockies like six times a year.

I mean, it's almost like five wins, right? Keep it on on these A's. They can hit. I don't know how they started the season off. Oh, and four. Yeah, they're not off to a great start. They're due.

I hope not. Wipped up by the Blue Jays and lost their first game of the series against the Braves. Yep. But yeah, Colorado's typically terrible. In Seattle, four in Seattle,

a rapper. That's a long-ass trip. That's 10 games. A lot of per diem. I mean, just thinking that out loud. I'm always pocket watching. I'm not pocket watching, a pocket watching. Pocket watching.

Okay. Just get some wins. Get some length out of your starters like you got yesterday. That's nice. Oh, I got a scenario that happened. But I know Quality Start Plus is coming for Hunter Brown. So I'm excited about that. You didn't explain what that is because you created that metric yourself.

Now, remember, I created a metric two years ago. Yes. Expected sex average. Remember talking about how. what a horrible ex-be, what the ridiculous X-B-A. No, you were calling it X-L-A. Oh, expect the late average. Yeah.

You know who's on board with you? It hates XBA? Adam Wexler. Wex hates it? Yeah. I would have thought Client would have hated it. Well, probably Clinton. I know Clanton hates it.

Wex does too. Good. So I've got somebody that's like a math nerd on my side. Uh-huh. Well, why are you got to call him? Well, I agree immediately, didn't I? Oh, he's fine. He knows.

He understands his own life. XBA is not everything. It's just something. It's a little, it's the lettuce on the sandwich. No, I think lettuce, that's a big add-on. OPS, that's your burger. It's your meat. Okay.

Walk rate, cheese. Strike out rate baking. No, no, where's your slug? You're right. Well, it's an OPS. Okay, it's true. How don't know where to go? What were we talking about?

Go ahead. Oh, I was watching the TV broadcasts. Oh, you're XLA. We were talking about that. Oh, expected lane average, yeah. And Clinton always says his hire than it really was. I don't know if I believe him. You do believe him. Yes.

He's a player. He was. Now he's happily married. Is it 10 years they hit? Gosh, I lost the overrunner. I remember when they first started dating. They would walk around the offices and they were just like, they were trying to hide it, but they really couldn't hide it.

They were both, like, sweating profusely. They were like lovebirds. Yeah. Until they live with each other for a while. Like, ah, hey, 10 years of marriage. 10 years is 10 years. Probably more than most of shares marriages. Ooh, you'll find out coming up during believe in that.

Maybe. Oh. So this is, I'm maybe the wrong person. They spent a lot of time talking about the different types of pitches that Lance was throwing when he was throwing in the count. Okay. to me it goes in one ear

or not the other I can't I can't process it it's too much and I think baseball broadcast still to this day even in 2026 with all the metrics that are available

they still give me I don't care about the spin rate per se I don't care what pitch he throws to what hitter in this particular category I just want the pitch to be thrown for a strike and get him out that's when I watched Lance McCuller's yesterday I was happy that he got ahead of hitters. Is he getting ahead of hitters?

Is he inducing maybe ground balls? Is he, is the curve, is the curve ball getting more strikes than the other ones? But it was just, it just sometimes it gets too much mumbo-jumbo. And I think that's what baseball does, that sometimes does tune people out. I think they do a little bit too much sometimes on the broadcast. But, I mean, I know maybe I'm pro, I mean,

I am in the minority for the most part. I like all that stuff. I like learning about the sport. I like learning more. about the sport. I like reading about stuff and location and arm angle and all that type of

stuff. Break? I like it. Yeah. My philosophy is keep it simple, stupid. I know. Let's get a base hit. The ball land. Yes. You're a traditionalist in many things. Yeah, yeah. You hate the ABS. You hate the ABS. No, no, no, no. I love the ABS. I don't want a full time. You don't want full. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. You're more of a traditionalist. Yeah.

But traditionalists would want the ABS under any circumstance. You hear that one grumpy umpire? I was talking about how he was going to embarrass the guys. I think years ago you were more on that side. You've come around. Yeah. And that's the thing you have to do. If you don't adapt to anything, then you're going to be left behind.

Whether it's your business, whether it's the sport that you love. Yes. Like, for instance, I don't have an answer to this because I never brought this up. But in the NBA, to use a small example, I don't mind the number of three points shots being taken. There are a lot of folks that just lose their mind over it. I still say three is greater than two. and if I have more guys on my floor that can hit threes, I'm going to win a lot more games.

Be real nice. Let's get some more. You know what I'm saying now? Let's keep Reed Shepard knocking them down. But 1994 NBA fan, 1983 NBA fan, maybe even 2000 NBA fan, did not love the three because there were too many guys that weren't shooting the threes.

Well, this generation of players, 69, 6-6-10, and we got one right now in Denver that hit the seven feet tall that hits three-point shots in regularity, making him one of the greatest players in the NBA, making him a two-time MVP and probably at the end of the day going to make him one of the 10 greatest players ever to play the sport.

So I do like some things that are that changed the sport. Well, especially here in Houston. We were at the forefront. We were in the frontier of the three point revolution. I love technology. I love instant replay. I can't get enough instant replay. You want more instant replay?

I want more instant replay in basketball. Because unfortunately we don't, we do too many challenges in the first quarter that I don't love. That's fine. I mean, yeah, I would say if you're doing the first quarter, just make sure. sure you're 100%. You got to make sure you're 100%. And I know that every basket means the same, but damn, I don't want... I love holding on my challenges to the very

last second. I know. And I do believe we will eventually see that with baseball, too. I think we should... I think the... Unless it is so ridiculous, hold your ball strike challenges for later in the contest. It doesn't necessarily mean more, but storyline, intangibles,

yeah, an eighth inning at bat with two on. Jose L. Tuba gets called rung up on strikes and he thought it was a ball. I got one of my back pocket, I'm happy. Now, the only difference in basketball and baseball is, in baseball, if you challenge something in the first inning and you win, you get to keep your challenges. In the NBA, you get two, and that's it.

And that's hard for me. And I wish it would change that. They need a system like what the NFL did to where they're fixing stuff almost in real time. You're like, oh, we're hearing from a guy. Don't they, they're like, oh, the, what do they call? Booth review. They're not even booth. Booth.

Yeah, replay assist or whatever they're called, whatever they call it. That's what they need. They need a dedicated crew. I mean, you need maximum 15 people. How many nights is every third, all 30 teams in actual? You know, it's very rare. In the NBA replay center, there's some nights there's two bros and some there's like five or six. Let's get them all in there.

Come on, your multi-billion dollar corporation. I guess it's depending on the number of games. If you want to improve, at least do it for the playoffs or something. Well, playoffs, I guess you need fewer guys in there. And that first round, you got a lot of games going on. You do. All right, let's play, believe it or not. All things about Cher, 713, 21, 212-790.

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And country festival tickets, too. We'll tell you more about the house coming up in just a little bit. Man and Ross. Let's wrap it up a Tuesday edition of the radio program. Tomorrow, Brian Bogussevick with us at 11 o'clock. Then we have shut your bow mess up at 1130. Then we have Astros baseball at noon with our on-deck coverage. Rockets will play the Bucks tomorrow.

But first things first, the Knick-Ockers are in tonight. Jalen Brunson, reserve for the Mavericks, goes to the Knicks. Scores 30 points a game. You talk about some mistakes the Mavericks are made? Goodness. I mean, number one is Luca, but number two, Jailen Brunson, bye. It just said go. Yeah.

You can go your own way. Okay. Flewwood Mac on us. I didn't mean to, but I just did. Now is averaging 26 points game. Tonight's game is on NBC with the Mike Tariko, Reggie Miller, and I don't know who's on the side. Round ball rock. By the way, Fox, next year for college basketball, get rid of Roundball Rock.

That's not your song. They paid for it. He said, stupid. Everybody's their mother's using it now. Yeah, well, they know. I mean, you play for the right. You better use it. That's right. Astros 710 first pitch. Back to the front of the lineup on the rotation, right?

Hunter Brown's going tonight. Is that correct? Yes. All right. On deck will be at 6 o'clock. Is we doing on deck? Are we doing it because of Michael Barry? Is Michael Barry doing the wrong? I believe there's an on deck. Does Michael Barry know this? I don't know if that's going to be good news for him.

Ramon, who is your, when you go to a game, do you like to eat popcorn or do you get a hot dog? What's wrong with you? Ramon, did you hear your name being mispronouncing a commercial this earlier day on the show? Was that here? Mm-hmm. It couldn't happen. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do?

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